went out tonight dressed as ripley from alien. simple costume but looked good, and i already have curly hair.

he doubled down on this statement by literally saying "yeah, sure, why not?" to joe rogan. america is a joke.

you can also get soy puffs that are wonderfully chewy and spongy so they will soak up whatever you put them in.

wanna add when it comes to the brushes/combs that a wet brush through the hair while it’s soaked + conditioned in the shower is going to do an amazing job of detangling and distributing the conditioner throughout the length of each strand. this is the thing that really changed things for me wrt clumps of tangles and matting.

usually an unscented body wash (for the fall though, i’ve been using a bath and body works pumpkin cake scented body wash. the unscented soap is good for making sure there isn’t too many scents going on and i’ve been healing several tattoos at the same time currently so i just use unscented all over). a body lotion after showering can be really nice too and will last a while. secret clinical strength gel deodorant, and a little fragrance mist or perfume. in the warmer months i use a floral one, hummingbird by the zoologist (expensive indie fragrance so i just live off samples), and in the colder months, a cheap vanilla bourbon body mist from target.

it’s incredibly easy to get ~100g of protein a day in without eating a single animal product. a good amount of tofu in each meal will get you there really quickly.

the mosfilm youtube channel has almost every soviet movie with english subtitles. you can totally watch kin dza dza on there.

love and pigeons!! nice little romance movie i really like. it’s just a well made film with a lot of big name soviet actors. it also centers around the main character going on a state sponsored mandated vacation which is nice to think about in a capitalist dystopia.

i was JUST asked at a recent gathering (that had only animal products for food) if i "still eat fish" and was met with shock when i said no. do people genuinely think fish aren't living beings or something?

shredded king trumpet mushrooms will forever be the greatest option for any bbq-style sandwich

are you using the ruger factory mags or aftermarket ones? aftermarket mags seem to create problems sometimes from what ive heard. also agree with the other replies about ammo.

for right wingers these books are almost entirely for show and seldom read. having them is less about extracting knowledge from them but about the status symbol of having a trump or liz cheney or ted cruz book or showing off your opinions with these visual capsules of ideology. there isn’t anything in that book worth reading and they know that, it’s just about sending money to your favorite right wing grifter and then getting a little display piece out of it.

also the big chain bookstores are only shelving these books because they’re acceptable opinions in this fascist society. if they shelved lenin for instance i’m sure they’d get blasted by chud media for a week. many smaller independent bookstores will often have marxist stuff or, at the very least, some relatively left leaning authors.

all of that time spent trying to get an appointment for HRT and that’s all i could have done??? fuck. thanks for saying it NOW….

it's usually effective with these people because there's no argument for banning trans women from women's sports that's based in reality, its genuinely a make-believe issue.

estrogen also really weakens you! it's totally a thing. pre-transition, i was in the gym pretty frequently so i built up quite a lot of muscle mass. now i can't lift something more than like 10 pounds. even had to get a polymer stock for my rifle because it was too heavy.

if it were true that one can easily just transition and go play in the female league of a sport and immediately dominate, why aren't all of the worlds biggest and most successful athletes trans women? if experiencing a "male" puberty makes a trans woman inherently stronger than any cis woman out there, why has only one open trans woman competed in the olympics ever (where she unfortunately did not place in the top three)? if it were as easy as the right makes it sound, you'd think we'd dominate every category effortlessly but you just don't see that. the opposition to trans women in sports relies completely on a fantasy.

far-right rich NIMBY assholes are actually the vanguard of the revolution against the bourgeois homeless and you guys haven't read enough theory to understand that.

i joined under the guise of what you talked about, the "less problematic than PSL" thing. now it seems like its much too small to have any significant drama or discourse that would produce problematic takes, and also that it seems to be less centralized in general so its very chapter-dependent for problematic-ness (?). maybe it is very centralized though and i just didn't know it, they've got their cadre members that do the actual stuff and their general members that just kinda fill seats and i was only a general member despite the cadre people frequently inviting me to also become cadre but it's a massive time commitment apparently.

they dragged me in circles when i was trying to get in with them! after weeks of waiting for a response, someone says "come to our event and meet this person", the specific person isnt there but the person i asked says "come back for another and we can get you started", and hence begins the cycle of me showing up to their events but never being talked to by anybody or let in.

i was a member of my local chapter for a brief period before i learned that one of the leaders was a horrible person and the rest of the leaders were covering it up for him, so i left. thats chapter specific, but just a reminder that these problems still exist in some chapters. despite it being significantly smaller than PSL, i liked the people more. it seemed like more people actually had read theory. however it was a very white, cis, and straight group from what i could tell. there were also very few women and fem-presenting folks in general, at their social events i was one of maybe three. this did lead to a kinda dude-bro-y environment that wasn't incredibly toxic, but i just don't enjoy that kind of atmosphere myself and if you don't, be warned. their events are great though. sorry i can't say more, it was a really brief stint. there just isnt a lot to say about them in general though because they're really small. they do have some really cool members though, i met some who participated in the chicano movement of the 60s-70s.

at least in the soviet union you got an apartment with your job or given by the state