I'm Solomon

I dohnt care

[tope-con-hewwo]

Piping fuckin hot take incoming but it doesn’t matter if fat people are healthy. Not everyone has to be a paragon of fuckin health to be treated like a person.

[caribbritchick]

Advice for people in their 20s from someone who’s just entered their 30s....

1. Don’t waste time being fearful: go for that job that you’re certain you’re not gonna get. What’s the worse that can happen? You are rejected, but you gain interview experience. Self-doubt is really a waste of time.

2. Live in the present. Yes, it is important to plan for the future, but it is easy to put off living until it is too late. Make sure that you have no regrets about what you should have done. Do one exciting thing per year.

3. Know your worth. This applies to both work and relationships; never sell yourself short. No job or romance is more important than your self respect. Also, charge for any unique skills/services that you can offer. 

4. Don’t be afraid to leave bad situations. I left a stable but draining teaching job in order to protect my mental health. Even though this was a big risk, it was the best decision I ever made. NOTHING is more important than your mental health. 

5. Most 20 somethings feel that they are underachieving. This is normal - especially in today’s financial climate. Don’t feel bad if you are still living at home and cannot afford to rent/buy. I’m 30 and still living at home, saving to buy.

6. People will disappoint you, but most of the time, it’s not about you. Everybody has their own demons and traumas that make them behave in certain ways. If somebody disrespects you, assert your boundaries and keep it moving. Also, examine if there was anything you could have done to avoid the situation. But DO NOT let it eat away at you.

7. In love, nobody owes you anything. Even if they made a promise, they are their own person…Everybody has the right to change their mind and to leave a situation which is not beneficial for them. This is hurtful and hard to accept, but it is the truth.

8. Learn to enjoy your own company. Your 20s can be a lonely time as your social sphere narrows, due to employment, finances and exhaustion. Use this time to find out more about yourself and do the things that you enjoy. There is something liberating about eating at a restaurant alone. 

9. Be kind, don’t gossip or overshare. I am still working on this one. It is really difficult to be kind and positive in a world full of annoying people. However, your attitude will influence how you are being perceived. If you are unkind, people will laugh at your jokes but they will never trust you. They will never trust you not to treat them as you treat other people. Remove yourself from toxic people, and only share negativity (sadness/anger/depression) with a therapist and one other person that you trust. If you overshare negative feelings, you may be stereotyped as being full of drama. Furthermore, people will want you to stay in a negative place because it’s entertaining and makes them feel better about their own lives. Just don’t do it.

10. You cannot win every battle. Within conflict, it is tempting to try to force others to agree with your perspective. However, most people are set in their ways, and find it difficult to change their views and behaviours. This is especially important when dealing with toxic family members. You may never get the apology and empathy that you seek, so it is important to accept that every battle cannot be won, and gain validation internally, rather than externally.

[sixpenceee]

Females in Dhaka are guarded by teenage students after several girls were raped by officials of the Bangladeshi government for protesting against dangerous roads.

[myrandomthoughtsofrandomness]

THIS! This is how change is made. Us women can only do so much, and have done alot, but real change with violence against women starts with the men and their attitude towards women. This is a perfect example. It’s a huge step in the right direction. ✊

[xlittleblackheartx]

Why is this not in the news.

[demigod-daughter-of-poseidon]

This is not in the news because the Bangladesh govt is closely monitoring any type of social media and attacking those that make posts. This includes all forms of news as well.

[bogleech]

[mavisbeaconofficial]

[cobaltdays-deactivated20210208]

What in God’s name is this

[dozy-draconequus-deactivated202]

Uhhh so I can tell y'all for sure he WASN’T eating that eggplant….

[theshockinglyeloquentdog]

this keeps getting worse

[nonapkinsilickmyfingers777]

[thegaylists]

Trans Music

some cool songs with explicitly trans themes (and with a few exceptions all by trans artists!)

for trans ladies

boy in a dress by namoli brennet

delicate, petite & other things ill never be by against me!

family by she/her/hers

for today i am a boy-antony & the johnsons

g.l.o.s.s by g.l.o.s.s

gender is boring by she/her/hers

genderless by jonesin and the hurt

girl its your time by vivek shraya

i am her by shea diamond

i could use a hug by girls rituals

identity by mina caputo

invertible penis by polythene pam

lined lips and spiked bats by g.l.o.s.s

love is not love by too attached

masculine artifice by g.l.o.s.s

middle age transsexual theme song by polythene pam

outcast stomp by g.l.o.s.s

part time woman by vivek shraya 

salt by bad suns

tall girl posse by polythene pam

targets of men targets of men-g.l.o.s.s

thoughts and prayers by black dresses

touch and go by john grant

trans is love by marissa kay

transgender dysphoria blues-against me!

transworld by girls rituals

transylvania by kim petras

true trans soul rebel by against me!

for trans men

binary by spook school

burn masculinity by spook school

changes by jake edwards

daughter by ryan cassata

daughterson by coyote grace

dysphoria by saint wellesley

fagette by athens boys choir

ftm at the dmv by schmekel

gay shame by schmekel

ghost boy by coyote grace

guy named joe by coyote grace

hold my yod by schmekel

im your man by lucas silveira

man enough by katastrophe

pink & blue by jake edwards

maybe she’s shomer negiyah by schmekel

new men with old man names-schmekel

second puberty by jake edwards

tell me a story by skylar kergil

the binding of isaac by schmekel

the trans slam by ryan cassata

the village by wrabel

you can’t tell me by jake edwards

you’re not the only bear ive fisted-schmekel

for nonbinary folks

am i a girl? by poppy

aquafina by cj run

body was made by ezra furman

gender bronoun by human kitten

gender fluid by elbe

gender queer by lip shit queers

genderqueer love song by schmekel

girl or boy by dani shay

just me (gender binary blues)-jinkx monsoon

precious by jay boogie 

sex:male;gender:whatever-human kitten

they/them by atlas

they/them/theirs by worriers

for gay nb/trans people

aquafina by cj run

fagette by athens boys choir

flirting with her by sir babygirl

gay shame by schmekel

hold my yod by schmekel

homocoming king by athens boys choir

i lost my innocence by ezra furman

return to sender by cj run

spaghetti by cj run

straight boy by shamir 

tangerine by cj run

the metrosexual threw off my gaydar-athens boys choir

you’re not the only bear ive fisted-schmekel

[weloveshortvideos]

epic

[kenihana]

The only white foolishness I condone

[spaced-queen-deactivated2024072]

I love how he respected the force and threw himself back a reasonable force distance

[fanpom-imagines]

What nerds………………….I respect

[niggazinmoscow]

How to help Sudan: 7 things you can do right now for a country in crisis

Call your member of Congress. Call 202-224-3121. State your zip code. When connected, tell them you support helping the people of Sudan or send them George Clooney’s essay.

Use ResistBot to text your members of Congress. Text RESIST to 50409 and it will help you contact your elected officials and tell them to help the people of Sudan.

Give to UNICEF, which is working to help the children displaced by the conflict. Donate here

Donate to Save the Children, which has been working in Sudan since 1984. Donate here. If you prefer the International Rescue Committee, it has been in Sudan since 1989 fighting malnutrition and helping displaced families. Donate here

This Facebook campaign aims to raise funds for food and medicine for those in Sudan. Donate here  

Sign this Change.org petition demanding that “The UN must investigate the 3rd of June human rights violations in Sudan by the Military.” Sign here

This GoFundMe campaign out of the U.K. claims to be working with a Sudanese group to bring emergency medical aid to Sudan. Donate here. This GoFundMe campaign is dedicated to providing medical support for the group of non-violent protesters waging a sit-in. Donate here

Spreading information is a big part of activism too! These are our brother and sisters who are worth being seen and heard

[flockofdoves]

PLEASE do NOT do the first two things on this list

(i don’t have much information personally on the charities/fundraisers listed here so i can’t speak either way on the validity of the rest of this list)

voicing solidarity with the sudanese people is a very good thing but even if for once calling elected officials in the US wasn’t largely useless what are you trying to accomplish by getting the US government involved in sudan?

even just expressing support for the message of george clooney’s letter is extremely misguided when considering him and the organization he wrote it for, the enough project, support the US taking measures such as these according to their website:

Recommendations

To advance U.S. national security and economic interests, the Enough Project recommends the increased use of financial pressure policy tools on regime elites, as well as their enablers and facilitators. Deployed effectively, these tools will allow U.S. officials to regain leverage over Sudanese decision-makers to further a strategy focused on reviving efforts at comprehensive peace. Without this leverage, there is little reason to believe that the Bashir regime will make meaningful concessions toward lasting peace or that the United States will achieve important national security objectives. To restore its advantage when engaging Sudan, the U.S. government should revoke the Obama executive order and replace it with enhanced anti-money laundering measures and modernized sanctions. After regaining leverage for future negotiations, the United States should help facilitate a revitalized peace process that is both comprehensive and inclusive.

the united states should have no place in deciding what should happen to sudan, and the idea that the united states will do anything in the interest of the sudanese people and not due to US business interests is laughable considering the united states’s long history of imperialist intervention and how this tactic of justifying imperialism through supposed humanitarian interest has played out time and time again.

US intervention in an oil rich north african country should never be supported and has never done good. the sudanese people need international solidarity, but calling for US involvement will only work towards accomplishing further atrocities and bringing them further from their goal of self-determination of the sudanese people.

the united states government and multinational corporations are trying to hijack this actual grassroots movement for their own interests, and we can’t enable that and must be aware of the motivations of what we see spread on western news and social media

many of the actual grassroots organizers fighting in the protests are members of the sudanese communist party, which of course the united states would never allow to continue despite them being part of a coalition with popular support.

here is a letter written by the sudanese communist party on how they view what is happening, i also would recommend following their facebook page for more updates

and here is a blog post with more information compiled than i have put together in this reblog, we can never allow ourselves to talk of US involvement in world events without remembering the reality of how the united states continues to exist through the exploitation of imperialized peoples abroad, it is extremely irresponsible to forget that in our actions and in what we support

[flockofdoves]

reblogging again to say please stop backing US imperialism because i’m pretty sure tumblr hides reblog additions with links but i want people looking in the notes to be able to see my additions lol

[hydro-homies]

A different point of view.

[solarpunkcast]

If you want to know more about how coal miners literally sell their bodies, PBS and NPR did a fantastic documentary on this, that is now live.

[catchymemes]

Illustrations of Homophones

Credit to: Homophones, Weakly.

[alicentsgf]

how to react to 2 different types of celtic cross that you might see tattooed on someones arm

[teaboot]

Every person in a position of political power should have their daily needs matched to the lowest class of their country.

[teaboot]

You make $6 an hour now, Mr. Congressman, and you’re not allowed to sit down or take breaks during your 7.5 hour daily shift. If you don’t like that, then you’re welcome to make some changes

[betthearm]

This.

[norcross]

i’ve never understood being able to enact laws that will never impact you

[tlirsgender]

Cis people with trans headcanons are.. suspicious

[tlirsgender]

If you’re cis & you immediately go “hehe he’s trans” when a male character is short or thin or whatever…….. I don’t trust like that

[tlirsgender]

If you’re cis & you immediately go “ooh she’s trans” when a female character is tall or muscular or whatever, I especially don’t trust like that

[tlirsgender]

Cissies can and should reblog this but y'all best not be clowns in the notes

[two-nipples-maybe-more]

hey op I’m trans so i hope you don’t mind if I add:

transmasculine/trans men need to check themselves about this too.

we have to ask ourselves: hey, why do i headcanon that female character as a trans woman, while i think this other female character is cis? is there a (possibly hurtful) pattern?

just because we’re trans too it doesn’t excuse us from transmisogyny

[tlirsgender]

You’re right and you should say it

[beachgothgay]

The ides of March is coming up what’s everyone getting me?

[emperor-ing-deactivated20191108]

[im-a-fully-realized-creation]

[starsiignals]

i never understood how we’ve reinvented heiroglyphics until now

[hydro-homies]

Quarter Pounder

[molepaws]

i vote we start saying the third amendment means we shouldnt have to pay such egregious taxes to support the military because it infringes on our 3rd amendment right to not quarter the military.

nonsense? yes. theoretically in line with the 3rd amendment in the same way the right to arms somehow applies to automatic weapons developed today? yeah

[snaacks-deactivated20200913]

[immentallydeficient-deactivated]

wait isnt this the old town road guy LOL

[princesscedar]

[inspiring]

VIRUS GOING AROUND!!!!! SIGNAL BOOST THE SHIT OUT OF THIS!!!!!

if you are on my blog and there’s a button that says “unfollow” in the upper-right corner, DO NOT CLICK IT! it will bring you to a FBI site that will trap your browser and even can access your webcam! it’s very serious and it’s important you do not click it

[sexedplus]