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I just want to communicate and celebrate that in this pride month, today, our trans brothers and sisters in Argentina have won a great battle.

Equitable access to formal employment in the public administration is law. According to what was voted today, the State must destinate at least 1 percent of the public administration staff employs (in all the regular contracting modalities) to transvestite, trans and transgender people.

This is a huge step in breaking down the barrier that prevents trans people from accessing formal employment and living wages.

The law is named after two great trans activists of Argentina: Diana Sacayan and Lohana Berkins and was voted almost in unanimity.

#good things #trans rights

lesbianshepard

apparently native american tribes were in contact with the donner party and offered them food when they saw the colonists were starving and the donner party turned them down and decided to go the whole “cannibalism” route instead.

lesbianshepard

Until now the Native American perspective has been left out of the telling of the Donner tragedy, not because the wel mel ti did not remember the pioneers, but because they were never asked, or perhaps were not ready to share. Their oral tradition recalls the starving strangers who camped in an area that was unsuitable for that time of year. Taking pity on the pioneers, the northern Washoe attempted to feed them, leaving rabbit meat and wild potatoes near the camps. Another account states that they tried to bring the Donner Party a deer carcass, but were shot at as they approached. Later, some wel mel ti observed the migrants eating human remains. Fearing for their lives, the area’s native inhabitants continued to watch the strangers but avoided further contact. These stories, and the archaeological evidence that appears to support them, certainly complicated my interpretation of the Donner Party event. The migrants at Alder Creek were not surviving in the mountains alone—the northern Washoe were there, and they had tried to help. (source)

tfw a group of unprepared strangers show up, refuse the food you offer them, start fucking cannibalizing each other, and then call you the savages

sindri42

The story of the Donner Party is hilarious to me because like, everybody talks about them like these brave pioneers who made the ultimate sacrifice in pursuit of their destiny or whatever the fuck, but they were just complete dumbasses.

Like, have you ever heard of the Murphy Party? Sometimes called the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party? They were the first wagon train of the pioneers to make it over the Sierra Nevada, two full years before the Donners tried it, first of the american pioneers to reach the shores of lake Tahoe, first licensed physician in California, etc. etc. Ten families, about fifty people, not a single casualty (they actually arrived with more people than when they left). Because when the Donners picked the most charismatic city boy as their leader, the Murphys picked a mountain man. Where the Donners decided to take a “shortcut” that was completely impassable based on a letter they got from somebody who wanted to drum up business for a trading post he was building but who had never actually driven a wagon, the Murphys scouted properly and stuck to paths their vehicles could actually traverse. Where the Donners decided to shoot at the people who were already living in the area, the Murphys asked the natives for directions. When they got snowed in, they sent a few men on ahead to bring back supplies to the rest of the party after building a sturdy cabin for shelter, instead of trying to hole up in shoddy tents and lean-tos before eating each other.

Not to mention all the idiotic in-fighting in the Donner party; they were constantly brawling or stabbing each other or exiling people or just leaving old men on the side of the path to die or “accidentally” shooting their rivals while cleaning weapons, while literally hundreds of other wagon trains somehow made it through the same trials without any murder.

So naturally, the Donners got a lake and a pass and a state park named after them and became household words, while anybody who wasn’t a complete moron got maybe a local park or a small creek.

ironbite4

Daaaaaaaaaamn.

thedoormowse

It gets even better!

Donner was not the original leader of the group- the expedition started out under the leadership of a man named Reed, who did know what he was doing and had lead several groups safely to the Oregon Territory before.

When they reached the point where the new “California Trail” diverged from the Oregon Trail Donner convinced a large portion of the group to join him and travel across the Sierras.

Reed knew this was a very, very bad idea but Donner was apparently just- extremely charismatic and persuasive. Not only did the Reed Party safely make it to Oregon, as originally planned, but Reed immediately headed south as fast as he humanly could, and upon reaching Sacramento recruited a rescue party to bring emergency supplies up from the other side of the pass.

Unfortunately, it was already too late in the year and the weather forced the rescue party to turn back. Despite knowing the odds against the Donner Party surviving Reed refused to assume their deaths and stayed in Sacramento waiting for the mountain trail to clear.

So not only did Reed warn them not to, he was also the one that found the survivors afterwards.

Fuck Donner.

feministism

coffee-and-rainsticks

“Surely nothing could be worse than a lot of women dying,” she thinks. “Ah,” she says.

exercuted

What the actual fuck???

anarchistmemedistro

a lot of women, minorities, queer people, and activists will die. that’s what if.

lithi

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bpdzoldyck-deactivated20181014

As someone who has been living with severe suicidal ideation my entire life I wanna tell you all something, you don’t have to stay alive for yourself. People will say it’s a bad idea to live for external things because they’re temporary, and it’s true living for yourself is ideal but if you’re not to that point yet that’s ok too.

I’ve lived for my dog for the past 4 years, before that I lived for my snakes, before that I lived for my cat. You can live for whatever needs you and whatever matters to you. Live for your best friend, live for your plants, live for your pets, live for your animal crossing town. Live for whatever keeps you alive and the day will come when you can live for yourself.

stillstreetjoshua

This is something everyone should see. Thank you for sharing this.

robotsandfrippary

Transformers kept me alive. When the 2007 movie was announced I was going through an incredibly hard time emotionally. I saw the preview and every time I thought about killing myself I thought, “but then I won’t get to see this thing I’ve always wanted to see, good or not.” And it got me through.

I’m in a place where I live for myself now, but don’t toss away a life preserver just because other people think you should be able to swim on your own.

senatorwiggles-deactivated20241

don’t toss away a life preserver just because other people think you should be able to swim on your own

virtualways

odin-n-out

Decadent

as-warm-as-choco

i rediscovered the purpose of this site

twocatsinatrenchcoat

*showers with both male and female shampoos so i smell androgynous*

twocatsinatrenchcoat

according to the packaging i now smell like almond milk, jasmine, and sports.

gorgonsach

justgfy

Unions are trash. Theyll Destroy a whole company for firing a shitty worker.

gorgonsach

unions are the reason you aren’t paid 2.50 an hour with steel beams about to bust ya head open shut up lol

explorerrowan

Unions are why you have 5 day, 40 hour full-time work weeks. Unions are why they have to pay you in actual dollars instead of “company credits” that you can only spend at the company-owned stores. Unions are why there are fucking fire exits at your place of work. Unions are why it’s not okay for your supermarket ground beef to be any percentage human.

You think your company pays you out of the goodness of their hearts? Or even out of “market pressure?” The “job market” is a myth perpetuated by the capitalists. Corporations would pay you nothing if they could get away with it. And you argue “oh, but if they paid me nothing I’d just go to another one.” Wrong. Because to maximize profits, they all want to pay you nothing. Corporations exist to maximize profits while reducing risk for investors. It’s part of their entire function to find ways to cut costs as much as possible, and that includes finding ways to pay you nothing.

Unions are your defense against that. You think all a union does is strike? If you pay union dues, a lot of that is spent on lobbyists in various governments reminding your lawmakers that you have rights as a living human being that a corporation should not be able to stomp all over. Unions hire lawyers so that if you’re fired for bullshit reasons, the union can stand up for you against your boss. They’re called unions because workers are uniting to pool resources so that they can stand up to these corporate overlords with more money than God. Unions exist because you might not have the words, resources, or time to fight workplace injustices all by yourself. That’s the whole fucking point.

And if a business shuts down because a union is striking, it’s because the business was abusing people and didn’t deserve to be in business anyway. Don’t make excuses for the corporations. They already have trillions of dollars and a couple million lawyers to do that for themselves. They don’t need your help.

mierac

The erasure of labor history from US history curriculum has caused so much fucking damage to this country.

lesbianshepard

if you work retail long enough i think you should be given license to kill

lesbianshepard

new hire: you can tell the customers to go fuck themselves if they start acting mean

1 year: you are allowed to maim or seriously injure

3 years: you can kill a customer if they start a fight and you can prove they provoked you

5 years: you can kill customers on the clock in any scenario, no questions asked

10+ years: you can kill any customers in any stores

lesbianshepard

addendum: during holiday season they give the entire staff a machete regardless of how long they’ve worked retail and whatever happens, happens

radicalurbanista

4.15.21. Chicago

The mayor, police, and prosecutor lied about Adam Toledo being armed to justify that a CPD officer murdered a 13 year old who was unarmed and had his arms up (according to body cam footage released today but that I will not share). And the mayor has the audacity to ask for peace before releasing the video. Downtown is already closed. There is no reforming police, they are not an institution of public safety, all they can do is cause further harm.

They lied! In order to smear the name of a 13 YEAR OLD SEVENTH-GRADER the police killed!

Abolish police!

Rest in peace Adam Toledo.

Adam's mom's memorial fund is no longer accepting donations, but you can donate to and follow:

ChiFreeSchool

LVEJO

GKMC18

bramblepatch

I’m sorry if no one’s explained this to you before but a content creator telling you that their work isn’t for minors and it’s not their responsibility to jump through hoops to keep it from you is an adult looking out for kids. they’re modeling good boundaries and setting the expectation that you’ll engage with the online community like a person and take responsibility for your choices. if you cannot understand that you need to look out for yourself and take people seriously when they say their work isn’t suitable for young audiences then you are not ready to be unsupervised on the internet.

guerrillatech

sharper-and-bigger

weissguertena

tangentially related:

callese

fred-erick-frankenstein

[ID: a screenshot of a tweet by "Corey Richardson":

"I mistook my taser for a gun" is really a striking endorsement of not giving patrol officers guns in the first place. I mean, if your pharmacist couldn't tell an aspirin from fentanyl, it's not just something you accept as a occupational hazard. /end ID].

Yes, this!! Thank You!

levonsnape-deactivated20230929

I love The Golden Girls.

gholateg

Ya’ll don’t have any idea how fucking brave and needed these plot lines were.

This was before Ellen came out.

This was before civil unions.

This was before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

This was when your ass could be fired, blacklisted, and shunned with no legal protections for even being hinted at being gay.

And the Golden Girls said “Fuck you, Fuck this, we’re doing it anyway.”

silenthillmutual

I think it should be noted that Blanche’s quote about AIDS is also “It is not god punishing people for their sins” and that the episode also deals with slutshaming.

darkravn

I don’t know if people realize how much activism these women did for gay right and during the aids crisis. If you think about it they were all long established in Hollywood and Broadway. They had tons of friends personally affected and dealing with the aids crisis. Estelle Getty lost a nephew. I think they helped plant seeds in people who watched Golden Girls that helped make things a little more normalized and mainstream.

runcibility

What they found is an indictor for the wildfire season ahead.

California/west-coast friends: It looks like the table is set for another incredibly bad fire season. While the lightning storm from last year was a rare event, things are drier and more primed than before. Now would be a really good time to stock up on air filtration. Start inspecting your home for any areas you might want to seal up or block off. Even if it's just temporary, painters tape around an old window will help. Shove an old towel underneath an outward-facing door that's got a gap at the bottom. And, well... masks with filtration. Ironically we may have ditched those because they weren't good with preventing covid transmission, but as we're getting vaxxed up, you might want to reexamine your stock and see what you have. We're still forming habits around this new normal. Let's try and help each other figure it out, eh? <3

briearesea

^^^^THIS

Also pretty much the entire western US should probably brace for a bad summer.

mycroftrh

So oleander - a relatively common pretty garden flower - is so incredibly poisonous that if you eat honey made by bees primarily fed on it, you’ll die. Ever since I learned that fact as a kid I’ve wanted to write a murder mystery about a charming little town where people start just, dying mysteriously, as people do in charming little towns I’m told, and eventually it turns out that the local Sweet Little Old Lady has been feeding her bees off the oleander in her sweet little cottage garden and giving the honey, in sweet little jars with ribbons and hand-written labels that have sweet little drawings of bees and flowers, to every damn bastard in this damn backwards town that she’s built a grudge against over the last 80 years