I dedicate this song to my newest friend @Y. Amazing indivudual and great conversationist. I honestly dont understand why people seem to hate him? anyway loveeee you guys. I love my father btw - LIl B

BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks are trading Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round pick, sources tell ESPN. Three-team deal that includes Utah.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 2, 2025

Nature is healing

Just some fine young Aussie lads discussing the merits of cousin marriage pic.twitter.com/06CY2zDYkC

— Drew Pavlou (@DrewPavlou) January 31, 2025

!strayans

There's so much to be done.

You belong here.

You belong in any and all "women's spaces", because you are a woman.

You are valid.

You are not any less of a woman than any other women simply because of the circumstances of your birth.

You are a woman, and nobody can take your womanhood away from you.

You are an equal, and don't anybody tell you otherwise.

You are respected.

You are supported.

Don't give up hope - someday things will change. And until then, there are people out there who love you.

Don't give up. Live. 💜

🇩🇪 A agressuve Afghani refugee makes trouble, so that the German state guards him 24/7 with private security.

That costs the state 40,000 Euro per month, funded by the German taxpayer.

Just send him back, the Taliban earlier said they happily take everyone back. pic.twitter.com/u5tmPpyaQb

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) January 30, 2025

@UraniumDonGER

Then hiding behind their age as a shield of criticism and justification of sending them to an El Salvadoran prison potentially. Redditors got played by this fat r-slur saffa. Just absolutely zero sauce whatsoever

Never felt more attractive since moving to the US

For context I'm from Puerto Rico and moved to the states about 8 years ago. I've always been a fat girl and experienced a lot of hate for the way I looked. Mostly from the adults in my life, including random strangers and teachers. Back home, people are really open when it comes to criticizing your appearance. I've had people literally come up to me to criticize what I'm eating. Literally complete strangers. Or tell me how good I'm being for eating a salad.

And this happens even is you are thin! And don't get me started if you have darker skin or curly hair! We may be a diverse island but our bigotry is equally colorful. We just hide it behind jokes and get offended when called out. Saying "that you are taking it too personal or it's a joke" when in reality it's a problem.

Long story short PR isn't very body positive even if most of our women can be considered a size 12 and up. Physically I'm a very proportionate fat girl, I have an hour glass figure and carry my weight pretty distributed. And I have a pretty face because people back home always keep telling me that and then follow it up with "you should lose some weight".

I also was a "weird girl" so it was an atomic bomb of bullying. I was too smart or too creative. Too fat or too excited. I really had no room to just be my true self because everything was attached to how I looked.

And being stuck in that cycle of not feeling good enough made me want to change everything about myself just to be felt alone and not bothered for my existence. Before moving to the US I lost a significant amount of weight and it made everything even worse if you believe it. People were now looking at me like a lab rat. Asking if I will lose more and made a game out of my weight loss journey.

When I moved to the states I gained almost 30 pounds of it back. Because the food here is really shit and the native vegetables and meats I really loved go for triple the price here. And I also was dealing with a massive wave of depression from things that happened before I moved.

And I got to say that men really do love fat b-words here! I've never gotten so much male attention in my life or as many compliments from women that are actually genuine. And it took a long time for me to actually get comfortable with them after years of hating myself. And I know that it may come across as shallow for me to find worth in others, but when you have been called worthless for so long you can't help but feel relief in a strangers kind words.

Men have stopped me in the street to compliment me and even offer to buy me stuff. And women always ask me what hair care products I use or that I look beautiful in my dress. I even started buying whatever clothes I wanted because I didn't have the guilt of being too fat to wear them.

I finally stopped looking at that stupid tag at the back of my clothes and actually bought the size that fitted me in that moment. I stopped with the "when I lose some weight I'll wear it" crap. I stopped being afraid or get upset with the work "fat". I stopped caring about if I was too loud or too strong with my opinions. I stopped putting that little fat girl in a cage and decided to let her be free.

Even if I miss my country I can't help but feel so comfortable in myself here in the states. People here just mind their business and are not breathing down peoples neck. I've never felt so confident in who I am and that doesn't only apply to my body. I feel like I have a voice here, even with all that is happening right now.

I'm just so happy that I can finally be my true self and say frick you to the word! I'm proud to say that I'm a fat Latinx girl that finally took up space!

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