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Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” - meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.

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I’m gonna be honest I do not care if a trans boy teen is annoying and has horrible taste in music y’all are just mean.

I’d rather hang around with Karkat who listens to Cavetown than someone who is mean.

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do you ever hear people talking about something and you’re like. fuck. let me be real for a second. i’m too much of a commie to have this conversation

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Pro-tip to young trans guys:

If a stranger misgenders you, please please please do not ever utter the phrase, “I’m a man.” It sounds very unnatural and immediately sounds overly defensive.

My advice? Just look at the person like they’re an idiot and, in the deepest voice possible, say, “Uh. Alright, then.”

Just act as though they made a huge and obvious mistake, and don’t get flustered. If you’re comfortable with it, handle the situation with humor and say something like, “Man, I know I’ve got a babyface, but I didn’t think it was that bad.”

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Growing up with Creepypasta experience

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this motherfucker

this stupid ass leprachun perverted creep still scares me to this day and it’s been 14 YEARS!

#Shrek

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now more than ever it's blatantly obvious that people go out of their way to erase trans men from communities and queer history. it's always been happening, but it's way easier to watch it in real time now thanks to the internet and social media. we are watching people basically gloating that they misgender trans men and don't see them as men. we are now watching people kick trans men out of queer spaces because they are often "femme and them" or "nonbinary and woman" support groups, conflating nonbinary identities with womanhood, and denying trans men or transmasc nonbinary people places to go. many of them get told that their presence would "scare" the lesbians, women and enbies because they have trauma.

where do the trans men with trauma go, though? we can't go anywhere. when i was struggling with domestic violence that ended up destroying my right leg, i was denied shelter in queer spaces and even women's spaces even though i have F on license. domestic violence shelters especially will turn trans men away if we pass. even if we partially identify as women, we can't go in because 'our voices are deep and scary and we're loud and aggressive and threatening and might prey on the defenseless scared women'

finding transmasc support groups is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. i've seen numerous organizations across the US have transfemme support groups, nonbinary/genderqueer support groups, and then nothing for transmascs. where the hell do we go when they won't let us go anywhere?

we try to exist online and they try to erase us from here, too. bickering and arguing about how we're not real men, sending trans men death and sexual assault threats, acting like they're saviors for kicking out the "dangerous ugly men" from the queer community, as if we don't belong to it at all.

i refuse to be erased. i refuse to sit in silence while people tell me my problems don't matter because now i "have male privilege". I don't. once people find out what my legal name is they view me as a woman. strangers however view me as a cis man and will deny me help, either through programs, or because i'm a "strong young man, i should be able to pick myself up by my boot straps." i'm not white. i'm not abled.

i'm proud to be a trans man and i will be here to fight for other trans men's rights to have a platform to speak, and spaces to occupy. i will not rest until trans men & mascs have safe places to be and meet other trans men.

trans men are queer. we belong here. we are taking up the space we rightfully deserve and we are not leaving.

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i have complicated feelings abt the doomsday clock

like on one hand, i feel that it’s unproductive and scares ordinary folks more than it pressures world superpowers. it doesn’t accomplish much of anything.

on the other hand, it really eloquently expresses how i think many people feel right now. it feels like the world is ticking down to midnight. it feels like we’re on the precipice of total disaster. it feels like the world is crumbling around us.

i’m surprised it’s still at 90 seconds, honestly. i thought for sure they would have moved it forward this year.

i feel hopeless for a lot of reasons. the doomsday clock isn’t one of them. it just feels like an expression of the hopelessness i feel about everything else.

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With every terrible thing that's going on in the world, I thought to check the doomsday clock. If anyone is unfamiliar, the doomsday clock, created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, is a measurement of sorts to how close the world is to a human-made global catastrophe, such as full scale nuclear war.

The clock has been maintained since 1947, and the threat is reassessed every year in January.

It was originally set at seven minutes to midnight, and this January was moved to its nearest position yet, at ninety seconds to midnight, due to the ongoing threats made by Russia in regards to using nuclear force on Ukraine.

I just want everyone to stop and think for a second-- this hasn't been reassessed since Israel started bombing Gaza again.

I shudder to think of how close it'll get moved to in January 2024. How close the world really is to World War III, to nuclear annihilation.

Wars and genocides are breaking out all over the world right now. Ukraine. Palestine. The DNC. the US is arming Taiwan. Poland is stocking up weapons. How many more people are going to die before we decide we can do better than feeding the fucking war machine?

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but no yeah lets have the conversation:

"the CEO doesnt want to run that kind of website" Excuse, shouldnt have bought the 'go nuts show nuts whatever' website if thats the case. APPEAL DENIED

"we have to follow the TOS of the appstores we're hosted on" Excuse item one, no you dont, item two, you have since those days implimented infrastructure that would allow pornography and sex work on this platform Without violating TOS of any applicable app store. APPEAL DENIED

"we own the site we get to make the rules" Incorrect, this site has only ever made profit when the users willed it. we collectively own the site as a hive mind and no legal change in ownership will change that. APPEAL DENIED

"we have to keep this website safe for the children who use it" Argument based on fallacy banning pornography and sex workers does not prevent pornography and sex work from occuring on the site, it only forces aforementioned users to hide and avoid labling their content appropriately, which REDUCES the safety for children and sex workers alike instead of increasing it, this has been shown to the point that making this argument at all is tantamount to admiting fascist intent APPEAL DENIED

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Oh damn the Catholics have joined in on the war against AI "art".

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"breakfast" a tma s5 animation thing

dawg can't even fry me an egg in this eyeconomy

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this honestly just came out of left fucking field i would have never expected to hear anything like this in this show. consider me Pleasantly Surprised tbh

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Reblog for a larger sample size, if possible.