[twofingerswhiskey]

"oh food now has so much added to it, past food was so pure and untainted" victorians used to cut bread with chalk and aluminum powder. romans put lead in the wine, which was made from dirty feet mushing unwashed grapes covered in horse shit and road dust. i think our species will survive a few additives in food. our food systems have never been cleaner and safer. it has room for improvement, but we're not putting fucking plaster of paris in the milk

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

#produce was so dirty that vegetarians got sufficient B12 from it. W L combo

(from @elena-lila)

[weepingwitch]

i do wish the response to the ai water usage concern debate (umm actually the water and mineral usage is roughly equivalent to all of our other constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction etc etc etc) was less of a "haha checkmate luddites" and more of a "hmm maybe we should reevaluate our usage of constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction" but idk

[ruthyless-deactivated20140511]

when i was younger i had a really bad fear of danny devito when i was going to sleep so my older brother gave me a watch that he set to like 8 hours ahead so that it was always daytime on the watch when i was asleep and he told me it would confuse danny devito and he would think it was daytime and get scared of the sun and leave me alon

[tardis-mind-palace]

Your brother is the best

[elrondbaggins]

Who the fuck changed this from vampires to Danny devito

[aliceinpunderland-blog]

the real question is why I was completely ready to accept that this person had a debilitating childhood fear of Danny Devito

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[petruchio]

im literally always saying this

[scribeherself]

I think one of the gentlest things in the world is when a friend just gets your weird little brain. like you say half a sentence and they finish it. you reference something incredibly niche from seven years ago and they’re already nodding. they understand your strange vocabulary for emotions that don’t have real words yet. it’s being seen and known and still loved. maybe especially because you’re known. god. what a gift.

[birch-fence]

lmao i lost at least 7 followers after reblogging that…. anyway if you exclude nonbinary people you’re ignoring the white stripe of the trans flag; aces and aros are not straight and thus lgbt+ because theyre literally not attracted to the opposite sex, trans women are real women, and physical dysphoria is not required to be considered trans

[birch-fence]

me watching the terfs, aphobes and transmeds disappear from my follower count

[bintro]

[shopcat]

look at this wonderful gif of scallops getting scared and scattering like a flock pigeons

[elioftheasphodel]

whatever. go my scallops

[whitachi]

last night I had the experience of "referencing a tumblr post that you think is widely known but turns out to not be as widely known as you thought it was" last night and it was this post. whatever. go my scallops

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Maybe the "don't interrupt" social rule would be less complicated if some of y'all left space for someone to interject if they need to, rather than breathlessly jumping from one person talking to the next as though a millisecond of silence will kill your entire family.

Interesting, how we teach "don't interrupt", but not the opposite "leave some space in your conversations so people don't have to".

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

#i don't believe “don't interrupt” is a universal social rule anyway that's so dependent on culture and personal relationship

(from @carys-the-ninth)

[slutdge]

"make an account to-"

[cleaverqueer]

petition to change LGBT to DFTQ (Dykes Faggots Trannies and Queers, naturally)

[cleaverqueer]

AMENDED

[cleaverqueer]

happy pride everyone

[flerns]

slow and slutty wins the race

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[fnordseer5]

galadriel voice "things that were once $5 are now $20"

[fisewalafel]

lmao look at this Bad Woman being mocked and humiliated by liberal men. thank god that i, a Morally Good Woman with Correct Opinions, will never be in her place!

[ryukisgod]

[guineapiggies]

Via mrs_larissa_domogalla

[makingqueerhistory]

New Research Reveals How the Nazis Targeted Transgender People

Last year, a German court acknowledged the possibility that trans people were persecuted by the Nazis

[arcadianambivalence]

Further Reading

Transgender Life and Persecution under the Nazi State: Gutachten on the Vollbrecht Case | Central European History | Cambridge Core

Transgender Life and Persecution under the Nazi State: Gutachten on the Vollbrecht Case - Volume 56 Issue 4

Learn | Pink Triangle Legacies Project

Resources on the history and lived experiences of queer people in Nazi Germany.

The Pink Triangle Legacies Project is a grassroots initiative dedicated to researching the experiences of queer and trans people in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.

KHC: Centering LGBTQIA+ Voices

This series features conversations about the Nazis’ persecution of LGBTQI+ people, how this legacy reverberates in our contemporary society,

A YouTube playlist of lectures from the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and Queensborough Community College.

Trans Liminality and the Nazi State

Abstract. Weimar Berlin is considered a past haven of queer possibility, but for trans people its permissiveness had clear limits. A close r

Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people

Only in the past few years have the stories and experiences of trans people in Nazi Germany come to light.

On the Institute for Sexual Research

The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic

The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology

6 May 1933: Looting of the Institute of Sexology - Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

The institute was initially occupied by The German Student Union, who were a collective of Nazi-supporting youth. Several days later, on 10

and

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1wf4dmd.8

The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture

[epochryphal]

Forever recommending How Sex Changed as a nonfiction reference book, which goes over Hirschfeld, Lili Elbe, Harry Benjamin, Christine Jorgenson, Lou Sullivan, WPATH, and more:

How Sex Changed A History Of Transsexuality In The US Joanne Meyerowitz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

'How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States' by Joanne Meyerowitz

Also important context to the services Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science provided: testosterone was first isolated as a compound in 1927, and first synthesized in 1935. The looting and shutdown of the institute happened in 1933.

[coolthingoftheday]

Mexican artist Gabriel Dawe creates a rainbow sculpture woven from over sixty miles of colored thread.

(Artist)