I got things to do.

fuck it, we live - Julie, 28, bisexual, gender neutral, they/them

[our-queer-experience]

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

the last item you held (phone doesn't count) just despawned are you ok with it?

yes

no

GIVE IT BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

:(

could be worse

meh

results

Remaining time: 5 days 8 hours

Living creatures like your pet don't count

[daylighteclipsed]

ENTRY LEVEL MEANS NO EXPERIENCE. IT MEANS NO PORTFOLIO OF RELEVANT SAMPLES. ENTRY LEVEL IS ENTRY LEVEL

[yookay-times]

[duchessvongooseberg]

[rowan-e-ravenwood]

new top contender

[squeakitties]

plural librarian who calls themselves the dewey decimal system

[wolpatinga]

@deweydecimal-system

[deweydecimal-system]

hey a post about me!

[squeakitties]

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

616.85236

plural systems

[bowlby4]

[gothhabiba]

I love not playing along

[gothhabiba]

"she's gained a lot of weight lately" "oh, good for her"

"on the wrong side of 40" "huh, which side is that?"

❗️I am not playing along with you❗️

[violet-autumntide]

When I was in high school, a bunch of the guys around me during study hall were passing around a picture of a trans girl from another school going to prom in a dress, laughing at her.

When the guy who started it showed me the picture, I looked at her, then looked him dead in the eye and simply said, "She looks happy." And I was right! She had the biggest, sweetest smile on her face.

He immediately stopped laughing and dropped the bit, didn't show anyone elss the picture that study hall, lol. Fucking asshole. I hope that girl is happy, wherever she is. And I hope I wasn't the only person to stand up for her, that day.

[baseballandwhatnot]

I really respect the Heights’ manager for subtly correcting that being a women’s baseball coach wasn’t her dream, her dream was to be professional baseball player. And of course she goes on to say how wonderful this opportunity is and how great it is that there’s a women’s professional baseball league, but I do think we should remember that she should have been able to be a professional player herself. It’s bittersweet.

[brynnamonroll]

I'm so endeared by the French term for a stray cat being "chat errant." This implies the existence of a stray knight. Or that a chat errant is searching for noble purpose.

[shamebats]

Emos & scene kids got this close to abolishing gender for real. I try not to think about it too much.

[shamebats]

The idea of a popular teenage subculture where girl & boys pretty much all dress the same feels impossible now but for a while it was reality and it was beautiful.

[adamantineheart]

[fadedlovemp3]

“progressive” men when a woman is deemed evil enough that they can call her a bitch 24/7:

[sirellas]

Captain's log, stardate 2819.8. Suspect under surveillance. Strategic areas under double guard. Performance of the Karidian Players taking place as scheduled.

[red-garden]

MAGA boomers SHOCKED by 20y/o commie speaking fluent hog

[red-garden]

Hog 201 for anyone interested in trying this:

Bodily autonomy (like abortion, anti draft, etc) -> “The government shouldn’t be able to force anything on my body I don’t want.”

Anti surveillance -> “I don’t trust big government/big tech (big brother if you’re feeling frisky) with the ability to spy on me and my family.”

Immigration -> “Next to all of us immigrated at some point, I don’t see why the elites get to decide who’s allowed to be where. What’s to stop them coming for me?”

Climate Change -> “Big oil shouldn’t get to determine whether or not I get to go places. I don’t want to be dependent on some big business to survive.”

State Violence -> “I don’t want the goddamn secret police breathing down my neck! I trust my community a whole hell of a lot more to help me than I do the state!”

The vast majority of conservatives think of themselves as underdogs being repressed by the government/the elite, and they value personal freedom (specifically their personal freedom, they don’t care about other people). The will almost always agree with leftist points if you can find a way to blame the problem on their vague enemies (useful, since rich people are the root of most problems), and tie it back to their ability to say fuck everyone else. NEVER appeal to science, theory, logic, or human goodness. Make it seem as if you are a paranoid lunatic who trusts no one. They love it.

[dinosaurjam]

#you need to tailor your arguments to people's existing values and priorities if you want to convince them #the flip side is that it's every bit as easy to tailor conservative arguments to convince a leftist audience #so don't get smug #you're not immune to this either <- prev extremely true

[edit: @glorious-spoon I'm sorry, if I'd known this was going to breach containment I would've @'d you instead of just saying "prev"]

[sylviii]

(trying to hook up with a medieval literature scholar) ayyyy babygirl you can call me Bisclavret the way I turn into a beast when you take my clothes away

[sylviii]

I'll give you that Sir Gawain head and then maybe you can deal the same blow to me 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴

[sylviii]

oh you did your dissertation on the Summoner's Tale? damn I didn't know you were freaky like that

[penandinkprincess]

so wildly obnoxious when you agree with the starting point of someone's stance only for them to hard turn into things you DON'T agree with and now you have to defend the thing that was originally annoying you

"too many authors in the current market are focusing on selling 'spice' instead of telling interesting stories"

"oh yeah, i agree. i started reading one that i heard a lot about and it just wasn't-"

"and it's all of these women reading their fucking mommy porn out in public like FREAKS"

*through gritted teeth* "people should be allowed to read whatever they want, and actually these books should be left alone and you should shut up about it"

[literaryroses]