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@coffeewhiskeysleeprepeat
My brother physically assaulted me tonight and I'm kind of numb. Can you tell me it'll be alright?
Hey. It took me a couple of days bc there is only so much of me to go around.
It will be all right. Maybe not soon. It might take a while. But it will be okay, sooner or later. I promise.
Please take care of yourself. The world needs you in it.
Press gangs are back in style
I'm thinking especially of the milf from Project Hail Mary.
Speaking of which, I wonder what the lawyers and law students among my mutuals—I know there are a few of you!—think of my judicial reform proposal (having press gangs operate out of bars near T14 law schools to abduct people and force them to become federal judges). Can't be any worse than Injustice "Alito".
Are you kidding? I would step on people to be a federal judge. The best job I ever had was working for a federal judge. A high paying job with set hours, no overtime, and you can't be fired except for misconduct? Sign me up immediately. I loved that job.
just saw a deactivated mutual's post on my dash. that's my dead wife's corpse you're all dragging around
I also reblog this guys dead wife.
CYNTHIA ERIVO as Elphaba Thropp and JEFF GOLDBLUM as Oscar Diggs in Wicked: For Good (2025)
Every time I see bullshit about women never EVER being able to beat men in any sport, I think about how in martial arts classes I, a cis woman, 5' 8" and 145 pounds, regularly beat the tar out of 6' 2" 230 pound cis dude weightlifters. One guy ragequit class. He came in cocky as hell and talking the standard bs line about how a woman simply never could beat a man in a fight because they're physically weaker and our instructor was like. Okay. Put the pads on you're sparring her. Yes, her, the one 4" shorter and 100 pounds lighter than you.
It wasn't close I beat the pants off that man, and others like him. I did it more than once. Some guys got humble and stayed. One guy got angry and stormed out.
And I think about that every fuck damn time I hear that bullshit, which seems to be all the fuck over the place these days. Oh, women are just fragile little soft delicate flower creatures who can't do ANYTHING and could NEVER compete with big strong manly muscular strong MEN.
I think about driving that dude into the mats and seeing the brutal reality of this big dude's misogany meet the realization that a woman was beating his ass literally that second, that none of his strength could stop the fact that I'd just hip thrown him facefirst into the mats and that had I actually connected with the axe kick to his neck I would have crushed a bunch of important shit and he could not stop me, and his whole psyche collapsing like a dying star in that moment.
Anyway, don't ever fall for it, ladies, and there's absolutely no goddamn reason to get your knickers in a twist about trans people in sports.
While a counterexample does disprove an absolute rule I think the fact of sex/gender physical differences does still apply in general
I udnerstand that in fight sports a smaller person might be able to get their opponent to shift their bulk disadvantageously and that bodybuilders might have great muscle definition but not as much practical strength, that a trained women might beat an inexpert man even though the expert man would still win against the expert woman
Yes, but this 145 pound "fighter" above would not get into a ring with a man who is trained as much as she is. A man would still beat her just in shear strength. Runners for example, same height and weight man vs woman with the same trainer and the same number of year experience, the man wins 99.9% of the time. Women are not men and men are not women. Stop saying that they are the same. Follow the science.
I do though.
Class is coed we don't fuck around with weight classes. No one has time for that. Sparring is coed. I do, in fact, fight people who are bigger and physically more powerful than me. Regularly. The dude I came up in the ranks alongside is 6' 1" and 215 pounds and lifts weights. He's the same rank as me and I still take him down and beat him in sparring frequently. It's probably a 60/40 win ratio for sparring favoring me; he has a habit of hesetating before he goes for an opening that we are working on yet. If he gets over that it'll be probably an almost perfect 50/50 win ratio between us because, again, equal training. The small advantage in strength/size literally does not matter.
Cope and seethe.
Thanks for this @systlin
I've bounced around dojos for 20 years and I have won multiple martial art and knife fighting tournaments.
I'm AFAB (my gender is fluid), 5'2", 90 lbs, and have a chronic illness.
I routinely beat people who could (and in one notable instance did) bench press me. I learned how to use my small size to my advantage. I train hard to.
But people laugh when I mention that I won those (especially the knife fighting) because I'm tiny. I've fought trans women, trans men, men big enough that I could hide my entire body behind one of their thighs, and beat them all. Lost to all of them too.
In the end, it comes down to skill and luck, but I am going to bow to anyone I am about to fight. They all deserve respect.
They stepped into the ring with a tiny, well trained badass. That takes courage, so I'm going to respect them for it.
To do list progress:
✅ apartment cleaned
✅ kosher for Passover groceries purchased
✅ utensils and plates switched
✅ chicken soup prepared
✅ kosher for pesach food ordered for the week (arriving Wednesday morning)
❎ kneidelach - forgot to kasher my measuring cups so I'm waiting for that to be done
❎ charoset - on the to do list for tomorrow
How are y'all doing on your lists?
house: cleaning service booked
Also house: needs to be 20% less weird before cleaning service comes. Need to hide the gold booty shorts and at least one of my dress forms. I should probably also hide like 50% of my knife collection.
Candles and candle sticks acquired.
Fridge needs cleaning out tonight.
Grocery shopping list generated. It must sit within my sight line for 24 hours so I can periodically check it because I have ADHD and will forget at least three things I need on it on it before tomorrows shopping trip otherwise.
Wine sourced, need to pick it up.
Bonfire to destroy boxes hanging around the house? Planned for this evening.
Pots/pans cleaned. I am avoiding dealing with the dishes by using paper plates. I took over hosting with less than three weeks to prep, I am taking any shortcut I can get.
Food dishes delegated. I am doing all the shopping, but I only need to make the charoset, apps and veggies. Thank g-d for my sister, who can actually cook and who agreed to do the heavy lifting if I surrendered my kitchen for part of the day.
Charoset planned for tomorrow. It needs to soak.
Video call for my elderly grandparents who will miss the seder because my 93 year old grandfather broke his hip on vacation arranged. Thank g-d for my uncle, who flew out and can help.
Still negotiating with the hospital about what we can do to give them an impromptu seder plate.
Backup plans for when my dad inevitably messes something up? Check.
Request from my goy stepbrother for an easter egg hunt? Attempting to accommodate. I refuse to use real eggs, but hopefully candy filled eggs will be sufficient. He's a good guy, and he wanted to share this experience with us, and he flies out to celebrate passover every year, so I am inclined to indulge him.
Did tumblr know this was happening?
Oh you already got tickets? Cool..... that's awesome
amir khusrow (1253–1325 CE)
This is back on my dash! And listen, I love to see Amir Khusrau getting appreciation, but this translation ignores a lot. The original rhymes! And scans! And does playful things with register! And conveys a tone of affectionate banter between the two speakers, not least because it has them both addressing each other as sakhi (translated above as “girl”) in the last two lines. I think taking some liberties with line order is worth it to preserve more of the rest—and I think there’s a better translation of sakhi. And so:
He only visits once a year, I splurge big on him when he’s here, His kisses make my tastebuds tango. Who, bitch, your man? Nah, bitch, a mango.
honestly given my parents whole [gestures vaguely] i am actually incredibly well adjusted
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) | DIR. VICTOR FLEMING
I got this while scrolling on instagram to try to convince me to join threads and I—
We did it. We finally saved her.
sometimes you wanna finish your book first, you know
My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency
Moreover, everyone gathers around to be tremulously compassionate and discreetly admiring: all this time, you lacked the Vitamin? And yet you persevered?
When leftists repeatedly tell you they're going to continue supporting Republicans, believe them.
Okay, but in the very simplified model presented here, primary voters fucked up. They were told that a candidate didn't have support from a critical voting block, and picked them anyway.
Now, should the leftists here hold their nose and vote for dogshit Gavin? Probably.
Should primary voters have held their nose and voted for someone else? Also probably. They have as much agency and responsibility for outcomes as anyone else in the process.
If leftist candidates made an actual effort to reach Black voters and didn't constantly take them for granted as "low-info voters", maybe a leftist candidate would actually win the primaries.
Pasty-white DSA-types aren't going to get them winning a presidential primary.
Leftists don't vote for Democrats and hate everything Democrats stand for...and thus by definition aren't a critical voting block. The actual base of the Left is black and Jewish voters...who are disproportionately targeted by Leftists. Leftists are just racist MAGAs with a blue coat of paint. They aren't gettable. They aren't the base. They can't claim to be critical when the never show up to vote. The actual gettable voters are moderates and independents and that's who the Left should be coalition building with.
Moreover, when politicians see a faction that consistently fails to turn out in general elections and rarely if ever shows up pushing a candidate in 99% of primaries (seriously, if you don't like the primary candidates on offer, PUSH AN ALTERNATIVE AND TRY TO SELL US ON THEM instead of just mudslinging, personally I'd vote Pritzker if my state was early enough for him to still be in the game, Harris in the likely event he drops out or is mathematically eliminated, Newsom is at the bottom of my list alongside pond scum), they don't respond by going "how can we unlock this demographic", they respond by going "well, they're clearly not an option, we'll have to focus harder on demographics we know are more likely to show up".
"I will never vote for democrats unless they give me everything I want first and will never praise them or reward them for efforts to please me if it doesn't 100% succeed beyond my wildest dreams" is, in fact, a recipe for Democrats swinging further towards moderates and independents and efforts to peel off never-Trump Republicans since.
Which, if you see those "I will never..." claims as a grift, makes a whole lot of sense because it means the grift is self-perpetuating, the effects of the grift generate more demand for that same grift.
Or people could get involved?
votelabor.org
Nice way to say you didn't check.
The new labor party is totally different organization created in 2024.
Why would I want to get involved with a brand new, untested political party, based on nothing but its own lofty goals? When there is already a political party that (broadly) has multicultural support, has come out hard for worker rights, and actually has influence?
The struggle for a better world may be futile. We may never see the work completed, but that is no reason to avoid starting. Maybe today, we have no influence, but if we keep at it someday will.
There is a party that is established, and has made clear they support the rich. I decided to donate my effort to a party for working people, even if it doesn't succeed for me. I want to believe that we don't have to accept the rules dictated to us. That we can insist the rules change.
In less than 18 months, the labor party counts members in 40+ states. Imagine what we can do in a decade.
