The State of Transas @diaspora-transan - Tumblr Blog

Intro Post

What I post about

So much, this blog is a hot mess. I also suck at tagging. I apologize. I tend to post memes, socialist/communist/leftist propaganda, posts about queer issues, and cool art. I’m not particularly involved in fandom at the moment, but was in some fandoms in my youth that I may still reblog (and some I most certainly will not).

How to refer to me and my gender

I do not have a name on this site. Do not refer to me. You can use whatever usename/url I have at the time, but “hey you” works great too.

Cis/Het/Allos: refer to me as he. Also, don’t talk to me, I’m tired of y’all’s bullshit. Queers of all flavors: he/xe pronouns. If you’re not cis: he/xe/it pronouns. The “it” is for comedic value. I don’t use they/them, as a trans man, I have a history of cis people referring to me as “they” because they were uncomfortable with “he”.

I use masculine terms. I am a man. You can call me “sir” or “mr.” if you care to be formal. Additionally, I don’t use the term “boy” as I am an adult. “guy” and “man” are both fine. I’m also down to clown with weirder terms, like “goblin” or “comrade”. Shit that’s funny and fits the xe/xem vibe. Don’t use gender neutral language for me unless you’re referring to me as part of a group or the gender neutral term is the most used/only choice. (ie, calling me a friend, great. Calling me someone’s “joyfriend” or “partner” when you could just use “boyfriend”, not great.)

The silly goofy ID list

bi, gay, achillean, queer, fag.

Polyam

Trans / transmasc / transgender / transsexual / trans man

Adult

White (specifics unknown), US American

ADHD, probably autism, shit life syndrome

About Donations

Just so y’all’re aware, I do not reblog/share personal donation links. I have no way to prove that they’re real, I don’t want to be the judge of whose issues deserve recognition, and I don’t want them cluttering my blog. Instead of donating to anyone’s individual funds I donate to organizations including Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children, and local trans support organizations. I feel these organizations can make my money go further to help more people than me donating to individuals. I am more likely to reblog organization donation links.

Email Chain

If Tumblr goes down, we’re starting an email chain with the mutuals.

[email protected]

Archive/backup

I’m backing up my posts to word press. You have to manually tell it to update, so it will be a little behind.

https://local-transanbackupblog.wordpress.com/

Exit Poll

If you want to leave, you are free to do so, but I would appreciate it if you told me why. https://forms.gle/VP9k6wWi8nGGUUWy6

#gay #trans #pronouns #introduction #trans man #transmasc

onenicebugperday

Yes, your fireworks are harming wildlife

Trigger warning for graphic descriptions of injured and dead wildlife.

When a fireworks display occurs near a wild bird roost, the birds simultaneously explode into the night skies in utter panic, which can lead to huge numbers of deaths, usually because these birds either smash their skulls or break their necks as the result of flying into trees, fences, billboards, houses and other solid objects that they cannot see in the gloom and ensuing chaos.

Many of the startled birds who take flight fly at much higher altitudes and for much longer durations than they’re used to to escape the noise, which is energetically costly and physiologically stressful.

Small birds and bats can be knocked from the air and killed by the sonic shock. In 2010, 40 dead sparrows were discovered dead under a roost in a nature reserve after a local fireworks display. The manager of the reserve witnessed a tawny owl fluttering and convulsing on the ground after a particularly loud explosion. It died shortly after.

In Arkansas in 2010, some 5,000 red-winged blackbirds, European starlings, common grackles and brown-headed cowbirds suffered blunt-force trauma after colliding with cars, trees and buildings, an ornithologist from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission would tell National Geographic.

In 2008, federal officials showed that seabirds in the northern California town of Gualala abandoned their nests after a fireworks show, leaving their eggs vulnerable to predators.

Each year in Austin, Texas, the Congress Bridge bats can be seen fleeing the fireworks display en masse on weather radar, and emergences from their roost diminish noticeably in the days following the Fourth.

In 2018, the Galapagos banned the sale and use of pyrotechnics. According to the BBC, conservationists said that fireworks caused elevated heart rates, trembling and anxiety in many animals.

The threat to wildlife doesn’t stop at startling lights and sounds; fireworks also have the potential of starting wildfires, directly affecting wildlife and destroying essential habitat. Litter from firecrackers, bottle rockets and other explosives can be choking hazards for wildlife and may be toxic if ingested.

So what do you do if you want to watch fireworks responsibly? Experts say municipalities are more likely to be aware of these dangers than private consumers. Their best advice is to stick to the shows put on by professionals and local governments, which tend to follow guidelines put forth by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, among others, about animal safety.

The National Audubon Society offers similar guidelines: “Commercial fireworks are concentrated in one location, rather than in several locations at once, which is what often happens in neighborhoods. This allows birds to take off and land again in a ‘safer’ location rather than continuing to flee noises coming at them from all directions.”

(Sources: x x x x x)

onenicebugperday

Yearly reminder :)

ritahayworrth

happy fourth of july to the philippines ONLY

ritahayworrth

link to article

cassiterite-tenring

hi, filipino here. just want to say that our independence day is june 12, not july 4. july 4 is when the united states government decided that they would recognize our freedom, specifically because it is your independence day and they wanted to cement their cultural hegemony over our country. and because of their influence on our country this was recognized for a time as our independence day. we still commemorate it, but i hope you can understand why we don’t want our independence day to be associated so closely with our former colonizer. it wasn’t even a work holiday for us.

june 12 is the day that we filipinos declared our own independence for ourselves, and that is what we celebrate as independence day

national holiday

Happy Pride!

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

thesaltofcarthage

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

official-doctor-worm

Wonderful artwork by @honourablefool !!

#!!!!#Brings me joy every day

official-doctor-worm

I would like. Belly rubs. Please and thank you.

#Still in love with Doctor Worm

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autter-pop-old

I hate when people say “trying isn’t good enough”

So to all the people out there who’ve been told that, trying is good enough. To all the neurodivergent people, the chronically ill, the disabled, and everyone else: trying is good enough. As long as you are trying, it is good enough. Don’t let people tell you otherwise.

gumy-shark

oh, no, you misunderstand me. those were my monkeys. yeah the circus and i have since parted ways. yeah it was the elephant thing, i dont really want to address that right now though