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anyway, good morning my lovely fedi friends, I will stop ranting now and just give you your card for today. :cate:

and the card in question just so happens to be the eight of pentacles! it feels very fitting that I pulled this card while taking a break from diligently filling in my application form for uni. there are a lot of things in life that really suck in the moment, but will benefit you once they’re finished and out of the way. life can’t be fun all the time, unfortunately :crying_cat_3:

break’s over, back to figuring out student finance stuff… (kill me) :cryingmeow:

rambling about transphobia 

ok so there are people who refuse to use they/them for others because they disagree with it politically, like they think nonbinary identities are “wrong” or signal the downfall of society or whatever so they just downright refuse to be respectful. like they’re misgendering you to make a “point”. and whilst I (obviously) disagree with that and I think it makes you a Major Asshole, I get that they are coming from their own perspective, I guess?

what I will NEVER understand however is the people who refuse to use they/them because it’s “grammatically incorrect”. like… no it isn’t? it really is as simple as that? if you live in an english-speaking country, you will use singular “they” every single day without even being aware of it. “oh no that person over there dropped their phone, quick try to get their attention so we can give it back” “I’m gonna kill whoever delivered my parcel, they literally drop-kicked it onto my fucking roof” I mean hell, even instagram notifications say “so-and-so added to their story”. I haven’t seen anybody complain that that is grammatically incorrect. because it isn’t!!!! singular they is so common!!!! and very much grammatically correct!

I feel like this second group is actually just people who want to be in the first group but are too cowardly to say their opinions outright, so they pretend that their concerns are entirely language-based — aaand they end up making no sense in the process.

(yes this is triggered by a conversation I had with someone about adira from star trek) (no I will not be humouring anyone in the replies who wants to try and act like singular “they” is somehow Against The Rules, we both know it isn’t true and I will block your ass without hesitation if you want to pretend otherwise)

@Aranya @scream
In India Ananya (not Aranya) as a girl name is very common.

@Vladimir_Vladimirovich@mastodon.social @brother
Didn't knew there was also a crusade against pagans and eastern orthodox Christians

@Vladimir_Vladimirovich@mastodon.social @brother
You read War and Peace though you didn't get it's point.

@Vladimir_Vladimirovich@mastodon.social @brother
Both sides are equal in propaganda and one should vary of both of them.
Also talking about what would have happened if something occured differently in the past is a useless philosophical jibe. History is a cake of complexity and even slightly touching the ticking of that clock changes everything beyond that. Past is gone, present is here, future is coming. Don't live with the dead, live with the living.

@brother
That poor lad is having existential crisis in that freezing water. @Vladimir_Vladimirovich@mastodon.social
Also which battle are those paintings from??

@brother @Vladimir_Vladimirovich@mastodon.social
At the end everyone will advertise their greatness and good while hiding the dark backstage.

You know this trial I have been leading since 5 years against a pedocriminal and his cult organization I was born in ?

Well, we, OKCINFO justice initiative, won the trial.

Robert Spatz aka Lama Kunzang is sentenced to a 5 years suspended sentence and financial compensation for the victim's.

The Court of Liege found Robert Spatz guilty of child sexual abuses with aggravation of authority, adepts children's abduction for his personal interest, several financial crimes, fraud and - 1/3

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