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Sola Balisane
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It's okay, we're professionals. Fully grown. 3D sculpt and print enthusiast. The rest at discretion. Yes the net.goth one.
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Fear of the other is the disease of every human age.
"Violence comes from fear, and love drives out fear" should be such a simple, unassailable, straightforward thing to read, but in a world so saturated with fear and hate it's like a hammer blow.
This, from the Quakers, is worth reading. It's a serene, confident, utter rebuke of the hate and fear that's peddled by Sex Matters. The last two pages are smokin'. If you're on the wrong side of the Quakers, you really need to sit down and have a good chat with yourself.
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My mutual Fernando is diabetic and urgently needs funds to get some food. Blood sugar is dropping fast and this is verging on a medical emergency. Please donate if you can and share!

$r9994k
Venmo: ElixirSpice
paypal.me/aafira
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I'm still living in a hotel and struggling to cover bills, and I could use any help that I can get. Donations are appreciated so much, but even just sharing this post to get more eyes on it is very helpful as well. #HelpSky #MutualAidRequest

cash.app/$Settiai
paypal.me/poicelle
venmo.com/u/Settiai
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WIP

This months Patreon theme is Shibari vampires
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Our bailout would be cheaper than Argentina's.
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Festival of the Lost begins today! We have one quick update regarding rewards before our spooky event kicks off. Last week, we noted that players could earn up to two bonus Eerie Engrams per day from Portal Activities. To get more treats in your hands, we're increasing the cap.
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i've found this amazing archived book called the woods which is ideal if you're looking for refs for drawing men & women in (slightly sexually charged) magical forest scenes.

archive.org/details/wood...
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A recent post on regeneration of the large claw in fiddler crabs got me thinking about the rare double-handed males, i.e., males with two large claws.

Here is a good example of one on iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171933073

🦀🦑🧪 #Fiddler Crab
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it's only cucking if you feel shame about it, otherwise it's just sparkling compersion
I assume so because I hadn't really added to my list for a while, and since the gov.troll accounts joined I can't shovel fast enough.
The more I look at this thing, the more annoyed I am. How can somebody who supposedly has a teaching degree have absolutely no idea how people read and learn?

This isn't forcing people to go through effortful encoding. This is a forcing them to go through effortful enshittification.
My job: We're standardizing our documentation across clients! Hooray!

The standard template they give us: fuckin blows actually

I absolutely know that this was created by Mr. Clownstick Double-Barrel, who fancies himself a training expert but has the technical writing chops of a bland deviled egg
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Feast your eyes on Last Call's color script, a gorgeous and super helpful piece of production art!
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The world sees you. Now all you got left is random lashing out in hopes it goes back to way it was as you wither and die and the walls crash down around you. The spell is broken. Again. You're pathetic. Weird. And weak.
But they're not. They're just another mess for me to clean up on my own.

But he will have to deal with his, too, on his own.
But I know for a fact that because of that monster, he thinks that all the ways that he has fucked me over - all that he stole, all that he left, the nasty words at our mother's very grave - are some kind of retribution. Some kind of justice.
All of that being said: I truly do not know who the monster is that lives in my brother's head that bears my name.

She built it for him, and there is nothing I can do to destroy it.
She was very frustrated that while there are resources for elder abuse, there is almost nothing for caregivers who are being abused. Not so much as a group therapy club.

She was extremely kind to me during a dark time, and I wish her well still.
I was frequently told that other adult children didn't stay to take care of an abusive parent this way, and that they were shocked I did.

One very sympathetic nurse took great pains to make sure I had somewhere to go if I needed to leave the house, and tried her best to set up respite care.
Funnily enough: it was always professional caregivers that immediately understood the situation. They absolutely recognized the pattern of abuse.

They would nod and smile at her and make sympathetic noises, and when she was out of earshot, tell me how sorry they were that she treated me this way.
She tried to build me up as a demon in so many ways, but the only person it was ever really effective on was my brother, and that was because it was convenient for him to believe it.
I had screamed at and cursed her? She had spent the whole day doing that.

I hit and physically abused her? She had either actually hit me, or was frustrated that I didn't allow it.

I neglected her care or didn't do something for her? She had refused care or refused to allow me to schedule it.