There’s a queer label that still fits me offline, but online queer communities have changed the definition to be so broad that I can’t feel comfortable using it anymore, nor feel any sort of belonging in those groups anymore.

I do worry it will slowly seep offline. So I know I need to be prepared for that. Words not having a clear, understandable definition makes communication extremely difficult and misunderstandings easy.

That in mind, I’ve also come to dislike labels, but for the reverse reason. Once used as a shorthand to communicate something clearly in a simpler one-word format that people can easily understand, now used as obscure terms that need more explaining once you say them. Defeating the entire original purpose.

I’ve adapted by throwing away the label, and only using a definition without need of a word attatched.

Funnily enough, I’ve found mental comfort in doing the opposite.

I used to get annoyed daily at online communities stretching words to mean whatever people want them to mean in the moment. It’s been much better for my mental health to just leave those communities.

Suspicious tattoos.

We’ve trained by watching undercover videos of how livestock is treated. We know what torture is. What goes around, comes around, right?

Leave the Anesthesia behind, fellas! We won’t be using it.

I haven’t, but interesting they exist!

Headphones of almost all types hurt my ears or fall off too easily to be comfortable.

And my new phone has better sound than my old phone and TV anyways. Yes, both of them ARE around 10 years old.

I feel like they wouldn’t be respectful enough to say “brown skinned man”.

Yes I am sure the criminal who already ignores courts amd suffers no tangible consequences for it will obey a ruling he does not like.

She had a golden chance to demand a recount. And chose to roll over and play dead.

I can’t say I’m not disappointed. Because I am.

Beans and jeans!

Boycott what you reasonably can.

This poor beautiful doggo doesn’t deserve what Musk is doing to her legacy.

This implies actually reading the Bible. You know these people can’t read!

Free Luigi!

They’re just aiding Trump. Their silence os complicity. They’re on the same side.

And that is not the side of the people.

Fake housing listing. Said the key would be mailed because they weren’t in the area at the time, and wanted payment via some sort of money order or special check type or something (I forget exact details).

I needed to find a place quickly, with no idea how to do so or what I was doing, that would accept two people and multiple cats, on only my income (not a lot).

I got the wrong kind of payment, was able to get money back from that, and when I went to get the “right” kind of payment the cashier let me know it was a common scam.

I had experience where I nearly fell for a common scam when I was in a desperate situation. At the time, I had no knowledge of that particular scam and was too rushed to find a solution to think critically. Luckily I was too dumb to even be properly scammed before someone who knew was able to stop me, but still.

I can believe the same happened on a mass scale. Desperate people being fed lies on an easy answer echoing each other, not realizing they’re being scammed.

Isn’t there something about insurrectionists not being allowed to be president?

We’re about to allow an insurrectionist to be president.

Pretty sure no silly little written amendment on a piece of parchment will stop him. They sure haven’t before. Those rules only apply when HE wants them to.

He has 2 options.

First is the obvious saying that there’s nothing stopping him from running for a 3rd term, and once again using Jim Crow era vote suppression and other slimy tricks to win again.

The second option is to just declare that presidency is a for-life position. He can do that, after all.

And he’s making that last part perfectly clear. He is above the law. There are no consequences for him breaking the law, and nothing stopping him from doing whatever he wants. The people who could are so polite that if words won’t stop him, they say more words at him. That’ll do it!

For even more fun: agree. Then elaborate. Lean right on into the insult, flip it into a good thing, or a ‘oh thanks for pointing that out, I’ll reflect on that’ depending on the tupe of insult.

It’s amazing how MAD trolls get when you remain calm and treat ad homenim as either a compliment or means to self-reflect.

Watching them try more and more insults, getting angrier and angrier, until they just give up. It brings me joy!