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Here’s a new weekend!

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remember that small wins are still big steps in the right direction!

Warrior Cats perhaps?

Personally, incest fic gives me the ick, but fiction =/= reality & incest fic/kink has been around for literal millennia. If fiction could normalize it, it would be normalized already.

The bullying & abuse I see creators of such *fiction* get is very real though & has real consequences.

2 skeets: From Malcoholic: I think it's a dangerous road to equate fictional depictions of abuse to real world harm/crimes. By that letter, you start censoring art & fascists always start with "deviant" porn or depictions of dark topics to ease the way for greater censorship. reply from ParkrosePermaculture: Nope. I'm not gonna play slippery slope. Writing to process trauma or to explore why a harm is being done? Sure. Writing AO3 incest pieces? NO ONE- certainly not me - is saying to ban that. But also we shouldn't be afraid to talk openly about how those spaces are not universally unharmful.

No one? ALL CAPS even? Wow. Guess she's unaware of the massive amounts of vilification, targeted harassment & doxxing people have gotten for writing exactly that.

Always disappointing when an influencer who's had some good content decides to step in it on a topic they are blatantly ignorant of.

if only we could be worried about bills and feeding ourselves and not also the meteor shower of other unnecessary shit

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*looks down at waistline, grunts, ups the size on the clothes she's ordering*

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A photo of a garland of wooden ornaments featuring nine unique designs for Santa's reindeer. The ornaments are decorated with red bows and golden jingle bells and connected with golden link chains.

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Santa's Reindeer are flying in again this year! Limited stock will be dropping this Friday @ 3PM EST 🦌🔔

#artshop #christmas #reindeer #ornaments

Strong Female Protagonist still isn't finished I didn't think? The final page is still an explanation that the creators haven't had time to create the final chapter they think it deserves.

Just watched NOW YOU SEE ME which I found structurally infuriating on pretty much every level. Did not work at all, left me wanting to take an angry red pen to the script and write SEE ME AFTER CLASS.

THANK YOU!!!

The ending of this movie frustrated me SO much! It ruined a character arc, wasted so much audience good will, and was completely unsupported by what came before.

I've never experienced more love it to hate it whiplash in 40+ years of movie watching.

You guys it is possible for antisemitism to be a real and rising issue *and* for people to be racist/Islamophobic against Mamdani. It’s not an either/or. Please stop dismissing the very credible threat of antisemitism because some people who raise the issue suck.

any group that doesn't provide "comprehensive" services (ie any group that 'only' provides food, or 'only' shelter) should be ineligible for government funding is both short-sighted and cruel.

This is repulsive. I will never buy another donut from or shop at the Other Side thrift again. People have all sorts of reasons they don't seek help when homeless. Stripping them of their basic autonomy (for minimum 30 days!?) won't solve most of them & is morally repugnant. Also, suggesting

A small collection of cat whiskers, black and white, resting in the palm of a hand.

had no luck. It's not feasible to do a thorough quill hunt before every cleaning task so instead with each chore came the knowledge I was losing one more chance at ever finding more. I kept cleaning, but it weighed on me.

BUT while cleaning the other day I found a look-a-like container! Inside:

#DCgrief Between disability & circumstance cleaning is difficult at the best of times but lately it's carried an extra layer of dread. I collect my cats' quills but after DC died, I opened her container to find it empty. I moths I've been battling had eaten them & searched for more but

screenshot from linked to essay that reads: For those interested, I have chronicled debates about the Kaufmann report in the October 10, 2025 entry of my recently updated Origins of “Social Contagion” & “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” timeline, but I will not be discussing them further here. From my perspective, the most pertinent issue is not whether the number of young people who identify as trans or LGBTQ+ happens to be rising (as the Williams Institute and Gallup, respectively, recently reported) or falling (as Kaufmann claims), but rather that anti-trans activists will inevitably shoehorn any statistics (both increases or decreases!) into their “social contagion” narrative. The rest of this essay will be organized into three sections. First, I will discuss the history of the “transgender social contagion” narrative: who invented it, what purpose it serves, and why it’s nothing more than wild speculation. Second, with that necessary context in tow, I will highlight the numerous flaws in Colin Wright’s WSJ op-ed and revisit the popular “left-handedness” analogy, which he misrepresents in his piece. Third, I will end with a list of over a dozen studies that contradict the “social contagion”/“rapid onset gender dysphoria” hypothesis.

...since today's TDoR, I'm not gonna do my usual thread of excerpts just yet. but this passage from the intro provides a taste. pls share to raise awareness of all the studies debunking "social contagion/ROGD" as well as how inane Colin Wright's WSJ op-ed was:
juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...

Their bio reads "really just here to explore different world views and refine my own" but based on their reply section (😬) "explore" means bullying and insulting people with different ones.

Never gonna get over the huge disconnect I see on Bluesky between some people's bios versus their behavior.

Also, can I just point out the absolute privilege and anti-social self-serving of referring to childcare as a "goodie"?

This quote is from an Op-Ed that ran in the Washington Post. Which is owned by Jeff Bezos. Who depended on a 250k check from his parents back east to start Amazon. Also the 600 MILLION in tax breaks & the cost of social services his employees depend on which Seattle residents were forced to bear.

Goodness, what a pretty face!

A tortoiseshell cat sleeping on a blue floral blanket between her mother's legs. Her far front paw is curled while the near one is slung over her mom's leg snuggle style.

Beanie babies have more value than nepo babies

*Life* is a right, therefore anything required to support it is also a right & should be guaranteed to those who don't have it regardless of the reason. That includes healthcare, of course, but also food, housing, clothing etc. Guaranteed means not relying on charity or individual generosity for it.

Welp, this is far from perfect. but I'm glad it strips immunity from the Sack(of shit)ler family. I was incensed when they got off scott-free in the original deal.

And yes I saw several (including other famous authors and friends of his) in that camp as well. Not...denying the accusations, just unsure how to react. Wanting more information.

I was admittedly in the uncertain group, but dropped him before the article came out when he *admitted* the things had happened but claimed they were 'consensual.' Because even IF he'd been telling the truth at that point, his actions were skeevy as shit & he was not the person he'd claimed to be.

That should have said '1 *accusation* since'

IIRC there's been at least 1 accuser since. Also, we wouldn't really know if he'd repeated the sin... just that he hasn't been caught 🤷‍♀️

(Not w/ Polanski but I've seen 'never did it to anyone else' used to argue a victim was lying because 'if he'd really done it' there would have been others.)

Absolutely correct. So much of the discourse around restoring trust in the institutions is focused on decorum and civility theater. But why would anyone trust the institutions if, after the horror show that we are suffering through, they yet again fail to impose some measure of real accountability?