Frankly, I don't buy the theory that the repeated sweeping deletions of trans women's blogs have principally been the product of bad-faith mass reporting campaigns abusing automated moderation. I've been falsely mass-reported before, on multiple occasions, and nothing's ever come of it. Someone is pulling that trigger.
You still have time. Time to change your wardrobe. Time to get divorced and married again. Time to change majors. Time to learn a trade from scratch. Time to pay off debts. Time to travel. Time to love and be loved. You still have your whole life ahead. Whether you're 19 or 66. You still have so much time. But you have to take it.
Yesterday I saw a mother with a baby carriage, being followed by a girl of about 4-6 years old on a bicycle. The kid started ringing her bike bell like RING RING RING RING RING RING RING, and the mother turned to look behind them to see whether they were being followed by a cyclist who desperately needs to pass them for the sake of everyone's safety.
And the little girl - who just rang the goddamn bell herself 5 seconds ago - also turned to look.
Kids are confused by everything at all times. They don't know jack shit. About anything.
i remember being like 8 or 9 and being told that my dad’s ex-wife was no longer diane and we were to address her as daniel now. my reaction: “ok.”
me and my brother later had a small discussion about whether that could happen randomly (conclusion: no, he probably had to file papers or something) and whether daniel should now be referred to as dad’s ex-husband (conclusion: yes but only to see the face he’ll make) but at no point did we find it like... alarming? the world is big and weird. we were used to it.
finding out a sorta-relative could just change genders off camera, as it were, was a whole lot less head-splodey than finding out there were no squirrels in australia!
"Won't they be confused by all the--" So what if they are? Life is often confusing. That's part of how we learn. Part of the job of an adult is to help confused kids learn and understand things. There's no obligation to protect the kids from the confusing things. Quite the reverse.
In my experience anyone using this BS excuse isn't worried about a child's potential confusion, but their own, which they don't want to admit to having.
Aussie here, I DIDN'T KNOW SQUIRRELS WERE ACTUALLY REAL FOR THE FIRST EIGHT YEARS OF MY LIFE NO JOKE I THOUGHT THEY WERE A MYTHICAL ANIMAL LIKE UNICORNS
i really thought the point of "being lgbt+ doesn't absolve you of racism as a white person" was that white people arent absolved of racism by being marginalized but it really seems like people think other marginalizations make it okay. no being disabled doesn't do it. no being poor doesnt do it. we need to fight against racism actively no matter what.
i feel so defensive and protective of people with ARFID like if i had a disorder that made my brain register 90% of food as poison for no reason and i had a bazillion people on the internet constantly calling me a manchild who needs to just grow up and stop being a picky eater i would start killing people
people with ARFID and people with very few autism safe foods and people with contamination OCD and people in ED recovery and everyone else with a complicated relationship with food that no one takes seriously GET BEHIND ME!!!!!!!
The European Commission (EC) said on July 31 that it had paid out 896 million euro to Bulgaria under its fourth Recovery and Resilience Faci
The European Commission (EC) said on July 31 that it had paid out 896 million euro to Bulgaria under its fourth Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) request, following the fulfilment of a broad set of milestones and targets.
The payment reflects progress on important reforms and investments, supporting three issues, the EC said.
These include the rule of law and the business environment, including anti-corruption measures introducing a politically and financially independent Anti-corruption Commission for preventing and countering corruption among persons holding public office, and the introduction of rules to regulate lobbying activities, the Commission said.
The second is the increased use of renewable energy by supporting almost 1400 solar domestic hot water systems or photovoltaic systems to produce electricity in households.
The third is the development of sustainable infrastructure and transport through new public rail service contracts and legal frameworks for zero- and low-emission mobility, such as electric mobility rules and low-emission zones.
The EC said that the July 31 payout follows Bulgaria’s fourth payment request for a total of 1.1 billion euro, submitted on April 2 2026, and partially greenlighted by the Commission on June 18 2026.
The Commission listed three milestones where “additional steps are still needed”.
One milestone concerns the entry into force of legislation on public transport; another the entry into force of legislation on water supply and sewerage; and one concerning support for the cultural sector.
Following the Council’s favourable opinion, the Commission adopted a decision to disburse the funds linked to the milestones and targets deemed satisfactorily completed.
“The Commission will consider the disbursement of the remaining funds once Bulgaria has addressed the outstanding milestones and target,” the EC said.
With this payment, Bulgaria has now received 68 per cent of its total 6.17 billion euro allocation under the RRF, the Commission said.
TERFs keep arriving on that post to be like “actually! we don’t believe in bioessentialism!” yes you do. You believe sex and gender are synonymous and there is one sex that is the oppressor and one sex that is the oppressed. You believe this is intrinsic. No nuance, no understanding, no space for non-Eurocentric concepts of gender, no space for the concept of variance in gender identity. You acknowledge that gender is a performance and that what one considers to be an expression of their gender is informed by the society they live in but you refuse to acknowledge that gender can be at odds with a person’s sex and the societal expectations placed on them by that. You bitch and moan about the tiny little box women are kept in and then you do advanced phrenology to try to prove a woman is a ‘actually a man’ and punish her if she does not look, sound or behave the way you expect women to behave. You insist trans women have ‘male privilege’ while you visit the exact same misogyny on them that cis women experience, same tools, same shame-based punishment. Shut the fuck up. Go back under whatever rock you dwell under.
does anyone have $10 or anything for a family of 7, 4 who're disabled, 2 kids under 15, in a abusive house for food and $39 for my meds that i take t stay sane I have OCD BPD & severe depression ive been out of them TWO DAYS freaking out bad bere we got moms meds thanks to yall we have no one else to to turn to for help so im begging you all we need help to get through this anything helps be it dollar or less. also please help me give these kids food to eat this summer
We have got to stop framing our oppression in ways that promote the idea that other people cannot relate to our struggles. Not only does it isolate comrades in the struggle, it actively diminishes recognition of other struggles--often including those even more horrific than what we are at risk of. And this happens especially between Gay and Black struggles.
"when have straight people ever had to check what states were safe for them?" Sundown towns are still a thing. Starlight tours. What states have abortion access? What states have open carry? What states have stand your ground? What states have 3-strike rules? Women, people of color, disabled people, immigrants, and more have had to be abundantly cautious where they travel to. Straight trans people have much more travel risk right now than gay cis people.
It's a new iteration of the same tired question: "imagine if straight people weren't allowed to marry" interracial marriage in the US is younger than my parents. We disgrace people of color by forgetting their history and contemporary struggles, and we abandon queer people of color, Black queer people, by segmenting their overlapping fights.
As lovelyshananigans says, "intersectionality, babes"
I don't understand how cis people obsessed with gender norms think trans people are the weird ones. they're going around believing that your name has to correlate to your genitals. your fashion has to correlate to your genitals. your behaviours have to correlate to your genitals. your hobbies have to correlate to your genitals. who you date has to correlate to your genitals. whether you can put sparkles on your eyelids or not has to correlate to your genitals. and then people like me go "hmm. I might not do that. maybe I'll just do what feels fun and okay instead" and they LOSE their MINDS
I think the solution to kids on the Internet is to have specific, kid friendly spaces on the Internet. Kids wouldn't come across "adult content" on YouTube if barbie dot com still had flash games and this is a hill I will die on.
Oh! Then I know the EXACT person you should be mad at! Michael O'Rielly! He's the one that gutted the Children's Programming Rules, which covered internet as well as television.
#so the death of the Saturday morning cartoon is THIS motherfuckers fault?????
Indeed it is! The FCC controls how much of broadcasting has to cater to children and that includes how educational that programming has to be, and exactly how much and in what way you are allowed to advertise to kids. That's why for the entire 90s and up to the early 00s, kids shows had shorter commercial breaks, and ads that talked about a website had to say "ask your parents before going online", and those websites had to be non-commercial--i.e. they could not be shops, and could not have any way you could spend money or were encouraged to spend money. That's why Barbie.com was flash games, and O'Rielly LIFTING that ban is why Barbie.com now takes you directly to a storefront instead.
If you're mad about Saturday Morning Cartoons, dark patterns in ads targeted at children, online protections for kids, or wondering why educational children's shows aren't as much of a thing as they used to be, get mad at the FCC and the person in charge of it who is gutting the Children's Brodcasting Rules (sometimes called the Kid Vid Rules), because those rules control all of that!
While O'Rielly is responsible for gutting the rules in 2019, he was replaced in 2020 by Nathan Simington as head of the FCC, and Simington resigned in June of this year. The post remains vacant as of the time of this writing (August 31, 2025).
And a side note: Things like KOSA and SCREEN and all those other censorship bills that use "think of the children" are not going to protect children at all; if you want to protect kids online, there is already a way to do that it's called the Kid Vid Rules and the FCC is the one that can update and change them to keep up with the times! It doesn't need a congress vote, it already got voted on in 1990!
a surprising number of people see the term "social construct" and think that it means something is not real when it actually means something is so very real because it was created by us and is constantly enforced, often violently
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