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occasionally a good opinion or two

[💗 @ma1ybe]

I just saw a TikTok where the bride called off the wedding because there was a tradition that the bride and groom would give each other something meaningful or thoughtful. The bride was gifted a PS5 and a family watch that her father used to wear, and y all won’t believe me what the groom gifted. He literally gifted her with “cleaning supplies” & “diapers”…& then he intentionally spilled alcohol on his color and asked her to clean it. She slapped him & said,“ This isn't how I dreamed to be loved for the rest of my life” & left…… Dear men, if you want to get married, stop humiliating your woman, everything isn’t funny!

[emily may @emilykmay]

i have a theory that rising expectations of fatherhood involvement has also contributed to the fertility rate dropping, see below:

[☀️AliquisNovus☀️ @PalmyrPar]

This is the kind of stuff dogs would post online if they were sentient

[goma @soigomaa]

Normalize telling boys the stories of what women in the family went through. Boys seem to hear
"grandma makes the best turkey"
while daughters hear
"grandma was married at 14."
Tell the boys the cost of their favorite meals, too.

[Juniper is Ready to Art Fight @adesertdryad]

my most soviet coded belief is that all children should do gymnastics

[Radical Graffiti @GraffitiRadical]

"If they come for us in the morning, they will come for you in the night"
Sticker spotted in Seattle

[Ellie @basilYam]

It’s quite difficult to move between classes. It’s about much more than money. It’s ways of being. A plumber who builds a large regional business and becomes a millionaire in one generation is still blue collar. He’s not upper class. A teacher who makes 40k but comes from New England blue blood stock, had family members in the Pittsburgh register, kept her grandma’s pearls and nice scarves, is very upper class

[A🪲 @seattleiminyou]

Being kind to myself feels like the stripper loves me

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Beautifully clear demonstration of the very high cost of HS2, amid unusually easy terrain and with proven technology. https://t.co/cDNY9Ad7EN

[Scilla ᥫ᭡ @Houseofscilla]

I once had a patient that I delivered who prior to delivery was bubbly, happy and excited to meet her baby. After delivery she cried, and cried, and cried, and cried. It broke me. For the few hours I watched her before I transferred her to postpartum, she wouldn’t stop crying about how hard that delivery was and how she had nothing left to give. She cried for hours, she didn’t want to see or hold her baby. She was so sad and 4hrs later wouldn’t stop crying. I had to order a psychiatric consult for her cos I knew she was gonna have a hard time at home. Checked on her the next day and she was still crying. Her husband was so loving and supportive by her side the whole time, yet she couldn’t stop crying. She was traumatized. I’ll never forget her. Sometimes the “regret” is instant, other times it’s postpartum and years after. Your feelings are very valid.

[g 🇯🇵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 @NIMBYSlayer_69]

Can’t wait for it to be scrapped in 2030 after we’ve hit the funding cap entirely on consultancy.

[cheyene norah @onlyyagirl_]

This remains to be so relevant actually

[claire de lune @ClaireMPLS]

call me old fashioned but maybe tackle the fascist paramilitary going door to door first?

[Madelaine Hanson @MadelaineLucyH]

Because rape is a jury-based conviction. You must be judged by a jury of your peers. That means men sit on every jury for rape.

People are far less likely to punish members of their own group for crimes that reflect badly on the group.
For men, rape is not just a crime, it is a sex crime committed by men against women. Convicting another man forces an implicit admission: this is something men do. It’s political. The act of saying “a person in my group did something evil” is political.

[Boob Jobs, Founder and CEO @cool_hot_woman]

shit is getting to such sci-fi nazi apocalyptic HBO-original levels of surreal that it's no wonder we're all starting to suffer collective psychosis. life in the united states feels like a never-ending horrorshow backlit by neon fx and shitty phonk edits

[meredith @noyeahobviously]

So I know this is hard to believe but actually it really did used to hold a lot of academic merit when we had to perform true research and had critical thinking skills

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

I miss the evil billionaires who'd try to buy their way into heaven by funding massive public libraries

[J. J. Ellis @jjellisart]

The left needs to accept and learn to weaponize white women.

[Syd Steyerhart @SydSteyerhart]

Gen Z is right obviously. Taking work seriously has very few upsides anymore. You're not going to be able to afford a house, get married, or have children, which means the incentives that formed the basis of western civilization are all gone now.