predictable and yet exhausting how many people On Here are discussing the National Theatre production of Earnest and acting as if the show ending with first cousins planning to marry designates some kind of moral laxity on the part of the characters. I am once again tapping the sign reminding people that marriage between first cousins was not only permissable but frequently preferable for much of recent history, and more to the point heterosexual cousin marriage in 1895 would absolutely not be equivalent to gay sex between brothers.
wanted to bring people's attention to the new anti trans bill that's been proposed in India. This bill literally erases our identity and our autonomy so it would help if more people were aware of what is happening to us in this country
^Community-led Mobilisation to Reject Trans Bill 2026. Please look into it.
Collective Statement on Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026.
Note: Translations of this statement in multiple I
Maybe I should've been more assertive making this post but
THE RIGHTS OF INDIAN TRANS PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GET TAKEN AWAY IN JUST A FEW DAYS. I THINK ITS NOT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR EVERYONE TO AT LEAST CARE.
I know I was being vague in the original post, and i apologise, genuinely. But to specify, this bill takes away our rights for self identification. Our identity will no longer be in our hands, no longer ours to determine, no longer our own but for medical institutions to determine. It's plain erasure.
Our lives are miserable enough as is in this country so it literally takes nothing for the 90% white userbase of this site to sign this petition or spread awareness. That's all that it takes from your side.
Fellow indian trans people or allies can use this this link to email your member of Parliament about the Trans Bill, made by members of the Queer Against the Trans Bill Collective.
hudson williams complaining about shane's fuck ass haircut that he worked on the moodboard for. hudson williams saying he couldn't kiss to his full potential as shane. hudson williams sharing that story about shane being unfuckable. he said i know i'm attractive even when i'm trying not to be. winning the thirst olympics blindfolded and with six concussions. that's the energy we're taking into hot girl summer 2026
i’m really sorry about my behavior. you see, growing up, my family- *remembers blaming all my problems on other people is really annoying and unhealthy* i mean. i am responsible for all the evils of this world and i bear sins like the sky bears the stars
Drone incursions are becoming more and more of an issue when it comes to wildfires, so last year I designed these graphics, but I never got around to sharing them anywhere.
If you send your drone up during a wildfire, even if you don't feel like you are that close, all planes and helicopters in the area may have to be grounded which can have a massive and detrimental effect on first responders' ability to manage that fire.
If you send your drone up and a plane or helicopter hits it, no matter how small your drone is, it could crash that aircraft injuring or killing those on board and potentially people on the ground as well. Even if the aircraft stays up, it will have damage that could ground it for an indeterminate and potentially extensive amount of time, meaning one less resource is available for that fire and other fires.
Just don't do it.
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Thank you for this! I am a wildland firefighter and can confirm it's a fucking pain in the ass when an unknown drone is sighted on a fire. All aircraft working the fire have to be grounded, and they have to STAY grounded until law enforcement finds the drone operator. It can take firefighters away from our tasks as well as we try to track the drone's flight path.
I've seen this happen before, and like I said, it's a pain in the ass for EVERYONE. We communicate via radio on fires, and any time a channel has to be taken up by some bullshit like "there's a civilian drone flying" is time when other information can't be communicated over that channel. Larger incidents usually have open channels for just about everything, but still, it's radio traffic that doesn't need to be taking up airtime.
Most wildfires and prescribed burns have established Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs). If you plan on flying a personal drone somewhere, please check that there isn't a TFR in place. The FAA has this information freely available, and I believe there are several apps where the information is updated as well.
There's literally no excuse for not doing your due diligence as a drone pilot. There's also no excuse for being an asshole and trying to get pictures or video footage of wildfires when you don't have the clearance to be in the air.
"not so gay you can't fuck rose landry" is such a funny line Ilya baby they dated for 45 minutes and Shane immediately came crawling back to you, came out as gay, and told you he has feelings for you. being too gay to fuck rose landry is quite literally the reason he realised/accepted he's in love with you and decided to lock that down
i think my real qualm is not with t/b preferences as a whole but it is actually with the few people who act like it's radical to make shane & ilya switch. it is so odd to me because the reasoning is always like "well they're subverting masculinity by switching" shane is already subverting masculinity by getting fucked in the ass by another man. ilya is already subverting masculinity by fucking another man in the ass. we don't need to flip it on its head again. you are assigning a connotation to their relationship that does not exist. like we simply do not NEED to take it that additional step and go all the way back around the circle and make them switch in order for their relationship to be woke enough. or whatever. "ilya has to bottom because of xyz ideas about toxic masculinity" no he doesn't. he sucks dick. he eats ass. he lets other men suck his dick. he marries a fucking man. he does not also Have to bottom in order to complete the cycle. he is queer enough. "shane has to top because he needs to let go of xyz ideas about toxic masculinity" shane states explicitly in his internal monologue in the canon text he does not want to top, does not enjoy topping, and hopes no one ever asks him to top. it's not going to cure his internalized homophobia to top. it's not going to change his idea of what it means to be a man. their sexual preferences are a big deal. they’re relevant to the story being told. i know shane’s being a little glib with rose in the restaurant scene but it absolutely matters that he specifies to her he is a bottom. it absolutely matters that in the book when shane says he had sex with someone else and didn't like it that ilya specifies shane wants "a big strong top". ilya is the same way—the catharsis he gets from being able to totally dominate somebody is something he desperately needs. he can’t get that anywhere else. these needs are integral to the fabric of their characters. i don't care if you make them switch cus that's what makes you horny. but if you're writing some great treatise about how you're saving them from suffering any longer in their strict dynamic by making ilya take it up the ass or making shane dom because it's only fair he should get to be in charge sometimes then i'm just going to assume you're a very silly person who has no idea what gay sex is actually all about. like i said i don’t care if people are doing what makes them horny. i DO care that some people seem to think it’s activism. and yes, sometimes it really is that deep.
okay so, guy at work, who i find out afterwards is famous at this place for being a sex pest, comes up and starts with what i also learn is his favorite opener to conversations where he’s going to be a sex pest, namely: “Do you know where the term ‘blow job’ comes from?”
and here he made his first fatal error. his moment of hubristic sex pesting. because of course i know where the term blow job comes from, i love learning about sex and the history of sexual terms! i know so much about oral sex that i could write a book on it!
his second error: approaching a little autistic freak with what he intended to be an uncomfortable sex question that would make me feel weird and gross. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I Have Never Misjudged A Man’s Intentions So Incredibly In My Life. because i did not realize he was trying to harass me. because i love talking about sex facts, albeit not usually at work. unless. someone prompts me. my coworkers are the kind of people who are generally online enough to know terms, but not exactly what they mean, and they realized they could ask me a while back and get good answers without the resulting awkwardness because i do not experience shame. i am primed to answer questions like the one he has proposed.
So I Answered It.
and well, really, what happened is that I began answering it, then realized the answer required a bit more context. I mean, you can’t just say “oh, well, the term first appears in writing in the 1940s” without first explaining that ‘blow’ by itself already had sexual connotations for centuries, and then, really, are we talking about the origin of the term or the origin of the act. and well we have a ton of literature and art depicting fellatio throughout human history, did you know a lot of it was men performing it on other men? oh, that reminds me, there are a multitude of latin words for oral sex performed on penises, and hold on let me quote you the entirety of catullus 16 from memory and explain it’s fascinating insights into the roman world of homosexuality-
i do not know how to turn any of this ^ off, by the way. i’m sure some people out there have a switch that disables their infodumping mid-speech. i do not. and i also didn’t realize he wasn’t looking for a real answer until my other coworker explained so hours later. he could not excuse himself from the conversation he started, and i made a conservative man at least 30 years older than me to listen to my catullus recitation. i will sodomize and facefuck you, indeed.
anyway, i think i got a bad grade in being sexually harassed. my pro tip is maybe don’t start with what a very autistic individual will misconstrue as you earnestly asking them to explain sex to you. the special interest shield will cause splashback damage.
I just got back from seeing Project Hail Mary in the theater, which, I haven't been to a theater in a few years because no movies seemed worth watching in a theater.
Anyway, Project Hail Mary, written by Andy Weir who also wrote the Martian, is my favorite book. So I had high standards that the movie be great. After viewing I can say that the movie is every bit as good as the book. Added to this are incredible cinematography, a musical score that really accentuates the majesty of space, the adventures and dangers of space exploration (reminds me a lot of Interstellar except better), and the complex emotions and themes of the story.
Ryan Gosling's performance was a tour de force, which is impressive because 90% of the movie is just him acting alone, his only co-star being an animatronic sentient pile of rocks.
If you liked the book Project Hail Mary see this movie. If you haven't read the book but want to see a good movie, see this movie.
Only warning is it is a long movie, almost 3 hours, so arrive at the theater on an empty bladder.
