went to the queer clinic, they took my blood
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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The manager for the job referral finally got back to me and wants to schedule an interview! 
Hope you get it! You've been on the hunt for years (plural) now, haven't you?
Almost. It really started in February of last year. I've had a few pockets of grace, but they didn't last long.
One job I got terminated without explanation and the other was a temporary position which sucked anyway (especially due to issues like misgendering and microaggressions) so I left before it even ended but it was close to ending when I did.
A few other jobs seemed like promising offers but ended up being misleading and deceptive.
Since this is the only instance where I leveraged networking to increase my chances of getting a job, this one seems to be far more likely to land.
!!! massive
had a really sad dream where i remembered the last time someone told me i was important to them and that was more than 6 years ago :\ heavy heart. and even that ended up being untrue
there's no way life is supposed to be like this; why is everyone seemingly okay with surface level connections and not questioning anything about the way we live and treat each other
Back at it at the plasma donations, was hoping after my training things would be different with job and shit 
things aren't dire yet but still waiting on to see if my truck is gonna be alright and if the warranty is gonna cover the repair or not. Been applying to HVAC places where I can but no real call backs or anything yet, feeling down but not out yet at least hoping for some good news today truckwise
Got paid 
very little but at least I don't gotta worry about gas money now
CW// talk of SA
Every time I see a topic of SA under colonialism I notice Europeans/colonizers don't even do apologism, they twist it into "in their cultures they isolate and shame the victims this is so sad"
Second CW actual awful shit in reddit comments post and story example: top comment here
top comments villifying Islam when it's a non-Muslim European colonizer who committed those SAs
Reddit really not beating the 
accusations
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Through a text, I called my landlord out on this bullshit and emphasized that she has no legal evidence to charge me for this. I'm not expecting her to push back because I believe that me having willingness to refute this shit just immediately foils her plan because her ability to go through with this manipulation is contingent on me being totally compliant. I'm not—hell no! I also know that her assumptions are rooted in anti-Blackness and her not expecting a Black person to have awareness of their own damn rights.
I fucking hate, hate, hate, hate landlords.
That's all.
so fucking true
I'm getting back on the plant based wagon after falling off for a long while. Feels really great. It's been a work in progress for a while, but most of my meals are starting to be plant based and it makes me happy 😊
I'm stressed about mass deportation, but still doing my best to get out there and resist ICE despite being part of their target demographic. I figure being out in front is safer since I can at least partially set the terms of engagement. I really don't want to be blindsided, I've already accepted that bad shit will happen. I just don't want it to be a surprised when it finally does.
Beans are real good for plant based and 
on ICE. Been worried on this so been accompying my parents when they go out, also got them though red cards and one for myself. Not gonna say the legal system is gonna protect us but it's some small annoyance to the fash in charge at least
Chickpeas are GOATed.
My main bean is and will always will be the humble pinto, they so damn cheap 
Wtf was up with the recent post that was removed? Someone equating Judaism and Zionism 
49 upbears on this shit is excellent proof of the theory that people just blindly upbear shit.
(I hope.)
I think it was saying the global religion holds a lot of zionist bloodthirsty for a Holocaust on brown peopl in the middle east. I think we give a lot of leeway to Judaism, which was clearly co-opted by zionist ideology, I think in the 70s. The difference with other religions, is the Christian zionist gives the support and firepower and monetary gain. We can't have meaningful dialog about antisemitism when isntreal is commiting this genocide + terror in the middle east in the name of Judaism while the only oppression Jewish people are facing right now is getting arrested for protesting that rhetoric or having their religion conflated with zionism because of the same, which is just word and not power.
Many westerners still hold reactionary beliefs despise being leftists
A lot of westerners take middle east's casual racism, sexism and homophobia as a sign of Israel's progressiveness, when in reality the zionist entity is a competitive player, putting gay people in prison is a rookie move when you can black mail them into doing terrorism and being informants [insert clever way to include how female IOF soldiers that are available for marriage are presented during birth right tour].
A lot of westerners, unfortunately, really have fallen for the lie that the Global North is more "advanced" in terms of LGBTQ+ rights, women's rights, etc. than the Global South. Pinkwashing would no longer be as handy for deception if more of them knew this wasn't the case. The West is quite clearly still incredibly bigoted towards anyone who isn't white, cishet, a man, etc.
it's interesting watching still fall on the pink washing argument as they strip it, another legistlation that makes transitioning even harder while condemning starving Gazans.
Liberals from the global south believe that too. It’s one of the most brought up topics whenever one of them living in some Western country wants to talk about how backwards the global south is.
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It's White Man's Burden: 2025 edition
(please ignore how racist, sexist, homophobic, classist, antisemitic, and transphobic the west is towards its own population)
rant about non-vegan bullshit in medicine
I fucking hate how medications are not vegan. Basically, every single medication is tested on animals, and a lot of them contained animal-derived ingredients. I'm going to see if I can get some sort of animal-free version of my meds, but I probably can't sweat it too much if I can't. I'm also getting my HRT and antidepressants covered by a trans charity who works with a local pharmacy of mine, so I really don't financially have access to external sources that might have a solution for this. Ugh.
Just kinda came to this realization year back when I took antibiotics for a tooth abscess, unless otherwise stated everything is bound to have gelatin sadly. I'm on Medicaid so don't know if I got a lot of options too
Trying to decipher how much of my personality is appeasement mannerism come about from being big and brown and folx idk sometimes I feel bad for experiencing emotions that could be seen as threatening and it's just exhausting. Definitely feels like I'm playing a stereotype for acceptance and a pessimistic part of me tells myself people just keep me around to feel better about themselves.
Every time y'all talk of :cracker: 
, I get the sense of relief that where I live, I don't interact with much cumskins, with their behaviors and aw.
My place is flip a coin levels, it very much depends on what side of town I'm at the places I can relax vs I have to move fast but not too fast out of kind of deal.
The struggle is real with being perceived as threatening for having normal upset emotions.
Right, they're good to feel and I do with my family but outside with white people I sometimes feel like I gotta keep a happy dopey mask on. I also tend to come off as very apologetic and it's hard to turn off
Sounds like we might have the opposite approach to the same problem and are both suffering because the problem itself isn't one that can be fixed without fixing white people. It feels like a damned no matter what you do thing. I don't have the capacity to mask anymore but then I keep getting in trouble with white people for being open and honest about being a human being and having feelings that aren't just "I'm a bhoddisattva". It's frustrating, but the price of playing nice is frustrating too.
it's very much a white people in general thing but I'm not holding my breath on them changing anytime soon just getting worse. 
I've grown sicken with how many of them might have only been kind to me because of a white savior complex I'm dead certain that's the case to every white church I've frequented growing up with friends.