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in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming
that's solidarity baybeeee
Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.
At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.
Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”
I get the importance of the transfem community warnings but sometimes I see shit like girls talking other girls out of trying to get their teaching certificates because of the potential for harassment from conservative parents and idk that's very real but also at a certain point we are just doing preemptive hiring discrimination to ourselves
Like on the one hand it is very real that societal transphobia would like to see us all unemployed, forced to do survival sex work. But also that's not the only reality available to us at this point! And sometimes I worry that we are self policing in a way by flooding so many trans girls with this message of "your only options are to get super good at onlyfans or be Raytheon's strongest coder" when like, so many of the women I know are teachers, home care workers, nannies, day care workers, postal workers. Not glamorous, but like, idk the world of lower middle class pink collar jobs is available to us more or less at this point. Other girls have office jobs, some girls have to work food service and retail. But we get to exist in some form besides either NEETs or internet famous porn girls. And obvi hiring discrimination is real, and obvi disability issues come into play for a lot of us that makes a lot of the work I just mentioned inaccessible. I'm not saying things are sweet out there. But there is a world out there where you can live. Maybe not in the exact way you want, maybe not super easily, but you can live.
I know transfem lawyers, construction workers, professional musicians, bartenders, and academics. You can be the reason that another trans person believes the future they dream of is possible. The more trans people enter new fields, the harder it is to target any one of us or say we can't do that job
What A Beauty!
Art by Theo Van Den Boogaard (1985)
Microaggressions against polyamory in interpersonal interactions are important and should be discussed, but I do wish more of the conversation focused on the ways that systemic amatonormativity impact things like family units, taxes, healthcare, inheritances, housing, childcare, etc.
I'm not dating or married or related to anyone I live with, and our household of four adults can't get any kind of financial or food or housing aid because we count as three separate households despite our semi-blended finances and living together for a decade. There are laws that have been proposed (at least, I don't know if any passed) that limit housing to nuclear families.
Amatonormativity and polyphobia are not just theoretical "people are kinda mean about this sometimes" -- they are real and materially impactful systemic issues, and they affect all of us.
tech companies appear to be labouring under the delusion that users who click on the wrong program by accident because the button's placement has changed will naturally find themselves using and enjoying whatever feature they moved into the previous location of that program's button
i suspect the number of people in the world who go "ah, what the hell. i've accidentally opened the window for this new feature. i suppose i might as well stop what i'm doing to try this out rather than just figure out where they've hidden the old button and go do the thing i was already doing" is roughly n=2 and that those 2 people are the CEOs of microsoft and google respectively
Unfortunately, if you make your new features both obtrusive and impossible to turn off, more people do end up eventually using them. We have as of yet not discovered any other way to make end users aware of new features on their old software that won't be shuttered by their IT department for undue implementation and training costs.
The alternative options would be:
put the features in quietly and not care if anyone uses them
not put the features in at all
However, if you pick either of these routes, some competitor comes along and poaches half your paying clients with a shiny new program that has all of the features the clients either don't have or don't know they currently have.
"but" you say, "I'm not a paying client, so I don't have the option to take my money somewhere else! I'd still rather they not change anything."
Well, yeah. If you don't pay for the product, they don't really care if you use the product. The "Free" version of enterprise software is, at best, for data collection purposes. If you don't want your software to ever be updated with new features, consider switching from freemium to FOSS, which will, as a bonus, not have many of the new features from ten years ago that you got used to either.
tl;dr: everything sucks
What I did in the hedonium shockwave, by Emma, age six and a half
My name is Emma and I’m six and a half years old and I like pink and Pokemon and my cat River and I’m going to be swallowed by a hedonium sh
How it started:
How it’s going:
Just a lil reminder that even if it doesn’t feel like it, even if it feels so fucking slow and you can’t see it at all, you do improve when you keep doing the thing. I love you. Hang in there.
I have no idea why this is doing the rounds again - I love you all so much - but have I got an update for you!! I can't show you yet but in a couple weeks when I'm allowed to, I'll show you the next snake in this evolution.
Y'all are wonderful
I can reveal the next snake in the chain:
This piece is titled "The Secondary Eclipse Occurs When The Cooler Star Is Occulted By The Hotter Star", and it was created for Poetic Tiger's Invisible Threads show. The snake is 43" from end-to-end, and 39 of those inches are covered in sequins stitched on one-by-one. He's a big boy.
There are five years between lil snakey #1 and this one. Also important to note - I started making snakes because of fanart. If anyone tries to tell you fanart isn't "real" art, they're being a douche, and you can call them on it. Anything that gives us the joy to create is ✨peak real✨ We're honing and learning and growing more skilled no matter what we create as long as we keep doing it. So make whatever art you want. (With your hands, AI isn't art and does not count)
July 1989 "When people usually think of the Ballroom scene it's this thing that happens indoors as though we're always inside, in the dark. But here you see something common-a family picnic at the park. You see us outside. You see us in society. And, perhaps that gives a different perspective." - Luna Luis Ortiz ➡️ @lunalens
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a sentence ends with a period because ! it did not get pregnon
this is so funny bc on the one hand what the fuck are we doing tumblr. like you cannot be serious you're censoring entirely sfw concepts bc sometimes people ALSO involve it in fetish stuff? but on the other hand. i was in fact searching it in hopes of finding porn so you do have me there technically i can't lie
a lick of yoghurt for the smallest and youngest animal on earth
My incredibly bleak philosophy of compassion is that we should all pity each other horribly and practice an according amount of kindness.
I asked for a pastry at the coffee shop. When I raised my card up to pay, he simply said "you're good." and waved it away. I wondered why. I wondered what made him think I deserved to have my order be free. Sparing me those two dollars.
Sitting down at the table, I remembered the scars on my arm. The universal signifier of "This Kid Needs Help." Maybe his kindness was only out of pity. He saw those and assumed there was some great misery and wanted to offer me some relief. It's generally good to be kind to people who are hurting. But I wasn't hurting that bad.
The thing is, there is some great misery. People generally aren't doing that great. There is a great misery within me and within him and within everyone, and some people notice the pain, some people express it, others don't. But we all suffer from something.
It doesn't matter if someone seems to deserve some relief. Everyone needs it. Everyone is suffering constantly. Some more than others, but still. This Kid Needs Help applies to everyone.
Thirty minutes later, I went to get a second pastry, intending to pay and leave a tip this time. It was the same cashier. As he reached to grab it for me, I saw scars on his arm.
But it doesn't really matter. He'd deserve a tip anyway. Because it's never just us hurting.
has anyone considered that it was probably her house too. where else was she supposed to put her chintz?
