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Marie | 25 | She/her | straight tma | White | The dream is still alive

[captain-price-returns]

California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy

Del Monte Foods shuttered its Modesto and Hughson cannery plants in April. 

[muaddibstyleguide]

This cover from a Brazilian 2021 edition is my favorite for reasons that I think are obvious lol

[depsidase]

[gaynessopimizationalgorithm]

You can't just show that part The thread has so so much worse

[nullwronskian]

Trans women should be able to kill medical staff.

[pitbolshevik]

like "this misogynist watches porn that dehumanizes (cis) women" isn't seen as ironic at all, but "this transmisogynist watches porn that dehumanizes trans women" is and is often treated as like a funny gotcha. why is that.

[cloudofbutterflies]

Eryka Caldwell is a back trans woman who was murdered by her partner in her apartment last Sunday, and the story is getting a fraction of the attention that the murder of Juniper Blessing did. The police had already been called several times about her partners violence before her murder and did nothing, and she deserves the same outrage and mourning as Juniper got, and every one of our murdered trans siblings deserves. Trans women of color are more likely to be the victims of murder than any other group of queer people, and they need our solidarity, protection and support.

Trans Woman Eryka Caldwell Fatally Stabbed in Bushwick, Brooklyn

Caldwell’s boyfriend, 38-year-old Jonathan Fernandez, has been charged with murder.

[cloudofbutterflies]

Her family has a gofundme, please donate to them if you can so that they can transport her back home for her funeral.

Donate to Bringing Eryka Home for a Loving Farewell, organized by Loretta Worthy

My family is asking for help in the unexpected loss of my cousin, Eryka Caldw… Loretta Worthy needs your support for Bringing Eryka Home for

[jamabushi]

[travelingcryptologist]

Jean Giraud - Mœbius illustrates Dante’s Paradiso (1999)

[opheliathegrey]

[dawatcher]

[enchantedbook]

“Love, Desire and Death” (L'Amour, le Désir, et la Mort), an illustration by Georges Barbier, published in Paris in 1922 as part of the series Personnages de Comédie.

[royaletigertowelpapertowelpp]

Sports teams are great examples of the ship of theseus paradox when you think about it

Does the team you love stay the same team when so many parts of it are changed?

[perception-filter]

staring at the dessert menu and twirling my hair and going "should I be baaaaddd" until the autistic girl I'm eating with says "there is nothing bad about eating dessert. it is a morally neutral action"

[jareckiworld]

Jiang Miao — Taoist Trinity and the Self (acrylic on board with carving 2025.10.10)

[tonyzaret]

I thought I left my keys on the table, but they were actually in my jacket- just another example of The Mandela Effect

[theehorsepusssy]

[euchreiade]

... Spurs in seven?

[hagiomoto]

So I saw your post on Persepolis. I read that book in college at one point. Could you tell me more about the author? I didn't realize she was doing something harmful.

I think that thread by sharghzadeh that I just linked probably explain it better than I can. But honestly, a big part of the issue is that she’s coming from a very specific perspective. She’s a middle-class liberal who is now a French citizen. That background shapes how she tells the story. When you read Persepolis, her bias isn’t exactly subtle. It comes through quite clearly in how events and people are framed.

The bigger problem, though, is how her work gets used. It’s not just a personal memoir anymore when people often treat it as the definitive narrative about Iran. In some cases, it even gets used as a kind of soft propaganda to justify hostility or even war against the country. That’s where things get concerning.

It’s done real damage by skewing people’s perceptions of Iran, reducing a country of around 90 million people into a single, oversimplified narrative. Complex historical events like the Islamic Revolution and everything that happened during and after it get flattened into something much easier to digest, but far less accurate. And when you ignore that level of nuance and complexity, you end up reinforcing stereotypes instead of actually understanding the place or its people.

For Westerners and honestly anyone else, it becomes much easier to hate a nation when it’s portrayed as being full of nothing but women-hating brutes and theocrats. That kind of framing strips away any sense of humanity or diversity, and once people buy into it, they stop seeing a complex society and start seeing a caricature instead.