The Stars were my first love

I go by August or Benjamin. An Adult tm (I am over the age of 18 I just dont want to list my exact age on here). he/him and any neos with positive intentions. Space means a lot to me. Tag is another speech from August. Truscum, exclutionists, bigots, pedophiles, Transid people, etc DO NOT INTRACT! If you believe that all religions are bad and should go away DNI

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[whitachi]

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

[shaymindreamy]

Happy Neil banging out the tunes 20th anniversary

[glasspalacesstoneshop]

Personally I think “do trans men experience male privilege?” is a complex question with various conclusions that depends on a lot of factors (Passing! Class! Age! Country! Race!), but if your example of trans men experiencing male privilege is “they can pass for cis women” you have completely lost the plot so hard it’s in space. It’s in the asteroid belt. What the goddamn hell are you talking about

[beeimu5]

Stoned af and made the best tweet of my life.

[conkreetmonkey]

I can smell this image

[abdalsalam2000]

The ceasefire agreement was reached and joy is floating among the Palestinian people

[sacred-portal]

[constructreese]

SpongeBob you can't sit in the sun you're going to dry up wait ☝️ his feet seem to be in the running water of a river. He'll be ok

[its-ticsticstics]

Vegans who insists EVERYONE must eat vegan are racist.

I just got into an argument with someone saying eating animals is morally wrong blah blah and I reminded them that myself as an Indigenous person (ojibwe) our traditions rely on hunting and living off the land, and demanding we stop that is literally.. COLONIALISM.

And they responded back,

"You're not the kind of Indigenous person who NEEDS to live off the land"

and . That was NOT THE POINT.

It's our teachings, our ways of life. No white vegan can take that away. Besides, living off the land and giving back to will ALWAYS damage the land less than people who wear pleather and put microplastics back into our environment and eat quinoa which puts producing countries in drought and poverty.

My young nieces live on a reservation here in Canada, TWO hours away from any store that sells anything besides pop, butter, milk, and bread.

They DO still rely on hunting to get food which would otherwise not be available to them because of active poverty which affects ALL of our First Nations communities.

But once every few months, you will also see them at a Walmart or wherever else.

Indigenous people living off the land doesn't look like people living in teepees and shooting arrows at animals.

It looks like survival, it looks like healing, it looks like FUCK YOU WHITE PEOPLE.

You're racist.

[writhe]

“you all are great people, and what you’re doing is art, but it’s also a crime punishable by 28 days in prison” is a real sentence that got said to me tonight by a security officer i think i’m living my best life

[writhe]

this is what was happening if anyone was wondering 

[fabuladorah]

Love that in order to demostrate who is the Evil Kirk, they had him put on maskara.

[marlinspirkhall]

Kirkcealer

[jewish-sideblog]

Russia, 1881: We’re gonna kill any Jew that doesn’t flee Russia. We’re restricting Jewish emigration to Europe, but permitting emigration to the Middle East.

Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia, France, and others, 1933-1945: We’re gonna kill every Jew in Europe. Flee to the US or Palestine, or die trying.

The US, 1927-1952: Yeah sorry we’re restricting Jewish immigrants to like. 300 people per country. So good luck getting in. We recommend that Jews go to Palestine instead. Btw we are looking to take in Nazi scientists if you know any

Egypt, 1947-1950: We’re rounding up all our Jews and deporting them to Israel

Iraq, 1951-1952: We’re rounding up all our Jews and deporting them to Israel

Algeria, 1962-1965: We’re pressuring and intimidating Jews in the hopes that they’ll all leave the country and go to Israel

Egypt, 1956: We’re rounding up all our Jews and deporting them to Israel (again)

Egypt and Libya, 1967: We’re rounding up, torturing, and killing all our Jews. The ones that survive can flee to Israel

Poland, 1968: The Jews in our country are already loyal to Israel. They will face dire consequences if they don’t leave our country and go to Israel

Ethiopia, 1974-1985: We’re going to marginalize and eventually try to kill all our Jews, and the only way they can escape is by being airlifted out of the country by Israeli helicopters

The US, 2023: Why can’t the Israeli Jews just go back to where they came from? Don’t they all have dual citizenship or whatever?

[aqlstar]

Please note that specifically Jewish immigration to British Mandatory Palestine was outlawed in 1939.

This left those fleeing the holocaust with literally no where to go. They were killed in Europe and North Africa for being foreign invaders while being denied the opportunity to go back to their ancestral homeland.

White Paper of 1939 - Wikipedia

White Paper of 1939 - Wikipedia

[prismatic-bell]

And don’t think for a MOMENT that wasn’t on purpose.

[pro-anomalocaris]

People often ask my friend Ray Shin how she can be Chinese and Jewish. Her grandfather, having been denied entry to the United States - having had the boat turned away at the harbor - was able to get to China, where he and a shit ton of other Jewish refugees ended up. There, he met her grandmother because she was a convert (the US threw out so many incoming asylum seekers there was a whole Jewish community in China, resulting in converts) and just as much of a language nerd as he was.

The history of Judaism is riddled with expulsions and exclusions and executions. It's a sea of "we tried to go somewhere safe and couldn't". It's a lot of "we ended up here because it was the best we could do". It's an uninterrupted string of people trying to kill you and everyone you know and struggling to find a place to survive. Not thrive, just stay alive.

And then everyone tells you, "Oh the US were heroes during WWII" and "well Jewish people can just go back to 'their country'" without even glancing at history.

[gaelic-symphony]

Not to mention that even if we HADN’T been ethnically cleansed from most countries in the world, we would STILL be a people whose ancestors lived in the land of Israel and became the Jewish nation there, and our origins as a people, our early history, and large parts of our ritual practice would STILL revolve around the land of Israel, and many of us would STILL want to live there and have Jewish self-determination in our indigenous ancestral homeland.

[carsonjonesfiance]

In 1998, Texas police broke into the house of a gay man and his boyfriend and arrested them for sodomy. It was not until 2003 that these convictions would be overturned as part of the Lawrence v Texas ruling. If you are in your 20s chances are you are older than gay sex being federally legal. Keep that in mind when Clarence Thomas retires in a year hoping to get a likeminded replacement.

[carsonjonesfiance]

“But groceries are expensive” is going to ring especially hollow if being gay starts carrying a $500 fine in this country again.

[mamoru]

breathing deeply using your gut, do this to manually activate your parasympathetic nervous system and force your body to calm down. the longer you do it, the better it works.

[mamoru]

this is especially good at getting a racing heart rate down.

[sadhoc]

US citizens, did you vote?

i voted for kamala harris

i voted for donald trump

i voted third party or wrote someone in

i am eligible to vote in US elections, but I chose not to

i am not eligible to vote in US elections

Voting ended onNov 8, 2024

no matter whether you think voting is very important for protecting the right to protest, or a tacit approval of the US government actions and inactions, or anything in between, we can all agree that what is most important right now is to directly help the people of Gaza.

no matter the result of the election today, my friend Hala @hala-15 will be displaced in Egypt with her young son Abdul Aziz. Abdul Aziz was born with a condition called hirschsprung's disease, in which the nerves in the colon do not form properly. Children with hirschsprung's disease are not able to pass waste, and can die from terrible blockages in their intestines.

Abdul Aziz needs surgery to remove the affected part of his colon so that he can poop. voting or not voting will not help him. what will help him is if we can raise money for Hala to pay for his surgeries. Hala had raised almost 500 euro on gofundme, when gofundme did a massive purge of Palestinian fundraiser, and Hala's account was deleted with no warning, and all the money was returned to donors.

If you have already donated, or if you are seeing this for the first time, please send your donations to Hala's paypal account. Hala's blog @hala-15 has pictures in arabic and in english of Abdul Aziz, and of his medical records. her story has been independently verified by @90-ghost. No matter how you feel about voting, Hala still needs help, and every donation, even just one euro, will help her pay for Abdul Aziz's surgeries.

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[sadhoc]

if you voted, if you didn't vote, if you can't vote: no matter what, please share hala's fundraiser!

[sadhoc]

how is the poll at 27 votes but there's only five reblogs ?? if you vote in the poll, please share the fundraiser!

[sadhoc]

If every person who voted in this poll donated ten euro, hala would be 20% of the way to her goal, despite having been set back to nothing this morning! Don’t just vote, donate too!

[navigatorwrongway]

This is going to fucking suck but I will not do my enemies’ work for them. I will not just roll over and fucking die.

[baggebythesea]

Grieve AND organize.

Good article by David Hunter on how to survive the Trump presidency, both on the personal and on the political plane.

There is hope — 10 ways to be prepared and grounded for another Trump presidency

The key to taking effective action if Trump wins is to avoid perpetuating his goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

This is an excellent article. It talks about the psychology of tyranny, the history of resistance and the paths we have to take to rescue each other and recover.

[bigbigtruck]

Point #4 especially.

[deathtokillian]

If you are trans I need you to stay alive.

Stay alive for every other trans person fighting, stay alive for every trans person who is no longer here, and most importantly stay alive for yourself.

They don’t get to erase us! They don’t get to take away our rights, and treat us as less than human. Don’t let them erase us, and don’t let them make you a statistic. Don’t let them win.

Stay alive

If you won’t do it for yourself, then do it for others. Do it out of spite.

[stuckinapril]

guys i'm truly anxious about the election hysteria detracting from attention that should be going into fundraisers, so ahead of all the ruckus i genuinely think it's important to remember and that fundraisers remain paramount. platforming campaigns periodically is one of very few ways we can help and i'm worried many people will lose sight of that in the midst of the pointless discourse about the election. but it's literally all smoke and mirrors and none of it makes a tangible difference the way fundraising does

[stuckinapril]

a lot of people will also take this opportunity to (subconsciously or consciously) decenter the fundraisers bc they're sick of it or bored or have "compassion fatigue" so it's really more important than ever to shed light on them now tbh

[stuckinapril]

on this note, asking you all to please share mohammed ayesh's fundraiser. ayesh is pretty much the only link we have to palestianian families who're in active need of funds, but more than that he's also in gaza experiencing the same bombings and starvation and displacement alongside his family. the sheer amount of work he has done for so many people can never be replicated -- so please give him his flowers by boosting his campaign and donating any amount you can to it. it takes a massive difference

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

guys literally there’s only been one donation in the past 2 hours. and only 4 in more than 5 hours.

Mohammed has been putting so much work into vetting fundraisers. Meanwhile his family has been forced to hide in destroyed buildings from tanks that patrol thru neighborhood. Please please help them get funds to relocate and buy necessary supplies to survive. This is a time sensitive urgent request

£17,755 / £18,000 daily goal. £245 needed still before end of day!!!!! Please help Mohammed. Donating even £5 and sharing it on dash would do wonders