society if we could kill people who misgender us

he was the blueprint

I’m just going to beg that people not erase this man as a transgender Mexican man. I’m begging that during Pride month that his legacy & identity aren’t erased by people claiming him as a “lesbian icon” or a “gnc icon” or anything of the sort as it is common practice for trans men to be erased and relabeled as lesbians. We deserve to have our histories remembered as trans histories. We don’t deserve to be ignored, erased, & vilified as trans men of color. Thank you. Amelio Robles Ávila was a Mexican transgender man. That cannot be taken away.

I love the use of “therefore” in that last line as if historians were worried he’d come back to threaten them with a pistol if they misgendered him.

he fucking would i think actually

why are dudes in fanfic always getting hit with freight train orgasms. why not an orient express orgasm, classy and romantic. where are the shinkansen train orgasms? his orgasm hit him like the TGV atlantique breaking the passenger rail speed record. like the shanghai maglev, his orgasm was a feat of engineering but something of a commercial disappointment.

Don’t tell me delayed orgasms aren’t a thing

learning new things about the german rail system today

yeah.......... i truly hate the democratic party with everything i have in my soul. all he had to say was "yes, i'm defending this innocent man because he did nothing wrong but come to america seeking a better life" and he couldn't even do that. naturally the comments i've seen say shit like "i don't have to agree with you but i'll defend your rights" and i ask once again what are we disagreeing with Kilmar Abrego Garcia on???????? what did he do besides be brown and have tattoos???????? why shouldn't we defend him??????? oh my god this fucking country

malcom x was right about the fox thing

Except he is right to say it that way. I have no doubt Abrego Garcia is an innocent man, whose only crime was being brown and having tattoos. But the implication of saying that he is defendng that innocent man is that if Abrego Garcia was guilty of any of the things that is being alleged about him than his being abducted and traffiked by the federal govenrment without due process would have been acceptable, and its not.

That is base of the argument the Trump adminstration is currently making, that Garcia is really a horrible person so even if he was abducted and traffiked by the federal govenrment and was not guilty of the specific things they said he was than its ok.

Yes there is an extra layer of horror because of the blantant racism in which it is a crime to have skin darker than milk and dare to exist. Yes, due process means that he is legally innocent no matter what (I also agree that he did not do what he was accused of, to be clear). But it seems like the part to be focused on is the Federal Government abducted and traffiked people and are trying to justify it. Adding a qualifier for innocent people merely gives this adminstration an excuse.

Even guilty people deserve due process. Even people who do bad things deserve due process. If we say This Guy deserves due process because he's innocent then they have motivation to make everyone a criminal. They're phrasing it that way on purpose to set the standard, not to slander an innocent man

sorry but modern AUs which depict harrowhark as incredibly goth or punk-looking just completely misunderstand harrow as a character. like, yes, aesthetically in the TLT context harrow has goth-like attributes. skull facepaint, bone earrings, etc, etc, i get it. but that's not counterculture for her! in fact, she dresses exactly how the revered daughter of the ninth house is expected to dress - down to the sacramentally shorn haircut.

which brings me to my main point. harrow's not a goth! she's a nun! she wouldn't be wearing chains and spikes, she would be wearing a full habit and a headscarf! she's a religious nun and she accidentally fell in love with lucifer. that's her aesthetic. she was raised in some deeply catholic cult somewhere in buttfuck nowhere and she carries a rosary everywhere she goes. there's your modern AU.

This paints such a beautiful picture

it me

Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.

Pleasure affects our metabolic pathways; it’s a facet of the complex gut-brain connection. If you’re eating foods you don’t like because you think it’s healthy, it’s not actually doing your body much good (it’s also unsustainable, we’re pleasure-seeking creatures). Eat food you enjoy, it’s a win-win.

what

no seriously

what?

PLEASURE IS A NECESSARY PART OF HUMAN HEALTH, BOTH PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND PHYSICALLY

this is why you should be eating your chips with salsa and guac instead of beating yourself up for not eating a salad with tomato and avocado (unless you are a salad bitch like me then enjoy both of them!)

here’s a recent systemic review of all the research done on the subject

for those of you wondering if the studies cited above are legit and if so where we can read about them, here’s a link to one of the (more than a dozen!) papers written on the topic of nutrient absorption and how you eat your food:

hey look, additional info!

Rereading the Lord of the Rings series recently, and it's so fascinating to me how much the series is a denial of the typical juvenile power-fantasy that is associated with the fantasy genre.

Like, the power-fantasy is the temptation the Ring uses against people It tempts Boromir with becoming the "one true king" that could save his people with fantastic power. It tempts Sam with being the savior of Middle Earth and turning the ruin that is Mordor into a great garden. It tempts Gandalf and Galadriel with being the messianic figure of legend who brings salvation to Middle Earth and great glory to herself.

The things the Ring tempts people with are becoming the typical protagonists of fantasy stories that we expect to see. and over and over we see that accepting that role, that fantasy of being the benevolent all-powerful hero, is a bad thing. LotR is about how power, even power wielded with benevolent intent, is corrupting.

And its so fascinating how so much of modern fantasy buys into the very fantasy LotR denies. Most modern fantasy is about being that Heroic power-fantasy. About good amassing power to rival evil. But LotR dares not to. It dares to be honest that there is no world where anyone amasses that power and remains good.

I guess that's one of the reasons its so compelling.

I think I've said this before, so, sorry about that. But I was taken aback when I read LOTR because I'd heard that it's a foundational work to the fantasy genre, and I was expecting it to be somewhat basic and cliché. I got the opposite experience. It read to me like a thoughtful and detailed deconstruction of the modern fantasy genre instead of the thing that spawned it. Mostly it's because Tolkien took things through to their logical conclusion where many of his imitators did not (the scouring of the shire, the lasting irreparable psychological damage to frodo, the fact that frodo actually can't bring himself to throw away the ring, etc)

JRR Tolkien’s world was shaped by war. He knew firsthand that battles are not glorious, that heroes always pay a price, that sometimes you can’t return home because either home was ruined, or you were.

He KNEW it, knew it intimately, the loss and fear and sorrow behind the propaganda. And he knew that what helped, in his time, was kindness and community and small joys and undying friendship.

Tolkien didn’t belive in epic heroics, he believed in simple humanity. Ordinarily people persevering against all odds.

His imitators missed that. Much like Sauron at the end of the trilogy, they were distracted by armies and kings and wizards.

They never really saw or understood the hobbits at all.

oh my FUCKING GOD. I know that we all have atrocious attention spans these days, but PLEASE watch the entire thing. The punchline had me hyperventilating.

sickens me to my stomach. how dare this guy get to live my dream.

Updates :)

Ooo nice to see someone like Eurogamer openly calling out Larian for their treatment of Wyll

Here’s a link to the video! Really well done. I’m not on tiktok so I was surprised to see the stuff about the comments being filled with these same points—I guess I’d assumed the broader gamebase was ignoring him too? But no, this is really wanted and flat out ignored.

Uhhhhhhhh that seems bad

HELLO

genuinely they have probably saved people.

they HAVE saved people actually i’m 100% sure of that. i’ve learned about so many recalls i would’ve had no idea about otherwise !!!! from the bottom of all of our hearts thank you mamoru

aw shucks, thank YOU! what a pick me up!

when I was younger, I got food poisoning. I was supposed to recover from it, but I wound up with a bunch of nasty medical conditions instead. I never imagined I would become disabled from food.

so I am really glad I have been able to help spread the word every now and then about food safety and recalls, since it hopefully means a few less people going through what I have.

while I have your attention, I do not post every recall, even just for the US, so here are a few of the links I use!

• recalls.gov/recent.html <- aggregate of official government recall links for the US! food, drugs, products, child safety seats, motor vehicles, and tires! (half the feeds are broken half the time, but hey, it works™! check the FDA enforcement reports for a more complete list of recalls, especially drug recalls!)
• recalls for canada <- recalls for canada!
• RASFF <- food recalls and safety alerts for the EU!
• food safety news <- news about food safety in the US, canada, and around the world!
• I was poisoned <- see where people have gotten food poisoning near you, and report your own! (worldwide!)

thanks for reading, stay safe and take care!

I love using “good catch”

I also say “thanks for the update” or “thanks for the head’s up!”

“I really appreciate the head’s up!” also a classic

If I haven’t gotten back to someone in a swift enough period (i.e. one work day max) I say “thank you for your patience. after some consideration, I have decided…”

don’t apologize for piddly things! 

thank you > sorry

I need to remember

thank you > sorry

Thank you for waiting for me > sorry for being late

Thank you for helping me/for your time/for listening to me > sorry for bothering you

Thanking someone when they do you a favour > apologizing for your existence

This is especially hard when you haven’t been taught that people need to respect your limits, but with a bit of practice you can absolutely get there!

"people with violent sexual and taboo intrusive thoughts are valid too!!!" Do you people not realize what intrusive thoughts are. they are almost ALWAYS violent sexual taboo etc. i swear ppl on the internet have watered down mental illnesses to their most digestible traits

the whole point of the concept of intrusive thoughts is to explain that people can have extremely unpleasant graphic violent sexual disgusting thoughts pop into their head uncontrollably without ANY desire for them to be there so trying to water down the idea of intrusive thoughts just defeats the purpose of the term

art is soooo cool and great and important to society and everyone who does it should be well compensated for their hard work and talent :) except if its theatre. if you do theatre go to the shame hole. theatre is cringe for reasons no one will explain, certainly this widespread take doesn’t tinge the public opinion on art as a whole whatsoever