none of these thoughts are my own

xix. i nuke your notifs

[mckitterick]

[mckitterick]

On April 13, 1985, Danuta Danielsson - a Jewish-Polish woman whose mother was taken to a concentration camp in WWII - hit a local neonazi with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden.

Update: The neonazis were subsequently expelled from the city, and a statue was erected in her honor.

This week 34 years ago, Danuta Danielsson demonstrated how much respect fascists deserve.

[vbartilucci]

Well played, Danuta Danielsson.

And good aim.

[alys-is-rabbit]

She hit them so hard they were banished from that land forever. Iconic

[mckitterick]

Happy 40th Annual Hit a Nazi with a Handbag Day

[molotovblogtail]

Happy 41st Annual Hit a Nazi with a Handbag Day

[vegas-ventura]

[queer-as-city-folk]

5 events every leftist in the US should know about:

[queer-as-city-folk]

Obviously other events are incredibly important, but like these are 3 of the most significant uses of force by the US Government against its own citizens, as well as what lead to May Day and the modern Gay Liberation movement

[queer-as-city-folk]

I would put Kent State as an honorable mention as well

[thaumbody]

And then there's Wounded Knee, the 1890 original when Tribal Folk did not, yet, have full citizenship rights (that'd be 1924):

[queer-as-city-folk]

This also definitely does belong on the list

[dragonroyaly]

[questionablyfictional]

[ID: edited message exchange:

Sender: We got 17776 tomorrow

Receiver: What?

Sender: We gotta stop aging and dying and being born for eternity tomorrow

Receiver: Ohhhh

Okay /End ID.]

[benedictervention-deactivated20]

MUSIC ASKS these are actually pretty fucking hard but why not.

1:A song you like with a color in the title

2:A song you like with a number in the title

3:A song that reminds you of summertime

4:A song that reminds you of someone you would rather forget about

5:A song that needs to be played LOUD

6:A song that makes you want to dance

7:A song to drive to

8:A song about drugs or alcohol

9:A song that makes you happy

10:A song that makes you sad

11:A song that you never get tired of

12:A song from your preteen years

13:One of your favorite 80’s songs

14:A song that you would love played at your wedding

15:A song that is a cover by another artist

16:One of your favorite classical songs

17:A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke

18:A song from the year that you were born

19:A song that makes you think about life

20:A song that has many meanings to you

21:A favorite song with a person’s name in the title

22:A song that moves you forward

23:A song that you think everybody should listen to

24:A song by a band you wish were still together

25:A song by an artist no longer living

26:A song that makes you want to fall in love

27:A song that breaks your heart

28:A song by an artist with a voice that you love

29:A song that you remember from your childhood

30:A song that reminds you of yourself

[meepmonstare]

Moots please ask me these

And non moots fuck it

I reblog these all the time and never get asked them lol

[thekidsfromyestergay]

This was on a post about how it's ignorant and privileged to wear headphones in public and I fear its already become a part of my vocabulary. Must everything harbor a moral failure.

[bodhi-devotee]

“you’re such a ray of sunshine!” thanks! one day i chose to act happy and then i kept choosing it over and over and over and over until the neurological pathways formed like desire paths in the thicket. i dug and clawed my nails into the grooves of my brain and carved out joy. i retouch it every day.

[viscer-aa]

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Hi I'm Vic I'm a TME androgynous DID system with autism + hEDS and I've been out of work since early February after having to quit my job due to ableism + the same job wrongfully terminated my roommate Liv, who's a cis woman with epilepsy, POTS, hEDS, and autism also, after making her work so hard for a seemingly promised promotion that she is bedbound most days. Liv's fiance Anubis, who is TMA nonbinary + also autistic and has long covid has been a stay-at-home parent since their son was born almost four years ago and doesn't have a driver's license, which is scarier than it is inconvenient right now since Anubis is Afrolatine. We also only have one working car and live in a rural area so jobs are extremely limited. I'm really hoping to hear back from the last job I just applied to but even if I get hired this afternoon I won't make enough to cover utilities by the due date

[eridan-ampora]

baby animals move like theyre playing a new video game & havent figured out the controls yet

[eridan-ampora]

^ just found the dodge button

[trufflesmushroom]

patricia lockwood has officially completed 6 years of her full 1000 year sentence

[trufflesmushroom]

patricia lockwood has officially completed 7 years of her full 1000 year sentence

[warmhappycat]

When will she be up for parole?

[chaosthedemon]

Should Patricia Lockwood be granted parole

yes

no

Voting ended onMar 27

[trufflesmushroom]

why would any judge of any court grant her parole.

she literally kick miette.

she kick her body like the football.

[spiraledfaun]

some of you are painfully unaware that part of the whole reason many kinksters are like "what happens in my or someone else's bedroom is no one else's business"

is because people have been arrested and put in fucking PRISON just for having gay sex in the privacy of their own homes. in the United States. this millennia.

if you think i'm joking, look up Lawrence v. Texas (2003). 14 out of the 50 US States STILL had laws on the books criminalizing sodomy--and yes, you could be imprisoned for multiple years and sometimes even life for repeat offenses.

in the years directly leading up to the landmark case, enforcement even in those 14 states varied, but it was absolutely weaponized against queer people, especially when stacked on top of other offenses to make up a longer sentence.

um so anyway, what happens between two or more consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes is none of my OR YOUR business, and i'm not fucking kidding!

[prismatic-bell]

Important additional context:

"Sodomy" does not, in a legal context, mean "anal sex."

It means "any sexual act the court has decided is deviant."

BDSM? Sodomy.

Crossdressing for sexual pleasure? Sodomy.

Jacking off to nude photos or video your consenting adult lover sent you of themselves? Sodomy.

Het oral sex? SODOMY!!!

If you're starting to think "but how could anyone prove that happened without breaking down the door?"

Ha. Haha. Ahaha.

First, I'll give you one guess how they did prove it.

Two, these were often scapegoat charges--basically they couldn't actually nail you on anything because you hadn't done anything actually illegal, only things they didn't like, and they relied on public disgust against your "degenerate character" (yeah there's a very big reason we keep saying not to use that word and it's not to be killjoys) to make sure you knew your place.

Which means that in practice:

Went to a socialist meeting? Sodomy.

Male kindergarten teacher? Sodomy.

Mixing races? Sodomy.

Not Christian (or the right kind of Christian)? Sodomy.

Kink is only the beginning. They'll come after the kinksters because they're low-hanging fruit, and you'll gleefully help them dig a hole, laughing all the way and never consider that it's way too big for the number of bodies you need to bury.

[prismatic-bell]

I see someone in the tags saying "except pedophiles, they don't count, hang them."

YES THEY FUCKING DO COUNT.

Wanna know why?

Take a look at how many politicians have labeled trans people and their allies as pedophiles.

Take a look at how many politicians used to label gay people as pedophiles.

Take a look at how much suspicion falls on innocent men who just think working with kids is fun and want the chance to help, grow, nurture, and teach.

Take a look at yourself.

What about you could someone twist into "that person is a pedophile" if they wanted rid of you?

I can tell you exactly how they'd do it with me. I'm queer. I have a niece who came out as lesbian in her teens. I supported her.

Clearly I groomed her into that lifestyle, right?

Child sex abusers should be proven in a court of law to be guilty, and penalized to the fullest extent of the law. Pedophiles who have not abused children and seek to avoid doing so should not be hanged for something going wild in their brains.

Yes! That's super uncomfortable to say! I'm a CSA survivor! It's awkward and it means I have to defend people I really wish were not the way they are!

But the rope you use to lynch another will yank you into the tree to die.

No sodomy laws. None.

[changeling-droneco]

TW for talk on CSA and child marriage, this topic tends to get me fired up

Its also a fucking useless example for sodomy law especially because of how wildly age of consent can vary even in the united states. Which I hate that people get so weird about when you try to discuss it. No, knowing this stuff isnt a "red flag" you have to know something before you can speak on it or try and change it!

Child marriage is legal in 34 states with 4 of them technically not even having an age minimum outside of common law that could theoretically set it at 12. If we go back a few years the state of it would be even MORE dire as many of these laws putting age minimums only were put into place in the past eight years! So if one defines sodomy as "any sexual act done premarital that isnt missionary" then these wouldn't be covered.

Sodomy laws are USELESS for protecting children, because laws about CSA are better off being their OWN thing with strictly defined terms. Sodomy is so nebulous and hand wavy it does nothing but punish people who have done nothing wrong, strict terms with clear meanings is what creates protections. "You can't just make "if we think its gross" the law and expect that to actually work on deterring people who are doing the actual crimes. Which are ALREADY illegal.

Plus this isn't even getting into the psychology part of it that most people who commit CSA aren't even attracted to minors, they just like power over their victims and its easy to hold power over a child. its about control. Not 100% of the time, but very very often its about dominance rather then attraction. Plus there's the fact of sexual intrusive thoughts being a common form of OCD that causes a lot of distress in those that have those thoughts. This is a whole rabbit hole but just... You dont need to be attracted to a victims to traffic them, you might just want control, or authority, or just money!

[penrosesun]

I think it is really, really worth focusing on that “already illegal” part, because this is the foot in the door for a million and a half fascist proposed laws, not just sodomy.

“We need a law that makes it illegal to go into a bathroom that doesn’t align with your birth sex! Otherwise, people might go into the wrong bathroom to sexually assault someone!” Huh, interesting, but isn’t it already illegal to sexually assault someone, including in a bathroom??? Because if so, then you can just completely discard that explanation for the entire law. It is already illegal to go into the wrong bathroom and sexually assault a person; ergo, the law is not about sexual assault at all, it’s just about bathrooms.

“We need to arrest undocumented immigrants in order to crack down on gang activity!” Huh, interesting, but isn’t that gang activity already illegal??? So, if you wanted to crack down on gang activity, you could simply arrest people who are associated with gangs, and in fact, we do already do that. Ergo, this rhetoric isn’t actually about gang activity at all; it’s just about undocumented immigrants.

“We need to diminish free speech and freedom of movement rights for suspected terrorists, because otherwise they could commit mass murder!” Well, interestingly, mass murder is already illegal, and if you have probable cause that indicates that someone is planning to commit mass murder, you can simply arrest them for that. Since the law is already fully equipped to go after people who are genuinely suspected of gearing up to commit a violent terroristic act, this clearly isn’t really about terrorism at all; it’s just about diminishing free speech and freedom of movement rights.

“We need tort reform that caps the monetary damages that large corporations can be forced to pay, in order to keep people from bringing frivolous and fraudulent lawsuits!” Hmm, but see the thing with that is fraud is already a crime, and frivolous lawsuits can already be thrown out. If a law caps the amount of damages corporations need to pay in lawsuits which were not found to be frivolous or fraudulent, then almost by definition, it has nothing to do with frivolous lawsuits or fraud – it’s just about limiting corporate liability.

I could go on.

Always ask yourself what the actual function of a proposed law is – not just the stated goal, but what it actually does that is not already covered by an equally restrictive law.

And remember, a good general rule is:

If something is already illegal, then the people who are trying to pass a new law to ban it are probably trying to ban something else.

[chloebangbang]

I do typically find myself taking a fairly moderate position with regards to things like transphobic moderation decisions. Not in that I don't think these corporations are often evil, but that the evil is a lot more banal than folks seem to recognize. A company will not usually have a raging transphobe on moderation going out of their way to ban trans women, but trans women are more likely to get reported due to harassment campaigns and general transmisogyny, and those reports are more likely to have action taken on them due to unexamined biases on the part of the moderation. That is, of course, still Very Bad, but its the usual type of bad, not a grand evil conspiracy, but the normal, banal type of evil, that of corporate bureaucracy and internet culture largely endemic to every online platform.

But. Like. At some point, after the CEO of this website admitted that there was, indeed, Tiffany Tumbles the Tumbling TERF taking out hits on trans women, and then going off site to harass a woman that got banned off of his website. After dozens of transfems were banned in the span of minutes, with the stated reason of their ban being "we may ban users for any reason, or no reason at all." Like at some point I stop being able to provide a nuanced and grounded opinion here, right? Like at some point the signs are pointing to "some employee or CEO or someone else in a position of moderation wanted to ban a lot of trans women and thought they could get away with it", yeah? Like. What am I even supposed to say here? I feel like "any reason, or no reason at all" really says more than I ever could. Like come on, at least try to come up with an excuse here

[nycswebhead]

have you guys seen gas prices right now. jesus. its a good day to be able to shoot ropes from your wrists and swing around to places using those ropes like tarzan

[inkskinned]

i hold onto it like a feather or more like a four-leaf clover. at some point, it's going to happen. at some point, we will all get the news of his passing.

we play prophet, my brother and i, discussing the point endlessly. he says that if it happens at night, we probably won't hear for a few days while they scramble; a governmental weekend at bernie's. i say i want it to happen live on camera; my brother says, chuckling, that's dark. oh well, it's dark, then - suddenly now we have to believe in the sanctity of life, just because he's an old white man?

it's going to happen. i keep it like a lozenge or a warm cup of tea. i like to imagine where i'll be. will i be mid-dinner or on a walk with my dog or at work. i'll have to take a few sick days, immediately. maybe i'll be on a date with my pretty girl, and we'll have to pause the dinner to run to the car, consummate dessert. i imagine how i'll find out - some part of me kind of wants it to be through that one destiel meme, or thousands of crabs dancing. maybe i'll be in a crowded room: and for once, a newsreel push notification goes off, and every person starts laughing.

my friends and i invent possibilities. what will we do, in those blissful few hours after? surely we should get a tattoo of the day and the very minute, that's got to be a new kind of angel number. or maybe we should fill the house entirely with bubbles, walk around in lingerie; surely we should bring our instruments and voices onto the streets. in every version of the future, we all mention dancing, because yes, haphazard and wild and free, we are going to be dancing, kicking up our heels and howling. it will be beautiful, we keep saying, the joy will be so wild; the omnipresence of it almost cloying.

it's going to happen, i hold onto it like a stone fruit or a seedling. i make promises to those around me: if you ever get two calls in a row from me, it's because somebody is dying. or it's because the person that died is that somebody. we pinky-promise: as soon as you know, please tell me. call me at work. call me if it's 3 in the morning. i want to know as soon as you know. i don't even care if i'm told by my sleep paralysis demon or the spider that lives on my ceiling. tell me.

of course after it happens we'll need to do a bunch of other things. the work will not stop, it is unyielding.

but i picture that moment, of course. and i know, warmly: at some point, it is coming.

[asfdhgsdkjhgb]

something about lonely dogs, idk

gnaw at the heartbeat - wenyi xue / moon song - phoebe bridgers / let dead dogs lie - silas denver melvin / @strawberry-crocodile / nice pup - chloe moriondo / @ashstfu / @valtsv / @inkskinned / it will come back - hozier / @twoheadedfawnn / @/simplyrotten / clean slated state - the altogether / speeches for dr frankenstein - margaret atwood / faulty - leila chatti / belovéd - yves olade / against the kitchen floor - will wood / st bernard - lincoln / imposter syndrome - sidney gish

[boobieteriat]

[missstrogen]

Tumblr staff just terminated 3 of my friends

@analog-delight, @sapphireh3art, and @puppiesthoughtsgobrrrr, in the span of a few minutes.

They aren't even hiding it this time, they claimed no reason for the termination. "For any reason, or none at all."

Staff is transmisogynistic and is targetting trans women and their allies on purpose. They are all but admitting to this here.

[missstrogen]

By my count we're at 6 accounts (overwhelmingly transfems) terminated in the last ten minutes, most if not all with the same "For any reason, or none at all", bullshit justification.

Tumblr staff is currently running a banwave of trans women, terminating them without justification.

[missstrogen]

I've been told of more than ten more girls banned, in the same timeframe. @yay-bunnies was banned too.

I've been told that all followers of a now terminated blogs were banned, so it's safe to assume that someone on staff just went down the list of a tgirl's blog and banned all of them.

@staff is transmisogynistic and currently mass banning trans women. Make sure they never hear the end of it. Raise hell like yall did a few days ago. Staff is mass banning transfems without reason.

[missstrogen]

All evidence points to staff having mass banned all followers of @kidnappbait (or rather her latest blog), and all of them recieving the same "any reason, or none at all" message.

Staff is now just running down hit lists of transfems.

[missstrogen]

I have asked a good amount of the terminated people, and it looks like that was the case, so let me put it simply

Staff banned all followers of a transfem's account, staff is mass banning transfems without reason

Send feedback to staff. Raise hell. Don't let them get away with that.

[missstrogen]

If you know someone who was terminated, or are someone that was terminated, please contact me, I'm trying to gather evidence.