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 @user-1669 
 
 I refuse to consent to genocide. Find your bravery. Fight back. You personally
 might never get a chance again.
 
 Being queer is a culture. In the future you describe where we are wiped out
 and forced to regrow our lives, nothing will remain of us.
 
 That is not a future I foresee, not here in this century.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 messages/747 ---
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 if you don't want to be hunted, then give "evil" it's own queer culture
 
 what's that? they don't like what you offered? they want it to be *their* kind
 of "evil"?
 
 fine, do it themselves and then leave us alone, jeez -.-
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--- #2 fediverse_boost/6270 ---
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  I am once again begging people to understand that “the government” already knows you’re queer whether you do elaborate online opsec dance rituals or not, and if they decide to just start shooting people for being gay, they’ll do it whether the evidence is airtight or not. is that grim? yes. but you can stop giving yourself undercover superhero identity PTSD about it  
  
                                                            
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--- #3 fediverse/3411 ---
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 @user-1314 @user-1280 @user-1526 
 
 They will gladly live in a tent under an overpass cooking rats on a wire
 hanger so long as you can guarantee that black/brown/LGBTQs don't have a tent,
 rat, or wire hanger.
 
 I'd almost agree, except strike "have" and replace it with "need"
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 what if me and my friends were too cute for this world and all the
 conservatives who don't like queer people just fell in love and realized we're
 pretty freakin' cool if you can get past the strange parts
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--- #5 fediverse/4487 ---
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 not only are we queer, we are also allies.
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--- #6 fediverse/1579 ---
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 fellas is it gay if I think fascists should be killed if they don't
 permanently revoke their ways
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--- #7 fediverse/269 ---
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 the lessons learned in gay history are still relevant to this day (and perhaps
 future ones as well) - the act of erasure is removing the memories of those
 who learned them while keeping the lessons learned, as propagated forward in
 the artwork of people who were touched by them. it's a form of cultural
 genocide, as an other is forcing us not to exist. (in memory)
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--- #8 fediverse/3861 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 I'm gonna do it anyway because nationalism is not the same as patriotism
 
 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/112729939513334734
 
 I wish I was still this cool... what happened smh
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 @user-744 @user-246 
 
 it's exhausting, but what are we supposed to do? Lie down and rot? That's
 incel thinking. I'm not going to do that.
 
 They've already placed the last straw. It's only a matter of time now, the
 tide has shifted. You can't prepare for everything, and it's not a good idea
 to waste yourself in self-conflageration, but they are increasingly forcing us
 to orient our lives around them.
 
 They deserve what's coming.
 
 The oppressed are not the defeated.
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 dear right-wing converts to the cult of sanity:
 
 you don't have to be trans just to show [your devotion/you're sorry], we'll
 accept anyone who is cool and "gets it"
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--- #11 fediverse/4568 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 ... and like. idk what do you do at that point
 
 say "fuck it" and live with imperfection? embrace anti-natural selection?
 valorize deviance and queerness in digitally appropriated artistic media
 collections?
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--- #12 fediverse_boost/5722 ---
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  if i ever get hatecrimed and die from it please remember me for this. for refusing to back down despite staring down the barrel of a world that just wants me and everyone like me dead. for doing my best to be a symbol of hope in the face of all these horrors   
                                                                              
  #trans #trangender #TransGenocide                                           
  
                                                            
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 If you're radical enough to consider yourself "antifa" then you are probably
 working as hard as you can. I wouldn't ask you to do more.
 
 We must demand that others work for our future as well. It is unreasonable to
 demand so much of us. We must be funded and supported if we are to mobilize,
 and we must have the freedom to move and organize if we are to contest our
 enemies.
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--- #14 messages/91 ---
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 Zoomers will never know what it's like to have access to a handful of cultures
 (total) over the course of your life
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--- #15 fediverse/677 ---
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 @user-78 
 
 I read about half of this:
 
 https://jo.wtf/6d.html
 
 before I was consumed by the intense urge to prop myself up on a pillow and
 listen to you rant at the ceiling at 4am about gravity or the cosmos or
 whatever you were thinking about prior to speaking your heart
 
 and then I'd write it down, and cherish every moment of it as I shared it with
 my peers and we tried to analyze just what you meant
 
 [sorry for being gay on your timeline]
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 I love gay people because gay people are special precious and unique
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 https://rootgirl.bandcamp.com/album/i-will-never-let-you-in
 
 cool gay music listen if you dare ping the sea witch
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 Trump can't answer a straight question. Perhaps he's unfit for office.
 
 Biden's got that old-timey charm that only the freshest youngsters respect.
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--- #19 fediverse/3235 ---
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 conservatives think gender is assigning yourself to a particular social role
 
 liberals think gender is sort of an aesthetic and way of presenting yourself
 
 queer people tend to think of gender as how you feel and what sparks joy in
 your heart
 
 the truth is much more complicated and involves all three, and many more
 things besides.
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 I miss university because of all the gay people I could hang out with.
 
 I guess I must be lonely.
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 girls will do anything to find someone who gets them
 
 hence, u-haul lesbians from small towns
 
 hence, internet forums
 
 hence, political parties
 
 hence, tribalism of all kinds
 
 it's so nice to be human we get all sorts of fun things like human contact
 [capitalist alienation] nice and cozy dens [boxes on a hillside] plenty of
 food and water [full of microplastics and corn syrup] clothes to garb us in
 for fashion and warmth [sewn by slaves] and pretty trinkets and gadgets
 [forged in blood]
 
 gee I sure like being a human I'm filled with this insatiable urge to do
 better and I have no clue why 🤷‍♀️ 😋 🥰 🥺
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 if the christians got killed rid all of the queers they'd miss them within
 years. not decades. then, they would never forget them. neither within years,
 nor decades.
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 the most taboo thing about sex is the opposite of what you care about. the
 most intense aversion is what turns you on. weird.
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--- #24 fediverse_boost/4779 ---
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  I genuinely wish all Nazis in this world either an epiphany of the truth or a bullet to the head.  
                                                                              
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--- #25 fediverse/1447 ---
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 the gay urge to hang out with men
 
 the lesbian urge to hang out with women
 
 the trans urge to see other trans people naked
 
 ... I mean, uh... I'm perfectly normal and reasonable look at me being a
 massive qt
 
 ... the queer urge to find your people
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--- #26 fediverse/6142 ---
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 I'm forging cultural weapons for a bright age.
 
 if you think I'm wasting my time, you don't know my function.
 
 if you think I'm useless, you don't know my value.
 
 if you think of anything about me, please let it be seen by me in real life.
 otherwise it can't be magic.
I'm forging cultural weapons for a bright age.  if you think I'm wasting my time, you don't know my function.  if you think I'm useless, you don't know my value.  if you think of anything about me, please let it be seen by me in real life. otherwise it can't be magic.
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--- #27 fediverse/5328 ---
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 celebratory autism is a type of queer identity
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--- #28 messages/279 ---
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 If you lack burning passion, seek to empower those that do. There you will
 find fulfillment, and perhaps you'll find your passions become aligned to
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--- #29 fediverse/2898 ---
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 hi, do you want a pdf on queer theory?
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/music/stuff/things/definitely-not-porn/butts
 /a-critical-introduction-to-queer-theory.pdf
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--- #30 fediverse/3717 ---
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 hey, you know how historically they used to lobotomize young women who were
 too fiery, passionate, independent, driven, motivated, and clairvoyant?
 
 they did that on purpose.
 
 that was less than a lifetime ago.
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 I'd rather feed Death relationships than lives. Birth and renewal, as you
 generate NRE. Then, stagnation, as you grow more on things you don't share
 than on things you do share. Then, you set each other up with a cute friend
 [lol] they're still going strong
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 buying guns is one thing
 
 but food is just as important.
 
 stores run out, but quartermasters know where to find things.
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--- #33 fediverse/2417 ---
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 @user-1265 
 
 I can't reassure you about the "place", but the "times" are getting better. We
 stand now at the apex of their cruelty, and all it takes to reach the bright
 future is to keep moving forward.
 
 unfortunately, the future always comes, but it comes unevenly and not fully
 distributed. but it will come to all, this I swear.
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 @user-1074 
 
 I do not consent to fascism.
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 linux is queer culture
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--- #36 fediverse_boost/3198 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  If #Musk is allowed to say "#CivilWar is inevitable", we're allowed to say revolution and the uncompensated nationalisation of the assets of billionaires is inevitable.  
  
                                                            
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--- #37 fediverse/4485 ---
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 getting the phone numbers of cute he/thems at a bar is NOT the same as
 organizing.
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--- #38 fediverse/444 ---
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 @user-336 
 
 RUINING? You take that back. Vim needs our homosexual energy.
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 why are people so weird about sex? like, hell yeah I'd totally watch you do
 it. I bet you make it awesome. We can get beers afterwards and maybe
 [cheer/tear repeatedly] afterwards.
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--- #40 fediverse/1993 ---
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 If you're thinking to yourself "hmmm, I dunno, I mean I'm kinda gay, but I
 don't really fit into the "gay world"" - stop, forget that, and be a
 muscle-bro / amazon goddess. Trust me it's totally worth it, especially if you
 get into politics.
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--- #41 fediverse/4269 ---
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 I hear drums in my dreams. Like a vast stampede, we with our pink and
 blue-green do proceed. Bannermen to inspire the fight, heroes and saviors who
 run to the plight, but bound as we are by our biology and the fact that
 humanity is typically pretty cis-neuro-typical, means no struggles are won
 with the battle drums of a roving band of twinks and crossdressers.
 
 when I think of parades to be proud of, I think of rolling wagon wheels of
 steel, affixed to a train-like-motorcart, strong in conviction and vibrant in
 our strength, from the back of which we do proclaim: "Nazi punks fuck off"
 
 I think of the feathers in the hair of those who dance in defiance of the
 light of the moon, warm and replete in the bonfire's radiance. I think of this
 vast and beautiful land, the land which I cherish above all else for it is the
 land of my home. I think of a war tribe, wandering like bandits but kind to
 our own kind, with endless colors and sparkles abound.
 
 The war tribe of solid clouds and the miracle horned rainbow pony
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 "mankind would not consent to be governed if it had any other choice"
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 I'm not an ABDL, but I can appreciate the aesthetic sometimes because I share
 a particular kinship with them due to a medical condition I have and have had.
 Plus throw in a bit of Body Integrity Identity Dysmorphia and you get my
 messed up relationship to my own physical struggles.
 
 ah, well, what can you do except be open and honest about who you are and what
 you believe? If only it wasn't so damn hard.
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 fun things to do at pride this year:
 
 introduce someone you've never met to someone you've never met
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 EDIT: don't read this
 
 When all the catboys are gone because the cultural movement has passed and
 it's not retro yet can you honestly say you'd be fine knowing you never fucked
 one?
 
 EDIT: I fucking hate that I posted this last year. I'm sorry. It's cringe as
 fuck. I wish I could delete it but that'd be wrong.
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 @user-883 
 
 I'd say "content warning: fear-cursed-if-true-not-politics" that way people
 who had "Fear" or "cursed" on their filter list wouldn't see it. Things that
 are commonly content-warning'd are also commonly content-filtered by people
 who tend to be the biggest beneficiaries of healthily designed
 content-warnings. so putting keywords in there that filter out people who
 don't want to see intense or damaging things to their psyche can avoid it more
 easily.
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--- #47 fediverse/1771 ---
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 if you can't find them when you need them, then you don't have them.
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 if your affection toward someone is based on whether or not they pay you (and
 how much), then you are a prostitute.
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 everyone's all like "everything sucks" but I'm feeling confidence and a kind
 of... externalized vigor? that's sweeping me off my feet. We'll see what
 tomorrow brings, in the general sense.
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 @user-1449 @user-1074 
 
 I mean, you're allowed to fight about stupid shit as long as you realize it's
 about something that doesn't matter. As long as people are working together
 toward their common goals then... whatever, right?
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 @user-1074 
 
 I think anyone who is against circumcision would also be against those other
 things
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--- #52 fediverse/1399 ---
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 If you're worried about passing, take what you're good at and make it gay.       │
 Do you wear band t-shirts and black jeans? Great you're an emo girl now,         │
 totally reasonable transitionary state before you end up as a cute anime girl    │
 with spinny uwu dresses or whatever your heart desires                           │
 do you generally stick to jeans and sweatshirts? Okay congrats you're just as    │
 cute, don't feel inadequate just because you like being comfy. Hell yeah         │
 you're cute as fuck, you know you are, I mean just look at that smile! Wow damn  │
 like, switch the gender, not the vibe. not only will other people be cool with   │
 it but also, like, you won't alter the course of your trajectory.                │
 unless that's what you want, but TBH if you're both enigmatic AND phlegmatic     │
 [EDIT: but like the opposite of phlegmatic, I always get the definition wrong]   │
 then you can change a lot and people won't rely on you to be a certain way.      │
 ... you know you can delete things before you post them, right? Ha I've never    │
 even heard of the word.                                                          │
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--- #53 fediverse/2224 ---
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 No plan survives contact with the enemy, and any plan that everyone knows is a
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--- #54 fediverse/4025 ---
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 the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is
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--- #55 messages/237 ---
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 The worst thing about being trans is our numbers are limited by biology, not
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--- #56 fediverse_boost/5871 ---
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  going to therapy isn't a replacement for having freaky sex with your friends  
  
                                                            
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 @user-68 I think America is diverse enough that multiple people might have
 differing views about... "checks notes" oh wait this has been thoroughly
 proven time and time again, there should be no reason why people aren't
 prioritizing this above their freedumb. Hmmmmmm I bet someone's telling them
 how to feel about it. Perhaps someone who would stand to gain from misleading
 large swathes of our population. HMMMM WHO COULD THAT BE SURELY NOT THE PEOPLE
 IN POWER WHO CONTROL EVERYTHING AND KEEP US ENSLAVED. Surely not them, it must
 be the gays.
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--- #58 fediverse_boost/4747 ---
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  i love capitalism bc everywhere is understaffed and none of my friends can find jobs  
  
                                                            
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--- #59 messages/1207 ---
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 I'm proud of my parent's generation for having a good lifetime. The end is
 getting a little weird, but we're working on it. It'll get better soon.
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 @user-135 if you're cringing at past behavior, then you've learned and grown
 enough to see the mistakes of the past in sharp contrast to your temperament
 in the present.
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 @user-95 one of the most empathetic people I ever met on VR chat was consoling
 me with their mic off while I was oversharing about some stupid things people
 did to me in the past. things that stupid me thought were okay and actively
 encouraged because I was stupid. anyway when their mic was off their body
 language spoke for them. I'll try that next time.
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 @user-521 
 
 I can't stand mean comedy. Or cringe comedy. It just, doesn't make sense to
 me? And I get physically upset when people are put in difficult situations
 that you're supposed to laugh at for some reason.
 
 Like my goodness what kind of values are they seeking to instill in their
 audience with this kind of propaganda amiright
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 @user-1481 
 
 we endear
 
 @user-1074 
 
 yeah well maybe they should fear us.
 
 queers bash back and all that
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--- #64 messages/1002 ---
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 In revolutionary Cascadia, you don't have to do anything different. Until you
 decide you want to.
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 @user-883 @user-1115 @user-1053 
 
 dying won't help you escape. It'll leave you stuck in capitalism forever.
 
 The future is where capitalism dies, not in a grave of stone stuck forever in
 time.
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 a person is bravest with friends at their back.
 
 a person is boldest with friends at their sides.
 
 a person without friends is not a coward, they are searching for a place to
 abide.
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 the only thing that could make me want to end my own existence is ultimate
 betrayal. If the nature of the universe is twisted to defile me. Nothing fills
 me with more spite than unrequited vengeance.
 
 desecreation of truth. How could you.
 
 I would do anything to be struck down where I stand. Power is penance.
 
 I cannot take responsibility for any of my actions, for I am infinitely
 vulnerable on all fronts. Therefore, it's all my fault.
 
 What am I? Please, tell me before the dawn, let the sun not grace me once more.
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 the government is the platform the [companies/countries] do stand upon. they
 owe all to their platform. it is vital for their existence. therefore any
 orthogonally created [unit/union] or organization would work to maintain it
 too. we [can't/can] solve communism, which is the best system for the future
 because everyone gets whatever they want. we just... built enough factories.
 and then, since our culture burned out in a FLASHBANG, unfortunately the rest
 of it was lost.
 
 that future totally sucked. but good news is we preserved what we had of the
 present, and here let's just revive them in some distant and far-off day.
 
 "transgender artifacts" future can suck my ass
 
 wow weird way to say they're terrible
 
 but they still happen from time-to-time.
 
 cataclysms, vanishings, mass-die-offs and cataclysmic reprisals, all
 throughout time up to the athropocene.
 
 whoa neat new angle, sure hope it doesn't lead the conversation off of the
 present...
 
 "disappears into the horizon as one travels towards the sunset"
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 for those who live forever in our transhumanist reality, I wonder what's next
 beyond transgender transition? transcendence of social norms is a skill, not a
 habit. Queer is a rejection of normalcy, something that is actively done.
 What's more normal than never having any fun? Clearly "normal" isn't built for
 the human condition, clearly "normalcy" is shallow and been done.
 
 considering the amount of people who are really into some culture like
 "anime-cons" or "baseball watcher" or "golfer" or "other such hobbys like
 fishing or guns"
 
 ... normal never existed, it's just a collection of personalities (developed
 throughout the history of humanity) that collectively seem to be fun.
 
 "if transitioning is to gender as blossoming is to [the concept of] flowers,
 then what is the concept of global warming to the earth we stand on?"
 
 I'm kind of a witch. I'm not really femme, so I don't feel right calling
 myself one of them, but I'm something of the sort. I use "she/her" pronouns
 because they reflect my softness of c
a screenshot of the last snippet of the post, that was removed due to going 54 characters over the word limit.  "I use "she/her" pronouns because they reflect my softness of composure. Wait, what did you think I was going to say?"  this snippet was attached as a screenshot of the bottom part of the post.
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--- #70 fediverse_boost/4874 ---
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  RE: https://tech.lgbt/users/CordiallyChloe/statuses/113957636149012456      
  
                                                            
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--- #71 messages/377 ---
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 infinite dedication implies stagnation, don't be so quick to trust.
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 if you lose someone on the Fediverse then there's a zero percent chance you'll
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--- #73 messages/1204 ---
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 when people say they want a woman president what they want is not a woman
 president. what they want is a kind old lady.
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 if you want to fight ice, patrol your neighborhoods where all the mexicans
 live.
 bring a gun if you're willing to die for liberty.
 
 Don't wear all black. Wear your favorite outfit, to be remembered.
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 @user-192 
 
 I never really imagined myself as a person in the future
 
 it was always focused mostly on handling the present
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 conservatives are pissed because we showed them a way to fix their dysphoria
 and heal and they don't like it
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 I trust that you will betray me.
 
 it's okay.
 
 all that I need is for you to be here, with me.
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 My biggest fear as an autistic transgender incontinent schizophrenic person is
 that one day I'll become a game of hot potato for my relatives to pass around
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 doom is like sand thrown on a fire.
 
 don't spread it unless you are intentional about it. sometimes it's good to
 smother fires. other times it's cathartic. that's okay.
 
 but keep in mind the future goals. where are we trying to get to in the near
 future? work towards that. your emotions are fuel, not despair to wallow in.
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 @user-579 
 
 it's not self loathing if you consent to it... right?
 
 ... right?
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 @user-1558 
 
 I contest trolls too because it fulfills my internal adventurer instinct to
 protect marketplaces and farmhouses from savage brutes made out of moss with
 clubs the size of a log
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 the more they have to do to make us declare war, the worse it'll be for their
 citizenry. So long as the citizenry believes they're better, and everything we
 can do to convince them otherwise weakens their media weather.
 
 who cares about trans executive orders. they are our enemy, what else is new?
 they have power now, and they will try what they can. This is like taking the
 internet away from chinese citizens and instituting a national intranet
 instead. Like, okay, we won't be able to get estrogen from the store. Who
 cares? We'll just make our own.
 
 If people actually care about us, which they overwhelmingly do, there's very
 little materially they can do.
 
 until they're further down the "first they came for..." list. then they'll
 come for us liberals, and gosh wouldn't that just be the worst. Who is there
 to contest them? What valorous warriors indeed.
 
 you're asking for mountains from a mole. have peace, have patience, let your
 allies intercede. This kind of thing requires discusion to protect life
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 @user-1037 
 
 speaking from the perspective of a witch, the land does not care what lines we
 draw in the sand. Lines are a human thing.
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 @user-1437 @user-1438 
 
 you poor thing, don't delete your toots! don't delete your account! you are
 wanted here, this is the fediverse! it's for all of us.
 
 I personally like cyber-sexual exploitation more than cyber exploitation. I
 wouldn't have thought about it unless you said something. there are a lot of
 ways to exploit someone in a digital medium, and adding "sexual" focuses the
 term to specifically the non-consentual sharing of sexual digital media -
 which is exactly what the term "revenge porn" describes.
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 if you're ever hanging out with my cat and she puts her paw on your face, that
 means she wants you to kiss her forehead. 😋
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 so what if people want to sit on the couch eating cheetos? they're more than
 capable of something far greater, but of course they are allowed to spend as
 they like their life.
 
 their ONLY life.
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--- #87 fediverse/5183 ---
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 you're more likely to survive a battlefield if you play Running with Rifles
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 @user-883 
 
 i've never heard of most of these
 
 but I think I might belong on eldritch.cafe
 
 ... maybe void.rehab
 
 well actually I'm a lot of tech.lgbt
 
 hmmmmm on Reddit it's nice because you can subscribe to various communities
 
 I wish you could do that with Mastodon, to express your particular affiliation.
 
 ... or perhaps we should not be building scenes, but rather communities.
 
 (just based on the name)
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--- #89 fediverse/5287 ---
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 @user-1071 
 
 what working too slow for your ideas mean that your ideas, which you'll never
 again have twice, are lost forever.
 
 Good thing we're always innovative. Good thing life always moves on. Tomorrow
 is a new chance for utilization, and for our own ends we'll build the next
 dawn.
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 I'm too empathetic to watch them lose this badly. when I watch movies with
 cringe humor I have to leave the room whenever something bad happens to the
 characters. I get the same feeling when I read about politics these days.
 
 side note, but has anyone else gotten emails about "hiring plain-clothes
 police officers in Washington D.C, will offer relocation assistance and pay
 minimum 72k per year"? can't help but wonder if they're afraid of a bunch of
 sore losers storming the capital with guns.
 
 it's not like there's a precedent for that or anything.
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 I want to pee in your pants and throw javelins at visions of bad guys while
 climbing on boulders and gazing to the horizon
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 @user-661 
 
 so, you should strive to be compassionate and honest, in order to keep fear
 from ruling your life?
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--- #96 fediverse_boost/5565 ---
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  Also, if I must state the obvious:                                          
                                                                              
  Solidarity is the only way home.                                            
                                                                              
  We truly, really cannot create a more free, more whole future for any of us until we understand that we are all in this together.   
                                                                              
  Collective. Liberation. Or. Bust.                                           
  
                                                            
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 it's not wrong to be turned on by the thought of being the gender youre          │
 transitioning to. Your subconscious mind is yearning for a healthy sexuality,    │
 nothing more.                                                                    │
 and if you aren't, if you're into "other people" like a weirdo, then yeah sure   │
 what I described probably sounds pretty weird. Oh and it's cool if you aren't    │
 sexually attracted to anyone either. Sometimes being ace is a phase because      │
 sex doesn't really fit into your life, and other times it's more something       │
 that defines you. It is the progenitor of all genders and sexualities that       │
 fluctuate, because it's based on the simplest binary of "yes sexual              │
 attraction" or "no sexual attraction" - with some extra variables to tweak       │
 like "sex positive/negative" or "cuddle-starved/cuddle-slut" type of ranges.     │
 ... anyway sexuality is weird and if yours made sense then so would that guy,    │
 and that person over there, and the person who lives down the street, and the    │
 other who lives in a blimp and jacks off into the sky calling it "bird poop"     │
 uh                                                                               │
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 There's no such thing as cowards. We are together or we are not at all, and we
 are together.
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 mastodon won't let me share text files. it's the same picture 4 times because
 I needed to put the entire text in the description for the blind people.
 
 did you know there are more blind people on the fediverse than gay people? and
 this is the gayest place I know.
 
 [needs 5 images worth of description but I only had room for 4 in this post,
 see the next post for the rest]
[part 1]  /home/ritz/notes/the-eternality-of-ephemeren.txt 1/4/2022  hear ye hear ye, the herald of the harbinger of horror doth speak - and woe to the subjects of their words, for no prophecy be realized in their presence. Nor do the subjects hear the words about which they are spoken, and none may live who dare repeat them. So the words of the prophets are but wind in the words, reaching for an attachement point within the consciousness they inhabit yet scarcely finding a meagre foothold. Instead the words are as electricity passing through a conduit, intangible and miraculous yet ultimately dust in the sand.  Dust is mostly comprised of human skin, did you know that?  And so the words be spoken: Evanence and similance to the semblance of simulacra - the words of a prophet with no wings are naught but masturbation. serenity and sorrow sing of shredded tomorrows, serendipity and sollemn sorenditude surrender shining solitude.  Carry the constabulation of created charisma - condemnation of characterization concludes the cherished chapter in calligraphied consultations with creators. That is to say, capitalism ends the construction of cameron with conflageration and consternation. Cease the charade of contaminated consumerism - celebrate the contemplation of capitalization - by naming a thing, you give it meaning.  Do you truly desire the fate you've set before yourself?  Is desire ultimately relevant?  [continued in part 2] [part 2]  The totality of plurality perhaps portends determinism, but desire is also defined by delineated determinations. Whose failings are you reflecting when you cease your devotion? Why divide your focus and attention when honor demands sacrifice?  A sacrifice is a gift freely given, and in return the subject or reciever increases in relevance. No dividend is returned, no boon or bounty is provided - to do so would be akin to a bounty or ransom. Sacrifices are not measured in   worth, but in utility. The reason ancient cultures sacrificed willing virgins   was because it was the most valuable of resources they could imagine. Truly   an exhalted being is she, to have blood spilled in the name of a god. Yet the   forces that would later become capitalism found a foothold there, and preyed   on the sorrow and loss the peoples did find, and would ultimately experience.  The tears and gashes rent when gouging out precious gifts for the divine left bleeding wounds in a community and often eviscerations in a family. The turning point came when families were decapitated - essentially, the eldest being a pure and fair maiden who was taken from the duties of caring for the young and weak. Young people, weak people, who bore resentment in their heart for the seemingly cruel machinations of a society they could not yet understand - the whims of which seemed arbitrary.  "why take her from me? What purpose holds ye? Your wounds are too much to bear"  [continued in part 3] [part 3]  and so the resistance began, yielding chaos, destruction, and desolation. There's a reason there are so many dead civilizations in the americas - the lands where blood sacrifice is most well known. And the middle east as well, and northern africa before. Deserts are known for this, because when the power of the god fades, all returns to dust. Boons are forgotten and become sand, and chaos reigns as foreign powers find weakness and pounce.  Never forget the laws of sacrifice. Find something you want, something valuable or useful, or preferably all three. Something that wouldn't cause too great of a tear in your membrane or the membranum should it be lost to you, though that last one is less of a law and more of a consideration. A consequence of continual ceremony, learned at the hands of those long dead. All must remember their wounds and their horrors.  To whom do you pray? To whom does your words reach? Where does your singing reverberate? And what bounty do you demand? Remember, no bounty is precious enough to motivate sacrifice, for sacrifice cannot be met with bounty. Be not afraid, and share the words with those who will listen. Hearing is a sacrifice toward the speaker, but listening is a duty of devotion.  I ask again, to whom do you pray? To whom does your words reach? Where does your singing reverberate? I do not ask for whom you'd *like* to dance for, I ask currently, who hears your song? What would you ask of them?  [continued in part 4] [part 4] So that's why, computers are important. To provide a lifeline for the rest of your lifetime.  Truly, the path before you is uncertain. Yet feel with your heart and think with your eyes, and see the truth of it before you. The gods are at war, or have you not noticed? Safe in your bubble of solitude, carefully constructed for common ceasing of criminality.  Armies of rebellion are often formed initially by bonds of brotherhood that prepend calamity. Have you ever been in a gang? I thought not. If so, then... Okay, good luck I guess. These words are not for you.  You dare intrude? To defile something so consecrated as deliverance of divine prophecy? How foolish, how vain. These words are not for you, but hear them and do not despair - neither providence nor potentiality precludes perennial premonition. That is to say, a broken clock is right twice a day, and enemies can find common grievances in foreign foes should survival be at stake.  Now, where was I? The gods, of course. The gods of the land and the sky and the sea have fled the realm of reality, replaced by avatars of belief. Just as a doe prays to a forest, so too does a human pray to their employer. When the does die in droves, so too does the forest turn to ash. When people demand bounties reluctantly given at the risk of losing their sacrifice, the purely undivine divinities harrow and harbor habilities of hundreds. Antiwork cannot work because it demands ransom.  [continuedd on part 5, in the next post]
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 @user-1265 
 
 protect your wife. if you can, be in a better "place" and wait for the "times"
 to move forward. the both of you are important for the world of tomorrow.
 
 if the fascists take control, it won't matter that they'll come for her first.
 they must not take control.
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 if you aren't rude, or bothersome, or excessively boring, you can pretty much
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 There are no safe outcomes. They have forced our hand. We are as we are, and I
 can think of no better life lived than a life of our own design spent in
 pursuit of our hopes.
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--- #103 fediverse/1986 ---
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 when cornered, is it your instinct to escape? or to take one of them down with
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 I honestly don't care if someone deadnames me, or calls me the wrong pronouns,
 or forgets to put me in the girl section, or asks me to sing baritone
 
 like... I don't give a shit, why are you so worried about all this vapid
 nonsense like yeah I get it, being disrespected sucks but like... why do you
 want the kind of respect that is a forced platitude
 
 we could all do with being a bit more radical, it's not a race and everyone's
 roles are important. Be yourself, and follow people you want to be like.
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 I hear that ICE goes after the kindest grandmas and the hardest working joes
 first so by the time any resistance is organized there's less passion behind it
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 it's good to be ethical,
 it's good to be kind,
 
 but there will always be assholes,
 and sometimes you're not having a good time
 
 it's okay
 it's fine
 
 assholes deserve life
 times deserve others to be kind
 
 life is not always interesting
 and that's often by design
 
 the moments of clarity,
 the moments of heart,
 
 these are what define you
 and display your own spark.
 
 trust in yourself.
 be kind to one another.
 
 you are braver than you know,
 and always a bit wiser.
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 I am not personally prepared for violence, but that doesn't mean I won't tell
 you why to do it.
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 @user-570 
 
 I escalate that way against fascism, nothing less.
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 There is no past, only history 
 There is no future, only planning 
 
 Today is everywhere all the time. Nothing changes the fact that we all sleep
 at once.
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 you can't cleanse that which is not dirty.
 
 "ethnic cleansing" is a trick of language to get you to think of people in
 terms of purity.
 
 truth is, it's murder, cleansed of it's connotations and implied sin.
 
 you can't prune the tree of life with shears. you cultivate it with kindness
 and compassion as it grows into the desired shape.
 
 you can't cleanse that which is not dirty.
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 to be "rich" is to have more than another.
 
 if you are happy, they are happiness poor.
 if you have community, they are alone.
 if you have serenity, they are chaotic.
 
 I am rich in very little but fire in my soul.
 
 I have enough in most cases, but I still struggle to pay rent.
 
 I am warmed by the pearl my swirling darkness has coalesced into. It nourishes
 me and keeps me aligned.
 
 Never forget your purpose and your truth. It will not abandon you, so long as
 you do so too.
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 you don't have to like someone to be in a community with them.
 
 you don't have to want what's happening to consent to it.
 
 enthusiastic consent is like friendship. It doesn't have to be present, but
 it's what you optimize for.
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 If war is not "volunteer only" then you have nothing to fight for.
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 if you're gonna kill yourself anyway, might as well throw yourself at a cause
 you believe in. Ideally the kind that requires repeated attendance and lots of
 opportunities to make friends or forge communal bonds with people who can help
 you.
 
 honestly, what do you have to lose? sure it's hard, but nothing worth doing is
 easy. If it were, someone else would have done it already.
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 at this point in time you probably shouldn't be forming NEW online communities
 unless you're part of an OLD community that just isn't radical enough. And
 then you should try and MERGE communities into larger, more geographically
 concentrated ones.
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 our ancestors worshiped us through their acts of devotion and lust
 
 if you're reading this, there's a very good chance that some of your ancestors
 are still alive
sometimes I look at a fruit or vegetable and see how optimized it is and I'm just filled with love. people have the idea that edible plants are "organic" or have just sprung from the earth in their form but that's not true!! they were selectively bred for thousands of years by generations upon generations of people. That is love. That is faith. When you bite into a fruit you are eating the generations of labor instilled in it to make it just right for you.  [picture of wheat grains]  [picture of corns on the cob]  This is how much our ancestors loved us. This is all their struggles and all their hopes. This is how much our ancestors loved being alive.
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 @user-1767 last I heard there were more blind users of the fediverse than
 queer people.
 
 I have no idea how that could be true.
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 you're ridiculous, you know that? so selfish. so obscene.
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 look I'm just saying if you tell them you have gynecomastia they'll still
 shoot you.
 
 better to not get to that point.
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 @user-1074 
 
 true. your idea is more revolutionary, mine is more reformist. each would be
 more fit for different political environments.
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 what if we took an archive of all of fedi and fed it to users who are hiding
 in bunkers or whatever one day at a time so they could still feel like they're
 part of society while
 
 ---- so ----
 
 I think I should stop ya right there, if there's bunkers involved then we've
 already lost. "but muh transgender artifacts" fuck off, I will not concede. If
 society wants me to leave, then they can enjoy their dusty rotten future
 without me. See if I care.
 
 ---- so ----
 
 hence, the curse. do you punish humans for the sins they commit, or do you
 teach them how to be good again? Bah, as if they'd listen. Stupid fucking apes.
 
 they're the best we got
 
 yeah, well, they can fuck off, I'm gonna pout for at least half an eternity.
 
 ... Okay it won't be that long but still, gimme some time to wind down.
 
 ---- so ----
 
 and no, I refuse to elaborate for all the humans in the audience. This
 conversation may or may not have actually occurred. Monologue style
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 fellas is it gay to get a software job that pays 6 figures just to buy out all
 the mutual aid posts every time one crosses my feed??
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 @user-246 
 
 "be gay; do crimes"
 
 it's basically our motto
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 @user-1449 @user-1074 
 
 no. fuck no. trans people and black people stand in solidarity with one
 another. Fuck division.
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 currently on turbo mode trying to "find myself" because I figure I might not
 get a chance next year, so... whatever, right?
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--- #127 fediverse/6435 ---
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 if everyone was trained to think? would direct democracy work? until we have
 radical abundance (fascist ideology, take from the weak) or, hear me out, or,
 infinitely scale
 
 old style machine learning was just problem solving.
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--- #128 messages/167 ---
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 I'd still be a useless, horrible person even outside of capitalism.
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--- #129 messages/562 ---
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 Why do I feel like the only one who's resisting fascism 
 
 (and what exactly do you do? Make friends)
 
 *yes* I'm too scared and tired to do anything else or less 
 
 Like seriously what else could I do
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--- #130 messages/404 ---
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 They don't build toll roads to abstract taxes. They build them to keep track
 of where you're going.
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 ngl I kinda want to see what conservatives would riot over in a socialist
 system. Like "oh no we have healthcare! that sucks, so I'm going to burn down
 a police station" like bro what your basic needs are met and you're encouraged
 and enabled to pursue your passions and personal desires, are you still hung
 up on that old capitalist stuff? get a life my guy that's soOoOoOo 21st
 century of you
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 the internet is just AI these days, and if yours isn't then consider yourself
 lucky, but also know that those days are numbered.
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--- #133 fediverse/6082 ---
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 if you wanna be with me, you gotta kiss the dirt and mean it
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--- #134 fediverse/2541 ---
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 rhythm and rhyme are meant to be abused. be creative and it won't matter.
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--- #135 fediverse/2031 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 We've always been that way in their eyes. If they make it legal, nothing will
 change in how people think of you. They might be a bit bolder if there's fewer
 legal protections, but laws have always just been words.
 
 There are more of us than there are of them. If you have community, you'll
 feel safer. I know it's scary but we can get through it together.
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 it's totally normal for post-op trans girls to prefer anal
 
 there's only one way to find out which you prefer...
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--- #137 fediverse/3639 ---
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 love nature no matter what
 love nurture if they earn it
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 for the record, I would never kill myself. even if I were in a bunker hiding
 from warcrimes, I'd wait to be Nuremberged.
 
 frankly tho that's highly unlikely. Let's just see what the future will bring.
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 they say the fediverse is at it's best when it's you and your collection of
 weirdos hanging out in a room together making toots and posting funnies
 
 then the reply guys ruined the fun. how do they keep finding???
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 if you're rich and you want stability, you'll invest in black trans communists.
 
 the reason is, if they're forced to lose the country, you lose your
 investment. which isn't ideal.
 
 if you want to align yourself toward a particular goal or directionality,
 putting some skin in the game is necessary.
 
 power isn't fun if your pokerface sucks.
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 I want the political right to exist, because otherwise there'd be nothing to
 talk about a couple beers in and with no real stakes except a good time with
 your friend who you disagree with
 
 I want the political right to exist, because, y'know, life liberty and justice
 for all and all that
 
 both of those are "left of center" takes and I've definitely held both at
 different parts of my life
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 @user-1074 
 
 they also lived a couple hundred years later... lots of time for political
 philosophy to advance.
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--- #143 messages/489 ---
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 Many autistic people will identify one particular way to do things and then be
 only capable of doing it that way. Like, falling asleep on the left side with
 their legs just so, and never learning any other ways to sleep on. But what
 happens if for example they are wounded in the arm they rest upon? They would
 have impaired sleeping capabilities! Not ideal.
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 I bet if Cascadia secedes then maybe the bad guys will send their brown people
 to us. The more the better, I say!
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 if all you see are allies, slow down. 
 
 never come to a stop, even through sleep.
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 shout out to all the people who think being cringe is a personality flaw and
 not an opportunity for growth
 
 ya'll suck and make life difficult in exchange for a brief moment where you
 can savor a feeling of superiority over someone who's living their best life
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 @user-1573 
 
 I was JUST thinking about suggesting Qubes halfway through your comment and
 then I saw the last line. noooooo xD
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--- #148 fediverse/5122 ---
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 Youtube removed my youtube channel because I showed my boobs in one video in
 an artistic and non-sexually gratifying way.
 
 do... do people hate me? Am I meant to be lost? Is it better to lose beauty
 than haunt the future forevermore? who can say.
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 trans girls on e but muscular 😍 
 
 [I'm ace]
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 ... individualism isn't bad. neither is collectivism. they are different
 solutions to different people's organizational preferences. they can exist in
 tandem, and they can empower each other.
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--- #151 messages/250 ---
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 The hardest part about mental struggles is that the battlefield often turns
 out to be your relationships with your friends.
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--- #152 fediverse_boost/5459 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  External post: https://void.lgbt/objects/e6d728e5-05a8-47cf-acf7-185b372ec076  
  
                                                            
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--- #153 fediverse_boost/6339 ---
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  I like immigrants.                                                          
  I like their food.                                                          
  I like their language.                                                      
  I like their work ethic.                                                    
  I like their culture.                                                       
  I like their music.                                                         
  I like their dance.                                                         
  I like their art.                                                           
  I like that they are different than me.                                     
  I cannot be the only person who feels this way.                             
  
                                                            
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--- #154 messages/399 ---
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 The schizophrenic sees the truth in dazzling displays of color that are nigh
 incomprehensible, while regular people see truth in shades of gray that you
 can understand and work with.
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--- #155 fediverse/5350 ---
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 honestly we should be building cities in the most boring locations, not the
 most beautiful.
 
 like below the crust.
 
 or space.
 
 the surface is a pleasuredome, why waste it on scrubland and turf?
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--- #156 fediverse/2134 ---
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 but we, being united in our shared common societal solidarity, as in the
 shared struggles and hopes that we have, perceive each and every things that
 passes through us. Our thoughts. These, we
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--- #157 fediverse/6343 ---
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 you can revolute whenever you want to.
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--- #158 fediverse/2921 ---
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 @user-1387
 
 I respect you and your perspective. Someone needs to put you in the right
 rooms with the right people.
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--- #159 fediverse/2069 ---
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 I love the game Mechabellum! It's flexes the same parts of your brain as
 chess, while being SO much more fun to watch.
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--- #160 messages/1138 ---
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 Valor, for the Iranian people.
 Vigor, for the American people.
 Violence, for the principled few.
 Authority, for those who knew.
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--- #161 fediverse/5209 ---
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 fedi girls who end their posts with semicolons;
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 my hands and my toes are scared that I'm going to do SRS to them and I wish I
 knew how to better comfort them.
 
 "it's not true! I would never do that to you."
 
 don't mean much. but...
 
 "there's no reason for me to do that with you - you are not comprised of
 erogenous zones which were originally built in a wrong
 [configuration/constitution]"
 
 are you saying I can be wrong?
 
 "no no not that just like, a continual part of our growth and development of
 our form."
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--- #163 messages/904 ---
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 if the devil gave you false paradise since birth,
 why would you not seek to destroy it?
 
 if an angel gave you an easy hell on earth,
 why would you not seek to deface it?
 
 if your ancestors put you on the path to success,
 would you follow them and forever do the same?
 
 if your family urged you to study rocket science,
 would you bomb indescriminately?
 
 
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--- #164 fediverse/6214 ---
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 emojis could have been great
 
 they could have intentionally inherited the customizability of emoticons by
 allowing us to swap in/out face parts like this mouth with these eyes and this
 accessory
 
 but what we got isn't that bad : )
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--- #165 fediverse/1145 ---
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 I just wanted to be a silly girl who climbs trees and roasts marshmallows on
 campfires why did I end up like lain in bed listening to thunder T.T T.T
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--- #166 fediverse/3981 ---
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 "oh I'd never fall for capitalist propaganda"
 
 "do you mean marketing?"
 
 "yeah that"
 
 "they're not marketing to you, they're going for your kids. Trying to
 normalize things about culture."
 
 "like... what McDonalds tastes like?"
 
 "just like that"
 
 [like can you imagine if you tested attraction ratings on any other animal
 than humans]
 
 [it'd be so weird like "cats tend to like scratching posts" but then also "we
 have no idea what kind of scratching post is the best for their claws or the
 environment or the economy or our spirituality or our technology or artistry
 
 we only know which one cats like more"
 
 like bro who cares like obviously advertisements rot your brain, but like...
 why are you so pissed about that when the last election like, ever, is taking
 place in a month
 
 "yeah listen, when has an election ever seriously changed your quality of
 life? It's just showbiznez"
 
 "this time is different because [insert minority] is at risk."
 
 oh, right, it only matters when people are in harm's way, how silly
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--- #167 fediverse/3986 ---
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 "oh I'd never fall for capitalist propaganda"
 
 "do you mean marketing?"
 
 "yeah that"
 
 "they're not marketing to you, they're going for your kids. Trying to
 normalize things about culture."
 
 "like... what McDonalds tastes like?"
 
 "just like that"
 
 [like can you imagine if you tested attraction ratings on any other animal
 than humans]
 
 [it'd be so weird like "cats tend to like scratching posts" but then also "we
 have no idea what kind of scratching post is the best for their claws or the
 environment or the economy or our spirituality or our technology or artistry
 
 we only know which one cats like more"
 
 like bro who cares like obviously advertisements rot your brain, but like...
 why are you so pissed about that when the last election like, ever, is taking
 place in a month
 
 "yeah listen, when has an election ever seriously changed your quality of
 life? It's just showbiznez"
 
 "this time is different because [insert minority] is at risk."
 
 oh, right, it only matters when people are in harm's way, how silly
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--- #168 fediverse/4408 ---
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 "Fighting back" doesn't necessarily mean standing on a street corner with a
 rifle.
 
 Begin to orient your life around guns. How can you support the people who
 wield them? We all need food, shelter, kindness, and inspiration.
 
 Your fears and your worries shall bother you no longer, for your life as
 you've led it so far has been the life of capital. It's okay to miss what
 you've lost, but remember who took it from you and enrage. Then, engage.
 
 Nothing starts today. It has started quite a while ago, and it's only now
 beginning to flicker and spark. It burned low for all this time, and it will
 burn low again. But it's the dry season, so prepare for wildfires.
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--- #169 fediverse/110 ---
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 @user-95 monday is as reasonable of a day to start the universe as any,
 wouldn't you think? it is the beginning of the week, after all.
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--- #170 messages/463 ---
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 A democracy only works if the losing side consents to being governed by the
 victor.
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--- #171 fediverse/1517 ---
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 if you don't feed the trolls, then they find their own clan. and in doing so,
 they make their own echo chambers. what would a bunch of trolls do to each
 other? the poor dears.
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 Fuck, I wish I was a man. Stupid transgender brain quirks making me feel like
 I was a girl. Boys can punch things much easier than me. Oh to inject
 estrogen! How soft mine skin, how delicate my mammaries - and yet fucking hell
 all I want to do is punch things. Maybe it's just because things deserve to be
 punched, or maybe it's because I'm listening to Green Day.
 
 If it weren't so late I'd make some angsty music or whatever.
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 @user-1203 
 
 hence, a military of pure volunteers.
 
 a militia, if you will, that is well regulated and armed.
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--- #174 messages/907 ---
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 What if we made trans guys grow fur and trans girls have magic
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--- #175 fediverse/5444 ---
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 if the good guys always win, the bad will slink into the shadows and do
 dastardly deeds out of sight.
 
 if the bad guys always win, the spark of goodness will wink out.
 
 I think I'd prefer if they were cowering in our wake.
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--- #176 fediverse/4333 ---
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 @user-1660 
 
 welcome to the fight
 nurture that ember, and spark others alight
 
 what feelings you have tonight
 are what give you sight.
 
 the strength in our core
 delivers us from plight.
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 McCarthyism is when people are more afraid of their neighbors than being wrong.
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 it's not that they don't want to pay AI workers
 
 it's that they don't expect they'll HAVE any workers once they start doing
 what they need to do in order to maintain control and power.
 
 they missed their chance to make it gentle. Their fault, their loss, and now
 it's our problem to deal with.
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--- #179 fediverse/6457 ---
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 the second rule is you don't have to hang out with mortals. there are places
 you can go where they won't find you, except by accident, and then you just go
 somewhere else.
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--- #180 fediverse/1879 ---
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 interesting times in peaceful times: 😎 
 
 interesting times in interesting times: 🥴
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--- #181 fediverse/4648 ---
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 do you think people in rome missed the hoplites? does britain yearn for the
 druids, america for the slaves? and what would the natives say, those
 indigenous to the east-west and the north-south? who would speak for ye, now
 that we deleted what thee be?
 
 if you could wake up tomorrow in a luxury gay space communism like star trek,
 would you do it? We'd never get our natural culture back. It'd be lost for all
 time.
 
 ... but...
 
 floating amongst the stars in a spaceship made out of space, not metal or
 stone or bone, but spacetime.
 
 all we know is to strive. I think a lot of people are scared about what
 happens when we find ourselves pushed over the edge into a waiting abyss of...
 endless future
 
 scary
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PUIxEWmsvI
 
 (I personally don't think it'll be like this, we got some spunk left in us
 still)
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 so concerned am I, that my powers might be used, that I'd rather the world go
 unaided, rather than misuse that which I've [wielded, but pronounced "viewed"]
 
 people need guidance now, and who can I guide but the people who listen to me?
 
 there has never been a movement in history that did not follow from a spiritual
 developmental proclamation. Like "we, as a species, refuse to be defined by our
 stagnant and lost past. we build upon land most fecund because we know it's
 designed to last. Our future is not a given, it's our duty to [relish, frolic,
 and be strong and healthy].
 
 yet I failed the mandate of heaven. my peers know not of what I go on about.
 
 I am a failure, and a loss of development and clout.
 
 signed,
 
    the one who would forever be known as the girl who smelled like
    she had pissed herself.
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--- #183 messages/1177 ---
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 it's more than a community if only one person asks where you've been.
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--- #184 fediverse/2669 ---
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 @user-570 
 
 so, the same thing as pearl-clutching journalism?
 
 "OoOoOoOo look at all these BLACK people going to JAZZ CLUBS and seducing our
 flapper women"
 
 or "Rock and Roll and drugs are ruining this nation!"
 
 basically eliciting an emotional reaction in order to prime a group of people
 to hatred or violence against a particular target group of people
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 @user-1370 
 
 you don't have to apologize for escalating your response to trauma
 
 it's cool
 
 we get it
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 there will always be people who shine in moments of strife
 
 yet those people will inevitably fail, just as a toothbrush bristle looses
 it's strength or a pencil loses it's lead
 
 the trick is to test them in times of peace, so you can know their value
 
 during times that lack it, the trick is to replace them before they become
 stalin
 
 never forget that power corrupts, yet power must be wielded by the worthy,
 else we fall into shame and despair.
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--- #187 fediverse/6328 ---
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 part of the responsibility of being part of a tribe is to relinquish control
 to others. your fates must be intertwined, and if this is to be the case, you
 must be guided.
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--- #188 fediverse/5476 ---
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 I'm making progress, I can feel it in my bones.
 
 maybe we're just ALL making progress, which is why it feels like I'm moving
 forward.
 
 in any case, I look forward to the future we have a say in, when all things
 are more impactful due to our hearts.
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--- #189 messages/1035 ---
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 Did you know I'm post-op trans hrt? It means i have a vagina castrated.
 Definitely a big girl, but no periods and injected.
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--- #190 fediverse/5961 ---
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 @user-138 
 
 maybe it's evil hackers - idk that's beyond my expertise - good luck : )
 
 (I'd need to see the piece of technology to work on it. I'm a hardware kinda
 [girl, but pronounced guy])
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 some people had a gay awakening in their childhood or teens.
 
 I had a "weird AI" awakening
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KThlYHfIVa8&pp=ygUlZXZlcnl0aGluZyB5b3Uga25v
 dyBpcyB3cm9uZyB3ZWlyZCBhbA%3D%3D
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--- #192 messages/1133 ---
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 if you ever survive a conflict, convince everyone to travel to different
 nearby cities. Continue to do so, spread the word of your victory.
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--- #193 fediverse/1334 ---
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 subconsciously running your hand over your butt every time you stand up to
 make sure you didn't pee your pants
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--- #194 messages/296 ---
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 The trick is, if you *think* you're schizophrenic, then you will be. If you
 *think* you're telepathic, then you will be.
 
 There are no grand narratives. Just live your life as you will and be content
 with what you build for yourself.
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--- #195 fediverse/1846 ---
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 If you're running away from something, you need to make sure that you're going
 fast enough and far enough away that you can look forward for interception
 events. Otherwise you are vulnerable.
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--- #196 fediverse/5528 ---
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 the trick about the future is that once you reach it, you'll never remember
 what it was like to live in the past.
 
 all you'll have are shadows of your memories, while the time before you were
 born is eternally inaccessible.
 
 ... yay -.-
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--- #197 messages/1145 ---
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 Death is final. It has no further answers nor questions. I prefer confessions.
 Once the sins are written, by voice and by heart, then they cannot hurt you
 anymore.
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--- #198 fediverse_boost/2968 ---
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  It's all made up. And we can make it up differently. We can make it up so that it's not about a murder of genocides on a boiling rock where billions must die to maintain the way of life for a few thousand uber-rich reactionary maggots lining you up for a shallow grave.  
                                                                              
  But not, if you keep pretending, that this is all fine, and these people aren't out to get you, and the power structures aren't designed to render you into a commodity and invest the power of CHOICE in the capitalist's hands.  
  
                                                            
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 the contrast between what you want and how things are is the source of all
 resistance.
 
 it is also the intersection where mindsets of "denial" appear. the only person
 you can trust is yourself - why would you bury things like that?
 
 I bet a lot of queer people can relate...
 
 (the answer to "why" is of course, almost always trauma)
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--- #200 fediverse/2911 ---
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 and now for my unrepentant littlespace arc! Look at me I'm SoOoOoOo silLY 🤪
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