how strange it is to be anything at all

t/lesbian(they/them)/27/white personalblogging/lesbianposting/ag foghlaim gaeilge/whateveriwant also rbs to: ditzytwinks, weatheredseadyke

[cursedvenusian]

tdykevenusian -> wildevenusian

might be temp idk life’s feeling full of change lately

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. The Foundation is sitting on $296 million in reserves and a freshly profitable AI revenue stream. This is a confrontation with global implications.

It has been suggested elsewhere that if you are a Wiki Foundation donor, it would be a good idea to email and explain that this kind of behaviour will lead to you withholding future donations.

[mangomonet]

alysa liu for teen vogue .✦ ݁˖

shot by erika long, styled by cece liu

[sailatina3]

Girls I am looking you in the eye and holding you tight. 99% of all things people describe as being female or male puberty is made up bullshit. Sex is not as black and white as you think (nor is it real for that matter.) Please. Dont listen. Jaw sizes and leg lengths and whatever is made up, misogynistic, and sometimes even race science. PLEASE im begging you to not hold yourself to such standards, much less other people.

[adriagan]

it fucking sucks being a disabled person who can't work and having to see these fuckass posts where someone's like "ahaha jobless people have no life and that's why everyone shitty online has No Job" and everyone and their mother reblogs it joyfully onto my dash for me to see. yes unemployed and unemployable people are truly without exception dogshit people with no hobbies and no redeeming qualities. you're so right. anyway if you'll excuse me i have to start my shift at the I'll Never Be Employed Because Of Permanent Disability And I Love Knowing How You Really See Me store

[adriagan]

if ur able to work can u reblog this i am seriously SO sick of it.

[adriagan]

btw this isn't solely a disability rights issue or an issue about people who are entirely unable to work. you should also be thinking about the people who are regarded as unhireable. transfems are hugely discriminated against in this way, people of color are passed over for less qualified white people, anyone who has any difficulty playing the interview game is less hireable... frankly anyone who made the mistake of pursuing the things they love and now has a degree for a niche field. if you still joke about Jobless People it's because you've fundamentally connected the worth of people to their labor, and specific labor, work that you see as valuable. and while i'm at it stop making fun of people who still live with their parents. asshole.

[scramratz]

“ICE is now targeting trans people!”

they been doing that. They just weren’t targeting WHITE trans people until now

[isuggestrespecttranspeople]

Little reminder to lift up the POC trans people in your life. They been going through it lately! As always but hey!

[inzergue]

why did they make this game so difficult

[inzergue]

unfortunately they've now had two

[covid-safer-hotties]

Poor lung gas exchange may help explain lingering brain symptoms in Long COVID

This study found that people with Long COVID more than two years after infection showed normal lung tests and brain structure, yet reported

Also preserved in our archive

[title]

“You’re the only friend I need, sharing beds like little kids” (insp.)

Bound (1996), Saving Face (2004), Thelma (2017), Carol (2015), But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), Hearts Beat Loud (2018), Disobedience (2017), The World to Come (2020), The Handmaiden (2016), Blue Jean (2022), Lovesong (2016), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), Rafiki (2018), The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995), Night Nurse (1931)

[livethrushit]

HEY!! are YOU a queer & disabled jew who believes in a free palestine? do you wish you could attend pride events but can't because they are somehow, in the year of our fucking lord 2026, still not fully accessible? i'm collecting art submissions for the third year of Pride Signs by the Disabled Community. NO AI!

submit your posters (photo or scan of traditional media or a digital poster) to me over at @queer_disabledjews on IG or dm me here for more information. submissions open until the end of july. examples from previous years can be seen above & on the IG account. i'm working on moving the works to the low-income queer disabled jews patreon.

[newlevant]

It’s that time of year! 🌈

Updated COVID vaccines are mostly for preventing severe acute illness, but it modestly reduces your chances of getting COVID at all! (54% less symptomatic illness in the following 4 months, in this recent MMWR report.) Best paired with a respirator! People who always wore N95 masks in indoor public settings had *83%* reduced risk of testing positive for COVID, in this 2022 MMWR report.

More info in this zine I made: What's Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself: 2024 Edition.

[mythriens]

Image description: Title reads "COVID-Safer Pride Guide" in front of a rainbow flag and three people in masks and respirators. Five colourful squares containing information make a rainbow and contain illustrations like a person's arm with a band-aid covering the site of a vaccine injection, a person in an N95 mask, and a line of Pride flags. The text reads:

COVID is still a threat. Getting sick sucks, plus your risk of long-lasting symptoms—aka long COVID—gets higher each time you're infected. Fortunately, there's a lot you can do to lower the risk of transmission! Protect your ability to party—and protest—this Pride!

Get a Booster. Like Drag Race spinoffs, new COVID variants are dropping all the time. Antibodies from your latest vax or infection wane after a few months. Get a booster matched to the latest variants, and your resistance will peak in a couple weeks!

Mask up! COVID virus spreads through the air like the smoke from a fag [British]. A well-fitting N95 mask gives great protection! More reasons to mask up: sexy and mysterious, shows community care, avoid all the other airborne diseases!

Take it outside. The more fresh air to disperse the virus, the better! Transmission is still possible, especially in a crowd, but going outdoors is a major safety update!

Stay home if you're sick. Pride is all about community, baby. Protect your people by staying home if you're sick. If you do have COVID (rapid tests aren't great, so you might not know), getting lots of rest lowers your risk of developing long COVID! Drink some tea, sis.

[covid-safer-hotties]

The pandemic isn’t over—and queer people shouldn’t be acting like it is | Xtra Magazine

ANALYSIS: As a community, we talk a good talk about keeping each other safe, so why aren’t we doing it now? 

[todaysbat]

Image description: photo of a brown sign with white text that reads: "You can't save everything cute, eat everything that tastes good, and kill everything you're afraid of and expect a working ecosystem to come out of it." -- Flip Nicklin, wildlife photographer

Image source: photograph by op

[petewentzisblack1312]

we do have to contend with the fact that the reason there is this like perpetual conflation funnel that turns aave and other black dialects into 'gen z slang' and memes and the reason non black performers keep putting on blaccents and the reason pictures of black people just existing gets turned into memes is the same and its because its all minstrelsy.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

re ehrc guidance. which is not legally binding.

[madgastronomer]

Also, "Will the organization cover my court costs if I am sued for sexual harassment for asking about someone's genitals?"

[byjohnnyjordan]

sea moss on sand

sea moss on rock

[robertfagden]

actually im doing really well except for the fact that everything makes me sad and the things that dont make me sad make me angry. but other than that im fine