Obliviate

Charlie, 29, Seattle. I'm a potato fairy prince. Equestrian. Feminist. Raver. Spoonie. Pan/Bisexual, Grey-Aro, Polyam, They/Them.

[artndetails]

moving far away to a sunny place.

[animentality]

[theinformationcollector]

TIL Dr. Sigmund Freud was addicted to smoking and failed to quit for good throughout a 45 years long battle that included 33 operations for cancer of the jaw, an artificial jaw replacement, and attacks of “tobacco angina” exacerbated by nicotine . He was known to smoke up to twenty cigars a day.

via reddit.com

[blurrymango]

Jesus ffucking christ bro.

[kawaii-pigeon]

Seems like he had an oral fixation… Almost as if he were replacing the cigarette with… No i shant say…

[dduane]

Via @WritersGuildF at Twitter. (Not that this’ll help NBCUniversal, particularly when the LA City Department of Urban Forestry comes after them…)

This move, it seems likely, is damage control aimed at attempting to mitigate the situation before LA-based TV news crews show up.

(BTW: images in other threads here and on Twitter apparently confirm that Universal also did this illegal trimming three years ago, and the trees were in the process of trying to recover from it.)

ETA: this from @DanSigner at Twitter, showing images of the trees in previous years.

…For those interested in looking at the images more closely: this is the north end of Barham Blvd., the Toluca Lake-ish end, outside Universal’s Sheinberg building (Google Maps link here). If you use Street View to move up and down the road here, the tree images will change—check the right-hand bottom of the images to see the dates the photos were taken.

For those curious about why my dander’s up about this: leaving aside the casual spite of lopping trees at the wrong time of year so as to make picketers suffer (and let’s not forget the sudden construction / ripping-up of sidewalks elsewhere on the lot): the Universal / Universal City area was very much part of my personal “stomping grounds” when I was living and working in LA. Hanna-Barbera was just off the other end of Barham, north on Cahuenga, and I was up and down this road all the time, since friends and co-workers lived nearby. And trees there have enough trouble prospering without this bullshit.

[nthandrake-deactivated20240909]

As a rape survivor, I understand the need for safe space together – free from sexist harassment and potential violence. But fear of gender variance also can't be allowed to deceptively cloak itself as a women's safety issue. I can't think of a better example than my own, and my butch friends', first-hand experiences in public women's toilets. Of course women need to feel safe in a public restroom; that's a serious issue. So when a man walks in, women immediately examine the situation to see if the man looks flustered and embarrassed, or if he seems threatening; they draw on the skills they learned as young girls in this society to read body language for safety or danger.

Now, what happens when butches walk into the women's bathroom? Women nudge each other with elbows, or roll their eyes, and say mockingly, "Do you know which bathroom you're in?" Thats not how women behave when they really believe there's a man in the bathroom. This scenario is not about women's safety – its an example of gender-phobia.

And ask yourself, if you were in the women's bathroom, and there were two teenage drag queens putting on lipstick in front of the mirror, would you be in danger? If you called security or the cops, or forced those drag queens to use the men's room, would they be safe?

If the segregation of bathrooms is really about more than just genitals, then maybe the signs ought to read "Men" and "Sexually and Gender Oppressed," because we all need a safe place to go to the bathroom. Or even better, let's fight for clean individual bathrooms with signs on the doors that read "Restroom."

And defending the inclusion of transsexual sisters in women's space does not threaten the safety of any woman. The AIDS movement, for example, battled against the right-wing characterization of gay men as a "high-risk group." We won an understanding that there is no high-risk group – there are high-risk behaviors. Therefore, creating safety in women's space means we have to define unsafe behavior – like racist behavior by white women towards women of color, or dangerous insensitivity to disabilities.

Transsexual sisters are not a Trojan horse trying to infiltrate women's space. There have always been transsexual women helping to build the women's movement – they are part of virtually every large gathering of women. They want to be welcomed into women's space for the same reason every woman does – to feel safe.

Leslie Feinberg, Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Marsha P. Johnson and Beyond

[namk1]

[rj-abacura]

I am obsessed with this.

So because parkour is such a ridiculously male dominated sport, the "correct technique" for a lot of these movements that you're taught when you become an instructor plays to a male body's strengths: upper body strength, higher center of gravity, etc.

She demolishes this course by moving in ways that make sense for her body. She doesn't muscle her way up to her over a wall, she just throws a leg up over the wall. She doesn't use upper body strength to do the salmon ladder, she uses her hips!!! And it's fucking incredible.

So many girls and young women walk away from parkour because every movement caters to the strengths of men, because doing what makes sense for their bodies is seen as "bad technique" to be trained away.

If pre-transition me had seen this I would have cried tears of joy.

[afloweroutofstone]

A very obscure language

[lluminame]

The responses of people so far have only pointed out how silly it is to call Spanish obscure. So people should also know that Swahili is one of the official languages of Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, and is widely spoken as a lingua franca in many other countries and places. It is spoken by at least 100 million people. If these were the only two dictionaries they singled out, then it is even more transparently racist. The biggest racialised language in the US and the most common African language (besides arabic).

Also, it is already hard for any book to pass the censors but I was a bit shocked to learn from that article that for a prisoner to get a book in any foreign language, there also has to be a published english edition available for the prison to evaluate. Even Spanish books, in a country where 13% of the population are native spanish speakers. So I don't imagine inmates with less common languages are getting many options.

[lmaonade]

there is always some fucking laundry and dust and some other shit

[twitterexile]

[odinsblog]

Give all the stolen treasures back, thief

[catsnsmiles]

[ampervadasz]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Why is he doing that

[secondimpact]

unrestrained summer fun

[guy]

he ✨washin✨

[angelfish114]

I love men. I'm half man myself on my dad's side

[everythingfox]

“My dogs thought I was still in the front yard”

(via)

[fullmetalfisting]

God can you imagine if Donald Trump became president? There’d be like a new bubonic plague and he’d be like “idk drink bleach about it”

[fullmetalfisting]

Throwback to when I took acid for the first time in 2013 and predicted the events of 2020 like the fucking oracle of Delphi

[totally-a-wizard]

[agayjewishwerewolf]

Holy shit

[jimmyfury]

[crlsgif]

[jerseyclown]

trans friends— this has been circulating a lot on the internet already but PLEASE stop ordering from gc2b. their quality has massively declined, they send the wrong size binders correctly marked, the stitching is extremely poor and rips often times when first putting it on. do not waste your money on them!

[jerseyclown]

if anyone wants to know why im fundraising for new binders its because due to the quality decrease in gc2b, im currently relying on one binder ive had since 2018. three of my other BRAND new gc2b binders have already ripped and two others were marked size large but were a size medium or below. on top of that, they hurt my back an ungodly fucking amount, so please be careful with them, i know how hard this shit is for anyone else who is poor and/or financially constrained, and i really empathize, please bind safely and be careful!

[memewhore]

[charlesoberonn]

Archeologist 20,000 years after horses go extinct: *cries* I don’t

[why-cant-i-have-a-good-username]

That comment is one of the most accurate things in studying history.

[silly-jellyghoty]

I can feel the pain already

[deactivated-blog]

Sometimes when I'm high I like to imagine arguments in the far future about what kind of milk or eggs were in our recipes. I hope the main opposing factions would be divided over whether the milk was from dogs or cats because "what other mammals were in the vast majority of households back then?"

[aphony-cree]

Considering the current popularity of oat milk, almond milk, and soy milk I have a feeling there will be this exact argument in 100 years when people are doing Retro Cooking segments

[tsunamiwavesurfing]