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The Lily Allen thread? Oh wait...

in the good old days we bitched abt each other: "Use other words please."

(thread title contains notion that when whining abt a phrase annoying you, you must offer a stronger alternative or you are the problem)

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As a medical cannabis user who's just had my evening dose, this is the single weirdest and most fascinating post I've ever read. It makes no sense to me, yet it's worded brilliantly. I've read it at least fifteen times. I am completely enamoured with this short paragraph of perfect, meaningless text. Is this what all those people who rave about Murakami are talking about?

Maybe this should go in "use other words" but I am starting to dislike "package" when used about tranches of government funding or about a legislative agenda.

Mostly because I don't want to read a thousand articles about "Biden's package."

"Biden's package" sounds like a euphemism for something I don't want to envision.

Biden's enormous bundle

Joe Manchin is a chastity cage on Biden's package

C'mon, man

It's yuge

It's gonna be incredible.

Oh wait.

Listen Mac, I'll be a good boy for you.

Why did they kill that guy? Why did they kill him? Who was that guy? What was that guy? I thought he was with them. Wasn't he with them? Why would they kill him if he was with them? Oh, he wasn't really with them. I thought he was with them. It's a good thing they killed him

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unlikely

i keep coming back to the concept of interpellation in terms of taking responsibility in collective horizontally-organized work

realizing i have the longest post on about 30% of the threads i've posted on

we can c&p some scaruffi if it makes you feel better

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zeppelin also probably more likely to put a gun to your head and _make_ you take them

i'm sorry if that's grossly tasteless and offensive, it's just been a long time since i've had to deal with classic rock loving Cis Dudes(tm)

I’ve never thought about this before, I don’t understand what the big fuss is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I Love Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

otm, ILM is a classic rock forum now

all the cool kids hang out in the peoples_pop twitter polls

they tend to be more engaging than what’s going on here these days, it’s true, especially the current Songs That Aren’t In English one

This is the absolute Platonic form of an ILM thread

i got take out from the neo-liberal burger place a few weeks ago. that thread is to ILM threads as the neo-liberal burger place burger is to burgers.

it's an unworthy thought but part of me secretly hopes one of the reasons Will Smith slapped Chris Rock was for appearing on the extended coda of "Blame Game" and asking "Who the fuck got your pussy all re-upholstered?"

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I can't decide whether this blatant troll not being banned yet is cos lol ilm or no that's it I can't remember what the fuck else I was thinking

so not wanting to harp on this too much but i feel like i need to clarify, just for myself—

thank you all. i know there might be some people here who actively dislike me but this album is opening doors to conversations that i've wanted to have for years but i'm not cool enough irl to know anyone like the sort of people who post here. i'm an asexual-identifying white cis male and consider myself white trash in rehabilitation, if that makes any sense. i'm simultaneously a huge fan of the music and i'm also here to learn — and i know i'm in the right place. thanks for reading.

awwww. you're a sweetie, Austin.

I was a really different person when I first came here - and I don't know where that was, when that was, my memory, it's not just bad, it _cheats_. Like you, I've learned a lot from folks on this board, and honestly a lot of how I've learned it is by saying stupid shit by people who didn't deserve to have my bullshit thrown in their face. And they didn't always take it well, and I didn't always take their responses to my bullshit well, but I learned.

I get the impression you're learning a lot about yourself, and I am honestly so fucking here for that shit, always. My biggest frustration about myself was that for a long time there were some questions that I didn't feel like I had the _right_ to ask, that it would be _offensive_ to ask people about their own experiences, and I was completely 100% wrong about that. So, open invite, any questions you want to ask, even the really stupid ones like "Are you gonna get your dick cut off?", I'm here for it (because it's not like I never had questions, or worse, unquestioned _assumptions_, that were exactly that fucking stupid, and I had to learn somehow). HMU on Discord or through my blog (both linked in the 77 trans thread).

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"Dave, I can't fight this Foo anymore.
I've forgotten what I started fighting Foo for..."

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that Dave

(note to self: this is not a prompt for me to start talking about my own complicated and often intensely painful relationship with motherhood as a trans woman)

sorry i mentioned kids ... just got me thinking of painful break-ups and how several couples I know have "suffered" or "continue to suffer" still together for the sake of the kids, and also financial issues related to kids

no worries, i know people can come at it from really different headspaces :) parenthood is a particularly fraught subject in transfem spaces. people use the fact that a lot of transition stuff leads to infertility as a pretext to invalidate our identities - which doubly hurts because a lot of trans women deeply wish we could conceive and bear children :(

people use the fact that a lot of transition stuff leads to infertility as a pretext to invalidate our identities

that sucks. Sorry for triggering that.

i mean, i get where they're coming from. reducing the entirety of a woman's gender to her reproductive capacity is obviously an essential component of empowering women through feminism!

for a long time now, maybe as far back as janice raymond in 1979, terfs have been calling trans women who have had bottom surgery "eunuchs". to do so is, of course, utterly factually incorrect. there are plenty of people who self-id as eunuchs. eunuchs are not the same thing as trans women. eunuchs are mostly male-presenting, don't identify as women, have no desire for feminizing hrt. being a eunuch is fine, but i'm fucking obviously not one. it still really got under my skin when they did that, because i didn't know any better, because transphobes weaponize public ignorance against us, that's how they're effective. i was really afraid that no matter what i did, even if i got bottom surgery, i could never be a "real" woman - at best i'd be an incomplete man (which, again, isn't how i see eunuchs now - i was more ignorant at the time).

there's so much about transphobia that is really absurd to me. bottom surgery isn't what makes me or anyone else a woman, but for transphobes to insist that i am still some variety of man when i am in fact so committed to not being a man that i've undergone an elective penectomy seems especially perverse. don't get me wrong, it's not like having it done was all that big a deal, the stupid thing isn't just worth all the fuss people make over it, not that _important, but it took a fair amount of effort on my part to get it done and the procedure caused me considerable (in retrospect highly exaggerated) anxiety beforehand.

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at this point I almost get a kick out of posting, knowing there's a likelihood that no matter how reasonable or thoughtful I'm being, you'll reveal quite how unhinged you are in response

You don’t help yourself a lot of the time with your disingenuous baiting, LJ