The only people who are having an easier time getting gender-affirming care.

How would you even go about turning a huge bar of gold into cash anyways?

Not using :wq! because consent is important

I feel like given the usual experience of uninitiated players with that coffin we need to acknowledge the bearer of the curse as canonically trans.

I agree that this is more plausible, but it’s still almost as baffling, since it suggests that the existence of some people who can afford a (hypothetical) bed-making robot implies the nonexistence of people who can’t. Like, at least Ovacado toast in a cafe was a vaguely affordable luxury that someone could conceivably stretch their means to occasionally purchase. This is more like “all you need to do to stop being poor is cut back on having your chauffer paint himself in gold leaf to match your limo”.

Sneeze into a jar

Mark my words, the terminal uncoolness that led the UK to not have a flag worth airbrushing on the side of a van is the same uncoolness that led to the modern condition of TERF island.

Right? Easy to overstate the value of it as we see now, but it sure was nice being a demographic worth pandering to, especially when that meant that the homophobes weren’t worth appeasing.

Hell, the inscrutable words used to be things like “queer” or “lesbian”.

What I’m saying is that in like 20 years we’re going to hear about the actual emperor’s (of where? Who knows. Probably like Michigan) preferred danmei series and we’re going to like it.

If they’re not trans then why is the demon Baalthorok sitting at the booth behind them? Also does anyone have Baalthorok’s number I need to talk to them for reasons.

This is not what we meant by gay communism.

Secretly?

My town’s pride event was this weekend. Regrettably the heat and social anxiety in my family won out over heading down there but even so please know that I did remember this exchange. You are still seen and recognized and valid, at least in whatever small ways a stranger on Lemmy can offer.

Stay safe out there.

For anyone else who was curious about the religious context, Luke 15 is about how much God loves repentance, featuring most famously the parable of the Prodigal Son.

You know, some cities (at least one because I live here) delay their local pride celebration until July to avoid competing with larger cities in the local metro area. Don’t get too comfortable if you want to avoid being seen and celebrated, is what I’m saying.

Also, I showed this to my wife since we’re all going through it, and she points out that that burger looks like it knows what an Atari is.

This may be true in the general case, but if you consider that my depression and anxiety make me vaguely megalomaniacal you would understand that I am different and uniquely terrible for having literally any problems ever.

My wife keeps lamenting that we haven’t found ways to help pet rats live as long as cats but I don’t think this is what she had in mind.

Maybe my experiences are unusual, but I’ve seen more harassment and general shittiness from other commuters than I ever have from homeless people camping nearby. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but I feel like we’re back to the problem of harassment and violence already being illegal. Going back to the immediate question here, removing the benches doesn’t make harassment or assholery any more difficult or more consequential.

I mean it seems like a lot of that could be avoided by, for example, keeping the goddamn bathrooms open (or making there be public bathrooms). Drugs are already illegal. The station is still a roof over your head, making it preferable to the street whether or not there are benches.

Ironically it seems like the most direct harm done by homeless people sleeping on the benches is that those benches aren’t usable by commuters who may need to rest. And this certainly makes that problem go away, I guess. Wouldn’t exactly call it solved.