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I don't go here anymore unless someone links a post that i need to be logged in to see, but god, i would love to be on websites that aren't run by awful boy-kings

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Yeah he’s officially gone full Elon

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back on here because staff is doing the thing again, and for some reason people still give them the benefit of the doubt, even though this kind of thing literally happens every few months, and has not stopped happening no matter how many times they've made big public apologies in the aftermath of it.

i'm gonna keep saying it but i do think this website is fundamentally transmisogynistic, from the well documented history of bigotry actions by both the staff and owners, down to the userbase being so passively hostile that the only places that are truly welcoming for transfeminine folks are also full of predators.

But the fact that transfeminine folks can't even really talk about that without the conversation being turned to those predators in either defense or condemnation, in one way or another, is in itself damning

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they should invent a tech ceo that doesn't have the insecurity of a 12 year old boy

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Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising - Weight of the World (VS 2B)

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The thing about Cottagecore is that is a fetishized aesthetic of country life, divorced from labor and idealized by a primarily urban audience with a backward looking ethos of tradition. They are not prepared for the stresses of a rural life: farming; harvesting; tapping pumpkins to ensure none of them have been replaced with flesh; losing out on income by having to use one of your pigs in a blood sacrifice to paint protective sigils over your doors and windows; checking cracks and chimneys for the flesh-vines of the Pumpkin Lord; having to decide, before the Growth is complete, whether that's really your tradwife or an amassment of vines, leaves, and blood in the shape of your tradwife; ignoring their desperate pleas that "I'm me! No! No!" as you burn them alive, realizing too late you picked wrong; and the exploitative corporate nature of commercial farming in 2024. All seen through a deeply colonial lens, of course

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when i came out as trans in 2014 it felt like things were coming around. sure there was still a lot of transphobia and cruelty and pain involved in the process but it seemed like maybe there were things to be optimistic about. it truly felt like we were maybe gonna be okay. and some people saw the trannies being happy and loved and unafraid to be seen or heard and they felt threatened. and now for several years its been a slow miserable process of the powers that be trying to push us back into the margins, return us to isolation and loneliness, expose to hatred and violence.

we were once a joke to them and now they just want us all dead. it is a seething and hideous hatred that boils over with increasing frequency. it shows in every corner of the world, from governments to employers and landlords and goddamn stupid social media websites all alike. but i have never known love or support like that ive received from the fellow trans women in my life. its so important. we have the numbers. we have the heart. we will not lose. we will fight back and win.

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yesterday i was ringing up an old man at work and he asked if i wanted to see his pride and joy, pulled out his wallet, and in the place where you’d keep a picture of like your family he had this

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Happy Valentine's day

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its fascinating how very very surface level 1920s-ish jazz age inspired aesthetics are very popular (see: hazbin hotel and electroswing and the endless wave of bowtie pinstripe character designs from the 2010s) but the vast vast majority of people who are into that seem fundamentally disinterested in actually engaging with actual jazz age art and culture because that would require engaging with black art

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dril and xkcd are at opposite ends of a spectrum slowly working to collaboratively post about every possible topic

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Girl you cannot “reclaim phrenology”

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>hear frantic clicking and the sounds of exertion

>must be a rhythm game player

>genuinely impressed at the apm

>look outside

>crabs are pinching a man to death

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Thesis: the reason we're having a nostalgic revival of the 1990s in 2024 even though nostalgic revivals usually trail twenty years behind the genuine article rather than thirty is because what everybody is picturing when they think of "the 1990s" is actually the early 2000s.

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