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Just FYI. Every Friday is Black Friday though. The Baldwin is sold, but the rest of these are still available at my Storenvy, the π shop. Ink, Bristol, Ziptone

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ain’t real but it’s funny

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Trans Lifeline has posted an official response to the misinformation that is currently being spread. 

“A Tumblr article by LordHauchefant has been getting shared recently that makes a number of untrue claims about the Trans Lifeline. We decided to go through line by line and debunk post. You can view the original article here.

“Ever since the Presidential Election results came in, there’s been post after post of people spreading around the phone number for a supposed suicide hotline for trans people, called Trans Lifeline.

What people don’t know is that this “hotline” is a huge scam meant to fund the founder’s’ personal lives,…”

Nina Chaubal and Greta Martela are two trans women who were software engineers in San Francisco. When Greta was suicidal, she experienced ignorance, mistreatment, and abuse while trying to get the help she needed. They decided they needed to do something to help other suicidal trans folks, so they left their jobs where they made a combined income of $260,000 in order to found the Trans Lifeline. In 2015, the both dedicated themselves full time to the Trans Lifeline. Greta collected a salary of $28,800 that year, and Nina worked without pay for the first fifteen months of Trans Lifeline, living entirely off of her savings. In 2016, they are each collecting a salary of $30,000 (since they work 70 hours per week on average, that is practically minimum wage) for a combined income of $60,000.

“…and that the hotline barely answers their calls, if ever.”

Since Trans Lifeline launched in November of 2014, we’ve answered 17,064 calls.

“A twitter was made a while back to cover the small, almost nonexistent amount of operators on the line, but it is now inoperable because the founders found out and shut down the source of the twitter bot’s information, because how dare someone provide the truth.”

Kiwifarms is a website dedicated to harassing autistic trans women into dying by suicide. Kiwifarms launched a personal attacks on staff of Trans Lifeline including Greta, Nina, and an intern. This attack included leaving explicit harassing messages, death threats, and attempting to disclose their personal addresses online. Frustrated that their attacks did not dissuade us from offering life-saving support to trans people who were suicidal, Kiwifarms supporters created a twitter bot to defame Trans Lifeline and spread lies. Kiwifarms is being investigated by the federal government as a hate group in connection with this incident and a number of other alleged malicious crimes.”

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ONLY OGs WILL REMEMBER THIS #VIDYAGAME

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ONLY FOR GAMEBOY ADVACNE, #ONLYFOROGs

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you have been blessed by the christmas chan

like and reblog and you will prosper from the blessings of the great jackie

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Upper Class Twit of the Year 

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reblogging this from myself to say I’ve changed a lot over the last couple of years and overpopulation is a myth that steps all over the problems of resource distribution

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- When Bernard White wins he smashes the TV open, The Outfoxies (Namco)

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I’m in the combination Urbakery / Da Ribs (from The Crew, 2014)

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^ this reply is basically the first 1/3rd of the comic those are literally the thoughts the OP is talking about and that’s why they suggest that you do it every day, because they are your default unless you convince your brain that they’re not, and it can take a while for the new neural connections to burn in. sure you’ll think it’s annoying af but maybe the end goal is more important? at least that’s the message.

I hope this helps some people the way it helped me.

After giving this same advice about affirmations to a few people in the past few months, I thought I would put this together in comic form.

I actually recorded myself saying my affirmations and I repeat them as I listen on my drive to work. For a while, I got out of the habit of doing it and I realized I was feeling really down on myself. I’ve made it a priority lately and it’s made me feel more upbeat and capable. :)

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Dedicated to Paul Ryan.

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ONLY OGs WILL REMEMBER THIS #VIDYAGAME

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ONLY FOR GAMEBOY ADVACNE, #ONLYFOROGs

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"it's easy" can make scary tasks scarier

When people are struggling or afraid to try something, well-meaning people often try to help them by telling them that the thing is easy. This often backfires.

For instance:

Kid: I don’t know how to write a paper! This paper has to be 5 pages long, and we have to do research! It’s so hard!

Parent: Don’t worry. 5 pages isn’t that much. This isn’t such a hard assignment. 

In this interaction, the parent is trying to help, but the message the kid is likely hearing is “This shouldn’t be hard. You’re failing at an easy thing.”

If something is hard or scary, it’s better to acknowledge that, and focus on reassuring them that it is possible. (And, if necessary and appropriate, help them to find ways of seeing it as possible.)

For instance:

Kid: I don’t know how to write a paper! This paper has to be 5 pages long, and we have to do research! It’s so hard!

Parent: It’s hard, and that’s ok. You can do hard things.

Parent: What are you writing about?

Kid: Self-driving cars. But I can’t find anything. 

And so on.

This isn’t unique to interactions between parents and children. It can also happen between friends, and in other types of relationships.

tl;dr If something’s hard for someone, telling them that it’s easy probably won’t help. Reassuring them that they can do hard things often does help, especially if you can support them in figuring out how to do the thing.