Beset by Eldritch Harrahs

If your democrat friends start muttering about stolen election conspiracy theories, the time to have a sit down with them and express your concerns is NOW, while you still have a chance to reach them, not 6 months from now when they're fully conspiracy-pilled.

Here's some of the talking points and why they're bullshit:

But just as importantly as the facts: sit down with your friend and talk about the anxiety that's behind their conspiracy leanings. Acknowledge their pain and fear. Help them find ways to feel less powerless and regain their sense of agency. Take them to a mutual aid event, involve them in a fundraising event for a marginalized group, invite them to a local community effort. If they spend more time feeling connection and empowerment and less time doom scrolling online, they're far more likely to stay in reality.

This one broke containment and that's good. The people I'm trying to reach are probably not my usual audience.

However, it is fucking annoying to see people in the notes going 'YES! We should be putting all the blame on the non voters instead!'. No, fuck you. Drop the conspiracy thinking but also drop the scapegoating. It's the Party's job to offer people something that they want to vote for, not the other way around.

It's time to face head on that the Democratic Party has failed people. By supporting a genocide, by not raising minimum wage and living standards, by not actually ending the pandemic, by pushing anti-immigrant ads and campaigning towards the right and taking their base for granted. They've failed.

There's multiple ways to move forward from this. Improve the democrats, join a third party, prepare to protest, or focus on mutual aid and community building instead: choose your own adventure. There are a lot of ways to make things a little less shit. All of them involve building bridges towards the people that have been failed by the Democratic Party. All of them involve solidarity and understanding.

Spending the next 4 years shouting at nonvoters or disappearing into a conspiracy is going to make things worse, not better.

the front seat of the car is a type of confessional

i genuinely think that physically it’s easier to have hard conversations when you’re both facing forward, not having to look at each other. the catholic church knew this also

and i will continue to make fucking noise about the fact our representation is disappearing rapidly during a key moment in history!!

It's been 20 years today since David Shore looked at all the weirdos, cripples and faggots in the world and went pspspspsps

Box of Space✨

What would you do if you found them?

My huskies would try to eat them but they'd only get a mouthful of stardust ✨✨✨

bonus: my idiot children

I can't stop thinking about this reddit post on soapmaking dude

I cannot express what an insane recipe that is. No one else could grasp it either

Like beeswax doesn't. It kinda just stays as beeswax in the soap. The lye has nowhere to go with it. That liquid seeping out of the soap? The brown and clear drops?? That's lye. That's straight up lye. This mf made the soap equivalent of the Chernobyl elephants foot.

Quick reminder that if you touch lye with your bare hands, it will react with the fatty oils on and in your skin to create soap molecules.

That means it will give you chemical burns while creating human soap.

OP’s comment about the soap equivalent of a Chernobyl elephant’s foot is on point.

Lye (aka sodium hydroxide) turns hydrocarbons/fats into soap.

You are a hydrocarbon.

Please be careful when making soap, because You are a thing that could be used to make soap. And nobody wants to bathe in human soap, no matter how much rosemary you put in it.

if your trans feminist theory link post doesn’t include anything by trans men it’s only half a theory. you can’t just define trans men out of your version of feminism

devotion that corrupts is my favorite btw there's nothing wrong with it ever & it should be encouraged

not only should abortion be free i think they should let you pick out a toy like at the dentist

[Image ID: a black and white typography edit that reads "don't want to see transsexuality? pluck out your eyes!" in the right bottom corner is a medical model of teeth. between the teeth is a single eyeball. the entire image is textured to look aged and photocopied. /End ID]

inspired by matthew 5:29

there Has been a lot of work by feminists to talk about men's issues and needs However. this simply does not mean that All feminist spaces and feminists are good at doing this. like. feminism has, historically, had a lot of issues with how to address the relationship between women and men, and how to fit trans and imtersex people into an inherently binarist framework of gender relations.

once again there is no way to address certain issues in feminist spaces without talking about the treatment of men and masculinity as something innately suspicious and negative if not outright hostile. this has been an issue for years. i need people to stop going "why are feminist spaces so hostile to trans women and men! why are nonbinary people seen as male treated worse! why do so many men see feminism as a space hostile to their existence*!" and then get defensive when people point out that maybe we still have some work to do on creating a feminist vision that is not innately binarist, that does not view maleness and masculinity as The Other if not The Enemy.

*yes many cis men see feminism like this because it questions the patriarchy which they still rely on for a sense of identity and self worth, and they are intimidated by the amount of self-reflection feminism asks of them. this can be true at the same time that many feminist spaces do, in fact, make themselves hostile to men, and fail to really promote an anti-patriarchal male perspective that would make more cis men feel that feminism is "for them." many self-proclaimed feminists still rely on patriarchal tools like mocking penis size which is not only part of violent intersexism, but it's also a failed opportunity to resist an aspect of patriarchy which largely impacts men and show what we mean when we say feminism is for everyone. we CAN do better.

It seems like there’s this cycle of republicans making the economy bad and then people get tired of the republicans and elect a democrat and the democrat inherits a bad economy and then they sort of fix it somewhat and then people are like hey the economy is bad it was better during the Republican administration and then they elect a Republican who inherits a better economy from the democrat while he’s trashing it and then people are like hey he’s trashing the economy and then they elect a democrat who inherits a bad economy and fixes it somewhat and then people are like hey the economy was better when there was a Republican and then they elect a Republican who trashes the sort of better economy he inherited from the democrat and so on and so forth like forever I guess

Let’s be clear. I want the democrats to be better. They suck at a lot of stuff. They’ve done some stupid things. But Biden and the democrats stopped us from falling into a literal economic depression. They did some stuff that frickin worked. But the economy was better during the trump administration (because of the economy he inherited from the Obama administration) so let’s reelect that idiot what could go wrong surely his proposed tariffs won’t affect the prices that much in a country with a smaller manufacturing sector than it used to have that imports most of its consumer goods

Reminder that this was included on an official government USGS page [click], which not only gives credit to the artist--Ben Slyngstad--but reminds you that all government publications are public domain

i think i need a foster for juni, i’m homeless tryijg to survive day to day and it’s not fair to her. my patience is thin i can’t work on training i can’t focus on anything rn. i’m in milwaukee but driving out to denver at some point soon so could deliver her, she’s such a good puppy. i’m just hitting a wall and i need to take care of myself