a specter haunting europe

oliver. he/they. 30. mexican, tme, white

[wuntrum]

pioneering something called "gritted teeth optimism" where everything is gonna turn out okay even if i have to bite and claw and gnash my way through it

[soup-mother]

Putting the term "Catholic Guilt" up on a really high shelf just because I don't want Catholics to have things

[utopians]

I get how people arrive at the conclusion but the idea that culture war news exists to 'distract' people from actual issues is just so plainly ridiculous to me

[utopians]

yesss the mars corporation made the m&ms less sexy to distract everyone from their labor abuses in the global south, an issue which the moral and upstanding American people would otherwise care about. Surely if not for the m&m controversy there would be mass boycotts -- why, even rioting in the streets

[phleb0tomist]

reminder to all disabled people that you’re allowed to tell people “i can’t do that” about stuff you can ‘technically’ do but which harms you or requires a period of recovery or preparatory rest etc. you don’t have to explain the complex nuances of your condition to anybody who demands it. i’ve found it’s honestly better to give the least amount of info about your symptoms unless you trust a person a lot. you hold the power over your health information. you choose whether or not to share the details of your condition with people who might not understand.

[deanwinchesterapologist]

just found out you can do more than one thing each day. i was just doing the one

[tuckyourshirt]

this literally isn't true please stop spreading lies

[pixeljade]

more than anything i want a world where a trans girl realizing she is a trans girl faces zero fear from that realization and subsequent coming out. Where she can say "Oh sweet, I can just be a girl? Sign me up!", no worrying if shes girl enough, no worrying if society will accept her, no worrying if she'll be an attractive girl as she transitions, no worrying at all in any way shape or form.

[transmechanicus]

6 hour workday maximum i’m not kidding, if it can’t be done in that timeframe it doesn’t need doing.

[vmprblood]

this doesn't apply to jobs like childcare

[transmechanicus]

If i worked in childcare and my 6 hours were up i would start putting babies in ziploc bags and shipping them to Turkmenistan listed as endangered fruits and vegetables

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

After "Political Terrorism" Summit, U.S. Names 43 Americans + Groups

Rubio report on Cuban subversion names Zohran Mamdani, Amy Goodman, Hasan Piker + orgs like DSA and Amazon Labor Union

“Many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history — from the George Floyd riots to the rise of Antifa to the explosion of pro-terrorist activism on American college campuses — can be linked, in some way, shape, or form, to Cuban influence,” the report says.

As for who these supposed agents of Cuban influence are, the report is remarkably explicit. It names people like Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream fame), Mayors Zohran Mamdani and Karen Bass, media figures like Amy Goodman and Hasan Piker, and organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America and the Amazon Labor Union.

The implication is clear: Secretary of State Marco Rubio thinks there should be a modern-day blacklist of the political left in America. In fact, the report explicitly mentions the “blacklists, McCarthy-era investigations and prosecutions” of the 1950s and their effectiveness at dismembering the Communist Party USA.

The 100-page report, titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” was released this morning.

[closet-keys]

"no one lets transmascs talk about their experiences with transphobia" false.

you can complain about transphobia without anyone calling your post transmisogynist with this one easy trick: don't include transmisogyny in your post

if every time you talk about transphobia you face, you always end up:

blaming trans women

expressing a sense of categorical entitlement to sex with trans women

centering your own misogynistic resentment towards women

opposing transfeminism outright

mocking transfeminist theory and terms

denying the existence of transmisogyny

then it's not that no one "lets you" talk about transphobia. it's that when you say transmisogynistic things, other people notice and comment on the transmisogyny.

trust me, there are tons of tme trans people who have no issue with sharing our experiences with transphobia.

you've surrounded yourself in such a misogynist bubble of social life that you've forgotten blatant transmisogynistic tirades aren't going to get you instant support everywhere.

people not falling all over themselves to praise you for obvious misogyny isn't "transandrophobia" / "transmisandry" / "discrimination against transmascs." it's just what life is like outside your boys club echo chamber. get over yourselves.

[loveridden1999]

i might not be your funniest mutuals but I am also not your smartest mutual

[prokopetz]

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

[fleshdyke]

???

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

you have to call someone now

[innerchildabortionclinic]

hate how when people talk about awful labor conditions at [insert industry or company here] people who have benefited from said company or industry's services feel the need to justify themselves so badly and will try to come up with progressive reasoning for it as well

is it really so hard to admit we live in a world where benefiting from the mistreatment of others is a common scenario?

[prettycolors]

[mausspacearchive]

it’s 2014 can taylor swift stop

[64mpg]

tricks my body into thinking that we outran the threat

[michaelnordeman]

Ruddy darter/Sympetrum sanguineum/blodröd ängstrollslända. Värmland, Sweden (13 July 2026).