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Goblin

@frogs-toes

Bisexual, Nora, she/her, I do not accept criticism, if you disagree with me then you are wrong.
(Used to be that-introverted-friendly-goblin)
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deafmic

a couple weeks ago, someone called and left a message on my team's phone at work. this was a phone number that he should not have been able to find and which isn't actually manned. we are an IT team and have the number to keep our team zoom account. so no one picks it up, but every time someone leaves a message, everyone on the team gets an email with the transposed text.

this man left a 7 minute long message with my tech team about how he wanted a job in our sales department.

in it, he called himself a savage no less than 12 times. he spent most of the 7 minutes talking about how well he closes deals and sells. he left this message over the weekend. in it, he said the words "i'm a beast, i'm a killer" multiple times, which i now can't seem to get out of my vocabulary. i say it literally every day and i can't explain it because it's like a personal meme.

my team actually found this message so fucking funny that we immediately found the sales team recruiter and got him over there. we all dearly hope that he gets hired so we can meet him. he's like a celebrity to us. he's a beast. a killer even.

I'm a survivor of the terror attacks who lived 4 blocks east of the World Trade Center. I lost my home that day, spent years homeless and destitute, and I carry a Zadroga Act diagnosis of 9/11-connected PTSD. If anyone who's doing this RP needs character coaching or if you need help with authentic scenarios, I'm available for consulting services at reasonable rates. DM me here or leave your number on the men's room wall at any leather bar and it'll get to me in 24 hours. Happy 9/11 y'all, and remember fireworks are unsafe and illegal in most jurisdictions.

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wlw-wukong

Listen, I really do love it when people are like "There are secular LGBT+ Jews!" in response to people talking about the intersection of antisemitism and homophobia.

But you know what?

Observant LGBT+ Jews exist too.

There are LGBT+ Jews who observe Shabbat and keep kosher and dress with Tzniut and they're often the ones experiences the worst of that intersection.

Observant Jews are essentially barred from participating in most LGBTQ+ events because they're largely held on Saturday, especially Pride Parades, which every year are either on Shabbat or Shavuot. LGBTQ+ events hardly ever have kosher options, and I mean *really* kosher options aside from bottled water and bag of chips. Jews deserve to eat proper food too, you know. Observant Jews constantly have to hear jokes about Judaism, hear gentile LGBT+ people appropriate Yiddish while at the same time harass Jews for using their own language.

If you don't include Observant Jews, your inclusion is meaningless.

When you complain about the dashboard icons being removed, please please mention that this is horrible for accessibility.

People with dyslexia and some visual impairments rely on the icons to be able to easily tell who's blog a post is from! Navigating tumblr has just become much harder for anyone who has trouble with following people with similar usernames and reading names with dashes instead of spaces or no spaces at all between words. I have ADHD and likely dyslexia, and with the amount of people I follow with the word "jewish" at the beginning of their url, I'm gonna have a really fucking hard time when the update hits me. "Just read the urls!" doesn't work when you have a disability that makes it wicked hard. Usernames blur together and disappear within the post.

@support since I literally can't submit feedback without the app crashing. I am begging you to read this and understand that you WILL drive away disabled users if you keep this change. Yes, it also means losing a sense of community, but the fact that this hurts disabled people is vastly more important.

"OP why are you mad that your words are being misinterpreted you're on the piss on the poor website" actually i think it's very reasonable to demand people pay attention to the words they use, the choices they make, the things they believe, and their capacity for empathy and comprehension and that it's sort of weird that you're finding humor in making excuses to just believe that there simply is no possible way to improve your actions

I know SEVERAL afab nonbinary people who, as soon as they came out as nonbinary - immediately began dressing in ridiculous hyper-femme outfits they never would have worn before.  A lot of people see this and say shit like “Theyfab” or say they are only nonbinary for attention.  After all, look how femme they are.

But to me, this makes perfect sense.  When you are forced into the category of “woman” against your will, femininity is a chore.  It’s a job that you have.  As soon as you say no, I’m not a woman, suddenly femininity isn’t your job anymore.  It’s not a requirement.  It’s just a fun hobby you can get into.  Or a little treat sometimes.