My Advice To You Is To Never Waste Your Time Trying To Fit Into A Club Or Hobby Or Any Community Who

my advice to you is to never waste your time trying to fit into a club or hobby or any community who makes you beg for acceptance and approval just to participate when you could do the alternative—get involved in a niche and endangered hobby run primarily by old people.

i wanted to learn how to hunt ruffed grouse and train bird dogs so i sent an email to my local chapter of the ruffed grouse society explaining that getting into wildlife groups is intimidating to me because I’m trans

and all they saw was that someone under 60 wanted to learn to hunt grouse & several months into my mentorship I was told that like 7 old guys argued over me until they had to pick a number between 1 and 100 to decide who got to personally mentor me.

imagine vying for the acceptance of some gatekeeping weirdos when your mere interest could be inciting verbal combat among retirees

A Twitter thread on how to protect your Art from Tumblr's agreement to sell it off to Artificial Intelligence data gathering pools, please protect yourselves!

The replies include how to do it depending on your platform.

You were born into a rich family in the late 1800’s. Your father was a generous man who adopted an orphan boy. You just discovered that your adopted brother had plans to kill your father all along and has just turned himself into a vampire. You’re a very gifted athlete, confront him.

CONTINUE TO KEEP THESE TAGS TRENDING!

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Call for De-escalation and Ceasefire in Israel and Occupied Palestine ⭑ 5 Calls

Update (01/11/24): Since the beginning of the war with Hamas, the right-wing Netanyahu government has been bombing Gaza indiscriminately, re

if you live in the US, please take 5 minutes today and every day to call your reps and demand they support an immediate and permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza

here's an additional toolkit for how to stay involved, find protests, etc