Bear Appreciation Society of Ireland

36 year old Trans Man

[depsidase]

[irishtransbear]

Big boy in bed.

[stopitwolfe]

I don’t want to play heatwave anymore.

[theconcealedweapon]

[adamtotscomix]

[hotshotriot]

stop being silly in front of me

[thedreadvampy]

Everywhere I go I'm reminded how much the desire to punish homelessness and migration and other Undesirablenesses make society markedly worse for everyone

like why is the park locked after 5pm so I can't go and sit under a tree after work? to punish rough sleepers for the terrible crime of being homeless and alive

why do I have to buy a drink, beg for a code and fuck around with an awkward keypad for 5 minutes in order to take a piss? because fuck homeless people

why do I need to provide proof of address and photo ID to do everything? because we had to create a really hostile environment for migrants

why can't you sit anywhere? well because god forbid people sleep when they're pushed out of shelter. can't risk that.

every day governments, councils and businesses make your life worse as a side effect of making vulnerable people's lives WAY worse. if you're ok with that you're a fucking idiot and if you're in favour of it you're a vindictive cunt cause again literally the ONLY payoff for your life getting worse is other people's lives getting worser.

[irishtransbear]

Aww c'mon man. I just started work 😭

[stopitwolfe]

No, but it actually is laundry day

[irishtransbear]

[irishtransbear]

At this point I'm gonna start taking bets on which happens first; I get a place of my own or I get a boyfriend. (Neither are very likely)

[eatmorebikes]

[everrgrreeen]

the monsterfucker website has yet to let me down

[fluent-in-lesbianism]

I took a 6yo boy to his placement and as soon as I got him situated in the back he saw my SpongeBob driver’s license air freshener hanging on my rearview mirror. He asked if that’s really SpongeBob’s driver’s license and I said yeah it’s real. Then he asked where I got it if SpongeBob’s underwater so I told him I wore a helmet like Sandy and stole it from SpongeBob when he slept, and without missing a beat he goes “That’s identity fraud”

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

He's right

[irishtransbear]

God you're so fucking handsome

Me?

[sottopressione1]

Tuira Kayapó brandished her machete in the face of a government official who was trying to convince indigenous leaders to accept a mega-dam project in the Amazon, 1989

[lesbianmichelmishina]

“Electricity won’t give us food. We need the rivers to flow freely. Don’t talk to us about relieving our ‘poverty’ – we are the richest people in Brazil. We are Indians.”

part of kayapó’s speech during this event

also! she’s still alive! that sort of thing is always worth pointing out to show that we really aren’t too far removed from events like this! here’s a 2019 photo of her:

[stopitwolfe]

Bowser says: you can’t fight the fascists if you’re dehydrated. Have some water babe.

[irishtransbear]

If you had asked me at 27 if I thought I'd see 37 I would have said no. But here I am. I can't say it gets easier, but you can get more proficient at dealing with it. Happy birthday to me.