the void watches

"branson reese, whoever you are" put some respect on the smooth sharks one fear man's name

Do the kids these days know that the traditional payment for "having your friends help you move" is "order everyone pizza after"?

It is also important to note that your friends will almost certainly help you move / drive you to the airport / anything else without a trade! If you can afford it then pizza/drinks/whatever is the traditional payment for moving house but if you can't, still ask your friends for help!

Sometimes when people on the Internet are like "ADULTS CAN NEVER INTERACT WITH MINORS IT'S CREEPY" I remember how, at 12, back in 1997, I was on the Witchvox forums with people ranging from me to people in at least their 50s, and no one there was ever a creep to me, no one ever made me feel uncomfortable or asked for my personal info, and when I finally broke down after a particularly brutal day of bullying at school and posted about it they were the first adults I'd ever met in my entire life who told me the bullies were the problem and it was okay to be angry about it.

Yeah. In particular, note that the goal here is not to have one person you trust intensely and you have no way of sanity-checking them; the goal is to have a handful of people, who are independent of each other, so that if one of them is making you uncomfortable you can tell someone else "hey this person I know is doing a thing which sorta creeps me out" and get feedback.

I always bring up a discord server I was in, with a wide age range. One day one of the younger members messaged a mod to ask if they were overreacting to something. Specifically, another adult in the server had been messaging them and being very inappropriate with them. To which they responded "They did WHAT?!" Told them to immediately block that person, booted them from the server and sent out a warning to the server and outside of it.

me: 🧍🏽‍♂️

btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.