Ah Shit My Bowling Team Has Unionized

Koi (Hong Kong, 2024)

shoutout to the most unhelpful reminder ive ever put into my phone

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Maybe just due to my own experiences over the last few years, but I've grown really weary of people framing violence as a trade off.

"I'd rather have violence A than violence B!"

Yeah, but you'll probably just have both.

A few Eastern Gray Squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) from this morning.

I have a sister who's an engineer. I told her an anecdote similar to this with engineers coming up with eugenics to solve an issue. Her response was "well, they were told to solve the problem, and they did."

I'm also studying to become an engineer in a different discipline and it means joining clubs with a bunch of (cis) men. I talked about my interests in embroidery and crochet. I'm taking shirts this summer and altering them and adding designs to the top. A guy in the group called it "weird" and then mentioned his girlfriend having similar interests.

I didn't participate in the club at all this semester.

my boyfriend started listening to TMA because of me, what should i pruposely mislead him into believing is canon?

At no point in the show is it established that all the characters aren't muppets. Just saying.

you don't "hate kids," you hate being forced into a caretaking role.

you don't "hate kids," you hate censorship passed off as family values.

you don't "hate kids," you hate the constrictiveness of the nuclear family.

you don't "hate kids," you're just not used to occupying fully age diverse spaces so you're not used to the noise or the many different kinds of needs.

you don't "hate kids," most public spaces just aren't built for kids, and so the few kids you see are always uncomfortable and distressed.

you don't "hate kids," you hate the intense social rules assigned to kids and anyone who interacts with kids.

You don't "hate kids," you hate how society reproduces its most restrictive elements and how kids are powerless to resist it.