flicker @ flicker @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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You really, really, really need to see women as people-who-might-be-friends, and not exclusively as fuck objects.

The update now is just "Edit: Welp" and I wanted to point that out to you if you hadn't seen it because it got a laugh out of me. Relatable.

This is excellent timing. I just got an email last night that my auto subscribed donation to our instance was canceled and I don't know why. I went to just reschedule it and they wanted my cc info but I was waaaay too drunk and in the middle of Pathfinder to go find my card.

Appreciate the reminder. I'll fix that now.

Maybe it's because of the brand or something? I get that stupid expensive stuff that makes us less allergic to my cat...

Oh, mine is a heavy, thick, completely opaque container. Good points! I should've made them.

(It's specifically for dog food, but I use it for cat food, and it has a screw on lid.)

Yeah, but they're also refugees. They probably have their own culture and lingo, and even if they didn't, I support making them comfortable until they're naturalized.

The subreddit for r/GenP was shut down, and their users were being directed here.

That's what this post says anyway.

I hadn't heard of genp until that post, but since they're pirates, they're welcome on dbzer0, the instance for pirates and anarchists.

I got a big air-tight container and I open the bag and pour the whole bag straight in there.

It makes a massive difference in smell alone. The cat doesn't get excited over new bags anymore. I really recommend it.

Welcome ya'll. If you didn't bring a pirate hat of your own, feel free to pirate one. Or indeed, anything.

Sorry you lost your old home, but also, you're going to be so surprised when you realize the fediverse is like the old internet. (To that end, I recommend lurking until you're comfortable and understand the whole... fediverse... thing.)

Big same. Hope we run into each other again ♥

I don't think that you and I are entirely in agreement here, however. When I say that we need to fight back against this as furiously as we fight fascism, I absolutely condone the use of violence against fascism. It seeks to harm men, even the people brainwashed into supporting it, and it seeks to harm women, especially those who aren't willing to be subjugated. The paradox of tolerance is the only reason it's been allowed to go as far as it has gone. I'm not seeing a peaceful way out of it.

ETA: For the record, we're on the same side, and I love that for us! And I've upvoted you. I used to believe that violence was never, ever the answer, even the language of violence. But at this point... I don't think I can afford to hold that point of view any more.

Because the sort of people who would downvote that, have learned to avoid trying to get into these conversations.

People would likely be downvoting because if we're having a conversation about group A doing Z bad thing to group B, changing the conversation to "well group B does Y bad thing to group A" is generally seen as a not cool thing to do.

The problem for me now is, someone is going to come and try fighting me over how men can be, and are, victimized. I know that. Anyone with a brain knows that. Men need more support than they're getting, also, and toxic masculinity (ironically, the same kind you can find in the Man-o-Sphere) is so, so mean to men, telling them to walk it off, to suck it up... I can't tell you how much work I've had to do to help deprogram the fiance, who spent 20 years in the Army... But that wasn't the discussion. It's changing the topic.

You're not allowed to talk about any problems women face, without someone saying, "but men have problems, too," and then getting mad at you for being a man-hater if you don't immediately drop the thing you were talking about to discuss the problems men face. Which is such a shame, because it solves neither problem, and just serves to piss people off.

So now that I've engaged you, and said the thing those people weren't saying, someone (possibly multiple someones) are going to try and fight me. I'm going to try and ignore them, but I have ADHD, so we'll see what happens.

The difference between the nude beach and getting unsolicited dick pics, is if you go to a nude beach, you kinda agreed to see naked people.

Redpill, incel, gender-normative bullshit is violence. It seeks to hurt men by forcing them into the mold of "masculinity" (and defines that masculinity, in some places, in a very toxic fashion) and we all know how it hurts women.

It needs to be fought back, and as furiously as fascism.

From Hark a Vagrant!

The last picture, that cat has the same look on their adorable face that mine gets when he's trying to explain to me that he was so scared and I'm not taking his trauma seriously, such as when he was briefly contained in his cat carrier or when he couldn't find me in the house that one time after he took a nap.

Obviously, this cat has actually been through something, but the fact that the expression is exactly the same melts my heart.

(Use your imagination)

Do I have to?

I'm an uncultured swine and I'd listen to/read the two of you talking about things all day.

Lots of vegans, and non-vegans, are anti-picking-of-flowers, because if you leave them to live, they live longer and look prettier, instead of wilting sadly in a vase until they're fully dead.

So for some people, it's better to give them a live plant, so they can kill it by accident on their own time.

So glad you guys addressed this. I'm in the US and this whole time I was thinking they were the same guy.