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do you think they know how much they contributed to online literacy? to the spirit of curiousity? to the idea of doing research yourself instead of always having it laid out in front of you?
LIFE ADVICE FOR YOUR TEENS AND EARLY TWENTIES (and probably beyond but I haven't made it much farther than that so far):
GO OUT BY YOURSELF
LEARN HOW TO NAVIGATE PUBLIC TRANSIT WITH NO SMART PHONE
TAKE ONLINE CLASSES
MAKE PEACE WITH DISAPPOINTING YOUR PARENTS
GO TO THERAPY IF POSSIBLE
FOLLOW AFTERCARE INSTRUCTIONS FOR NEW TATTOOS AND PIERCINGS
EAT A MEAL BEFORE DRINKING
DON'T MIX DRUGS
IT'S HARD TO BE YOURSELF WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW YOURSELF SO JUST KEEP TRYING NEW THINGS
THROW EVERYTHING AT THE WALL LIKE SPAGHETTI TO SEE WHAT STICKS
YOU WILL DISCOVER YOURSELF THE SAME WAY YOU DISCOVER NEW COFFEE SHOPS AND NEW BANDS
YOU WILL GET THERE
DON'T MAKE A LONG POST IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE YOUR VOICE WILL START TO HURT FROM SHOUTING
I've explained this exact thing to cis people multiple times. I often just brace myself before every flight to get a pat down. They always look shocked and horrified by the information.
And the funnest part of it all is airport security fucking sucks at their fucking job. The TSA in particular are so shit at their jobs its almost insulting. I get a pat down every time I show up, but my friend accidentally made it ALL the way through the airport and onto a plane with a loaded hand gun in a holster because they forgot they had it on them! And the TSA didn't catch it or do fucking shit about it!
this video only covers how trans women are affected, probably since that's what she knows and can speak to, but everything she mentions applies to transgender men and nonbinary people too, often in the exact same way
if you register as male and they hit the blue button, but your chest registers as "suspicious lumps," you will get a pat down
if you don't register as male and they hit the pink button, your dick or packer will get flagged and you will get a pat down
if you still have both a chest and a dick / packer, you WILL get a pat down
regardless of this, if your ID doesn't match what they assume you are or how you present, you will get a pat down and grilled on why you have a fake ID / are trying to impersonate someone / lying to them
if you managed to get your ID (driver's license) changed to your gender through a court order but can't get your birth certificate changed (due to state laws specifically prohibiting it), you might have a lot of trouble getting your passport updated to your gender. or you just haven't had the time or money or spoons to get both changed! getting my ID changed to male cost me $500, a month of stress, and a day of getting misgendered in court while having to publicly beg a judge to acknowledge me
there's a lot of things can get you clocked, flagged, and endangered, and this can apply even to cisgender bodies too. not adding this part as a "think about the poor cis!" but "this is how much the machine and the system is fucked"
people with prosthetics can also get flagged, assistive devices can get flagged, fat people who exist while being fat can get flagged ("suspicious lumps"), cis women who aren't performing femininity can get flagged, cis women who just aren't white can get flagged,
the list goes on
The way people perceive Arab men is truly disgusting. If you “need proof” Arab men are not barbaric wife beaters, look no further than the Palestinian men who were literally shot by Israel trying to get food for their starving families.
An Iraqi mutual and I were talking the other day about how people will throw in passive aggressive comments like “yeah all Arab men are terrorist wife beating sexually assaulting heathens…….. but they don’t deserve genocide” at us all the time. And it doesn’t even stop there. I’ll tell people I’m ethnically Iraqi and they’ll go “oh lol don’t they stone women over there” do you even hear yourselves. You are racist.
[Tweet by Gillian Branstetter reads “If enforcing gender norms requires a constant state of surveillance and censorship then they probably aren’t as biological or innate as you think they are]
This post is now a work of political art that is just A+
"Why does this site have a reputation for transphobia?" - The site's literal owner, two hours ago
what companies who sell you anti aging stuff don't want you to know is that if you're chill about aging, your perception of attractiveness changes as you get older. there is no "wall" where you suddenly become ugly and unfuckable because in my experience what actually happens is you get into your thirties and suddenly realize that people in their thirties are hot as fuck and the "flaws" that the beauty industry wants you to panic about are a feature not a bug, and based on the std statistics in nursing homes I don't really expect that trajectory to change.
If you want to look like you pay your employees well, then pay them well. It's not rocket science.
another thought about "gen z and gen alpha don't know how to use computers, just phone apps" is that this is intentionally the direction tech companies have pushed things in, they don't want users to understand anything about the underlying system, they want you to just buy a subscription to a thing and if it doesn't do what you need it to, you just upgrade to the more expensive one. users who look at configuration files are their worst nightmare
Don't let anyone tell you its just Netanyahu and his administration that's the problem. These are Israeli Citizens, both "leftwing" and "rightwing", doing this sh*t. There are fundamental, foundational problems with Israel, Israeli Culture, & Israeli Society. A culture & a society that promotes inhumanity and cruelty.
[Additional ID: Tweet includes a photo of about 20 identical single-person tents, laid out in a regular grid formation; a few people in hats and fall / winter clothing mill about or gather in a central location. End ID]
I’m going to scream. Pushback on the narrative that climate breakdown can be averted by individual decisions centres around the fact that NORMAL PEOPLE do not contribute to a significant amount of carbon emissions cos the average NORMAL PERSON emits 7 tons of CO2 a year. Not Taylor fucking Swift who has emitted over 8000 tons of emissions this year SO FAR. Her CO2 emissions from private jet use alone are equivalent to that of TWO THOUSAND normal people. We absolutely should be blaming individuals if those particular individuals are emitting two thousand people’s worth of emissions.
“We should be addressing structural issues” my brother in Christ widespread private jet use is a structural issue. Celebrity culture and the extravagant lifestyle that comes with it is a structural issue. These are whole industries that are massively impacting climate breakdown but because Taylor happens to be the most egregious case her stans want to pretend it’s not a problem. Stan culture really is a disease
If King Charles dies on or before March 25th, 2024, he will technically be the shortest-reigning king in English history.
Anyway, like to charge, reblog to cast.
This is why it’s so important for parents to support their trans kids.
If I don’t reblog this, then I’m dead.
the amount of ways we have to qualify the geoncide in gaza in order to get people to care is actually sickening to me. “it’s a feminist issue!” “it’s a disabilities issue!” “it’s an environmental issue!” like i’m sorry but even if this was happening solely to able bodied men and was causing no harm to the environment, it would still be wrong because it’s a genocide and these people are being bombed and killed and starved every fucking day. you shouldn’t need an extra label to give you a reason to care about people that are dying.
🚨 The Government Media Office in Gaza publishes an update about the scale of destruction of the zionist on Gaza from October 7th, 2023 to February 11th, 2024.
• 128 days of the war of genocide.
• 2,438 massacres.
• 35,176 martyrs and missing.
• 28,176 martyrs reached the hospitals.
• 12,300 child martyrs.
• 8,400 women martyrs.
• 340 medical worker martyrs.
• 46 civil defense martyrs.
• 124 journalist martyrs.
• 7,000 missing; 70% of them are children and women.
• 67,784 wounded.
• 11,000 wounded in need of travel for life-saving and critical treatment.
• 10,000 cancer patients at risk of death.
• 700,000 Gazans infected with infectious diseases as a result of displacement.
• 8,000 cases of viral hepatitis infection due to displacement.
• 60,000 pregnant women are at risk due to lack of access to health care.
• 350,000 chronic patients are at risk due to lack of administration of medications.
• 99 arrests of health workers.
• 10 arrests of journalists whose names are known.
• 2 million displaced in the Gaza Strip.
• 142 government headquarters destroyed by the occupation.
• 100 schools and universities completely destroyed by the occupation.
• 295 schools and universities partially destroyed by the occupation.
• 184 mosques completely destroyed by the occupation.
• 266 mosques partially destroyed by the occupation.
• 3 churches targeted and destroyed by the occupation.
• 70,000 residential units completely destroyed by the occupation.
• 290,000 residential units partially destroyed by the occupation.
• 66,000 tons of explosives dropped by the occupation on Gaza.
• 30 hospitals taken out of service by the occupation.
• 53 health centers taken out of service by the occupation.
• 150 health centers partially destroyed by the occupation.
• 123 ambulances completely destroyed by the occupation.
• 200 archaeological and heritage sites destroyed by the occupation.
[via RNN]