ConcernedApe 🥰

e.g. for cheating, or maybe not paying tuition & fees, or some kind of misconduct or policy violation, etc.

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good point

the basketball version of the shitty crop is better imo (maybe because “my boobs hurt” is lost as context)

EDIT: but between the original and “boobs hurt” version, I choose the latter

oh nice, I’ll have to find that so I can actually use the app, lol

is voyager limited to lemm.ee? like, you can’t set it up to use a different instance?

yes:

haha, I’ve never groked that he’s queer coded - but he does sorta have that closeted / repressed gay vibe, at least that sense that he’s massively insecure in his masculinity, the camp and kitsch of his style, etc.

por que no los dos?

these are connected ideas, harder to non-exist a Nazi when they’re not open about being a Nazi

this ties into a claim ContraPoints makes about the reasons people become conspiracy theorists, around 2 hours 26 minutes into her CONSPIRACY video she talks about “revenged humiliation” as a psychological reason - basically there are a lot of instances of people who became conspiracy theorists after an instance of intense public humiliation (she cites the guy who came up with the “space reptilians run the government”, Naomi Wolf the ex-feminist turned Steve Bannon co-host and anti-vaxxer, and Candace Owens the ex-anti-racist activist turned famed conservative and alt-right activist.

Just interesting to see another clear example out in the wild.

I suspect it’s possible JK Rowling’s descent into her anti-trans obsession arguably was fueled by humiliation (the first time she got flak was in 2018 when she liked a transphobic tweet which she claims the like was a mistake, a slip of the finger when she was trying to screenshot the tweet for later; she wrote and published her essay defending her transphobia a few days after Daniel Radcliffe publicly decried JK’s transphobia and affirmed trans identity in June 2020).

I prefer the enemies out themselves.

holy shit

this makes me want an agar PB&J, but it better be thick - like I’m taking bites out of a flat, soft PB&J gummy worm

there are coping strategies you can use - I’m also very scared of needles too, I have medical trauma related to them and I nearly pass out when I get blood drawn.

Some of my strategies involve heavily distracting myself, like carefully concentrating on reading some text so that my attention is absorbed in that task and I can’t think or feel anything else.

Also, exposure therapy can be helpful - absolute avoidance can make the fear worse, and being able to create positive or neutral experiences with needles can help reduce the fear.

https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/4chan-the-internets-most-infamous-forum-is-down-following-an-alleged-hack-142516392.html

According to screenshots shared on Imgur, it appears a hacker gained shell access to 4chan’s hosting server. They then went on to post images of the site’s phpmyadmin page, and appear to have doxed the entire moderation team alongside many of the site’s registered users. While it seems some users took steps to protect their identities, many appear to have used their primary email address to register for the forum, with .edu and even .gov addresses reportedly appearing in the list leaked emails.

It’s unclear what this means for the future of 4chan, but some social media and Reddit users are speculating this could be the end of the internet’s most infamous forum. In addition to doxing much of 4chan’s userbase, the hacker also appears to have leaked the site’s source code, revealing security holes that have existed since around the time Hiroyuki Nishimura bought the forum from creator Christoper Poole. It may take months to rebuild a more secure version of 4chan.

If this is the end of 4chan, it would be the most significant de-platforming of extreme right-wing internet users since Kiwi Farms temporarily went down in 2022.

OK, I looked it up:

The definition of “boykisser” is basically what you think it means: someone who likes kissing boys. It’s used mostly by LGBTQ+ meme people as a way to both make fun of and support their friends who like kissing men.

yeah, I think this boykisser meme is more common in the femboy, gay, and transfem egg / early transition / pre-transition community

probably stems from the homophobic climate, that boys shouldn’t kiss boys - so it leans into the taboo while affirming it subversively (the meme implies boykissing is shameful, while playfully implying it’s a good thing).

I have a hard time seeing this meme applied to straight people, i.e. implying women or girls are the boykissers (and the application to trans women seems to be more for trans women who are still treated as boys by society, for whom it’s still subversive to kiss boys - though it is obviously straight for a trans woman to kiss a boy, that’s not how it might commonly be viewed).

Though maybe applying this meme to straight women would be an ironic status-quo defending subversion of the meme, so I wouldn’t rule it out 😆 If conservatives were creative and had better meme-game maybe they would have exploited it that way 🙃

oh, so using boykisser soap makes you a boykisser? I think it sorta makes sense (is being a boykisser bad, is this targeted towards boys?)

I don’t get it 😭