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The_X_Dawg posted...

And they'll keep voting Republican.

To be fair, it's not as though the Democrats aren't also in the pockets of corporate interests.

HairyQueen posted...

Ive often wondered if so many employers were just always unfeeling robots or if they become that way after years in management roles.

You probably have to be predisposed to it. Probably correlates with seeking a middle management position, honestly.

It's insane that you can violate the rules of every social media site over and over again by relentlessly encouraging stochastic terrorism and yet never suffer any consequences.
It's because these sites don't give a shit about trans people.

TreyFlowers posted...

Well I really need the therapist to dig out what my trauma is, if any, to work out why I'm like this. I can't really talk about feelings, I don't know how to describe them. Or as I said to my wife the other week: "I don't feel, I think".

Oof, yeah. It sounds like you never really learned how to relate to your emotions and so you just kind ofdisassociated? Maybe, lol, dont listen to me.

Therapy has helped me immeasurably in my life. Justif youre not vibing with your therapist after a few sessions, dont be afraid to try a new one. Not all approaches work with all clients, and certainly some therapists arent great at their jobs.

How old is Agatha then, like 50?

People literally think if they just feed trans people to the Fascists, the Fascists will be satisfied and wont harm them.

And dont tell them its literally never worked that way!

Most of my coworkers don't mask, and are getting COVID like clockwork. It's crazy.
One of my enby coworkers got it and infected at least two other coworkers before they were symptomatic.

Oh yes, I'mma take the money. Nothing but gravy for me!

Refusing to respect some one's pronouns just because they're a bad person signals to other trans people who aren't trash that your acceptance of them is conditional.

Liz Cheney is a fascist just like the other anti-Trumpers, their only objection is that Trumpian fascism is too boorish and uncultured.

uwnim posted...

They have two major issues. One is the short lifespan you mentioned, the other is that they are non-social. Both of those make it hard to transmit information to future generations.

They are capable of being social: rarely you see something like Octlantis where lots of them live relatively peacefully in high density. They also sometimes cooperate with fish on hunts. But they are mostly solitary.

Koishi posted...

I really hope things get better for you, no matter what path your future takes. I think it isn't impossible to reconcile if both parties are willing to work towards it, but it's ok if you decide that you can't move forward given how she acted, don't feel guilty because it didn't work out or something stopped you two from being compatible. I act out a lot because of my personality disorder which is definitely not something a lot of people would be willing to put up with, but I'm very lucky to be with a man who has seemingly infinite patience and support, and we compliment each other well and work through it together. I hope you find someone who you feel is truly suitable for you

Thank you. I'm in month 14 of HRT, I'm taking a Masters-level Social Work class, and getting my name changed. So things are getting better all the time.

Regardless of what happens, part of me will always love this woman though.

Claire Max can break open a watermelon with her thighs.
It's both terrifying and....sexy.

https://www.instagram.com/p/ChN_NGxgV_V/
Now those are *thighs*

Kloe_Rinz posted...

even if there was a worldwide ban implemented tomorrow that successfully stopped all fossil fuels burning globally, its too late to stop whats coming

also, with stuff like this, it always seems to come sooner than expected. Remember when the ice caps started melting decades sooner than expected?

Yes, sure, let's do nothing, what's the worst that could happen?

The_Creep_2020 posted...

Yeah, you dodged a massive bullet there. That sort of thing is a huge red flag, since it means theyre lacking in a great deal of empathy.

In your shoes, after experiencing that in a relationship, Id walk away. Im not you though, and you should totally do what is best and right for you.

She's basically never been so aggro or wrong though: this was an isolated incident but a horrible one. She was otherwise consistently kind and supportive. It feels wrong to define someone by her worst moment, and yet....trying to forgive her just annihilated my whole weekend.

Naysaspace posted...

What was it

She minimized my trauma. Insistently and repeatedly. I was in a rush at the time though: it wasn't until later, that I really reflected on the interaction and realized it shook my very understanding of her to its core. Even though she apologized profusely.

SauI_Goodman posted...

Havent dated in 5 years. Despite being a very good looking man who has women approach him semi-occassionally. Youre doing much better than me.

This was my first relationship. It lasted about 7 1/2 months.

Love sucks sometimes, like when the woman you were dating insists on something that completely undermines her in your eyes. I struggled the entire weekend to forgive her for her transgression, but I couldn't. I told her we need time apart earlier today, and that's when I was finally able to cry. Work was rough, but I kept it together. I cried some more walking to my car.

In any case, I hope your love life is doing better than mine is right now. I don't know if "time apart" means a month, a year, or forever, but I know I just can't right now... #BlogFAQs

Large swathes of the planet are going to become borderline uninhabitable, at least on a seasonal basis.

It's fine though, let's just keep burning fossil fuels, woooo!

MrAndersonWb posted...

somehow I am more scared of DeSantis. He has done more fascist stuff as governor, such as going after companies, public service members and even sports teams just for daring to disagree with him. And lets not forget about banning sex education, dont say gay, etc

And pushing to ban social transition and transition care for minors and moving towards banning transition care for adults.

I enjoyed it. I love that Harley and Ivy obviously aren't 100% on the same page but still work anyway. It feels really genuine.
Also they seem to be setting up Batman as this season's big "bad", which should be interesting. Of course, this show could just resolve things in some unforeseeable way that still works, of course.

ICantSing posted...

Why can't politicians just learn to say "I can't answer that at this time"? It would be so much easier than dumb non-answers like that. Given, Yang is particularly dumb, but even he should be able to do that much.

That would also be an incredibly dumb answer!

Abortion rights are broadly popular: a savvy politician or really anyone with more than two brain cells would leap at the opportunity to spout vague platitudes in support (supposing that they were not already beholden to a support base that opposed them). But Andrew Yang is exceptionally dumb.

No, but now that I'm transitioning, I'm actually curious about my 20th, in a few years. There were plenty of good people in my class.

I'm going to get a little drunk while eating junk food tonight.

Hillary Clinton is a bitter, pathetic loser who will never accept accountability. That should have been obvious already.

Wow, this is still going huh?

https://twitter.com/Oakblu/status/1558193401903960064
https://twitter.com/Nicto_png/status/1558466586188677122/photo/1

Good morning! I'm not hungover. Or maybe just mildly. Hope you made out okay, TC.

https://twitter.com/Brynkiwi/status/1557485606682312704

A hugely disappointing and utterly inadequate bill.
And also more than I expected.
American government fucking sucks.

ApherosyLove posted...

date me instead

She's poly and maybe I am too? I'm not sure yet.
Also one of my enby advisors loves casually banging oily swarthy dudes and I cannot understand it for the life of me. The two enbies should simply sleep with each other, IMO, but then I'm a femme lesbian.

DocileOrangeCup posted...

It seems a bit disingenuous to have a character be forced into being a girl to survive, only to have them come out as trans later and claim that their upbringing had nothing to do with it. I'm not necessarily hating on this, I just feel like it's important to have trans characters that aren't trans for weird reasons in media.

LOL my dude, if that worked, there wouldn't be any fucking trans people. I wouldn't be trans!
And yet, there are, because how you were raised doesn't have much bearing on that. All it informs you is how you perceive what it means to be a man/woman.

I'm tipsy. Doing some drinking. Thought I might break up with my girlfriend today, but she was super apologetic and my enby advisors were split, and also I struggle to hold onto anger, so I told her I'm going to work on forgiving her. I hope she realizes how easily she can hurt me now.

Orphan Black
Season 4 starts good, and teases doom for the clones, only to hand wave away their only lead going up in smoke and their research going up in flames just in time to prolong Cosimas ridiculous lease on life even though shes theoretically been dying for two whole seasons. Also Sarah is terminally stupid the entire time and they spend the entire season teasing a face-turn for Rachel only to flush it at the last minute. Also blonde lady being alive was the dumbest fucking twist. Nothing had any fucking consequences and they kept adding more and more poorly-explained layers to their conspiracy that it became obvious they could never resolve it.

Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

Wow this got ignored hard itt, lol

You would believe being a girl would be a bad ending, wouldnt you?

Men have to be interesting, complex human beings now. And women are less willing to put up with assholes because they can support themselves. Do better dudes!

Or become the girlfriend.

https://twitter.com/theJagmeetSingh/status/1557736715980156928
New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh has tweeted his support of Keffals.
You love to see it.

The_Creep_2020 posted...

Oh yeah, I could definitely appreciate that it was an extremely finely crafted piece of music. I don't know how to explain why it didn't click for me, without sounding like the biggest wanknozzle. It seemed to be crafted more with head than heart? IDK.

MELIA - FASHION
There were some things I really liked about this song. The intro hooked me, despite my aversion for Flume-y stuff, but the fast rappy parts were a bit... I don't know. The last three minutes of the song were freaking awesome though.

Faye Webster tracks (they're all pointing to "I know I'm funny haha", well played!):
#1 - I liked it. Sometimes I feel like something a bit slow and country-folkish and that certainly hits the spot
#2 - This one I really, really liked. I liked it so much I listened to it twice. I like the kinda Cole Portery sound to it
#3 - Ohh thumpy thumpy. The sweetness of her voice really goes well with the thumpy thumpy and sort of distorty guitar stuff. Revel in my knowledge of music production. This one's going on my late night playlist, for sure. Full disclosure, I don't actually write these posts in real time. I ended up listening to this one on repeat for a while. lol.

Yeah, Faye is crazy talented and creative: I feel like she's a rising star. That she's able to adapt herself to very different genres is interesting also she seems to partner up with Courtney Barnett a lot: she opened for Courtney down south, is participating in Courtney's US-based music festivals, and was one of the artists who partnered with Courtney to release rare tracks to raise money for reproductive rights orgs in the US. Probably why Facebook's algorithm advertised her local concert to me. I didn't go, but that's legit how I started listening to her.
Suite: Johnny is actually a remix of two related tracks from her second album, Atlanta Millionaire's Club, which can be guessed from the bridge. Johnny is the 5th track, Johnny(Reprise) is the 10th and last. It's a fun little surprise.

But enough talking, more music. I'm not quite out of artists. Or words. I promise I'll get the links right.

Kim Petras
Future Starts Now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0GLXZPC6F8
Coconuts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ite2vY5qihc
Kim's always been meaningful to me: she was famous for being trans, and my egg self latched onto her hard. I remember when she was doing little covers on her YouTube channel. She does pop, spoopy pop, and also slut pop, which makes Coconuts here seem quaint.
I remember putting Coconuts on for my girlfriend, and she laughed the entire time. I laughed so hard I couldn't stand. Once the song was over and she stopped laughing, she just said, "That's a good song."

I'll keep the rest in my back-pocket for now.

It's a very low bar, but yes. Biden is still a huge disappointment that'll probably enable a Fascist victory.

Medussa posted...

it sounds like they tried to, but failed because Canada.

Also because she's white, if we're being honest.

FaultyCircuitry posted...

goddamn, keffals has always been a ball of fury, but that is just AAA+++

Yeah....not going to lie, I got a chill reading that.

https://twitter.com/keffals/status/1557450894400258049
Update: she got her stuff back, is back on her main and streamed earlier. She has lawyered up, but has been advised not to discuss legal matters until such a time proceedings have begun.

Money quote: "If they want me to stop, the next time, they better manipulate the police into pulling the trigger."

Kind of seems like youve already identified the best ideas already. I encourage you to do as many of them as possible.

Just remember that petting kitties is always the first priority.

https://twitter.com/keffalsbackup/status/1557373303257501696

What happened to me was one of the most terrifying things I've experienced in my entire life. I am overwhelmed by the outpouring of support, and I want to thank you all for having my back. I will update everyone as more information is available and I have spoken to legal counsel.
I have raised enough money through the gofundme to move, and as soon as I verify who I am will withdraw the money and do so immediately. All additional donations at this point will be towards the legal fund so I can protect my rights and seek justice for what happened to me.

An update from Keffals. May her vengeance be swift and terrible, and her new home safe.

Glad we have some one to clear up what is and isn't swatting. Really making an invaluable contribution to the discussion of what happened to a leading trans activist who almost died because of some one got a swat team to raid her home.

Even after her brother attempted to warn them of the harassment campaign beign waged against her LOL read below.

Here's another article about the incident: https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bzaz/twitch-streamer-keffals-arrested-after-transphobic-swating

Streamer Clara Sorrenti, also known as Keffals, was arrested on August 5th after a fraudulent email was sent to every city councilor in London, Ontario saying that she intended to harm her family and members of the London Parliament. The raid resulted in her computers being seized by police, and happened amidst a wave of transphobic harassment against the streamer, which she says was further perpetrated by the police themselves.
Clara is an outspoken trans streamer who has gained tens of thousands of followers on Twitch for aggressively debunking anti-trans talking points, as well as for her ability to ratio notable anti-trans activists on Twitter. A ratio on Twitter is when a reply to a tweet gets more likes than the tweet itself. Most famously, Clara ratioed former childrens book author and current transphobe J.K. Rowling.
In addition to being arrested, Clara said that the police booked her under her deadnamewhich has not been her legal name in more than 10 yearsand that the police referred to her by her deadname when she was arrested. In a YouTube video about the incident, Clara attributed this to the fraudulent emails sent to city councilors, which she said included her deadname in an obvious attempt to make the police humiliate me.

On August 5th, Clara says that the police went to perform a wellness check on her mother Catherine Sorrenti. Catherine says the police asked for her son, which confused her.
They said that they came because they wanted to check on my welfare because they were ... oh God, I can't remember, something about my son and I said, my somy nephew? Catherine said, according to a transcript Clara provided to Motherboard. And I said, you mean my nephew and then they said Clara Sorrenti so then I knew it was you. Then I said, my daughter, oh my daughter.
The police informed her theyd received an email saying that Clara was threatening her mother, as well as members of the London parliament.
I just kept telling them no, no she didn't do it, Catherine said.
Claras brother, Brandon Roberts, said in the same transcript that he had previously gotten in touch with the police to warn them that Claras address had been leaked. He says the police told them that there was nothing they could do.
I just mentioned it was a possibility of happening they said what are they saying on there, and they found the address, and they were like here's her address, have fun guys, Roberts said. And he's like, that's not threatening or anything. He said if they're wishing harm to you, that's not a problem either, it's when they say they're going to, that's when it starts to get into harassment territory. So basically, I can wish bodily harm on someone but I can't say that I'm going to do bodily harm is the message he gave me.
Clara said today that after being interviewed by the police, she was released with no charges.
Last month, Clara was also banned from Twitch for a month for repeated hateful slurs or symbols. However, the slurs in question were screenshots of the abuse Clara received for being transgender. She said on Twitter that her account was mass reported.

One last bump.

Good.

Beast_Le_Chonk7 posted...

Huh, no need for attitude I was just trying to gets facts right.

I just asked becaise if something this horrifying happened to me, gofundme's would probably not be something I'd do with 4 days.

I am glad we have this alt here, to just ask questions about the victim of a months-long harassment campaign that has recently escalated to swatting. These are important questions to ask and not at all whataboutism.

https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1557202298463453184
These, presumably, are not important questions.