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tempted to start posting about politics and history like I'm a US american honestly. not even a mention of the fact that I'm talking about a specific country. wild sweeping accusations towards people who don't know what I'm talking about. stating things like they're the absolute and single truth when they only apply to my country and basically nowhere else. etc. but I'm brave so I won't

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I'm turning 30 this month, and for some reason have become suddenly interested in material possessions. like what if,,,,,,,,my couch was nice. what if my sheets were nice. is this what happens to you??

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Calling all Kiwis!

If you live in Aotearoa - New Zealand and care about our biodiversity and country and don't want it sold out for short term profit, please make a submission in opposition to the Regulatory Standards Bill.

The closing date for submissions is 1.00pm, Monday, 23 June 2025

Regulatory Standards Bill will stop lawmakers considering broader public health

What's Wrong With the RSB

Regulatory Standards Bill threatens the public interest, public health and Māori rights

The ‘dangerous’ bill has been updated, but how?

The dangers in the Regulatory Standards Bill

‘Alarm bells need to ring’: Concerns over Regulatory Standards Bill

How the Regulatory Standards Bill gives companies more rights than the public

-> Submit here <-

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They should make it easier for trans women

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Per @arinrowan's recommendation, I'm watching Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster.

And let me just say these Coast Guard guys at this hearing appear to be REALLY feeling this image:

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You are inconsistent. You do not need to have a grand unified theory about what to do about Michael Jackson. You are a hypocrite, over and over. You love Annie Hall but you can barely stand to look at a painting by Picasso. You are not responsible for solving this unreconciled contradiction. In fact, you will solve nothing by means of your consumption; the idea that you can is a dead end. The way you consume art doesn't make you a bad person, or a good one. You'll have to find some other way to accomplish that.

Claire Dederer, Monsters

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Well, it's the next to last update. 11 days until surgery. 9 days until I leave town for it. 7 days until I have to have bills and stuff finalized before leaving.

Really the biggest ask I have at this point, aside from donations and filling out the rest of that fundraiser, is sharing. Please, share this around everywhere you can, because I'm desperately trying to get the last of what I need together.

Here's the link again: https://gofund.me/74494d4f

Anyways, as always, thanks for checking in on this, and I'll see you with a final pre-operation update next week.

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STARTING TOMORROW

Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.

They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!

This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!

TUNE IN HERE

article I posted screenshots of here

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I can't do much but maybe this will interest someone. This cookbook is by a classically trained autistic chef, made for people with sensory issues. It's sold 1/6th of its initial run because apparently no one wants to have an autistic person interviewed on TV.

Apparently it's also very funny.

Spread this around! I bet someone here can use this.

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The Transmasculine Guide to Sex Work

This is a resource which breaks down how to navigate various types of sex work as a transmasculine person, what kinds of places to advertise, how to stay safe, and the issues you can expect to face as a transmasculine sex worker.

Please share so that transmasculine people who are sex workers, or who are considering sex work, can access this information!

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Hooker Mentality is here!

Read some leftist theory from a sex worker perspective. Available for pre-order now.

This book is the culmination of what I have learned from being a hooker for almost a decade, as well as what I have been taught by the countless sex workers around me and those who have come before.

Hooker Mentality covers what hookers' experiences reveal about capitalism and gender and policing. It delves into the ways that selling sex can give sex workers an insight into the systems which control us all, exposing why so many of us become radically left-wing after we start selling sex. If you want to be an ally to sex workers, you need to understand our mentality.

You can read a preview here:

The publication date is June 27th, and you can pre-order now! For those outside of the UK, get your pre-orders in by June 1st to guarantee your book arrives by then.

Please feel free to send this to friends you think would be interested, or to share this post or the preview from the link above! Online censorship around the topic of sex work can make it hard to get the word out.

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my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥 this strain is called “yearly events when you're 30+" you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever. i don’t feel shit

5 minutes later: dude how is there another met gala already i swear we just had one like two months ago this can't be right

fellow 30+ year olds on the dash, pacing: anna wintour controls the passage of time

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seven minute gentle comics habit

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So it seems like some of you might be interested in learning more about Dreamwidth.

Listen, here's the thing: Dreamwidth is not slick. It is not fancy. Its base code was originally put together some two decades ago or more, and it looks like it. It can't do much with images and definitely not with video—like, I think there's some way to embed video, but I have no idea how to do it, and hosting it on Dreamwidth is, uh...

The point is! Dreamwidth is a lot different from Tumblr. It's closer to Tumblr than it is to Facebook or Instagram, but it's a lot more old-school internet than Tumblr is. And that means that, for anyone who wasn't on the internet some ten, fifteen years ago, there's probably going to be a steep learning curve. It can take more effort to post things there, and more effort to find your people, its image hosting capacity can charitably be described as both "limited" and "poorly organized", and overall it may still never be the kind of website where you, personally, will want to spend a lot of time or do a lot of things. Dreamwidth does not and will never have an app, for pretty much the same reasons as AO3.

But there is one thing I can guarantee, and that is that Dreamwidth is willing to fight for us and our rights. They're already doing so.

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man this year is gonna be the year i either die or become someone else i dont know which one maybe both

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William P. Welsh - Burlesque Queen (1941)

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Comics Liquidation: eBay

Heya, folks!

I collected comics from 2014-2021 or so, and I'm now looking to sell off most of my collection. While I'm not going to sell everything, I'm selling off about 80%-90% of what I've got, and that's looking like over 1000 comics.

I'm posting these to eBay (along with, most likely, some other items I decide to sell off from my closet or bookshelf), and while I could wait for the comics collectors of eBay to find those organically, I figured I could jumpstart a bit by letting tumblr know as well.

Here's my new eBay store

The biggest portions of the collection to be sold are Iron Man, Ms Marvel (Kamala), Spider-Man (Miles), and Jane!Thor titles, but there are various others, some of which have already been listed. The vast majority is Marvel, but I do have some Image, Dark Horse, DC, and Aftershock in there.

I'm listing pretty slowly, as I'm not even done cataloguing it all yet, but I've started with a couple of the shorter series so far. Most of it is in very fine condition and sold at or just below original cover price, but there's a few gems in there too.