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dradelcrahasmoved

Bruh

geoclaire

I can’t believe I read this post with my own fucking eyes

lurkerwithcomputer

I love it unironically, I burst out laughing. It hits the same note as “the opposite of malice is bonfire”.

clockworkvortex

*bisexual finger guns* Did I mention that I love truly horrible puns?

disabled-dyke

reminder this pride month that disabled people in the US on SSI and SSDI do not have the same marriage equality as people not on SSI and SSDI. its called the marriage penalty.

by getting married, a disabled person can lose their income, benefits, and health insurance.

if a disabled person marries an able bodied person, and combined their assets are $3000 or over they will lose all benefits, including medicaid (health insurance).

if a disabled person marries a disabled person, their assistance is lowered 25%.

we don’t have marriage equality until all disabled marriages are equal.

sources x x x x

clockworkvortex

Your reminder that there is no marriage equality until disabled people (queer, straight or otherwise) can marry without being penalized into poverty.

#disability #pride

wanderingwitchofthewood

knitmeapony

letter from a mother of a gay man. sent to ONE magazine, 1958.

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This post was flagged as adult content and the original poster was deactivated so I'm bringing it back.

foreign-dorian-deactivated20250

“Mrs R” was the pseudonym of Phyllis Shafer, a Kansas City local who helped found the Phoenix Society for Individual Freedom in 1966, a full three years before Stonewall. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she and her son Drew operated the Phoenix House, a safe haven for queer people in the city, and a hub of national queer activism. Drew passed away due to AIDS related complications in the 1980s, and his lover, Mickey Ray, spent the rest of his life fighting to keep his memory alive, largely contributing to the creation of the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America.

Years before the Stonewall uprising, Drew Shafer started Kansas City's first gay rights organization and published the first LGBTQ magazine

consistentlycontradictory

“We tend to view American history as this constant march toward progress, which is total crap,” he says. “You gotta fight for that stuff. And if you don't fight for that, you can fall backward. Like it's not just this linear history."

Good quote from the article which may be relevant right now.

knitmeapony

Bring this bad boy back with some delicious context for pride

clockworkvortex

Happy Pride 🌈

#pride #protect trans lives #queer

phantomrose96

We should talk more about what a dick move it is to name horror movie villains regular-ass people names.

Michael Meyers? Dick move. How many thousands of Mr. Michael Meyers are out there every day meeting people going "Ope! Haha Michael Meyers! Oh just don't kill me! Haha." Shut up. Meyers et al should kill you, and John Carpenter for causing this.

You know who did this right? Thomas Harris. Named his villain just the right inconceivable combination of sounds. I don't think there are any fucking Hannibal Lecters out there uncomfortably laughing off cannibal jokes in a job interview. And if there are, then I think they've got bigger problems coming from parents willing to name a squishy little baby Hannibal Fucking Lecter.

phantomrose96

"Hannibal Fucking Lecter, you were named after the best chance at achieving internet privacy in the digital age because all attempts to search for you will be buried beneath three decades worth of horror movie discourse and an unspeakable amount of Hannigram porn."

accelerationist-king-piccolo

metalheadsagainstfascism

Public service announcement.

Blue/purple lips and fingernails is a symptom of low oxygen in lighter skin tones.

In darker skin tones you're looking for grey or white lips and fingernails. Other places where this may be not evidence is the tongue and gums.

Figured since everyone gets taught what low oxygen looks like on lighter skin. Everyone should know what it looks like on dark skin too.

-fae

luigis-slut

I know that this post was specifically about cyanosis, but I highly recommend checking out the book "Mind the Gap" by Malone Mukwende, a medical handbook that describes and shows photographs of how different skin symptoms/diseases appear on darker skin. It covers several conditions from Jaundice to Measles to Skin Ulcers (although given the brevity of the book, it only covers common conditions at a basic level).

And its been made free to read online as well, and the website also has additional photographic examples of various skin conditions on dark skin.

#MedicalJustice #Lifesaving #blacklivesmatter #bipoc

headspace-hotel

being a pepper plant has to be so weird.

Imagine evolving capsaicin specifically to stop mammals from eating your fruits, and then a mammal comes along that not only will eat your fruits, but likes them specifically because of the capsaicin, so much that it starts using its weird paws to distribute and care for your seeds, which turns into a strong selective force that literally starts evolving you into producing MORE capsaicin and makes you a WAY more successful and wider ranged species than you ever were before

simply because this mammal LOVES Pain Chemical. that evolved specifically to produce pain in mammals. It's not that the capsaicin isn't WORKING. It's just that these freaks like it.

headspace-hotel

This is the same mammal with social instincts so goddamn strong that they literally try to form social bonds with their predators, and end up evolving the predators into a new species that fits into their social communities as a form of mutualistic symbiosis, and exists in several different forms with unique morphology and behaviors based on the function they perform.

Instead of, I don't know, EVOLVING TO BE FASTER, this animal finds a faster animal and sits on it. Which shouldn't even work because the faster animal is a prey animal and this animal is a predator, but SOMEHOW they FORM A SOCIAL BOND WITH THE PREY. So they can sit on it while it runs fast. And somehow the prey animal?? is cool with this?? and benefits from this relationship???

Literally how can you hate humans. Humans are possibly the most hilarious thing evolution has ever done.

headspace-hotel

other things humans have done

eat poison plants, decide they like getting poisoned, and evolve the plants to poison them more

evolve to not have hair, but they find mammals with thick fluffy hair and put the hair on themselves, and evolve the mammals to produce extra hair so they can both have a warm coat of hair

split up their parasitic lice species into two separate species because they start taking other animals' hair and putting it on themselves so much

learn how to set things on fire on purpose. maintain body temperature by just standing beside some wood that's on fire instead of literally any normal option

figure out that their prey tastes better and is easier to digest when they hold it over a fire after killing it. get smarter because they digest food so good after it's been held over a fire.

find a poisonous plant and try washing it in boiling water until they don't die when they eat it anymore

go across the ocean by making a floating nest despite not being able to breathe underwater, drink ocean water, or even swim naturally

drink milk from other mammals even though they can't digest it and it makes them sick. Evolve those mammals to produce more milk than their babies can drink so they can drink the milk. Some members of the species evolve to be able to digest milk because they were so hellbent on drinking it.

find flowers, bugs and minerals that are nice colors and crush them up to try to turn other things that color

eat mushrooms that make their nervous systems malfunction because they like malfunctioning their nervous systems

headspace-hotel

humans worldwide looking up into the celestial vault of stars a million light years away, separated from Earth by the deadly cold and emptiness of space: I bet there are guys up there to form social bonds with

electripipedream

Don & Roy Gay’s Pontiac, 1970s

thecollectibles

I dreamed of a sea by DannyLaiLai

dovalayn

my blorbo…

lovevenus-xii

Flora by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)

wilwheaton

Republicans are garbage.

error-404-fuck-not-found

legit my dad was like “i really don’t like the concept of abortion and i wish it didn’t exist, but i’m not about to act like it’s my call” and then i pointed out “the entire concept of outlawing abortion is saying the government has more right over your body parts than you do and has the legal precedent required to take one of your kidneys at any time so long as there’s a single person in need of a kidney transplant” and he suddenly went extremely pro-choice so that’s an argument that never fails

coldgoldlazarus

The evident imminent demise of Netflix once again raises an issue I have had with streaming services, which is the lack of physical media support. If Netflix tanks, what's going to happen to all those Originals, all the shows they picked up for more seasons after getting canned elsewhere? Was there any DVD releases of She-Ra, Carmen Sandiego, Series Of Unfortunate Events, and so on? Or is it just gonna get lost to the void because it was only accessible on servers that are likely to be shut down in the near future?

cutecutejames

At this point, piracy and preservation of these works is a cultural responsibility. If Netflix isn't going to archive these works and make them available to the public somehow, then it is the duty of the viewers/customers to archive these works so that they may be shared and enjoyed in perpetuity.

It's not fair to everyone involved creatively that these works vanish off the face of the earth.