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no one:
asexuals before realizing they’re ace: isn’t it weird how we call people “hot” when we just mean, like, pretty? it makes it sound like you actually feel hot when you see them. which isn’t a thing. anyway
ok i am absolutely losing it over the sheer number of people who found out what hot means from this post
huh
Apparently boomer Democrats are having meltdowns over a gen-z progressive who is primarying an 80 year old Democrat because she "went on trans podcasts" and wore a Charizard kigurumi
ok but what is she running on
You can check her out here, but quick run down:
reblog if you’re a commie fuck who wants the USA destroyed
Reblog to make it die faster
Like to charge, reblog to cast.
Our 'O.k.est Star' 20ct white background sticker sheets turned out gold-star worthy! More updates on our Tucson Zine-Fest prep, and shop coming soon!
@thetwistedrope came up with the fantastic idea for 'O.K.est Stars', and I sprinkled a little of that 'inner toddler' magic to bring them to life in Illustrator. These stickers are perfect for those days where you tried your best, and 'meh' was as good as it got!
tumblr memes ate my brain years ago.
anyone that's known me for a long time knows that i've spent the majority of my adult life living with never-ending depression. the idea that depression could lessen or even disappear for a while was completely foreign to me.
in general, my depression was hand waved away as not being "bad enough" because i had a job, or it was suggested that i played a role in my depression for not doing enough therapy.
i've been actively trying to solve my depression issues for years now, and only now in my late thirties did someone actually fix the problem (because I nagged them to.)
if you have non-stop depression that never goes away. i implore you to consider looking into whether you have ADHD or ASD (or both).
something that i don't see enough healthcare professionals talk about or catch is that folks with untreated ADHD can have wicked bad depression (because no dopamine). and because antidepressants don't treat the dopamine deficiency caused by ADHD, they won't solve the problem (usually).
further, if you're AuDHD like me, you could easily have your ADHD masked by your ASD, and your ASD masked by your ADHD.
do not spend years waiting to look into it like i did, if your depression legit never leaves, stimulants may be worth looking into.
The United States Disappeared Tracker is “tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or disappeared by the Trump regime since March 9, 2025”.
In addition, We Are Higher Ed and Forward are tracking campus abductions specifically.
I have said it before, I will say it again, and I will continue saying it: ICE needs to be abolished. Not reformed, not re-trained. ICE needs to be abolished.
Contrary to what Joe Biden said, ICE is the mf problem, and there is no reforming it.
As we are seeing, the agency is not in “safe hands” under a Democratic administration, and it damn sure ain’t in safe hands under the fascistic Trump administration.
There is no amount of “reforming” or “re-training” that will fix ICE’s carceral culture, where civil liberties violations and other atrocities have existed and been allowed to thrive.
ICE NEEDS TO BE ABOLISHED.
it really is insane how little you hear about "america has the world's highest prison population by such a significant margin that it would be seen as excessively over-the-top if it was used in fiction"
before you say "4% isn't that big of a difference between the US and China"
for anyone bad at math 1.4 billion divided by 340 million is about 4. we have a fourth the population of china but a higher prison population and a higher incarceration rate by far. this is just widely publicly available information that you're supposed to just accept. it's not supposed to make you go insane.
The US has the largest prison population AND the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world. The US is home to 4.2% of the world's population but 20% of its incarcerated population. More than 0.6% of the US population is incarcerated.
Men make up 93% of the US prison population, but despite this, the US accounts for 30% of the GLOBAL population of incarcerated women.
Housing insecurity is the most significant predictor of incarceration with 22% of state prisoners experiencing it shortly before incarceration.
12% of state prisoners in the US were unhoused before their 16th birthday.
68% of US state prisoners were first incarcerated before their 16th birthday.
More than half of people in prisons and jails in the US have a mental illness.
Cognitive learning disabilities occur in state prisons at nearly 500% the national rate.
[all data sourced or derived from the Prison Policy Initiative]
Extremely important to talk about race in this conversation. Black and Indigenous Americans are significantly more likely to be incarcerated.
It's worth noting that there are some extraordinary people in the world who have been quietly doing the work for decades, and they should be celebrated with all the fervor that we denounce the villains. I first read about Harrison twenty-odd years ago, when he'd already been doing this for about fifty years, and this is one of those guys whose life can, indeed, be summed up by his headline.
James Harrison saved millions of lives. Millions. Not with anything flashy or dramatic, not with profound speeches or brilliant strategy or any of the things we insist are the ways to impact the world. He simply kept himself as healthy as possible so that every few weeks he could go and sit quietly in a room and give away a fundamental part of himself — quite literally his lifeblood — to people he'd never meet, for no pay and no expectation of acknowledgement. (He was, it should be said, acknowledged quite a lot per this article, but that's beside the point.)
When we talk about the kind of people we want to elevate and celebrate in our societies, I often think of people like James Harrison. I hope we get more of him; not just for his blood, but for his heart.
question 4 kemetics that know more about this than me. did set like Literally sexually assault horus or is that more of like a metaphor or something bc, and this may be from me spending so much time in fandom, the fact that people worship Set as much as they do when that myth exists lowkey confuses me, im not here to judge anybody for worshiping their deity but can someone like, educate me more about set in terms of him and horus and if that myth is supposed to be taken literally?
Yes and no.
The question you pose is actually incredibly complex and no matter who responds to you about this, it will remain complex and require your own decision after looking at every facet of the facts involved, which potentially could take years to do.
So, the myth in question is during The Contendings when Horus (son of Osiris and Isis) is basically like "bitch give me the throne; my dad wanted it that way" and Set is like "who tf cares" and they basically try to one-up each other to prove who is the most amazing, virile, perfect specimen to rule over all of the things.
The version of this myth can be interpreted in a wide variety of ways. It can be interpreted on a literal basis (that Set sexually assaulted his nephew and to get back at his uncle for calling Horus a bottom, Horus and his mother sexually assault Set in turn and use this assault as proof that Set is actually the bottom). It can be interpreted on a metaphorical basis (as to the metaphor in question that is definitely in the eye of the beholder thing). It can be completely ignored (the Contendings have absolutely no basis whatsoever in my practice; I know the myth and have my own thoughts on it but since I have no relationship with Set or the Horus the Contendings are about, idgaf).
I personally interpret the myth as a consensual moment between two deities who then use it to get the upper hand in the chess game the other gods demanded be played when they were "unable" to figure out who should rule the throne. (And by unable I mean bored.)
In my opinion, the point of the myth isn't really about all the shit Set did but about all the shit Horus did. To basically feed propaganda to a mostly illiterate populace that the king on the throne is amazeballs, maintaining the status quo is amazeballs, and don't upset the tea cart mmk. But I have been told that my interpretation isn't quite right and of course it isn't the only one around so take all this with a grain of salt.
Beyond Set and his did he or did he not assault his nephew question, the ancient Egyptian gods have all done some highly suspect and most definitely fucked up shit in their own myth cycles. Set, however, is the one most often villianized when technically every single one of the gods could be. The villianization of Set is something that takes place starting in later periods of ancient Egypt (but was not a thing iirc in earlier periods) and continued across the millennia until we come to the Victorian era and the Egyptologists of that period being incapable of looking at the AE religion within the lens of their own Christian backgrounds.
So. Does all of this mean that Set is a bad guy? Sure, if you want to see him that way. Nothing I or anyone else has to say on the matter is [probably] going to change your mind. But does that mean he really is a bad guy? Nah. He, along with all the other gods, are good and bad full of ma'at and isfet. And it's up to each individual to come to terms with that, or not.
So yeah, its, Like That, I mean, do what you want with the myth, but its fucking bonkers and if you wanna be mad at Set, be that much mad at Horus too.
People are always saying omgggg why do kemetics worship Set he's a bad guy but the truth is Horus is a bad guy too.
Two Verse Trying To Be A Top is probably still one of my sickest and rawest thing I ever said about the Netjeru lmao
i think it's hard to tell whether something is literal or not when it involves non-physical entities that we can't just objectively go up and ask. i personally take the stance that every version of a myth has some truth to it, that each version shows us a side of the deity that is real, even if it's not often seen or explored.
i feel like a lot of the discussion about the two of them duking it out to be the top sorta misses the subtle aspects of this story and why the rape may have been included as it was.
i think the first point to mention is that the interaction btwn them highlights that sex with set is fruitless. he's known for having a big sexual appetite, but none of his sex produces anything viable. even when he's trying to overcome the crown prince, he still can't convince his semen to, like, do anything useful lol. he is horny, but not fertile.
semen also overlaps with poison, i don't remember if they're the same word or just similar, but there is a specific line btwn poison and semen that should be considered when reading the myth. that his own poison (semen) is used against him in the end.
horus is able to take this poison and through the help of his mother, is able to use it to trap set. in many ways, he's taken setian energy and managed to transform it into something more useful. to me, this partially underscores the need of the Crown to be able to take chaotic isfetian energy and use it to push forth the Crown's agenda. put another way, the king needs to learn to harness isfetian energy and transform it into ma'atian energy.
Alison Roberts has an entire chapter about the contendings, and she posits that much of the parts of the myth are really there to establish a different role between aset and horus, describing it as "a brutal, but necessary rupture btwn mother and son." aset is no longer just a mother, but has been reintroduced to the solar circuit, being forced to give up her maternal over-protection that limits her son, thereby giving her (and Horus) new life and possibilities.
she also states that this story allows horus and set to experience the deepest and darkest sides of one another, and that the story highlights the coming of age of horus, and the removal of his naivete, youth, purity... whatever you wanna call it, as he takes on the weight of the crown.
i think it's also worth mentioning that this happens after osiris is introduced into the pantheon, that set and horus' relationship was different before the introduction of HSA and incorporating these entities into the myth. Ian Taylor purposefully splits set into set the younger and set the elder to reflect this change.
also, worth mentioning that the contendings is meant to be a little bit extreme. there is a paper on sacred humor in AE, and it talks about how the contrendings is sorta meant to be exxxxtra and that the gods act out in ways that is inappropriate due to the nature of how the contendings was told and shared every year.
tl;dr if someone wanted to be like "i don't wanna work with set because he raped HSA" i'd be like "that's fair". to me, there is nothing wrong with seeing the literal aspects of the myth and reading them that way (also HSA rapes aset in some versions of the myth rip. Roberts says that this is because he's becoming irreparably changed due to his interaction with set).
but i also think it's important to understand that most of our myths and stories have layers and context that we probably miss out on due to not being able to speak the language (the egyptians love puns) and not being within the culture itself.
as always ymmv.
“That’s a shame,” Walz said, responding to the GOP news. “If your Republican representative won’t meet with you because their agenda is so unpopular, maybe a Democrat will.”
“Hell, maybe I will,” he continued in a post on social platform X. “If you congressman refuses to meet, I’ll come host an event in their district to help local Democrats beat ‘em.”
National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) advised House Republicans to avoid in-person town halls with constituents and instead to host phone or livestreamed events.
Start killing billionaires.
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This post is now about a far-right politician and one of the best moments of Brazilian live TV:
appreciating the added context
Got a rare dopamine boost scrolling bluesky and seeing:
1) US politicians in deep red districts being confronted by their increasingly angry constituents.
2) Seeing the size and number of protests happening at tesla dealerships (scroll TeslaTakedown or check out Alex Winter’s feed)
3) Vermont showing up to scream at vance and ruin his ski holiday
People are out there being loud and getting louder
Protests are happening and they are getting bigger
Town halls are overflowing and when politicians run, people are starting to meet them at their offices or vacation spots
Let’s keep it going
