The egg discourse is so aggravating because on one side you have trans women discussing gender with other people and on the other side you have tme people completely freaking out about something that isnt happening (men being forced to be trans women) in order to silence trans women and youre supposed to take both sides seriously

Also "men are being forced to be trans women" is one of the oldest pieces of right wing propaganda against us but like we have to take that seriously? Fuck off

young artist posting your work online, heed my warning. im holding your face so gently in my hands, you have to stop caring about numbers right now and start caring about making the weirdest and most self-indulgent art you possibly can

STOP listening to the demon of capitalism and START listening to the angel of hedonism, i love you i believe in you keep making what you love forever ok?

tumblr users will see the word shrimp and black out and hit reblog without reading the rest of the post

just saw a vote blue dipshit using maoist standard english (“republikkkan”) and ive never felt so offended on behalf of maoists before

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Reblogging for the very high percentage of people here who haven't received adequate sex education. No shame--this included me until a few years ago, I've participated many times myself, and I'm a nurse.

Choking is always edgeplay (i.e very risky). There is no safe way to choke someone. Even light pressure is not safe.

There is a nerve in the neck whose function is to lower heart rate. If you accidentally stimulate this nerve, it's possible to lower the heart rate to zero very quickly. This can result in sudden cardiac death in seconds. Sometimes symptoms can be minimal and they unfortunately also mimic the symptoms of low oxygenation, which are the sensations you're trying to provoke.

Also, if your partner has cholesterol buildup in the major artery leading to the brain--which there is no way to know except an angiogram--small chunks of cholesterol can break off, travel to the brain, and result in stroke. This too can initially cause minor symptoms the partner may not notice until it's too late to reverse the process.

Breathplay is no kidding my very favorite kink in the world, and I hated giving it up, but please think very, very seriously. This is a Risk Aware Consensual Kink activity, not a safe, sane, consensual one.

Adding my knowledge from the domestic violence realm, because this is a really big deal:

Having your partner wrap their hands around your throat (strangulation) is both imminently dangerous, potentially dangerous for days afterward, and unless it's something you've specifically asked them to do to you, can be a huge warning sign that you should be worried about their willingness to use violence against you.

A lot of people think the big issue is that strangulation compresses the trachea and hinders breathing. That's a thing, but what's even more dangerous is the compression of the blood vessels in your neck, which can directly cut off blood flow to your brain.

Even after the strangulation is over, there are potential lasting effects—brain damage, memory loss, and confusion, which often make strangulation victims very poor reporters of their own level of injury, which means that if, say, police show up following a fight, the victim might honestly say that they don't think they were hurt very much and they feel fine.

About half the time they will have very small visible symptoms, like bruises on their neck, a raspiness to their voice, very small red specks on the skin of their neck or face, or burst vessels in their eyes. Half the time they won't.

Which is not always a great way to tell which of them, in the days afterwards, will have a blood clot travel into their brain and cause a stroke, or will experience seizures and memory issues over the next several months or years. Those things might not be spotted without specialized medical attention and tests. If you've ever been strangled, tell a doctor; it may still be putting you at medical risk.

And aside from the medical risks, there are indicators that someone who has survived being strangled by an intimate partner is at a much higher risk of being a homicide victim. That basically, the willingness to strangle as an act of aggression can signal that they are more willing and able to actually kill you.

Yep. Strangulation is the #1 lethality indicator in an abusive relationship. People who report being strangled by their partners are 11X more likely to murdered than people who do not. That's because once an abusive person feels comfortable doing this behavior, they'll keep doing it but the damage is cumulative. The risk is not stable. The risk gets higher every time.

People often think that they must be strangled to unconsciousness for it to be dangerous, but any amount of grabbing or pressure applied to the neck or throat carries these vascular and neurological risks. That's why I want to highlight the language @star-anise is using again: It's any amount of having someone wrap their hands around your throat that carries these risks. It's any amount of pressure applied to the throat or neck with any object.

So back to a kink context: Being fully Risk Aware about breathplay means understanding that not only are there short and long term risks, but also that the risk carries over and builds up each time you do it.

wsb is so fucking funny actually

the mental image of this guy selling stock as the plane is depressurising around him is irresistible to me

I don't think this would be illegal. Insider trading requires nonpublic knowledge from inside the company. Airplane door blowing off? Not nonpublic, not insider knowledge. You're just fast.

Correct. You're not an insider to the company although you are (and hopefully remain) an insider to the plane, and you're not receiving any material non-public info as plane crashes are VERY public events. You're in the clear for buying puts while your plane goes down. I'm sure your next of kin will appreciate your priorities.

This guy is selling stock as the plane is plummeting out of the air at terminal velocity, while the person next to him is leaving a scathing 1 star review. The person behind them is doing a pov tiktok calling out the company. Boeing is fucking finished

if someone brought karl marx back to life the first thing I would do is have a shopping montage to get him modern outfits where I shake my head yes or no to the outfits he picks out but then after that we'd get down to serious business

London mutuals what is there to do that’s cheap and not alcohol based?

bongs at croydon

there’s a bloke at clappham common who will suck your dick for £4.50 hell even play with your balls for an extra quid

I have 0 desire to meet you let alone give you money

£3.50?

reading the news

tumblr communist: *sees two things together* wow dialectical

tumblr communist (this one’s maoist): wow a contradiction

tumblr communist (this one’s anarchist): wow, two

I'm sorry to the like half of this site's political userbase but sooner rather than later you're going to have to step away from tv shows, fanfics, fiction and flawed instinct as sources for a theoretical basis. You can't properly talk about, say, the Cuban revolution without first understanding the ideological and practical context that informed the decisions of the communist party of Cuba (that means reading Marx, Lenin, a communist work on colonialism such as Eduardo Galeno's Open Veins, historiography and statistics on the events preceding and succeeding the revolution that isn't written with ink and paper paid for by the CIA). The Hunger Games, Les Mis and Hamilton aren't substitutes because 1: they aren't real and anything can happen in fiction 2: they haven't influenced any real life revolutionary movements and 3: they are literary works made for enjoyment, not a political analysis.

I know the "kindness is revolutionary" pseudopunk eat the rich one big union type of person thinks pure political theory is elitist and/or boring because why engage with the source material yourself when Abigail Thorn, Jacob Geller and Vaush are right there to tell you what they thought of the source material (which is still political theory in most cases, unless it isn't, but how would you be able to tell?) so you can absorb it like a baby bird unable to chew their own food. Nobody who has both read the theory and applied it irl is ever going to take you seriously if all you can do is regurgitate what your vaguely progressive history or social studies high school teacher told you about decolonization.

"Fidel Castro should've read 1984, played stardew valley and joined his local soup kitchen" <- this is what the people im talking about sound like

Neil!!!

No Middle Eastern country has attacked Israel since Iraq did in 1991. That Iran has seemingly now initiated a drone assault represents a radical shift, one that the Israeli ruling class has earned through its wild, genocidal transgressions against both Palestinians and against any countries seen to be supportive of them.

me: *sitting pleasantly on park bench eating my scraps*

lush employee: hi! how are you ☺️ couldn't help but notice you are sitting eating your scraps

me warily: yes

lush employee: that's so cool! and you foraged those yourself?

me, drawing my scraps into my pockets: yeah

lush employee: awesome! well if you need any help I'll be right over there honey

me: *gets up to leave because I no longer feel safe and my scraps might be stolen from me*

awesome ‼️