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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 11h

Hard agree... as soon as we build out sufficient green energy to do it.

Plastic isn't meaningfully recyclable, but if we're burning oil to mention the glass down, it's just trading one petrol disaster for another.

M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

My most unhinged(?) take:

This is not just 70s nostalgia

I think we should go back to glass bottles & jars for packaging ALL pre-prepared food & drink.

Glass is near-infinitely recyclable and the improvement for both human health and the health of the environment would be significant.

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Lucca (🏳️‍⚧️Aunt Tifa👊) @spookalucca.games · 23h

being a leftist is often being correct too early

Samantha is the spectre haunting bluesky 👻 @bolshevikmilf.bsky.social · 23h

one of the things that made liberals the angriest last year was pointing out when they argued that the US president has no control over what israel does and this biden couldn't influence the genocide that that position put them further right on the subject than fucking reagan.

US Department of Wishing on Fash what they wish for others @ironydept.bsky.social · 1d

One of the greatest tragedies of the Democratic party (among many) is the GOP has consistently been less willing than Dems to take shit from intransigent Israeli leaders. Not for the right reasons necessarily, but still. Biden should be deeply ashamed of the genocide he actively enabled.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 17h

I honestly feel bad for the pick-mes who choose to throw the rest of us under the bus for a small taste of respectability. They cannot be happy. They must be constantly looking over their shoulders, sanding down the rough edges, afraid of both their chosen peers and the community they turned on.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 17h

You really do have to kill the internalized transphobia inside you before you can be truly happy, and that means truly embracing who and what you are without shame. There isn't really a way to do that in an assimilationist way, and so it will eventually curdle until you resent your community.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 17h

I still wear make-up, but not all the time. I still use my trained voice sometimes, but not around family and friends. I still dress pretty femme, but it's for me - not for them. I get misgendered more, but it hurts less. My body is still horrible and wrong, but that wasn't ever going to change.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 17h

I did not leave my assigned gender behind to be forced into presenting an exact certain way in hopes of getting people to see me as something I'm not. I did it to become myself, to throw down all the masks, and to say: this is me, and I like who I am, and if you don't like me, that's on you.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 17h

I did not find happiness until I didn't just accept my transness, but embraced it. I realized that it wasn't some unfortunate thing that happened to me. It was - and still is - a crucial aspect of my identity. I'm proud of being trans. I don't look cis because I'm not cis and THAT'S OKAY.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 17h

I was embarrassed to be trans. I didn't want it to be the only thing people saw about me, because I didn't like it about myself. I wished I had been born a cis woman, and it hurt so badly that I wasn't. I tried a lot with makeup and voice training so I could leave that part of my identity behind.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 17h

I was absolutely trying to go down an assimilationist path early in my transition, and it was awful.

It made my dysphoria so much worse, every misgendering hurt so much more, and I spent so much time and effort trying to get people to just see me as a slightly weird looking cis woman.

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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 1d

Baseball really is the best sport because all it takes is one little bobble and suddenly a game built on routine and order devolves into panic and chaos

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Levi Weaver, but for baseball @threetwoeephus.bsky.social · 1d

With apologies to Dodgers fans, I have not experienced this level of delight watching a baseball game in a WHILE.

A bases-loaded 8-6-3 double play, no runs scored??????????

WHAT??????

I am howling at the moon; this rules. This is Halloweenball. This is haunted chaos. Maybe my favorite play ever

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

Chef Boyargirl

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wow, that must have been incredible. Glad you got to do that.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about Steely Dan is that they write songs about (and often from the perspective of) absolute slimeballs, but it's very self-aware and good. Love that band. Gaucho was one of my favorite records as a teen, to the confusion of every other kid I knew.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, we're fully in agreement on that. I love the rawer/punkier side of Weezer on that record but oh wow is it not fun to listen to the lyrics.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't seen any of that from you! You're good. Just commenting on The Discourse of the Day.

What's your Pinkerton stance tho? I am curious!

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esoteric cyberdoll @dyadicsapphic.meangirls.online · 1d

wlw (women who love wrestling)

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 1d

I highly recommend seeking out "dudes rock" content, because it's often the most wholesome stuff in the world, and it shows that masculinity can be beautiful and connective for those who choose to embrace it. Toxic masculinity is super common, but it's far from the only path.

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Mistress Weatherwax the Witch @ysabellweatherwax.bsky.social · 1d

From my time working at Home Depot, I can tell you that they assume every rating other than "perfect" as "bad". Rating has you choose 1-10 and you put 9? Welp, that's basically a catastrophe. It's all fucked. "When a goal becomes a metric" and all that.

Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 1d

And it's not even actually rating the experience! The actual question is, "will you give this person five stars, or will you contribute to them losing their job?" This puts all the power in the hands of a few assholes who don't actually care about anyone.

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 1d

I think businesses asking people to rate every single experience has furthered this damage. We shouldn't have this many opinions about this many things, and we certainly shouldn't expect other busy people to care if we do.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 1d

You have to accept that something that was literal poison for you is not inherently poisonous. Something that caused you pain your entire life is not inherently painful. Something that was oppressive toward you is not inherently oppressive.

It's really hard! But it's super important work.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 1d

A large chunk of trans women will go through a misandrist phase shortly after coming out, especially those who felt the oppressive weight of manhood forced on them for decades.

You simply have to keep working on yourself, deal with it, and for the love of god DO NOT POST ABOUT MEN until you have.

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 1d

I have to deal with this bullshit on eBay. 99% of transactions are fine, but 1% of them are Trump-brained assholes who think everyone is out to get them. You can't reason with them, you can't "make things right," you just have to take it on the chin. And they're responsible for all my bad reviews!

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Cassie, Anxious Millennial Pixie @cassieceleste.bsky.social · 1d

And it's not even actually rating the experience! The actual question is, "will you give this person five stars, or will you contribute to them losing their job?" This puts all the power in the hands of a few assholes who don't actually care about anyone.

bsky.app/profile/amos...

Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 1d

I think businesses asking people to rate every single experience has furthered this damage. We shouldn't have this many opinions about this many things, and we certainly shouldn't expect other busy people to care if we do.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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