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"Suicidal thoughts are bad for me" yes but you can't really think that it's good for you to designate them as Forbidden Thoughts that you're not allowed to express or sit with, you have to immediately replace them with something more acceptable. Like. Speaking as someone with OCD compulsions that look a lot like that. This self censorship will not save you.

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screaaaammm somebody just called me a bootlicker for being annoyed that my coworker is so bad at her job thats its making everyone elses jobs way fucking harder i can never ever ever ever turn anon off

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I wish the yokai watch games didn't flop in the west because like, we desperately need competition in the creature collector genre because pokemon has gotten way too comfortable

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Two years after being tasked with commissioning a review of medical evidence surrounding gender-affirming care for trans youth, Utah’s own state health department has concluded that trans healthcare bans “cannot be justified.” The Republicans who commissioned the study aren’t too happy about it.

Back in 2023, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed a bill that placed an indefinite “moratorium” on doctors prescribing gender-affirming care like hormone therapy and puberty blockers to trans youth. That bill ordered the Utah Department of Health and Human Services to compile their report in order to produce recommendations for the state government on whether or not to lift the moratorium.

This week, the department delivered their long-awaited, over 1,000-page report — which is dated August 6, 2024 — to Utah lawmakers. The report’s authors found that “the consensus of the evidence supports that the treatments are effective in terms of mental health, psychosocial outcomes, and the induction of body changes consistent with the affirmed gender in pediatric GD [gender dysphoria] patients.”

The authors added that “the evidence also supports that the treatments are safe in terms of changes to bone density, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic changes, and cancer.” Trans youth who had received gender-affirming care were within the bounds of normal, non-pathological ranges for these conditions.

y’all this is huge. please don’t “water is wet” all over it! I understand that we all already know this… The point is that the world doesn’t know or care or believe and so these studies really fucking matter!

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shared this over DMs the other day but I need to go public with this information. if patrick bateman lived in the pokemon universe his partner pokemon would be a pikachu because he is preoccupied with fitting in and conforming, and a pikachu is basically the trendiest and most "normal" pokemon for someone to have. and he would hate it because he didn't choose it out of a place of genuine love or passion. but he would still spend way too much time feeding it gourmet food, grooming it, and keeping it looking nice enough that it could honestly do pretty well in a contest if he ever entered it in one. but he wouldn't enter it in one, he would keep it in a designer pokeball most of the time and he wouldn't even be very nice to it (we literally have canonical information on how he'd treat a captured rat...). but all his coworkers and friends and such would see him pampering this perfectly bred pikachu and they'd think he's some kind of pokemon expert and they'd ask him questions all the time about which pokemon are best for which lifestyles, and idk shit like that. and he'd watch enough talk shows and read enough popular magazines that of course he would be able to bullshit smart-sounding advice for them but he would hate it, he would hate it so much, and he would hate pokemon and he would be miserable.

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I bought this book called A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go, which is a translation of a book that was written by three French guys in the 1960's who learned Goban (aka Weiqi aka Baduk) and then wanted to make it a huge phenomenon in France.

And it's hysterical.

Behold, section 0.6: Chess —

We will, over the course of this modest work, in order to better understand certain principles of the game, have occasion to speak of chess.

Please understand that it is just a crutch, imposed by the deplorable popularity of this pathetic game in France.

So it is important to let this idea sink in: GO is anti-chess.

The game of GO is not Japanese chess. There is in fact a Japanese chess that goes by the name of Shogi. Never has a GO player been known to play Shogi.

Let us here sum up everything we feel to be wrong about Chess:

1. It is a feudal game, founded upon the Exaltation of the Tournament and social inequality.

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2. It is a game whose rules change every three centuries.

3. It is a game whose antiquity is debatable (just about contemporary with Canasta!)

4. It is a game that (like Checkers!) has only three outcomes, all lacking in nuance: victory, defeat, or a tie. One can certainly win or lose, but it is impossible to win by one point, which is one of the great refinements of GO!

5. Even worse, it is not a game that breeds polite behavior.

6. Two players with different skill sets cannot play together and maintain the interest of the stronger player.

7. A chess match lasts thirty moves at the most.

8. It is an unclear game in which no two pieces do the same thing

9. We do not know how to play chess.

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"Two Paid Ads And A Trans Girl's G-Rated Selfie" (tumblr, 2025)

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happy pride month to this woman only

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"The UK government has announced that 500,000 additional children will receive a free school lunch following a major expansion in the program that provides it.

Previously, the free meal was available only to students who come from the lowest of low-income households. Following the expansion, most low and middle-class citizens will be able to qualify, and the government says it will lift 100,000 students out of poverty from the cost savings which will amount to around £500 per month, corresponding to nearly $700.

Despite having a ceiling of £7,400-per year for eligibility, last year an estimated 2.1 million students received a free school meal.

A rather arbitrary cut-off point, someone making £8,000 per year hardly possesses greater means to pay for the school meal than someone making below the cutoff point.

Under the new plan, any students from households on the UK’s universal credit will be eligible to receive one free meal a day. The universal credit replaced a number of British welfare programs, and provides a monthly cost of living assistance handout to people living in a variety of situations with a net worth of less than $20,000.

Set to begin at the outset of the 2026 scholastic year, the new expansion will also address food quality, and will be fully, rather than partially funded, to ensure there’s no delay in getting the expansion moving.

“Today’s historic step will help us to deliver excellence everywhere, for every child and give more young people the chance to get on in life,” the UK’s education secretary Bridget Phillipson said, adding “background shouldn’t mean destiny.”

The decision comes amid a record-high level of childhood poverty in one of Europe’s largest economies. The new Labor government under Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to drive down poverty levels in the UK, and the expansion of the student meal program was a part of that.

Free school lunches became a hot topic during the administration of Boris Johnson, when the young black Manchester United star Marcus Rashford decided to criticize Johnson for reducing the size of the free school lunch program.

While some sport pundits believed Rashford’s aim was noble, they also felt he should focus on his soccer. But he persevered and the government relented. Through this and his work with hunger charities in the city of Manchester, he was presented with an MBE, the British order of merit below a knighthood, for his advocacy work on behalf of England’s poorest students."

-via Good News Network,June 9, 2025

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i love when i see a close-up of a painting and think "hmm i've been fucked in that position before. this must be a painting of someone getting fucked" and then boom it's of the sacrifice of isaac

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war criminal pussy got me acting unwise

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A cockatoo broke our rocket. :(

Gonna need a tiny bit more context here bud

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he did stay in the bed after i put it back down ;w;

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too many stories about turning yourself into a monster as a metaphor for pretending to be something you aren't and losing yourself in the process. not enough stories about turning yourself into a monster as a metaphor for choosing to openly embrace yourself even if it's strange to other people