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living in times not seen since 1962 (no new doctor who or star trek being made)

I did nothing as a teen. No crushes, no dating, wasn’t invited to parties, third wheeled every friend group. I was a living ghost of a person.

Good Wombat Wednesday morning my friends. 🦛 ❤️

fabric scrap pride quilts🏳️‍🌈 ♡ i love queerness ♡

Neurotypicals: You would be less distracted if you put your phone away. ADHDers: I put the phone away. Now I am distracted by the wall, the hum of the fridge, a smell I cannot identify, and a memory from 1989.

the Blue Girl thing is symptomatic of the fact that queer people don't think of trans men or transmasculine people as trans in any meaningful way. passing trans men are cís men and non passing trans men are women who think they're men, or they just don't exist.

happy birthday electra heart🖤

This is it. Right here. The quiet part out loud. The core belief of every assimilationist and transmed and terf and enlightened centrist.

some native aussie animals

the four horsemen of the apocalypse

"Calm down. He won't be that bad." "He won't go after political opponents." "He won't try to overturn an election." "He won't start a stupid, costly war." "He won't purge the military." "He won't use nukes." <--- We're currently here.

Iran's head rabbi looking at the ruins of his synagogue, blown up by Israel during passover.

The hostility of the racist Murdoch media empire and the even more intense hostility from Labor ensures that the coverage of the Greens is relentlessly unhinged. We were essentially blasted as terrorists every single day and treated with contempt by all sides. It doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense. We’re supposedly radical terrorists and effete, entitled rich white people at the same time. Which is it? My local Greens group is not made up of anything resembling the skewed perception that is managed and maintained by the status quo. It’s working class people, primarily, and the vast majority of them are former Labor voters who realised that the ALP would never be a progressive party again, which is another reason Labor hates us. As a candidate last year I saw this firsthand—the people at the polling booths who were the nastiest to me, interjecting when I tried to talk to people, were Labor volunteers. Between them and the media there is a binding commitment to block progressive politics. We are ruled by a conservative block, from the ALP to the LNP and One Nation on the edges. In saying that, one criticism I have is that the Greens electoral policy platform is too ambitious, the message too diffuse. They have so many outstanding policies and it gets entirely lost in the noise. They need to pick three to five, maximum, and run hardest on those. Even with a neutral media they wouldn’t get as far as they should because the comms strategy is not as strong as it could be.

having been on the internet for a while, resist against all right-wing forum-derived prefixes and suffixes of the past decade: Prefixes: schizo-, giga-, soy-, chud-, goy-, (etc.) Suffixes: -cel, -oid, -maxx, -pilled, -post, -tard, -mog, -cuck, -chad, -jak, -fag, -oomer, (etc.)

🌏 Once abundant, Regent honeyeaters are on the edge of extinction—only about 250 remain. As their woodland was cleared, their songs fell silent. Those born in zoos only sang other bird species' songs. Recordings were played from dawn to dusk to teach them their own songs—without success. So wild ones were deployed as vocal coaches, and the students have learned the songs well enough to teach others. Their own songs are critical to reproduction in the wild. This is meant to be a positive story, but it left me filled with sadness of how much we are destroying, and the precious little we save. Article, video and research in 🧵

It's so funny to see people making good faith art that's maybe a bit GNC or nuanced in some way and getting horribly dragged for it, when we've got people actively making a 4tran passing chart full of slang meant to make you hate yourself and convince you you'll never pass.

Welcome to Queensland - the Censor State - where you can face up to two years’ imprisonment for a simple phrase.

Lots of people struggling with the difference between "cannot ever ever ever ever ever once do a thing because of my disability :[" and "cannot do a thing reliability enough to satisfy the person who decides if I get to pay my rent and buy food, because of my disability"

Oh god someone who doesn’t know chemistry or biochemistry This is a classic chemistry fallacy—pretending that a substance is either “good” or “bad” regardless of dose, form, and exposure. Toxicology doesn’t work that way. As Paracelsus said centuries ago: “The dose makes the poison.” Here’s the reality behind each of those comparisons: Mercury •Fish may contain methylmercury, a bioaccumulating neurotoxin that builds up in large predatory fish. •Vaccines historically contained ethylmercury (thimerosal), which is metabolized and cleared quickly and is not the same compound. •Today, most childhood vaccines contain no thimerosal at all. Formaldehyde •Used industrially in building materials at higher exposures. •Tiny amounts are used during vaccine manufacturing to inactivate toxins or viruses, and only trace residual amounts remain. •Your own metabolism produces far more formaldehyde naturally every day than any vaccine contains. Glyphosate •Agricultural herbicide. •Not present in vaccines. The comparison is simply false. Aluminum •Aluminum salts are used in some vaccines as adjuvants to improve immune response. •The amount is tiny and far below everyday exposure from food, water, and medications. MSG •Monosodium glutamate is a flavor enhancer in food. •Not used in vaccines. The key principle: People compare chemical names, not actual biology. Dose, chemistry, route of exposure, and metabolism determine risk. Or put more bluntly: Listing scary-sounding chemicals without context is not toxicology. It’s marketing.