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thinking abt the time I was waiting out in the rain after work for my ride and the other trans girl who works there offered for me to wait in her car and for some dumb reason I was like "no thanks i love being wet and alone in the rain"

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i can’t believe that totk reveals a statue of link riding sidon and then seconds later reveals that sidon has a wife

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instant noodles r designed for the unsober ltrlly perfect for when ur just a lil cooked

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people wanting men to wear crop tops and then being grossed out at happy trails. you fool thats the point of men wearing crop tops

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Working a job with a union is such a fun look into how deep anti-union propaganda has ravaged ppl because I can be directly talking about how sick it is being in the union compared to when I wasn't, and ppl will still immediately be like "I can't imagine being in a union I bet it sucks" like yea dude its so terrible being able to have panic attacks at my job without being at risk of being fired

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I love how often zombie media portrays an outbreak as like a Y2K all in one night type disaster and not like, an actual virus that would take months to spread around

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They really should teach people how to cook in school.

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I love punk music because a lot of it is objectively terrible and yet somehow still fucks

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People Eat Pokemon in Paldea

Playing through Pokemon Violet, and noticing that this game is unusually frank about Pokemon being edible. All of the references in the Pokedex refer to people eating shed parts or harvesting body parts nonlethally, but there’s a lot of them. Here’s a sample (about half of the ones I’ve found!):

“Clauncher’s claws will regrow if they fall off. The meat inside the claws is edible, but it has a distinct flavor that doesn’t appeal to all tastes.“

“If it [Crabrawler] loses its pincers, they’ll quickly regrow. The pincers are popular ingredients in paella since their shells produce a tasty soup stock.”

“Traditional Paldean dishes can be extremely spicy because they include the shed front teeth of Capsakid among their ingredients.”

“Toedscool lives in muggy forests. The flaps that fall from its body are chewy and very delicious.”

“When Veluza discards unnecessary flesh, its mind becomes honed and its psychic power increases. The spare flesh has a mild but delicious flavor.“

There’s even one Pokemon that tries to be eaten by people so it can mess with them:

“Sinistea gets into your body when you drink it, and then it steals your vitality from within. It also tastes awful.”

There’s a lot of culinary references in general in the game as well; restaurants where you can eat to get power ups, two Gym Leaders who are a baker and a seafood chef. Paldea is based loosely on Spain, so I wonder if this was Gamefreak looking for touchstones of Spanish history and culture that would be suitable for an E for Everyone game. Can’t have Roman Catholicism in a Pokemon game, for example.

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crazy how attaches my mental health is to how long my bangs are at any given time. I cut them slightly too short and now they look bad and i wanna die a lil bit

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pokemon scarlet/violet has this weird recurring them that’s effectively “one day you’re going to grow up and realize all your dreams were pointless” and like, are GameFreak okay?

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Prompt: oil painting of a black duchess on a riverside promenade —ar 2:3 --upbeta --test --upbeta @ zatzum

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The shooting in Colorado will very obviously sanitized in order for America to ignore the terrifying problem it has with fascist terrorism. It was at a gay club, during a drag performance, during an event organized by a group presently being targeted by libsoftiktok for "grooming" teenagers by facilitating them exploring drag performance. After news broke of the shooting, libsoftiktok was still attacking the group on twitter. The perpetrator, of course, was a 22 year old man known to law enforcement, and was previously in deep shit for calling in bomb threats. The same story we always hear. Same one we've heard for years.

This is a part of a greater rising tide. Young men are being radicalized into acts of stochastic terror with increasing frequency. Not only does law enforcement have no interest in protecting our communities, they are often in the same circles as these terrorists, and agree with their actions. Other mass shootings have already demonstrated that police will not even protect their own communities. Public officials refuse this is a systemic issue being aggravated by sitting politicians who peddle conspiracy and hatred. Social media sites have zero concern for the charlatans creating the echo chambers and feedback loops which drive these alienated young men into the deranged mindset to inflict this kind of pain.

It isn't hopeless, of course. There are courses of action we can take, even if we can't directly change the system above us. Now is the time to discuss this trend as loudly and openly as we can in order to get to the core of the issue. Don't shut up about this kind of thing. We should probably be organizing large, visible actions. Act up, as it were. In the mean time, we also need to keep ourselves safe, as we find ourselves an outlaw class. Talk to one another. Protect eachother. Be sure to be active in your local communities, and establish ties between communities. We need to find those meaningful alliances again. Learn to defend yourself and others in any way you can, and encourage those around you to do the same. Yet, there is no need to panic. Only need to prepare and strengthen ourselves for what may possibly happen around us. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

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i do this to u

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this is actually the default up-special attack for white women irl

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so far Pokemon Scarlet has just been me running shouting "IT'S A LIL GUY" and getting really excited about a deerling or smth