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they should invent a me who is not exhausted by simply being alive
I am in this picture and I do not like it

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steel. he made steel
oh now what's this bitch done
"He made steel" mfer he made pears out of PEARS
âOh now whatâs this bitch doneâ YES. THAT. EXACTLY THAT. I see this guy pop up on my feed and say out loud OH NO, HIM AGAIN. and just brace myself and stare. Jesus the fucking pears.
In regards of the Trump government scraping all trans inclusion in its queer information portion of its websites I have made this thing. Spread the word. Don't let them pretend we never existed.
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i think we should all start using arabic words and phrases more often because its a beautiful language and also theres not really. english equivalents that have the same vibes
theres also the comedy potential of it. you guys dont know the joy of having your muslim friend text you "hopefully the racists in our city will all get sick and cant go to the protest" and you, as a pasty white guy, responding with "inshallah they get covid"
its a one hit KO every time. its fucking hilarious. theres no english word that has the same effect.
he also once texted me that he got over a mysterious illness he came down with (i think? i cant remember the exact context) and i responded with "subhanallah he is cured"
again, one hit KO. he lost his shit.
what im saying is we gotta normalise arabic. its just a language like any other, and it has some great words. its just like saying "thank god" or whatever, but theres so much variety and nuance. its beautiful
what do inshallah and subhanallah mean so I could potentially use em in the correct situations? And potential words I could use?
OK LETS DO THIS
disclaimer i am not arab or muslim and i dont speak arabic but @frogofalltime has explained these words to me and says im using them correctly lmao
inshallah - "if god wills it". like an "i hope this happens" kind of thing. remember the finding nemo poster "inshallah they find him" meme if that helps. used in future tense.
mashallah - "god has willed it", used when something good happened. can be used to denote awe about an event or person. used in past tense.
alhamdulillah - essentially "thank god" or "praise be to god". like mashallah and inshallah but stronger, and can be used in any tense (i think). he will be baked soon alhamdullilah
subhanallah - "glory be to god". like alhamdullilah but stronger. used for when something almost miraculous happens!
those are all the ones i remember off the top of my head im sure binya can add more (and also confirm whether ive got my translations right)
mashaallah robin my faithful student you translated and explained all of this so well :0
there's also astaghfirullah which means "i seek forgiveness in god" which you use when you or someone else does something haram (forbidden / sinful / wrong). tbh we use it in a lot of jokey contexts like if someone swears in a conversation you can call them out like "astaghfirullah haram !"
and bismillah which means "in the name of god" which you can use before doing something, we often use it before doing a difficult thing like when you are struggling to open a bottle or something lmao. or you can say it when someone falls or drops something or gets injured. idk
appalachians need this they will be unstoppable
Thereâs definitely something to doing a mix-and-match with semantically-similar rural-American colloquialisms. I think âInshallah and the creek donât riseâ has a nice ring to it.
Lord that rolls off the tongue so good đ
I need to think about these so hard. And then maybe combine some of them with Yiddish phrases. Inshallah someone will plotz. Many someones.
A major organic seed company has surprised its supporters by announcing it will end sales this month and give hundreds of varieties away.
8/14/2024
Next year, instead of shipping seed packets, they plan to give away seeds by hosting events and visiting cities around the Northeast.
More details below. Thanks for posting, OP!
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"An organic seed company with national reach has surprised its supporters by announcing it will end sales and give hundreds of varieties away, declaring âwe can no longer commodify our beloved kin, these seeds, or ourselves.â
The Cocozelle zucchini, now $14.25 per 100 seeds? No charge. Catnip, kale, the rampant mint? All free.
Petra Page-Mann and Matthew Goldfarb, the couple who run Fruition Seeds in upstate New York, said theyâre letting go workers, stopping sales on Aug. 27 and relying on public goodwill â donations of money, talent and effort â to grow and distribute seeds on a $76,000 budget.
Thatâs a dramatic shift for a company with a budget of over $1 million in 2022 and a profile high enough that itâs among a handful of seed companies featured in the New York Botanical Gardenâs shop.
âThe call is simple enough: Seeds are gifts. Gifts are shared,â the couple said in a long and searching announcement weeks ago. Theyâve thought about barriers to access and what they call the indignity of the dollar. Burnout, too, played a role. âWeâre weaving a new fabric together, Friends.â ...
Next year, instead of shipping seed packets, they plan to give away seeds by hosting events and visiting cities around the Northeast. Itâs a radical extension of their work with seed libraries, seed swaps and community harvests.
The announcement noted Fruitionâs decision during the COVID-19 pandemic to face painful economic losses and make their online growing courses, featuring the exuberant Page-Mann, 40, free for all. There was joy in giving.
Now they hope others feel the same. They have begun listing their own needs, from financial donations and legal expertise to items like printer paper and Mason jars. âI trust, like air, what is present â though not yet visible â will carry us all,â Page-Mann wrote...
Goldfarb and Page-Mann arenât saying others should stop selling seeds. Theyâre looking into forming a nonprofit. They admire the collective work of the not-too-far-away Amish and Mennonite communities. But there is no definite plan.
âWeâll have different answers tomorrow. I hope,â Goldfarb said.
About 40% of the seeds that Fruition has sold have been produced by partners. One of them, Daniel Brisebois with Tourne-Sol farm in Canada, said he was excited to see what would happen now. Others didnât respond.
Page-Mann and Goldfarb said the most excruciating part of their decision was taking it without the collective consent of their 12 employees.
âSimultaneously they were very gracious, like, âThis makes sense for you and your lives,â and also, âThis sucks,ââ Page-Mann said.
One worker told the AP that while they respect where Fruitionâs founders are coming from, âso far this transition feels like a big missed opportunity to learn how to minimize harm in the process of trying to transform systems, especially harm toward workers.â The worker, who is looking for new work, spoke on condition of anonymity.
At the bunkhouse under construction on the Fruition farm, local mushroom producer David Colle, 49, said the thinking behind the transformation â a purpose bigger than the individual -- drew him to help build.
Some in the community have said, âI wonât do business with these people anymore,â Colle said, but âyou have to have people willing to explore the edges to learn whatâs possible.â Heâs as curious about Fruitionâs future as anyone. Heâs given away mushrooms but doesnât see how to do it full time and still pay the bills.
And he wasnât completely volunteering his time. âI need money,â he said, sweating in the afternoon heat, and acknowledged: âWeâre all walking paradoxes.â
-via August 14, 2024
This is some Star Trek shit right here and I sure hope they can make the model work.

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i want to talk about real life villains
Not someone who mugs you, or kills someone while driving drunk, those are just criminals. I mean VILLAINS.
Not like trump or musk, who are... cartoonishly evil. And not sexy villains, not grandiose villains, not even satisfyingly two dimensional villains it is easy to hate unconditionally. The real villains.
I had a client who was a retired executive for one of the big oil companies, i think it was Shell or Chevron. Had a home just outside of San Francisco that was wall to wall floor to ceiling full of expensive art. Literally. I once accidentally knocked a painting off the wall because it was hanging at knee height at the corner of the stairs, and it had a little brass plaque on it, and i looked up the name of the artist and it was Monet's apprentice and son-in-law, who was apparently also a famous painter. He had an original Andy Warhol, which should have been a prize piece for anyone to showcase -- it was hanging in the bathroom. I swear to god this guy was using a Chihuly (famous glass sculptor) as a fruit bowl. And he was like, "idk my wife was the one who liked art"
I was intrigued by this guy, because in the circles i run this dude is The Enemy. right? Wealthy oil executive? But as my client, he was... like a sweet grandpa. A poor widower, a nice old man, anyone who knew him would have called him a sweetheart. He had a slightly bewildered air, a sort of gentle bumbling nature.
And the fact that he was both of these things, a Sweet Little Old Man and The Enemy, at the same time, seemed important and fascinating to me.
He reminded me of some antagonist from fiction, but i couldn't put my finger on who. And when i did it all made sense.
John Hammond.
probably one of the most realistic bad guys ever written.
If you've only ever seen the movie, this will need some explaining.
Michael Crichton wrote Jurassic Park in 1990, and i read it shortly thereafter. In the movie, the dinosaurs are the antagonists, which imo erases 50% of the point of the story.
book spoilers below.
In the book, John Hammond is the villain but it takes the reader like half the book to figure that out. Just like my client, John is a sweet old man who wants lovely things for people. He's a very sympathetic character. But as the book progresses, you start to see something about him.
He has an idea, and he's sure it's a good one. When someone else dies in pursuit of his dream, he doesn't think anything of it. When other people turn out to care about that, he brings in experts to evaluate the safety of his idea, and when they quickly tell him his idea is dangerous and needs to be put on hold, he ignores his own experts that he himself hired, because they are telling him that he is wrong, and he is sure he is right.
In his mind, he's a visionary, and nobody understands his vision. He is surrounded by naysayers. Several things have proven too difficult to do the best and safest way, so he has cut corners and taken shortcuts so he can keep moving forward with his plans, but he's sure it's fine. He refuses to hear any word of caution, because he believes he is being cautious enough, and he knows best, even though he has no background in any of the sciences or professions involved. He sends his own grandchildren out into a life-threatening situation because he is willfully ignorant of the danger he is creating.
THIS is like the real villains of the world. He doesn't want anyone to die. Far from it, he only wants good things for people! He's a sweet old man who loves his grandchildren. But he has money and power and refuses to hear that what he is doing is dangerous for everyone, even his own family.
I think he's possibly one of the most important villains ever written in popular fiction.
In the book, he is killed by a pack of the smallest, cutest, "least dangerous" dinosaurs, because a big part of why we read fiction is to see the villains face thematic justice. But like a cigarette CEO dying of lung cancer, his death does not stop his creation from spreading out into the world to continue to endanger everyone else.
I think it is really important to see and understand this kind of villainy in fiction, so you can recognize it in real life.
Sweetheart of a grandfather. Wanted the best for everyone. Right up until what was best for everyone inconvenienced the pursuit of his own interests.
And my client was like that too. His wife had died, and his dog was now the love of his life, and she was this little old dog with silky hair in a hair cut that left long wispy bits on her lower legs. Certain plant materials were easily entangled in this hair and impossible to get out without pulling her hair which clearly hurt her. When i suggested he ask his groomer to trim her lower leg hair short to avoid this, he refused, saying he really liked her usual hair cut.
I emphasized that she was in pain after every walk due to the plant debris getting caught in her leg hair, and a simple trim could put an end to her daily painful removal of it, and he just frowned like i'd recommended he take a bath in pig shit and said "But she'll be ugly" and refused to talk about it anymore.
Sweet old man though. Everyone loved him.
Premier says move will end the ânexus between money and political powerâ and challenges state and federal counterparts to follow suit
"The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, has announced plans to ban political donations from state elections, paving the way for nation-leading electoral reforms.
The stateâs electoral amendment bill announced on Wednesday [June 12, 2024] night will ban electoral donations and gifts to registered political parties, members of parliament and candidates. The state will provide funding to allow parties and candidates to contest elections, run campaigns and promote political ideas.
Malinauskas said his bill would put South Australia on the âcusp of becoming a world leader in ending the nexus between money and political powerâ.
âWe want money out of politics. We know this is not easy. These reforms may well face legal challenge,â Malinauskas said.
âBut we are determined to deliver them, with this bill to be introduced in the parliament in the near future.â
In a subtle challenge to his federal and state counterparts, the premier told Guardian Australia he thought it was âsomething that democracies everywhere should be pursuingâ.
The Albanese government pledged to introduce spending and donation caps, and truth in political advertising laws, as revealed by Guardian Australia after the 2022 federal election and confirmed by a parliamentary inquiry that reported last July.
The special minister of state, Don Farrell, said last month an agreement between the major parties and the crossbench had not yet been reached. An amendment bill is still expected by the middle of the year.
In order to level the playing field for newly created parties and independent candidates, the South Australia bill will allow candidates to receive donations up to $2,700, although they will remain subject to campaign spending caps.
Those spending caps have been set at $100,000, multiplied by the number of candidates up to a maximum of $500,000.
If the bill is passed, a registered political party will be entitled to a one-off payment of $200,000 before 31 August 2026. Whichever is lower out of $700,000 or the number of party members of parliament multiplied by $47,000 will also be given to parties for operational funding.
Membership fees will be allowed to continue but will be capped at $100 or less a year.
To deter attempts to circumvent the proposed changes, a maximum penalty of $50,000 or 10 yearsâ imprisonment will apply.
The guide acknowledges the proposal would lead to a rise in the cost of South Australiaâs electoral system, but says a tightening of expenditure and party registration rules will keep costs to a minimum.
The Albanese government is under crossbench pressure to introduce electoral reforms before the next federal election.
Lower house independents, including Kate Chaney, Zali Steggall, the Greens, David Pocock, Lidia Thorpe and the Jacqui Lambie Network, joined forces to introduce a bill for fair and transparent elections in March [2024].
The bill contained a suite of reforms including truth-in-political advertising, a ban on donations from socially harmful industries including fossil fuels, and tightening the definition of gifts to capture major party fundraisers, including dinners and business forums."
-via The Guardian, June 12, 2024
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Moisturize me
Do you know if there's any links between chronic pain and hrt [testosterone] usage?
My chronic pain seems to get much better when I use testosterone reliably/regularly which fascinates me because I can't think of a reason it should be doing that. Have been wondering if I just got lucky or if it's part of a broader pattern :0
[No pressure to answer this if you don't want to! đ]
Hmmmmmm I don't know! @grison-in-space, if you have time, do you have ideas? I know you know stuff.
Definitely part of a broader pattern. There's not enough study on trans and intersex folks' healthcare as a general rule, but chronic pain disorders are distinctly skewed towards folks with ovarian reproductive systems--and in this case, testosterone actually seems to have a distinct protective effect that has been documented in best practice for chronic pain patients of all sexes for more than a decade. It's theorized that this accounts for at least some of the well documented sex bias in chronic pain conditions.
A quick aside: anywhere you see a sex effect either in the literature on a condition or in your own personal everyday life, it's always wise to consider the mechanism (known or potential). This question is a great example of an inquiry that considers a potential mechanism of action and inquires about it. Sex is a big messy category of variation with a ton of chaotic overlapping factors that may cluster imperfectly together, and hormone profile vs other aspects of sex (like gonadal state, Wolffian vs Mullerian developmental history, gender, presence or absence of SRY, chromosomal status and so with) is actually one of the more classic ways to get specific when we talk about sex and sex differences.
Essentially, what appears to be happening is that
Adding testosterone to both castrated testicular mice and to ovarian mice actually seems to have a protective effect against overexertion-induced pain to fatigued muscles, for example. And people are beginning to consider whether testosterone therapy could help fibromyalgia patients of all genders, even at levels that shouldn't necessarily create gender dysphoric changes for patients whose gender isn't compatible with those changes. Everyone produces endogenous testosterone, and there's a theory that individuals producing inadequate testosterone might be more prone to this kind of pain sensitivity. There's quite a lot of research on this relationship percolating through the field at the moment.
(I should note that I'm not a pain biologist, I'm just over here in sex differences + gene expression + neuroendocrinology recalling this as one of the interesting ones bouncing around that's worth digging into further. I am gratified to see so many folks working thoughtfully in the area.)
So hey, congrats: your HRT is also incidentally acting as pain control! No wonder your chronic pain gets better when you have regular access to it.
I kknow @thebibliosphere has talked about this before. Specifically in regards to how estrogen exacerbates connective tissue issues.
Most of what I can find is anecdotal because there really arenât enough studies, but I can say that within the EDS circles Iâm in, which happen to be overwhelmingly queer, that a not insignificant number of trans folk report feeling better while on testosterone. Lower pain, less joint instability, fewer migraines etc, etc.
It's enough people that I, as a cis woman, am trying to get my doctor to consider prescribing it to see if it helps with my chronic pain and joint stability which get exponentially worse whenever I experience estrogen fluctuations as part of my monthly cycle.
wait shit T might also help with fibromyalgia bullshit? the thing that bopped me over from "eh, the hassle of starting hormonal transition doesn't sound worth it" to "gimme!" was finding out (probably from one of the same posts questioningdragons mentions) T would likely help with hypermobile joint bullshit
I'd already decided I want to bump my dose up, but now I really want to bump my dose up
Iâve been hearing this for a while specifically re: EDS and hypermobility spectrum. It seems that the T helps the muscle strength which helps stabilize joints. A lot. I could see decent arguments for it being broader spectrum than that. But Iâve also heard arguments that the EDS spectrum is a LOT more of chronic pain than itâs given credit for soâŚ. đ¤ˇđťââď¸
So I have a question for my followers: are there any conspiracy theories youâre 100% convinced are real
Canadian prime minister Justing Trudeau is the illegitimate son of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro
Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
Castro with Treudeauâs parents
holding Justinâs older brother as a baby
Supposed parents are both white, yet Justin has Brown nipples
See, the nipples angle is just not something I wouldâve thought to pursue
1000$ says his brother, who actually looks like his father Pierre, has pink nipples.
Do we have a picture of Fidelâs nipples? My searches have yielded fakes and forgeries.
The FBI agent watching me is about to be very concerned.. *opens Google and starts typing*
Fidel Castroâs Nipples
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Apparently the nipples thing is because âwhite people donât have brown nipplesâ. Um. Sounds like SOMEONE needs to go to the beach.
Tumblr has revoked my white card because of my nipples of colour
Tumblr has revoked
my white card because of my
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Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Iâm so glad youâre back little dude

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So some of you may have seen that thereâs another followup to the story of Omelas. Which I hate. HATE. And the followup, which everyone is raving about, made me nearly as mad.
So I present to you, Nomelas.
Once upon a time in the city of Omelas, a Bargain was made. Youâve probably heard about it. They are a Camelot, a golden city shining in the sun, all for the low low price of keeping one child miserable in a dark hole.
This is not Omelas.
So. I slept poorly last night. But I donât think Iâm quite sleepy enough to nap.
Do I?
Try to sleep anyway
try making cachapas with only 80% of brain cells engaged?
other (answer in tags, ridiculous is encouraged)
I've slowly been chipping away at drawing scenes from that imaginary Muppet retelling of the Princess Bride, figured it was about time to share what I've drawn on Tumblr!
Okay, am I really that clueless? Or is it really that impossible to adjust the size of the default font on tumblr for iPad/iphone. Not when youâre posting, I know how to do that. But on tired eye days where everything is just too damn small, and unlike in a browser, I canât just use a reverse pinching motion to expand. Am I missing something in the settings of the app?
i don't know a way to do in the app for just the app, but the tumblr app WILL respect your phone's global settings:
Okay this is interesting. I already HAVE that function on. It does work. Just for some reason it works several sizes smaller than in other apps. When I set it to a more reasonable size on the tumblr app, other apps suddenly looks like theyâre set up for 5 year olds or the legally blind, and I have to turn it smaller again.
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Okay, am I really that clueless? Or is it really that impossible to adjust the size of the default font on tumblr for iPad/iphone. Not when youâre posting, I know how to do that. But on tired eye days where everything is just too damn small, and unlike in a browser, I canât just use a reverse pinching motion to expand. Am I missing something in the settings of the app?
Amethyst stalactite 28 cm. Complete all around. Artigas, Uruguay. Inquire for details
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the communication on this hellsite (affectionate) is an ecosystem
Oh tumblr. Never change.