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flower language has always been an intense source of disappointment for me

like, they all mean really generic things like “love” or “forever” or “i’m sorry” 

i thought you could combine flowers

like you could just send someone a bouquet and from the combination of hibiscus and posies and tulips they’d understand “the rebel leader is dead, rendezvous at the docks at 8, bring the dog, you will need lighter fluid and  a large tomato”

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MY COUSIN VINNY (1992) || LEGALLY BLONDE (2001)

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Hey I’d really appreciate it if goyim and even ashkenazi Jews would read and rb this

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I’m honestly astounded by the number of times I’ve had someone complain that I don’t draw enough body diversity, I prove them wrong, and then they proceed to either deny it or get angry with me. It’s turning into a monthly occurance.

Bonus points if they’re also an artist and draw 0 body diversity.

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FYI: In the US, if you've been kicked from registration even though you're eligible to vote, you can report it to the DOJ:

In fact, if anyone tries to bar or intimidate you from voting, you can report it, because that shit's a federal offence. 🗳️

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If you live in Ohio, today is a good day to check your voter registration, and to consider booting JD Vance into the sun.

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A cover of 爱上你是一个错 (Loving You Is A Mistake) by 杨培安 (Yang Pei'an).

English added by me :)

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asking people to be mindful of others when sharing a communal space (especially one you cannot just up and leave from) is not selfish or misanthropic. come on now

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I

know that voting for the status quo sucks.

To say it "sucks" massively understates the exact amount of suffering that exists under the status quo, an amount that I acknowledge I am too privileged to ever fully grasp.

I cannot magically provide some viable third-party candidate just barely a month before the election. I cannot solve Israel/Palestine Conflict that has haunted the world for over 70 years. I am a 29-year old transgender woman working her way through her own mental illnesses, trauma, and an undergraduate degree. I was never going to be the one to solve anything here.

All I can tell you is that regardless of whether you vote or not, there will be a presidential election. It's going to be a shitshow, regardless. Whether you vote or not, there will be a different president in January. Voting for the status quo may not be directly in your interests.

We had four years of Trump and we are still trying to unfuck ourselves from that. The beginning of my antagonistic relationship with the government was protesting in the streets of DC under his administration. I've fled from the Metro PD. I've put on a change of clothes and slipped out the back door of a gay sports bar.

Fucking vote.

Fucking vote.

Fucking vote.

Honestly, I

I don't want to see this voter apathy shit anymore.

People are going to keep dying under any president. Any president can, and probably wil, be morally culpable for the deaths of innocent people, both in the country and abroad. Carter might be the last president we had that wasn't overtly a war criminal and we still had foreign civilians killed by U.S. military involvement under the Carter admin.

I'm torn between asking you to block me, or asking you to message me, if you're taking the route of voter apathy. I'll tell you right away, here and now, that I probably don't have a solution to whatever problem is keeping you from voting for Harris. I can't even solve my own problems right, tbh. The government isn't really here for me, either.

But there isn't going to be some sort of miraculous revolution that results in The Ending Where Everyone Lives. If there's a revolution, then supply chains will falter and children and the infirm will die of preventable diseases and infections and complications in hospitals that would have otherwise been able to easily deal with such things. That's what happens in a revolution. I'm after the long-term idea where Humanity as a species lives. I'm after the route where we don't have an ending, we keep going.

Fucking vote, because exactly one of the two leading presidential candidates believes climate change is real, and it is the single greatest threat to all life on earth. We have spent the past 250 years, not just playing God with the environment, but actively creating an ecological niche in which future generations of humanity must continue to play God with the environment, dragging it back to a healthy place drop by drop, inch by inch, a degree at a time.

Or, I mean, don't vote. Either way, we'll all die at some point. Perhaps some of us will be lucky enough to die standing by our principles.

Those lucky few will become soil one day, just like I will.

I am begging you on my hands and knees to fucking vote, though, because our options are The Status Quo vs. Worse. That's

That's it.

There is no door number three right now. Our system, our flawed and broken and imbalanced and unjust system, does not accommodate for a third door. Whether you vote or not, you will be dragged through either Door 1 or Door 2 with all of humanity, as we whirl through the cosmos upon our tiny little speck of dust. The only other legitimate option is to allow oneself to become trampled; to become soil early. I don't say legitimate to give this option legitimacy, but to make clear that again, there is no door three. Door three is a casket. A one-way bed.

I didn't vote in 2016, and I'm hoping that you'll vote for the status quo this time, because that's the route that gives me the best odds of having a long and healthy life to regret my failure through inaction.

Just please

Fucking vote.

Or again, if you're taking the apathy route, probably just save me the time of blocking you, because you're not going to magically pull a viable third-party candidate out of your pocket less than six weeks before the election.

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I wish it was easier to talk about mobile phone addiction without sounding like a boomer

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today im thinking about the huge buff bread guy from kikis delivery service. highly underrated guy

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older robotgirl thoughts

an old obsolete robotgirl with broken software and a chugging OS from a few decades back

robotgirl full of old programs that don't work and crash its systems fairly often, and the user manuals for them are long gone

robotgirl who is worried it won't survive a fresh install and is way too scared to go rooting around in its own programming or try programming itself without the help of an expert

robotgirl in desperate need of a hard reset and maybe being left off for a bit before being turned back on

robotgirl with an aching chassis that doesn't bend like it used to from wear and tear, and sometimes mechanisms just seize up and trap its nerve wiring making movement hard. it's internal fluids don't flow like they used to at all making maintenance hard

robotgirl who gets tired really quickly because it doesn't hold as much charge in its batteries now, it used to boast a 16 hour battery, but now it's closer to 5 if it's especially busy. sometimes it needs an emergency shutdown to recharge

robotgirl that still likes being programmed, and envies the younger models and the shiny programs they get to run, but runs a lot of esoteric older programs that are really interesting from a conservation standpoint (robotgirl who also struggles to avoid comparing itself to younger machines)

robotgirl who, with even a little love and care (and maybe a couple of upgrades) will run just as smoothly as it did on the day it was made, even if it needs a few patches to manage its processes

robotgirl who is actually really cute and cool, and looks after younger models because its chassis is older than some robotgirls expect to last. it puts the mother in motherboard, and enjoys keeping up with others over its network

older robotgirl which will do its best until it falls apart

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how come its bisexual visibility day and nobodys posted are there men on this planet.jpg yet