I carved a hornet pumpkin!

I wish

rooting for the leads now btw

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cishet women make fun of trans women taking 15 minutes out of their day to dilate as though that isn't exactly what you do, except with a man who hates you instead of a piece of plastic and a YouTube video

idk why "it's always been bad" and "it is now bad in a different way than it was before" are so hard to reconcile for people

there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.

the seattle Mariners are challenging the longstanding belief that you get three chances in an inning of baseball

"scissoring isn't real/isn't fun/ is just a porn thing" is the biggest lie nuke of all time

One Way Or Another, You Oughta Know, Tik Tok

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

the weirdest fucking thing about the old dying man we elected president is that the thing he wants more than anything, that he’s absolutely desperate for, it is to be liked by the people he is trying to kill

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

we are cool and smart

the left on the other site is so obsessed with trying to feel superior to the no kings protesters. it fuckin sucks

YESSSS

it is happening. again

> "trans women" > look inside > 12-13 year old trans girls nothing nefarious about this framing, certainly

He was not even arguing civilly! That's the thing! Setting the content of what Kirk said entirely aside, the idea that he modeled reasoned, respectful, fact-based debate and charity towards one's political opponents is completely insane! The form was also extremely bad!

New article: the case for dysphoria open.substack.com/pub/transcar...

From @imeupolicy.bsky.social: “Advocates for Palestinian rights who represent most Democrats were once again shut out & ignored. …standard practice for a historically unpopular D leadership that will not win elections until it decides to become a party that actually listens to its voters.”‬

Adopting this position at all is accepting a losing battle. Show me the number of elected representatives who consistently talk like this. They are priming the party to be held accountable for random posts online, yet we never hold the Republicans responsible even when JD Vance follows Nazis.

life hack: if you feel like you spend too much time watching dumb YouTube videos, just switch to watching them while on a treadmill at the gym

What's so funny is that talking about bra's is a topic of, like, almost *evangelism* for many cis women. They make a point of talking openly and helping on another out. The self report here is self-reporting.

anyway

This is an antisemitic thing for people to think about us from the outside but is also enormously central to my identity as a Jew

Happy international left handers day

potentially (?) hot take: even in a society that was completely trans-accepting, not everyone would come out in early childhood

Not a huge Derek Thompson fan but he's straightforwardly correct here. Financial institutions own a tiny percentage of US homes and generally rent them out rather than keeping them vacant. Preventing BlackRock from buying housing wouldn't do much to help affordability. www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2...

what if they're not announcing the most disliked woman because it's me

Buttigieg hasn't gotten the memo that the era of focus-grouped statements aimed at offending the fewest people is over, and now just pisses everyone off even more than just picking a side.

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

Regardless of what actually happens, Pelosi thinking supporting trans kids is good politics to the point of making this statement is a good sign in a time where we’re really not getting many of those

what instead? much is bandied about regarding the annihilation of trans people from public life in service to the function or instrument - her uterus, allegedly - a woman must serve for the heterosexual family, the state, the nation. she is worth more to britain a "helpless female" than a human.

so demoralizing and horrible. thank God for american political polarization.

the funny thing about Buttigeig's triangulation on trans issues is that he's doing it in the most late 2010s "woke" way possible. "We need to make sure everyone Feels Heard and Validated" was exactly dems' message for 10 years

why are you as a man posting this

bottom surgery is one of the most impressive inventions in human history tbh and a sane society would have no trouble recognizing that

Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan. And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.

I think really the story of the past ten years was people taking for granted 21st century liberalism was locked in and therefore you could just kinda be fashy for a laugh only to realize a moment too late Skinhead Steve wasn’t joking after all.

Guy: I invented a cereal that will help you not masturbate. It's called cornflakes Me: That's so crazy. I also invented a breakfast cereal. Let's just say mine does the opposite thing

#GuessTheGame #1176 🎮 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ too easy GuessThe.Game/p/1176

im begging you to listen to how this fox news host pronounces “authoritarianism”

when will democrats understand that democratic voters exist

why hasn't she medically transitioned in any way, Akiva?