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No children are allowed in the Library of Congress.

It's not that kind of library.

In other words...

You are being lied to

again

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Happy Birthday, Techno

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happy pride month, shoutout to the gays

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help needed with medical debt

hello! im making a post again. my name is jamie and im a trans artist who is desperately trying to knock down the wall of medical debt i've accumulated over the years.

after losing my job to disability in mid 2024, keeping up on all of my bills has been extremely difficult and finding non-standing work in my area has felt even more impossible.

the help i've gotten so far has been immense, and i cant express how much i appreciated it. i'm a little over 25% of my long term goal and every extra bit i can add to my debt payments helps a ton.

i also have these platforms, and have been adjusting the gofundme accordingly with any donations there that i receive. shares are super appreciated

paypal | venmo: @radioaky

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TODDLER NEEDS MEDICINE FOR MALNUTRITION AND DEHYDRATION

Baby Ayla has struggled with malnutrition all her life. Now it is taking really its toll on her, and she has severe diarrhea. Ayla is rapidly losing the few fluids she has in her body, and the IOF assault has made food, water, and medicine extremely scarce. For a toddler, this is absolutely life-threatening. If she cannot replenish the bodily fluids she is losing, her fragile kidneys will go into failure!!

Her widowed mother URGENTLY needs funds for medicine, saline solution, and diapers. Every moment that Ayla remains sick, she gets closer and closer to kidney failure. She urgently needs your support to survive!!

🚨Need to raise: $500 USD

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ok this is me returning to the hornet's nest with a loaded pistol. it is fundamentally in denial of reality to say that transmascs/AFABs passing as male is "so rare and almost never happens" while living in a world where a cis woman not tweezing her eyebrows, not putting on makeup, not shaving her legs, and overall not complying with socially-dictated femininity will read as male in public.

it's a denial of the fact that cis female atheletes - and now random cis women in the public eye as well - are routinely accused of being male for something as simple as having natural body hair, small breasts, or defined muscles. it is in denial of basic misogyny and racism in a world where cis women's pictures are posted online and people draw lines on her shoulders and hips and skull and determine that she is actually a man.

the bar for performing femininity has always been astronomically high in comparison to performing masculinity. the plain choice of existing in one's un-altered AFAB body is enough for many cis women to be described as male and ridiculed for it.

AFAB people quite frequently "pass as male" whether they intend to or not.

it's also insane that people are mis-describing me as white for being able to pass easily, ignoring the fact that i got read as male over a decade before starting T because i was a mixed race woman who had to shave my face. like, hello white babies you cannot be serious!! i got called a monkey in high school and a faggot at my job before i even came out as a trans guy because i had the audacity to stop giving a fuck about my hair.

all these white transmascs in the notes are trying to simultaneously matrix bullet dodge their own white privilege with respect to harsher gender performance falling on people of color, projecting their experience regarding their own race onto me, and hand-shaking MRAs by adding insane qualifiers to their recongition of any kind of male/white privilege ("you must be able-bodied, neurotypical, upper middle class, etc etc etc") please be real.

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Hi new friends. Please don’t censor words, especially triggering ones. Seeing trigger words written l!ke th!s doesn’t stop them from being triggering.

It just stops Tumblr’s built in filter (see under settings) from working which many of us have in place to protect ourselves.

This has happened to me multiple times this week, and as someone currently struggling with suicidal ideation, has not been great.

You are not on TikTok or Insta, please use the full words so people can protect themselves. Thank you 💖

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BAN ON CONVERSION PRACTICES IN THE EU. GO SIGN IT. DEADLINE IS FUCKING MAY 17. WE'RE STILL MISSING 800.000 signatures. FUCKING DO IT.

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ur future nurse is using chapgpt to glide thru school u better take care of urself

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Since Duolingo is going all-AI I wanna switch apps to learn Japanese, I know you've answered a question like this before, but I can't find the post anymore :(

So uhhhhh, any recommendations? ':D

ありがとう、マーティンさん :D

Lingodeer I found a much better alternative to Duolingo in general

I've recently seen Bunpo recommended by one or two Japanese language tiktokers I follow, I tend to trust their judgement

Game Gengo on YouTube is a phenomenal source for Japanese learning with videos ranging from Genki 1 in full, through to singular nouns and the game playthoughs where he translates every single speech bubble

Then for some flashcard Kanji learning, WaniKani is great (so much so I've bought a lifetime membership on it)

Paul Noble's books - well I listened to the audiobook that has a pdf accompanying it - are great for getting sentence structure and phrases down for typical tourist interactions you'd have when visiting there

Then if you're old enough, apps like HelloTalk or even just finding local courses at a college can be super beneficial

Oh! Also once you've got some foundations down, reading and slowly translating books yourself meant for kids can be fun. Even low complexity manga like Polar Bear Cafe, Doraemon and the like can be good.

I also play stuff like Yokai Watch, Shin Chan and Pokémon to do slow translation stuff too due to repeated mechanics and phrases. Any game with furigana is a winner

I personally don't have the time or same benefit from watching shows or listening to podcasts. Sure it helps learn tone and inflections for some words, but it really is just a wall of noise where I'll occasionally know one sound. Feels pointless to me lol

Would love to hear anybody else's learning tools, hit em up! 🤙

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Not the kind of post I usually make (although I really should make more conservation posts) but I'm sure yall have heard about the eleventh-hour passing of a bill to start selling off public lands in Utah and Nevada without allowing time for public comment.

Well, Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever has released the linked form that you can fill out to send a pre-written letter to your reps to tell them to oppose the selling of these public lands, if you are so inclined to help out.

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My roommate and I need to get out of the moldy place we are living in. We intend to sue our landlord, but we need to get somewhere safe first, and stay fed until we can do that. We have money for long term housing and dental surgery but can't take out of those things as it took us over a year to save anything for them.

I had made a post for this, but didn't make much progress, and a lot changed in two weeks including some unexpected urgent costs. Now our original goal is no longer accurate. This goal covers transportation needs, food, and finding somewhere else for a little bit. This is urgent bc I have reason to think our landlord may try and physically remove us if we cannot afford to leave.

I'll do art for anyone who gives $50+ just message me at my art blog @theartistrans

C: $creepiecrippl

V: @tab-99

$66/$2,000

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I work with a lesbian senior citizen who just found out that her social security payments don't start until a month later than she had thought that they would (they start mid June). Our hours have been cut at work, and I'm thankful enough to be in a position of living with family, but Sue is on her own and struggling with rent and bills on top of trying to get groceries and take care of her cat that she's had for many years.

She's shared her gofundme on her facebook page with a few friends, family members, and coworkers but not many people have access to a more public platform like this. So I'm sharing her page on my blog in the hopes that it will reach more people.

She's truly a wonderful and kind woman and I know she would give up the clothes on her back to help someone else who was struggling, and if anyone can help her out I can't imagine how much she would appreciate it.

this is the link to her gofundme

She does have a paypal, but she isn't totally comfortable just putting it online and it's still kind of new to her. But the gofundme page is the best option for any kind of donations. Thank you for reading, and if you can't donate I would appreciate a share if possible! I'd love to spread this around and try to get her out of the spot she's in!

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Hey y'all. Here's something for you.

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Netanyahu decided today to continue the war. This means more children will be killed and many lives will be lost.

And don't forget the difficult humanitarian conditions of hunger and lack of basic resources for life. Let us be understanding and logical and take a serious stand with the oppressed Palestinian people. Let's come together toward justice and humanity. Don't get tired of standing by our side and supporting us financially by donating here and supporting us morally by participating and interacting. From the bottom of my heart, my family and I say thank you to everyone.