Babs

Snapped at a coworker cause she wouldn't stop making "all straight men dating trans girls are actually eggs living vicariously" jokes :(.

But it's one of the most leftist cities in America!

We have the best anarchists here, because Hexbear has a certain culture to it that makes our anarchists very acceptable to our marxist majority. Irl anarchists can be a mixed bag. Maybe because it's more common for unread radlibs to call themselves anarchists rather than communists?

Queerplatonic sounds like it might be kinda what I'm going for here? This feels like a hard concept for me to express and I wish I had more aro/ace friends to talk about this stuff with.

Kinda miss my shiny friend. We would lay on her couch and cuddle and watch ghost tv shows. She'd believe it wholeheartedly, I'd crack jokes. Sometimes we would kiss a bit, then I'd go home and we'd go back to spending time with our partners. It was nice, but then she wanted a "girlfriend" and everything that goes with that so I had to stop hanging out with her :(.

Being trans and bi has really upended a lot of my conceptions about relationships. Even being monogamous is kinda weird to me - I mostly do it because I love my partner and consider "no sex with other people" a fair tradeoff, especially since he's okay with me sharing other sorts of affection.

I haven't read any Kollontai, but her name rings a bell. Any recommendations?

I've been meaning to make a post about her ideas of "love-comradeship" for a while.

Very interested in this.

Normalize holding hands and cuddling with platonic friends.

I just want someone I can do cute date stuff without sex or romance attached. I had a "shiny friend" for a while, but she wanted more and I already have a partner. Why not a bestie that I can be affectionate with in a safe way?

Weed is really cheap here. I used to get 10-packs of half gram joints for 20bux, 1 gram singles are closer to $5-6. I might spend $10 if it's really good or I'm out of town.

Some student loans did get relief - people who signed up for the public service loan forgiveness program 10 years ago. Biden people are celebrating that deal that was made back in 2007 under an entirely different, Republican administration.

(it didn't, and student loan repayments have started again)

Houthi attacks in Red Sea delay arrival of critical Yad Sarah medical equipment

https://www.timesofisrael.com/houthi-attacks-in-red-sea-delay-arrival-of-critical-yad-sarah-medical-equipment/

Yad Sarah, one of Israel’s largest non-profit charitable groups, warned on Sunday that the disruption of shipping in the Red Sea, caused by assaults by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants, is causing delays in the delivery of critical medical equipment and could lead to severe shortages, as Israel is almost four months into war with the Hamas terror group.

Almost felt a twinge of sympathy, but then

Since the outbreak of the Hamas war, Yad Sarah, one of the country’s largest medical aid volunteer organizations, has already supplied an entire year’s worth of “critical medical and rehabilitation equipment,” to soldiers and civilians, Cohen said.

Get fucked. I hope that your need for emergency supplies increases and is never fulfilled.

The attacks are working.

I'm clearly too burger-brained about this and forgot that not everyone has readily accessible firearms to defend themselves against recruiters.

It would be a very dangerous job in America.