we must double, no, triple our efforts to wholly claim tumblr as the transsexual communism website

message to cis allies: buying your trans friend lunch will do much more good for the trans community than debating transphobes who will not change their minds publicaly on social media and making all your trans followers see how much people hate them over and over again

"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."

"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."

One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.

a person online: i hate it when adults act like childish little freaks in public, smh. you’re an adult, you should be able to order your own food without help. get over yourself. also, why are some people, like, waaaaaaay too into the stuff that they like? omg, and the people who CLEARLY can’t even have one (1) normal conversation without acting Weird??? it’s embarrassing, u guys are embarrassing, get help

the same person five seconds later: we gotta remember to love and support the autistic community u guys <3

My apartment building has coin-op laundry in the basement, and on the shelf where people store detergent there are also just enough quarters to start one load in the washer. This is the collective "oh shit I forgot my quarters" bank that anyone can borrow from to start laundry without having to climb all the way back up the goddamn stairs first. These quarters have been steadily used and replaced for multiple years now, and every time I see them I think about how upon such small foundations rests all of human society.

some ppl with hEDS live almost completely normal lives while others are in power chairs because their vertebrae are slipping out of place. some people with hEDS dont realize until they're older and gone through most of life assuming theyre able-bodied, and others are completely disabled by it, or have life threatening complications because of comorbidities.

i KNOW how frustrating it is that the loud majority of ppl with hEDS make it look like living with a mild cold, but i still need yall to remember that the other group of people also exist.

ive seen a couple different posts circulatating where people are bitching about ppl with hEDS hijacking thier posts to talk about their "mild disability", and while i COMPLETELY AGREE that you should make your own damn post i dont want people seeing that and assuming hEDS = mild joint pain.

for some people thats all it is, but for the rest of us poor fuckers who cant walk, sit up, work, or take care of ourselves because of how severe it is, we see you say that shit, and so does everyone else. you can bitch about the "spoonie community" as much as you want, i dont care. i complain about it too, id just be more careful about mentioning specific disabilities.

people with severe hEDS deserve to be taken seriously, especially because the larger EDS community barely fucking mentions us or just outright pretends we dont exist.

(i say "we", but mine is moderate at the moment. other people my age with hEDS have it so much worse than me. i see you, and i love you guys)

There are some elderly people near me in this restaurant and two of them started talking about their trans nephew really affectionately... maybe there is good in this world......

It's been only a day since a Texas court ruled that people with complicated pregnancies were exempted from abortion bans. The Texas Attorney General has already paused the ruling. Because he and other forced birthers want people to:

• be forced to give birth to nonviable pregnancies, then hold their babies as they died hours later, like Texas forced Samantha Casiano and Kylie Beaton to do.
• go into sepsis before being allowed an abortion even though the water broke far too early, like Amanda Zurawski (nee Eid) and Elizabeth Weller.
• be held prisoner in the hospital, not receiving an abortion but also not allowed to leave after their water breaks far too early, then be forced to give birth to a stillborn baby, like Kierstan Hogan was.
• be forced to leave the state for fetal reduction surgery when one fetus endangers the life of another and the mother, like Ashley Brandt and Lauren Miller had to do.
• be forced to leave the state for an abortion of a nonviable pregnancy, like Austin Dennard, Taylor Edwards, Lauren Van Vleet, Lauren Hall, and Jessica Bernardo needed to do.
• be forced to leave the state when their water breaks early, risking sepsis along the way, like Anna Zargarian.

It breaks my heart to see how underrated pigeons are. The fact that we had literally domesticated them, making them absolutely dependent on us and now that we've abandoned them, we treat them poorly when they try to coexist with us. It's our responsibility for how they have adapted, how they can't build nests and how they try to find food wherever we are. Please be nice to pigeons

"what if im a bad person" yeah? well what if you arent? what if you're trying your best and you're growing and you're kind? what then?

ALT

easy infographic to get an idea of what symptoms are commonly associated with POTS, and here is where it comes from. this is not diagnostic but it is a helpful evaluation. this is also not a complete list of all symptoms that can be associated with POTS.

and a short explanation of each!

• Dizziness (upright position): like when standing up from laying down, or when being upright for too long as the blood drains from the head. POTS can also affect balance as a whole.
• Palpitations: problems with how the heart beats, such as going too fast (tachycardia) or feeling like it skipped a beat or beat too early.
• Chest pain: this includes discomfort that might not necessarily be described as pain. this can happen whether or not there are heart palpitations happening at the same time.
• Pre-syncope: also known as near-fainting. syncope is the medical word for fainting, pre-syncope means feeling like you are going to pass out, even if you never lose consciousness. most POTS patients do not fully faint. POTS is more a condition that involves feeling like fainting rather than being a fainting condition.
• Memory/concentration difficulties: yeah surprise this can be a dysautonomia thing. brain fog is in this category. it can be confusion, memory, struggling to focus, dissociative feelings, feeling goofy, all sorts of not thinking right or struggling with thinking.
• Dyspnea (at rest or during effort): means feeling out of breath, being short on breath, having trouble breathing, or feeling like you are struggling to breathe.
• Gastrointestinal problems: stuff like pain, constipation, diarrhea, having food get stuck, feeling full too quickly, bloating, having a lot of gas, choking, just generally not having digestion and/or going to the bathroom be easy. eating food and going to the bathroom is not supposed to hurt or be a huge process.
• Abnormal tiredness (persists after rest): self-explanatory. feeling way more tired than you should.
• Nausea: feeling like you might vomit, even if you never do.
• Muscle pain: with or without doing things that you expect to cause muscle pain. some people have skin pain too. POTS is associated with feeling too much pain in general.
• Headache: headache.
• Insomnia: struggling to sleep and not sleeping enough. the opposite of this involving sleeping too much is hypersomnia, which can also be a dysautonomia thing for the record.

I feel like part of what’s kinda wild to me about the weird “born in the wrong generation but in an alternative 80s punk goth queer way” crowd that idolizes this nonexistent 80s that was like a goth alt GNC queer safehaven is that without fail every time I actually talk to older goths or other older alt people or even just older queer or nonwhite people who were actually there in the 80s they’re IMMEDIATELY like “oh you were NOT missing out hahaha.” Like at best the coolest things they’ll talk about is getting to see some OG alt bands live in their prime or getting to see a cool movie in theatres, that IS genuinely cool, like major jealousy to anyone who got to actually witness Skinny Puppy or Ministry live in the 80s ykwim, but literally ALL of these people will then immediately start talking about how much people sucked, how much mainstream culture sucked, etc. It was literally Reagan-era AIDS crisis. Dystopian literature took off for a reason. Racism was a massive society-wide issue. War on drugs was in full swing. Even just the insanely racialized pushback against disco during that time is of note tbh. Massive brand commercialization was getting worse and worse. Whenever I talk to gay people from that era they express so much relief about how much the world has improved since then. I was talking to an older woman in her 50s who’s been in the goth scene since the 80s who was saying that back in the day if she went out dressed in her goth clothes she was called a faggot on the street. I remember her jokingly being like “well at least they were saying it to me and not actual gay people I guess haha…” There are aspects of 80s culture, especially 80s subculture and counterculture, that I really really enjoy, obviously, and certain sentiments surrounding big art trends of the time that I love, but it’s just kind of ridiculous to me that YEARS after collectively mercilessly mocking the trend of white girls saying they miss the 50s while ignoring the fact that Stonewall and the civil rights movement hadn’t happened yet, no-fault divorce didn’t exist, and lobotomies were still acceptable, I’m seeing posts nearly daily on this site that are like “well if I had been born in the 80s art would be good and music would be good and there’d be a queer alt community for me, but instead I was born in the tiktok poser generation 💔” like girl I’m sorry but you ARE the tiktok poser. Get offline and go FIND your community. Your issue is not that you were born in the wrong generation, you literally just do not know how to find modern underground subculture. Because it is underground.

working class nonblack people when faced with the plain truth that We have more in common with working class black people anywhere in the world than we will EVER have with the bourgeoisie of our own ethnic groups in our own countries have 2 options: to choose to stand in solidarity with our black comrades and combine our numbers so that we may work together for the liberation of all working peoples, or attempt to "raise" ourselves by stepping on our black comrades and ultimately fail in enacting real change for ourselves let alone anyone else. your anger toward black people is misdirected, dangerous and reactionary, and too many of you fall for these attempts to distract you from who the real enemy is, and that enemy is not working class black people in any country. fucking get it together

i do think that one of the worst things “activist” spaces on the internet ever did was convince young marginalized people that individual people, complete strangers, were their oppressors. no, matt from chemistry class isn’t personally oppressing you because he’s a guy, that old lady at the bank isn’t personally oppressing you because she’s cis, your waiter isn’t personally oppressing you because they’re white. individuals can and do contribute to systems of oppression. but seeing random individuals you encounter in your daily life as your oppressors will do nothing but trick you into punching laterally or punching down because you think it’s “empowering.” you might get a momentary rush of endorphins from snapping at the male cashier bc #menaretrashuwu but all you’re doing is being shitty to a random guy making poverty wages.

i saw a tik tok the other day that like perfectly described this phenomenon, how gen z (and some young millennials too tbh) pushes for systemic justice and equality, but refuses to give that on an interpersonal level, and like. y’all. you simply cannot achieve systemic change if you’re not also working toward interpersonal change. you will do more for your own liberation by treating others with sensible patience and kindness than you will pushing this toxic individualist narrative of “i don’t owe anyone anything and i get to act however i want to people i view as my oppressor.” we need class solidarity now more than ever.

i truly truly do not care what fiction or fantasy someone gets off to btw. thoughtcrime isnt real and i care a lot more about someone's day-to-day actions that impact other people than what makes them horny in private. & i also find the idea of speculating on someone's hypothetical misbehavior based on what strangers know about their sexual fantasies to be pretty fucking weird and dangerous (like "well they get off to cnc, which COULD POTENTIALLY influence their behavior with others, so they are basically an abuser"). you can find something personally gross or uncomfortable without feeling the need to prosecute people who are into it my loves stop moralizing your own discomfort <3

“Throughout history, workers have stolen from their workplaces under capitalism, socialism, and communism alike. Haraszti suggests that this stealing is actually the most creative and enterprising activity that takes place in the factory, implying the possibility of a world in which all labor would be equally creative and free. His text also provides a window into the lives of workers in the Eastern Bloc, revealing the void at the heart of the supposed workers’ utopia. So long as there are managers, workers will rob their workplaces—not just for personal gain, but above all to keep alive that which is best in themselves.

At a time when young people in the West who did not experience the horrors of state socialism are spreading nostalgia for it while fascists gain legitimacy in Eastern Europe by presenting themselves as its foes, it’s important to remember that state socialism never gave workers the freedom or abundance it promised—and that its true opponents are not the nationalists who would inflict still worse horrors, but anarchists and other ordinary working people who resist all forms of imposed authority."

—Crimethinc., “Yes, We even Stole from Work under Socialism: Steal Something from Work Day: Against Capitalism, Socialism, and Work Itself” (2017)