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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 56m

looking into this may have just made me more racist against English people. The source is The S*n, he was into hypnotherapy and changing your self-esteem around your body with that, a S*n journalist claimed he claimed he could make your boobs bigger, lots of ppl just beleived the S*n account.

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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 2h

this is a deeply significant point

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 20h

Universal masking, which we tried for two hot seconds in America before people started throwing tantrums & posting up with their guns, is about the same kind of understanding ourselves as a collective we would actually need to counter fascism. You care about the community so you set a group norm.

April @dissembly.bsky.social · 2h

Literally all i want to know is whether they liked the second half lol

like that question would be fascinating to me

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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 5h

good moderation and banning hate speech actually works, and is necessary for a functioning social site. We've known since the days of BBS's that this is the case really.

April @dissembly.bsky.social · 7h

anazisayswhatnow

April @dissembly.bsky.social · 7h

These people say things that should just get them fired or disbarred or whatever on the spot, in a profession with any standards. Like how does an adult say that, and continue to think of themselves as a capable professional, and keep turning up as if they deserve to be in the job.

April @dissembly.bsky.social · 10h

This feels similar to how i discovered the actual meaning of the word "declawing" in reference to cats while i was in a big group of friends loudly and enthusiastically talking about getting my boy's claws trimmed at the vet. when i found out the meaning i got upset that they weren't madder with me

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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 19h

core memory unlocked of egg me thinking Randall from Clerks was amazing for liking girl dick and absolutely hating Dante for the rest of the movie after her made fun of Randall

a black and white photo of a man behind a counter with the caption bunch of savages in this town

ALT: a black and white photo of a man behind a counter with the caption bunch of savages in this town

media.tenor.com

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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 20h

I wish we could give *everyone* who hates us a taste of dysphoria, but I'll chalk this much up as a win for now

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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 20h

wait until there's a new type that call themselves alphas

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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 23h

that laugh is actually pathetic. like, wow. theres no way she could have destroyed my image of her more thoroughly in the space of a second.

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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 23h

he's literally just murdering random civilians for fun. like, when is the appropriate remedy going to be applied to this demented (literally) pedophile rapist. what exactly is the rest of the us government doing, aside from facilitating a madman's continued hold on power.

April @dissembly.bsky.social · 1d

at the end of the day a lot of them just don't beleive that we're real. They'll be supportive and think "its a harmless quirk" and then act as if we can opt out of horrible shit (bc we can always go back to boymoding/girlmoding), or play down dysphoria bc everyone feels bad about their looks, etc

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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 1d

i feel like that's just a more democratic governer-general, which is what nobody really wants. we just don't want a head of state. i dont, anyway.

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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 1d

More Indigenous Australians died in custody in NSW this year than ever before
Coroner decries ‘profoundly distressing milestone’ as state surpasses yearly record after only nine months, with expert saying tough on crime measures compounding problem
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

More Indigenous Australians died in custody in NSW this year than ever before, coroner reveals

State’s tough on crime measures compounding the problem, one expert says, despite pledge to close the gap

www.theguardian.com

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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 1d

I also avoid thinking about bottom surgery because I know it isnt something that will ever be accessible to me and I don't want to let the genie out of the bottle on that thought. i do hope they put it on public healthcare in my country one day so I can think about it. #justdesignervaginathings

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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 1d

I have coins piled up on my desk at work that i scrounged from the bottom of my bag. this is my lunch money until payday when i will need to transfer a few hundred dollars immediately into my bills/rent account to pay myself back as i overspent getting groceries last fortnight. #justbourgeoisthings

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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 1d

only if you consider it in the abstract. The reason this is a real concern is that we don't exist in the abstract. People were responding to the limited options on offer and to what politicians were saying they wanted to do

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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 1d

One of the reasons the republic movement failed in Australia is not because we don't think monarchies are stupid, but because people don't want a US style president bc that looks shit and our monarch nominally doesnt interfere, aside from the time they dissolved the most left government wed ever had

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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 1d

they worked to wipe us out by making us invisible.and turning us into jokes and lying about who we are, and we fucking beat them anyway.

April @dissembly.bsky.social · 1d

like i think about how i experienced the world during the 90s, 2000s l, and even 2010s and it just seems clear as day that visibility was a fight against nonexistence and suicide. its possible to be closeted and not even know it, and not even know why you always feel like death is inevitable & soon.

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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 1d

something that might just be a perspective from a late transitioner is that visibility saved us from an almost successful genocide. Like we cant be wiped out bc we'll always reappear, but the things that kept me closeted and almost killed me were defeated by visibility, so that work was never futile

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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 1d

yes but actors are actual real people

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April @dissembly.bsky.social · 1d

Not if the data centres are just, like, rubble strewn across the ground. Personally I think the best aproach is to scavenge as much material from them as possible first, so that the equipment can be repurposed for something useful. But its not clear that tech companies are interested in that outcome

April @dissembly.bsky.social · 1d

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