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evangelicals being like "god made men to do This and be like This and women to do That and be like That that's just how it is" and it's just a picture of a white man and woman following traditional gender norms makes me so insane like you boring fascist fucks. god made 2 million species of beetles. god made whales, ducks, humans, and 1500 other species capable of same sex behavior. god made fish and amphibians that change sexes. god made more than 30 different intersex variations in human beings. god, in his infinite curiosity. wake up!!! fuck!!

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People say “phase” like impermanence means insignificance. Show me a permanent state of the self.

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Hot take but I really do think that some of y’all need to consider how/why/when/how often you’re making fun of straight people for being straight

I do it too, I’m not going to pretend I don’t make jokes about the hets, or the down with cis bus, or whatever

But I recently befriended a cis, straight dude and I have watched him be dismissed, degraded, and unambiguously insulted for the perceived “crime” of being straight — all in queer environments where he is allegedly “completely welcome” and surrounded by “friends”

This guy is not a toxic person! But I have seen him be made to feel so small and like his comfort and safety in those spaces are conditional on his silence and acceptance of being treated like a human dunk zone, and I think that some of y’all have had so much shit from straight/cis people that the second you feel like you’ve got an inch, you want to luxuriate in the perceived catharsis of bullying someone who— actually —doesn’t deserve it

And until he very, very carefully mentioned to me in private that it makes him feel bad, I didn’t even clock that I was involved in doing that, that it had become so instinctive for me to make casual jokes like that, and that— well meaning or otherwise —I had been contributing to an environment that made someone I really really like feel like shit

So, I dunno, I think maybe some of y’all should think about that too

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As a society we have benefited so much from successful public health measures that we now have the privilege of declaring that we must not need them anymore

Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%— in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people

I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history

You might say “oh well today we all have access to vitamins and toothpastes and dentists so we don’t need those things in our food supplies” and boy do white people on social media loooove to fucking say that. But here’s the thing: no, people don’t all have easy access to those things. That’s privilege talking yet again

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The real thing with ADHD is not "I forgot", but that forgetting is this ongoing process. I remembered! And then I forgot.

At ten this (hypothetical) morning I remembered that I have a meeting at six. And then from 11 through 3 I worked on other stuff and had zero thoughts about that meeting. Maybe even thought about what I was gonna do with my evening at home. Got attached to the idea of taking the time to make a good dinner, maybe play some video games.

And then at three I said, "Oh! Fuck!" and remembered again, hopefully long enough to set an alarm. And then I went to the bathroom and remembered that I need to clean the counter and spent twenty minutes cleaning the bathroom and went to get a snack and then at five I said, "OH! FUCK!" and had to scramble to dress like a real adult and get out the door.

It isn't one clean forgetting. It's a constant process of forgetting and then, with an exhausting adrenaline spike, remembering. And then forgetting. Baby, I can forget the same thing more times in a day than you ever forgot your parents' anniversary.

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I really think this moment was inevitable ever since everyone (but the 75 million Harris voters <3) fucked up in November. This pig never had a “mandate” with an election decided by a point and a half, he openly campaigned on being a fascist, and the people who hate him REALLY hate him. Of course a large, notable protest was going to happen sooner or later, and of course this weak bully and his gaggle of lunatics were going to freak out and try to scare people into submission. This has been in the making for a while. I know even bringing this up will make certain people mad, but Joe Biden was right when he said in 2017 that we’re in a battle for the soul of the nation; the battle isn’t over because too many people were selfish assholes in November, and I’ll never stop being mad about that. But the battle isn’t lost.

I’m not saying Trump’s illegal response is good, I’m saying that people protesting his inhumane immigration policies, the key to his whole administration, is good. People should be protesting this. After every pundit and poaster said Democrats should throw immigrants to the wolves after November, it’s nice to instead see how many people are willing to go out into the streets and shame ICE to their faces. The administration is having this absurd and illegal response because they’re losing. They’re losing in court, they’re losing the trade war they chose to start, and they’re losing public opinion, with Trump’s approval having been underwater for several weeks now.

I don’t know how this ends. It feels similar to the summer of 2020, but that was the end of Trump’s term. We’re halfway through 2025. It feels unsustainable at this level. Things are scary because they want you to be scared, but remember how scared they are:

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i'm curious, what's everyone's Default Outfit? like what would you be always drawn wearing in a cartoon? mine is concert tee + mid length skirt

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omg

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The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021 

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It's easy to think "nobody in the whole wide world cares about me" on an empty stomach but try doing it while eating Vegetables and Rice. Seems less convincing now doesn't it? That's simply the power of Vegetables and Rice..

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why be radically exclusionary abt queerness when you could be radically inclusionary instead. let's inflate the numbers. let's become the majority. the sky's the limit

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@aparrotandaqrow with this absolute banger in the tags: "In a culture war, you need every fucking inch-- you cannot cede ground just because the next inch isn't Versailles."

happy pride month in the US to everyone who was eligible to vote who voted for Kamala Harris and no one else in the US