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I knooooow I look like a teacher's pet I knoooooooooow I look like a brown-noser and a suckup but I can't help it I genuinely enjoy team building exercises and get-to-know-you games, I love going to work parties and solving riddles and learning about my coworkers it is enrichment for me

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the secret to organising any kind of trip with your friends is to become the benevolent dictator. do NOT wait for everyone to provide a consensus on things before you book anything. do it and then ask for feedback after. do not ask people what they would like to do just tell them what is happening and let them all nod along like the sheep they are. this is the ONLY way to coordinate a group of adults in their 20s/30s

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So, I finally got around to watching Adolescence on Netflix and now I see why the manosphere is in full on damage control mode. This show did its research and did SO MANY things right because of it.

Firstly, they didn't have Jamie cartoonishly espousing his beliefs like a cartoon supervillain, because they did their research, and knew these boys are being carefully taught by the adults in the manosphere to hide their power level. They showed the full reality of what Jamie had become under the tutelage of the manosphere by letting their teachings silently guide his actions.

Second, they almost completely removed Katie from the conversation. That was so important because men would have jumped all over that to devalue the messaging by calling it another piece of feminist trash centered around women. Men were center stage in this, portrayed in respectful honesty, flaws and all.

Jamie's dad was legitimately an alright dude, but he had his family walking on eggshells with those tantrums of his, and I imagine the truth of that was such an uncomfortable but necessary glimpse in the mirror for men. My brother has never laid hands on a woman in his life either, but he has that same inability to emotionally regulate when he gets angry, and I think it was important for men to see what it looks like for the people around them to deal with. By centering the male experience in an honest way, in making a piece of media men might not completely dismiss outright, they get to see what they look from the point of a spectator's view, and that's so goddamned important.

Third, they left a lot of stuff about the Red Pill confusing and vague. This is going to spur parents to do more research, which is so fucking necessary, and it's going to keep the manosphere from saying, "Well, this and this and this is completely misconstrued." This is important because if we want legislation passed to protect young people from the Manosphere, we need to focus on the long term damage over time done to the psyche, on the actual damage they're doing to young boys, rather than focus on criticizing rhetoric they've got meticulously built dialog trees to defend. We need to build a case that the Manosphere is full of predators absolutely breaking the psyches of young boys for money.

Something I need people to understand is the Manosphere would crumble without adolescent views. If any of them go to meet-ups, you can see pictures with their fans, and they're just awash in a sea of tween and teen boys. It's fucking horrifying. We would do damage this pipeline would never recover from if we remove their access to children.

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dude adolescence was. holy shit

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Happy pride sleepy dykes

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temagami lake, ontario, canada

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also i didnt know ncuti gatwa was already done that felt so fast

OH JUST CAUGHT UP ON THE DOCTOR WHO NEWS. WHAT

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OH JUST CAUGHT UP ON THE DOCTOR WHO NEWS. WHAT

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if someone casually points out a flaw you know you have what are you even supposed to do. like i can’t be offended, you’re right

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JKR refusing donations to her private fund feels significant to me, as someone with a lot of experience in UK charity finance. If she were to create a charity, she'd be required to have an independent board of directors and would have to undergo independent audits and public scrutiny of the charity's finances. The board would be legally bound to make decisions in the best interests of the charity and get to set the charitable goals and, most importantly, can be removed with a vote of no confidence.

If JKR were to run this fund as a charity, she'd open herself up to losing control over it by being voted off the board. This way she gets to keep complete control over where the money goes and doesn't have to explain her decisions or justify them when she's inevitably wrong about transvestigating someone. Registered charities are also required to abide by the Equality Act which she definitely doesn't want to do, even with the recent ruling on the definition of a woman.

The whole "don't send your donations to me, send them to other charities that need it" sounds like a pious, charitable take but really I think it's just to make sure there are no checks on her transphobia.

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In 1988, ACT UP protested the FDA withholding HIV treatment due to requiring unethical double-blind studies of medication they already knew worked.

In 2024, trans activists protested promoters of an NHS-funded report requiring unethical double-blind studies of medication they already knew worked.

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it is a very silly time and i am repeatedly very much an idiot

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most relaxing game ever

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butch4butch

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If this made you smile, please read this!!

We are a family of ten trying to survive in northern Gaza and this is my little sister Soso, who is only four years old. Her mental health has declined severely due to our situation to the point where she can’t be separated from my mother even for a few minutes. She cries hysterically anytime she hears gunfire or shelling, which she never did before. She cries at night from hunger and she cries during the day to go outside (we don’t let her because it’s too dangerous). She barely plays anymore and her spine is visible under her skin. She keeps asking for white bread and a melon, both things we can’t give her.

Prices just keep going up and all we can afford is one meal a day that we finish eating still being hungry. Our landlord is harassing us trying to increase our rent again. I recently calculated how much Chuffed took from me as commissions and it has reached $2,000 since I’ve started this campaign. It shocked and enraged me but there’s nothing I can do. That’s not even taking into account the commission from PayPal and the bank. So I know it seems like I’ve already gotten a lot of money, but I promise I haven’t. I wish I had received enough so I could stop asking. We still worry every day about whether we’re going to keep our room or find something to eat.

Please help, I swear I’ll be thankful for anything. If you can’t afford to donate, then please at least share and I won’t ask more of you. Please.

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said smth about knickers being sexy at my new fencing gym and realized very quickly by the reactions and my subsequent examination of whether i truly believed that still that i just had a very homoerotic first year of college coming of age experience in my college fencing club