one thing about alcohol that a lot of people seem to believe is that is makes you more fun and easygoing and likeable. it actually does not make you more likeable inherently, what it does is suppress the anxiety and self consciousness that inhibits you normally because you don't have the cognitive power for it to be running at the same time as yaydrunk.exe

now I certainly know people who have a lot of fun while drunk and are a pleasure to be around and it shows a different side of their personality. however, i have also known and observed many people who say "I'm so much better drunk" who have imbibed and simply lost all awareness that their behavior is inappropriate, obnoxious, annoying, insulting, selfish, or even straight up frightening

and this also goes for weed. "I'm just more social stoned" people often do not understand that just because you feel better (because you are feeling less) does not mean you're acting better and you have taken a hammer to the your brain's ability to perceive social information

I know this is a nightmare post for people who use substances to socialize but idk I think it's something to know. And again there are people who it doesn't apply to! also it matters way less if everyone else you hang out with is also not sober. get some sober people in the mix and they will be seeing and observing you with their non addled minds. which is also a reason drinkers/stoners hate when you get sober and will try to get you inebriated with them again as fast as possible :)

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a Palestinian from my local group of activists is fundraising to bring her family to Canada. Najlaa is currently less than halfway to her goal of $80,000. please consider donating to help her family.

donations will go towards:

1. Covering the expenses of accommodation in Cairo, Egypt, throughout the visa and biometric process.

2. Meeting the cost of flight tickets from Cairo to Canada.

3. Securing affordable and suitable housing.

4. Addressing monthly necessities such as groceries, utilities, clothing, and shoes.

5. Ensuring access to healthcare and therapy, crucial for the well-being of our family members.

6. Providing monthly financial support until they secure employment.

as of April 10, they have been able to start the process of acquiring visas and passports.

currently at $26,630/$80,000

I know this is a tiny part of the wider problems born of diet culture, fatphobia, classicism, and racism but like god the idea that "healthy" food must inherently taste bad has completely ruined us as a society.

Every time you feel bad for having coffee with cream and sugar or ranch on your salad or putting extra butter and salt on your veggies I want you to imagine the spirit of John Harvey Kellogg in front of you and then I want you to kill him with a real gun and eat your delicious food in peace.

op turned off blogs on one of my favorite posts so here it is again

PALESTINIAN ESCAPE FUNDS CLOSE TO THEIR GOAL

2. Help Shadi's Family Evacuate Gaza - $1,306 / 15,000

3. Help Ruaa And Her Siblings Evacuate Gaza - $7,171/ 15,000

4. Help Mohammed Aljbour Evacuate his family - €2,121 / 10,000

5. Supporting Samah's family to survive the war - $30,805 / 35,000

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if the idea of 'fat people are hot' makes you so agonizingly uncomfortable that you have to pop up with 'fetishization' or 'glorifying' or 'not everyone--' please consider that your discomfort with my fat body being hot is a You Problem and i am not interested

Not only is “AI” enshittifying everything it’s eating up resources at an astounding pace.

Not that it's above criticism, it's not, but I feel your Met Gala take should at least acknowledge it's a fundraiser for an art museum with pay-what-you-want admission instead of vaguely presenting it as as if it's an event where everyone goes to dump their money in Scrooge McDuck pits and jump around in it

"They put on the Met Gala as a distraction from-"

You cannot distract the general public with the Met Gala because the general public does not watch the Met Gala. It's a fashion slideshow on the morning news to them. It's disproportionately popular on social media but the number of people following it live is, while it's a number I can't quantify, I have to wager not very large

See also the Oscars, which are "around twenty million viewers" popular, not Super Bowl popular, nothing that's all-consuming but the Super Bowl so the idea that any event but that could be a "distraction" from anything in a modern media environment just doesn't work

800,000 people watched the Met Gala live. This doesn't count people who just engaged with it on social media, but the actual viewership was 0.24% of the US population.

By comparison, 19.3 million people watched the final episode of Game of Thrones live, and 8.2 million people across the US and Canada tuned into a single hockey game last month. And somehow I don't think the IDF are checking the NHL schedule when planning their assaults, or waiting for a big streaming series to drop.

Biden Administration’s report on Israel’s wartime conduct will be suspended indefinitely

This far more damning than just releasing the report, to me.

It's basically confirmation they found uncontrovertable evidence of Israeli war crimes and are going to sit on it to try to cover it up, full stop.

If there was even a gray area they would have released it, but do it quietly and then formulate a plan for excusing the crimes.

If the IOF's record in this war was clean they would have leaked it at least a week ahead of time and would be screaming about from roof of the White House and on every major cable news channel 24/7.

They did this shit with War on Terror "accountability" reports that we get 5-10+ years after the fact when people forgot and moved on to the next thing to be outraged at them about.

After raising the price of COVID-19 vaccines more than four-fold this year, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told investors Monday that the company will also likely hike the price of its lifesaving COVID-19 antiviral treatment, Paxlovid, raising further concern about access and healthcare costs.

Remember when everyone on earth started shitting on Martin Shkreli for cranking up the price of AIDS medicine? Time to do the same for Albert Bourla. Everyone needs to know his name, and everyone needs to virulently and vocally hate his goddamn guts.

Pour one out for a real one.

Reading up on him, he was a pretty cool guy. He was one of the first people to stand up to John Money about his theories of gender development and position that intersex infants should receive surgery and never be told about it using his abuse of David Reimer as ‘proof’, asserting that Money didn’t have the evidence and standing his ground even when Money straight up started screaming at him. And then later he was proven right when he got into contact with David Reimer, not only discovering proof that Money was wrong but also how abusive and horrific Money had been. He then went on to write advocating for intersex and trans rights and to avoid unnecessary procedures on intersex people without full informed consent and that intersex people are part of natural human variation and that we deserve acceptance and not to be treated like a disorder.

A quote I really like from him: ‘Nature loves diversity, society hates it’

If you like the word “queer” reblog.

#fun umbrella. we r all sitting under it like the big rainbow thing in elementary school gym class

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05/09/2024

I'm going to be stranded at work today! I really need help getting home today and to work until I get paid again. It's $20-$25 A DAY just for me to get to work. Even with skipping meals I don't have enough to get to work. If you're able pls help me out.

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