Never sure how to answer this one, since I’m bi and like f/f as well. I tend to like particular dynamics in romance, and men are more likely to be depicted having some of them. There are some other dynamics women are more likely to be depicted having with each other, and when I’m in the mood for those stories I read more f/f.
Coral Island! It’s been out a while but they had a major update recently. My farming/crafting life sim stretch continues.
It’s interesting to hear from someone who used something like it. I never even thought about how much sweat would be a problem.
You never have to feel a particular way. If anyone says you have to feel bad, or that you shouldn’t feel bad if you do, they’re wrong. Not how feelings work. Some people feel better knowing that their abusers are shit because their folks are shit, and it had very little to do with you, other than your convenience as a victim when they wanted to hurt someone. But what you feel just is.
I try to just look at what I’m feeling, and accept it, without judgement. Don’t turn away, but don’t dwell. It makes it easier to decide reasonable action later. Not detached from emotion (impossible) but understanding it as a part and not the entirety of behavior, where right and wrong start to come into play.
I hope the kitten continues to improve. They’re so fragile.
A lady I know got facebook scammed by someone pretending to be like a favorite actor of hers. She had brain damage from diabetes.
Scammers often make their scams slightly unbelievable so they only hit people who aren’t entirely with it anymore. Dementia makes great targets.
The thought of reaching into my toolbox and pulling out a measuring tape that’s labeled wrong without knowing it. He did a good job with this comic. That thought sucks so bad.
This hurts so bad to think about
I was going to answer and then realized that the last kid I would’ve watched when they got their first electronics is now 13. Time…is marching on…
Ah, that makes sense! We all need support sometimes, including our buttholes.
Is there something about the toilet seat that increases the risk, even if you’re just sitting? Like if someone had a sleep disorder and fell asleep on there regularly, would that increase the risk?
Internet search says sitting for long periods is a known cause, but I suppose I was assuming it was because of what you were doing while you were there. That’s interesting. Are people who sit for pissing as well more likely to get them? Gosh, there are so many things to learn in this life.
Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan “relentlessly” posted abusive comments about a teenage transgender campaigner on social media before throwing her phone in a road, a court has been told.
Found only in males, the forehead rod—called a tenaculum—is the ghost sharks’ only source of distinct teeth, and it seems to be used to grasp females in much the same way sharks use their toothy mouths in mating.
Tenaculum is the new word of the day!
Is it a grievance or mild irritation? People constantly annoy each other over small things. If someone is genuinely deeply angry to the point where it’s a grievance about the little things in the original post, that’s a different matter.
If “sorry” for small inconveniences feels wrong, other vocalizations can take their place and serve the same purpose. Like “whoops” for dropping something or “hello, what do you need? i have to get back to this pretty quickly, though” for getting pulled out of work by someone with a question.
It doesn’t feel fake to me because this is just how “sorry” is used in these contexts. “social lubricant to move on from minor inconveniences and acknowledge the other party’s humanity” may not be in the dictionary, but it’s how it’s used over and over again, and that’s what language is. Shared, agreed on meaning. Is this prone to huge amounts of error? yup! Communication sucks when you aren’t naturally inclined to pick up non literal meanings for things.
Normally, I’d tack on an apology here for rambling, or going on so long, just as an acknowledgement that my inability to say things consisely is an inconvenience to read for other people. That would make this a shorter paragraph, and hopefully make people more inclined to engage in their reply to me with good faith, since I’ve shown my awareness that what I typed could’ve been a slog for them to read.
There are times when apologies are more of a social lubricant or a way to signal you aren’t angry or hostile. Quickly apologizing for not hearing your coworker and asking them what they need might speed things along and get them away from you faster. You don’t need to feel any real sympathy for them. In this situation, an apology is more like a rote phrase said to ease into conversation and allow the other person a few seconds to move from “get their attention” mode back to “thing i need to say to them” mode.
For personal information, the purpose of an apology is just to slightly gentle the blow of not answering the question. Useful for maintaining a neutral relationship with coworkers. If the question is reasonable but you don’t want to answer (how was your vacation? do you like a particular musician?), you might consider tacking on an apology. If the question is out of line or inappropriate in that environment (are you gay? do you have a good relationship with your parents? what’s your body count? why won’t you give me $100?) a lack of apology gives them less opportunity to press.
Anyway, that’s where I’m at with it, but I’m not known for being socially adroit. A real apology is longer and comes with recognition of harm done, etc. You’re so sorry you spilled that coffee on their lap. You’ll watch where you’re going from now on. Do they need a first aid kit or some towels? The kind of day to day apology for not hearing someone is just a brief acknowledgement of them as a human so you can both get on with things.
Something to keep in mind is that when a transphobe talks about males, men, or trans identifying males, they mean trans women. He was saying you should punch a trans woman if she’s in the bathroom. She’s being violent by being there existing, so cis women should respond with violence. Bullshit.
Reminds me of how there was a trans woman working with a feminist music group and a gang of women harrassed her into leaving.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/24/sandy-stone-olivia-records-trans-rights-los-angeles/
Harassment and hate mail continued until the collective heard of the threats made by the Gorgons. Stone had received death threats in the past, but, she says, “this seemed to be a new order of threat”.
That fear was warranted. Gorgons turned up at a Seattle concert, and had weapons confiscated by security. In a 2014 interview, she described how she was “pants-wetting scared” at the event.
Ultimately, Stone decided to leave the collective. Olivia was in a precarious financial position and there were potentially ruinous threats of a boycott.
So because she existed in a woman’s space (no actual member of the music collective disagreed with her being there) they harassed her, threatened her, and brought live weapons to an event she was at. Things haven’t changed much with them, have they? Existing near them is a threat, and they don’t give a shit how many women, trans and cis, they have to threaten to make trans women stop existing near them.
Did Lineham cross the free speech line into a call for violence? I don’t know the law. But I know he’s a shit who is making things worse for every woman while pretending he’s protecting us.
Further details revealed that Yokeley and the young ladies involved went to a Dairy Queen that night, close to the business’s closing time. Willett said the 16-year-old step-granddaughter was driving the vehicle after leaving the ice cream shop.
Not long after, the two girls found blue pressed pills in their ice cream. Willett said due to “concern, fear, and panic,” the step-granddaughter pulled into a nearby Sheetz gas station when she spotted an EMS vehicle and alerted paramedics of the situation on the spot.
So, he put drugs in before one of the kids was going to drive.
i can’t see it there since i don’t have a fedia.io account. if the mod was falseprophet i see from other sites they were banned 10 days ago from a bunch of communities. the reason is just “automod,” but i don’t know what that means. I still see them posting on bside 8 hours ago on my own instance.
I can’t find any studies on this. I don’t really trust personal perception for this one, and I’m also curious.