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Alex / 30s / UK / quilex on storygraph

[otternottertv]

rests my noise on you

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog]

I remember walking down the street and seeing a sign protesting George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, so I think that.

[headspace-hotel]

I don't know about a news story, but my first "political" memory was something about the torture memos

[doorsclosingslowly]

my first political memory is photographs from abu ghraib

[priestessofmissouri]

wild horses on the current river by my mom

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

making the radical claim "11 year old children should be taught how to make extremely simple food" has resulted in people making arguments like "I wasnt allowed to plug in electronics until I was 16 and I think this is super normal actually" and "children dont know what ratios are so its unfair to expect them to be able to comprehend the idea of adding equal amounts rice and water to a rice cooker" and I gotta say originally I thought maybe I was being too judgy but now I feel very secure in my opinion because what the fuck

[beardedmrbean]

[cheddar-baby]

Forgot to close a parenthesis and now spirits enter me like a waterslide

[gaymolegaming]

I wish irl grinding was as fun as in videogames tbh. Like yeah i need to go to work a thousand times but after that i have enough materials to buy a house. But alas, houses arent real

[microraptorhours]

i love you archival work. i love you alphabetizing. i love you sorting. i love you reshelving. i love you document restoration. i love you shelf reading. i love you inventorying. i love you analysis. i love you archival work.

[jhoomwrites]

which do you prefer?

ebook

paperback

hardcover

audiobook

Remaining time: 5 hours 53 minutes

[iwannabeaswampwitch]

Lots of drama in our household

[viralfrog]

[sapphsorrows]

cosmetic plastic surgeons do not give a fuck about you. their offices are like assembly lines. they do not care about you. they do not care about your feelings. they only care about how much money they can make off of your insecurities.

this especially includes so-called "gender affirming" cosmetic surgeons. "oh i found this great surgeon who affirms me" no you did not. you found a snakeoil salesman who is going to have you chasing a dragon you will never catch.

[theangryman]

i had surgery in 2015. i saw the surgeon like a few times in the year after for follow up, but all of that was included in what i paid him up front. making sure stuff was healing properly, etc

idk, when i saw the guy for an initial consultation, i had a large burn going down my arm from an accident at work. i hadn’t seen anyone about it - literally didn’t even leave work when it happened, didn’t really have the cash to see a doctor, was going to have to take out a loan to get my surgery (insurance told me first do it then we’ll reimburse, but it turned out there was a secret “no trans surgeries on this specific employers policy” after the fact)

he took the time to talk to me about it. wasn’t what i was seeing him for, not something he got paid to do, but he looked it over, gave me advice, told me what parts would scar…

my hormone provider/PCP recently changed - same clinic just a new guy. we talked about a recent hospital stay/wound care, and about how bad my experience at that hospital was

we had to do a blood draw, and sometimes my veins just feel like being obnoxious, so he couldn’t get all he needed on the first prick. but he *noticed* how uncomfortable i am with medical shit, noticed how much i hate needles. like, i didn’t say anything, but he offered to stop and delay one of the tests for a couple months. he picked up how fucking traumatized i was by my (non trans related) emergency surgery and hospital stay, and thought of a way to minimize my pain and discomfort

idk if i’m wording that in a way that can do justice to how comfortable and safe that experience made me feel. but it’s part of a pattern - i have noticed that the providers who provide me affirming care are often the most patient, kind and dedicated providers i encounter. the ones who care enough to respect my pronouns are also the ones that will respect my pain and discomfort

and i know that clinic isn’t rolling in the dough. there’s no insurance that pays for trans shit here; they are working with uninsured broke trans people in a hell hole red state. i KNOW with at least my clinic - they are doing it for love and ill fight anyone who says otherwise

idk, you realize how similar your propaganda messaging is to propaganda about abortion clinics? “they are only doing it for money” “they are making tons and tons of money off this” “they are secretly evil to the point where they don’t care about harming others, even to death” when it’s all kinda obviously untrue on its face?

like, put yourself into the shoes of a doctor here. is it *really* a good idea to go into gender care for the money rn considering the christofascists and just regular old fascists you are carrying water for are kinda in power for the indefinite time being?

[r2x2]

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

[cbarc]

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

[ms-demeanor]

Here's the report as a PDF.

[datasoong47]

[notecardpasta]

hehehehehe * sudden moment of clarity that straightens my spine * what is this. who am I. * the clarity fades * hehehehehehe

[funnypicsdept]

[todaysbird]

here’s a picture of a baby cedar waxwing begging for food from a robin. neither of these species are nest parasites, so it’s not possible the cedar waxwing was ‘adopted’. this is essentially the bird version of tapping a random person on the shoulder at the grocery store and going “MOM”

x

[bunjywunjy]

I love that the robin’s body language is basically WHAT THE FUCK WHOSE KID IS THIS

[tinysaurus-rex-deactivated20240]

Robin is bathing which make’s it even funnier. More like the equivalent of a strange kid barging in while you’re taking a shower and demanding you make them mac n cheese right now

[mitski-miyawakis]