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The straw hat riot was a bizarre wave of violence that swept NYC in September 1922. At the time there was a “rule” that stated one could only wear straw hats (or boater hats) between May 15th and September 15th, after which one could only wear felt hats. Starting September 13th, various youth gangs, armed with clubs and other makeshift weapons, began wandering the streets attacking anyone they saw wearing a boater hat, sometimes beating them up quite severely. These assaults would often become street brawls as the victims began fighting back. These assaults and street fights became very widespread over several days swamping the local police departments, who were unable to contain the situation. This wave of violence would ultimately contribute to the boater hat falling out of style.

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I legit uj hated everything Nolan made past Interstellar. Oppenheimer was the worst for how dogshit it was compared to the hype it got. I loved being the "Chris Nolan sucks actually" guy. But The Odyssey was... fucking amazing. How am I going to rebuild my personality after this catastrophe?

Not sure if I have to put a NSFW tag on this as there's bad language? Let me know if I need to edit!!

I'm 12 cards down in this deck of cards now and seem to have a bit of a horse theme going 😂

A great episode of a local DC news show really gets into it. The gyst: she bent over backwards for visiting artists to burnish her own national reputation, but those working *under* her were routinely abused. Those of us who experienced it first hand are in near universal agreement, from both DC and St. Louis- she was a horrible boss who runs institutions into the ground. She used both theatres as a platform to step on while failing up, leaving wreckage behind.

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This time it's toe-walking. At this point in my life I don't feel like getting diagnosed would even benefit me, but it sure is interesting to learn that YET ANOTHER Weird-Thing-I've-Always-Done™️ is apparently a Thing™️.

Simple quick lunch for work today.

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As a teenager, I was frequently subjected to sexual violence/sexual humiliation/harassment by my peers. I don't want to get too far into the details, but there was physical violence, groping of genitals and anus, intentional physical injury of genitals and anus, insertion of hands and objects into mouth and anus, being held down in vulnerable positions with the threat of rape, forced stripping, public body humiliation and sexual humiliation. All of this was from straight boys. Some of them were even my friends. When these same behaviors are committed against girls they are unquestionably recognized as sexual violence. When they are committed against boys they're considered just bullying, teasing, goofing around. I never had a way to express the damage I was taking, I wasn't able to say that this was sexual assault, but I knew it was. It felt like assault. It fucked up my head like assault. Over 20 years later and I'm still scared of teenage boys.

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I believe that these types of violent sexual interactions between boys are extremely commonplace, and they are generally accepted by society even if they are occasionally met with light disapproval. We are creating and perpetuating a nightmare for boys and young men, and I think it's because we are just too embarrassed to admit that it's happening.

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Sandwich was fine, a little too pb-heavy so it was hard to eat. Vegetables were better than I expected, though I'll add more salt next time.

EDIT: just to add for clarity- while I was more often a target than some of the other boys, I was by no means alone. Many of the people who did these things to me also did them to each other, and they all seemed to think of it as a big fun joke. I suspect many of them secretly felt the same way I did.

I was too late to hop on the tier list trend a while ago, but also there's a new album out! Of note: within each tier it's chronological, not by preference. I kinda feel like Wasting Light could've been a B+ , but I stayed within the standard framework. And I haven't listened to Skin And Bones yet.

Look at this bullshit

Every time I say that despite overall improvements, orange line wait times still lag behind the other lines, I get bombarded with comments saying im wrong. This is at lenfant, 6:30 on a weekday, no stated outages or delays. Been waiting here for a few minutes already, it was 16 minutes when i got here. None of the silver line trains are going to New Carrollton. This happens all the time. It's not as bad as it used to be, but this is still kinda shitty.