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@artemisianlace
if you equate lesbianism with not liking dick im going to attack you
uh oh the terfs found this. anyway pre-op transfem lesbians, no-op transfem lesbians, and post-op transmasc lesbians I love u sm
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new aesthetic blogger lore just dropped
not to be intrusive but did you get vaccinated? longer/heavier periods are a newly noted side effect. good luck
t. also becoming the joker
I got the 2nd shot yesterday and I’d already had my period for 8 days. I posted about how I felt sick on fb and a friend of mine said they got a 19 day period after 2nd shot. I am going to require a blood transfusion. RIP
Today in "Things they didn't bother telling us about vaginas".
https://www.thelily.com/can-the-vaccine-make-your-period-worse-these-women-say-yes/
No published studies have examined the effects of vaccines on menstrual cycles.
If you are experiencing strange menstrual symptoms after receiving a vaccine, I encourage you to participate in this research study.
I'm not out here saying don't get vaccinated, but I'm fucking sick of my body not being included and counted in medical research.
I didn't have any of these effects, but passing along for anyone who did.
don't just fill this out if your menstrual cycle changed. everyone who menstruates should fill it out. otherwise you get skewed results
Getting a large and unskewed sample size is key to any good scientific survey, so if you are a person who has, or has previously had, periods, you should fill this survey out and report your expiriences with the Covid-19 vaccine.
gameshow called 'pride or prejudice' in which the contestants are presented with a gay joke and have to guess if it was made by a queer person or a homophobe
the contestants are all vaguely liberal straight people who are desperately uncomfortable with the entire concept
It’s honestly a relief when “queer is a slur” people just straight-up admit they don’t like the word because it’s inclusive to groups they don’t like (eg. asexuals, pansexuals, aromantics, bisexuals, nonbinary and trans people)
(For people who are genuinely triggered by it: Blacklist the word. Just add the word “queer” to your filter list. Learn to recognize and avoid your PTSD triggers until you can handle that reaction in therapy. I sympathize, I’ve been there, the bigots during my youth used “gay” really hatefully and violently, I get it. May I recommend EMDR.)
Whereas for the people who honestly admit “I just don’t want to be grouped in with THEM” it’s like, thank you for not leaving me in suspense. Farewell forever, or at least until you’ve learned that no amount of “normalcy” will make the bigots actually stop hating you. “Gay” is also a slur to them. I hope this lesson isn’t too painful to learn.
“Queer is a slur” is quitter talk. It says you think some people ARE freaks who SHOULDN’T be defended. It means you want to keep “queer” as a social category of people it’s okay to despise. And that means I want nothing to do with you.
(Don’t even try it on this post. DON’T. EVEN. TRY.)
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you can pry the word queer from my cold, dead, queer little fingers. We fought for that fucking word. We fought for these categorizations. We don’t have to walk around and ask, “are you a friend of Dorothy’s?”
Sit down and learn your history.
“Recently, a friend of mine told me that she felt guilty that she hadn’t accomplished more during the last year of the pandemic. Now, I’ve heard that a few times. And I have a feeling we’re gonna be hearing that more and more.”
The Amber Ruffin Show (May 21, 2021)
A UK BLM activist was shot last night in London at 3am (23rd May 2021) after the Palestine protest.
Her name is Sasha Johnson.
She's not dead yet, but it's unlikely she will survive as she was shot in the head.
She has been heavily involved in organising protests over the last year as well as making speeches, and has been receiving death threats for it which the Met hasn't done anything about.
Police appeal for information after finding the woman, in her 20s, with life-threatening injuries in Southwark, south London.
I'm sharing this bc I know I won't see much of it, but also to let people know that this shit does happen in the UK and it's not acceptable.
I'm hoping that there's a boost in attention paid to this story from over here, with Tamika posting about it earlier. She's got a lot of eyes on her in America.
Sasha Johnson is a prominent Black equal rights activist and mother of two young … Marvina Newton needs your support for Support Sasha John
This is her GoFundMe. £1,215 / £20,000 as of 6:00 am (BST) May 25th
(british lady from hitman voice) Elon Musk eliminated. Good job, 47. Your next target, Jeff Bezos.
Some achievement/feat ideas
“Yep, Still Does Nothing To Me” Kill Elon Musk with a poison laced marijuana joint
Amazon Grace Snipe Jeff Bezos from the church tower
Actually, Tesla Was The Doctor Steer Elon Musk’s self-driving Tesla to run him over
Prime Delivery Kill Jeff Bezos by dropping a grenade through the chimney into his room
I Like This Color Way Better Cause Elon Musk’s gory death by removing the forklift safety guidelines
You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Throw Jeff Bezos into his 10,000 Year Clock
Alexa, Kill This Clown Electrocute Jeff Bezos with his own Amazon Alexa
Just Like His Kars Launch Elon Musk into space
Spac-Ex Actually, let Grimes launch Elon Musk into space
Wage Against The Machine Let Jeff Bezos be trampled to death by the angered mob
Appease the Masses Guillotine both targets
#twitter sucks cause you wouldnt be able to post this there
it's a trap. if someone in the states on unemployment puts in an application and doesn't come to the interview, or if they come to the interview but refuse the job offer, that gets reported to unemployment and that person can lose their unemployment benefits. then, with no income, they are suddenly desperate for wendy's job offer. it's sick.
They’re also filtering for people poor and desperate enough that a free breakfast sandwich is a big deal. Ie, people desperate enough to easily exploit.
Protip: if you're not on unemployment, this is a great way to waste the time and resources of these companies.
Sure, I'll turn in a job app for a sammich. I won't leave my job for it, but they don't gotta know that, do they?
Applebee’s is doing this too. Be careful out there and don’t fall for this shit.
I’ve literally seen Riker do all of these
The man is just tall enough that he doesn't have to move chairs.
Fun fact! He did this because Jonathan Frakes had a back problem. It was easier for him to do this
Fascinating! I did not know that!
it's why he's always doing the riker lean, too! where he puts one foot up on something and rests an arm on his own leg! he fucked up his back moving furniture when he was younger.
Disability accommodations do not have to be made into a big deal. He just... did that. And it became part of the physicality of the character. And we all joked about it, because without the context of the actor’s physical discomfort/pain, that is an objectively funny way to approach a chair. But Jonathan Frakes has the raw charisma to make it work, and by Gd he worked the hell out of it.
Yeah, not to get, just, TOTALLY off on a tangent, but it reminds me of the classic “Bartlet Jacket Maneuver” from The West Wing.
This is how Martin Sheen puts on a jacket, and he does it that way because of an injury done to his arm when he was born. His left arm was crushed by forceps as they were removing him from the birth canal, which made that arm shorter than the other and also limited his overall movement. So, he puts on a jacket like this--because he has to. He just doesn’t have the movement and flexibility necessary to slip his arm into the sleeves another way.
But, on the show...he just did it, and did it with such panache and confidence that no one dared even question it. He played President Bartlet on TV for, like, 6 years, and so for 6 years that was just how Fictional President of the United States put his jacket on. And, yeah, it was a bit odd maybe, people definitely noticed, but mostly all anyone actually thought about it was “Damn, that looks cool and badass as fuck.”
It became a signature for the character, not in any kind of negative or “that’s weird” way, but just, like...something unique and special that people recognized and had really positive associations with. You’d see that jacket flip and it would trigger this little bright smiley “Fuck yeah, you go get’em!” feeling inside.
There’s even this bit, in one of the show’s most acclaimed episodes, that includes flashbacks to when the character is much younger, and they had the younger actor do this move when he puts on a jacket (which he had to learn how to do of course) and then used it as a transition cut to the present day character finishing the motion--a way of linking them together, making them feel more like one person with one continuing story to the audience. And like, I remember, seeing it when it first aired, and fuck, I got chills, it was just such great moment! They were literally using this little detail, that was entirely due to the actor adapting to his disability, as a way to ground their flashback sequences with the present storyline and make those scenes feel more real and present to the audience and it worked. Because nobody working on the show saw Sheen’s funky jacket move as problem, they actually found a way for it to actively make the story better.
Anyway, blah blah blah, characters being interesting and having unique elements informed by their actors doesn’t take anything away from the work but actually adds to it, yadda yadda yadda.
Taylorswoftupdates and treefish are the only Twitter accounts that should exist
you dont understand. i dont know this person but i know enough to love her to death. at sixteen years old she did more for this cause than 99% of adults in the public eye could hope to do in a lifetime. living legend i hope shes doing alright
Also, a lot of the people in those jobs DIED. they can’t come back to work because the work conditions got them covid and now they are dead.
also, for every person that died, several more survived but now have long haul covid and are disabled and literally can’t go back to the job that ruined their life in the first place, or any job, because their health is just gone now, and the current ‘unemployment pay’ that assholes keep complaining about is all that’s keeping them afloat.
I love him so much.
The fact that this is addressed to the parents, not the kids, is especially creepy?
Anyway, Federal Child Labor Laws: (apply to ALL states)
--Children under 14 (13 for agricultural labor) can only be employed by their own parents/guardians
--14-15 year olds are limited to 3 hours per day, 18 hours per week during the school year (up to 8 hours on weekends/holidays), and 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week when school is not in session.
--They are also limited to working 7am-7pm (or 9pm during the summer), and only outside of school hours
--Only a specific list of jobs are permitted for children of this age (relevant to this, they are allowed to reheat food, wash dishes and equipment, and do some limited cooking/food prep such as washing vegetables). Any work outside this list is prohibited.
--There is also a broad list of jobs/duties they are prohibited from (including any work with ladders, or work with powered meat slicers or several types of powered baking equipment)
--Oh, hey, this is interesting! The federal minimum wage for employees under the age of 20 is $4.25 for the first 90 days they hold a job. I wonder how many days fall between the end of the school year and the start of the next. Oh? Just about 90? What an odd coincidence, that this company would be looking to hire children just before the time of year when they can work (a) later hours (b) more hours per week and (c) likely to need to stop before they get shifted to the full minimum wage.
(An entirely different set of rules apply to agricultural work, and for working directly for one's parents or family. There are also some jobs allowed to children under 14. I'm not going into those.)
Now, I'm not opposed to 14 and 15 year olds working appropriate jobs. I babysat at that age, other kids mowed lawns, raked leaves, life guarded at pools, etc.
But there is something a little predatory about this sign, particularly going up now.
And as people have pointed out, kids that age don't know their rights. They don't know the laws. And even if they do, they don't know that the laws are there to *protect* them. I've known plenty of teenagers who think they boss is *doing them a favor* by allowing them to work outside their limited hours, or continue working while clocked out for their lunch break. When I worked as a waitress, my manager suggested this as a way to earn extra tips. Heck, I was almost THIRTY, and you wouldn't believe how many little ways they tried to wriggle around the rules to get a little more work out of me. (Unless you've worked this kind of job, then you'd absolutely believe it.)
Another thing--these jobs are *exhausting.* I've worked manual labor, I've worked in schools, retail, all kinds of jobs, but nothing made me end the day, back throbbing, fling-myself-into-bed tired like working in a restaurant. I don't know what it is, maybe the hectic pace of the busy hours, maybe the way you're expected to be busy every second of your time there, maybe it's the fact that I spent most of each day walking as fast as I could from one end of the building to the other. I don't know. But I wouldn't wish that on any 14-year-old.
So, anyway, I'm looking at this little flyer, and I'm concerned. Not because I don't think a 14-year-old should ever work. But because I'm trying to think why a BK would put out a sign SPECIFICALLY asking for the youngest age they can employ, with NO details suggesting this is a special youth-support or training program, only A FEW WEEKS before summer vacation, and targeted to their PARENTS who, let's face it, are probably eager to get some time away from the kids after the last year.
Why would any business make this SPECIFIC ad? I don't know, but every answer I come up with doesn't sit well with me.
With the current shortage of adults willing to work an exhausting job at a non-living wage, they are looking for anyone else they can exploit. A business should be considered failing if it can’t pay its adult employees enough to get by.
Also relevant: these kids are almost certainly not vaccinated, and its extremely clear they will not be protected, especially as places relax mask mandates. In 2020 being a line cook was the most dangerous job in the country, the conditions that caused that danger haven't changed. This will get some of these kids killed.
Oh hey, remember this post?
Thus is the defining characteristic of gay millennials: we straddle the pre-Glee and post-Glee worlds. We went to high school when faggot wasn't even considered an F-word, when being a lesbian meant boys just didn't want you, when being nonbinary wasn't even a remote option. We grew up without queer characters in our cartoons or Nickelodeon or Disney or TGIF sitcoms. We were raised in homophobia, came of age as the world changed around us, and are raising children in an age where it's never been easier to be same-sex parents. We're both lucky and jealous. As the state of gay evolved culturally and politically, we were old enough to see it and process it and not take it for granted--old enough to know what the world was like without it. Despite the success of Drag Race, the existence of lesbian Christmas rom-coms, and openly transgender Oscar nominees, we haven't moved on from the trauma of growing up in a culture that hates us. We don't move on from trauma, really. We can't really leave it in the past. It becomes a part of us, and we move forward with it.
For LGBTQ+ milennials, our pride is couched in painful memories of a culture repulsed and frightened by queerness. That makes us skittish. It makes us loud. It makes us fear that all this progress, all this tolerance [...] can vanish as quickly as it all appeared.
The 2000s Made Me Gay, Grace Perry
Coming from a reference group where everyone’s first queer movie was either Rocky Horror or Brokeback Mountain, it’s fascinating to talk (in person!) to gay teenagers who grew up with Korra and Stephen Universe and She-Ra.
The sheer culture clash of trying to explain that Brokeback Mountain was received as and treated as a punchline. Two men fall in love and one gets murdered for it. Considering the time this movie was made, that isn’t a spoiler: that’s an inevitability.
And all the popular culture at the time would only reference it to laugh at it.
Wh D Do you know how we get wool?
BY THE WAY, HERE’S THE SUMMARY FROM WIKIPEDIA PAGE ON PASHMINA:
“Goats used for pashmina shed their winter coat every spring. One goat sheds approximately 80–170 gram (3–6 ounces) of the fibre. See also cashmere wool.
In the spring (the moulting season), the goats naturally shed their undercoat, which regrows in winter. This undercoat is collected by combing the goat, not by shearing, as in other fine wools.”
IT’S NOT EVEN SHEARING WHICH CAN MAYBE NICK THE SKIN BY ACCIDENT
IT’S COMBED OUT
It’s as cruel as brushing your cat for loose hair
Like… dude… why are you replacing an actual cruelty-free organic material with something will SHED MICROPLASTICS
You are using polyester (crude oil) and a highly-polluting plant-based material I just
“Cruelty-free alternative” IT’S ALREADY CRUELTY FREE
Just throwing this out there - the above explanation isn’t bashing people who use acrylic as an alternative to prevent allergies or things like availability/accessibility. It’s pointed towards people and companies who genuinely preach acrylic products, like yarn, as a “vegan” alternative to actual RF/CF products solely because they consider it free of animal byproducts or more eco-friendly.
