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https://twitter.com/SharpFootball/status/1614481840764493826
LMAO.

The Chargers Charger'd so hard the Jaguars won.

Harley Quinn
Euphoria just...take it slow. It's as brutal as it is beautiful
Venture Bros.
Adventure Time (follow up with Distant Lands)
Steven Universe (follow up The Movie and then with Future)
Kimmi
Ex Machina

It has lots of quality Cartoon Network/Adult Swim stuff as well as a shitload of Studio Ghibli and plenty of movies and shows.

Bandaids are way less scary after 18 months of HRT.

Used to need to bite down on something to peel one off before jk

Its already hard to get, hard to keep, and has a lifetime limit of two years lol why do you hate poor people so much? No demographic works harder for less!

Communication and practice. Check in with her: shes probably very well-acquainted with her body and what works and doesnt. A lot of women need more than vaginal stimulation to get off. Dont be afraid to get up close and personal, and never neglect her clitoris.

Well, I'm not the worst CEman. But I'm definitely a bottom-of-the-barrel CEgal!

Caroline "Uncle Carol" Rose - Feel The Way I Want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3EwDk1zY6g

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/federal-appeals-court-upholds-connecticuts-transgender-athlete-policy/2938175/

A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a challenge to Connecticuts policy of allowing transgender girls to compete in girls' high school sports, rejecting arguments by four cisgender runners who said they were unfairly forced to race against transgender athletes.
A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City upheld a lower court judges dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the policy. The panel said the four cisgender athletes lacked standing to sue - in part because their claims that they were deprived of wins, state titles and athletic scholarship opportunities were speculative.
All four Plaintiffs regularly competed at state track championships as high school athletes, where Plaintiffs had the opportunity to compete for state titles in different events, the decision said. And, on numerous occasions, Plaintiffs were indeed champions, finishing first in various events, even sometimes when competing against (transgender athletes).
The judges added, Plaintiffs simply have not been deprived of a chance to be champions.
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Council argued its policy is designed to comply with a state law that requires all high school students be treated according to their gender identity. It also said the policy is in accordance with Title IX, the federal law that allows girls equal educational opportunities, including in athletics.

Todays ruling is a critical victory for fairness, equality, and inclusion. Joshua Block, a lawyer for the ACLUs LGBTQ & HIV Project, said in a statement. This critical victory strikes at the heart of political attacks against transgender youth while helping ensure every young person has the right to play.
Transgender athletes ability to compete in sports is the subject of a continuing national debate. At least 12 Republican-led states have passed laws banning transgender women or girls in sports based on the premise it gives them an unfair competitive advantage.
Transgender rights advocates counter such laws arent just about sports, but another way to demean and attack transgender youth.
Roger Brooks, a lawyer from the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom who represented the four Connecticut cisgender athletes, did not immediately return a message seeking comment Friday. A message also was left for the alliance.
The plaintiffs argued the rights of cisgender girls under Title IX are being violated in Connecticut by being forced to compete against what they term biological males. They sought injunctions to bar enforcement of the state policy on transgender athletes and to remove records set by transgender athletes from the books, as well as money damages.
In arguments before a federal judge in Connecticut in February 2021, Brooks said Title IX guarantees girls equal quality of competition, which he said is denied by having to race people with what he described as inherent physiological advantages.
Brooks said the transgender sprinters improperly won 15 championship races between 2017 and 2020 and cost cisgender girls the opportunity to advance to other races 85 times.
Miller and Yearwood, the transgender sprinters from Bloomfield and Cromwell, respectively, frequently outperformed their cisgender competitors.
The plaintiffs competed directly against them, almost always losing to Miller and usually finishing behind Yearwood. One of the plaintiffs, Chelsea Mitchell of Canton High School, finished third in the 2019 state championship in the girl's 55-meter indoor track competition behind Miller and Yearwood.
All the athletes have since graduated from high school.

It's weird how no actual trans female athlete is absurdly dominant. Of course, this is high school athletics in Connecticut: not exactly lofty heights LOL.
It's almost like those studies aren't very good. But, of course, if we lived in a world where trans women were allowed to compete freely in women's sports, we would also live in a world where any "advantage" they might gain from masculinizing puberty will rarely ever actually be gained because we would get them appropriate treatment early and often.

You do all know that changing your hormonal balance completely altering your body mass, right? Right!?
Also I have a way lower testosterone level than just about any cis woman.

Zikten posted...

Rick and Morty die, and show is renamed Jerry & Summer

Nah, give us a Beth-focused show. Just Space Beth and Earth Beth going on crazy adventures with Summer tagging along sometimes and having really weird sex at Jerry's discretion.

Questionmarktarius posted...

...for womens sports?

Yeah, this is especially funny because our society literally could not care less about women's sports unless a trans woman happens to have any success at all in them, then preserving their sanctity and fairness is suddenly of paramount importance.

I always like to point out that all this senseless outrage is stirred up against approximately 0.6% of the U.S. population. A vanishingly tiny number of that vanishingly tiny minority competes in sports at any level. Lia Thomas is possibly the most successful trans athlete ever, and she ate shit in 2 out of 3 of her events at the national collegiate level.

Trans people are by their nature outliers, as are elite athletes.

Yeah, itll suck if the series gets cancelled because of this.
But it would suck worse if there are no real consequences.

ElleRagu posted...

so let trans girls/women start transitioning before puberty

that way there's no male puberty messing shit up

Which will never happen as long as trans people are socially ostracized, systemically deplatformed, and banned from participating in basic aspects of society.

Its literally the same fucking issue.

Several reasons:

1) Trans people are systemically marginalized and deplatformed, and have long been pathologized by cis people. There is a marked preference for cis accounts of transness in the media, and a lack of appreciation for the trans experience and how radically different it is in general.

2) Trans women, specifically, are a lethal challenge to the idea of the supremacy of masculinity. It is treated as a fact that men are masculine and men are superior to women, and thus a "man" who presents herself as a woman must, of course, be engaged in some kind of deception or otherwise be a degenerate. This social pathology is the root of so-called "trans panic" defenses and was and still is a common trope with regards to trans women in media: our femininity is nearly always presented as either a deception or as inauthentic (or both).

3) With regards to sports, people who argue that, say, Lia Thomas competing with other women is inherently unfair are leaning on the idea that Lia (and all trans women) are essentially masculine and thus men, and thereby naturally superior. No evidence is needed to back up this assertion: the fact that Lia struggled in two of her three events at national competitions against female athletes (or the fact that she was an excellent swimmer pre-transition) don't matter. And, actually, it's quite useful to discuss specific examples, because the number of prominent trans athletes is essentially nil. Also Lia would probably get dumpstered at the Olympics, if they hadn't specifically banned her. Katie Ledecky's record-time in the 500m (Lia's best event and the one she placed first in and set a collegiate record in) is almost 10 seconds faster. Oddly, no one is suggesting Katie has an unfair advantage over her competitors.

4) Cis society doesn't understand how powerful and effective HRT actually is: even many endocrinologists (i.e. the people prescribing hormones) don't! Essentially 99% of what makes some one male or female is down to easily-manipulable hormone levels - which puts a fatal lie to the idea that sex and/or gender is some essential, immutable thing and that men and women are really much different at all.

Just once, years ago. It was getting towards closing time at work, and like four or five goth people came in, including this gorgeous lady dressed to the nines in gothic finery, including black fishnets (a particular weakness of mine) and dramatic makeup (in what I now understand as high femme.) Blonde, petite, totally gorgeous.and then I realized I knew her: it was the cake decorator!

And then I realized she was glaring at me. Im pretty sure I blushed and I *may* have audibly yelped. This was in the before time.

Anyway, she didnt seem to hold it against me. I would chat her up from time to time. I was in charge of glove distribution in mornings and would always ask the Bakery kitchen if they needed anything (a lot of people forgot them lol) and she would horde medium gloves.

She quit, along with her assistant team leader BFF, about a year before I transferred over there. Apparently the ATL let her get away with anything and everything and they both had a melty when the Team Leader found out and resolved to take corrective action. (Aforementioned TL is now my boss and is just the sweetest person).

PS - I told the first half of that story to an old friend I used to crush upon hard, and she listened thoughtfully and replied, Oh yeah, their outfits are so intricate! Never occurred to her there would be another component to being completely spellbound by a goth girl. So its def for the best that we ended up just friends.

Are you like a chupacabra?

Time kind of doesnt exist, but you almost certainly cant violate causation so fundamentally as turning back what we perceive as time. Its highly problematic for your Time Machine(TM) to be in a time prior to its own existence, and ditto for you. And, if you could, there would be an endless number of awful paradoxes created even if you didnt do anything.
But God forbid you actually do something. Theres tons of sci-fi that explores the insane ramifications of that.

Going forward seems perfectly doable, as insane hypotheticals go.

My character was a decker, so Blitz was permanently benched LOL. I just can't resist those rogue archetypes in these games...
Dietrich was a fucking rad character, I wish he were real. And Glory's backstory was some heavy shit, damn.

He's going to run unless his health fails.

jumi posted...
Nobody wants Kamala. They'd be better off promoting Pete as his successor.

Belladonna or hemlock.

I fucking love Dragonfall. Just a fantastic game from start to finish. I especially like how your crew really does feel like this ragtag bunch of cast-offs with some obvious deficiencies that you have plan around - either via altering your tactics or spending some creds.
I just love the atmosphere most of all. You come back to work with Monica on what's supposed to be a milk run, she dies a horrible death after managing to choke out the name of a dead dragon, so you track down the employer and he's dead the same damned way, and now you have to figure out what the fuck while also being a grief councilor. The music sets the mood perfectly.

Naturally my PC was a former protege/lover of Monica's, because I can't resist being a lesbian at every opportunity lol.

https://www.theloadout.com/bloodlines-2/developer-the-chinese-room

Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 has been lurking in the shadows for almost two years now ever since Hardsuit Labs was removed from the project. But, now it appears that the new developer of Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 is little British indie studio The Chinese Room.
Spotted by Ros96 on Reddit, an interview posted on The Chinese Rooms YouTube channel shows some monitors at the two-minute mark with a menu that looks almost identical to what we saw in gameplay back in 2019. The purple colour scheme and moody streets also fit the gothic Seattle that the game was set in.
While this isnt confirmation, The Chinese Room has been hiring extensively over the last year and is still hiring, including for a triple-A project in Unreal Engine 4. A post for a Game Director, which can be seen via an internet archive, listed the role as being suitable for someone with a background as a Lead Game Designer and experience of and interest in relevant genres such as first-person games, narrative, action-adventure, RPG, horror. That sounds a lot like the boxes Bloodlines 2 fits into as a first-person RPG.

If The Chinese Room is working on the game, which at this point seems more than likely, this will by far be the studios biggest project to date, having worked on smaller titles like Everybodys Gone To The Rapture and Little Orpheus. It will also be the first time the studio has ventured into the RPG genre.
However, reactions on Reddit suggest fans are cautious, especially since there are now almost two decades worth of expectations. Questions are also being raised about whether The Chinese Room will be able to handle a RPG of this scale with an title as big as Vampire The Masquerade, as highlighted by old Bloodlines 2 screenshots.
Weve contacted Paradox for a comment on the rumours. That release might be soon according to Paradox Interactives CEO Fredrik Wester.

TL;DR It might be Indie UK developer The Chinese Room, developer of such games as Dear Esther and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs.

Caroline Rose - Do You Think We'll Last Forever?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFImka6XdVU

Patience, open-mindedness, kindness, respect for boundaries, honesty, tact, and the willingness to cast a wide net. It helps if you're social and using dating sites.
And having something to bring to the table, so to speak.

https://ruinmyweek.com/tweets/twitter-what-men-dont-know-about-women/
Here, this a small amount of useful info.

Just call me a slur, you know ya'll want to.

Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/nynurses/status/1613489227291033601

Solidarity gets the goods

Fuck yeah! A happy resolution for nurses and patients alike.

Trump or Biden could have, at any point, revoked the patents and made the vaccines mass producable by anyone.
But, of course, they put pharmaceutical profits ahead of public and global health.

That's horrible and devastating. I'm sorry TC. There's going to be a lot of grief, but all any of you can do is make sure whatever time your niece has left is as good as possible, under the circumstances.

Euphoria will rip you apart, and make you love every terrible moment.

Boy clothes are boring.

The porn industry just needs to embrace trans men with giant strap-ons. And trans men in general really, theyre cool dudes generally.

Cis men are meant to identify with the dude in straight porn - this is made obvious by the common use of POV from the dude's perspective.

I, uhhh....could never get into straight porn.

Just call me a slur, it would be more honest.

The Lions dine on knee caps tonight!

If she was buying a lot of high-quality stuff, that makes sense.

I started from scratch and spent $120, but it was all lower-end stuff, and generally just one of each thing.

Look forward to murdering the Dolphins in cold blood on the way to our inevitable playoff loss at Arrowh-...errr, neutral site TBD.

She's fascinating and mesmerizing to this day, IMO.

But she was definitely cuter when she was younger, I'll agree to that.

Fin_Dawg_004 posted...

Lula tweeted

https://twitter.com/LulaOficial/status/1612191803901444098

Translation:

You must have followed the barbarism in Brasilia today. Those people we call fascists, the most abominable thing in politics, invaded the palace and Congress. We think there was a lack of security.
Whoever did this will be found and punished. Democracy guarantees the right to free expression, but it also requires people to respect institutions. There is no precedent in the history of the country what they did today. For that they must be punished
And we are going to find out who are the financiers of those who went to Brasilia today, and they will all pay with the force of law.

Lula not mincing words. Democrats should take notes.

NoxObscuras posted...

Doesn't matter. It explicitly bans the drawing of images of any living creature. Hence, most Muslims avoid visual depictions of Muhammad or any other prophet such as Moses or Abraham.

There were multiple schools of Islam which eschewed iconoclasm - undoubtedly the art history professor was showing a historical representation of Muhammad made by an Islamic artist. (such depictions were common in the Mughal Empire, IIRC).

However, weak-willed centrists are terrified of making the right angry, whether it's Christian fundamentalists or Islamic fundamentalists.

3 years and 3 months since their last kickoff return TD.

I'm definitely intrigued and will get it once my financial situation allows (soon).

Hayame_Zero posted...

Focusing on her mental health is important, and everyone knows she's a mess, but the Free Britney movement was still necessary because there was no justification for her to be in the position she was in.

I mean, the conservatorship was a decade plus worth of trauma. Poor woman literally broke down crying in a restaurant because she wasn't allowed to just go out and spend a bit of her vast fortune and the ability to do that just felt so liberating. She clearly holds a deep bitterness and rage in heart at the people who abused and exploited her (and still seek to profit off of her while trashing her in the media), but it's kind of insane and patronizing to be making value judgements on someone's mental health based upon an Instagram that's mostly reels of her dancing and barely-censored nudity (she's in amazing shape and she should be proud of that). None of this would have happened or would be happening if she were a man.

Doe posted...

IDK, like, she's the defendant AGAIN. I didn't care for that. But far worse is how she is used in Dhurke's plot to manipulate his foster son after his death. The cave-in scene is presented as Dhurke looking out for Apollo, but he's actually risking Maya's body in that scene! Not to mention the bonkers writing oversight that this wasn't even the first time Apollo was endangered by Dhurke not teaching him how to swim, since we later learn he allowed Apollo to play unattended by river rapids. Oops, I am lapsing into dissertation...

That's Maya trying to do some one a solid, because Maya is super nice. Unfortunately, that "some one" is Dhurke, who is by far one of the worst new characters. He just sucks. Zak Gramarye is a better father lol.

Maya finally coming back was great though? She's this weird ass lady who is more mature in some ways, but still the same goofball at heart.
Sahdmahdi is a Klavier-tier prosecutor though, I agree, and a lot of the execution and extra fluff leaves a lot to be desired. Athena gets done dirty, again.
AA5 has a waaaaay better treatment of Apollo and it will never not be weird to me they shoehorned an entire new wrinkle into Apollo's story and just...completely dropped everything AA4 revealed.
What kind of monster doesn't crack up at Tahrust Inmi and Belieb Inmi though?

If they make AA7, I hope they casually reveal that Gumshoe is police commissioner yet somehow still broke AF.
Or let him be rich and wearing a bunch of tacky, ridiculous shit.

Boromir is tempted so sorely by the Ring because he knows first-hand how desperate Gondor's situation has become, and he wants nothing more than to save his people. It's that desperation that makes it relatively easier for the Ring to sink its hooks into him, but the desire itself is an unquestionably noble one, as is Boromir's end.

Oh, we pick up the tab, of course.