RiotDoll

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like, how do you really approach the average american and just like, empathetically convey that they need to raze this fucking barn

i mean especially the groups out there who historically had some level of buy-in to the system and are in denial about their exclusion - like what is the metaphorical eye-piece nada can force onto their eyes to see the basic truth: we gonna have to do something unpleasant to change this sitch

[–] [email protected] 31 points 16 hours ago

You have no idea how happy this makes me. I'd moved on from chapo because they were sauceless without matt, but yeah i'll come back when he does.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 19 hours ago

To my loved trans/gnc siblings, if you can leave Texas, please get the fuck out of there.

I know there's privilege in it. I was at the poverty line and only had the money to move from trying to go to school - i know you need security where you're going, and a job prosepct - which i was able to line up with my partner... but where there's a will there's a way. Washington is safe as a trans person, less so as a poor person (still better than texas though)

Please, please leave before they start harming y'all directly

[–] [email protected] 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

This is really good advice. All of the episodes are ace, but the Iraq seasons is directly relevant

What you will notice watching the show is that the way the united states does business and makes decisions is an order of magnitude more evil and fucked up than what they do on paper.

It's honestly to the point for myself that I just assume if an American politician or military person says Thing We're Doing is Noble, i assume it's a lie with or without proof, it's a safer bet than credulous belief.

The cuba season is good, and there's plenty of blood boiling American meddling, but the seasons on Iraq, Afghanistan, and North Korea will turn anyone against this country

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (8 children)

personally i think constantly about how to instill useful fear in the political class that isn't just something that'll get me sent to a blacksite or executed

got no answers yet, i'm usually good at tests so i'll get back to you

 

Things are about to change for me, but better days are still weeks away. I'm plumb ass out of food right now. If anybody can spare a few bucks, right now that's gonna go to shoring up my pantry. I can't even get to the food bank right now, so things are fairly dire here.

If you can help it's ofc very welcome and appreciated.

Venmo is @KTKatte, other handles are a PM away.

Thanks yall

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i went on two dates as an egg that went anywhere, and the second one only went well at all because the woman I was on the date with was able to pick up that I wasn't gonna be performing the normal song and dance so she just did her part to me lmfao

i mean she liked me, and i kind of regret not taking that relationship further (i was a disaster on legs back then and it felt wrong to let her catch feelings with someone who fundamentally wouldn't be able to meet the basic needs of a relationship)

whereas in queer circles people are either very direct - a trans man friend of my partner's once stopped her my partner mid sentence to call me beautiful and immediately proposition me, and a lesbian cis woman just leaned in and started making out with me after talking a bunch of nerd shit at her.

OR they are like, genuinely deep people who spend time earnestly seeking your company, and generally (some sapphic situations aside) there is no unspoken yearning, no unrequieted love, you know where you stand and people don't make it lonely or miserable to be shot down. Usually. That's been my experience.

I know cishet folks have things to worry about that I don't - but the ritualized experience of cishet dating was excruciating to me. Y'all can just be direct, playful, and respectful you know? It'll lead to way more fun for everyone invovled...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's so weird because it's like congratulations - you made it to national - you almost certainly stepped on a ton of people and went into substantial debt to get here - your character is already compromised at this point and you're so used to wheeling and dealing that no matter how sincerely held, any suffocating ideological belief in the world of tomorrow cannot react, cannot influence you under the weight of every rationalized action against it you've taken to get there. And even if, EVEN IF you still have your convictions about you - congratulations - you're in the company of Bernie Sanders, and similarly will only be relevant as a gadfly that quietly loses their primary after failing to secure any long term loyalties to the decided not nice people who cut the checks to get you there.

If you think you can win that game you're just very stupid. It's like taking a faustian bargain thinking you're the guy that's gonna out lawyer the devil. Maybe man, but you won't like the price.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

I hope this rag burns the fuck down then

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

came for the diogenes reference

 

I've got some kind of fucked up throat thing going on. I feel kinda bleh, but mostly normal except my throat fucking Hurts and I can't account for anything other than the fact that covid rates are up here and despite wearing fitted n95s in public, i have to use public transit and generally face elevated risk.

but i can't even afford covid tests and my insurance is disrupted. If im positive i'm gonna have to pull shennanigans to get paxlovid, but i'll cross that bridge when i have to

i need to do the most due dilligence i can afford here - which is unfortunately just otc testing

if you can help, venmo is @ktkatte with other handles available on request via pm

thanks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

i'm about to be harry dubois and i'm not happy about it

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My therapist of four years resigned during the pandemic. She was really good, she had some of her shit together but I think she was mostly able to put on a mask for her job - which was a queer oriented service up here in seattle that dealt with people from all walks, it was work she probably liked, and she is the only good therapist i've ever had. My last session with her she rolled her eyes at that - she felt her colleagues were on her level and actually defended them - and I see what she said, but nah, nobody has fought like she did, nobody keyed in and got me to think about my own shit like she did - nobody could even pretend to give a quarter of the shit she did.

The last few sessions she seemed to be genuinely cracking, like that professional mask came down and it was apparent she was just a human being with her own private disasters and stuff - I don't wanna share her life but I realized that like, good therapists are kinda sacrificing themselves to do it i think - eventually you burn out from that kind of give-a-fuck if the strain is too high.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

business consolidation especially in tech, food, and entertainment tells me there's just some really awful shit on the horizon - we like to act like these things are purely greed driven things, and while that's a huge element of why this shit happens, it also feels like... frankly, a more direct consolidation of power in anticipation of precipitous decline in material conditions for the folks without investiture in these rapidly consolidating and monopolized industries.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you absolutely can and will live right next to paralllel selves.

one of these lives you're gonna reach enlightenment and realize 60% of the time your mom was yourself

 

I've got a high efficiency machine that doesn't play nice with pods or normal soap, so i kinda need a specific kind of detergent. It's not bank breaking but the title range is the price for it.

I have some prospects but I need clean clothes, almost all of my shit is in various states of soiled and i've already been doing no-soap washes and shit's getting unhygeinic - any help would be appreciated, not stinking like booty is part of looking for work lol

venmo is @ktkatte - other handles are available via pm (cashapp/paypall/etc.)

 

Is it because he's always nailing smug weirdo rich fuckbags? Is it the peter falk hard carry? Is it because despite being canonically a cop he does anything but act like a cop?

Is everything downstream of columbo an attempt to erase his legacy as the hound of wealthy sociopaths?

Is Columbo a demigod?

 

i bet vance lets his cheese curdle before it sloughs off in the couch whereas i bet daddy timmy washes thoroughly panting

nah too gross

 

I've had my medicaid interrupted and they've somehow still not fucking fixed it, so i'm up shit creek and feeling pretty sick. I can arrange to get my meds out of pocket for $25, but i literally have about $0.40 to my name with no income on the horizon.

I'm gonna be up shit creek in the next day or so. I already feel terrible. if i can't get this filled i'm just kinda dicked for a while and i just need assistance if anybody can help.

venmo is @ktkatte, i have other handles if you pm

EDIT: Somebody sent me $50, god bless you friend. thanks

 

I've had a love of history generally, and I know a bit more than most about the Roman empire, and that's kind of a red flag i guess, but I genuinely think they're one of the worst things to ever happen to the world, much as i find the endless stream of civil wars and coups to be very fun to read, the brutality of their empire wouldn't be surpassed until England somehow went from a backwater to a globe spanning empire and to be quite honest i'm not a fan of them except as a gateway to knowing what some of my ancestors got up to.

Weird Ass Rome Guys are why the American feds are the way they are, it's obvious there is something deeply wrong with how Rome gets portrayed in popular media and stuff that makes this a seemingly wide-spread phenomenon, but honestly what's with the glorification of Rome? is it downstream of American Nationalism? No, that can't be, because Rome Guys go back so far we have popes making fake roman states and tsars and sultans trying to prove their dick is the most Roman. It's hard to miss a lot of Rome Guys are pretty regressive people. Like, you don't ever think something like "Augustus was a role model" unless you've got some twisted bullshit shit going on in your heart.

It makes me uncomfortable to engage with the history sometimes, because Rome Guys are always listening and ready to project their noble fantasy of them and the idiot narratives of Rome's decline as a sickness caused by foreign invaders sure does sound like deeply right wing revisionist history to me, but I've never really thought through the how and why of these guys, i wanted to solicit Hexbear's thoughts.

 

my insurance is disrupted, and I'm fixing that, but I really need my medications. They're not bank breaking ($20), but they're essential to my quality of life.

I also really need to restock my fridge of cooking supplies, i am out of almost everything that's not dried pasta and canned beans, it'll be a minute before I can get to the food bank and idk if y'all can help it'd be appreciated.

venmo is @ktkatte, other handles can be supplied on request via pm

 

I have a few wilting veggies left, and some carbs (rice mostly) - but I really need to go to the grocery store. I need protein, I need to get cat litter if I can raise enough, too. My snap benefits ended last month. I live in the PNW, and everything is way too fucking expensive. I feel weird asking for $50 when I know it's gonna buy me a few days of food tops, but yeah here I am, hat in hand again.

If you can help, bless and thank you.

Venmo is @KTKatte, I have other cash handles, but you'll need to PM me for them.

Thanks again.

 

i'm on medicaid, but basically nowhere accepts my eye coverage. i've spent a few weeks looking, because my glasses are currently failing more and more by the day and slipping out of useability (the right lens' bottom support snapped out and the rest of the frame is getting worse and worse at fighting gravity)

I am extremely farsighted, and without my glasses, most daily tasks are an impossible blur.

I haven't had my eyes examined in years, but I can re-buy the pair I've had since 2020 for just north of $75 on zenni, and that's probably what i'm gonna have to do if I can raise the funds.

I've been living off donations for a while now, so if anybody can help, you'd save my ability to do basically anything. It'd be much appreciated.


The amount has been received. thank you!!!!!!!
 

Jort grease.

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