for ages i thought i didnt like drag because of internalized homophobia but it turned out i just don’t like bright lights and loud music and really visually complicated things
spd is homophobic i guess is what im saying
real talk tho this is a good example of how some things just can’t be made universally accessible. they are never going to make a quiet reserved drag show with few bright colors that i can enjoy. that goes against like…the entire point of drag and the celebrating of taking up space that a lot of gay events are.
and that’s okay! i wouldn’t want them to! i just need to find other things that make me feel happy and at home and part of the community. different needs require different solutions, and sometimes a thing just isn’t for you.
It’s good when you take a moment and examine yourself and be like “why don’t like I like this” because sometimes the answer has like 5 possibilities:
1. “this is just not accessible to me for Reason”
2. “I have trauma to work through”
3. “oh shit I have prejudice to work through!”
4. “I don’t actually have a reason. I just don’t like it because I don’t enjoy it”
Or
5. “It is objectively bad”
But often you don’t know until you take a step back and look at it from a different angle
And I think most people assume if they don’t like something it’s the last one but in my experience it’s the least frequent possibility
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very disappointing that hershey cocao powder has lead in it
i cant find the original post with the link so here
It seems that the lead and cadmium are mostly from the soil content of where the beans are grown, which doesn’t have to be permanent! So there’s some further questions to be answered:
What weapons are being used and to what extent that the arable soil becomes unsafe?
What are the political conflicts of these growing regions and who is invested in maintaining them?
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Please be coherent about this and recognise that what this headline means is:
Poor and marginalised people are being kicked out of the houses they worked decades to secure, just at the time in their lives when they are the most vulnerable
And the ones kicking them out aren’t of a specific age either. Soulless assholes come in every generation, and the ones born with too much money are the worst of the lot. Right now, a guy your age is authorising an eviction against someone the age of your grandma. Pop culture generations cannot explain that.
Yeah you know who out of control rent costs hurts most? People on fixed incomes who are mostly older people. As someone whose Boomer mother is currently trying to figure out how to afford the cost of living even with her generous amount of retirement income relatively-speaking, this is real. It’s so easy to go from “this amount of income is very comfortable and I’m good” to “idk how to afford groceries” in a few years when your income is fixed, especially in times like this.
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Jeff Bezos’s Amazon and Elon Musk’s SpaceX are both fighting in court to have the National Labor Relations Board declared unconstitutional. Starbuck’s and Trader Joe’s joined them in separate lawsuits.
All of these companies have a disgraceful history of worker abuse and union busting. All of them have been charged by the NLRB with hundreds of violations of workers’ organizing rights
The NLRB is standing up to their union busting. That’s why they’re trying to destroy the NLRB.
I’m going to do my best to keep you all informed about this case as it snakes its way through the courts. The future of unions may depend on the final verdict. http://dlvr.it/T49LM1
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Do you ever miss a character from a show but not like in the way that you want to rewatch the whole show because theres so much stuff going on and thats not what youre looking for but you miss your boy
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i’m so sick of sequel and spin-off culture. sometimes stories are just over and that’s ok. there’s nothing more unsatisfying to me than when a story has a complete narrative that works well and then a sequel comes out.
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MY SCHOOL PRESIDENT (2022-2023) | ep. 9
I can’t hear your voice in this song. I want to hear what you’re really into.
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femmeharlequin-deactivated20240:
Why? I’m from Australia so I don’t know anything about this stuff
Because there should be public transit and trains. It is a ridiculously short flight that is just polluting the world unnecessarily but a lot of people don’t have a better option. There’s so many major cities in that small area that they should have train lines between them all
okay so like, I live in Baltimore. Boston is 8 hours by car away. But! There’s a direct train that goes there so I should take it and-
the train is 8 hours. Okay no big deal at least I’m not driving I can relax and-
the train ticket will run me one way between 100-300 dollars depending on when I buy it from Amtrak.
However, I can get an 80 dollar plane ticket one way on southwest, so I do that instead.
anyway it is beyond frustrating to be in the most used part of the amtrak system and still have train tickets be so goddamn cost prohibitive.
thats not a policy failure, its seven policy failures duct taped together
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