Steve

I’m a cishet adult guy (he/him) on the internet and I love it when people send me pictures of robots!

[steve-likes-robots]

“Is this a problem or am I just annoyed/uncomfortable/not the target audience? And if this is a problem, should I prioritize it or should I prioritize other problems?”

This is my general heuristic whenever I’m on social media.

[tpwrtrmnky]

It's hard to really get across how baffling the gatekeeping model of trans healthcare actually is.

Like. You say "maybe patients shouldn't have to put their hand in the pain box from Dune" and people go "but we should be careful". Okay. The pain box from Dune is unrelated to being careful.

[tpwrtrmnky]

"What about detransitioners?"

"Here's an entire systematic review finding that the pain box from Dune has literally no effect on anything related to detransition."

"Well it's important that we don't make people do things they regret"

?????????????????????

[tpwrtrmnky]

"So the pain box from Dune is expensive, has no demonstrable benefit to patients, many patients say the pain box was bad for them. We can remove the pain box at negative cost and it won't be missed."

"Have you considered that this radical activism is alienating moderate supporters?"

[aquilaofarkham]

big shout out to alucard for not going down the classic vampire route of only having one love of his life and instead allowing himself to fall in love as many times as his immortal heart wanted

[stuckinapril]

[stuckinapril]

Controversial take some of u will get defensive at, but there IS a right way to give advice (in my opinion). I recently discovered this when I made friends with my former bar manager, a guy in his 50s whom I’m literally in love with (platonically lol). I frequently ask him for advice, and he doles it out to me freely, but he’s also always like “you have it in you to figure this out.” He’s always like “you don’t need me for this; you have it in you.” He’s always reminding me that I have the capacity and experience and emotional intelligence to work through even the toughest weeds. That’s the way to give advice. If you’re not bolstering your friend’s confidence, if you’re not inquiring about their own thought process, if you’re just caustically cutting them off with advice every single time, I’m sorry but to me that’s doing it wrong.

[anthropoetics]

why are you as an adult watching things at full volume in a public space

[dogglegog]

dominant things you can say during sex

i didnt hear what you said

hold on i need to blow my nose

wow

i feel kind of nauseous

is this anything

i don't know

this kind of reminds me of that one song

we can probably ignore that noise if you want to

why is my sock wet

it smells bad in here

that was weird

where are my glasses

ow

this is normal

sorry

just 2 chill people chilling

this is cool

can you say that again

are we good

youre actually naked

[woodrider]

ma'am, I'm going to place you on a brief hold while I look for a reaction image

[stuckinapril]

I promise you things will get so much better when you start processing people’s behavior as information rather than a verdict on your self-worth. If someone doesn’t text back, suddenly pulls away, whatever it may be, the solution isn’t to put on a tap dance for them and try to regain their approval. It’s not to crash out on them and try to force them to react a certain way. It’s just to take a step back, take a deep breath, and assess what this tells you. What’s this saying about them? What’s this saying about you??

[wovi]

*

the ladies’ home journal, sept 1948

[itgetsbetter]

when i first figured out i was gay i couldnt even say the word lesbian out loud without crying.... not good times

BUT

it's been a few years and most of my friends and family know, and almost all of them have supported me through everything, and i'm proud of who i am <3 it gets better

say it with us:

💕 L E S B I A N 💕

happy you can feel more open and proud now :)

[viccerys]

[demilypyro]

yeah it's called having good fuckin taste

[demilypyro]

trans women really dominating the indie scene rn huh. lena raine and jamie paige keep popping off and appearing in the best games you can find on steam. gooseworx has her show in theaters. like 80% of content creators i watch nowadays are trans women. and more and more keep popping up. age of the tgirl fr fr

[justryingtovibe69]

[northstareclipse]

Hyper-individualist cultures go, “Your emotions are your personal responsibility. Don’t burden others. Regulate privately. Maintain functionality. If you’re upset, process it offstage so the machine keeps moving.” Meanwhile certain collectivist or harmony-focused frameworks go, “Your emotions disrupt group cohesion. Don’t create discomfort. Don’t impose disharmony. Transcend or contain your reactions for the sake of the whole.”

Different mythology, same trembling fear that one person saying “actually, I feel terrible” will cause civilization to peel apart like wet drywall.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

the problem with genetically modified crops is not so much the genetic modification but the patenting of genetic codes (and crops in general) as a tool of maintaining agricultural imperialism, and for this reason I can't talk to most people about GMOs