LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]

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Cake day: August 18th, 2023

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  • Partially true, but they also use that astronomical conviction rate to take more pleas than normal. If you’re going up against a 98 percent conviction rate, does it make sense (even if you’re innocent) to take on that 2 percent chance? If you never make it to trial and just plea, you don’t contribute to the conviction percentage. They use this to convince most people getting federal charges to take a plea deal.

    Not defending Adams, wanna make that clear. I just see people mention the 98 percent conviction rate when it isn’t an accurate depiction of the situation. This is carefully picked information to make people feel okay forgoing a trial they have a right to




  • In my experience, I’ve always faced burnout when in overly stressful situations. Living with my ex was a nightmare that caused me to crash out quite hard after working 2 full time kitchen jobs at the same time.

    I do find that I lose interest in things over time, and change up my main “thing” every few months naturally, and sometimes there’s a gap between finding those new things, and that can be difficult. It was Gen 3 OU for a few years, now it’s Mario Kart.














  • CW: dysporia

    You know, I’m actually not much of a makeup gal. I love feeling pretty in it, but struggle with sensory issues related to it. For this reason, I’ve never really felt hurt by make-up ads. But yesterday I was scrolling through Instagram and got the first ad I’ve ever seen targeted towards specifically trans women. It was for tucking underwear. Now I’ve never tried tucking underwear, but I’ve tried regular tucking and honestly my dick is too big for me to tuck it. But seeing the before and after on this ad made me feel really dysphoric, like I was “too much of a man” to be able to hide my genitals.

    I posted about this in my trans AA chat because it’s the first time I’ve really felt hurt by an advertisement. Someone in the chat bought me some tucking panties, and it really brightened my day