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For those who follow me I will be offline for a month for mental health reasons. IE the world is a damn mess and I need to focus on working in it and not wallowing in it. See ya round folks.

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transgooglesearches

Why is social dysphoria not talked about a lot?

birdsnestbegone

Because people would rather present trans people as suffering due to an inherent aspect of our existence rather than address the transphobia in our society. Similar reason to why gender dysphoria is presented as a universal trans experience and gender euphoria is never remotely addressed

politishaun-deactivated20230409

The government was separating migrant parents from their kids for months prior to the official introduction of zero tolerance [in May], running what a U.S. official called a “pilot program” for widespread prosecutions in Texas, but apparently did not create a clear system for parents to track or reunite with their kids…

[A] DHS official also confirmed to NBC that, from July 2017 to October 2017, the Trump administration ran what the official called a “pilot program” for zero tolerance in El Paso.

Court records and interviews with migrants show that during that period federal prosecutors began to criminally charge any adult who crossed the border unlawfully in the El Paso sector, which spans from New Mexico to West Texas. Parents arriving with young children were not exempt.

“This was happening in El Paso before it was news,” said Linda Rivas, executive director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center. “People didn’t believe it…”

Even those families who crossed the border hoping for asylum were caught up in the El Paso experiment. A mother named Jocelyn, whom Rivas represents, was apprehended crossing with her son last August near El Paso. Although Jocelyn said she sought asylum, she was prosecuted for illegal entry, court documents show. Her son was taken from her

radical-eirini-deactivated20210

If you’re a cisbian and your number one concern is how you get associated with terfs often then perhaps you should worry more about combating transmisogyny within the cis lesbian community instead of calling trans lesbians who don’t trust you lesbophobes. Like, one of these is more important than the other.

gazikodzo

IS KEVIN KING, TOP ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, SEXUALLY PREYING ON HOMELESS BLACK MEN!?

Kevin King is one of the highest-paid officials in the St. Petersburg, Florida city government. In October of 2014, King expressed in private Facebook messages that he has an “obsession with homeless black men.”

“So many in St. Pete near me,” King continued. “I should start an organization called handjobs for the homeless.”

In a city with the highest rate of homelessness in all of Pinellas County, King - the city’s Chief of Policy & Public Engagement who was also the Chief of Staff from 2014-2017, expressed a predatory urge to exploit homeless black men.

These messages, along with a photograph sent by King of himself in bed with an unnamed black man, were publicized by Communities United for Reparations and Economic Development at its founding conference on June 30th, 2018.

The recipient of the messages, a former friend of King’s and local activist Melissa Thorp, spoke at the conference as well, where she also revealed that King had sexually assaulted her.

King is a longtime underling of the current Mayor Rick Kriseman, who himself is notorious for polluting the black community by dumping a billion gallons of sewage into the water. Kriseman is also known among the homeless community for his brutal tactics of repression including the “saturday morning massacres” involving mass arrests of homeless people.

Kevin King was arrested in 2002 for attempting to rape two teenage girls while he was a substitute teacher. His record was mysteriously expunged.

When Kriseman was elected mayor, he increased his own salary to nearly 200,000 dollars and appointed King as the Chief of Staff and gave him a salary of over 120,000 dollars.

St. Petersburg’s homeless population is 63 percent African. The Kriseman administration’s aggressive policy of gentrification, including the recent displacement of the historically black Jordan Park community to build high-rises, is responsible for the increasing rate of black homelessness.

The revelations of King’s stated interest in sexually exploiting homeless black men calls into question whether the Kriseman administration’s policies serve a hidden purpose of feeding the predatory sexual appetite of Kriseman’s second-highest paid government official.

http://curedfl.org

maryblackwood

hot take: movies cutting scenes that reveal a character is lgbt and then confirming it in interviews is.. not representation

barbdunkelman

So oh my god, so I’m on Spotify on my tablet, and there is a small option at the bottom of the player that will make you choose to choose where to cast Spotify to play on, I always see my PS4, but I see a Google Cast device listed now and I’m tempted to play some music and play it on this random Google Cast (I guess it’s from someone else’s house) I really wanna do it oh my god and see what happens

barbdunkelman

I created a whole new account with a disposable email and created a playlist filled with memes for this. im ready.

barbdunkelman

Update, im playing Spin Me Right Round, I also played Mad World and Gangnam Style so far, there has been no pauses nor has it disconnected yet

barbdunkelman

THERE HAS BEEN A PAUSE. THEY HAVE PAUSED. SO CONFIRMATION SOMEONE IS LISTENING. Stopped when I was playing ‘In Da Club’ I have resumed it and skipped it to The Next Episode

barbdunkelman

In fear of it probably disconnecting soon, I’m gonna play My Time Is Now

barbdunkelman

20 seconds into All Star playing on spotify chromcast and chill and they disconnect you

barbdunkelman

THEY FU C KING FOUND MY PS4 ON THE NEARBY DEVICES LIST AND NOW THEY ARE PLAY I NG THEIR FUCKING MEME MUSIC ON ME

barbdunkelman

THEYRE FUCKING PLAYING THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL AIR THEME IM SCREAMING

barbdunkelman

THEYVE PLAYED FRESH PRINCE NEVER GONNA GIVE ME UP SANDSTORM AND NOW THEY’RE PLAYING THE THEME TO 1960 SPIDERMAN

barbdunkelman

They played Bring me to life and now they’re playing See You Again. I think the mystery spotify person is playing their last song for me.

barbdunkelman

They have disconnected from my PS4 and now it is just silence. Always Remember the amazing mystery spotify player. I enjoyed our time meme'ing. This is forever a highlight for me.

make--it--gayer

Confirmed™️: the frogs are gay 🏳️‍🌈

projectqueer

Pride is supposed to be an inclusive celebration, but calls for diversity are often met with stark opposition from white LGBTQ+ people.

bottleshark

Jester’s always adorable and fascinating.

BUSY WEEK, work’s demanding, but I’m still trying to keep up with art.

ashiftchange

Trickster God Lolita!

smartassjen

If someone tells me “It’s called acting!” one more time …

klapollo

hey as long as we’re having a conversation about supporting trans actors playing trans people

thisurlwasnttakenbutnowitis

“There is a copy of the NES game Golf in the firmware of every Switch system”

Me: Oh haha, what a weird thing, probably some remnant from the debugging process -

“Since that was a game that Satoru Iwata programmed himself, this could have been intended as a way of saying that Iwata is spiritually a part of every Switch and is watching over and protecting every system.”

Me:

thisurlwasnttakenbutnowitis

Oh my God, so hackers have found out the way to enable you to play the game. You know how?

On July 11th*, the date of Iwata’s passing, doing Iwata’s “directly to you” motion with the Joy-Cons on the home screen will play a sound clip of Iwata and launch the game.

(* Before you try this yourself, note that simply changing the date on your system will not work, as this runs off the Switch’s internal internet-synced clock, meaning that changing the date manually will only work if the system has never been connected to the internet)

I… I can’t…

lunarhalo24

It goes even further than that.

Firstly, opening the game like this person is in the video is only possible with a brand new unit on system version 1.0.0 that has never been connected to the Internet. Because of this, opening it is pretty hard to replicate, unless if you have a completely brand new Switch. So, even if the system’s internal date is on July 11, it still won’t open if the system version is up to date.

The thing is, it’s not supposed to be opened.

The hidden Golf game has been described as an omamori, which, in Japanese culture, is a charm usually bought at shrines that offers spiritual protection and good luck if you keep it close to you. Sometimes they’re made of cloth, and look like a tiny bag, which can contain a written prayer. People often tie them to something like a purse or a backpack, so that it’s always with them. Here are a bunch of different ones:

Omamori are not supposed to be opened, as doing so is said to remove its blessing.

Seeing as the hidden Golf game on the Switch is so difficult to run under normal circumstances, it’s probably not supposed to be opened in the first place. It’s likely meant to represent an omamori in Iwata’s honor. Its very fitting, because of how portable the Switch is, since people are likely to take it with them like they would with an omamori strapped to a purse or backpack.

thisurlwasnttakenbutnowitis

Hey, everyone. Since we’re now in July and this post is still making the rounds, I’m sure there are people who are going to want to try to activate the Golf game on their Switch on the 11th. So I wanted to provide an update to this:

All of the files of Golf in the Switch system were removed in an update back in late December.

As @lunarhalo24 helpfully pointed out, this inclusion of Golf in the Switch system was meant to be an omamori, a blessing from Iwata. And there’s another important cultural thing about omamori to note here:

An omamori’s blessing is only good until the end of the year, after which it expires and the omamori is traditionally disposed of in a sacred fire. So the files being deleted at the end of last year seems as though it was symbolic of the blessing’s time expiring.

So yes, there is now almost no way to actually access it. Because it was never meant to be accessed.

ashiftchange

This whole thing is beautiful.

forestwater87

Hey internet, can we make this happen?

So my mom works at a church. Actually, she works somewhere that is located in a church, but close enough for government work. It’s not important. Anyway, they had an artist gallery, because sometimes churches do that; it’s a whole “supporting local artists” thing, and it’s pretty standard.

What is very not standard is the artist they happened to host this week.

Susan B. Hale is a musician and painter in the Upstate NY region. (For people wondering where that is: it’s all the not-NYC part. There’s actually an entire state attached to the city, like a big, slightly-racist wart. I’m getting off track.)

Susan’s art is fairly standard, lovely oil-on-canvas Impressionist stuff. Mostly flowers –

– some pretty landscapes –

– some weird abstract shit –

Pretty stuff. If I had anything resembling disposable income, I’d wanna buy some of this stuff, because it’s gorgeous.

You know what else she paints, sometimes?

BIG FUCKING DINOSAURS

BIG FUCKING DINOSAURS FROLICKING WITH FLOWERS

BIG FUCKING DINOSAURS NOSHING ON HUMAN SKULLS IN A BLACK VOID-LIKE HELLSCAPE

BIG FUCKING DINOSAURS ON BIG FUCKING CANVASES PLAYING HIDE-AND-SEEK WITH DEAD FLOATING LADIES BY PICTURESQUE PONDS HOW ARE YOU NOT DELIGHTED BY THIS

Obviously, my immediate reaction was to seek this woman out and find her all of the money. But while I did absolutely spend two hours looking up who she was and then emailing her, she doesn’t appear to have an Etsy – or any online store at all. She has virtually no digital presence, and not much of a reputation offline either.

And this is tragic.

Because let’s be real: this woman should be a fucking internet star. She paints lovely scenes of tranquility and fills them with T-Rexes for no apparent reason, other than that she thinks they’re rad. There’s an alternate reality in which she’s a Tumblr legend, and I want to live in that reality.

So here’s the thing. I know I’m not a Big Tumblr Person. I have virtually no clout in things like this, and the odds of anyone seeing this post are kinda limited. But I also want this woman to be so inundated with requests for awesome dino paintings that she has no choice but to open up an online store. I want my home and those of everyone I know to be filled with humungous, lush oils of morbid hilarious dinosaur beauty, like if Monet spent a glorious weekend binging all of Jurassic Park while also on a cocaine bender.

Reblog this. Email her telling her how great you think she is and how much you wish she had an amazon site or whatever. Consider supporting her, if you have some money and love dinosaurs. Boost the shit out of this, because even if she doesn’t get a single dime, her artwork makes me smile and I want to at least share the happy with others, and maybe bounce some of it back to her.

I am not sorry for the length of this post. You got pretty flowers and fucking dinos and you are welcome for it.

pleasespellchimerical

@systlin Yooo can you help boost this?

Anyway this is the best thing since sliced bread. I am delighted, /delighted/ I say, by impressionist dinosaurs.

systlin

OH MY GODS

lesdeuxcygnes

@gallusrostromegalus @thebibliosphere @thatsthat24 @kata-chthonia pls help boost this is AMAZING

thebibliosphere

The fact that the last title is titled “Ophelia” is just several layers of literary and metaphorical genius that I currently don’t have time to unpack but holy shit I want it.