It's a nice place to be and we laugh a lot.

Thank you.

Not only do we have themed releases coming up of excellent top quality handmade goods, but we do a thing called queervc where I get online and act like a hambone and sell jewelry in real time.

If you folks like sterling and handmade goods and are not already following my twelve wonderful jewelry goblins while we fling shiny stuff into the universe, I would implore that you do so. This is our main revenue stream, and our community is great!

@peculiarityshop.bsky.social

About to start with my silver bullshit!

I will get us to 6k followers.

By any means necessary.

Huge issue with this in Amish country, unfortunately.

It's too early and I'm too autistic to navigate people telling me I shouldn't post on the internet because they assigned a malice that wasn't there.

See you over on the shop account.

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She's got the sweetest face.

Buff colored pit bull with buff colored cat.

I am very careful walking her and very protective because people automatically think she's mean. She actually lives with 5 cats.

I require coffee.

We were fine, I thought. But okay.

You aren't in my feed screaming at me about adopting not shopping?

I wasn't talking about you?

The trauma they carry is so tough.

My rescue treeing walker can't do car rides without panic pooping all over the car because of something from before.

I mean, sure, but weirdly I don't ever post pictures of my mixed pets and get screamed at by randos for having them.

And I do breed specific rescue. Mentioned later in the thread.

Also all my hounds came to me through ethical breeders who also do rescue. I do rescue.

So the no ethical dog breeders line is patently false.

Adoption of mixed breeds is ALWAYS the kindest choice.

Always.

But it also isn't always the practical one for certain people.

If they adopt a bully breed and the dog nips a 5 year old while playing, what do you think happens.

Reinforces the problematic stereotypes for one.

Dead dog for two.

You prevent further mismatched homes or euthanizations by allowing people to have pets they can actually handle.

I have 4 purebred animals. I didn't buy them for funsies, so popping into feeds with ADOPT DON'T SHOP is going to get you a huge side eye. Breed specific rescues exist. Further, some people want or need predictable behaviors/coats from their pets and knowing what they can handle is good, actually.

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.

The graves of multiple children have been defaced.

One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

There's something immensely sad to me in particular about books being targeted that are specifically written for those who feel lost in their own heads and hearts and journeys of understanding their identities and/or sexualities. Providing guides and mirrors for that is one of the best parts of YA.

As an aside, stop treating MTG as a serious person.

She is trying to get that racist stench off of her

"I got smacked as a kid and it didn't do me any harm!"

Yes, it did, my friend - you think it's okay to physically assault tiny people who are weaker than you with no power and actually look to you for protection. You are, in fact, really quite harmed.

Seconded. In fact anything that elicits the response "[X] happened to me and it never did me any harm" is usually direct evidence that it did, in fact, do harm

I have heard this phrase used for both corporal punishment and childhood poverty.

Strangers don't know how often you're smacking your kid around, lady.

Some of us don't think it's ever okay.

But we also have no reason to believe it's a rare or singular incident.

Anyway this thought brought to you by a woman on the internet who crossed my feed who was aghast that she spanked her kid in a Target and someone called DCS on her.

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My family did their best. They know so much more now than 1990. But I wasn't okay then, and I don't much care for the idea of practice what I preach but don't do as I do.

Smacking kids but also telling them to keep their hands to themselves when mad makes no sense.

This means when faced with people who need space to calibrate their emotions before discussing a resolution to conflict, my brain goes into the WAITING FOR YOUR DOOM FLOGGING mindset.

It ain't keen.

I have ANXIETY in no small part because of a "go to your room and wait for your punishment spanking" upbringing. The wait was torture. Literally. I think I had panic attacks anticipating the nebulous arrival of someone coming, so every time I anticipate conflict now, at 40+, I cannot abide the wait.

I was smacked as a kid. I remember being smacked. I do not recall a single instance of what I was smacked *for*.

Clearly it did not succeed in "teaching" me anything, because how can I know not to do it again if I don't remember what I did wrong?