The Brown Recluse

$2,300,000/3 br/2 ba

Alexandria, VA

Built in 1880

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Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.

We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!

Honestly the lengths people go to. I got sent home early and my eye appointment was cancelled because everyone's so scared of the protesters. They didn't do this when an irishman murdered a pregnant woman but of course when it's a non white person we should shut down the whole country!

My friends and family are terrified (all Irish and white) and locking their doors and hiding because of this. Nobody is safe. My coworkers friends car got its windows shattered last night, she's born and raised Irish. I'm heavily disabled and I don't want to go outside because I'm terrified of what these people are doing because I know I can't fight back.

This happened within the span of two days.

Fuck racists

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

forgot about mr. beard but yeah that made so upset on his behalf!!!!!

no this too. i do feel there's this. expectation. that all nonbinary people will be rather apathetic about their genders, that the "good" nonbinary people (who isn't "crazy" and "dramatic" and "trying so hard to be woke") don't really care about what pronouns or nouns you use, will be binarize themselves in whatever way is easiest for the binary people & system around them, will be largely unobtrusive about their gender unless it can be a funny joke for binary people (even "inclusive" ones).

this post is ABSOLUTELY including misgendering enbies as the "opposite" gender btw. it is no less fucked up & i'm really sorry you have to deal with

personally i've started thinking maybe we could use a neologism, similar to malgendering for misgendering, to describe the kind of forced detransitioning/conversion therapy that nonbinary/genderqueer people are subjected to, where the goal is not to make them cis but to make them binary and thus palatable to cisness through forced binary transitioning.

also here's a hot take. we talk way less about this ^ kind of misgendering because its something that unites nonbinary people regardless of gender we were raised as. when you just focus on misgendering-as-perceived-sex you group trans men&mascs with nonbinary people raised female and trans women&fems with nonbinary people raised male. but what is described above is exactly what i have heard from nonbinary people who are transmasculinized.

Been making blog posts about the joys (tribulations) of making "artist merch" at home 😅

Part one

Are you in the Way?

Are you in the wAy?

Are you in the waY?

$2,850,000/5 br/4 ba

Built in 1957

Portland, OR

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