Behold The Beans. Ca. 1950s. Source.

I wonder what microwave is looking at, oh wait the cutie reading this!

"it's even worse due to the Amber Heard trial" oh yes, it definitely is, people -specially men- now know more than ever that there aren't real consequences for abusing women online or for being a misogynistic person to the point of making fun of a woman's rape testimony. And it's also sad to see that this streamer also participated in the only vitriol against Amber Heard. Dear women, joining men in their coordinated attacks against women won't save you from being the woman attacked.

Idk if radblr has heard about this yet since I don't see anyone talking about it and I have no one to talk about it with: a big female streamer known for live streaming in hot tubs and doing sexual stuff (Amouranth) revealed that not only that she has a husband but that she has been in an abusive relationship for 7 years. Her husband has been controlling her finances, threatening her pets, etc. I think it's clear as day he has been manipulating her to do this kind of stuff like so many other women in "sex work." The male response to it is just horrible and inhuman and I feel like it's even worse due to the Amber Heard trial.

I haven’t heard anything about this story but that’s horrific and I can’t even imagine what some of the responses to this are.

People so quickly forget that so many women don’t want to be in sex work -they are forced into it either by a pimp or financial necessity. It is not fun and freeing and consensual and the only people who want everyone to believe that is the men who want access to more women.

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His arrival was foretold in ancient murals.

Incredible onboard footage from the launch of Artemis I!

And the aftermath of 8,800,000 pounds of thrust.

Johnny Depp is now selling NFTs. Including NFTs of River Phoenix. Acclaimed actor who took drugs at The Viper Room and wound up dying on the sidewalk outside of The Viper Room. The Viper Room is a nightclub owned by Johnny Depp.

My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.