dare to struggle

[fairycosmos]

big life tips dont be neurodivergent dont be poor dont get in any sort of situation and dont let yourself need or crave

[fairycosmos]

not getting good reports back on your progress with this guys

[rapportdefaceaface]

americans will say is this constitutional like any one cares what their founding human traffickers have to say

[messygoku]

for all of you:

[tatzelwurming]

econony is fucked as hell so i’m going to try a bunch of gas station boner pills and start a class action lawsuit against which ever one hurts me the most badly

[indigosfindings]

kindergarten teachers in 2026: ok roll call... is "vriska" present?

kindergarten teachers in 2036: ok roll call..... is "harrowhark" present?

kindergarten teachers in DEVIL YEAR: ok kids today we are building a machine that destroys smiles

[our-queer-experience]

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Children. If you don't listen to nothing else I say, listen to this: Hit them. Hit them right in the mouth. You might still cry, but you'll feel good that you didn't *just* cry. It's always okay to hit a racist. Every time.

[heavensenthousepet]

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old

[lesbianfidelcastro]

Being anti-USA is the bare minimum for legitimate leftists I'm not even kidding

[jupiterjames]

Did I just employ the "Treat Them Like You are A Kindergarten Teacher Again" method with my insurance company today? I surely did. Did it work? Probably better than intended because I made an actual doctor feel contrite.

So, my insurance has been trying to not cover my SNRI because it is new on the market and no generic available yet, so pricey.

I apply for a refill and the request gets locked for review. Again. For the 3rd time.

This time I call and immediately ask to speak to the actual doctor making these clinical decisions. Very politely. Must be a slow day because they allow it.

ME: [Teacher voice] I'm calling in regards to the SNRI you have placed a lock on. Why was this decision made?

DOC: Well, there are dozens of other medications on the market in that tier, and far cheaper for you and [insurer]. We have sent a request to your doctor to consider alternatives.

ME: I am aware of that. So, can you do me a HUGE favor and look up my prescription history really quickly and tell me how many SSRIs and SNRIs were only filled once in 2022 for me, showing they were poorly tolerated?

DOC: It looks like eight.

ME: Great job! Now, can you please look at my genetic test for psychiatric drug tolerance and tell me how many medications are listed in the safe category?

DOC: Two.

ME: Awesome! Now, can you tell me what type that other drug is that I'm not taking?

DOC: Yeah, totally, it's an MAOI.

ME: That's correct, you're really knowledgeable! Should I be taking something as dangerous as an MAOI with my other medications, or even just in general?

DOC: It's contraindicated for sure.

ME: It is! So true! So, last question since you've been incredibly smart and helpful. Is it less expensive for [insurer] to pay out for the medication knowing they already get a huge manufacturer discount anyway, or is it more expensive for them to pay for me to need potentially long-term inpatient psychiatric care?

DOC: I'll clear the code, ma'am and flag it as medically necessary. I'm sorry about this.

ME: I appreciate you SO MUCH. You have a great day now.

WALGREENS PHARMACY TECH WITH 5 NOSE RINGS AND PURPLE HAIR STARING AT ME: ........... OKAY! It'll be ready in five minutes. You wanna come work here?

[headspace-hotel]

Kill them with kindness

BUT KILL THEM

[tim-official]

patricia taxxon is one of the best and most inventive producers working today and has been influential on me for her ideas on music theory and practice on drum compression. and it is shameful that she is known mostly for being stalked and harassed and lolcowed and having extensive documents made on her by kiwifarmers that a significant portion of otherwise "good" queer leftists online uncritically take as fact. she should be known for her bespoke synthesized snare drums

[tboyreject]

[shaking a transmasc egg by his shoulders] your existence as a man is not anti-feminist, the world is a brighter place with you in it. nothing of value will be lost, you don't deserve to spend your life in a closet, the most radical thing you can do is to exist authentically. i will always cheer for you, i will always celebrate you.

[maternal-extinct]

ah the breadtubers believe in lolcowing too

[maternal-extinct]

hbomb, lily alexander, and lady emily are all participating in what amounts to a callout of a trans woman age player like it isnt the lowest hanging fruit on the hater tree. its so easy to call trans women pedos to raucous applause

[mlembug]

hbomb's 'roblox_oof.mp3' and 'plagiarism and you(tube)' are essentially high effort callout posts when you think about it, I bet it feels really good for him to obliterate someone's presence from the internet at this point

[zitongzi]

I'm sorry am i missing something or are we trying to defend a misogynistic white man who spreads misinformation on the internet and a rich dude who lied about all his achievements, taking credit for other people's work whose also a right winger who also ran a scam?

Whats timmy tellerico or james sommerton got to do woth trans women?

[jadeharleyinc]

no, we're saying that "leftist" youtubers are unprincipled and will go after white men grifters not because their actions are destructive but because they sound offensive, e.g. "art theft" and "plagiarism", with "exploitation of employees or marginalized writers" being incidental.

then these youtubers will go after trans women whose actions also sound offensive, like "she openly has a fetish", because they operate on bourgeois morality. imo these phenomenons are obviously connected.

[mlembug]

his creative output on his channel of the last 4 years are vigilante actions and whether those are justified depends if you can justify them to yourself and your wider liberal audience. the trajectory is clear here.

[lonely-space-egg]

I think it's also worth pointing out that, even when Hbomberguy does this huge takedown on James Somerton, who there are actually material complaints against [though I disageee with Hbomb's way of going about it], he still adds this disclaimer of "Oh but if you go harrass Somerton you're worse than him":

As Patricia states, no such disclaimer is given when Hbomberguy pedojackets her in response to her crime of... vagueposting about how he treated her 8 years ago. Hbomb's bleet [now deleted, but cosigned by his producer + numerous other breadtubers] is another in the long tradition of men silencing women for speaking up about how they were mistreated by them - even if those women are making no call to action, just talking about their personal experiences.

^ What Patricia actually said vs. how Hbomb reacted.

It's Johnny Depp shit.

[boccher]

It's second nature for us transfems to understand how a closeted transfem behaves and presents, you kind of forget how the average person perceives them. Like genuinely, what do the people around me make of a depressed and friendless long-haired "boy" with an aversion to buying new clothes. What alternate explanation seems logical in their mind. I would have no clue.

[patricia-taxxon]

the thing is, if your younger self was a bigot or an abuser, u can't make people forgive you. but you still gotta forgive yourself, like that's non-negotiable, dude. that happens before u can even ask the question of earning forgiveness from anyone lese

[patricia-taxxon]

oops, in your attempt to martyr yourself out of respect for your victims you accidentally sabotaged your own ability to conceptualize yourself as anything but a perpetual evildoer who is always one bad day away from hurting everyone you love, all but guaranteeing history to repeat itself. rookie mistake

[patricia-taxxon]

im gonna try explaining myself, cus im a gambling addict and im waiting for the day that it actually works.

"forgiveness" is personal, that's why I said in the post that you might inflict harm on people for which they can never forgive you, but that's their quest. if you abuse someone, you can't go no-contact with yourself. you actually keep living in your own head indefinitely, and ultimately you need to learn to live with yourself in order to continue living a full life without further harm. this is not necessarily an anti-carceral thought, although i am generally anti-carceral myself. I simply want people to like, fix their heart and atone for real with measured accountability & self love instead of dissociating, self-marking themselves forever and guaranteeing their recidivism.

You and a remorseful abuser would both think I'm giving the easy, coddling path. It's actually the tough pragmatic path in disguise.

[ship-of-fools]

[glubby]

Wait i can learn from my mistakes? Ohhhhh ok i was just using them to torment myself

[queenofattolia]

insane that the only good colorists in the entire world are making gifsets for free on tumblr dot com instead of being heads of cinematography/color grading for tv shows and movie studios

[heartpdf]

^ the world if a Black nonbinary lesbian got help to afford kitten food, toilet paper & miso soup c4$h4pp v3nm0 p4yp4l

[heartpdf]

having some asthma attacks, grateful for any help bcs its going to soup or smoothie so i can take my meds

[heartpdf]

out of cat litter and toilet paper, even $1 will help <3

[heartpdf]

have PT & more dental work, in a lot of pain bcs the asthma is kicking my ass. grateful for any help at all <3

[heartpdf]

hving a rlly hard time with pain and mobility, grateful for any help

[heartpdf]

more dental work today, even $1 or a kind word will go a long way <3

[heartpdf]

insurance denied paying for the dental work again, having a hard fucking day grateful for any help

[heartpdf]

grateful for any help with soup

[heartpdf]

grateful for any help at all <3

[heartpdf]

soup and clean underwear is the goal, had another asthma attack today just tryna do what i can literally

[heartpdf]

got physical therapy again, rlly grateful for any support <3

[heartpdf]

just left pt trying to do as much laundry as i can afford i have more pt and dental surgery next week. just trying to survive, grateful for any positivity that can be spared <3

[heartpdf]

genuinely grateful for any positivity having a p hard time <3

[heartpdf]

having a really hard time with pain, mobility and increasingly worsening asthma attacks. grateful for any support

[heartpdf]

goal is soup and cat litter if i can afford it

[heartpdf]

happy haitian flag day 🇭🇹🫶🏽 i have more physical therapy and dental surgery today, really grateful for even $1 or a kind word

[heartpdf]

i have an autoimmune disease i keep forgetting about, in a lot of pain from the back injury, had to walk both ways to and from pt today. dont have funds for soup or cat litter, surviving day to day. grateful for any help <3