[michaelgovehateblog]

Nigel Farage got milkshaked again, what a time to be alive

[generalelectionmusings]

[cephalopod-truther]

What an icon

[baddywronglegs]

So that's how one's milkshake brings all the boys to the yard

And they're like "you splattered Farage"

[charlesoberonn]

Heartwarming story: Little girl doesn’t have to do anything to fund her dad’s surgery because his expenses are covered by his country’s universal healthcare.

[charlesoberonn]

Human determination: Man bikes 18 miles to work every morning because he wants to and not because he can’t afford a car and would be fired if he’s late.

[charlesoberonn]

Spirit of Brotherhood: Neighbors host housewarming party for elderly resident who doesn’t need help in paying rent because his pension is more than enough.

[hyperlexichypatia]

SO INSPIRING: Local middle school students bake dozens of cupcakes because their home economics class is doing a baking unit. Their school is fully funded with everything they need.

[blandandtasteless]

This feels like calibrating my normal detector

[potatoyiart]

touhou fan service fan art

[commandersheena]

In one of my film classes last semester we had to tell a story in 3 pictures for a mini assignment so my friend and I did this

[orcboxer]

autism tests are so funny. I'm extremely literal most of the time, but people don't tell me that generally, so I'm inclined to answer disagree. because I'm taking the statement too literally

[peopleingishard]

^not my post but same sentiment

[naamahdarling]

That has to be the most humiliating way to describe one of Earth's most terrifyingly effective predators.

[sapphic-and-stupid]

Picture of her from the USA Today

[teaboot]

I would let her kill me for sport

[vaelus-malewife]

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

[jacyevans]

Update: There is now a tinier killing machine.

Meet Maverick, Gaia’s kitten.

Official Cameron Park Zoo account for anyone else who wants to coo at decibel levels only dolphins can hear.

[girldraki]

[natalieironside]

Shout out to trans women who aren’t computer scientists or musicians or avant-garde artists or whatever.

Shout-out to tgirls who work at Taco Bell. Thank u queen, society would collapse without you

[snkrfnd]

Over twenty years ago my big brother got me a job at a Taco Bell in the St. Louis suburbs-West County. He warned me that it was the “gay Taco Bell”, but since I was coming from the “gay Howard Johnson’s” I wasn’t shocked. It turns out it was the black trans women Taco Bell complete with black trans women in management. And they’d worked out an arrangement with the local teen Narcotics Anonymous group so that twice a week we would shut down the drive thru and the dining room and exclusively serve 60+ teens in various stages of recovery. And many of the women I worked with were in various stages of being out or transitioning and they were from all generations from teens to over 50. One woman I worked with had a regular corporate job presenting as a man 9-5 Mon-Fri and then came to Taco Bell and worked 6pm -2am Friday and Saturday night so she could be herself surrounded by other black transwomen in those stolen weekends. And we had customers come from all over the metro area because they knew they could be themselves in the dining room. I only worked there from 1999-2001 but for young me, this was a vital, formative experience. Some of the girls came from north city all the way out to the “gay Taco Bell” on Manchester in west county because they heard it was safe to work there. Like- I know times have changed but they haven’t changed much in 20 years. I’m still convinced that for lgbt youth, finding a job at your city’s version of the “gay Taco Bell” is key to survival.

[natalieironside]

Thank u for sharing this with us

[cannibalchicken]

[datasoong47]

[linguisticparadox]

[r5h]

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2609/

[bralsra-deactivated20250108]

theres ALWAYS a relevant XKCD for everything huh

[adhd-alien]

Why can I only get myself to work 2 days before deadline?? 😭 Part 2 & Poster version http://adhd-alien.com Why am I a Fish? I don't know but I'm live right now http://twitch.tv/adhd_alien/

[catgirlapologist]

isn't it insane though how schizophrenic people are viewed as violent and dangerous by the majority of society when in reality schizophrenic people are nearly 14 times more likely to be on the receiving end of violence than to be the perpetrators...

[catgirlapologist]

schizophrenic person: makes a post trying to raise awareness about the disproportionate abuse and harmful stereotypes schizophrenic people face

yall: "yeah im not gonna reblog this they used the word ins*ne which is so problematic ://"

[truth-spatter]

What the fuck happens that changes these stats to such a massive degree?

[catgirlapologist]

1) schizophrenia hardly ever causes people to be violent so schizophrenic people aren’t more likely to be violent than anyone else

2) schizophrenic people’s autonomy is often taken away from them because of their schizophrenia. because the authorities and mental healthcare providers often automatically assume schizophrenic people to be violent, they’re more likely to immediately react to schizophrenic people's symptoms with violence, without even knowing for sure said schizophrenic person was going to be violent. all of this causes schizophrenic people to be more likely of being victims of violence and abuse. schizophrenic people also have a harder time getting out of abusive households because of the risk of their autonomy being taken away. if a schizophrenic person’s relative or partner is abusive, often the schizophrenic person has no way out of the situation, both because our disconnect from reality can result in us being easier to manipulate, and because the system is built in a way that it takes away our autonomy because of our condition.

[catgirlapologist]

also schizophrenic people and psychotic people in general, please do a lot of research before picking a provider for your own sake, and if they try to treat your psychosis in a way that you think is harmful then don’t hesitate to switch providers. your safety and wellbeing should be a priority over everything else.

[catgirlapologist]

can y'all please reblog this version instead

[sunbutch]

if you call women “females” i automatically do not trust or like you

[cryptic-crassulaceae]

you really wont like the military then buddy

[sunbutch]

jokes on you, i already hate the military

[soul-hammered]

[weabooweedwitch]

I love that the pandemic actually definitively proved a lot of those "hard" questions for us. Masking up reduced cases of the flu to almost nonexistent numbers and we had zero flu deaths for a time. The welfare and social service and unemployment programs helped keep people living paycheck to paycheck out of poverty, and those stimulus checks some folks keep complaining about actually massively benefitted the common man and the economy. Individual personal travel was so extremely restricted on a global scale that we basically have concrete proof that individual restraint in terms of driving cars or travelling means absolutely nothing by comparison because the mass pollution is coming from the fisheries and the corporations with private jets and container ships. Working from home actually has massive benefits for a company like productivity boosts and better mental health of employees while also saving gas

and we're just. Willingly going back to how everything was before. We were shown how to do things better and the people in charge said "that's nice but we just want to get everything 'back to normal' :)"

[roach-works]

we’re not willingly going back to how everything was before. we are being forced back into it by members of the ruling class who found out that making things better for almost everyone else made them feel bad.

[silly-jellyghoty]

Let's not forget about any of these things. Let's reblog and schedule this post to pop in in the future to remind us of what we may have forgotten a little.

[cwicseolfor]

Do not forget.

[robotlyra]

My primary takeaway from COVID was "The first thing people did when they had free time from work was they started demanding a better world. The next time this happens the executive ruling class will literally let everyone in the labor class die before they let them have 3 months free time ever again, because they cannot allow that better world to come to be."

[fleshengine]

Also people, when given the free time to be alone with themselves, will decide to learn new skills and make art and stuff.

[our-queer-experience]

[scrupulosity-comics]

sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom

[scrupulosity-comics]

[terriblewomanyuri]

I Got Reincarnated as a Minor Character and I Won’t Give Up on TS is the best webnovel ever written. incredibly transgender protagonist, not in the usual "whaaa I got turned into a girl?!" way but "what the fuck I didn't get turned into a girl????" way. and then she gets chuuni and wears gothic lolita clothing and wields a demon scythe that shoots lasers and is also a girl who she does yuri with and she acts all mysterious because she thinks its cool and has star theming. its awesome. she's awesome.

[terriblewomanyuri]

you will love her. also she's a rabid himejoshi did i mention that. she loves yuri. and she also believes in TS yuri.

[terriblewomanyuri]

whenever she faces a social interaction she can't handle she starts acting mysterious and saying stuff that sounds like it has implications so the other party comes up with something on their own and reveals what they think she's talking about. instead of just admitting she doesn't know something. because it would make her seem less mysterious and that's not cool

[terriblewomanyuri]

she asks her scythe to act like she's deeply obsessed with her in a messy codependent master/weapon yuri situationship whenever her scythe takes on human form because she is a massive himejoshi. there are times her friends are in danger of actually dying and chooses not to intervene until the very last possible second because yuri could happen between them when they're pushed to their limits and giving their all

[terriblewomanyuri]

there are MULTIPLE TIMES she monologues to nobody in particular because she's somewhere she thinks it would be cool to monologue alone, only to have someone walk in on her and take her completely seriously. and then from there she has to act like she knew they were there all along because she would be less mysterious if she didn't act like she knew that.

[terriblewomanyuri]

she occasionally references "the organization" that's backing her. it doesn't exist. she's not even bluffing to make herself sound stronger. she does it because she thinks mysterious organizations are cool and it'll make people think she's mysterious and working in the shadows

[terriblewomanyuri]

her name is narou kei

this is like naming your MC “Mary Sue” or “Fan Fiction”

[terriblewomanyuri]

there’s one time she defeats an opponent by driving them insane with illusions, all while sitting down and watching from a position of utter control. she does this because her scythe took on human form and bit and whispered in her ears to tease her and it made her so horny her legs gave out for multiple minutes and she couldn’t stand

[terriblewomanyuri]

her biggest fear is being outed as a man or “crossdresser.” there are multiple times she accepts a risk of death simply to not be outed.

[terriblewomanyuri]

she’s a plural dysphoria-riddled chuuni lesbian tgirl who wields a scythe and the power of the stars and she will do anything she can to protect beautiful girls

[terriblewomanyuri]

you WILL love her. you must.

[terriblewomanyuri]

also she has homoerotic relationships with numerous women and tries to keep the role of a cool and collected beauty who sometimes touches girls to accentuate her statements only to collapse and get caught off guard once one of them gets too forward and flirty because she doesn't know how to handle such direct affection and yet can't bring herself to run because she doesn't want to disappoint another beautiful girl.

[terriblewomanyuri]

another girl nearly violates her by threatening to kill herself if kei resists her touch, and the only reason she doesn't is because they got caught before she could go too far.

[terriblewomanyuri]

kei attempts to comfort this girl after the magnitude of what she nearly did sets in and unintentionally makes her think that kei was seducing her this entire time just so she could have her burden lifted for a moment by being pushed down and not having to take the initiative. which leads the other girl to resolve that she'll go down this path and indulge kei in her desires, no matter how twisted they may be. kei doesn't realize any of this.