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why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

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it seems like the key theme of fungus is that they eat everything including things otherwise impossible to eat, they get everywhere with their tiny spores, and they grow and be happy wherever it is wet by eating the surroundings. So if get inside your body (wet) they eat you. so your two main options for being a multicellular organism are developing an immune system (most animals) or hiring other fungus to beat the shit out of the fungus that gets inside your body (most plants)

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A good thread on whether “queer” is a slur and if it should be used or not.

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Not queer as in "queer is not a slur" but queer as in "I do not give a fuck if its a slur, you don't get to censor my identity regardless". Queer as in "I HOPE my identity upsets you". Queer as in "my identity is not only a slur but a threat"

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I'm kind of at a point where the "queer spaces" i feel safest in are the ones that have a pet cishet dude or two hanging around

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It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”

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Amy Winehouse by Bryan Adams for Harper's Bazaar

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Someone was asking in a thread what kind of people could work for ICE right now.

I think it's a good time to remember that the image above are the people who put children into gas chambers.

When I was little, I asked what kind of person could work at a concentration camp.

The answer to both questions I think is "normal people who have accepted the dehumanization of another group of people."

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Rings my fucking bell, like a perennial fucking plague maiden:

Center harm, not disgust!

When in doubt (and when not in doubt, just swept by problems bigger than you and assured by someone that they know the answer, so don't think right now, just Do!), center harm.

Focus on what specific harm you're reducing with your actions. Make sure it's tangible and concrete. If your actions are minimizing hypothetical harm at the cost of real, tangible harm on others, 9 out 10 times you're on the wrong fucking side, being weaponized by propaganda.

If a conversation revolves around disgust as a driver for action, you're being radicalized. If a call to action depends on your emotional response, you're being manipulated. I'm sorry, this isn't the 90s anymore, social media has eroded the web of respectability of the pre internet society. The primary axis for misinformation to spread in this day and age is emotional response: half the things you believe are true and share as such are not based on fact, expert opinion or personal research. Social media has conditioned us (all of us! You and me and most dangerously of all, the idiots we put in power) that if something feels true, it probably is.

But do you know for sure it is? Do you think it's true because you have first hand experience or actual time spent on reputable sources learning it to be fact? Or just because it aligns with your worldview and it would be nice for you if it were true?

Are you taking action because you're angry and a group of fellow angry folk invited you to join them? Do you have a plan or is this just catharsis? Are you aware of the consequences of your actions or are you drunk on rage and focused only on the immediate future?

Center harm. Center specific actions and their consequences.

Discomfort is not harm. Disgust is not harm. Hypothetical paranoia is not harm.

The reactionary pipeline is real and your self-image as a progressive is not actually enough to save you from falling down the hole. Radicalization is not hinged on politics alone. Saying you're a leftist is worthless if your thought process and actions themselves are indistinguishable from qanon losers. Conspiratorial thought has literally no politics inherently, and your insistence it does is pure lack of critical thought on display.

Center harm, not feelings, not politics, not group think.

Center harm, and remember that individual actions cannot dismantle systemic structures on their own, so anyone who calls for individual action at the cost of community structures is not actually trying to change anything, and instead actively suppressing efforts to make anything better in any way.

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Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

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There are sadly always other factors that can limit the accessibility of archery, but you might be surprised by how adaptable it can be!

Archery GB have some useful info if you’re looking to get involved in disabled archery

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Over the past six years I've slowly but surely developed a sixth sense that only comes in handy a few times a year. This sense functions mostly as a "check-engine" light, and nowadays it is never wrong.

Today, my inner check-engine light came on while my brother and I were out and about (lunch, shopping, driving) and I immediately steered us towards home. We were already ready to go home so it was easy.

Once home I prepared for It To Begin because the light is on and it is never wrong. As the hours ticked by though, I began to question myself. Where was the pain? Where was the light-headedness? My appetite was still here, so maybe the light was wrong?

The light is never wrong. An hour and a half ago It Began and I jumped into action. I stopped what I was doing, took meds, and brought my things to my room. Then I forced myself to shower because if I didn't now, who knew when I would next.

A mental timer began in my head, telling me that if I was not in bed (or at least sitting down) when the timer was up, my body would go down for me. I washed myself knowing that my strength would not last, that my limbs would betray me if I wasn't careful. I bargained with my vision to stay as it was.

My body has been merciful so far, but I remember the times when I haven't been so lucky.

I've begged my brother and father for medicine and water through a bathroom door because I was too weak to walk 20 feet to get it myself. I've nearly had a medical emergency at the National Aquarium because the pain became too great for me to bear, as I sat hunched over waiting for my granddad to bring the car closer. I prayed that my rapidly decreasing vision would remain stable enough for me to make it to the car. I've been sick from school, or sent home early because the pain kept me from learning, and the medicine the school nurses gave me had no effect. I've been bed-bound during vacations because I felt too weak and the pain was too great, and I cried knowing there was nothing I could do about it. It would only stop after 48 hours if I was lucky.

This post is about menstruating, and if your experience or the experience of someone you know is like this, this is not normal and you should talk to a medical professional. Periods should not be debilitating.

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This is a legitimate and damaging cultural shift for all involved parties and it needs to be addressed.

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men love to make fun of women for overreacting in emergencies when they are, in fact, massively under-reacting

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reminder that "allies welcome" was once secret code for "those not out yet can still participate without putting themselves at risk", and for those who aren't out yet to comfortably exist in these spaces you have to let allies exist in those spaces too.

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My roommates got married last week and said today that they’re planning on moving to somewhere else in the city, and asked me to move with them when they do.

Which I appreciate so much, they’re both fantastic roommates and I really don’t want to try and find another place on my own, but also. Jesus Christ what a look. “Hiii we’re the Thompsons, we just moved in down the street, that’s my husband and that’s the ghoul who used to live in our basement”