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Gouache paintings by Bill Mayer (American, b.1951)

https://www.thebillmayer.com/

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Mongolian history class, 2022, start of the semester. We're having a discussion on animal slaughter, featuring the one Mongolian student in our school.

The student explains that he's slaughtered animals himself, and there are two ways of doing it that avoid the spilling of blood. For a small animal like a chicken, you reach up into the chest of the animal and sever the arteries. For a larger animal like a camel, there's a spot on the forehead that, when hit hard enough, causes the animal to die instantly.

While this discussion is going on, a couple of the students are sharing something back and forth on their phone

The professor calls this out, asking if what they're sharing is more interesting than Mongolian animal slaughter

The room is dead silent for a few seconds. The two students look at each other awkwardly.

Eventually, one of the students pipes up:

"Well, the queen of England just died."

And without missing a beat, another student:

"Did they hit her on the head like a camel?"

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just saw a “period typical homophobia” tag on a fic set in the early 2000s and like…you arent wrong but jesus things changed fast huh

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before making a joke, be sure to ask yourself: is this O.K. to say?

Only funny to me Kind of mean

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Saw someone wearing this shirt and fell in love

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i'm just thinking abt how many providers i've had who heard my story abt psychiatric abuse + immediately individualized it. "oh, you're so smart + kind+ obviously sane! you didn't deserve that! i can't believe they gave you that diagnosis when you're obviously not like that! they shouldn't have treated u like that when all you did was xyz! they shouldn't have assumed you were crazy like that!"

there is always a third person haunting this interaction- the patient who does deserve that, who is "actually" that evilscary diagnosis, who did Have To be treated like that. if i want to soak up the affirmations of these providers, i must be careful to never become this third person. i must affirm myself by setting myself apart from her- i did not deserve to be treated like that because i am not like that.

i reject this. not only was i like that, she + everyone else like that deserve everything i deserve. they are my siblings + my friends + my lovers. i do not need to cut them out of me to believe i deserved better. i refuse to comfort myself through the lens of someone else's dehumanization. the tragedy is not that psychiatric violence was applied to someone who not insane enough to warrant it. the tragedy is the violence.

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Oh my god the one with the vest and golden tie...

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Being trans means being perpetually the most fuckable bitch in the grocery store then walking out and driving home in the least road worthy car in the parking lot

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Enjoy the show

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Anyone: Hey (asks about a special interest of mine)? Me: Becomes an unskippable cutscene

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Gab Bois: Film Collection (2022)

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What you need to understand about Elephant Shrews is that they are completely unrelated to shrews.

But.

They ARE in fact closely related to elephants.

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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (1904 – 1989,Spanish) - Fallen Angel. Date 1951.

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I was honestly incapable of even conceiving of anything as evil as Unity is pulling today. Like holy shit. Will we let these fuckheads take our hands and arms when we give them a finger!?

Game developer unionisation is more imperative than ever fucking before now.

I'm very worried about my close friends using the engine. Some of them say they likely won't be affected, but can you really know? With the wordy, shoddy and vague FAQ they posted, they have all the room and us developers none. Fucking barf

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OK like. The absolute trainwreck in this post's notes aside, why did OP assume Hot Topic was selling leashes all in wide-eyed ignorance? Plausible deniability at best.