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Oh, and consider this an open thread.

I bring scenes of composure, grace, and emotional maturity:

This is what terminal and peak TDS looks like:

Liberals are the most vile, hateful, insufferable and toxic species on earth. pic.twitter.com/bbYyUC6XMw

— Liberacrat™️ (@Liberacrat) March 4, 2025

And who here hasn’t spent their evenings crafting voodoo effigies of people with whom they disagree politically?

Not entirely unrelated.

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New frontier of human suffering discovered and declared:

Has anyone else experienced Green Hair Dysphoria?

I’m working thru my own hair issues and conflicted about green dye or blue? Shave my head or no? What is my gender? I don’t even know! I need a safe space STAT. pic.twitter.com/1ldj2AhMFZ

— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) February 23, 2025

And hey, what’s life without some fascinating complications:

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By all means, share your hair-related agonies.

Update:

A reminder that, in the comments, other wonders are waiting to be found.

And this place is still here. 

Do help yourself to cake. For newcomers, here’s a pretty good introduction to what goes on here. If you like… that, well, there’s plenty more.

Oh, and open thread.

A possible series on a theme of belated pushback. I’ll set the ball rolling with this, lifted from the comments.

Fat Man With Far Side Glasses Takes Down Flag:

Queer, trans teacher with they/fae/she pronouns films himself removing the progress pride flag from his classroom following President Trump’s EO.

SO👏MUCH👏WINNING👏pic.twitter.com/Kh5Q5Xy4gM

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 3, 2025

When not mournfully taking down flags, the chap above, named Emerald, our shaper of young minds, imagines himself as Barbie, and likes to stipulate his fabulist pronouns, which are numerous, and which vary according to location, mood, and medication:

And,

Whether children should feel safe when left in a subordinate position with a mentally unstable cross-dressing man whose forearms bear what appear to be self-harm cutting scars, I leave to the reader. 

Emerald would have us believe,

Which raises the question of why flags affirming serious mental illness, compelled unrealism, and surgical mutilation were felt to be necessary props in a classroom where children learn English.

Or, as commenter EmC put it,

Yes, that.

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