How many times have you stabbed yourself? Or is that a mistake you only make once?

Some people have just seen the “another republican known for actively harming LGBT+ folks revealed as closeted self-loathing asshole” cliche so many times that it’s a go-to comment for that specific type of person.

I hear what you’re saying, but assuming these men (and it’s almost always men, I rarely hear homophobic women get called lesbians) are gay and not just straight homophobes is itself homophobic, because it places the blame for homophobia on queer people. As if the decision to be closeted happens in a vacuum, or as if the majority of closeted people are homophobic and don’t want to be out.

It’s nothing more than confirmation bias; the straight Republican bigots are unremarkable to most people, so they don’t remember them.

Agreed, and I think Gordon Ramsay is an excellent choice for this meme, because he engages in the exact kind of behavior that people are celebrating with this meme: flinging verbal abuse at people who are ‘doing it wrong’ and overall out-group bullying.

Wanting to scream at people for using or complaining about Windows is peak “touch grass.”

If someone hasn’t asked “what can I use instead of Windows?” then “use Linux” is unsolicited advice. If you absolutely can’t stop yourself from suggesting Linux every time someone wants to complain about using Windows—something they might not even have a choice in, if their job requires it—at least suggest something useful for their Windows problem. Some jackass rolling by when you have a flat tire and saying “you should have taken the bus” isn’t offering helpful information, they’re being an asshole.

Yeah, this kind of stuff makes me not want to admit to using Linux in public. Let’s not mistake hating Windows for a personality.

It’s a mostly joking labeler I subscribe to that tags everyone that way if they signed up for Bluesky while it was still invite-only. Nobody tagged with it has opted in to it, I just see it because I’m subscribed to the labeler

Later after not doing my shot: why do I feel so tired and shitty?? It must be literally anything else!

I’m not really familiar with them, this just rolled across my feed. That’s good to know though

This (clarification: my post) was specifically in response to a post about Mike Johnson that called him a creepy dude with incest vibes for involving his daughter in a purity ball (fair), and immediately went on to talk about how he must have a Grindr account and love cock?? Absolutely no reasonable connection, just straight up ‘guy I hate = degenerate, degenerate = gay’ ideology. I see it on fedi an unfortunate amount, and people are defensive as hell about how ‘it’s not actually homophobia!!’ to say shit like that.

What I do see frequently, however, is people saying that some dude must be a repressed gay man because they’re defending some point about sexuality that is so extremist and outrageous

I reject the premise that there aren’t numerically more fucked up repressed straight people than gay ones. Defaulting to ‘this dude is a sexual weirdo, must be gay’ is also homophobia.

True, but saturated fat is probably better for you than lead!

Buckle down next time: 10 minutes of studying followed by a 100 hour gaming break 💪

So glad we’re out of the obligatory mustache era.

Thank you for being open to looking at the evidence!

I have no idea who told you that, but they made it up. The FDA’s recommended daily limit for dietary lead is 8.8 micrograms. A single serving of one protein powder examined by Consumer Reports had 7.7 micrograms of lead, almost the maximum recommended amount, which doesn’t even include other sources of lead in your diet.

Consumer Reports has solid evidence and reasoning in their report. Lead is bad for you. Don’t eat things full of lead.

And I just checked the carrots in my fridge: no lead warning on them.

Given how much lead is in protein supplements, it’s probably better for you than a protein bar!

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/raccoons-feeding-urban-wildlife-dangerous

Even if you think raccoons are cute, feeding them is not

While it may seem like you’re helping, feeding wild raccoons may be ensuring their untimely deaths, experts say.

Raccoons that become reliant on human food are more likely to spread disease, get hit by cars, and die when the deliveries end.

It’s great that people want to have a connection with raccoons,” says Jeannine Fleegle, a wildlife biologist with the Pennsylvania Game Commission. “I so get that. I so understand that. But there are problems.”

For starters, feeding wildlife can quickly lead to habituation, or what scientists call it when animals start to become a little too cozy with people. And while the people doing the feeding may interpret the animal’s tame behavior with affection, that can quickly turn to violence.

“You may be okay with that raccoon, but your neighbor may not be, and raccoons don’t know the difference. They’re just going to associate people with food, and that’s a bad thing,” says Fleegle. “They can become aggressive, especially with a small person or a child. They can get aggressive with pets.”

“Raccoons have a lot of diseases that we can get, and so can our pets,” says Fleegle. “The big one, of course, is rabies. Rabies is a killer… but there’s also parvovirus. There’s distemper. There’s roundworm. There’s leptospirosis. I mean, I could go on and on.”

People and their pets aren’t the only ones at risk, either. When humans feed wildlife, it encourages animals to congregate in higher numbers than they would do so in nature. And this makes it more likely that the animals will spread infectious diseases to each other.

“Fighting can lead to injuries. These situations are stressful to the animals whether we think so or not. And stress suppresses the immune system, opening the door for illness that might not have otherwise been an issue.”

Please do not give the raccoons a reason to wake you up like this every morning.

I think RFK Jr and all Trump party officials should follow this advice to the letter.

Yeah they just kinda fucked us up. Not only does it make kids less likely to develop resilience to challenges when you single them out and praise them for being ‘smart,’ it ties their self worth to being ‘smart’ and doing things easily. Kids who are praised for their hard work and effort, on the other hand, tend to do better long term because they internalize what is valuable about them isn’t immediately understanding things or having it come easily, but the persistence to do it even when it’s not easy.

Every day I want to live more like this:

I grew up in the Bible Belt and churches in my hometown would put up homophobic messages on those outdoor notice boards that you see as you drive by. Not every single one, but not none of them, either. This was going on until the late 2000s at least, I’ve heard it’s marginally improved.