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You guys wanna see how sweet this soot sprite is?

I can’t remember if I told you guys this but my grandpa paid a guy to put up a rock retaining wall in the backyard when my grandparents moved into their house in 1966. They live at the bottom of a mountain. The wall finally collapsed this year and my grandfather with dementia was PISSED OFFFFFF and he wanted so badly to call the guy who did it and chew him out for doing a bad job. My grandma is trying to explain that the wall lasted 60 years and the guy who did the work is probably dead and it TURNS OUT HE IS STILL ALIVE. Now we’re worried grandpa is going to get through to him (small town) and we’re going to see two 85 year old men come to blows over a rock wall that has been there since the mid-60s. My grandpa is a scrapper, he’s been to jail over a bar fight, the possibility that he WOULD fight this guy is high.

like man Charlotte von Mahlsdorf did a ton for the east Berlin queer community but she also very much did directly get her first ladies’ clothes and jewels by raiding (presumably largely cishet) Jews’ homes after they were deported.

like yeah living in an authoritarian police state sucks!!! being forced to live in hiding sucks!! but also these people were not systematically targeted on remotely the same scale as Jews and Roma, and they were given ways to get out of it.

I don’t want to play “who had it worst” but I think people forget that queer people were also not systematically targeted for murder in Nazi occupied territories, while Jews/Roma were hunted down like dogs to the last one. Like, the WWII Resistance Museum in Amsterdam explicitly states that there is no record of any Dutch queer person deported, arrested, or murdered by the Nazis for their sexuality. Meanwhile 75% of Dutch Jews were murdered in the holocaust - the highest percentage in Western Europe.

Is anyone else starting to feel kind of wary about the increasingly common narrative that "women's bodies are so different to men's that modern scientific recommendations do not apply to them"?

genuinely, from the bottom of my heart:

how are all the teenagers who complain about writing 500 words for homework going to get through college without AI

This is a FIXABLE problem, by the way!

The answer to 'how are they going to function' is, and I say this as someone whose mom was a social worker in Appalachia for 20 years: they're going to get scammed. They're going to be victims of fraud, scams, and exploitation, due to their low literacy making them easier targets for others. And then they're going to be unable to read and write well enough to advocate for themselves in a court of law or fight back in any meaningful way.

^^ There is so much profit in exploiting illiteracy and ignorance.