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A Certified Mess

@jaekaeyay / jaekaeyay.tumblr.com

Queer he/they adult Tara is a weenie
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i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”

every day I get on here and see some post going "do not make an account on ZYLPPHONE, the hot new social media! it turns out making an account gives the creators (who are nazis) instant access to your bank account and also causes your pets to explode!" and this is all very baffling to me because I cannot believe anyone is actually fucking around with new social media platforms that shit sounds exhausting. if tumblr ever gives up and goes all the way under I will simply turn into a crab and go back to the sea you will not be finding my on zylophone

hey I wanted to wish a very special disability pride month to every disabled person who’s getting worse. to people who are losing the ability to do things they used to do. people whose symptoms are increasing in severity. people who are developing new symptoms. people with degenerative and terminal disorders. people who are dealing with new disorders on top of preexisting ones. happy disability pride month to everyone who knows they’re not getting better. there’s nothing wrong with that, and you deserve to take pride as much as anyone else.

Before you say no duh, remember that we need studies like this to quantify things for planning, government policy, and court cases, and also to help convince people who's minds aren't already made up.

I know I struggle to breath in heat like this, and hypoxia kills, especially when cars are involved.

I have a rare disease called primary erythromelalgia. When my body temperature gets too high*, my extremities turn bright red and hot to the touch. They itch, and then sometimes they burn.

Heat is a major barrier to access for me. I cannot go places that aren't air conditioned on hot days. This limits my living options, my work options, and my recreation options. When people open the bus windows in the name of airflow, even though the bus is airconditioned, it can set off a flare. When there's no shaded areas along the sidewalk, flare. When an event is only outside and only in the middle of the day, guess who might not get to go. I have friends whose apartments I can't visit in the summer because they don't have AC. At my last job, I needed a special accommodation to be able to go home when the air conditioning broke.

*"Too high" doesn't have to be anywhere near heatstroke, btw. It doesn't even have to be noticeable to me until I start bursting into flame.

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"all men are evil" is radfem/terf rhetoric, but clarifying "all cis men" because you want to signal that you're not transphobic doesn't work because it's still deeply rooted in radfem beliefs. It's saying you believe there's something inherently evil in being born/assigned "male", and you carry it over in how you treat ppl who transition in or out of that gender. "All cis men are evil", is gender essentialist and you can't get around that.

Fucking tired of ppl who think their terf soundbites with a fresh coat of paint are sooo progressive

these are all the same sort of animal. do you understand.

these are all small skittish creatures that love to bite and are found in drawers of garages and classrooms. they’re all related and in the same small biter family. weird little kids who play with them while they’re distracted and have empathy for them can tame them and become these beasts companions

Thank the Lord someone understands

Female characters who are the sole voice of reason <<<<<<< Female characters who think of themselves as the sole voice of reason but who are actually just as insane as those around them

Cyanometer - an instrument for measuring blueness, specifically the color intensity of blue sky - attributed to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Alexander von Humboldt

you mothers fucker don’t need to make us scroll forty goddamn linear feet.

it’s always the Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known, but never the Irritating Ordeal of Being Known

someone: [correctly infers something about my personality based on my patterns of behavior]

me: [seethes with rage for some fucking reason]