Infrequent Missives

Occasional blogging from a 40-something enby #UU #KeepItInTheGround #No1IsIllegalOnStolenLand

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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

Google is letting you one click generate images off Google satellite photos. The author created nuclear plants, bomb craters, car crashes without any problem.

[bossymarmalade]

Ace ppl (whichever flavour you ID as): when you're having private sexy time which of these is you?

i simply do not masturbate

i fantasize about myself in whatever situations are hot to me

i do not fantasize at all i just get the job done

i fantasize about characters/other ppl but NOT me in any way

i incorporate my own experiences (fantasizing yourself OR others)

i use text/visual porn and don't get caught up in ideas of who's having the sex

nuance i'll explain/i'm not ace and wanna see results

Voting ended onJul 29

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‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone

The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope

The Feds hoped to grab Samuel Tunick's phone at the airport in a border stop, searched him without a warrant because of his activism in Atlanta, and are now trying to prosecute him for not allowing them to seize his phone's data

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.

but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.

the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold dante’s exile.

[stabethadeathwhisper]

The objectively funniest part of this is actually that the city that holds his remains, Ravenna, refused to give his remains back. This was a ploy from florence to have his remains moved back for the tourist money and its been ongoing for a long time. Florence had a fake tomb built in the city to trick people into visiting, and have tried to force the return of the remains.

His actual caretakers have been very steadfast in keeping them hidden, moved, or generally out of reach to respect his choice in life to never, ever, ever return to florence, even when he was first offered the chance to return. This is at this point an almost millenium long feud that florence is really, really mad about losing

[mysteryteacup]

so basically the five people who wanted to uphold his exile were in the right

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

I love that doctor who actors range from ‘doesn’t even know basic facts about the series’ to ‘looms truther’

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

For those curious it’s Sylvester McCoy

(This is from the into to I, Who)

[fladurblegon]

“What if poor people abuse the system?”

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

Hope this helps.

[breninarthur]

"What if poor people abuse the system?"

Rich people abuse the system far more and out of pure greed, not necessity or desperation so idrc about that

[natequarter]

not only are most people completely unaware of the devastation of indigenous languages in the americas, most people are completely unaware of the devastation of indigenous languages in europe. never mind occitan, they don't know about basque! it's wild! bleak! existentially horrifying!!!

[natequarter]

the last few centuries of french history involved, amongst other things, a concerted effort to establish "french" as a legitimate country and cultural identity, and crucially as a language, which sounds like an absurd statement if you know nothing about the languages of france. french is a language, yes; it exists and existed in the late eighteenth century. but it was limited primarily to the north of france and was certainly not spoken or even understood across the country. other languages within france were banned and french was enforced following the french revolution and even to this day other languages indigenous to france have very little legal protection and are not recognised as official languages.

that's just one country in europe. one. and many people straight up have no idea about any of this!

[natequarter]

did you know france has celtic languages? breton is the only celtic language spoken outside of the british isles. did you know france has germanic languages? alsatian, for example, is spoken in the east of france, unsurprisingly in alsace. it's not even the only french germanic language. did you know france has a number of languages and dialects known as langues d'oïl closely related to french? norman and picard, for example, are spoken in the north of france. did you know that france has gallo-romance languages? franco-provençal (which has a number of dialects) is spoken in the east of france, as well as parts of switzerland and italy. did you know that france has a language most closely related to catalan, the langues d'oc? occitan is spoken in the south of france and has a rich literary history. did you know france is home to basque, or rather euskara, a language isolate which predates indo-european languages? romani dialects! corsican! so much more than just french! there are even extinct jewish dialects of occitan! extinct langues d'oïl like angevin! so much linguistic diversity and all anyone talks about is french.

[creekfiend]

gender essentialism is soooo funny bc it's like "this is what women are like" and you're like "I've met women and many of them, if not the majority, have not been like that" and it's like "well women SHOULD be like that" and you're like "why should women be like that" and its like "because that's what women are like"

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how often are you getting a headache

daily

weekly

monthly

couple times a year

yearly or less

Voting ended onJul 23

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how often are you getting a tummy ache

daily

weekly

monthly

every couple months

yearly or less

Voting ended onJul 23

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Ok so thanks for voting on this but i need you to reblog it too

[homoidiotic]

"Twenty One Things You Don't Say To A Transsexual" written by Riki Anne Wilchins in TransSisters : The Journal Of Transsexual Feminism (Winter 1994)

[vaspider]

Welcome to Project Hail Mary, we got:

Rocks (you will cry about one (1) rock)

Space germs/pond life in space (eating ur sun)

More space pond life

Found family (see: rock. You WILL cry)

Russian prison tattoos (just one)

Adorable kids (meat and rock varieties)

Karaoke (music with rocks in, non-Pratchett variety)

Really good space science

Truly terrible linguistics but who cares

Cute fox sweaters

Enjoy your stay

[luna-azzurra]

What helped me write trauma better is remembering that the nervous system learns predictions. If danger used to come after quiet, calm can feel threatening. If kindness used to come with a price, kindness can feel suspicious. So healing is not just “they know they’re safe now.” Healing is the slow, annoying, deeply unfair process of teaching the body that the old prediction is not always the present truth.

[ouidamforeman]

Ok unironically i think Dr Who and the Gallifrey series would be way better if they more consistently remembered that Gallifreyan society as a concept was early on congealed into being based on historical Britain with some other historical Europe stuff in there, bc genuinely i think about the “it’s an old gentlemen’s club and also the Vatican” thing every goddamn day. That’s so evocative and you can do so much with that just by going back to connected ideas based on real European history. Gallifrey as regency and victorian Britain the repressive and flashy evil colonial empire. Gallifrey as church controlled medieval Europe. Time lords as deranged upper class British people. Time lords as historical European clergy. Gallifreyan society as the Enlightenment attempting to suppress and hide all its weird dark mystical medieval tendencies. It’s all there babey

[gwydionmisha]

Victoria Cruz, Stonewall hero and trans activist, dies at 79

Cruz protested during the Stonewall riots and spent nearly two decades working for the New York City Anti-Violence Project.

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A Mexican father was shot and killed by an ICE officer. His son is demanding an independent probe

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo worked for 35 years from sunrise to sunset to send all three of his American citizen sons to college. He had also been working toward securing legal status in the U.S. after neglecting that for years as he built homes, his son Ronaldo Salgado said at a news conference.

"Houston City Council voted to pass an ordinance limiting ICE cooperation but reversed course after Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, threatened to cut more than $100 million in state funding for public safety."

[draconym]

When I am king, we will valorize sanitation workers the way we currently valorize the military

[thegrindingwheel]

So heroic posters showing trashmen battling allegorical monsters? I'm down.

[draconym]

Yeah but that's just the beginning. I also want Sanitation Worker Discounts at every business and blockbuster movie propaganda glorifying sanitation work. I want random people to salute garbage collectors and thank them for their service. I want drivers who get impatient with the recycling truck and honk at it and swerve around it to become social pariahs

[thatlovelywitch]

My mouth fell.