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tall guys might have the upper hand (pun intended) in dating rn but my 5'4" self will have the last laugh when I’m the hottest guy in the nursing home

beardedmrbean

tieflingkisser

depsidase

dailybabykitties

Goober yearns for the mines

dailybabykitties

This is getting ridiculous it's like every other post I make is getting flagged. I POST CATS!

liberalsarecool

The bubble is nigh.

manuciruja

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

manuciruja

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

smadsel

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

smadsel

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

manuciruja

hey staff what the fuck

villainessbian

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

shrodingers-catgirl

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

no-sharks-on-the-sun

they killed him for this

moghedien

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

moghedien

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

#wait a sec I may just love that guy

ayeforscotland

Every time the government talks about declining birth rates there never seems to be the realisation that if you make becoming a parent completely unaffordable then people will simply not have kids.

Shocking, I know. But do you know how fucking dire a situation has to be for people to simply not want to have children?

Not interested in ‘I don’t want to have kids anyway’ reblogs on this one, I’m obviously not talking about people who actively choose not to.

datgurlnextdoor

When I was in high school there was this girl who'd become a mother in her teens and at the age of 23 came back to get her diploma. She was in a stable relationship, rented an apartment and worked part-time to be able to afford the rent and feed her child.

One day a SPD politician came to the school to give a talk on his party's policies and to get the youth engaged, you know how it is. No one asked him serious questions except my friend and she laid into him. She had calculated how much supporting another child would cost based on her expected income after graduating and her partner's income. The result was that she wouldn't be able to have another kid in the next 10-15 years. The politician had nothing to say to that except platitudes when she asked him how people like him kept talking about declining birthrates but never about affordability. Our teacher was so proud of her.

And that was ten years ago now I can't imagine what the calculations look like now, but they certainly don't look better.

#ayeforscotland #politics

zerr-issen

Transfeindliche Verordnung im Meldewesen: Bundesregierung kassiert Pleite

Merz' und Dobrindts Verordnung zum Meldewesen ist vorerst gescheitert. Der Tagesordnungspunkt wurde im Bundesrat abgesetzt. Das ist eine kleine Sensation. Die Bundesregierung konnte trotz eines gestern noch hektisch aufgesetzten Schreibens an die Bundesländer keine Mehrheit für diese transfeindliche Verordnung zustande bringen. Der Vorstoß des Bundesinnenministers, trans Personen in erster Linie als Sicherheitsrisiko zu sehen, statt ihre Grundrechte zu schützen, hat im Bundesrat keine Mehrheit gefunden. Das ist auch ein Erfolg der Proteste von Verbänden und queerer Bewegung. Es ist überfällig, dass die Bundesregierung umsteuert. Die geplante Verordnung würde zu unbegrenzter Datenspeicherung, Zwangsoutings im Umgang mit Behörden, zu mehr Unsicherheit und Diskriminierung führen.

#wie offensichtlich bösartig kann man eigentlich noch werden

defilerwyrm

Let people grow.

When I was younger I was very right-wing. I mean…very right-wing. I won’t go into detail, because I’m very deeply ashamed of it, but whatever you’re imagining, it’s probably at least that bad. I’ve taken out a lot of pain on others; I’ve acted in ignorance and waved hate like a flag; I’ve said and did things that hurt a lot of people.

There are artefacts of my past selves online – some of which I’ve locked down and keep around to remind me of my past sins, some of which I’ve scrubbed out, some of which are out of my grasp. If I were ever to become famous, people could find shit on me that would turn your stomach.

But that’s not me anymore. I’ve learned so much in the last ten years. I’ve become more open to seeing things through others’ eyes, and reforged my anger to turn on those who harm others rather than on those who simply want to exist. I’ve learned patience and compassion. I’ve learned how to recognise my privileges and listen to others’ perspectives. I’ve learned to stand up for others, how to hear, how to help, how to correct myself. And I learned some startling shit about myself along the way – with all due irony, some of the things I used to lash out at others for are intrinsic parts of myself.

You wouldn’t know what I am now from what I was then. You wouldn’t know what I was then from what I am now.

It distresses me deeply to think of someone dredging up my dark, awful past and treating me as though that furiously hateful person is still me. It distresses me to see others dredging up the past for anyone who has made efforts to become a better person, out of some sick obsession with proving they’re “problematic.”

Purity culture tells you that once someone says or does something, they can never go back on it. That’s a goddamn lie. While it’s true that some remain unrepentant and never change their ways and continue to harm others, it’s important to allow everyone the chance to learn from their mistakes. Saying something ignorant isn’t murder. Please stop treating it that way. Let people grow.

got-zayn

Still call it out and question it ….

defilerwyrm

Bruh. No. Listen. Call out what people do now, absolutely. If they haven’t changed, call them out on their record. This post is explicitly not about people who HAVEN’T changed. What this post IS saying is, if someone is making an effort to be a good person, don’t go digging around in their past for evidence that they were once for what they’re now against, or once against what they’re now for, as “proof” of what they “really think,” because people’s opinions and beliefs can change.

The obsession with finding shit in someone’s past and then claiming that a questionable or even sordid past negates all possibility of a good present needs to become extinct. Gold-star activism and purity culture are bullshit and we need to collectively reject the fuck out of them.

If someone has changed for the better, don’t harass them about what they were like before they fuckin’ changed. That’s shitty and it needs to stop.

sepdet

We can’t change the world if we decide people can’t change.

once-upon-a-reblog

We can’t change the world if we decide people can’t change.

forfuckssakejim

Yeah quiet quitting is great and all but have you tried chaotic working?

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.

Anyways. Be chaotic. It’s more fun that way.