Just gonnae post this to piss off any fash who see it.
Reminder that BetterHelp doesn't give a fuck about their patients and is actually a fucking terrible way to get therapy.
Please find other alternatives for BH because they're ATROCIOUS.
Someone literally got aggressive with me and insinuated I was better off not trying anymore anyways
This was only 55 years ago. You can understand a lot of what’s wrong with the US if you realize that the average age of our elected senators is about 63. “Good old days” is a dogwhistle.
Our current Supreme Court might’ve ruled against the Lovings.
The way I've already seen uncountable "Netflix is hiring!" Ads. They're really just gonna hire scabs and pretend the WGA strike isn't happening....
This is a reminder to anyone who wants to go into screenwriting. This is not an opportunity to get your foot in the door. Do not take any writing jobs during the strike. This includes freelance or “script editing” jobs.
You will be a scab. Scabs are barred from union membership. By crossing the picket line to get your foot in the door you’ll be burning one of the most important bridges in your life. You will actively be harming your future job prospects.
This strike will end one day. Those writers who are out picketing will reenter the writers room and start producing work with the legal and financial protections and guarantees they’re fighting for, and you will not be among their ranks. You will be a scab. A traitor.
A lack of union membership will harm your prospects job wise. Do not scab. Knowledge of your scabbing, traitorous ways will cost you your ability to make friends in the industry. Do not scab. Support the WGA as they fight for your rights. Do. Not. Scab.
"average public servant steals 3 classified documents a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average public servant steals 0 classified documents per year. documence don, who lives in palm beach & steals over 10,000 top secret files a day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
i swear to god i regret reblogging that estrolabs post because absolutely no one is focusing on the actual issue, which is that it's a phishing site very clearly run by malicious people and giving them any information on yourself could fuck you over big time
their ashwaganda "estrogen replacement" would be useless at best and extremely dangerous at worst, if it actually existed. however the products on that site almost certainly do not fucking exist and never have, and they have zero intention of actually producing them. the listings for the "supplements" aren't on the site anymore.
when scams like this pop up suddenly, they're not legitimate to even the slightest degree. there was never a real product, they were trying to get your money or your card and contact information either to doxx you, harass you, or literally steal from you. it's a PHISHING scheme, not a "making a shitty product to Literally Kill People" scheme. one of these things is far cheaper and far easier for a layperson to do.
while the information on the function of ashwaganda was definitely useful generally, it was/is not the most present danger of this estrolabs/queerquirk situation and people need to be aware of the actual threat these kinds of sites and situations pose.
as i was writing this estrolabs has been taken down, but queerquirk is still up and still advertising it's fake products and has a contact us page. do not give them your contact information, even to send hate. it is not worth getting phished to epicly own the dumbass behind this scheme. report the site and move on.
Updated my TBR.. um.. piles. Top left is Up Next. Top right is some rereads I will probably carry around in my bag. And my Scrubba Ducky.
Sort of alphabetized all the trade paperbacks & hardbacks. Sort of because I screwed up and C is the bottom left pile in front of the shelf. Alphabetized the mass-market paperbacks. Piled up the writing stuff and the bathroom reads.
Now I just have to move.. the plastic bins.. back in front of them.
Oh bother.
I heard and made my stepmom laugh because I pumped both fists and shouted "Shit yeah!"
This site has been going around Twitter trans accounts quite a bit lately, so just pointing out here too that it'll do fuck all, they're exploiting trans people at a time when hrt is particularly hard to access and please don't give them your money
fuckin exploitative bullshit marketed in the worst way imaginable
literally selling laxatives as weight loss supplements
rare instance of a tv tropes article that is so much better with the spoilers blurred out
You know, it occurs to me that the known internet phenomenon of Reddit “am I the asshole?” posts having completely misleading headers is actually a really great example of a far less known but far more common practice of extreme journalistic spin in cases where there are large monetary incentives to diminish the story in question.
Like, if you see a Reddit post titled “Am I the asshole for buying my wife a new dress?”, the post is pretty much always something totally deranged like: “I (48) really dislike the way my wife (20) dresses, because I think it’s too revealing and makes her look slutty, which was fine when we started dating five years ago, but it makes me feel like she’s going to cheat on me now that we’re married. I’ve politely asked her to get new clothes multiple times, and every time she refused because she said she liked her clothes, and didn’t want to waste money buying new ones. Yesterday I couldn’t take it anymore so I threw out a bunch of her old dresses and bought her a new one that was more modest looking. She started crying because one of the dresses I threw out had been left to her by her mom who died when she was a teen, but I couldn’t have known that it had sentimental value. She said that I should have asked, but obviously if I asked she’d have just told me not to throw out any of her clothes, including the ones that weren’t sentimental. Also, the more modest dress I bought was pretty expensive, and she never thanked me for it. Am I the asshole here, or is she being unreasonable?”
Similarly, whenever you see a headline like “Woman Wins Millions From McDonald’s Because Her Hot Coffee Was Too Hot”, if you dig a bit, you’ll almost always quickly find out that what actually happened was: A 79-year-old ordered coffee which, unbeknownst to her, was being served extremely dangerously hot, because McDonald’s was trying to have coffee that stayed warm over a long commute without spending any extra money on cups with better insulation. The coffee spilled on the old woman’s lap, giving her severe third degree burns over a huge portion of her body, including her genitals. She got to a hospital and they managed to save her life with skin grafting, but she became disabled from the accident, and her genitals and thighs were permanently disfigured. She tried to settle with McDonald’s for her medical costs, and McDonald’s refused to cover any portion of her medical expenses at all, and so she sued. At trial, the jury discovered that this same exact thing had happened seven hundred times before, and McDonald’s had still decided not to change their policy because paying out individual suits was cheaper than moderately reducing their coffee profits. As a result, the jury awarded punitive damages designed to penalize McDonald’s two days worth of their coffee profits, in addition to the woman’s medical costs.
I think it’s largely the same phenomenon, but I know a lot of people who are familiar with the first case, but don’t know to look for the second. If you see some totally outrageous “how could a person ever sue over this stupid thing?” case, you should immediately be incredibly suspicious that that’s all that actually happened, because a lot of the time, it absolutely isn’t. The people who have the most incentive to make their opponent look not only wrong, but completely crazy for having any sort of grievance at all, are often the actually unreasonable ones.
Anyway this is all to say that if I see ANY of y’all automatically siding with McDonald’s over the recent case where 4-year-old girl was severely burned by their chicken nuggets because “hurr durr dumb kid didn’t know that chicken nuggets were hot, people sue over anything lol”, I will grab that McBoot you’re licking and shove it all the way up your McFuckingAss.
lawyer fun fact! sometimes you need to sue someone before your insurance will pay for your medical bills (because your insurance would rather the other person pay for your medical bills so they don’t have to)! sometimes you need to sue because what you’d get from insurance isn’t enough to pay for all of your medical bills! sometimes you want to change a specific thing, like a dangerous practice or defective part, and that’s not going to happen if you just ask nicely!
most truly ridiculous lawsuits get screened before they’re even filed (because someone goes to an attorney and that attorney is like “yeah you don’t have a case here”) or very shortly after they’re filed (because judges can toss out cases that have zero merit). 99% of the time, if it sounds ridiculous but somehow it went all the way to someone suing and winning in a jury trial, it probably wasn’t actually as absurd as it sounds.
The thing with the chicken nuggets is; it’s not McDonald’s or the girl’s fault, it’s her parents.
I’d go into to more detail; but my break is almost over and I have to get back to work.
The chicken nuggets were being served at 200°F, which literally no parent would have any reason to expect, and the mom immediately pulled over as soon as her four year old started screaming. Her parents did literally everything right, and the narrative that they’re at fault here is rank corporate propaganda.
WHAT PART OF ALL THE WAY UP YOUR MCFUCKINGASS DO YOU PEOPLE NOT FUCKING UNDERSTAND?!?
no restaurant on the face of the planet should be serving food so hot it gives you burns when it touches your skin, especially in a drive through. if they want to hand you food that is too hot to eat, they should be putting warnings on the bags and give times for how long you should wait before eating it. the onus is on the seller, mcdonalds.
well that certainly puts things into perspective. perhaps target understands that the white male supremacy throwing domestic terrorism tantrums over rainbow shirts has significant overlap with the militarized police force.
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idk if it's this way everywhere but the targets in my city all are super militarized and have target security patrols walking around in tactical vests and shit
Some gay men really put 0 hours of work into unlearning their hatred of women’s bodies and anatomy it’s embarrassing. Like i’m super fucking sorry that you’ve got a pussy ick thing going on but i got over it after like one conversation with a friend and you’re 29 years old publicizing your pussy ick on twitter dot com dot gov posting about how super fucking hard it is that trans men are also in gay bars and that’s Not Valid because ewwww they have vacheena which is the opposite of gay eeewwwwwww! And you have to let everybody know that you’re gay not because you like men but because you hate pussy so much it makes you transphobic. Like how can you even continue to serve cunt in such a state
To my gay brothers, especially to those of you who are younger and more directly under this pressure, I hope you feel no guilt or shame for not wanting to sleep with someone of the female sex, for feeling uncomfortable or repulsed at the idea of having penis-in-vagina intercourse. This is woke homophobia. It's not okay for someone to guilt or shame you for having the sexual boundaries surrounding your sexual orientation that you have, or to coerce and pressure you into heterosexual sex. You are fine the way you are.
Some ppl will read "publicly declaring how much you hate vaginas or resent trans men in gay spaces as a way of socializing as a gay man is transphobic" and reinterpret that as "they're trying to make us have sex with them".
I tend to think this is due to wilful misunderstanding, because claiming we are trying to "make you sleep with us" is such a violent and potent tool to use against us, to get us excluded and otherwise participate in our genocide.
Let me make it real simple for you. Some gay men bond and socialize by talking about how vaginas are disgusting. This needs to stop. And you need to grow up enough to realize that declaring that pussy is soooo yucky is not the same thing as declining to have sex with people with a pussy. Any adult should be able to realize that.
I left a support group for gay men with my particular disability because of the constant banter about pussy being gross, despite repeated requests to cool it. The group had claimed to be trans inclusive. It wasn't, obviously. Later it turned out it was also moderated by racists and they were declining membership requests from Black men. It all goes together. It's all pieces of one big disgusting ideology.
So grow the fuck up.
Just to note, I have in fact had gay dudes in my life try to bond with me through queer culture by talking about how pussy is gross. I am a butch queer woman. This doesn't seem to matter: it seems that guys like this only really interact or think about interacting with straight women and cis gay men, and they tend to assume that strategies for one or the other of those categories will work for me. Protip: doesn't work that way, bucko!
These gentlemen are inevitably confused and taken aback if I object to this, because in their non-work lives apparently they never hang out with anyone but other cis gay men and maybe a couple other queers who tolerate this shit. So let me make this clear: performing exaggerated disgust at how gross you find my genitals is not a way to make fucking friends. It is not cute. It is not fun. It is not cheeky.
I always want to tell them: if you don't stop, I'm going to have to explain this to you and let you sit in uncomfortable silence while I explain all the weird things I do not like about male bodies, which is a thing I do not bring up often and particularly not ever around my dude and transmasc friends for the simple reason that their bodies do not exist for my pleasure. I don't have to like their bodies. I just have to like my friends. It's hard for me to like my friends when they're telling me my body is gross, which is what you're doing. If I need to do the same thing to get it through your head that this feels bad, I will, but I hate having to do that. So please just think before you speak, yeah?
LOVE when people are like, "This is not a novel," and then list stuff that people made up just to get published..
(Amityville Horror, Go Ask Alice, and she got sued over Jay's Journal. I think there's even a musical about it.)
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happy pride tumblr! to celebrate the new season, i offer you my design for the official tumblr pride flag:
Senator Porp Gringle is a hardline conservative who delights in making the world a difficult place for those who disagree with his hateful politics. He’s a powerful figure, and today he plans to wield this power by stopping the Unicare Reform Bill—a legislation designed help unicorns with broken horns—from passing. Senator Gringle’s speech is interrupted, however, and with a newly free afternoon he decides to wander the National Mall.
It’s here that Porp stumbles upon a protest in the form of a musical performance from one of his favorite bands, Anger Against The System. Senator Gringle rocks out a bit, until discovering that he is the target of these protests and the musician’s he grew up on have nothing but distain for his hateful ways.
Now Porp and the physically manifested realization that the protest music he grew up on does not actually support his current hateful ideology are diving deep into what it means to be a rebel, culminating in a hardcore gay encounter that will change Porp Gringle forever.
This erotic tale is 4,300 words of sizzling human on gay living concept action, including anal, blowjobs, cream pies, rough sex, and the handsome sentient realization of artistic misinterpretation.
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