I'm sorry your struggling, but I think itd be good to spoiler such negative slurfilled self talk in future <3

this is sweet i have memories like this

I keep some hairties on me all the time (on my keys, in my wallet), gettining to help out someone, is a good feeling in return. I think i gave one to some random retail staff who were getting chewed out by a manager in front of me once

hot? yeah i guess it was a little toasty overnight now i've had to crack out my second blanket, its the middle of winter! This is southern hemisphere erasure!

im doing okay, someone in the vague 'activist scene' in my city is kinda making my life hell atm, theyre not well, but neither am i. So i'm fading out of existence. For how much people all talk about 'community', i'm yet to have many people check in with me.

Theyre going to be living in a worldwithoutlawyers.jpg now i'm gone. no one else is going to tell them to reexamine their preconceptions, theres going to be unexamined racist shit going down, i tell you what.

i kept being told 'well remember what you were like when you were young!', and i kept thinking, yeah damn, they should all be doing drugs instead of crowing themselves godking of the 'movement'.

this has all really destroyed my confidence i'm actually too anxious to even check replies here atm, for a while i couldnt even comment because i felt like everyone was so mad at me lol.

The 'scene' is good for them, but has been a disaster for my mental health. so i'm dropping everything so i can rekindle my energy and re engage myself with my union organising.

i dunno this feels like too much, maybe im too much. I'm getting echoes of an ex telling me 'i'm not availible to do emotional labour for you'. haha hehe hoho yes

if people are treating you like shit, you should leave, its not easy, but its for the best

Oh hey look, China and India are suddenly getting a lot of oil from Kazakhstan

I dunno how good this source is, but you get the idea

https://sanctionsnews.bakermckenzie.com/kazakhstan-changes-regarding-monitoring-of-goods-re-exported-to-russia/

honestly how would america survive if there was suddenly an additional 500% exercise on goods from PRC?

fbi shootout in Idaho? I immediately thought itd be white seperatist losers ala Ruby Ridge

Settlers doing settler things

Volcel police

Have bob dylan killed

comrades why do we not have any monty burns emotes? 😥

Its not just 'they wrote porn', they did so and distributed it online, for money. Of this was some passion project, a general freedom of expression, they could be distributing it anonymously and freely. I'm doubtful anyone's being arrested for their homebrew erotica - you'll never take me alive

we're being coerced into arguing semantics about the rights of petit bourgeois 'artists'

You're right it's incredibly safe to be openly gay in the streets of 'western' cities, but speak to 'western' queer people about how their families reacted to them coming out and you'll see that conservative attitudes are still very prevalent, especially amongst older people.

😇 lol sorry, tbh my parents are coming around but its been a decade of work, forcing myself to family events and continuing to be myself

An author was raided in sydney this year for a 'romance novel' she wrote

it turned out to be pretty damn pedophillic, here's a crap source

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/sydney-author-lauren-tesolinmastrosa-arrested-over-pedophilia-book/news-story/5babb82438d7adc5ca699c877b07641a

You will have to excuse me if i am sceptical of the intentions of the author of this NYT article

Vivian Wang

Vivian Wang is a China correspondent for The New York Times, based in Beijing, where she writes about how the country's global rise and ambitions are shaping the daily lives of its people. Previously, she was based in Hong Kong and New York City. In 2021, she was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in public service for coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. She grew up outside of Chicago and graduated from Yale University.

Lol

To many people, the arrests also show how much the space for female and L.G.B.T.Q. expression has shrunk in China.

theyre stories written by straight women, for straight women, nice try tho! I actually dont feel great about hets writing steamy erotic novels about le gays.

i will never not be extremely sus on ivory tower journalists, theyre either feds, or being manipulated by the feds to publish articles justifying the feds.

Wang was previoisly awarded for her coverage of COVID in china, and if you google her name and corona virus you find plenty of 'the peasants are revolting against the emporer' kind of articles, 'the chinese are covering it up' 'we looked at gps data to get the real story'

these articles very rarely cite any regular people who live in China, its generally experts from the usa all the way down.

anyway, my point is, remain critical, approach things with caution, honestly i feel pretty sad someone would post this here without any sort of analysis. inadvertanly promoting the face value 'theyre killing queers'

need i remind you how the NYT reports on Palestine?

sorry this is cranky i havent had coffee

How many times is sodomy mentioned 😵