Just Trying My Best

I've scarcely seen any depiction of baldness that doesn't treat it as inherently ugly or ridiculous; in fact partial baldness, especially coupled with long hair, is often used as a shorthand for a character being sleazy or creepy. Honestly, it's getting to me.

I am in my late 20s and have male pattern baldness. I feel the need to keep my head clean-shaven and feel quite distressed if I can't due to lack of time or some other circumstance. I can't help but feel ugly as sin (and even creepy to women) when the spotty covering of my head shows.

Male pattern baldness is common, normal, and something that happens to trans males too (if you need more motivation). When you speak against body negativity, I beg you to take a moment to remind people not to equate lack of hair with lack of moral fiber or beauty.

• cuddles

• sometimes im funny

• i wont cheat bc i hate everyone

• surprise hugs

• random kisses

• actually respond to your texts

• play video games/listen to music

• more cuddles

• butt touches

• lightsaber duels

i love you butches on estrogen! i love you butches who feel caught between expressing yourself as a woman and as a butch because of transmisogyny! i love you butches who want/have bottom surgery! i love you butches who don’t! i love you butches who feel like butch is your gender and i love you butches who feel like butch is your sexuality!

Peter Hegseth is a monster.

Too cowardly to admit outright he is a white nationalist, Hegseth covers his body in neo-Nazi and Christian fascist imagery.

FOX platforming a neo-Nazi is on brand.

BTW, Trump brought Gallagher to the White House. Truly despicable.

Here's some of the talking points and why they're bullshit:

'10 million votes don't just disappear!' -> Joe Biden's 81 million votes were a statistical outlier, sparked by the recent experience of the Trump presidency. The democrats failed to maintain that sense of urgency, but Harris still got more votes than Hillary Clinton, more than Obama and more than any previous democratic candidate. These numbers are not weird at all.

'The Republicans tried to infiltrate election- and vote counting organizations!' -> yeah, they did, and yet hundreds of independent legal observers didn't see anything go wrong enough to raise any alarms. Independent exit polls are also very consistently similar to the counted votes. Tons of international organizations specialized in this stuff observed the election and didn't see a reason to raise the alarm.

'But I know a dozen democrats whose mail-in votes were not counted!' -> In any election a certain number of votes are registered as invalid because something was wrong with the ballot. In a country the size of the US, that translates to many thousands of votes. The internet allows these people to find each other, creating the false impression that a suspiciously large group of votes was not valid.

'Musk used Star Link to mess with electronic voting!' -> Electronic voting machines are not connected to the internet and dozens of independent media have already debunked this myth. It is absolutely impossible to use Star Link to fake election results.

'There is voter disenfranchisement!' -> This is true. This has always been true, for every election. It's an issue worth talking about but it's not a special secret conspiracy that's unique to this election.