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I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.
I loathe my job and need a new one. I need all the help I can get.
I loathe my job and
need a new one. I need all
the help I can get.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Shoutout to the two coworkers today who casually announced that they were voting for Trump, then asked me who I was voting for. I told them "I did early voting, and I voted for the candidate who isn't going to make it harder for me to exist as a trans person" and both of these women had to awkwardly try and assure me that it wasn't personal, and it's not like they hated Harris or anything, they actually do like some things about her, and they definitely don't hate me, of course not, it's just that, you know, well, it's like, well, you know, it's just, like, and no matter how many times they tried to pass the shovel off to me, I just let them hold onto it
What. (and I mean this from the bottom of my enraged heart) the FUCK
Sadly, a lot of my co-workers are under-informed Trump supporters.
You know the kind, they just have a very surface level understanding of him as a candidate or person. They don't really care about the actual concepts of policies he's suggesting or the overt racism/sexism/everythingism he flaunts. They've just decided there's something they like about him that makes him worthy of their vote and they choose to ignore anything they don't like.
Not indoctrinated, just poorly informed. Not brainwashed, just kind of uncaring. Not part of the cult, just following it from the sidelines.
A conversation I had with one of these women today:
"Jonah, do you know how a tariff works?"
"In, like, very broad, general terms, yes. Why? Do you need it explained?"
"I was reading something yesterday about it, and I'm not sure if it was right. The article was saying we pay it?"
"Yes, that's how a tariff works. It's a tax on imported goods."
"Okay, but that's a good thing, right?"
"If you're trying to discourage foreign trade, yeah. Or pull in more money for the government."
"But how do we pay for it?"
"Uh. We don't pay for it directly. The company that imports pays the tariff, and then they usually raise the prices on their own shit to make up for the loss."
"But that's going to make shit more expensive. Tariffs are supposed to make shit cheaper."
"They're not. They're supposed to make imported shit more expensive. They're supposed to discourage imports."
"I don't understand this. This was gonna help the economy."
"Well, it might help some parts of the economy, but I don't think you're involved in any of them, so you may not see any of the benefits of the tariffs."
"Okay so. I thought China was supposed to pay them."
"Remember during his first term, when there was all that talk about a big, beautiful wall that Mexico was gonna--"
"Okay, look--"
"No no, hear me out. Remember how there was going to be a big beautiful wall that Mexico was going to pay for? China is going to pay the tariffs in the same way that Mexico paid for the border wall."
My least favorite part of this is that when I asked why she asked me this question, her response was "Well, you'd said you voted for Harris."
Reminds me of my manager this morning telling me how she woke up the other day to a long term close friend of her having blocked and removed her everywhere because she supported trump. She was SO dismissive of the fact that he felt that betrayed by her as a gay man.
But of course she flat out said “well sorry I’m trying to save my money. It isn’t like he can actually just go and end gay marriage like that anyway. He needs congress and shit to approve that!”
At that point I reminded her that congress had no involvement in the overturning of Roe V Wade, and that amendments fall on the Supreme Court.
The blankness of not understanding a word I said in here eyes it what made me just head out
non-exhaustive list of statements that shouldn't be controversial
palestinian civilians do not deserve to die for the actions of hamas & their supporters.
israeli civilians do not deserve to die for the actions of the israeli government & their supporters.
goyim aren't allowed to exploit & claim jewish trauma for brownie points.
non-palestinians aren't allowed to exploit & claim palestinian trauma for brownie points.
there is no excuse for racism.
there is no excuse for islamophobia.
there is no excuse for antisemitism.
8. Mass displacement or forced deportation of any population is wrong.
i feel like with three hypothetical wishes everyone uses the first two for health and wealth and then the third one's the wildcard. for instance mine is a list of people that i would like to all be hit by lightning simultaneously. i don't care if it's fatal i just think the fallout would be funny.
Since Pride Month is right around the corner, this is your reminder that:
• In late 2022, the Department of Homeland Security had added LGBTQ+ to their list of potential targets for terror attacks following the Club Q shooting
• Multiple US states are pushing for (and have passed) a number of transphobic laws, ranging anywhere from age restrictions on gender affirming care to stripping parental rights from parents of transgender minors
• Earlier this year, the state of Tennessee criminalized Drag performances and made it so offenders could spend years in prison
This is also your reminder that the Stonewall uprising was a protest started by Marsha P. Johnson, a Drag Queen, and Sylvia Rivera, a transgender Drag Queen. The first Pride parade happened to commemorate the Stonewall uprising one year later.
HAPPY PRIDE!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
I’m probably too prone to magical thinking and delusion to be a proper atheist but goddamn is it frustrating when people find out I’m an atheist and suddenly start acting like I’m incapable of human decency or basic interfaith respect. I stay in my fucking lane so please lay off the horn.
Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.
It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you
It’s called economía del lenguaje.
It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.
Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.
Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.
“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”
Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?
I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.
queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid
every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.
I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.
baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit
every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.
terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.
we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.
I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.
It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.
The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.
They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
Words that have been shouted out car widows at me: “gay”
Words that concisely contain my identity and don’t give more information than I want to give or require me to jump through hoops to explain to the average person: “queer”
Yes, “queer"can be used AS a slur, and some people will never be comfortable personally identifying as queer because of it and that’s fine. But the same can be said of literally every identifier we have, and if you have a new, rare one that hasn’t been, literally just give the bigots time to hear about it and it will be. I have known queer people who identified as dykes or faggots exclusively, because the terms “lesbian” and “gay” had been the slurs they were tormented with and they weren’t comfortable identifying with them. But you didn’t catch them telling gay and lesbian people their identities were slurs and shouldn’t be used as community terms.
Any word we use for ourselves will be used as a weapon against us by bigots. We’ve pulled those weapons out of our flesh and brandished them as our own. You do NOT get to take any of those weapons and give them BACK to the bigots.
It is about endless pointed questions when, really, this is all none of your business. It is about the carelessness of people who have never had to fight this fight and lying awake in the night asking: “Am I queer enough?” as if there is a dotted line, somewhere in the sand. It is about finding a place to stand and becoming fierce, because I cannot be anything else if I want to get out alive. It is about infinite angry tears and a joyful will to survive, and learning myself through and through, which is why I’m not gay as in happy: I’m queer as in fuck you.
– Meredith Debonnaire, Queer as in Fuck You
(these are just the last lines of the final stanza; go read the entire poem)
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to be yourself as a queer person, when the world tells you to be something entirely different, is very brave. to know yourself in spite of everyone telling you what you are is something to be proud of.
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America’s puritanical, homophobic, anti-vaccination, anti-sex education, “morality” mentality is killing people.
This information could literally save someone’s life. Please share.
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I fucking hate game apps. I wanted to play tetris the otherday so I figured there must be a simple tetris app out there its the most basic game. But every app is like heres your daily log in bonus of 10 gold! You get 5 free plays a day. Here's an ad. To replay a level costs 1 diamond. You can eart gold by earning points in levels. 1000 points = 1 gold. You can exchange 550 gold for one diamond but we have a sale right now that they only cost 500 gold. Heres an ad. You can buy a loot crate of diamonds for 5.99$! You leveled up! Heres 1 free diamond. Youve run out of free replays for today, would you like to buy some more diamonds? Heres your daily tasks, make sure to log in every day this month for a free reward chest. its free! Heres an ad. Would you like to sign up for this credit card to recieve 10 free diamonds? Invite a friend and you can earn points! Ding! Youve leveled up. Heres an ad. This is our special bonus play weekend, you get one free replay and a pack of diamonds only costs 4.99$. You can use your gold to purchase new skins for the tetris blocks. This ones shaped like cats! It costs 100 diamonds. You need to collect them all. Free to play, may be some in-app purchases.
I agree with literally everything op is saying and I don't want to detract from their point but this website here, specifically for mobile games (though they intend to eventually branch out to other types) is creating a database that flags those exact types of predatory things. It also flags games as safe, so if you want to look for safe mobile games this is an invaluable resource.
https://www.darkpattern.games/
It also has definitions, explanations, and examples of all the different types of psychological manipulations games pull on the website so if anyone ever tries to give you "just don't spend money, it's easy" you can send them this
sometimes u just gotta do things because 12 y/o you would think you’re literally the coolest for doing those things
Or because 12 y/o you would think you’re the literal worst for doing those things
IT’S TIME
Remember when Jeff Bezos, who is worth 181 billion USD donated 690k to stopping Australian fires? Yeah, me too.
McKenzie Scott is literally proof that these fuckers can donate HUGE sums of money to EVERYTHING and still live a comfortable life…. But nooO someone HAS to justify the pitifully small donations the richest men on earth make every year for their tax write-off
Some also important context (this is June 2021, after her second round of grants was announced), as well:
[image description: tweet from Dan Price, the Seattle business owner who doesn’t take a massive salary and pays everybody at his company really well: “Two years ago, she had $36 billion. Since then, she has donated $8 billion - more than anyone in the world. She is now worth $60 billion. I think people struggle to understand just how fast wealth accumulates for the super-rich. She literally can’t give it away fast enough.”.]
She should bankroll unionization efforts at Amazon; really piss in the old man’s cornflakes.
