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bigay greyace queer 23 years of artistry he/it  photography blog is paradoxprophecy

[shanehollanderss]

this website is a great resource for minnesotan mutual aid and testimony to what is happening here

Stand With Minnesota

A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation

[spankerella]

@ perfectunion

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[stuckinapril]

when James Baldwin said I can’t be a pessimist because I’m alive

[stuckinapril]

when James Baldwin said to be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive.

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[pangur-and-grim]

[peregrinethegryphon]

Expectation:

Reality:

Dorsal Light Response - a reflex that causes insects to turn their backs towards a light source to orient themselves during flight.

[sibyllance]

Apparently someone got their car stuck on the light rail tracks at Mt. Baker. For those unfamiliar this is 35 feet up in the air

[officialboredom]

First test flight of a flying car by Mazda partially a success

[tuulikki]

I feel like the Arizona Utah license plate should take some place in our analysis of whatever in the goddam fuck we’re looking at here

[sibyllance]

Apparently someone got their car stuck on the light rail tracks at Mt. Baker. For those unfamiliar this is 35 feet up in the air

[officialboredom]

First test flight of a flying car by Mazda partially a success

[tuulikki]

I feel like the Arizona Utah license plate should take some place in our analysis of whatever in the goddam fuck we’re looking at here

[fireleaptfromhousetohouse]

[creatingblackcharacters]

I know this is a page that is intended for the purpose of discussing Black characters, however I have seen discussion of race and racism in general so I hope this is fine to ask on this blog specifically:

So I was driving with my dad earlier and he was discussing a house he used to live in (we are both white) and said that it was in a "bad part of town" and referred to this part as "the hood". Now I know these are terms with a lot of racial history and often are meant to refer to the amount of Black people in an area, but he wasn't incorrect that it is an underprivileged and often more dangerous area. How should I handle a situation like this? What should he have said if he still wanted to convey that it was a dangerous area? Or is there no reason to emphasize the specific danger of these places as compared to others?

Thank you for your time

Ask him "what makes it the bad part of town? WHY?" "Why do you call it the hood?" This my friend, is what we call a dog whistle!

Make him SAY the quiet part out loud! Because the reason those neighborhoods are impoverished and full of Black people and Latinos is very purposeful and systemic! There's a REASON that we got pushed into ghettos and projects! There's a reason it's called "the hood"!

He could have just said "this area is underprivileged and has a higher rate of crime". You know, like you did. Because if he's calling it run down, poverty begets poverty. People who are cared for and have what they need socioeconomically tend to commit less crime. He specifically used racially charged (yet color-blind!) words to describe the area. It also doesn't help that Black and Brown neighborhoods are more policed- so there could be the same amount of crime happening (if not more so!) in the white trash section of town, but will be addressed less because of less policing.

I would recommend The New Jim Crow, personally. For you and your Dad. I also enjoyed Rise of the Warrior Cop;, though it can be very centrist at times, more than I like, the numbers are undeniable.

[cranialisotope]

hey so i enjoy making emojis. here's half of the ones i've made so far. please use them, if you like! (i've put what i call them in the alt text, and i think it's silly and fun, but feel free to call them whatever works for you.)

part 2 in the reblogs, there's a bunch!

[memegetter]

happy pride month.

in new zealand, our evil government are trying to legislate definitions of women and men, in ways that are legally incoherent but clearly trying to pave the way for more horrifically transphobic legislation. we have an election in a few months but our main opposition party, and all our mainstream news media, are so spineless and cooked that there's a good chance the ghouls will win reelection.

it took 2 whole months for local terf group 'speak up for women' to get 2,000 signatures on the petition that led to this new bill in our parliament.

it's taken five days for this pro-trans 'they don't speak for us' petition to get 17,000 signatures.

this is a show of support that is really heartening for a lot of trans people in our corner of the world.

cis/ish women, if you're from here but haven't signed yet, please do. and if you're not from here and you know any new zealanders, could you send them this petition? a full fifth of our population lives overseas, and there's a good chance they don't follow the news.

LINK

[starg2zerlion]

Good rule of thumb is the more people of different backgrounds you know, the harder it becomes to dehumanize them, so its a really good thing to meet people from different backgrounds, and anyone telling you that people from x culture or y country you really shouldnt interact with probably dont have your best interest in mind

[pnglove]

The ocean leaves behind pieces of herself 🐚♡

[shesgonnachangetheworld]

people have this tendency to believe that fandom discourse exists because people in fandoms are Stupid Nerdy Losers, but in fact fandom discourse exists because anytime you get a group of more than 100 people together, they will start creating interpersonal bullshit. fandom is not special in this regard

[lyricwritesprose]

There is sports discourse. There is yarn discourse. There is food discourse. There is academic discourse (dear sweet god is there academic discourse). If there are people out there collecting brass buttons specifically from 1921, they are going to have discourse about which buttons are trash and whether Person A cheated person B. To be human is to engage in pointless wankery sometimes.

[sawed-on-shotgun]

being aromantic is kind of weird because normally if someone were to say some shit like 'maybe your orientation is only [x] because youre mentally ill' id roundhouse kick them but itreally does fucking feel like that with aromanticism sometimes. personally anyway lmao

[sawed-on-shotgun]

i like girls cause i just do and i like dudes cuz i just do and i like some other shit causei just Do and everything adn anything can be hot to me thats just how it is but romantic attraction? disgust at the thought of nonsexual intimacy? i could cite like 40 different events in my childhood that led to this probably

[sawed-on-shotgun]

my mommy was weird and distant sometimes and now thinking about being cute with someone makes me want to throw up and yell COOTIES EWWWWWWWWWWWW EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW COOOOOOTIES EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW

[chernobog13]

Concept art by Shigeru Komatsuzaki for King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962).