Get to know your coworkers

Community outside work is important too ofc, but getting to know your coworkers is the first step if you want to organize. And you might discover that you work with some cool people!

Idk, I think the vegan struggle session was the worst I’ve ever seen here, and this current stuff isn’t even close to that imo. Tbf though I never pay that much attention to site drama anyway

Idk, is it? Sorry if this isn’t your intention, but you’re coming across as very

I feel very seen by this meme

Do you like football?

Funny how it hits some family members a lil different when I tell them I’m sterile now vs. when I first told them I never wanted kids

Like even when they’re polite about it I can still tell they’re shook

Makes me wonder how many of them were quietly hoping my partner and I would have a change of heart or worse, an accident (we live in a state where abortion is banned). Fuck youuuu, I’m never getting pregnant!

Yeah I’m a donor. You’re not going to beat the death cult by joining the death cult

Nah

I have this playlist saved that I think is meant to be exactly what you’re asking for: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5bmkfHCWd8MIU7Okk52gMO

I didn’t create the playlist; I actually don’t even remember where I found it

Srsly, if you want people in your life to actually help Palestine, there are much better ways. Maybe encourage them to donate to gofundmes on gazafunds.com or something. Go to a protest together. Tell them about the BDS movement.

But on the other hand, why do any of that when you could instead take the option of antagonizing them about their electoral choices. Really piss them off, get them to stop taking you seriously. Burn bridges and shrink your sphere of influence within your community. That’s what will really be helpful to the people of Palestine.

I can’t fucking wait for election season to be over

I’d hit ‘em with one of these:

Based

Linking to my megathread comment RE: terf sources in the baeddel post, for anyone reading this thread: https://hexbear.net/comment/5535857

TL;DR The version of the baeddel post that has the terf source is from two years ago. The version posted by comrade grym is an updated version from this year, which does not have the terf source (unless I missed it somewhere).

RE: transphobic sources in the comprehensive Baeddel post —

I did some digging, and the baeddel post that was posted in the other thread is an updated version that, as far as I can tell, doesn’t link to the transphobic source you mentioned. The version that has the transphobic source is from March 2022:

While the version posted by comrade grym in the other thread is from February of this year:

Good post!!

Emotional music makes me experience frisson, which ime is a totally different (albeit superficially similar) sensation to ASMR

Latte ASMR is my fav

The more practical answer is to get a small camping stove or something like it. That way you can use gas in an emergency without having to hook up your home to a gas grid