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[misterlemonz11]

02-21-23 | https://misterlemonz11.tumblr.com/archive.

[kira-7]

This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."

If you want to spread it elsewhere, here's the official link

[earendil-was-a-mariner]

George R.R. Martin: dragons are huge ferocious beasts who answer to a master  

Tolkien: dragons are annoying, talking assholes

[mikehellrs]

...except for the ones who are only mentioned historically which were like a hundred times the size of Smaug and actually went out and ravaged instead of sleeping all the time.

[tricia868]

Beaded Rainbow Odenwald Shawl!

Lost my mind a little and added (if my math is correct) 5,615 beads to Nim Teasdale's Odenwald pattern. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!

The goal was “soothingly weighted but not uncomfortable to wear, even as someone with chronic pain.” It could have been a little heavier, so maybe I’ll make a shawl with larger beads another time, but I’m very pleased with this one. I used size 6/0 seed beads, applied as I go with a .6mm crochet hook.

Yarn-wise, used 2 cakes of YarnArt Flowers. I knitted the fully purple sections from both, then knitted all the way through the yellow-oranges with a single ball. When I hit the beginning of red-oranges, I used yarn from both cakes, alternating between them. (Not the entirety of both, I played it by ear to make sure I made it through the full rainbow.)

I do have edited charts with bead placements. I will only share them with Nim's permission.

I've done A LOT of knitting/crochet this year while chronic illness kept me from my sewing machine, but I'm feeling much better now. There will be new quilts to look forward to soon, plus a few more yarn crafts to share in the meantime!

[crap-userrname16]

[mikehellrs]

I think I'd bribe the doctors at Arkham to lobotomize every single super villain they have locked up.

[crap-userrname16]

[crap-userrname16]

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[featherandstorm]

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

[genderkoolaid]

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

[brainscrems]

Also, please keep in mind, this is 100%, without a doubt, wholly unconsitituonal. They will try to enforce it regardless, but that does not make it legal. Do not treat this as law because it is not.

[mikehellrs]

This vaguely reminds me of a sci fi story where the protagonist ended up in an alternate Victorian age world where the upper class became so prudish that they literally COULD NOT SEE anything that they considered offensive. So lower class people were able to steal from them by simply stripping naked and walking through the mansions taking whatever they wanted.

Imagine if MAGA gets to the point of being unable to even perceive the existence of trans people or anyone with an alternate lifestyle.

[crap-userrname16]

[mikehellrs]

Hey, that way she knows where the bags are when she needs one!

[thememedaddy]

[recklesslyinfatuated2]

Well, we ASSUME the pharmacist is giving us what the doctor ordered, Anthony, but we will never actually know.

[mikehellrs]

Does anyone even write out prescriptions on a piece of paper anymore? My doctor always sends an electronic order directly to my preferred pharmacy.

[liberalsarecool]

White supremacy and race were involved. Southern Representatives did not want blacks treated equally and certainly did not want to be treated at the same places.

[mikehellrs]

If they want to 'make America great again' they should start by going back to making healthcare companies non-profit organizations like they were before the 70's

[tastefullyoffensive]

Movie Fans Share The Single Worst Film They Sat Through Hoping It Would Get Better

[mikehellrs]

Those were all good (bad?) choices but I'd like to suggest The Core for inclusion. I'm generally a fan of giant drilling machine vehicles in sci fi, but I eventually walked out of this movie. The premise that humans had accidentally stopped the rotation of the Earth's core was ridiculous enough for me to want to leave but I stuck it out. Until they decided that detonating nuclear bombs in the core would (somehow) start it rotating again.

[earendil-was-a-mariner]

Gandalf: The wide world is all about you. You can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out

Sauron: Watch me try

[mikehellrs]

I mean if the 'fence' you put up is a bunch of mountains infested with orcs, goblins, and a spider the size of a sherman tank then sure

[wosp-reactivated]

I can smell the poison in my goblet but I lowkey don't even care anymore

[mikehellrs]

[crap-userrname16]

[mikehellrs]

Also using current technology it would cost more than the entire world's yearly GDP to bring even a fraction of that asteroid to the surface of the Earth.

[tastefullyoffensive]

“There Are Two Types Of Cats” — Hissterical Cat Tweets To Get You Through Rest Of The Week

[liberalsarecool]

Arizona should already have a lawsuit in place, and Democrats should already have had a federal judge swear her in.

This never should have gone on this long.

Democrats need to up their game.