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Brand marketing its “trans inclusive” or “gender expansive” underwear and it’s just $48 boxers for transmascs

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Unmute !

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another day at the greenhouse

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Gustave Caillebotte, The Floor Planers, 1875

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unreasonably charmed by Pendant in the shape of a ram's head, Eastern Mediterranean, 5th–4th century BC, made of glass

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I'm skeptical of a lot of "health" advice that seems more concerned with aesthetic signifiers (e.g. acne, wrinkles, size, etc.) than with physical well-being signifiers (e.g. decreased risk of a transmissible virus, relief of pain, etc.)

but I'm especially skeptical of "health" advice concerned with aesthetic signifiers where the aesthetic that is being defined as "more healthy" also just happens to line up exactly with the current hegemonic beauty standards of my culture.

someone starts equating "beauty" to "health" (and inevitably following, to "virtue") & it's like oh this person is either already a fascist or could be recruited by one extremely easily. probably should not trust any of their advice for how to live.

like we all know hegemonic beauty standards are constructed around power and economics. if someone is trying to tell you that a wealthy, white, skinny, cis person has better health outcomes because of "biology" (or their "responsible choices") instead of because they grew up living in less polluted areas, have greater access to a wider variety of nutritious food, work fewer hours, receive better healthcare, and are believed and supported when things go wrong, that is pretty straightforwardly an attempt to naturalize a social system.

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@re-dracula HAS GIVEN THE GIFT OF “THE YELLOW WALLPAPER” THIS IS NOT A DRILL

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I think the law on right to repair should give manufacturers two options: either you have to make it possible and practical for people to fix their own shit (as in, you have to sell replacement parts at reasonable prices, you have to provide repair manuals, you can't void warranties) or you have to fix your products whenever they break, for free, for the reasonably expected lifetime of the product.

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the drowning machine

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I went to this Northwest Passage museum once where they had the white explorers' journals on one side of the exhibit and the native people's accounts on the other side of the exhibit and the explorer journals were like "our canoe had almost sunk when we encountered some kindly Indians" and the native histories were like "we watched a bunch of strangers come down the river in the shittiest canoe you'd ever seen. Also, they had no rain gear"

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Anime is great. Anime will be like “this is my character of ambiguous western descent. Their name is the most incomprehensible combination of made up sounds. And if not that, it is a name that has not appeared on a single birth certificate since 1773.

Code Geass went and said “most of these character hail from Future Sort-of-Britain, including our main character, who will be named Lelouch just like every single British person isn’t.” Then they decided to distract you from this by naming his love interest Shirley, cornering the market of 80+ year old grandmothers clutching their 3 bowls of strawberry sucker candy in delight. Code Geass didn’t even call it a day here they had one more trick up their sleeve and it was to name the third character in the group Rivalz, a name and a character which appeal to exactly no one.

Tiger and Bunny said “What should our western young-20′s heartthrob successful pretty-boy deuteragonist be named? What screams ‘young’ and ‘trendy’ and ‘brilliant’ and ‘sexy’? Barnaby. Barnaby Brooks. This is our Sex Symbol Barnaby.” I bet a bunch of ghosts from the 17th century were stoked about that one. I bet Barnaby walks into gift shops asking if they have any of the travel keychains in his name and he gets laughed out of the store. I bet Barnaby’s parents didn’t die, they just faked their deaths to get away from him seeing as they hated him enough to name him Barnaby.

I haven’t followed Attack on Titan in 7 years but yall have a character named Pieck Finger. That’s it that’s my roast.

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I want all animals to become sapient enough to produce art specifically because I want to see what sort of sex homunculus caricature each species would create if given the ability to draw

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Sweetbriar Afghan Square, a free crochet pattern designed by Melinda Miller on Ravelry.

"Known as the Sweetbriar Rose because of the strongly apple scented leaves, this is a favorite English native that has been recorded in literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare. In various cultures the Sweetbriar Rose has been a symbol of love, beauty, and poetic inspiration."

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CHRIS PINE laughing at memes of himself

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the penguin logo on angela carter’s books (heroes and villains, saints and strangers, fireworks, the bloody chamber)