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I love having a baby I’m so excited for her to grow up and show her personality and start talking!! And at the same time I’m already sad because she’s not a tiny newborn anymore and she never will be again. And I realize this feeling is so normal, so mundane, and so extremely special at the same time. I feel my heart exploding with love in a way I never felt before and it feels like the most amazing unique thing in the universe, and then I know every mother has felt this, it is not unique at all, but that doesn’t take away from it, in fact it makes the feeling even more special. That we all feel this, that this is such a big part of humanity. That every mother has at some point watched their baby drift off into sleep and thought I love this little person so much that the world can possibly not be the same anymore. It is such a deeply human experience. I

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Songs will come to you in the most perfect, diabolical time and many of them will be by fleetwood mac

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Sudie Rakusin, 1987. Lesbian Culture: An Anthology, Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe. 1993.

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when i look up a knitting term, the last thing I want is an ai overview. I want a 60+ year old woman with no understanding of lighting or helpful camera angles who still manages to give the most concise and clear explanation of how to execute purl 2tog through the backloop. ai summary fuck off, where is phyllis?

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Courtney Love lights a cigarette for Sinéad O’Connor (2003)

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Being an adult in this recession and being like wow I am totally "splurging" on 3 new sets of cotton underwear and 3 pairs of socks like whoaaaaa hold your horses duke of the land where's all this money gonna come from

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what do I have to do to go to events where people are dressed nicely and there are plates of free cheese cubes

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One sad side effect of big box stores is that you just don’t get lifelong hyper fixation guy access like you used to.

Like yeah I can go to Menards and buy a door.

But it used to be I could go to the door store, and speak to a man whose sole passion in life was doors and who would talk about the history of door insulation patterns over the last 50 years without stopping to breathe.

That man is gonna find me the BEST door option for me.

Seriously my neighborhood had one of these. They were across the street from the lighting shop owned by the guy who could tell you the exact date, off the top of his head, that your property got electrical wiring based on your address.

Now these guys rarely get to own a shop, make a good living, and sell the very finest doors for decades. They’re relegated to Reddit posts which are informative but ultimately do not replace door guy having a door shop.

I don’t want to talk to some miserable, underpaid 20 year old who was in plumbing last week and in doors this week and doesn’t know a hammer from a hanger.

I want my door guy back.

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”Intersex people exist specifically to challenge rigid sex binaries...” no. Intersex people just exist. There is no specific purpose or virtue to being intersex. The wording really shows that you think they’re just a fun thought experiment for your ideology.

Okay i’ll bite. A woman is a human female with either two or more X chromosomes, so women with intersex conditions are women. If you really want to get more technical, a woman is a human female with two or more X chromosomes OR a “broken”/inactive Y chromosome. Gender critical feminists include intersex women and the conditions they have. Stop roping in intersex women into your backwards activism so you can play in lala gender land

Okay, I’ll bite. If your definition of "woman" hinges entirely on chromosomes, you're reducing a complex reality lived identity, biology, and social experience down to a genetics quiz most people never even take.

Intersex people exist specifically to challenge rigid sex binaries, not reinforce them. If your framework includes them only when it suits your argument against trans people, then it’s not about truth it’s about exclusion. Intersex women aren’t your rhetorical shield.

They exist outside your binary, not within it. So stop using them to gatekeep womanhood while pretending it’s about biology.

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I can’t believe “fake gamer girl” was an actual concept guys thought existed literally the most unfuckable guys who have ever lived were convinced girls were faking being interested in loser nerd hobbies to impress them

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According to the CDC, in 10 percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch the child do it, having no idea it is happening. Drowning does not look like drowning—Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene magazine, described the Instinctive Drowning Response like this:

“Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.

Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.

Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.

Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.

From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.”

This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble—they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the Instinctive Drowning Response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long—but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.

Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:

Head low in the water, mouth at water level

Head tilted back with mouth open

Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus

Eyes closed

Hair over forehead or eyes

Not using legs—vertical

Hyperventilating or gasping

Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway

Trying to roll over on the back

Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder

So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OK—don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you all right?” If they can answer at all—they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents—children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.

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“Your partner shouldn’t care what is in your pants!”

Cannot tell you how unbelievably upset I would be if my wife didn’t care about my pussy specifically lmao this is the most online virgin argument I can imagine

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Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture

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Hyewon Kim (Korean, 1993) - Interior of a Mysterious Bus (2023)

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If a girl is to do the same superman thing where he takes off his disguise, we just look pervy. Not the same effect