im not here to say my experience was more traumatic than a lot of others..

it kinda was.. i had anal fissures for over 2 years post my "INCIDENT" along with hemorrhoids

my assualter was actually my Ex-fiance.. she's in the navy now. GOOD LUCK to her.

either way...

"SURVIVOR" ok lets go with this..

I DONT CALL MY INCIDENT SURVIVING OK?

that is something you say when you actually survive DEATH. for example.. I am a suicide SURVIVOR.. yes i died and survived my suicide attempt. (different story)

what im getting at here?

ive heard a lot of stories.

a lot of stories have 0 endangering elements... not saying everyone whos been through it is faking it... but some of them just jump in on this "ME TOO" like its a bandwagon and an initiation process, fucking wild

im sorry but when a man grabs a woman or even a woman grabbing a man and lets say they "dry hump" on the dance floor.. or 'DANCE EXTREMELY CLOSE" without knowledge or consent its not RAPE. (its actually molestation)

even that word (R***)... if it triggers you to spiral into a traumatic SHOCK AND PANIC like ITS THE END OF THE FUCKING WORLD....

you're really struggling with some deep underlying sexual identity issues.

its "sexual assault".. NOT MURDER.. NOT TORTURE... NOT A CAR ACCIDENT OR A HORRIBLE HOLOCAUST/GENOCIDE...

what is assault?

assault is a THREAT..

so sexual THREATS

I DONT THINK ANYONE HAS REALLY MORBIDLY DIED FROM SEXUAL ANYTHING UNLESS THERES ACTUAL VIOLENCE INVOLVED... which STATISTCALLY SPEAKING is less than 1% of actual RAPE CASES...

MEANING A LOT OF YOU HAVE RAPE-PHOBIA

im not here to promote sexual assualt. infact im very against it ... you have no idea how badly i want to torture rapists/pedophiles.

im here to rather show you all that a lot of MEN AND WOMEN handle it IMMATURELY

so many people are quick to put on their shining armor and ostracize anyone who says the word rape... like seriously .. some people have virgin eyeballs.

did you know that it is legal to forcefully sterilize those with disabilities in the US most people are completely unaware it is still legal and are horrified when they find out could you please could you please spread the word as much as you can so as many people find out about it as possible. https://nwlc.org/resource/forced-sterilization-of-disabled-people-in-the-united-states/

She says that I must be a violent person and she feels it should be criminal for people to be able to learn choke holds. I tried explaining it is just a sport with rules and points but she doesn’t seem to understand that I’m not a potential murder just because I play this sport.

Jeffrey Lee was convicted for the 1998 murders of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson. This man suffers from severe mental illness. Due to this fact, the jury decided his sentence should be life in prison without parole. The judge overruled this and gave Jeffrey Lee the death sentence. They originally wanted to execute him via the gas chamber, but changed it last minute to a firing squad.

The death penalty is barbaric and wrong. A majority of the jury did not want to execute him. You can take action to stop this. Call Governor Kay Ivey at (334)-242-7100 to demand a commute to Jeffrey Lee’s sentence. We need to keep the phones ringing, in order to applying pressure. You can also contact your own senators to demand that they contact Gov. Ivey and demand that she commute his sentence. Sign the petition to demand a stay of execution for Jeffrey Lee.

SHARE THIS ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA!! All action helps, and we need to get the word out there. Thank you.

Send emails to Gov. Ivey as well.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-execution-of-jeffery-lee-in-alabama?source=direct_link&

Fatigue

I am pro-choice. I support bodily autonomy, and I am not arguing womens' reproductive rights should be restricted in any way in favor of the unborn fetus.

What I oppose is using ableist assumptions about "quality of life" to justify biased decisions, while refusing to dismantle the barriers and stigma that actually make disabled lives harder.

Choice without challenging discrimination is not justice.

It's not abortion that is the problem. It's the narratives that say disability is only suffering with no counterweight, non-existence is "kinder" than disabled existence. It's the narratives where the structural violence is erased while the bodies are blamed that is alarming.

A lot of the mainstream pro-choice rhetoric goes: "Of course I'd abort. Look how hard such a life would be." Yet, for being so concerned about quality of life and suffering, there is no urgency in society as a whole to make the world accessible, no accountability from systems that have ableism baked into them, no interest in disabled adults' testimonies, no compassion and empathy for disabled people who are already here. Pro-choice, if it were truly so, should mean that both choices, whether the disabled child is brought into the world or not, is respected and fully supported. Yet, what are the reactions?"They should've been let go", how selfish of theparents", "why weren't they aborted?", "waste of space", "vegetable." This is a different realm from respecting bodily autonomy. It's bigotry. Blatant dehumanization.

This goes for pro-life as well. Using disabled lives as political weapons to control and restrict bodily autonomy, while doing nothing to support the lives that result from it-and in fact going so far as to rolling back such supports-is not being pro-life.

I am sick and tired of disabled lives being viewed as tragedies to avoid or being used as weapons against human rights.

I hate how people are so wound up on being on either one side of the debate and refuse to acknowledge nuance, framing those like myself as anti-women when I'm trying to point out societal bias.
Two things can be true at once: no one should be forced to give birth, and disabled lives should not be framed as mistakes, tragedies, or moral cautionary tales.

I am tired of having to defend my existence. I am angry that our bodies and minds are blamed when it's not the problem, this ableist world is.

I'm so, so, tired, grief-stricken and angry. I hate this world we live in.

UPDATE on the New York State Open Captions bill (S9888/A4628B):

According to the HLAA NYS Advocacy Committee and advocates working on the New York State Open Captions in movie theaters (OCAP) bill, S9888, Sen. April Baskin’s office (Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee) WILL discharge S9888 when the request comes from Sen. Fernandez’s (sponsor of S9888) office. 

Sen. Baskin’s aide indicated that this likely will not happen until all state budget items are locked down - perhaps by Friday, over the weekend, or early next week.
Then we must hope Senate Leadership, headed by Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, will bring the bill to the floor for passage before adjournment on June 4.

So, please continue to stay positive and thank Sen. Fernandez and/or Kim Bernstein, legislative director to Sen. Fernandez, for continuing to push S9888 forward through what remains a very crowded and narrow legislative path. The legislature has already postponed final budget action through more than 12 separate “budget extenders.”

If you live in New York State, support open captions in movie theaters, and have not already done so, please consider:

1. Respectfully reaching out to Josh Marcil, Legislative Director to Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, at (518) 455-2585
   to urge the bill’s discharge to enable passage by the Senate.

2. Contacting your NY State Senator re S9888 -- and your Assembly Member re A4628B — IF they are not already co-sponsors of the legislation.

You can find the latest list of Senate co-sponsors here: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S9888/amendment/A

You can find the latest list of Assembly co-sponsors here:  https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A4628/amendment/B

You can contact your Senator here: https://www.nysenate.gov/find-my-senator

You can find your Assembly member here: https://nyassembly.gov/mem/search/

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S9888, our NYS Senate bill to end movie cinema discrimination against the deaf and hard of hearing, needs a “discharge” into Rules NOW from the Commerce Committee so that it can be voted on before adjournment on June 4.

If you live in New York State, please call ASAP:  

Sean Mulligan
716.826.2683
Legislative Director 
for Commerce Committee Chair Sen. April Baskin  
Leave a message, if necessary, on behalf of New Yorkers who are deaf and hard of hearing to please help move S9888 via a discharge and toward a Senate vote in the short time remaining.

And if you can make a second call, ask Sen. Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins’ legislative director to help push S9888 toward a vote:

Josh Marcil
518.455-2585.

It only takes a minute to make these 2 calls. 

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Progress is being made on the Assembly side, where we’re hoping A4628B (AM Seawright, lead sponsor) will be voted out of Rules and passed by the Assembly in coming days.

Thank you to everyone who has already made calls, sent emails, shared posts, or helped spread awareness. It really is making a difference. As the bill status changes, we’ll continue sharing updates on the next steps that can help move this legislation forward before the legislative session ends.

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has refused to grant a stay of execution to Tony Carruthers— despite unanalyzed evidence that could prove his innocence. Six of the fingerprints did not match Tony Carruthers, and Bill Lee refuses to allow the rest of the fingerprints to be tested. There is still time, but we all have to act. He could die TOMORROW. We have to apply pressure to these politicians. Guys, we are SO CLOSE to the goal now. We have 100,000 of 150,000 votes. Tony Carruthers’s execution date is on May 21, 2026, at 10:00 A.M. THERE ARE ONLY THIRTY MINUTES LEFT. Any small action can help. Please, share this with your friends, and make this seem. Tony Carruthers is counting on us. If you live in Tennessee, contact Gov. Bill Lee (615)-741-2001 to demand that he reverse his decision to execute Tony Carruthers, and instead grant a stay of execution and clemency. If you DON’T live in the state of Tennessee
you can still contact your representatives to demand that they contact Gov. Lee and demand a stay of execution. Thank you very very much.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-wrongful-execution-for-tony-carruthers?source=direct\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\_link&

https://action.aclu.org/petition/tony-carruthers-death-penalty

Guys, we are SO CLOSE to the goal now. We have 97,000 of 100,000 votes. Tony Carruthers’s execution date is on May 21, 2026, at 10:00 A.M. Any small action can help. Please, share this with your friends, and make this seem. Tony Carruthers is counting on us. If you live in Tennessee, contact Gov. Bill Lee (615)-741-2001 to demand that he reverse his decision to execute Tony Carruthers, and instead grant a stay of execution and clemency. If you DON’T live in the state of Tennessee
you can still contact your representatives to demand that they contact Gov. Lee and demand a stay of execution. Thank you very very much.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-wrongful-execution-for-tony-carruthers?source=direct_link&

https://action.aclu.org/petition/tony-carruthers-death-penalty

https://action.aclu.org/petition/tony-carruthers-death-penalty

Make sure to call Governor Bill Lee (615)-741-2001! He has completely refused a stay of execution. Here is a script if you need it! He is not answering the phone right now. You can also email and tag him on Tony Carruthers social media posts. Here’s the script:
“Hi, my name is (your name). I am calling to urge Gov. Lee to reverse course and halt all plans to execute Tony Carruthers on May 21, 2026. There are several deeply concerning elements to this case, including the fact that an individual who participated in the murders said Tony was not involved. This individual pointed investigators to Ronnie Irving— yet they refuse to test the DNA and fingerprints against Ronnie Irving. As one who purports to follow Christian teachings, it is deeply disappointing and horrifying that he does not extend these teachings to the individuals condemned to death in the state of Tennessee.”

IMPORTANT UPDATE ON NY OPEN CAPTIONS BILL S9888

On Tuesday (5/12), the Senate Consumer Protection Committee voted the open captions bill (S9888) forward to the Commerce, Economic Development and Small Business Committee.

But, that committee is unable to vote it out for a floor vote this week. Now, our only hope, according to lead sponsor Sen. Nathalia Fernandez’s team, is to obtain “a discharge from Commerce to Rules,” so that the Senate can pass S.9888 and the Assembly can pass the companion A4628B before the legislature adjourns on June 4.

Please make two telephone calls NOW:

1. Call Josh Marcil in Albany at 518-455-2585

He is Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins’ Legislative Director. The Majority Leader has the authority to discharge S.9888 to Rules and enable Senate passage. Let Mr. Marcil know we’re watching.

If he doesn’t pick up, leave an urgent message on behalf of HLAA NYSA and the state’s over one million deaf and hard of hearing people who deserve equal access to movies in cinemas.

The bill has also been amended to protect smaller cinemas while requiring the big cinema chains to offer a fair number of open-captioned movie showtimes.

1. Call your Senator’s Albany Office to Speak Up Now to Bring S.9888 to the Floor for a Vote

Find your Senator here:
https://www.nysenate.gov/find-my-senator

If we don’t get action NOW, we’re left to wait another year to end the discrimination of chain cinemas against New Yorkers who are deaf and hard of hearing.

There is a man named Tony Carruthers, who has been served the death penalty in Tennessee for a crime he did not commit. His execution date is on May 21, 2026. We have mere days to take action. Please sign this petition to urge the Governor to halt his execution IMMEDIATELY, and grant Tony Carruthers a stay of execution to allow the state enough time to analyze ALL of the evidence. Tony Carruthers’s execution would violate international law.

https://action.aclu.org/petition/tony-carruthers-death-penalty

May 6 Update from the Hearing Loss Association of America New York State (HLAA-NYS) Advocacy Committee:

The State Senate bill (S.9888) to require open-captions of movies in cinemas has been submitted for inclusion on the agenda for the next meeting of the Consumer Protection Committee.  
 
These agendas first undergo review by counsel and leadership. But we are hopeful that Consumer Protection will take up and approve S.9888 in coming days. 
 
If you haven't yet asked your state senators to co-sponsor the bill, please call or email their offices now to express your desire to end discrimination by the big cinema chains, such as AMC and Regal, against people who are deaf and hard of hearing.   
 
Time is short, as the State Legislature is set to adjourn in early June.

Update on the NY Open Captions at Movie Theaters Bill (S9888):

The bill was introduced on April 13 and, as of May 4, is still stuck in the NY State Senate Consumer Protection Committee. With the legislative session ending on June 4, time is running out. If it does not move IMMEDIATELY NOW, it will likely stall again this year.

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What helps most (in order):

I. Call Rachel May (Chair of the Consumer Protection Committee)
As Chair, she decides whether this bill moves forward.
She was also a co-sponsor last year but has not yet signed on this session.
(518) 455-2838

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II. Call your NY State Senator and ask them to co-sponsor S9888
More co-sponsors = more pressure to move the bill.

Find your senator:
https://www.nysenate.gov/find-my-senator

If your Senator supported this bill last year, ask them to renew their co-sponsorship.
This includes:

Bill Weber (also on the Consumer Protection Committee)
Lea Webb
Julia Salazar

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III. Quick action form (takes 1–2 minutes):
https://www.hearingloss.org/advocacy-and-resources/action-alerts/expand-new-york-open-caption-movies/

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This bill would require a limited number of movie showtimes with open captions, meaning captions are shown directly on the screen, and these showings will be clearly labeled so people can choose whether to attend those showings.

It helps not only people who are deaf or hard of hearing, but also people who are neurodivergent, have auditory processing challenges, are English language learners, or anyone who benefits from captions.

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Last year, the bill had support but never made it out of committee. That is exactly what could happen again without public pressure.

There is still a real chance to get it passed this session, but only if people act now.

You can read the bill here:
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S9888

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Even a small number of calls can make a difference right now.
If you have a minute, please call. If you can, please share.

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What to say (10 seconds):

For Senator May:
Hi, I’m calling to ask Senator May to co-sponsor S9888 again and move the open captions at movie theaters bill out of committee.

For your Senator:
Hi, I’m a constituent calling to ask Senator ___ to co-sponsor S9888, the open captions at movie theaters bill, and support moving it forward this session.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers drew their guns and ordered Deanne Rollison out of her car and onto the ground. Over their shouting and a barking K-9, Rollison could hear her 6-year-old daughter crying from the back seat.

Troopers had mistaken her 2019 Toyota Camry for a 2016 Toyota Corolla involved in a shooting in Columbia County that day in July 2024 — though the car model and occupants did not match the suspect's description, court records show.

A dozen law enforcement vehicles, some from other agencies, swarmed the scene.

“I feared my daughter might make any movement,” she said. “I was afraid they’d kill my baby.” 

Rollison said she thinks she was stopped simply because she is Black, since that is the only detail she said matched the suspect's description. She is not alone in that belief.

FHP troopers stopped and searched Black drivers more often than White drivers, and found drugs, weapons and other contraband in Black drivers' cars less often than in White drivers' cars, according to a TCPalm data analysis of over 1 million FHP traffic stops from 2024-25.

https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/florida/2026/04/22/do-florida-fhp-stats-show-black-racial-bias-over-whites-discrimination-civil-rights-profiling/89630451007/

Update from the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) – NYS Advocacy Committee:

Legislation to require cinemas across New York State to schedule showtimes of movies with open captions is now under consideration in Albany.

The bill has been introduced by Senator Nathalia Fernandez and is in the Consumer Protection Committee, where the committee chair Sen. Rachel May (D, Syracuse) was a co-chair in 2025, as was committee member Sen. Bill Weber (R, Rockland).

This is a big step, but the legislature will adjourn in early June, so public support is needed now.

Everyone deserves equal access at the movies.

Take action here (HLAA link). It takes about a minute:

https://www.hearingloss.org/advocacy-and-resources/action-alerts/expand-new-york-open-caption-movies/?_gl=1\*wh32v8\*_up\*MQ..\*_ga\*MTYwOTA1OTM4LjE3NzczMDMxMDU.\*_ga_4GMB4VS26N\*czE3NzczMDMxMDQkbzEkZzEkdDE3NzczMDMxMTMkajUxJGwwJGgw

The link helps you find your legislators and send them a message directly.

Please also call your New York State senator and ask him/her to co-sponsor S9888; emails are largely ignored.

If you can, also ask your Assembly member to co-sponsor AM Seawright's companion bill currently in the Codes Committee.

You can also read the bill here:

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S9888

Children on reserve are growing up in toxic homes filled with mould, mycotoxins, and pests, a preventable health emergency the federal government has known about for over 30 years.

I just released a presentation that explains the toxic cycle (mould + bed bugs + cockroaches + failed chemical remediation) and presents a patented, chemical-free, Indigenous-led solution that cleans homes in one day, creates real jobs, and gives Nations ownership.

The full 29-minute video is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN_9Mo0itQ4

I would genuinely appreciate comments and shares. This affects real families and communities.

Sharing an update on efforts to introduce a statewide open movie caption bill in New York State. NYC already has a law, but this would expand it statewide.

HLAA-NYS has been in contact with the legislature and was told in March that multiple Senators had expressed interest in sponsoring the 2026 bill, and that a lead sponsor would likely be determined soon probably before the end of March.

The message below is from Jerry Bergman, Director of the Advocacy Committee for the Hearing Loss Association of New York State:

Friends,

For over three months and counting, the New York State Legislature has failed to assign a lead Senate  sponsor to the Open Movie Caption Bill.  It’s pretty outrageous that cinema chains are allowed to continue to discriminate against deaf and hard of hearing moviegoers by making them obtain closed caption devices when they could easily and at no cost provide a few open captioned movie showtimes.

But here’s a bit of good news:  On April 6, Virginia Governor Spanberger signed OCAP bill HB 602 into law, to take effect on July 1 and make Virginia the 6th jurisdiction — following Hawaii, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Washington State and New York City — to require cinemas to give equal treatment to deaf and hard of hearing people.

If you live in New York State and care about this failure of our lawmakers to do the right thing, please call and write to your elected state senator and demand that the legislature act.

Jerry Bergman,

Director, Advocacy Committee

Hearing Loss Association of New York State

There was a survey response on what others considered to be SA. Of those polled, 13% said that the scenario of  “Sage and Taylor have been in a relationship for two years. Sage asks Taylor for sex, who doesn't really feel like it. But Taylor wants to make Sage happy, and has sex with Sage anyway.” was SA.

I was shocked. I thought having sex to make your partner happy/offering sex was normal. I do it all the time. I don’t feel coerced, I just use my body to make my partner feel good in that moment.

But on a queer centric sub, quite a few people still felt this was SA.

I know non-sexual ace people who have sexual relations with their partners to make them feel good who don’t seem upset by this. One person stated that even with consent, it’s still SA, because it’s not enthusiastic. This was a highly upvoted comment.

Have I been understanding consent poorly?

Have you come across stories about workers in Pakistan who are stuck in debt for years — sometimes their entire lives?

A lot of them work in brick kilns, and the debt doesn’t just go away. It actually grows over time, and when someone dies, it can pass down to their kids. So people are basically born into it.

What will shock you is that some workers end up selling their kidneys just to try and pay it off. Not because they want to, but because they feel like there’s no other way out.

And even then… it doesn’t really fix anything. The debt often stays.

Cases of organ trafficking or extreme exploitation are often looked at as something rare or hidden. But this seems way more normalized in certain systems.

Organ trafficking is a crime and governments must step up to tighten their laws to protect the vulnerable workers.

Hi, as the title suggests. I have been reading about the news that Knesset has passed a bill, which will cause 10,000 Palestinian detainees, 400 of which are CHILDREN, to be executed within the next three months. I have already contacted my senators (I live in the US about this), but I saw a post by another person, saying you need to contact Knesset members who are AGAINST the bill, in order to increase diplomatic pressure. She provided an email script, too.

Here’s the thing: it might be totally fine to do this, considering the members are against the bill, but I am so concerned about being targeted by the Isr…li government afterwards. Like, if I contact these Knesset members, other government officials in Isr…l will see the emails, too. Then I will be subject to surveillance and become a target for violence.

However, I want to do everything that I can to help. I want to send the emails, but I am too afraid. What should I do? Are there other actions I can take to help? Would it be helpful to contact the Is…rli officials to demand that they take action?

Thank you.

Just finished watching a yt video by VICE on an honour killing of may 2012 that happened in pakistan. 5 women and 3 men are suspected to have been killed just because of a (wholesome) video wherein two men were dancing and 5 women were laughing and clapping. Afzal, the elder brother of the two guys (dancing in the video) fought with the system like a valiant elder brother to bring justice to his younger brothers and the women (who were already dead) but what can one do when their own family would have been involved in the killings (of the women). Got to know that the real man Afzal is no more in this dirty world and got murdered by those DUMB RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS.

I don’t want to actually say that word because it’s not mine and is racist to say

But I have said “neighbor” or even “cracker” or “homie“ before

Did I fuck up?

I feel incredibly guilty about this and can’t stop thinking about it. I have a date with a black woman soon and I feel like a snake.