[autumna1]

I made it into a father strange video, years of subscribing finally paying off

[pwlanier]

Basalt Pebble Carved as a Mouflon, Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC.

Courtesy Alain Truong

[dysphoria-things]

anyway now more than ever is the time to remember that bisexuals are often alienated from the queer community for our ability to “opt out”, and there will be less outcry when we are written out of “gay and lesbian” history. the fight for bisexual rights was within and outside our own communities and that is so goddamn exhausting. dont let that happen again

[radicalgraff]

"Free them all! Solidarity with the Prarieland 9!"

Graffiti in Sydney painted for the day of solidarity with the nine anti-ICE activists who were recently convicted of various charges in relation to a noise demo outside of an ICE detention center in Texas on July 4 2025 in which a police officer was shot.

Eight of the nine defendants were convicted on material support for terrorism, with wearing black at the protest, holding banners and flags used as evidence. The defendants face up to 15 years in prison for that charge alone. One of the nine defendants, Des, wasn’t even at the protest, but was still convicted for moving a box of anarchist zines after the protest.

[mourningkite]

Underground is a weird place

[txttletale]

did kier starmer's government help people? no. but did it at least make the country a better place? no. but was it popular? ah, no. but did it keep its promises? also no. but did it at least do right by its core constituencies? no. but when faced with great injustice, did starmer at least have the courage to condemn it? no. but did he at least refrain from actively cheering it on? no. but was the economy good? hell no. but di

[gar-friend]

Indieweb!! It’s one of my favorite parts of the internet, and I recommend everyone joins. You can find my website at garfriend.me !

[cecelo1]

Join us!!

[angelicdust]

[that-one-idiot-11]

whenever I tell a story I feel like Uncle Colm from Derry Girls

[littlestpersimmon]

Free Ornamentation III. This work is dedicated to the public domain ♡

[rosieandthemoon]

Lover's Eye Bracelet,from c. 1860, British {via}

This example is rendered in delicate watercolor on ivory.

Popular in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, lover’s eye miniatures were discreet tokens of affection, allowing the wearer to carry the presence of a beloved without revealing their identity.

By the mid-1800s, such objects could also function as sentimental or mourning jewelry, blurring the line between romance and remembrance.

[stateownedslut]

God I really cannot express how much I despise the UK government for their impending social media ban for under-16s

[stateownedslut]

I owe my life to the trans woman on tumblr who told me how to get DIY HRT when I was 15. Even though I didn't act on it for a year, just having the knowledge was the most power I'd had in a long time. I'm not sure I'd have survived without it.

Of course, this is entirely the point of this reactionary shift.

[probuccalfat]

you actually feel gaslit when you try to tell white people of a certain age that pewdiepie, with a platform so vast and catering to youth, helped reinvigorate racism and casual dehumanization towards indians because they get all “omg you can’t blame One man for that” like yes i can actually :) we were very incrementally making our way past the gas station indian popularized by apu and indian creatives were finally being given legitimate and serious opportunities (like say what you will about aziz and mindy in hindsight but at the time that was a shift culturally) only for this dumb swedish pig to get online and spark that vile shit right back up. ask any indian with a modicum of pride in their heritage and they can tell you how uncomfortable pewdiepie made us with ourselves

[girlcalledwhatsername]

Adding this

[voldemo]

My friend really changed once she became a vegetarian 

[voldemo]

its like ive never seen herbivore

[pilferedinstagram]

[birds-in-posts]

California quail (Callipepla californica)

[bahari-official]

me: i wanna talk about my ocs

someone: ok tell me about your ocs

me, suddenly convinced that every single thing about my ocs is stupid and cringy and probably offensive: i. have them

[yassifiedgollum]

I really have zero patience with the whole "man vs. bear" / "you're alone in an elevator with three adult men BUT you feel completely safe. Who are they" / "male night joggers are the natural predator of female night joggers" thing. Like, it's jokes, but it's also sincere, and it reinforces the idea that it's normal and good for women to be afraid all the time, especially of men.

It is not good for women to be afraid all the time, and we should not encourage it! When you consume a media diet of mostly true crime, buy a surveillance device for your house, and commiserate with the girlies online about how scary it is to see a man in a public place, you are basically cultivating an anxiety disorder. This will make your life more unpleasant, because you have trained yourself to be scared all the time, and it will not benefit you, because your fears are based on memes, not reality. You're not protecting yourself from anything; you're just giving yourself an extra flinch response.

And it plays right into the hands of conservatives! The right wing would love it if all women, especially all white and/or wealthy women, were terrified to leave their houses alone because they might see a strange man. They want you to be on a quest for One Good Man who will protect you from all other men and to be too scared to go anywhere without him. They want you to be on a hair trigger, ready to call the cops on anyone who makes you uncomfortable, because that is your function within their hierarchy.

If you are a woman, especially a white woman, then your fear is used to justify violence against poor people and people of color, especially men. From the perspective of conservatives, this is what your fear is for. And your fear is, in large part, what you are for.

Don't let them use you. Don't cultivate your fear.

[facelessoldgargoyle]

It is far far more likely for women to be hurt, abused, and murdered by that One Good Man. Isolating yourself from others will in fact put you in more danger!

[cricketcat9]

FINALLY someone said out loud that being permanently scared of men and possible violence is NOT a normal thing/state of being. I grew up and live without this fear***, and can only imagine how horrible it has to be to see all men as potential aggressors.

*** was raised to use the common sense tho