For the same reason republicans won’t: They’re on the list, their friends are on the list and their donors are on the list.

Journal. Let your feelings out, incrementally, in a place that you don’t feel vulnerable for doing so.

Today co-worker did X, they’re a cunt. It annoys me because Y. Seriously, Co-worker is a dick. At the time I wish I had done Z, but Z is illegal. Nexr time I’ll try [reasonable action]

It is, given the thread thanks for the correction. Fixed

There’s value in accentuating a point, don’t let me make you feel otherwise. Just for me, personally, I don’t like using i.e.

I know the difference between i.e and e.g. but I’ve never really seen the point in i.e. if you’re just going to enumerate what you mean anyway. It is like using “it” to replace a noun, but then explaining what you meant by “it” right next to the usage:

It (using i.e.) is like using “it” (the pronoun used as a shorthand for other nouns) to replace a noun, but then explaining what you meant by “it” (the pronoun used as a shorthand for other nouns) right next to the usage.

It’s clumsy, just use the list if you’re going to list them anyway.

I like dairy products i.e. milk cream, cheese and yoghurt.

I like milk, cream, cheese and yoghurt

‘Who’ Vs ‘whom’.

Answer the question with ‘he’ Vs ‘him’ and match the 'm’s is an easy rule of thumb.

He went to the park: who went to the park?

You called him: Whom did you call?

I understand why it’s falling out of usage, as the strong SVO eliminates the need for accusatives, I wouldn’t be surprised if ‘him’ and ‘her’ go away next. Knowing and using ‘whom’ sure helped me with the ‘-n’ affix when learning Esperanto though, also fuck ‘-n’ signed: English speakers. Replace the word with whom, him or her and if it’s clumsy you don’t need the -n.

Now, if I could just wrap my head around ‘si’ Vs ‘li’, ‘ŝi’ and ‘ri’. Or, a solid rule of thumb, that would be so nice. I promise I’m not a toddler, I just talk like one.

🎵Whom ya gonna call? Ghostbusters!!!🎵

I’m sorry

+1 if they can rp the incompetence into an adv roll. Literal weaponised incompetence

I’ve been doing “tipsy chore day” for a while. Do a chore > glass of wine > do another chore > glass of wine… I may as well finish the bottle > do a chore > final glass.

Chores are less boring, and you push through them to get your next glass. Has to be wine though, beer I don’t get a buzz going, and spirits have me incompetent.

If I were a narcissist, given the scenario, how would my actions be different from what actually happened.

I’m not great at interrupting negative behaviours currently, but this helps me recognise them after the fact.

Tigana

A book about loss. Loss of family. Loss of country. Loss of culture. Loss of all things. It’s beautifully written, and the theme of loss doesn’t mean a somber tone throughout, the found family is strong.

To anyone and no-one:

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize,” Kevin Alfred Storm, noted Neo-Nazi caught with a non zero amount of child porn, talking about Jews. Also, paraphrased by William H, talking about Muslims.

I fought against getting a contactless debit card for so long. I used to call my bank a month or so before my card expired demanding a non-contactless card. “But sir, you could just not activate the contact…” I don’t want any of it. I’d say “when I forget my pin it’s time to go home” paying chip and PIN like a peasant. I probably said “PIN Number” for how stupid I was being.

Anyway, contactless payment is awesome.

My fears are still grounded. Originally it was because, near weekly, I saw someone paying with a card they just picked off the floor. I hated the limit being so high long before they raised it, let alon after they raised it again. Also a skill check before ordering another beer has some merit.

“Cults do like to cut off and distance their members from outsiders and their families” In the same email that he was threating to block me for suggesting his quoting of a Nazi might be a bad thing.

Close second: “Trump (married to a woman) is misogynist” but also “I (British), married to a Malay, can’t be racist because I’m married to a Malay”.

Honourable mention: “I don’t like the word ‘Islamophobia’ or your Newspeak”. My guy, Newspeak was famous for doing something to the dictionary, and it wasn’t adding words to describe more concepts.

Anyway, he blocked me… Like cultists do. All quotes are paraphrased, I CBA digging through the emails.

The Curry Guy has a recepie as jumping off point. I don’t know about local brands to you, but Patak’s is a staple here, their hot lime pickle is what got me onto the concept. I still get a jar every now and then, but the flavours are the intense kind that I get bored of and forget about, till the jar goes moldy.

So when I buy one, I kinda force myself through the last third. On bread, off a spoon, on pasta, some ungodly creations I swear.

Lime pickles. They’re delicious, I can’t get through a jar on my own but I’ll get no help.

I got the PeerTube android app. It’s very bare bones. As a first foray into peertube I’m not sure it’s the way to go. I think I’ve set myself up for failure.

Anycase, I’ll dedicate some time to try find some pocket of content I like tomorrow. Getting away from YouTube sure would be nice.

I can’t really get away from a ‘benevolent dictator’ mindset on this, I support good things and don’t support bad things. Good and bad being defined be me alone. X and Meta feel like bad things to me so away they go. So the following feels like post hoc justification of the above, right?

I oppose oligarchy, X and Meta are products of oligarchs and as such wouldn’t oppose their ban.

Treat sex like a meal, dessert for me is the best bit. I don’t jump right to dessert, and it’s not where I spend the majority of my time.

Teasing - starter. Start at the beginning of the day, “I’m gonna do X”, “You’re gonna feel Y”, “You’re so z”. Sets expectations, gets people in the mindset, communication about sex outside in a neutral space is important. It’s an appetiser.

Foreplay - main course. Do the things, what ever “the things” means for you. Aim to spend the majority of your “fun” here. Edge, tease touch, lick, suck, toys, all the verbs.

Final cummings - dessert. Just a nice finisher to an incredible meal.

Or not, maybe you like cum play and penetration is the foreplay. I don’t know I’m not you.

Jokes on them lemmynsfw doesn’t federate downvotes… So probably this one.

Where have I accused you of being a transphobe? Please quote me.

Let’s recap. You mused on what not being born a protected class means for a protected class, in your previous comment you said religion shouldn’t be a protected class. Putting it all together: a protected class one is not born into shouldn’t be protected. Which rhymes incredibly with the rhetoric transphobes and homophobes use. Note: I am not calling you a transphobe, I am saying you quack like one. Re-read the above until you see the destinction.

You also said that you feel like people are using their protected class as a weapon. Which rhymes incredibly with the rhetoric racists and misogynists use. Note: I am not calling you a sexist or misogynist, I am saying you quack like one. Re-read the above until you see the distinction.

Once again: whether someone is born a protected class means nothing. For starters there are no “defaults” to which differing means you become a protected class. Secondly, whether someone is disabled from birth or comes to it later in life, they deserve the same protections. This is a strategy used by homophobes to attack the lgbt and it’s used by transphobes to attack trans people. If you don’t want to be associated with them, don’t quack like them.

I know I know, I am an idiot. I am a big meanie saying you drink babies blood, whatever you need to dismiss me and call this a win. I’ve been there. But later, when you have some time for introspection, ask yourself why anti-thiests quack like all the other bigots? Pull out and examine your own ideas, do you see the rhymes?

When I was quacking away with the anti-thiests, sounding eerily similar to all the other bigots was I a bigot? There’s certainly an argument for it, and one I wouldn’t push too hard against. I prefer to think of myself then as an idiot. I was raised believing in god and there’s no-one more pationate than a convert. I remember seeing a video called “the alt right pipeline”, or something like, it that traced the path from skeptictube to anti-thiesm to right wing, to alt right “all the isms”, and being glad I got off that train. Also, Richard Dawkins was the face of anti-thiesm when I was in it. So him coming out has being more than one kind of bigot was self affirming.