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"quick meal for when you're low on spoons!" *involves chopping vegetables* *uses a stove* *includes condiments* *involves letting something set/rest/simmer* *requires multiple kitchen items that will need to be washed* *estimated prep time: 30–45 minutes*

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If you care about the safety of trans people in the UK, please consider helping this change.org petition & donate if you can. Every person makes a difference & can help stop the tolerance of transphobic laws.

Stay safe, my lovely fellow trans peeps

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It would be so nice if every few years queer tumblr didn’t do a, “this queer identity is more privileged than the rest of us and shouldn’t talk about their issues/shouldn’t even be in the community,” about another identity.

Since I��ve been here it’s been: nonbinary people, bisexual people, asexual and aromantic people, polyamorous people, pansexual people, people who only use the word queer for their identity, trans men/mascs, and intersex people. At least. I might’ve missed something.

We’re stronger together. We all need space to discuss our experiences and all deserve not to be spoken over.

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Just as a reminder

Trans men and trans women are EQUALLY targets of the current horrible uptick of transphobia in the world. It's horrible that trans women are often the main focus to instill fear in the minds of hateful and/or uneducated cishet people, but PLEASE please do not forget trans men suffer equally under laws being overturned and transphobic laws being instilled WORLD WIDE. Please don't segregate trans suffering and make it a one binary vs the other binary thing.

Some transphobic experiences may be specific for trans women vs trans men vs nonbinary folks, but let's make it a thing to stand in this together instead of battle over who the government hates the most. Infighting is exactly what they want, so trans people don't focus on the bigger picture anymore. Please stand together and condemn ALL transphobia for once and for all.

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stop fucking using the word psychotic to describe bad behaviour and violence already god fucking damn it

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25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025

Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality

Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway

Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups

Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay

Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward

Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient

Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative

Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!

Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community

DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!

Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?

Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.

Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability

Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough

Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing

Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work

Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market

Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question

Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them

Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area

Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...

Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable

Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact

Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive

Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people

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2023 edluca drawing i did that i found again and was like Aww thats not too ugly look at it aww ohhh. Ohh aww. I didnt even like idv anymore

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edluca cuddles...

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you might DEEPLY INHALE the same FTM PUSSY as me but i TAKE IT ALL IN in a far deeper and more INTELLIGENT way than you ever will

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im sorry rad fems sold you the lie that butches are only Non Threatening (TM) cis women with short hair who wear T-shirts and jeans with a carabiner, but the reality of the situation is a lot of butches are trans, genderqueer, physically imposing, big, male impersonators, hairy (especially including facial hair), sweaty, muscular, "ugly" and/or fat. some butches are into extreme body modification. some went bald. some are body builders. some are transfem butches who don't wanna overperform womanhood, take estrogen, or medically transition. some butches start testosterone strictly to feel more like a butch. some butches pass as cis men, and some need to do so in order to feel like their butch selves. soft butches are great, but that's not the "One Right Way" to be butch. the butches i'm attracted to would make a rad fem scream and cry and piss themselves on the floor.

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Two userboxes I made for myself, feel free to use

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Minors DNI, avoid my posts and blog. This is a blog made by a trans adult for trans adults. You deserve sources and community as well, but my blog is not the place for you.

So with the current state of the world (and more specifically America) as an European transman I wanna do the most I can to support my fellow transmen (and others on the trans/nb spectrum) who are currently being denied their rightful healthcare. I'm donating left and right but I also wanna remind everyone that my DMs are open if you have questions or need sources for DIY HRT. I'm DIY myself as a result of rampant transmedicalism and gatekeeping in gender clinics.

Yes, there are risks involved. Just like there are risks involved with medically aquired HRT. But if I can help even one single person be themself in a world that actively tries to detransition trans people, I am happy. I believe having a basic understanding of DIY hrt is a necessary skill in a society that's becoming increasingly transphobic. Medically prescribed hrt is a privilege and one that can be taken away by bigots at every moment, like the political disaster in America has shown us very clearly.

Since I can't do much to change the political climate in a country on the other side of the world, my form of protest will be helping and guiding those who suffer under said political climate. Stay true to who you are, whether you can be loud and proud or have to do so in radical silence.

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