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Man, I wish that were true. I wish I readily had a connection between vegetarianism and rap and could write about it, and I wish all members of the Wu-Tang Clan were vegan.

Somewhere around a week a half ago I was really struggling with self-pity. “Why has this been such a tough school year for me so far? Why the heck do I keep on having injuries that prevent me from running with my cross-country team? Why do I have so much work?!”

These were the types of questions that ran through my head. They stuck there for a bit and finally I became sick of them. So I did a little research, and found one of my favorite preachers saying that two of the salves for self-pity were gratefulness and perspective.

She has said more Zionist propaganda after October 7th, 2023.

Has refused to join a boycott on Israel since 2015.

She is spreading misinformation that Iranians are oppressed by Islam, instead of acknowledging the Iranian regime was made because of US and UK interventionalism.

Please do not financially support her. If you want to engage in Harry Potter without financially supporting through fan works (fan made fiction or merch), thrift buys, and piracy then that’s fine and perfectly ethical.

We are not a house who cares much about gendering a baby's clothes. It's a BABY. It doesn't care. So we'd take the kid to yard sales and let them pick out whatever baby clothes caught their fancy and would fit. Some were 'boy' and some were 'girl'. Kiddo loved floral prints because they're a baby (yeah my kid has always picked their own clothes).

Anyway, my kid LOVED TO CLIMB. Sometimes.

It was weird. Sometimes they were all over the sofa and the playground equipment and MY LEGS and sometimes they just. Weren't. Couldn't figure out what was going on.

Until I caught them trying to climb on rhe sofa in one of their pretty flowered pants.

They COULDN'T LIFT THEIR LEGS PROPERLY. And gave up, and did something else.

So I tested this out and... Yeah. The kid COULDN'T climb in ANY of their girl pants. Any. Put them in boy clothes and suddenly the kid is on everything again.

We stopped buying girl pants completely until they were old enough to test them and my kid is a TEENAGER now and i still make them lift their legs individually and jump if it's a girl fit.

YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO MEAN TO DO IT.

I volunteer for my local shelter and when the weather's good, we do a free vaccine clinic every Friday. Free distemper, free rabies, cats and dogs. We hand out free food from the pet pantry, we give people leashes and collars, we do whatever we can to keep people's animals at home and healthy. Every animal that can stay home and be fed and be vaccinated is an animal that we can keep out of the shelter.

We get all kinds of folks, sometimes we even get backyard breeders but we don't do any judgment, because we want people to come and get their dogs vaccinated, because one parvo case costs $7000+ and the whole year of Parvo vaccines for hundreds of dogs costs less. It's just harm reduction, everything we do is harm reduction.

So anyway, this one day this woman comes up to the vax clinic and she is high as fuckin' hell, just obliterated fucked up, smoking a joint in line, and she has this TINY pibble puppy with her, maaaaybe four weeks old. This thing is so fuckin tiny and wormy and lethargic, and she's like, "Hey I heard I can get her shots." and we're like, oh fuck this puppy is gonna die. Like straight up, we were all like, fuck that dog is gonna die. So we gave her wormer, we gave the first distemper shot, and I put together a whole care package: wormer to take home, puppy milk replacer, puppy wet food, a leash, a harness, some blankets, toys, we gave her instructions on how to get the puppy eating food, and we told her to come back in 3 weeks for the follow up vaccine. And we were all like, well fuck, that puppy's gonna die, goddamnit, that's so fucked up. But you know, we did our best, and we hoped we'd see her again.

And in three weeks, you guys, she showed up. And she was still high, but like, half-high this time. Smoking a cigartte in line but like, could focus, could ask and answer questions. And she'd taught that tiny puppy how to SIT and had her walking on a leash. We found out that it took her three buses to get to the clinic, and she told us all about how she got the puppy eating right, got her stool solid, she was taking her on walks... The puppy looked so good, you guys. I almost cried, it was so big. Really happy puppy. At the end of the visit, we were like, ok, see you in three more weeks for the next distemper.

So three weeks later, she shows up, and she's sober, and she told us, "You know, I was really fucked up the day I bought that puppy, I wasn't sure I was going to live, and I bought that puppy and she was too young, and I didn't know what I was doing but y'all were so nice to me, and you helped me so much, and I knew that I had to give this puppy the best life I could, so I moved back in with my grandma, and I'm getting clean, and I'm on methadone, and I'm going to rehab next week, and when I get back, I'll come back and visit you guys again."

HAPPY TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY!

I am a trans man creator, and I inflict Tenna with my trans beam in every single drawing

Trans Day Of Rememberance to tell people know who may not know already, trans women on estrogen can experience periods even if it's not through the same uterus mechanism that cis women experience.

People with estrogen driven systems regardless of gender or assigned sex at birth often experience periods, trans women may not have uteruses but those on HRT do often experience basically every symptom of periods that cis women do, here's an article explaining the basics of this phenomena:

If you use change.org, your personal information becomes a product to be sold and profited off of. It is linked closely with political causes you care about and is sold to whoever will pay for it, including advertisers and governments anywhere in the world.

In Aotearoa/New Zealand, any petition that is not created either via petitions.parliament.nz, or on paper with a parliamentary petition cover sheet, is not counted in the House.

Official petitions can:

• Be created by anyone, from anywhere in the world, for any cause, regardless of residency or citizenship,

• Be signed by anyone, from anywhere in the world, regardless of residency or citizenship,

• Are statutorily obligated to protect the limited personal data they are required to collect, and not share it for any reason except for those required for the official processes (especially not profit),

• Are easier to sign and share, and have greater transparency about the legislative and regulatory processes involved,

• And actually have legitimacy in NZ Parliament, and can be accepted by the Petitions Committee and MPs and presented to the House.

All of this is to say that the nearly 55 thousand signatures to stop the construction of an AI data centre in invercargill mean virtually nothing because they are on change.org rather than in an official petition.

Change.org is profiting by obfuscating the official processes for petitions in NZ, and intentionally hiding the fact that petitions on their website are not able to be considered in NZ’s parliament. They collect and sell your personal data—including your political views and the causes that you care about—and sell them to whoever will buy them, including advertisers and governments.

The more people in NZ that know about the official petitions process and who sign petitions done via that process, the more robust our public institutions become.

Sources:

1st link is the info page for parliamentary petitions.

2nd link is the parliament petitions page.

3rd link is change.org’s privacy policy.

https://petitions.parliament.nz/

Ambivalence VS Heart Hunter

Palestinian citizens, unlike Israeli citizens, are tried in Israeli military courts which have 96% conviction rates. Palestinian prisoners are tortured in ways I'm probably not allowed to go into detail on in order to force confession.

Aotearoa's government has "expressed deep concern" about Israel's apartheid death penalty policy but they aren't actually going to do anything about it, as usual. Because our government is filled with spineless people who don't care about Palestinians. They aren't actually going to impose meaningful sanctions, they aren't going to stop collaborating with US Spyware, they aren't even going to recognise Palestine, until they face significant public pressure. Elections are this year, and the right wing government is already unpopular.

If you care about Palestinians, please sign this petition to get Aotearoa to impose strict sanctions on Israel. You don't have to be in/from Aotearoa to sign it. Israel is still killing Palestinians.

This is māori targeted racism

Knee Deep in the Hoopla

Artist: Starship

Release: 1985

Bitches Brew

Artist: Miles Davis