I think it's critical for teenagers and young adults to work with adults who aren't in a huge position of power over them. It helps you lower your expectations of where you're supposed to be in your life in regards to maturity and shit. You'll realize that everyone is simply trying their best and that they're people instead of just bigot older generations or whatever

My 50 year old boss sent me this with nothing else and then asked me when I came into work if I saw the meme he sent

Self Portrait I’m calling “Twink Death” and is about me learning to accept gaining weight and my body shape as the Italian stallion I am😔

Basically trans male fatness is something that has been on my mind as it feels society puts such a pressure on Ftm people to be either effeminate and twinkish or perfectly passing and fit to be desirable, and where self love and attraction comes in for trans mascs who are neither of those things

There's more I could wax poetic about but alas I'm sleepy.

So firstly thank you for the HUGELY positive reception to this personal piece. I appreciate it more than y'all could know. Secondly I want to acknowledge every fellow masc/man who has felt seen and represented in this. You're my kin and who I draw for.

However I'd like to also state that while I really appreciate compliments and am not bothered by people being horny there are definitely some people who need to reexamine how they interact with others bodies. Sometimes body positivity can swing so far in a circle it comes right back to fatphobia. I am not hot because I am chubby I'm hot because I'm hot. I also wonder how many people who have talked about my weight and how horny they are for my stomach would expand that to someone more fat than I am. You are still boiling a person down to their body and what makes them worthy of love. There's a difference between "OMG you look just like me and you're so handsome." and "chubby guys are soooooo hot god chubby men make me feral." It's good to highlight chubby/fat men and make them feel loved and seen and equal without fetishizing their bodies. (Same goes for any other gender)

I'm not mad at all at anyone and this is no shade just idk examine what you think and why you think that way. Were all to some degree unlearning fatphobia and white euro centric beauty standards.

Elon Musk: the most dangerous Antisemite

Hey non-Jewish leftists and progressives who consider yourselves allies to Jews or, at a minimum, not antisemitic: now is an exceptionally great time to step up

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Just recently wet specimened one of these guys who passed away at my work

I had a really interesting day today. These past few days have been particularly hard on me from just the stress of the news media and also the frustration of a bigot and eugenics apologist living below me and actively making the lives of the unhoused people in our neighborhood hell. Today was just one of those days where I was hit with existential dread of it all and fear of what the future will hold.

Normally on the way home from work I wear my earbuds and just focus on walking from the bus to my apartment. Now a block down from me that I walk past literally every single day is a house I always assumed was a neighborhood daycare center. Today for some reason I just didn't bother to put my earbuds in and walked past just as a man was gathering a group of elderly people and asked if I'd like to join a meeting for a disability advocacy group to discuss getting a bill providing more disability care through our province. Long story short and three hours later I had the pleasure of sitting and talking with some of the most intelligent lovely people. People who lived in my neighborhood. My community. What's more I found I had a lot to add to the conversation and provide. There's something healing about not only gathering to express rage at a broken system but to actively seek solutions and change. I don't know how many will realistically come to fruition but I sure can go to local businesses and ask them to hand out flyers as well as use my knowledge of media and marketing. I left feeling refreshed in a way I haven't in a long time. Sometimes you need to simply zoom out from the bigger picture and focus on your local community. I can't single handedly take down the government but I can possibly change my city.

If you're an anarchist/commie/socialist trapped in mental philosophical doom scrolling go and serve the people around you. We have to be the change we want.

(oh and one Elderly Lady asked me if I was apart of an underground graffiti society in the city and I thought that was very cool of her. She is apparently a member)

This is so real! Getting out and doing something - even if you know it won't fix everything - feels great! Knowing you're not the only one who cares and sees the cracks in the system is heartening. You know you're not alone! Your anxious brain needs to feel in control of something when it's on a doom spiral. Maybe joining a local group won't fix the political climate overnight, but it will give you opportunities to be involved in smaller, but very real, change that you have some control & say over. It gives you a chance to see how your skills can improve & impact the people around you. And that feels powerful, which is important for combating grief and hopelessness.

Also, getting involved with your local community is exactly how the bigger changes get made, too. Knowing who the people in your community are, especially the ones who care and are willing to help and problem solve - those are the people who will also more readily seek real change, and that change can be radical even at a local level, and can inspire bigger movements.

And, of course, when those bigger movements happen, you have a whole group of people who you might be able to call on for support. If something goes down, it's good to have multiple contacts and a variety of skills on hand. This is more likely when a group of people meets regularly & cares about each other in more than a theoretical way.

So, please!!! If you're feeling really in your head about how hopeless everything around you seems, please get out into your community and use your energy on projects that will improve the space around you! I know from experience that stewing in anger and doomscrolling online will lead you down a bad way. I know that being chronically online while you're anxious and grieving only serves to isolate you more and more from the people around you, and that can have serious repercussions. Not just to your mental health, but to the way you view the world & treat your fellow humans. Much easier to convince yourself no one actually cares about anything when you don't see the things your community is literally fighting for outside your computer screen. Much easier to Other yourself or feel dehumanized. So, get out there and join any local group that's looking for solutions to things they can fix.

Idk. Something to think about.