i understand the impulse to point fingers when a really important event goes undocumented on social media but some people seem to think that everyone is like them and constantly documents their every thought on tumblr or twitter. you’re frustrated, you think its important, and leads you to the conclusion that everyone on the internet must be ignoring this. don’t assume nobody knows or is helping just because theyre not posting about it. similarly, a lot of things are not documented on mainstream news for a REASON, which can be government suppression. You can literally just say “i havent seen a lot of talk about this/ive talked to a lot of people who dont know about this so heres some links.” just make your post and go, guilt tripping people doesn’t help anybody
also, measuring the reception of issues by how many people on the internet Post about it is a) flawed, like i said above and b) reinforces armchair activist behavior by demanding that everyone spend all their time documenting everything on their personal social media for fear of being called bad people
hey can we uh…….not push the crytyping jokes too far??????? or kinda not make jokes even when talking seriously about it srsly it’s becoming a real problem because people really do type like that in actual shitty situations and you’re kind of making it ok to make fun of someone for imperfect typing when they’re having a panic attack or something??? i legitimately saw someone fucking make fun of someone’s typing when their fucking dog had just died, unrelated to any discourse or anything it’s kinda concerning
i understand the other side i’ve heard it and rbed about it but crytyping, outside of situations where it’s used as an evasion tactic for racists, shouldn’t be something to ridicule???
it’s one of those things i can really easily see ableist nt white ppl taking on like “yeah isn’t crytyping hilarious and always fake?? solid proof that when i manipulate and harrass mentally ill ppl to the point that they can’t type correctly really what happened is i won the argument and so they resorted to crytyping like a whiny sore loser” and that’s….not a good thing
We live in a 100% binary world, where if your dysphoria is bad enough, doing almost ANYTHING will make you feel like shit and like you’re misgendering yourself.
Need to buy clothes? Choose from two binary sections. Need to go to the bathroom? Better pick which one you pass as. Filling out a form? Gotta choose a binary gender. Want to find a community for something online? Better hope its not specifically separated into “boy” and “girl” communities. Want to call yourself an aesthetic™ term like prince or princess? Haha fuck nope, not for you, peasant.
You sit in a hall for a talk and they address the crowd “ladies and gentlemen!” You want to talk about attraction and people will ask you “do you like boys or girls?” You wanna get involved in gender activism, its men vs women. You meet someone new, and they ask for your pronouns, you have to pray they don’t argue over the validity of yours. Wanna get something as simple as a magazine subscription? They make you put “mr, mrs, or ms.”
You want therapy to help you deal with it all? You better goddamn hope your therapist not only supports being trans, but recognizes your gender as valid rather than a “phase” or god forbid, a symptom of something else. You want hormones or surgery to help your dysphoria? Lmao might not happen unless you pretend you’re binary trans gender. Want a solid support group and community? Wish really hard that your local trans community won’t chase you out for being “fake or confused,” or “making the community look bad,” or being “actually cis trying to sneak into the community.”
We live in a world where, to most of society, we don’t exist; and to the rest of it, we might as well be only an afterthought.
And I hate it. I can’t tell you how many times I wanted to just check off “male,” or “female” on a box and have it be true. How many times I wanted to be able to check one off for a sign up like a fucking Pandora account without feeling like I was lying, misgendering, and betraying myself.
And then in trot these little fuckers in the discourse who have the fucking GALL to tell me I don’t face anything particularly for being nonbinary. That nothing I face is possibly different than what binary trans people face. That I don’t have a right to label the easiness of being binary in a binary world, because “that doesn’t exist.” They demand how dare I make up a word to differentiate between what I face for being trans, and what I face for being nonbinary specifically. I can hear “special snowflake” and “transtrender” accusations underneath all their thinly veiled mockeries over the very idea that I might have a different experience deserving recognition.
me, 5 weeks ago: i just bought a courgette!!
me, 4 weeks ago: damn i should prepare that courgette that’s been sitting in the fridge for 1 week
me, 3 weeks ago: damn i should prepare that courgette that’s been sitting in the fridge for 2 weeks
me, 2 weeks ago: damn i should prepare that courgette that’s been sitting in the fridge for 3 weeks
me, 1 week ago: damn i should prepare that courgette that’s been sitting in the fridge for 4 weeks
me, now: damn i shoul
i love having functional executive functioning….. getting things done on time when i want to with minimal effort,,, going to sleep when im tired instead of still being awake at near 4am..,,,
dysfunction who?? dont know her…,
There are pencils that turn into
plants when you’re done using them.
The ‘Sprout Pencil’ is the first sustainable pencil in the world that can be planted after use.
“We have chosen the seeds for our pencils with great care, and they germinate quickly: i.e. within 1-3 weeks, depending on the seed variety. Most plants can be grown both indoors and outdoors.”
It’s made of natural materials: the body is cedar wood, and the “lead” is a mixture of clay and graphite.
Sprout pencils are available in 22 varieties, including sunflower, mint, lavender, sage, forget-me-not, cherry tomato, sweet pea, cilantro, and wild strawberry.
What to do
“When the Sprout Pencil has become too short to write with, it is ready to be planted. Follow the simple instructions below and see your Sprout pencil sprout.”
They are also available in the colored pencil variety, which makes me oh-so-happy!
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