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lezbianz

this is for a part-time job as a barista

inactiveaccount082024

on an application to work the front desk of a hotel

chasetriesagain

If minimum wage you'd like to make, This ancient quiz you'll have to take.

Step right up, but be prepared. Those who fail are poverty-snared. Question One! If your labor proves most fruitful, Raking quarters by the bootful, Who should excess profits reap, Me the wolf or you the sheep? Question Two! If, by merit, you're made pope, What will be your fervent hope? Law and order justly paired? Or mercy and the guilty spared?

Question Three! If a train should leave Topeka Driven by a solar squeaker, How then should the cat behave? Give it milk or give it grave? Question Four! Do you have a criminal record?

sexy-people-contests-2026

Put my most popular tumblr post, my family would be traumatized

perfect-jerry-blossom

i genuinely can't fucking deal with the larger internet anymore holy shit what the fuck are you people TALKING about. i am at my limit with this stupid bullshit. who the fuck cares if a man is hired to draw medical diagrams for young girls jesus christ we're pearl clutching about medical illustrations now? next you're gonna tell me male pediatricians shouldn't advise parents on their kids' vulva issues? male surgeons shouldn't be in the room when performing a procedure where a woman's breasts or vulva might be exposed? male researchers shouldn't conduct gynecological medical research? sure. better for men to live in ignorance and NEVER ally themselves with us to expand access to sexual education and reproductive healthcare i fucking guess. Twenty thousand likes. i hate it here KILL ME

perfect-jerry-blossom

THIS is the post that got me my first ever anon hate. i'd like to thank the academy tbh

also not related but can ppl on this post being like "yeah STOP being mean to men!!" pls stop cuz that's not the point of what i was saying 💀 i'm not mad bc someone was mean to a man i'm mad bc feminism is being hijacked by bioessentialist conservative Christian moralist bullshit where the goal seems to be the complete and total segregation of women from men instead of like, the material improvement of women's lives. i don't care if some intsta commenter is mean to men i care that feminism is culturally turning into Nu Conservatism

animentality

leggy-mceggy

if you're not into women then don't??? say anything???? and don't reblog the post???

shencomix

battlecrazed-axe-mage

The linked article

lastweekseyeliner

so ive worked in childcare for a bit now. during the pandemic, the place i worked started a day program for kids whose parents needed to return to work. turns out the school district uses memorization and cueing, and when combined with online learning that read all the instructions to them, overwhelmingly the kids aged 5-9 just... couldnt read.

i brought in a bunch of my books from childhood, and we started having one-on-one reading lessons with the littles. then i went out and bought about fifty more books secondhand. first step was covering the pictures so the kids couldnt guess what the words said and had to actually TRY reading them first. second step was making a list of new words for each kid so we could learn about those words, what they meant, and if the kids were old enough, some of the etymology behind them (because if you can recognize latin root words, it's easier to make connections for pronunciation later on eg. unicorn -> universe).

the kids HATED this. reading was previously the easiest class and now it was really, really hard. but reading class had also previously been the most boring class; their books were ten pictures with a single sentence on the opposite page. we got through it by taking turns reading books the kids picked out from my collection- they would read one sentence or paragraph, then i would read the whole page complete with funny voices, then it would be their turn again, etc. it turns out that if kids are motivated to hear the rest of a good story or a lot of information about a topic they love, they're more willing to struggle.

the kids improved so rapidly that i honestly almost cried a few times from how proud i was. one little girl (kindergarten aged) went from being unable to sound out the whole alphabet to reading goodnight moon by herself in two months :'>

all this, though, was NOT my job. my job was to keep the kids on task during their online schooling and prevent them from killing each other or starving. i am not a teacher. the school system was failing these kids to the degree that outside individual reading lessons were necessary, and school systems across the US are still doing this!

if you are a parent or teacher or childcare worker, PLEASE check to see what your kid is being taught. ask to see examples of lesson materials. raise concerns about the importance of phonics over any other reading strategy. join the pta, go to school board meetings, send emails- just make sure your kid is actually learning to read.

nikonikonek000

grapefruiters

masculine looking cishet guy wearing an ”ask me about my pronouns” shirt. when you ask about his pronouns he really excitedly explains to you that they’re he/him.

mathsbian

This is what we want when we say cis people should explore their gender too. Get excited about it! Euphoria is awesome! Find what you love about being you and embrace it wholeheartedly!

spacelazarwolf

analog-delight

is this a safe place to say i don't want trans men in my lesbian spaces

swannofswords

Oops! That’s wrong actually! Trans men have been included in lesbian spaces for far longer than you’ve existed in them. Not to mention, trans men are a core component of lesbian history.

dumpster-of-amontillado

I think maybe "trans men have existed in lesbian spaces for so much longer than trans women" might be the crux of a lot of people's issue with all this, and tbh it's weird as hell rubbing a bunch of trans womens' noses in it

dumpster-of-amontillado

Let's all take a moment to remember Michfest. One of the great historical instances of cis lesbians and trans men uniting against their common rejection of trans women in lesbian spaces and ask ourselves:

Is that really the history you want to draw on while defending your point??

june-egbert-official

"well trans men have been welcomed in lesbian spaces longer than you, a group historically excluded; oftentimes violently; from lesbian spaces!"

y...yeah? like.

exactly? that's the issue? like c'mon lmao

catboybiologist

This is kinda the crux of the issue for me.

Trans men calling themselves lesbians or in lesbian spaces, personally for me doesn't matter, and tbh I usually default to inclusivity when I don't have strong feelings.

The entire "debate" around whether trans men can be lesbians ignores a massive elephant in the room: the general public doesn't ever want to consider trans women to be lesbians, and basically never considers trans women to be "women enough".

In any conversation about trans men lesbians, the first foundation should be "okay but do you consider trans women attracted to women to be lesbians". Because that fundamentally shows what kind of conversation you're having.

And the note about history: yuuuup. "Trans men have been in lesbian history more than trans women" is more a sign of a deeply essentialist past society, and honestly one we should be working against.

Again, to be perfectly clear, I don't personally think that trans men should be excluded from lesbianism. But the elephant in the room is that trans women are often more excluded from lesbianism than trans men are, and nobody cares.

History, especially queer history, is lived and made. Let's make one where we actually consider trans women to be women.

blossposs

ok i might be stupid but im pretty sure they were saying something to the effect of trans men have been included in lesbian spaces longer than you (the individual) have been alive. which is true.

also can you please elaborate why you want to segregate queer spaces based on a gender binary

catboybiologist

Yes to the first paragraph. That's the point. Lesbian spaces have historically excluded trans women while still including trans men. That is, to be blunt, not a good thing.

Again, historically, queer spaces have been segregated on the basis of, not the gender binary, but genitalia alone. Not allowing "people with penises" into lesbian gatherings was something that actually happened, again, most infamously at michfest. Which was still BS because they also barred post-op trans women.

If we're doing bad faith rhetorical questions that misinterpret our points: can you please elaborate on why you are defending segregating queer spaces based on genitalia

antirpg

I’m glad ppl on tiktok are doing ok

ofide

good lord

lifeofcynch

ghostaquarius

normal-horoscopes

YEAH I GOT NOTHING

vonlipvig

i don’t understand a single sentence in this and i’m ok with that

xek-xek

I haven’t stopped saying “it’s called quantum jumping, babe”

arirna

I would genuinely like to know who to blame for making these children so disconnected from the concept of imagination that they think the simpler explanation for what they’re doing is that they’re projecting their consciousness into one of infinite realities where fictional characters are real.

esoanem

judgejudyofficial

topical :/

goldcrescent

WHY IS IT TOPICAL

animefacialrecognitionsoftware01

Me shouting at my rash ointment

great post everyone

kowsheennya

shower-thoughts-last-responder

no-one-offical

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aceal0tl

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

depsidase

theta-scenario

People with low spoons, someone just recommended this cookbook to me, so I thought I'd pass it on.

I always look at cookbooks for people who have no energy/time to do elaborate meal preparations, and roll my eyes. Like, you want me to stay on my feet for long enough to prepare 15 different ingredients from scratch, and use 5 different pots and pans, when I have chronic fatigue and no dishwasher?

These people seem to get it, though. It's very simple in places. It's basically the cookbook for people who think, 'I'm really bored of those same five low-spoons meals I eat, but I can't think of anything else to cook that won't exhaust me'.

And it's free!

by Rachel A. Rosen and Zilla Novikov || Food you can make so you don't die.

pokeybananas

HEY LOW SPOON FREINDS!!! FOOD FOR TIRED FOLKS

the-secondborn-of-seven

BEANS AND RICE MENTION!!! And quesadillas in general

senderosquesebifurcan

This is a great thing for folks. And also for folks for whom disabilities include fatigue.

untitledgoosegay

as funny as it is to say, "there's no such thing as a fish" is not actually true

"science doesn't know what a fish is" is really not true

"fish" is not a monophyletic category. there is no common ancestor of everything that we call a "fish," and none of the things that we don't

"fish" is a paraphyletic category -- and a useful one! marine biologists use it! "fish" describes a general body plan and lifestyle. it is useful to be able to talk about coelacanths and tuna in a shared category, though coelacanths are more closely related to us than to tuna.

where this bugs me is the repetition of the idea that "scientists" are hidebound and uncreative, unable to comprehend anything that doesn't conform to a specific idea of categorization -- when this is fundamentally untrue! we know perfectly well what a "fish" is. the fact that it's a paraphyletic group is only confounding to pop science, as a funny factoid, not to anyone who actually understands what a paraphyletic group is.

everythingfox

Listen to his song

(via)

professorsparklepants

Holy shit who taught this bird to sing opera

dracuwulaura-deactivated2025121

video description: a small bird stood on wooden flooring, singing the iconic high staccato bit from the queen of the night aria. he doesn't perfectly hit all the notes but still does a pretty good job. there is a human hand shaking a container full of cotton buds next to the bird for some reason.