"*If you were involved with the CIA at that time, it doesn't count."

humans didn't even start building cities until that colony was already 23,000 years old

putting country above all else

missile launchers slung under the belly that the geese can activate by pooping

ngl i thought about quitting it halfway through. It already hits hard if you have ever struggled in any way with misogyny, and for me as a woman in her mid 40s, it was downright crushing at times. It brings aging and towering beauty standards across in ways that are painful at times. It's very well-executed, though, especially if you like Kubrick-style cinematography, and it has some interesting ideas about the relationship between the body and our sense of self.

For anybody who hasn't seen The Substance, Quaid's character is a slimy TV producer who is constantly portrayed as a vile, misogynistic, gross pig in the most in-your-face way possible. You're supposed to loathe that guy and that point is driven home so hard that i would call his character painfully one-dimensional, but unfortunately, his total absence of an interior life that goes beyond hustlegrind and horny is part of why he's such a realistic portrayal of that kind of man. And in the scene shown here, this visceral repulsion is extended to the entirity of the media industry by showing that the entire board of directors is just a bunch of braindead, gerontocratic awooga ghouls.

This tweet is "the fascists in Starship Troopers look so badass" lows of media literacy.

You don't need dysphoria to be trans, but thinking you don't have dysphoria isn't exactly rare for eggs in the early stages. Lots of trans folks learn to bottle up these things - and then often manifest them in different ways, such as somatoform ailments, dissociation, substance abuse or even feeling dysphoric about traits that do not live up to expectations for their AGAB. As an egg, i constantly had some weird pains that no doctor could explain. I spent ages hating my crappy, sparse beard growth, then after the damm broke my five o clock shadown became my worst, absolutely devestating dysphoria trigger until laser solved that problem. Having gynecomastia as an egg confused the hell out of me. Always looking kinda androgynous made it really hard for me to experience dysphoria as clearly as many other trans folks, but in hindsight, it was always there, and it was bad. I spent ages coping with it and it almost ruined me. But i didn't only lack the words for it, it also felt different from what i realized once i finally put two and two together.

And after a couple years of transitioning, i find it very detrimental to define the trans experience largely over dysphoria. I had a phase were i could hardly think of anything else, it really crushes a lot of baby trans, but it doesn't stay like that for a lot of us. Transitioning and living as myself is about joy, freedom, exploration and being true to myself. I'm just happy being a woman, and that's not dependent on how unhappy i was trying to live as a boy. I mean, yeah, that was shit, but that's not what made me want to transition. The moments where i looked in the mirror and could already see myself as a woman where. And when your closest peers are accepting, but you're weary how the world at large will react, you could do a lot of experimentation in private. Even stuff like HRT can be inconspicious for a long time.

And lastly, your options aren't just man or woman. Genderfluidity is a thing, being nonbinary is a thing, being agender is a thing. But a lot of people do not think of that when questioning.

Self-reporting cisness to the nearest political comissar is mandatory, failure to comply may be weighed against you.

list of possible suspects who may have a motive to run over striking members of the Debardeurs' Union

This is also why Germany now has a wild raccoon population that is taking over Berlin, nazis just don't get that raccoons will always outsmart them.

That's a kneecap

I've spent 5 minutes wondering if this is about weed or about doing gay stuff before i realized it's just aliens and now i'm wondering how many of the gay stoners i know are actually aliens, too. Probably all of them.

Hexbears when somebody tells them to log off:

"No superiors can relieve me of my duty, you bulldozed them all to a mass grave for trying to free humanity."

A canal boat trip, you say?

slide whistle noise

Civility politics and tone policing are forms of systemic opression that silence the rightful anger of marginalized groups and those who are understandably pissed off by the inhumanity and cruelty of the status quo. Remaining calm at the sight of the world we live in, treating those who violently exterminate people with respect and compassion, telling people who are tortured with injustice every day to maintain a straight face, these are atrocities in themselves. Your ability to remain kind in this system betrays your privilege, your lack of compassion, your ignorance and your total lack of actual principles.

Or, if you do not understand jargon and need to this to be put more plainly: Fuck off, you bloodless nazi apologist.

Just checked my kitchen, the store brand peanut butter from German Aldis has around 9% of additives (sugar, palm oil and salt) and it's the only one they stock. This whole comment chain made me look up where to find 100% peanut butter and that ratio of additives unfortunately seems to be fairly common. There are brands that are 100% peanut, but for some reason these are almost exclusively sold in 1kg jars, i guess people who look for that are really into peanut butter. I mean, i am as well, and this stuff keeps good forever, so i may just go big next time i have to restock.

Sure. A lot of the anti-trans legislation specifically targets minors by banning puberty blockers and HRT for people under 18, forcing students to use the bathroom matching their AGAB in schools, forcing teachers to out trans students to their parents etc. The US in particular has a sizeable conversion "therapy" industry that largely targets minors. Trans kids are also much more at the mercy of their parents supporting them in their social and / or medical transition. If you live alone or with your parents makes a massive difference in your questioning phase. It's a lot harder to figure yourself out when putting on makeup and a skirt (or a binder and a packer when you're transmasc) means you can't leave your room like that because then your parents may see you. Buying these items in the first place may be impossible for many teens, at least without their parents noticing. An adult can usually go no contact with their transphobic parents without being materially ruined by it. A trans kid going no contact usually means they end up homeless. And on top of that, these kids are already aware of being trans at the precise point in their life when their body, if untreated, is changing in drastic ways that cause them massive dysphoria. If they do not have access to blockers or HRT, they consciously have to go through the wrong puberty and see what that does to their body. The pressure on trans kids is just much higher than the pressure on trans adults. Trans youth are an extremely vulnerable population, they just lack a lot of the ressources that people transitioning at a later age have while being in a much more precarious social and psychological situation. Being a teenager is hard enough as it is, but being a trans teenager with an unsupportive home and school environment leaves you little to no room to escape.

And the numbers from that stufy reflect that. The 72% increase in suicides is specifically for people aged 13-17. It is nowhere near that high in any other age group. And that's due to the factors outlined above. These laws and this social climate disproportionally kill children.

Anybody, and i mean literally anybody in support of these laws is an accessory to infanticide and should be treated as such.