Hard Pass

So by the logic of "beauty standards"...I should starve myself, curl my hair, get a tan, cut off both my feet to lose height and then remove all of my ribs to get an hourglass figure? You know...can't argue with that 🙃
Gladly...would
(except maybe the tan part, I really like being pale 😭)

Omg this is literally me! This is quite literally me! Omfg 😭😭😭

OMFG 😭
The first time my dad called me that...I nearly cried. Only to immediately go back to the old way of calling me 🙃
Oh well. He tries...

Source is Modern Transfem (source)

Jon von Tetzchner, CEO and founder of Vivaldi Technologies, refuses to integrate AI features in its browser and wants human engineers, not AI, to write its code.

Okay...maybe not all of these rhyme. Still, seemed funny to me, so here you go! 💜️

Kansas state Sen. Cindy Holscher (D) was projected to win the state’s gubernatorial race, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), keeping the office in Democratic hands and denying Republicans one of their best pickup opportunities this year.

Holscher defeated Republican Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson, who had President Trump’s endorsement, to succeed term-limited Gov. Laura Kelly (D). She notched just more than 50 percent of the vote, while her opponent garnered 49. 6 percent as of Wednesday afternoon.

Her victory extends Democrats’ hold on the governor’s mansion in a state Trump carried by roughly 16 points in 2024. Kansas has repeatedly elected Democratic governors, including Kelly, who won competitive races in 2018 and 2022.

The United States Department of State has released a report detailing what it says the US has done with more than $12bn in revenue from Venezuelan oil and mineral resources, nearly a year after it abducted the country’s leader, Nicolas Maduro.

The disclosure is part of an effort to “promote transparency and accountability in the management of these funds”, says the 53-page report, released on Thursday.

By the end of September, the State Department report says, nearly all of those funds had been distributed to a set of Venezuelan banks, to be used in foreign exchange interventions, transactions where banks sell those dollars to reduce the amount of local currency floating around and prop up the currency’s value, in this case the Venezuelan bolivar.

The report is heavily redacted and does not provide details about the final recipients of the more than $12bn in funds that was distributed in Venezuela, although it does note that approximately $9.4bn went to “legal entities” and $2.9bn to “individuals”.

I literally just epilated. No wildflowers between my thighs :P
And you know what? I prefer myself this way. Being smooth makes me happy. It's a form of self-care and I'm glad I'm taking care of myself 🩷️

Of course there is a significant time distance between those photos - Ruhl's is from Miss Olympia 2000, Chalamet's is from 2024