girlthing

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

The strongest predictor for someone being accepting of trans people is... knowing trans people.

Or even knowing of trans people. I was raised in a conservative family and society. If not for access to the stories of trans people that the internet gave me, I would probably have ended up as a deeply repressed, self-hating transphobe.

The world needs us.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

steal your food, then toss you table scraps

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

consider: train🚆
train: go zoom 🚄
train: fit many catgirls 😽 n all my transmasc homies too 🤠 don't forget the enbies dummy 💁
train: run on electricity ⚡ give a hoot! 📣

🚆tra(i)ns 🏳️‍⚧️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

but would it be on fire if it was a good car 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

sizzling hot take: all political parties end up as tools for elites to capture power

truly a bold and newfangled idea, surely only a few radical extremists could buy into it. surely parliamentary socialists in Meiji-era Japan, for instance, would never derive this dangerous concept from first principles

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

consider: train🚆
train: go zoom 🚄
train: fit many catgirls 😽 n all my transmasc homies too 🤠 don't forget the enbies dummy 💁
train: run on electricity ⚡ give a hoot! 📣

🚆tra(i)ns 🏳️‍⚧️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

aww thanks so nice of u 💞

honestly, i was just doing my usual thing of 'wasting hours distracting myself just to avoid facing the scary difficult shit in my life'. i literally just needed to put down my phone and Do Things, but it feels impossible sometimes...

i've found that meditation helps me get out of this headspace, but - i need to get myself to meditate 🥴

idk really. i'm gonna try again, wish me luck ✊😼

[–] [email protected] 16 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

I wonder - what is the actual audience for approval rating polls?

The folks most affected by high prices or mass layoffs are probably struggling too much to have the time or inclination. Around 30% of the country didn't even show up for the election, they probably won't show up for these.

Who does that leave us with? Can we really assume that '47% approval' translates to '47% of all Americans approve'?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

i hope your moral(e) improves <3

i hope my moral(e) improves ~send~ ~help~ ~lol~ ~:3~

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

HELL YES COMRADE, FIGHT THE POWER

fr though, this is such a badass way to get banned. don't even reply to them - just keep doing the thing, post, and watch as every pathetic attempt at intimidation gets hundreds of defiant upvotes here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

✨ watching my life pass me by 💫

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hi OP! Azul_Crescent is on Masto as well, so here's an equally valid link:
Original comic by Azul Crescent

pls consider avoiding links to platforms that fund the trumpfucking blackpilled tech-tyrant crew :3

P.S. While I'm at it, is the image vroken for anyone else?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Repost, since apparently a lot of people haven't internalized this: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21216426

Not aimed at this community in particular; just the overall trend in discussion on the Fediverse in general.

Maybe you were put off by the... unique site design, but consider that Greg Palast has been doing this kind of work and getting ignored since the 80s(!). He's talked about voter suppression since 2008 at least. He probably knows that looking 'professional' doesn't matter anymore, because MSM will never give him his due.

Lots of people consciously don't vote, for reasons you may disagree with. They are not the reason we lost this election. Please, let's stop eating our own allies alive.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I've been closeted for years now. It's not safe for me to be/express who I really am, and I have no idea if or when I'll ever be able to develop into an actual person. I intend to survive anyway, if only for the hope that I might somehow, someday make existence a little more bearable for others.

I find that I'm a bit more motivated to keep going when I've watched/read/listened to stuff that reminds me why I even try. Stuff that's beautiful and/or believes that it's worth it. Stuff that reminds me that I'm not the only one to do this, that I'm connected to everyone who came before and will come after, and that we're not alone.

What helped you survive what you went through? What helps you now?

Can be anything really, as long as it's something I can get my hands on via the internet. Preferably stuff without too much of a time investment (neurodivergence means I effectively have very little productive time), but honestly, I just want to hear from you.

EDIT: thanks for the replies everyone, i'm only seeing them now, i appreciate it <3

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