ObservedbyLillith

Benign.  Will reblog whatever I find interesting. Be kind to each other.  Still a Fan.  Alias:  Scotchbonnet

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[ginny-lala]

[owa-tagoo-siam]

[fatherizzyisms]

The moss seems hungry.

[alexaloraetheris]

If anyone's wondering, the record is 6 'very beautiful, very powerful' in a row

[valeriesolanasapologist]

This woman was arrested for WORDS.

We should rally for her as much as the guy who actually shot someone. Push back.

[voltaspistol]

[ltwilliammowett]

Power of the night, by Marek Ruzyk (1965-)

[blogfanreborn777]

River of Life by Alexey Egorov

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[soberscientistlife]

[wilberado]

Never forget the power in that second wave feminist movement that emerged to full bloom in the 60's and 70's. It broke barriers for women on so many levels.

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[enki2]

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[decadent-hag]

Visit Original Link

Do you remember The 21st night of September?

[tomcruisingthroughlife]

[wolfsmom1]

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[itsawritblr]

A few years ago I was paid $10K to illustrate a picture book, and it took 6 months.

AI is fucking killing the market. And its "illustrations" are shit.

[hollowboobtheory]

"if voting worked they'd make it illegal"

meanwhile, in the real world:

[hollowboobtheory]

they're fucking trying, is my point

[sepdet]

I looked this up before reblogging. She's a member of LULAC, the League of United Latin American Citizens.

This is a coordinated effort to intimidate and suppress the Latino vote in Texas.

Look at what these fuckers are doing.

87-year-old LULAC volunteer said AG Ken Paxton sent officers to raid her home

Lidia Martinez has been a LULAC member for over 35 years and works to expand voter registration among seniors and veterans in South Texas, C

"They scared the hell out of me," Martinez told CBS News after nine officers with tactical gear and firearms showed up on Aug. 20.

[...]

"My nightgown and I had all these policemen around me. It was embarrassing, humiliating, I was so angry. It was horrible," Martinez said.

They seized her phone, computer, personal calendar, blank voter registration forms and her certificate to conduct voter registration, according to Martinez.

She's been a LULAC member for over 35 years and works to expand voter registration among seniors and veterans in South Texas.

"I feel that they're going to stop a lot of us from going out and doing our work, and that's what they want," Martinez told Omar Villafranca.

Same fucking story.

Stand with LULAC to fight back!

Stand with LULAC to fight back!

Here's their donation form. Charity navigator rates them 4 stars. Let's make the Texas AG's bullying backfire by drawing nationwide attention to this organization.

[hollowboobtheory]

i like the way you think

[alex51324]

Done! I couldn't afford much, but it sure would be great if these folks got an avalanche of small-dollar donations in the next few days.

[hetrez]

Ohio is purging its voter rolls before November election

See if you're on the list of more than 158,000 people.

If you live in Ohio, today is a good day to check your voter registration, and to consider booting JD Vance into the sun.

[ultrareginarules]

Check and recheck. They'll steal your vote if they can.

[mikkeneko]

Even if you have made the choice for yourself not to vote, ask yourself: are you okay with others having the right to vote stripped from them?

If the answer is 'no,' then you may want to reconsider the first part.

[idk-my-aesthetic]

This is current btw, OP is dated June 18 2024

Just mentioning so no one assumes it’s and old post and ignores it

[splickedylit]

I voted in the last two elections and had no reason to think my registration wouldn't be valid for this one--when I went to check, it said it was "pending" and "needed additional steps" and if I hadn't checked I would have had no reason to think I wasn't good to go until the day of. bogus!!!! Anyway VOTE.GOV, y'all, it didn't take long.

[cardassiangoodreads]

I, for one, am happy these actors feel comfortable being loud about how much you and your friend suck. If you’re doing something so against that show as voting for a rapist convicted felon who wants to end democracy, what did you expect? Especially from those women?

Actors being loud about how these assholes are NOT welcome makes fandom safer for a lot more people who deserve to be there.

Maybe your fav actor hating you for your bigoted politics should be a cause for reflection about what’s gone so wrong in your life. You know, if this bothers you so much.

[lamardeuse]

"Say what you will (and is true) about Star Trek (especially modern Star Trek" - bitch what are you talking about, OG Star Trek had a multicultural crew, was explicitly anti-war and anti-racist and was set in a utopian society with a world-spanning government where no one went hungry or worried about how to pay the bills. It was woke as fuck by "modern" standards, but in 1967 it was practically Commie propaganda. NONE of Star Trek belongs to you and your shitty friends. Go away.

[ouchiewawa]

Conservatives knew what it was, but interpreted it in their own way. They didn't see intentional racial quotas, they saw meritocracy where anyone who had the ability to succeed could succeed, and it just so happened that people from all human races and cultures did. This is actually more or less their philosophy, be blind to surface things and focus on talent. At least it was, idk what it is anymore. I don't think they know either.

Not every Trump supporter is the devil incarnate, most people are just normies. Bullying them is just a surefire way to turn them into the monsters you think they are. Starfleet's making nice with their enemies at the first opportunity and trying to convince them to change their philosophies and turn into friends.

[cardassiangoodreads]

No, we don’t in fact have to be tolerant of bigots, which yes, all Trump supporters are since they’re at the very least okay with supporting a rapist felon wannabe-dictator who is repeatedly monstrously misogynistic and racist…. over what, the party whose policies are superior to theirs in every single way?

Read this until you understand it:

Paradox of tolerance - Wikipedia

Paradox of tolerance - Wikipedia

And then get off my post.

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

Love (not) how this person then also is blaming anyone negatively affected by bigots proactively: “Just be nice! If they’re horrible and violent or abusive to you it means you provoked them.”

Two days ago Trump said this about Kamala Harris when asked about why he keeps using “personal” (racialized and gendered - bigoted) attacks against her:

“I’m very angry at her… very angry at her. I think I’m entitled to personal attacks. I don’t have a lot of respect for her intelligence.”

Which I think is a perfect example of this kind of behavior. Trump is mad at her, HENCE he can treat her however she wants. But he’s entitled, right, because she made him mad. She’s “making” the monster here, right?

I call bullshit. On all of this. I don’t have to be nice to people who call me slurs and worse. And it’s not my fault that they think people like me existing is disgusting, so I’m not going to apologize for said existence.

[lamardeuse]

Also - "now my friends feel hated by everyone there and are keeping quiet" - fucking good, fucking great, inject this into my veins. Oh my goodness, a bunch of bigoted white women felt uncomfortable for a day or two and an actress they like thinks they're dogshit, this is way worse than their votes for Christofascists probably leading to an estimated 39% rise in maternal deaths among Black women or the promotion of queerphobic discrimination that makes it more likely queer youth will attempt suicide. This is TERRIBLE, how dare you make these people feel bad about themselves or tell them they don't get to warp and twist a piece of media to suit their own narrowminded world view. Do me a fucking favour.

The "if you don't kiss these people's asses you'll make them worse" is another lie, it's the logic of the abuser that's somehow wormed its way into neoliberal discourse and it needs to be shut down. "If you'd just be nicer to me I wouldn't hurt you, but you made me do this, you brought this on yourself" - sound fucking familiar? That's because people who hold extreme right wing political views, like abusers, are getting their rocks off controlling and hurting others - either up close and personal in the case of an abuser or vicariously through the application of public policy which is designed to inflict harm on a grand scale. They enjoy it, it makes them feel good and virtuous and vindicated to know that poor people or queer people or 'migrants' or Black folks or 'Mexicans' or whoever the fuck they blame for their shitty lives this week are getting it in the neck, they've been sold the lie that these people are their enemy by some rich dickhead and they swallow it hook, line and sinker. So forgive me if I'm tired of liberals saying we need to kumbayah these chucklefucks into finding their inner child again. It's never going to happen. Something is broken in them and the only thing that will fix it is for them to face consequences for their actions, with social ostracization being the absolute least that any person of conscience should serve them like a backhand from Serena Williams. While liberals try to hold hands with these assholes, antifascists are literally putting their bodies on the line to protect themselves and others in their own communities because they recognize that the only way to shut down the far right is to never let them have a platform, never let them have the streets, and never let them think their views are acceptable in any way. These mfers get stroppy every 3-4 decades or so and the only way to get them to go away is to be like the Blues Brothers.

And no, I'm not confusing "conservatives" with Nazis. If eleven people sit down to eat dinner with a fascist, there are twelve fascists at the table. We're done holding these people's hands, time for them to look in a fucking mirror and confront who and what they've chosen to associate with. It's not our job or responsibility to do that for them, but it is our responsibility - at the very least - to make them feel like absolute creeps until they do.