thankfully working for a very queer non-profit has drastically cleared up that mental load but I dread the idea of ever going back to normal industry

Except if you're successful at it you're still labelled a bitch, damned if you do, more damned if you don't

Code switching for work (particularly in a large organization) is dysphoric because it usually means adopting the air and countenance of a cis man. It's torturous. It's triggering. It's exhausting.

Remember, managers: schedule a bit more time for meetings with women in them so there's enough time for a man to repeat her ideas back to the room and gain emphatic agreement. Another ten minutes per woman should do.

If people were cruel by nature why do all of our soldiers have PTSD? Shouldn’t they be fine? Why are all of our cops and paramilitary groups paranoid? Shouldn’t they be based?Why did Christian Bale crash out over that puppy in Equilibrium? Don’t answer that last one.

yeah, that’s right, albeit with caveat that i think x is worse than 4chan. you take the atmosphere of a particularly nasty 4chan subboard and then scale it up to a website where heads of state and ceos of leading corps all post

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You should probably read this soon, I just got a Public Nudity takedown notice from Patreon

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I know a lot of people are too cowed to say anything, but I think it's disgusting that tops are taking advantage of the closure of the straits of hormuz to sell price gouged oil to bottoms like this.

There needs to be forthright condemnation of Stonewall's new chair'svsucking up to Rowling from her predecessors and a majority of the organisation's leading figures. This betrayal of trans people is utterly unforgivable cowardice.

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4/20 is fun and all, but the real thing to celebrate today is Fuck The Police. kids these days will never understand the things we had to go through to evade police and get weed.

idk if it helps but I often write first drafts on my phone, it's less scary. Big Screen is the Serious Screen for work, Smol Screen is the Silly Screen for shitposting so the standards are lower here

Off we go into the wild pale yonder.

Hey! What's up?

We have been very busy these past couple of months, typing, reading lots of documents and generally getting up to whatever the opposite of shenanigans is.

Which is why more Shenanigans are in order!

April 26th, Sunday, we'll be holding a roundtable with these lovely folks!

for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.

"Did it hurt when you fell from heaven 😘"

Yes. Terribly. I live in constant pain

bringing it back

You nasty motherfucker

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All hail the almighty distaff and spindle.

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The main thing you need as a writer is commitment to the bit.

Whatever your bit is, hone it against your very bones until it’s sharp enough to cut the eyes of those who dare to look upon it.

That’s what readers want.

Today’s The Times Scotland front page with the top story “Cherry: SNP made me ashamed so I quit party”

Hey the Times, I quit a political party over trans issues and have a book to promote, can I have a front page spread?

Oh, that’s only reserved for transphobes and not trans people? Never mind.

That hamster is having the best day of their life and I love it for them

His son looks like if a man and a woman had a baby

You should invite me on your podcast I can be trusted on a podcast