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every awful trend on the internet for the last decade came out of GamerGate and they were all readily visible from the very early days

if you couldn’t see it you weren’t paying attention, and everyone who coddled the movement bears responsibility for where we are today

I'm both a blexas skeptic and pro-blexas activist and I live in hope. not necessarily belief, but hope

(we should be a swing state. but we're so gerrymandered and voter-suppressed that it feels impossible)

I'm told it does. and gl w your issue!

cis men do have hormone cycles. they can also get endometriosis, but last I checked the only ways to handle it are toughing it out or surgery

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If you say "Bah, humbug" to Christmas, you may be visited by three ghosts, each with an important lesson to teach.

If you say "Bah, humbug" to Hanukkah, Judah Maccabee's gonna come teach you a lesson personally

some ppl suck! but we can shout those ppl down and make other ppl aware of the implications of those terrible opinions at the same time, bc most ppl don't actually want to kill every disabled person

jfc, my dad got covid from someone who wasn't masked in a dr's office waiting room. does this guy think my dad, who has copd, should just not go to the dr's office??

YOU DO NOT GOTTA HAND IT TO MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE

STOP WITH THIS SHIT

SHE OPENLY HATES JEWS

SHE HAS ULTERIOR MOTVES

YOU DO NOT ACTUALLY AGREE WITH HER

I feel oddly grateful that I’m somewhat protected from the worst of mcas… by pcos. it’s a devil’s bargain but it’s what I’ve got

I got lucky w my dentist, bc I react to whatever they use... for about five minutes, so my dentist just doesn't wait and keeps the anesthetic on hand to top up. ever since we figured that out, my dental health has gotten so much better

written orders! jfc, sometimes ppl just need to stop and listen and read the file

the benadryl headache is one of the worst headaches in existence. but sometimes you have to decide if you'd rather deal w/ mast cell shit or the headache from hell, and sometimes the mast cell fuckery is worse

yes. they get more leeway than lawyers, but there are limits to any judge's patience

oh hey do you have ehlers-danlos too?

btb doesn't retraumatize victims and their families, tho. true crime does by its very nature. the larger discussion about the genre is full of ppl talking about how painful it is that their loved one's death became fodder for other ppl's entertainment and the harassment they got bc of it

you didn't imply that at all, but queer cassandra seems to be reacting to misogyny from other parts of the conversation around true crime, and they aren't wrong to notice that, but it's not the entire picture

ongoing problem where fans of true crime podcasts will harass the families of victims on social media.

I get that there's a lot of misogyny in this conversation, but there are also problems w this genre and the media space around it

they can be! but a good documentary isn't made when the initial investigation is still happening, and there are generally greater legal protections so that ppl directly impacted by the tragedy can opt out. these podcasts don't have that same protection for victims and families, and there's an (cont)

[profile pic of a yellow bird with its mouth open] birdsrightsactivist @ProBirdRights I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?

idk if anyone's suggested this, but bird rights activist's post seems like it fits here

Simpson’s meme of the bus driver saying “don’t make me tap the sign.” The sign says THE SOUTH IS FULL OF GOOD PEOPLE THAT ARE ON YOUR SIDE THAT ARE HELD BACK BY GERRYMANDERING DISENFRANCHISEMENT AND REGRESSIVE POLICIES

a bearded collie naps on the floor next to a brown tabby cat. the cat is lazing against a scratching post and there are dog toys strewn about

a bearded collie and brown tabby cat lazily rassle on the floor. the dog has his head on the cat, while the cat bats at the dog’s ear. the cat is sprawled on his side and swishing his tail

how about a cat and his muppet bff?

a bearded collie lays on a couch, looking happy after shaking out his hair and undoing several hours of work brushing him out. some of his hair is kept out of his eyes in a topknot, making this absolute muppet of a dog look almost respectable

sometimes the best thing I can do is post a pet pic, so here’s a muppet dog

the gail simone strategy (complimentary)

People really need to start working the polls more. It's the best way to learn how it all works. And get a bit of the behind the scenes of the massive logistics needed to put on an election. There's a reason elections are done the way they are:

LOGISTICS

Los Angeles: if you get tear gas or see other people who have been and someone calling themselves a medic tries to use milk to wash their eyes out SLAP THAT MILK JUG OUT THEIR FUCKING HAND. MILK DOES NOT WASH OUT TEAR GAS.

Just use bottled water please.

oh, you're not going to believe it until it happens to you, specifically. fascinating. do you just not believe ppl, or do you not believe them about consequences, specifically?

what would you get out of it if someone did sue you?

I don't think you understand that what you've been doing is defamation. kathryn has a claim she could make against you. she could file suit, and the facts are not on your side. now, a jury would likely award her only nominal damages, but getting that far would be enough to leave most ppl destitute