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▲ 50 r/AmITheAngel

AITA for beating cisphobes with facts and logic?

Here’s a thing that happened to one of my friends. I was there.

Basically, we were walking down the sidewalk, talking about something meaningless. I think it had to do with a movie. Then this bus screeches up, stops next to us, and a bunch of people with “Down with Cis” shirts climbed out and started beating him up. I was punched and kicked a bit too, but I managed to avoid brutalization by going for their faces. After figuring out what’s happening, I started attacking them back, getting them off of him. He was quite injured but I called 911 and he made a full recovery at the hospital. I was fine, with only a cut on my arm that they patched up.

So Reddit, AITA?

INFO: I nicknamed my fists "facts" and "logic"

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u/cwningen95 — 5 days ago
▲ 50 r/adhdwomen

I feel trapped by my messy home

It's a really hard feeling to articulate. I have ADHD, depression and anxiety, and suspected ASD. I take Elvanse (lisdexanfetamine, I think it's called Vysanse in the US) and citalopram, which help with focus and anxiety but not so much when it comes to executive function.

I live in a one-bedroom flat with a cat and two rabbits. Dishes (because of my dishwasher) and my pets' litter trays & areas are the only chores I manage to consistently keep up with. The rabbits eat a lot of hay which inevitably tracks everywhere. Everything is covered in fur and hay and dust and I also just have way too much STUFF, so there's clutter everywhere.

I'm so overwhelmed I don't know where to start. I manage to do little things every so often but it barely makes a dent. If I manage to declutter my desk, for example, the clutter just ends up elsewhere and gradually migrates back over. I have bags of clothes I need to donate that are just sitting there. I don't have a car so dropping them off or even going to the tip is difficult. I can't hoover with all this stuff in the way, but I can't get this stuff out of the way because— agh!!

I know I'm just whining here. I'm hoping you guys get it because again, it's really hard to articulate, and people who don't struggle with this definitely don't. I've basically been hermitting for months. I think the last time anyone came over for longer than a few minutes was in December. I also don't go out often or keep up with my friends or any of my hobbies because there's this sense of unfinished business, I can't even feel relaxed because I feel so guilty constantly. It's like I don't feel like I deserve to enjoy myself when my home is such a wreck, and when I do go out, I dread going back.

I really intended to get *some* tidying done this weekend but it's 7PM on Saturday and I'm just sitting here, telling myself I'll get up when my phone is charged. What the hell is wrong with me.

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u/cwningen95 — 5 days ago
▲ 2.0k r/Palestine

Is the "luxury" in the room with us right now?

Per sub rules, here is an archive of the NYP article. I've pasted the contents in the comments in case that doesn't work.

In short, it's an incredibly bad faith response to this article by Gazan writer Eman Abu Zayed.

EDIT: Since I think she deserves recognition over the scumbags at NYP, you can read more of Eman Abu Zayed's recent work on Al-Jazeera and Truthout. I found this article from last year about her friend Rama, who she mentions as having been killed in the above AJ piece; she was only twenty years old.

In their response, callously smug in its tone considering Abu Zayed ends the article reflecting on the friends she's lost and saying her moment of reprieve in a local restaurant she used to enjoy doesn't erase the horrors just outside the door, the uncredited NYP author asserts, without evidence, that the potential existence of a small number of people in Gaza who've profiteered from the genocide somehow proves the claim that Hamas were stealing food aid. Moreover, this somehow means there was no "famine" in the first place, in which case I really have to question what the NYP's definition of a famine is that a severe food shortage requiring external aid somehow doesn't meet.

I believe Abu Zayed. She doesn't specify who these war profiteers are, but she might not know herself. What just feels so obscenely vile to me is taking the words of Gazans speaking out about the conditions they're living under, and twisting them to— without evidence— fit their propaganda.

I also feel this was a bizarre picture for NYP to use to make their point, and most of the comments (as you can see by the reactions in the screenshot) seem to agree. The flooring looks like astroturf laid over bare brick. The support beams are splintery sticks. There's a TV, but it isn't on or clear that it's connected to anything. The ceiling looks like it's insulated with repurposed UNHCR tents or packaging. I can't even see any food or drinks being served. I can't seem to find any details on this location other than it being in Khan Yunis, but it looks like it could be a makeshift women-only co-working space like Makan Café. essentially, when Gazans find ways to carve out any sense of reprieve or nomalcy, that's also going to be used against them to "prove" their suffering isn't real.

u/cwningen95 — 5 days ago
▲ 1.0k r/Crocodiles

I adore all crocodilians but especially alligators. Maybe the rounded snout makes them look more "friendly"? I love their big goofy "smiles" and I love how they walk like they're waiting for their manicures to dry. Yes I have seen them in real life and yes I'd admire them from a distance in the wild lol

Photo credits:

  1. Sacramento Zoo

  2. Corbin Maxey

  3. Villages News (audience submission)

u/cwningen95 — 13 days ago