Ambivalent Alumna

Mostly things that I like or complaints about things I don't like and re-blogs of things posted by tumblrers whom I like.

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the age verification shit is fascists trying to control the internet for everyone. the children part of this is a smokescreen and you shouldn't be falling for it.

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"dont worry about the hypothetical harm" in 6 months youll be chiding people for not worrying about it

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THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN as moral panic is almost always right wing bullshit.

Thinking about the children should be primarily about feeding, educating, and giving them healthcare...

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just gotta throw my all-time favourite Giles scene into the mix

RIP Anthony Head, a truly generational talent.

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I always think of these two together.

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Why are streaming services defaulting to English dub on everything? Like, glad it's an option, but it should default to whatever the original language is...

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Vito Russo Why We Fight speech (corrected video)

This is corrected version of the video originally posted by Dr. Atmos zooming in to get past the distracting black background after YouTube

Vito Russo’s Why We Fight Speech

Especially relevant after this morning’s supreme court ruling and all the cuts to medical research and the ending of USAID AIDS treatment and prevention programs.

The full transcript is available on ACT UP’s site here

Some highlights below the cut.

“You know, for the last three years, since I was diagnosed, my family thinks two things about my situation. One, they think I’m going to die, and two, they think that my government is doing absolutely everything in their power to stop that. And they’re wrong, on both counts.

So, if I’m dying from anything, I’m dying from homophobia. If I’m dying from anything, I’m dying from racism. If I’m dying from anything, it’s from indifference and red tape, because these are the things that are preventing an end to this crisis. If I’m dying from anything, I’m dying from Jesse Helms. If I’m dying from anything, I’m dying from the President of the United States. And, especially, if I’m dying from anything, I’m dying from the sensationalism of newspapers and magazines and television shows, which are interested in me, as a human interest story – only as long as I’m willing to be a helpless victim, but not if I’m fighting for my life.”

“Two and a half years ago, I picked up Life Magazine, and I read an editorial which said, "it’s time to pay attention, because this disease is now beginning to strike the rest of us.” It was as if I wasn’t the one holding the magazine in my hand. And since then, nothing has changed to alter the perception that AIDS is not happening to the real people in this country.

It’s not happening to us in the United States, it’s happening to them – to the disposable populations of fags and junkies who deserve what they get. The media tells them that they don’t have to care, because the people who really matter are not in danger. Twice, three times, four times – The New York Times has published editorials saying, don’t panic yet, over AIDS – it still hasn’t entered the general population, and until it does, we don’t have to give a shit.“

"And we read on the front page of The New York Times last Saturday that Anthony Fauci now says that all sorts of promising drugs for treatment haven’t even been tested in the last two years because he can’t afford to hire the people to test them. We’re supposed to be grateful that this story has appeared in the newspaper after two years. Nobody wonders why some reporter didn’t dig up that story and print it 18 months ago, before Fauci got dragged before a Congressional hearing .

How many people are dead in the last two years, who might be alive today, if those drugs had been tested more quickly? Reporters all over the country are busy printing government press releases. They don’t give a shit, it isn’t happening to them – meaning that it isn’t happening to people like them – the real people, the world-famous general public we all keep hearing about.”

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Messy font choice.

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Visual metaphor for today: A Trump Won sign flying over a vacant building that used to be a bank.

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Very 2024 holiday season.

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I think I went to high school with my congressman's mistress. Hopefully putting her on the payroll will contribute to him getting voted out.

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aha the legend is at it again

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The Most Powerful Motherboys of the 1940's

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Just had to shoo out this little one. I still don't know if they're meant to be here; climate change, abandoned pets etc. But they really seem to be thriving...

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Rudy Giuliani: The real criminals here are...

My brain: The friends you made along the way?

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Rewatched this today and just really loved her overall look. Also Ari Graynor should be in more good things.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Letterman, ‘94

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Just when I think the Christmas episode of The Bear can't get any more triggering they play Dominick the fucking Donkey.

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Please please please reblog this and put in the tags your music recommendations. I’m not talking about big artists and bands either— what’s a niche group, band, or artist that you can’t get enough of? What song or album do you enjoy the most? Why?