john swoletrane’s giant reps

erik aka starite • mid 20s • queer; he/him personal blog

[fredersen]

a meba 🦠 is almost like a really really small anermal but not quite

[posthumanwanderings]

Jet Set Radio (Dreamcast) - Electric Toothbrush

[the-uss-premise]

Console buttons from Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-69)

[kitschday]

[bideogaymes]

“A coalition of organizations that work with marginalized communities in Lebanon such as migrant workers are raising funds to provide support and assistance (food, medical supplies, pads, diapers) to the various communities. Please share and donate.”

EMERGENCY RESPONSE COALITION: VOICES OF THE UNSEEN

EMERGENCY RESPONSE COALITION: VOICES OF THE UNSEEN As the indiscriminate attacks in Lebanon continue with over 120,000 (Statistics by OCHA)

[withbriefthanksgiving]

As of June 2026, Voices of the Unseen are still raising money.

March 2026 update:

Campaign Story: Starting at 42,000 USD (raised in the last war), Voices of the Unseen begins again.... Following the devastating events of 1 March, 2026, and the subsequent heavy bombardment of Beirut’s southern suburbs and South Lebanon in the early hours of 2 March, we are witnessing a terrifyingly familiar cycle of violence. At least 31 people have been martyred and 149 wounded in just the last few hours. Thousands more fleeing their homes under new evacuation orders. The recent escalation has pushed Lebanon back to the brink of a full scale war.

In 2024, we saw firsthand the systemic failure of the state. As bombs fell, the state offered no safety net for those most vulnerable:

Migrant Workers: Still trapped under the Kafala system a form of modern day slavery, many are being abandoned by employers fleeing the violence, left without papers or safe passage.

Syrian Refugees: Already displaced by over a decade of war, we are once again facing the trauma of being uprooted with nowhere left to run.

Palestinians: Facing an ongoing struggle for survival as the violence in Lebanon mirrors the aggression they have endured for 78 years.

Marginalised Lebanese: Families in the South, Bekaa, and Beirut are losing their livelihoods and homes, watching their society be torn apart once more.

When the state failed, organisers from these communities built critical safety nets. This was done with your help. Last year, we raised $42,000 (USD) that went directly to community organisers from these communities. Now, we must do it again. Our current efforts are being channelled through a core group of trusted community groups: Tres Marias, Reman, Syrian Eyes and DoWAN. We are building community led solutions to a systemic collapse. We are calling for immediate financial and in kind donations to support emergency housing, healthcare access and basic survival needs.

[audrid]

Hi there, I’m going to be 4 days late on rent as I’m currently short $500/950. I should be able to cover another $400 by the end of the week, but after doing some math it doesn’t seem like I can get the last $150 on my own. I would really appreciate any help with this 🙏 I’m in the process of finding my 73 yr old mother who is financially dependent on me and has been out of her own freelance work for several weeks, but I haven’t been able to make any headway on funds to make this happen because I’m consistently being financially drained by having a financial dependent. My Venmo is pictured above

PayPal is sexmonkey12

Cashapp is $ERobert58

Posting this is a bit humiliating so please bear with me if I delete it later

[audrid]

Anything helps $10 ten times is $100. Nothing is too little. Sharing especially helps me out

Thank you all

[audrid]

Your generosity has helped me reach my goal of $150. Thank you so much. I’m unfortunately going to be about $189 short as I’ve not found a way to prevent my paycheck from direct depositing into my $-104 overdrawn account. Anything helps. Reblogs really help thank you

[willabee]

stop drawing willabee only

[lockssteps]

awesome

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awesome

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awesome

[deadmegumi]

in terms of golden age of tv prestige drama protagonists don draper was the only one born in the exact right era like walter white was supposed to be synthesizing laudanum in 1822 and tony soprano should have been a junior tetrarch under diocletian but don draper could only have existed in the 60s bc that's the last time in history you could steal someone's identity just by taking their ID and going yes this has been me the whole time trust me

[mars-matrix-deactivated20150713]

[pekingopera]

Mongolia via PallasDav

[pekingopera]

PallasDav

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[dragon-in-a-fez]

when a government bans young people from using social media, and then categorises messenger apps like Signal and WhatsApp as "social media", they are pushing those young people toward using text messages, a fundamentally insecure form of communication. texts are not encrypted in transit and can be read by both the sender's mobile carrier and the recipient's. that also means they can be leaked in data breaches, subpoenaed, or just handed over willingly to law enforcement at the carriers' discretion.

hmm. I wonder why governments might want this

[dragon-in-a-fez]

this is not JUST about destroying kids' privacy by the way, although that is bad on its own! but think about it: if you can push everyone to spend their formative social years communicating through an insecure protocol, most of them are not going to do the work of moving to a secure one the moment they're legally allowed! banning everyone under 16 from Signal and WhatsApp creates a whole population of people more likely to continue, for the rest of their lives, to communicate using a tool the government can access at the drop of a hat

[pjackk]

Ok so apparently the girls went out for tinis and bruschetta without me

[sandmandaddy69]