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#I answered for the cat with the funnier answer #my other cat is very observant and generalizes very well #I only had to ask her not to chase a wasp twice #and SHE REMEMBERED #next wasp that got in got watched sadly by a cat who wanted to eat it but wanted to do what I asked more #I love them both but she melts my heart particularly #cats

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There are no disabilities which are raised above ableism. The person in the wheelchair, the autistic person, the person with schizophrenia and the person with an invisible chronic illness may all experience society's ableism in different ways, but none of them can expect to avoid it. So the "you wouldn't say X to Y" advocacy needs to retire yesterday. They say all kinds of ableist shit to all of us and it's time to try out some actual solidarity instead of arguing about who has it slightly worse

#yes this #disability #ableism #THROW AWAY THE BOOT

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Everyone needs a work gender and a home gender actually if you don't do this you can't have a work-life balance

#work gender is professional kind intimidating ace #home gender is KITTY hi sweetie oh do you have a BUG that’s a GREAT bug you’re so cuuuute #at work i have excellent boundaries and fail to notice weird comeons #at home i babytalk my cats to the end of our lives

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“If you have time to watch Netflix you have time for a side hustle” my side hustle is relaxing so that my body and brain can heal from by this nose-to-the-grindstone bullshit. I refuse to feel guilty for being a human with the need to relax sometimes. my side hustle is no.

#“my side hustle is no” #perfection

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Shipping fictional characters isn’t representative of your moral values. It’s representative of your particular psychic damage and the themes and motifs that haunt you. Hope this helps.

#exCUUUUUSE YOU #how very dare

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My absolute hottest take is that, from a culturally relative perspective, no food is bad. None of it. It's an expression of culture, art, history, ecology, material conditions, subjective taste. It's all inedible pap to somebody and the taste of childhood for someone else. Americans be eating cheesed burger. Pea wet is as good as gravy in Wigan. The French eat snails and the Inuit eat seal, the Germans eat sauerkraut and the Russians drink kvass, the Inca ate cavy and the Romans ate flamingo. People around the world have been eagerly awaiting their serving of simple bread or thin porridge or fermented milk product or pickled whatever-the-fuck since we learned to cook food over fire. We all love the slop we grew up eating. Food is a reflection of millennia of culture and loving human artistic expression. Attempting to extrapolate largely harmless online food banter into actual serious comparative rankings or half-baked critical analyses of cultures based on how much you subjectively don't like what they eat is a miserable way to live. Live a little. Peace and love on the only planet with food.

#extremely cosigned to all of this #people find joy in their foods and that is wonderful #there are foods that turn my stomach for real that are my friends' faves and this makes me so happy #love to watch people enjoy the hell out of their food even if I find it terrifying #everyone eat the food you love and love it #THROW AWAY THE BOOT #stop judging food and love it

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fucking hate it when the stuff everybody says "actually works" does actually work.

hate exercising and realizing i've let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i've overturned my fight-or-flight response.

hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i'm less anxious and i have more energy

hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i've actually started healing about something once i'm able to externalize it

hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently

hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love

horrible horrible horrible. hate it but i'm gonna do it tho

#feel this in my bones and my fight or flight response #being an animal is bullshit a lot of the damn time

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@magitekconveyor

#this took me out at the knees #character sheet #for my worksona #:skull:

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"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.

The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.

BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.

Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.

“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”

Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.

“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.

In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."

-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024

#this sounds great to me #a not terribly educated observer and settler #land back #indigenous rights #Haida Gwaii

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I really don't know how to explain to people that supporting gender liberation (liberation for trans people, liberation for gnc people, liberation from all oppressive gender roles) means you have to be able to see someone you think is cis "crossdressing" and be cool about it. You have to be able to see someone presenting in a way that doesn't make sense to you and not interrogate them about their identity. You have to be able to hear someone express a gender identity you don't understand and go "Huh! Neat," and go about your business. If you truly want gender liberation for all then you have to stop trying to exert control over other people's genders, period.

#THROW AWAY THE BOOT #liberatory politics for all #gender

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I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

#yup! I do in fact want to to die on this hill #but also important to remember that anon is almost certainly not genuine #nazi pigs fuck off

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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

#feel like this in the pottery studio a lot #its full of retired white ladies who are like #Canadian gently left #but who are still like #“kids these days sure do complain a lot and skip out on work all the time” #“in my day we WANTED to work” #hon #hon I am gonna fire the piece youre working on in your hands with the force of my rage #capitalism is bad for people

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read something recently that said a majority of people don’t have a wall clock these days, thought it was interesting since I’ve always considered it an essential and functional piece of home decor.

#I don't mind the noise but I mind the reminder that TIME IS PASSING #a very capitalism reminder #also I have both a wristwatch (analog) and a phone #I have absolutely no need for a wall clock #or an oven clock or a microwave clock or or or #fun fact: have an ex who wouldn't carry/check a timepiece #it would drive him OUTTA HIS TREE that my appliances always said the wrong time #I told him if he cared so much he could reset them himself #it was funny as shit to watch him LOSE IT when he'd show up a month after time change to see the appliances set wrong #(it was funny because he was kind of an asshole about not carrying a time piece and always asked me what time it was)

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If you like the word “queer” reblog.

#i like being able to be nonspecific #not necessarily your business what kind of queer i am but i an #also it often doesn’t matter? #let’s be queer together #i’ll make nice coffee for the occasion #or you can dig through my tea #queerness together

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Lichens, fungi and moss by the shore of lake Tjunken in Värmland, Sweden (March 29, 2024).

#lichen #moss #fungi #so fucking cool #says the person with a matching set of cup lichen jewelry

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Your day would be better if you saw an Ancient Egyptian faience fish

#THIS IS CORRECT #and very cool #faience is a cool technology #art

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“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”

Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.

#extremely will do this #have done it on slow rail #emeryville to nyc baby #with the Toilet Surprise on the Lake Shore Limited #it was amazing I would extremely do it again #shortly after that I did LA to Albuquerque #differently amazing #TRAINS #THE FUCKING BEST