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covid, uspol 

So, I finally saw what Trump actually said about bleach being a cure and, just,,,my gods. From what I can tell, he wasn't suggesting ingesting it. He was suggesting *aspirating* it. That's,,,what,,,no! that's not,,,no! Good gods, why?!

On the bright side, it does confirm my suspicions as to why he pushed (hydroxy)chloroquine so hard, but not remdesivir: no one's actually mentioned the latter near him, probably for fear of him assuming it's a cure too.

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okay i cant find the post so im just going to re-write it. trans masc pol 

I appreciate all the rallying behind trans masc people today but i want to make something abundantly clear

i dont need people to "not all men" for me. i internalized this before i transitioned, but i have always understood jabs at men not meaning that all men do [thing] but simply that 99% of people who do [thing] are men. it does not offend me. i really dont care. most of the time, i agree.

and instead of getting mad at random people for venting about men, i would much rather we put our energy into reshaping trans spaces that are so hostile to masc folks. say cis men when you mean cis men. dont say that T is poison. dont conflate "trans" with "trans woman." dont create dichotomies in the trans community to exclude trans masc people. i could go on and on you get my point.

we're in this together, and everything i do is to try to bring us together without pretending we're the same. we can acknowledge our different needs and experiences without excluding eachother.

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important quote from article, intersectionality, black trans men, feel free to boost 

"[T]rans men’s relationship to gender cannot be understood by adding the privilege of maleness to the oppression of transness; the interaction between these axes substantively transforms both such that it generates an experience qualitatively different from either alone.

This qualitative difference is particularly salient for Black trans men and transmasculine people, whose experiences at the intersection of race, gender, and trans status are especially ill-captured by a sex-class approach. The assumption that masculinity necessarily means freedom from gender oppression ignores how race/ism is always gendered, and in particular how Black masculine people are gendered as inherently dangerous (and targeted for anti-Black violence on the basis of that “danger”)."

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a piping hot take on transmasc support 

"we support trans mascs!" really just comes across as "please don't forget we support you too haha" when like. we wouldn't be out here forgetting if non transmasc people actually engaged with us on issues or took accountability for when their behavior hurts as lmao

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a piping hot take on transmasc support 

posts that are just like "i love trans men!", very frequently not even posted by trans masc people, always get way more attention and boosts than actual posts we write on how the community fails transmascs and, that does not whip imo

re: stupid coding joke regarding happenings on deviantart 

Incidentally, I never even used eclipse back then. I always used netbeans.

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stupid coding joke regarding happenings on deviantart 

if I wanted to use eclipse, I'd go back to java development

kink, nsfw, mildly macabre, KAT! NO! 

Ya know, like this:

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kink, nsfw, mildly macabre, oh gods kat stop 

Ya know, a cock is shaped sorta like an oropharyngeal airway, so if you ever want to know what one of those feels like, just have someone deep throat you with the curvature of their cock facing down along the bottom of your mouth

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kink, nsfw, mildly macabre, probably worse 

Google: maintaining airway patency while shoving my thick cock down my pathetic little sub's throat

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context re:kink?, nsfw, mildly macabre? so you don't have to go googling 

Airway patency is how open it is. A patent airway is fully open and unobstructed. As you might could guess, shoving a cock down a throat could compromise that.

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kink?, nsfw, mildly macabre? 

Google: Maintaining airway patency while deep throating

Important notes on forgiveness 

Some more on what forgiveness isn't:
- Leniency. Consequences can still be had.
- Condoning or excusing behaviour. You can forgive someone for that which you condemn.
- Revenge or "letting god handle it". It is not hurting someone who's hurt you. (That's a different thing, that may or may not be justified.)
- "Giving it time". It's an active process.
- A quick fix. It takes time.
- Moving on. That's merely a part of it, not the entirety.

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Important notes on forgiveness 

Forgive and forget is the most bullshit thing anyone has ever said. Forgive, for sure. But don't forget. To forget is to leave yourself open to the same wrongs you suffered in the first place. Forgive, but learn the lessons that need to be learned. Don't. just. forget.

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Important notes on forgiveness 

Forgiveness is for you and you alone. No one needs to ask you for it, and it's not something you give anyone. It is you giving up resentment (to which you have a *right*, mind you), and doing what it takes to heal.

It is not reconciliation. You don't have to like those you forgive. It is not just moving on. You still need to heal. And, most importantly, it is not. forgetting. ...

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Re: More on Kat and UIL, one last thing (more bragging) 

BTW, us furies won honorable mention all-star cast that year. Normally, they don't give awards to ensembles, so, more fun stuff for senior year.

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Re: More on Kat and UIL, SPEAKING of improv 

Senior year, our theatre teacher asked me and two others who'd been in theatre for a while to demonstrate improv. This wouldn't be worth mentioning except for the fact that *all three of us hate improv*. We proceeded to awkwardly stumble our way through a car buying scene before she finally decided "Okay, nevermind."

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Re: More on Kat and UIL 

I've wanted to get back into acting for a while now. I dunno. Maybe if one of you needs an actor for something, get in touch. I might be interested (though I can't guarantee being a good fit for any role). Just don't contact me about improv. Three years of theatre and I can't do improv for shit.

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Re: More on Kat and UIL, the aforementioned speech 

Yeah. Me. An atheist. Talking about "My Saviour. Sweet, Sweet, Jesus". There's just a nice irony to it, isn't there. An irony made better by the fact I've become something of a Satanist in recent years.

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