"I met this chick at a bar? And we hit it off but then when we exchanged names, she said she couldn't date someone who had her deadname. And I empathize. I used to be called a name I hate back when I was younger. I would not want to date a girl named Pissypants. It just would not work between us."

The whole nostalgia debate is about technologically facilitated social alienation and has largely been about technologically facilitated alienation for some time now. There is an actual kernel of truth in the nostalgia takes but extricating it is much more work than just aesthetics and third spaces.

graphcel poasters like me: there is no omnicause that combines us imperialist atrocities abroad with cost of living issues at home; in general american hegemony serves the material interests of the electorate, so . . . Trump: AT LONG LAST I HAVE INVENTED OMNICAUSE, THE WAR CRIME THAT MAKES YOU POOR

art should disturb the jagoffs and jack off the disturbed

we do need to grapple with the fact that there are myriad pipelines to funnel young men (not just white, trust me) into far right politics, and we do need to find grace in our hearts for people who fall down them and later seek forgiveness. but also, what the fuck, seek forgiveness.

we are going to lose and you should be ready for what that means.

vibe of the day

the worst thing about being trans is the pain you hold in you at any given moment and the second worst thing about being trans is feeling like an annoying whiny bitch for ever talking about that pain

doing a tiny bit of "i told you so" about the majority of the donation stuff being very obvious scams

I think the main problem is that, while Republicans organized to take down multiracial pluralistic democracy, liberals + moderates were busy "turning down the temperature," moderating & compromising w/ Reps, & scolding the left for loudly advocating for rights in ways that were too mean to bigots.

seeing dolls in liberal states with high paying tech jobs get their rib remodeling and shoulder feminization paid for by insurance with PTO and clawing my skin off in sheets

Lot of reactionaries truly believe in their hearts that immigrants and trans kids get the secret good healthcare from companies that love paying for claims.

shiny

[Wisconsin] Me, demonstrating Eastern Wisdom: “This technique known as is 送足払, it is a demonstration of the precise timing critical to the Yielding Way.” [Japan] The most meathead jock you’ve ever seen: “This is sliding foot sweep. You gotta like kick his fuckin legs out from under him”

Aurore in furs Model by LeGuymelef

it probably says a lot that the best dream i've had in weeks was just me tearfully recounting my tranny trauma to sympathetic cis people who kind of insensitively said that i reminded them of Hunter Schafer (they meant well)

The core anxiety really is that the myths of sexual difference and male superiority are increasingly being proven false and irrelevant and many men are having a diaper-shitting fit about it, but like I'm not going to go back to pretending that men deserve deference for simply being men, fuck off.

A lot of people posting about Graham Platner but imagine if he was Graham Platano, a starchy slightly sweet banana-like fruit that you could fry and top with a sweet cheese or cream-based sauce. I bet you’d be pretty receptive of him them.

This is a cold civil war. There is no more territory to expand as a release valve, there’s no Kansas-Nebraska Acts and more Indians to force onto reservations; the only frontiers are inward and slave power is forcing its hand to tilt the scales while it still can.

what is the fucking point of an opposition party that acts like this

If you see this post a goth girl

Something in the woods loves you 📸 my wife, Jordan

going to therapy tomorrow so i can offgas the desire to tell somebody again that nobody believed in me and I had no friends growing up, and she can firm up a bit for a week by saying yeah that sounds like it was hard i'm so sorry

adult swim used to be muzak for your dealer’s house but now it’s baby sensory videos for the ambitionless boyfriends of bisexual women

as a leftist tranny i feel bad enough making a paltry five figures doing contract tax work for tech companies and strip miners. i would probably quit if i had to touch Northrop Grumman. i can't imagine being flippant about working for them directly.

good morning let's get this bread

as an enormous fuckwit somehow often among cultural sophisticates, i tend to think of myself as a gap-bridger between deep thinkers and the common man, and i spend so much of my time telling smart (but woefully fucking ignorant) people that the median voter is so, so much dumber than they imagine

when I say I'm locked in this is what I'm referring to

sometimes reddit is alright

waking up exhausted after the 30th consecutive night of nothing but nightmares and REMless sleep

looking forward to living somewhere where there aren't cops or firefighters stopping half a block away 6 times a day for people's stupid fistfights

Extreme Sex with Gorgeous Transsexuals

I'm here you fuckaas bitch

did you get... you know... the surgery?

the problem is that the women in my family are pretty blocky while the men are even blockier so i had basically no shot on the ribcage, hips and shoulders

might be too short for public

dumping a half ton of CO2 into the atmosphere so i can make a video of Fred Flintstone and Dino weeping in front of the Lincoln Memorial with the caption "kids these days Yaba Daba Don't respect the troops 😭😭🫡🇺🇸"

Others have already made the more salient criticisms so I'm just going to take the opportunity to say that I'm fucking annoyed that this thing genderfucky lesbians have been doing for ages is being remarketed as a way for women to still be sexually available to men post-menopause.

This was, in all seriousness, the point of the Harper’s Letter

But will the chattering class ever talk about Trump's rhetoric? Seems to be if they are going to claim that "heated" rhetoric is sufficient to trigger someone, they should ask if Trump is bringing this on himself.

Ethel Cain live was fucking spiritual btw

It's almost like cishets and cis queers alike use trans people to make themselves look more progressive while happily participating in our epistemic erasure

which way, walking disaster

Holy shit, I didn't want to yell at a single one of these clinical recommendations

okay i did basically everything i wanted to do in Pokémon and now i'm normal about video games again.

demeter when her daughter goes missing

i may have developed something of a problem

Pano from MAD (Otori Yusuke) thx for the comm!

will anybody be mad at me if i work for Jeff Bezos