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They-them/24 y.o./Italian/ Human rights are not an opinion. "Negli occhi della gente si vede quello che vedranno, non quello che hanno visto. Quello che vedranno" A. Baricco

[tetrafelino]

Haaland: not rn babe I just lost the world cup 😔

Bellingham: oh 💔

Bellingham: anyway here's wonderwall

[miiilowo]

having feelings that contradict your morals is soooo fucking annnoooooyyyiiingggggg. can the emotions and logic department get on the same page im tired of having to like strangle myself into being a tolerable person

[trans4trains]

[boba-t-butch]

i think this is something @demonprincex has written about? there's also an important distinction between what i believe the structures and systems of our society should do (ie no death penalty) and what i as an individual person want. the example i remember for dr price's writing was when a trans youth was killed by her classmates. me as a trans person feeling rage and hurt and personally wishing death upon those students is not structurally the same and me wanting to implement the death penalty on those students.

i've noticed a lot of leftists struggle with the distinction between individual action and structural systems. people accused me of "replicating the punitive systems we're seeking to dismantle" because i didn't want an ex to have access to my apartment...

it also goes with the conversation that if we want to be abolitionists we can't be conflict avoidant. rather than relying on calling law enforcement and building systems and governments that punish and police, i need to be able to assert my own boundaries and maybe punch a bitch sometimes. those actions are not the same scale.

[ishowdespair-deactivated2026012]

[the-frightening-ghoul]

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[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

ill spend my twenties investigating the healing properties of salt i dont know about you guys

[protectspock]

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

excuse me

[protectspock]

Sorry op. That's my friend the Salt Vampire from the Star Trek episode "The Man Trap" which first aired in 1966. Blessings be upon you.

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

its just i dont feel blessed by its presence is all. sending love your way

[hagiomoto]

I don't think this is an appropriate response to an article about South Asian farmers losing their teeth because temperatures are now reaching 45 Celcius.

[hagiomoto]

The average Tumblr blogger has such poor manners that even a pig would be embarrassed to bring them home to its mother.

[bagofdrymice]

When the Heat Steals Your Smile

After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented

okay so i think i found the article op's (and me in my tags) talking about. being exposed to over 40 celsius (120 farenheit or so) for the whole day means youre sweating a LOT (the article says rashid- the farmer at the centre of the text- drinks around 17 liters a Day. humans usually only need 3, so i presume the rest is mostly used for sweat). so much so that the organizm reroutes water from other parts of itself to not die of heatstroke - salivary glands included, which means that 1. they have very little saliva in comparison to a healthy human being 2. what little their bodies DO produce is incredibly acidic, falling to ~5.5 ph from the ideal of 7ph. Teeth dissolve. Quickly. There's a mention of someone losing 8 teeth in two years

im not reading the whole article now (headache -_-), but later on the author of the article says about 30 million people (employed in agriculture) are at risk for extreme dental health problems. 30 million people at risk of not being able to eat solid food. 30 million people at risk of not being able to find work. being able to marry. being able to be part of their community. being able to speak clearly

this is. fucking horrible feels like an understatement, but it is the best i have. this exceptionally, terribly inhumane, and the pakistan goverment's lack of a plan to adress this is embarassing

[sexhaver]

that Brian Eno quote about how whatever you find most repulsive about a medium (film grain, record scratches/fuzz, CDs skipping) will be the first thing you try and emulate once that medium is obsolete because it's "the sign of a moment too powerful for the medium assigned to contain it".... man.......

[funkylilpunk]

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” -Brian Eno

[dyfavorable]

I would be scared too, honestly

[i-am-a-fish]

every time you make art of any kind, a stat that is not visible to the player goes up. also, this is the most important stat in the game

[ledogeishere]

does singing in the shower count as art

[i-am-a-fish]

does a strong as fuck ice mummy have ice powers

[the-quietestmela]

does writing fanfiction count as art

[i-am-a-fish]

don't make me say the mummy thing again

[theaspecyear]

People need to understand that the point ISN’T “being single is not a failure if you’re aromantic”, the point is being single is not a failure full stop.

You can be allo and be single; it’s allowed. You feeling attraction doesn’t mean your priority NEEDS to be finding romance (it can be! But it also can not).

Being single should be normalized no matter what your romantic/sexual orientation is. It isn’t a tragedy.

[protectorofthesmoll]

When I was figuring out gender shit, I got all twisted up trying to figure out what it was that I wanted vs what it was I thought my partner wanted. To be clear, they were a great partner and very supportive, I just have a complicated relationship with people pleasing. I decided to break up with them because I needed to be single and figure out my shit.

I’m definitely lucky to have had the resources to move out and live on my own for the first time. It felt so good to have my own space and figure out how I like living without the complications of a significant other (or housemates). Since then I’ve gotten top surgery, learned to drive, quit my job, and am headed out to grad school this fall. I’ve got a better relationship with myself than ever before. Being single is great.

I’m dating a person now, but we’re planning on splitting up when I move at the end of this summer, and honestly I’m looking forward to being single in a new city. I don’t have to worry about the logistics of a whole other human, i dont have to share my space, i can go out and meet new people and make new friends without needing to communicate and schedule with my partner. I don’t have to mingle my finances with anyone.

I think a lot about how, to be able to truly say yes so something you also need to be able to say no. For relationships, it means that I always need to know I could break up with this person, so that choosing to stay with them is an active commitment. I need to know that I can live as a single person, that I am happy as a single person, and that if a relationship is shitty I will have a significantly better time single than with that shitty person.

you should always be able to choose to be single, and I wish it was more standard in our community, both as a cultural opinion and in structural ways. Being single isn’t a failure. Breaking up with someone isn’t a failure. Divorcing a partner isn’t a failure. Honestly I feel like those last two should be treated more like successes- you are actively taking steps to improve your life and wellbeing.

I rambled off topic but anyway: being single is great, and not just for aro folks. Allo folks choosing to stay single is wonderful.

[swinging-paroniria]

the official taskmaster account posting joelmail rpf was not on my bingo card but here we are

[nightmare-from-heaven]

Hey. Your brain needs to de-frag. Literally it needs you to sit there and space out.

If you want your memory or executive function to improve, stare out a window at the skyline or sidewalk or trees or birds on the electrical wires for like 20+ minutes per day. (With no other stimulation like a podcast or TV if you can manage but hey baby steps innit). If you're fortunate enough to have safe outside with any bits of nature, go stare closely at a 1 meter square of grass and trip out on the bugs and shapes of grasses and stuff.

Literally this will make you smarter. Our brains HAVE TO HAVE this zone out time to do important stuff behind the scenes. This does not happen during sleep, it's something else.

That weird pressurized feeling you get sometimes might be your brain on no defrag.

Give your brain a Daily Dose Of De-Frag.

[starsdreaming]

This explains so much.

Also, if you don't take the time regularly, your brain will do it for you. Usually when you're already stressed and it gets to be too much. You will zone out. And you can not control it. So regular maintenance will help

[natalieironside]

Due to my weird childhood and my weird brain, I have this very unhelpful compulsion to conceal Everything I do from Everyone. I Cannot be observed performing any action, no matter how mundane. My nervous system is convinced I'm gonna, like, Get In Trouble for eating food at dinnertime or sleeping in my bed at bedtime.

I've taken to asking myself, "Okay does this task actually require subterfuge or am I stealing a balloon on Free Balloon Day"

[natalieironside]

I see from the notes that we're all havin a normal one 👍

[roycohn]

happy donna sheridan unprotected sex day (1/3), everybody!!!

[ceruleanheaven]

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

[drpepperwhoree]

remember that pride is still a protest

[omarfor-orchestra]

Silvio Berlusconi è mort VAAAAAAAAAI TE NE VAAAAAAAAAI QUELLA VOLTA NON DOVEVI ANDARE VIA ERO BELLISSIMA BELLISSIMA

[omarfor-orchestra]

Buon anniversario

[wanderingcoasties]

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)