there needs to be a cultural shift in america like im not talking about culture war bullshit i mean the average american needs to learn to care about their community and the rest of the world and not be a self-absorbed asshole with a "fuck you i got mine" attitude.

"i doubt this will change" "good luck" sorry we simply cannot afford to be fatalistic about this. go feed your neighbor and invite a friend to go with you.

More people want this than you know-even trade talk about being able to "leave their doors unlocked", but tinge that with the usual paint of racism-but the problem is that the waters have been posioned for awhile. People have trouble trusting each other after the admittedly sensationalized explosion of accounts of murderers and child molesters.

Throw in the fact that people don't all work the same schedule anymore, most workplaces anymore discourage talking between employees, the crippled state of unions, and the complete destruction of third places, and nobody even has the ability to contact each other. You could go to every one of your neighbors and try to introduce yourself, but you'll be met with a suspicion, and have a hard time finding a need they have that you can serve.

Stockpile HRT now.

To my brothers on T I know this is gonna be harder for you so please listen up:

First, if your doctor is open to it, ask for the 2000mg/10ml vial, you'll need to be careful to keep it clean and free of contamination from the stopper, but the expiration dates will typically be a year plus. Please specify the 10ml vial and not a three month supply, the difference is minimal but important.

Next, have it sent to a busy, understaffed CVS (most of them are busy and understaffed). If your insurance doesn't cover CVS use GoodRx, at time of writing it should be about $50. Our system by default makes us mark the 10ml vial as a 28 day supply regardless of the dosage because we cannot guarantee a beyond use date beyond that (as I said, non-zero chance of contamination, use a 90 degree angle and a alcohol pad every time and you'll be fine). Only the most stickler of pharmacists or technicians are going to bother changing it - if they even know the system workaround to bypass it.

Then, come to refill it the next month. If they marked the first fill as 28 day supply (you can see on your label in the lower right near the price) it will process without any red flags in the system and will again will likely slip by all but the most stickler of pharmacists and techs. If they marked it as something longer just explain that your doctor told you to discard the vial after 28 days per USP guidelines and so you were a good boy and already threw it out, this should work against all but the biggest douchebag of a pharmacist. If that fails and your doctor is cooperative, have them call the pharmacy and authorize an early fill - if that doesn't work try another pharmacy.

If all goes well you'll probably be able to fill two to three vials in a row before anyone starts to question things.

I cannot speak for other pharmacies, but in general retail pharmacy is kind of a shit show right now so a busy store in another chain is also probably going to just go by USP even if their instincts or morals tell them to be jerks about it.

If anyone has any questions or if you need advice on a situation I didn't cover please DM me anytime, or hell send me an anon ask if you're shy. If anyone's insurance requires a non-CVS pharmacy and you can't afford the $50 let me know and I can find a tech at another pharmacy to see if they have any advice that would be relevant to their chain.

To my transfemme sisters, you've got it a little easier. Have your doc send your meds with a 12 month supply to a pharmacy you don't typically use, use GoodRx if you have to, none of the usual drugs in a transfemmes HRT regiment should be extremely expensive. Tell them you're going out of the country in a week or two and would like to purchase the entire year's supply at once. A year's supply of 2mg estradiol tabs taken four times daily (the max dose I've ever seen) is $75 on GoodRx at CVS right now. They'll probably need to order more tabs in but again only the biggest stickers are gonna question it. (You can also send to your usual pharmacy if you don't take any other meds, but I recommend not returning for at least a year just to be on the safe side. It's not illegal, but again you could run into some stickler pharmacist who calls your bluff and refuses further fills or tattles to your doctor or something.)

Again, please please please don't hesitate to send me DMs or asks if you have any questions or need specific advice.

Probably getting fired this month.

On that note, I’ll just say I’m sorry. I’m sorry for being uncompromising. We live in a Fascist country now for certain. The NLRB is about to overturn. And corporations are going to own our asses. That promise that Trump said he wasn’t going to tax overtime. Well, he won’t tax it. He is going to extend overtime to over 70 hours basically making it impossible to gain overtime.

It’s that being said, I’m sorry. I tried fighting. I tried my best to work elections. But yeah.

White women are racist.

I get the distinct impression you were never voting for your own survival, and willfully ignored those of us who were forced to.

I'm gonna be comforted with how thoroughly you stuck to your guns when I'm bleeding in a ditch.

Okay.

Distinct impression?

First off, I am a black male in America. I am always on the chopping block regardless. My survival? I’ve went from homeless and living in my car to living in my apartment. I work in a union, dipshit.

Everything I have gained was risked in this election. And not once did I mince words.

Since October 7th of last year until today, I talked my shit. Since 2020, I talked my shit.

I saw the writing on the wall and read it out loud for all to listen.

You just plugged your ears and ignored.

But sure, blame me if it makes you feel better. You want to make me your e-punching bag because you feel the same dread every black, indigenous or brown person feels when they are the sacrificial lamb every election, go right ahead.

Lie to yourself and call me the privileged one. Whatever floats your boat.

Fine, yes, I wasn't looking at it from your perspective. But I've been queen for at least as long as you've been black, and for as many thing that will come down on us like the world's shittiest rainstorm, at least nobody was trying to legislate you out of existence. DT has said in no uncertain terms that he wants to just remove the concept of being trans from the while country. "Geder is what's on your birth certificate" type shit. So along with all the immigrants, my partner and myself will.more than likely be rounded up and sent to the camps this time around.

You've got a cloud of background radiation that hangs off of you at all times, but you haven't been told, directly, that you're going yo be killed for being black (yet), so you can maybe understand how existential dread is a factor in my demeanor?

You wanna go bar for bar?

Do you have a clip from him regarding black people that matches THIS level of vitriol?

Nobody GIVES a fuck about what I have to say about BLM and Haiti, but fir what it's worth, I used to give shit to a cluster or Libertarians/Ancaps who have at the point all left the site everything they came out with a stone-dead take about how the rioters were controlled opposition, how they were laughable for watching Trevor Noah, about how business owners had rights too, about how it was all a government setup. I got my first actual death threat from dropping into a thread about a black man who got shot robbing a store, and saying in the midst of all the people posting "play stupid games" memes that the guy was poor and didn't deserve to die.

I haven't posted anything on Haitians in particular, but I get, at most, 10 reblogs on my posts? I am the bottom of the food chain here, just dreadfully unpopular. And what would I even have to add to the conversation? Everyone knows the majority of Haitian immigrants are here legally under visas, everybody knows the confirmed cases of people killing public animals were Americans, everybody knows that sanctioning a country so hard that it's residents have to leave and then having those who left work in shitty conditions to maximize profits a has SOP for the US since before slavery ended, so what does it do to repeat that shit?

I've volunteered at community centers and homeless shelters, I worked for a rehoming and employment company, I donated to all the Gaza reliefs fundraisers until I ran out if disposable income, and I don't advertise it because I don't have a sense if superiority about it and I can not STAND the thought of another lingering conservative on this board trying to start shit about "virtue signaling".

Maybe I should have logged out for the night, but seeing @ubernegro make some post about how sorry not sorry he is about all the terrible shit that's about to happen to all of us, RIGHT AFTER having it confirmed that the majority of people on this country are fine with me and, yes, all the African Americans and Palestinians and Haitians and Ulranians and Pierto Ricans and disabled people and Indians and Pacific Islanders all being rounded up and killed as a sacrifice to the Invisible Hand that will somehow lower the price of eggs, I got a little testy and engaged on a way other that "you're absolutely right, I was an idiot for even hoping things could be better for me".

Mass deportation and Project 2025 and mass fracking and 1% tax cuts and the Department Of Government Efficiency are staring us in the face, and I can serve soup and spend every spare second at a call center, and it won't mean shit when fascism KILLS EVERYBODY.

What LEGISLATION has he proposed, is what I meant to ask. Like, yes, it's well documented that Trump is racist; kne of the most infuriating things we know is that his family has a long history of not renting f to black people, way back before he ever got involved with politics. And his second term is probably going to involve futting social services that most directly help black people

But one of the sinister things about this campaign was Trump adding black people to his stooge brigade. Byron Donaldson, Mark Robinson, Candice Owens (not even on the payroll, doing it for love of the game), all forwarding the idea that they would help the community, which was a blatant lie, but law of averages says that at least a few people fell for it.

There was no such outright outreach to the trans community. That group was outright villainized, shoved into the crosshairs now that gay marriage as made cis queers less lucrative as targets.

(Cishet) Black people at least had the courtesy of people PRETENDING they didn't want to immolate you alive. Trans people got a whole video about how we're going to be made illegal. That meant that, as much as I hated Kamala for the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, the blithe disregard for inflation, and all the people that she locked up for weed possession, I literally didn't have a choice but to vote for her, because the choice was between "get persecuted for sure" and "maybe DON'T get persecuted".

Probably getting fired this month.

On that note, I’ll just say I’m sorry. I’m sorry for being uncompromising. We live in a Fascist country now for certain. The NLRB is about to overturn. And corporations are going to own our asses. That promise that Trump said he wasn’t going to tax overtime. Well, he won’t tax it. He is going to extend overtime to over 70 hours basically making it impossible to gain overtime.

It’s that being said, I’m sorry. I tried fighting. I tried my best to work elections. But yeah.

White women are racist.

I get the distinct impression you were never voting for your own survival, and willfully ignored those of us who were forced to.

I'm gonna be comforted with how thoroughly you stuck to your guns when I'm bleeding in a ditch.

Okay.

Distinct impression?

First off, I am a black male in America. I am always on the chopping block regardless. My survival? I’ve went from homeless and living in my car to living in my apartment. I work in a union, dipshit.

Everything I have gained was risked in this election. And not once did I mince words.

Since October 7th of last year until today, I talked my shit. Since 2020, I talked my shit.

I saw the writing on the wall and read it out loud for all to listen.

You just plugged your ears and ignored.

But sure, blame me if it makes you feel better. You want to make me your e-punching bag because you feel the same dread every black, indigenous or brown person feels when they are the sacrificial lamb every election, go right ahead.

Lie to yourself and call me the privileged one. Whatever floats your boat.

Fine, yes, I wasn't looking at it from your perspective. But I've been queen for at least as long as you've been black, and for as many thing that will come down on us like the world's shittiest rainstorm, at least nobody was trying to legislate you out of existence. DT has said in no uncertain terms that he wants to just remove the concept of being trans from the while country. "Geder is what's on your birth certificate" type shit. So along with all the immigrants, my partner and myself will.more than likely be rounded up and sent to the camps this time around.

You've got a cloud of background radiation that hangs off of you at all times, but you haven't been told, directly, that you're going yo be killed for being black (yet), so you can maybe understand how existential dread is a factor in my demeanor?

The fucking racism is crazy here. "Been a queen as long as u been black" please kill urself and be through. The aave...the delusion...pretending being trans is some unqiuely opressed group more than ....black americans who have been on the legistive chopping block sinces americans inception.

WHAT ABOUT BLACK TRANS PEOPLE?! Y’all act like we don’t fucking exist. 😭

I feel like that's included IN the transaction people umbrella? P2025 doesn't make any special allowances for trans people of any race, they want to throw us ALL in the meat grinder.

I'm sorry for not being clearer on that. You obviously have it worse than me. I just wanted to express how upset I am that this is happening and how much of the cou try is just gonna sit back and watch it happen AGAIN.

I don't have any money, I don't have a platform, I can't DO anything about it. I can't do anything for black trans people, or anyone at all, outside of maybe throw myself in traffic and hope it makes a Republican late for a lunch meeting.

Probably getting fired this month.

On that note, I’ll just say I’m sorry. I’m sorry for being uncompromising. We live in a Fascist country now for certain. The NLRB is about to overturn. And corporations are going to own our asses. That promise that Trump said he wasn’t going to tax overtime. Well, he won’t tax it. He is going to extend overtime to over 70 hours basically making it impossible to gain overtime.

It’s that being said, I’m sorry. I tried fighting. I tried my best to work elections. But yeah.

White women are racist.

I get the distinct impression you were never voting for your own survival, and willfully ignored those of us who were forced to.

I'm gonna be comforted with how thoroughly you stuck to your guns when I'm bleeding in a ditch.

Okay.

Distinct impression?

First off, I am a black male in America. I am always on the chopping block regardless. My survival? I’ve went from homeless and living in my car to living in my apartment. I work in a union, dipshit.

Everything I have gained was risked in this election. And not once did I mince words.

Since October 7th of last year until today, I talked my shit. Since 2020, I talked my shit.

I saw the writing on the wall and read it out loud for all to listen.

You just plugged your ears and ignored.

But sure, blame me if it makes you feel better. You want to make me your e-punching bag because you feel the same dread every black, indigenous or brown person feels when they are the sacrificial lamb every election, go right ahead.

Lie to yourself and call me the privileged one. Whatever floats your boat.

Fine, yes, I wasn't looking at it from your perspective. But I've been queen for at least as long as you've been black, and for as many thing that will come down on us like the world's shittiest rainstorm, at least nobody was trying to legislate you out of existence. DT has said in no uncertain terms that he wants to just remove the concept of being trans from the while country. "Geder is what's on your birth certificate" type shit. So along with all the immigrants, my partner and myself will.more than likely be rounded up and sent to the camps this time around.

You've got a cloud of background radiation that hangs off of you at all times, but you haven't been told, directly, that you're going yo be killed for being black (yet), so you can maybe understand how existential dread is a factor in my demeanor?

You wanna go bar for bar?

Do you have a clip from him regarding black people that matches THIS level of vitriol?

Nobody GIVES a fuck about what I have to say about BLM and Haiti, but fir what it's worth, I used to give shit to a cluster or Libertarians/Ancaps who have at the point all left the site everything they came out with a stone-dead take about how the rioters were controlled opposition, how they were laughable for watching Trevor Noah, about how business owners had rights too, about how it was all a government setup. I got my first actual death threat from dropping into a thread about a black man who got shot robbing a store, and saying in the midst of all the people posting "play stupid games" memes that the guy was poor and didn't deserve to die.

I haven't posted anything on Haitians in particular, but I get, at most, 10 reblogs on my posts? I am the bottom of the food chain here, just dreadfully unpopular. And what would I even have to add to the conversation? Everyone knows the majority of Haitian immigrants are here legally under visas, everybody knows the confirmed cases of people killing public animals were Americans, everybody knows that sanctioning a country so hard that it's residents have to leave and then having those who left work in shitty conditions to maximize profits a has SOP for the US since before slavery ended, so what does it do to repeat that shit?

I've volunteered at community centers and homeless shelters, I worked for a rehoming and employment company, I donated to all the Gaza reliefs fundraisers until I ran out if disposable income, and I don't advertise it because I don't have a sense if superiority about it and I can not STAND the thought of another lingering conservative on this board trying to start shit about "virtue signaling".

Maybe I should have logged out for the night, but seeing @ubernegro make some post about how sorry not sorry he is about all the terrible shit that's about to happen to all of us, RIGHT AFTER having it confirmed that the majority of people on this country are fine with me and, yes, all the African Americans and Palestinians and Haitians and Ulranians and Pierto Ricans and disabled people and Indians and Pacific Islanders all being rounded up and killed as a sacrifice to the Invisible Hand that will somehow lower the price of eggs, I got a little testy and engaged on a way other that "you're absolutely right, I was an idiot for even hoping things could be better for me".

Mass deportation and Project 2025 and mass fracking and 1% tax cuts and the Department Of Government Efficiency are staring us in the face, and I can serve soup and spend every spare second at a call center, and it won't mean shit when fascism KILLS EVERYBODY.

nothing that stimulant medication and a coffee and an energy drink and a bump of coke and a good hard slap in the face and seven years in the harsh wilderness and a hug from a friend and a firm prostate milking and 250mg of MDMA crystals and a top of the line gaming PC and a tall glass of water and a distant memory of summer and piano lessons and four 20mg edibles and a sword that hungers for human blood and a well socialized tuxedo cat and a sushi dinner and a leather jacket and a power nap and a single beautiful rod of depleted uranium and regular estradiol injections and a typewritten sheet of paper bearing the solution to the hard problem of consciousness and nipple clamps and a lobotomy and a gun and another coffee can't fix

Rescue professional here:

If you need rescuing or help, DON’T FUCKING MOVE. You are so much easier to find when you stay put.

Credits: @foxes-in-love

Your most important survival skill is asking for help

Goddamn preach this

"Your most important survival skill is asking for help." THIS, it makes me so damn pissed off when parents try and normalize that asking for help is a taboo thing!

This feels important to reblog

I’ve been thinking about this daily since it crossed my dash

little mans is 100% correct.

I'm gonna put I AM BRAVE OF THIS MEETING on my cubicle wall at work and never explain it.

I smell good

‎‏Israeli Minister of Internal Security, Ben Gavier, with his extremist supporters, singing a song expressing joy over the killing of Gaza’s children. Here are some of its lyrics: “Gaza! Gaza! Gaza is a graveyard. No more schools for children because there are no longer children in Gaza. They will soon be extinct”!!

وزير الامن الداخلى الاسرائيلي "بن غافير "مع أنصاره المتطرفين و هم يغنون أغنية تعبر عن الابتهاج بقتل أطفال غزة هذه بعض كلماتها " غزة! غزة! غزة مقبرة. لا مزيد من المدارس للأطفال لأنه لم يعد هناك أطفال في غزة. سينقرضون قريبا "!!

Probably getting fired this month.

On that note, I’ll just say I’m sorry. I’m sorry for being uncompromising. We live in a Fascist country now for certain. The NLRB is about to overturn. And corporations are going to own our asses. That promise that Trump said he wasn’t going to tax overtime. Well, he won’t tax it. He is going to extend overtime to over 70 hours basically making it impossible to gain overtime.

It’s that being said, I’m sorry. I tried fighting. I tried my best to work elections. But yeah.

White women are racist.

I get the distinct impression you were never voting for your own survival, and willfully ignored those of us who were forced to.

I'm gonna be comforted with how thoroughly you stuck to your guns when I'm bleeding in a ditch.

Okay.

Distinct impression?

First off, I am a black male in America. I am always on the chopping block regardless. My survival? I’ve went from homeless and living in my car to living in my apartment. I work in a union, dipshit.

Everything I have gained was risked in this election. And not once did I mince words.

Since October 7th of last year until today, I talked my shit. Since 2020, I talked my shit.

I saw the writing on the wall and read it out loud for all to listen.

You just plugged your ears and ignored.

But sure, blame me if it makes you feel better. You want to make me your e-punching bag because you feel the same dread every black, indigenous or brown person feels when they are the sacrificial lamb every election, go right ahead.

Lie to yourself and call me the privileged one. Whatever floats your boat.

Fine, yes, I wasn't looking at it from your perspective. But I've been queen for at least as long as you've been black, and for as many thing that will come down on us like the world's shittiest rainstorm, at least nobody was trying to legislate you out of existence. DT has said in no uncertain terms that he wants to just remove the concept of being trans from the while country. "Geder is what's on your birth certificate" type shit. So along with all the immigrants, my partner and myself will.more than likely be rounded up and sent to the camps this time around.

You've got a cloud of background radiation that hangs off of you at all times, but you haven't been told, directly, that you're going yo be killed for being black (yet), so you can maybe understand how existential dread is a factor in my demeanor?

You wanna go bar for bar?

Do you have a clip from him regarding black people that matches THIS level of vitriol?

FUCK THIS COUNTRY

Probably getting fired this month.

On that note, I’ll just say I’m sorry. I’m sorry for being uncompromising. We live in a Fascist country now for certain. The NLRB is about to overturn. And corporations are going to own our asses. That promise that Trump said he wasn’t going to tax overtime. Well, he won’t tax it. He is going to extend overtime to over 70 hours basically making it impossible to gain overtime.

It’s that being said, I’m sorry. I tried fighting. I tried my best to work elections. But yeah.

White women are racist.

They will always vote to uphold white supremacy. Then, the ones who don't look down on black people for not voting 100% democrat.

Becky, it is your mother, aunt, sister, coworker whom you need to talk to.

They know this, but are cowards when confronting their peers.

Sweetheart, when I tell you I had NOBODY to proselytize to.

My parents are standard suburban liberals, my partner's family have been doing the long walk of turning the corner since he came out, and I have no friends because I live an atomized American experience where I don't have time to forge connections at work.

The only person who might have voted Trump is my piece of shit brother who USED to talk a big game about "not caring" about people's identities, but started getting all side-eye when my partner turned out to be trans, and suddenly we were "groomers" and "deluded". And there's no getting through to that kind of person.

Probably getting fired this month.

On that note, I’ll just say I’m sorry. I’m sorry for being uncompromising. We live in a Fascist country now for certain. The NLRB is about to overturn. And corporations are going to own our asses. That promise that Trump said he wasn’t going to tax overtime. Well, he won’t tax it. He is going to extend overtime to over 70 hours basically making it impossible to gain overtime.

It’s that being said, I’m sorry. I tried fighting. I tried my best to work elections. But yeah.

White women are racist.

I get the distinct impression you were never voting for your own survival, and willfully ignored those of us who were forced to.

I'm gonna be comforted with how thoroughly you stuck to your guns when I'm bleeding in a ditch.

Okay.

Distinct impression?

First off, I am a black male in America. I am always on the chopping block regardless. My survival? I’ve went from homeless and living in my car to living in my apartment. I work in a union, dipshit.

Everything I have gained was risked in this election. And not once did I mince words.

Since October 7th of last year until today, I talked my shit. Since 2020, I talked my shit.

I saw the writing on the wall and read it out loud for all to listen.

You just plugged your ears and ignored.

But sure, blame me if it makes you feel better. You want to make me your e-punching bag because you feel the same dread every black, indigenous or brown person feels when they are the sacrificial lamb every election, go right ahead.

Lie to yourself and call me the privileged one. Whatever floats your boat.

Fine, yes, I wasn't looking at it from your perspective. But I've been queer for at least as long as you've been black, and for as many thing that will come down on us like the world's shittiest rainstorm, at least nobody was trying to legislate you out of existence. DT has said in no uncertain terms that he wants to just remove the concept of being trans from the while country. "Geder is what's on your birth certificate" type shit. So along with all the immigrants, my partner and myself will.more than likely be rounded up and sent to the camps this time around.

You've got a cloud of background radiation that hangs off of you at all times, but you haven't been told, directly, that you're going yo be killed for being black (yet), so you can maybe understand how existential dread is a factor in my demeanor?

Probably getting fired this month.

On that note, I’ll just say I’m sorry. I’m sorry for being uncompromising. We live in a Fascist country now for certain. The NLRB is about to overturn. And corporations are going to own our asses. That promise that Trump said he wasn’t going to tax overtime. Well, he won’t tax it. He is going to extend overtime to over 70 hours basically making it impossible to gain overtime.

It’s that being said, I’m sorry. I tried fighting. I tried my best to work elections. But yeah.

White women are racist.

I get the distinct impression you were never voting for your own survival, and willfully ignored those of us who were forced to.

I'm gonna be comforted with how thoroughly you stuck to your guns when I'm bleeding in a ditch.

These are the faces to watch in 2028

Thanks!

They're gonna kill all the queers by then, but still great to know!

i think we should be honest & realistic & acknowledge that 'palestine sunk harris' is pure cope. i understand that it is comforting to imagine that passionate support for genocide is unpopular with the usamerican electorate but the actual facts don't beat that out. what sunk harris was a shit campaign run by the same morons who tried to keep biden in as the candidate

i just think that a lot of people are attracted to a nice morally neat narrative where losing is harris' karmic justice for smilingly endorsing some of the most horrific evils of the 21st century but i really think it's much more attributable to running an awful campaign that self sabotaged at every turn

It's hard to be...I dunno, self congratulatory? Knowing how this result is going to be so much worse for me and mine than the alternative. Like, yes, the Harris/Walz campaign was an automated foot shooting machine, but I'm not going to take a lot of enjoyment in "I told you so" when my life is actively being legislated out of existence.