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main is @gaylienz | Oglala Lakota and of Irish descent| IndigeQueer. 1996. (they/them). celebrating my culture, getting angry about wasicu | a scholar of sociology, environmentalism and queer studies. No TERFs.

[olowan-waphiya]

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Good News • Community on Tumblr

156 members, 324 posts about #nature #climate hope #environmental justice • A place for hope; good news especially about the environment.

[storyweavingspider]

The idea that non-police lynchings ever stopped in the US instead of whites just becoming craftier (evil) about it is so weird to me like

Sure they ain’t picnicking at a public hanging anymore but you seen how many more missing posters there’s been the past few years in particular right? How so many Black and Brown children are just fuckin disappearing too and never making anything more than a Facebook missing post?

We just only hear about them when someone cares about them enough to set fire to everything until it gets noticed.

[storyweavingspider]

Yes. Mainly by law enforcement or people working with them. We watch us disappear into human trafficking and mass graves and we can do literally nothing about it besides hope one of our loved ones wasnt one of them when we get news they’ve disappeared.

The law doesn’t exist to protect Black people, it exists to kill us.

215 people have been buried behind a Mississippi jail since 2016, attorney says

The issue became national news when families said they waited months for word about missing loved ones — only to learn their relative had be

[schrodingers-slut]

“If these so called ‘sundown towns’ still exist–”

Sundown Town Map | History and Social Justice, inspired by James W. Loewen

A database contributed by people across the nation underlies these maps and the tables you can generate.

[aetherograph]

The Greenbook was a travel guide for Black people; it still exists, there's even an app!

Green Book Global - Black Travel Made Easy - Tips for Travel

Green Book Global is the first Black travel review site. Black Travelers, write/read destination reviews, book trips AND earn cash

[aetherograph]

Hey! Are you looking at the map above and thinking "there's some places missing that I know about"? Then please ADD INFORMATION TO THE MAP. It is an ACTIVE map that you can contribute to!!! If you are a BIPOC person who travels, please make use of and contribute to Greenbook Global's city review information! These are not static, these are active maps that don't work if people don't contribute!

[nemfrog]

Feather öaöa of the Roro-speaking tribes. Papua New Guinea. 1910.

Internet Archive

[eldritchbauble]

If you think intersex, trans, or other androgynous or mixed body types or traits are "gross" then you have serious unpacking to do.

I do say this from a position of white privilege, but "othering" of these body types is very much rooted in white supremacy and Christofascism.

Some of you are fine with that (fuck yourselves), a lot of you have no idea what you're naively playing into and supporting (fix that and stop).

[eldritchbauble]

You can't be a leftist who supports autonomy and human rights and support bigotry. End of.

The Gender Binary is White Supremacy

A Framework for Intersex Justice

Measures of Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism, and Gender Binarism for Health Equity Research: From Structural Injustice to Embodied Harm—An Ecosocial Analysis

The Christian Nationalist Playbook

Attacks on Trans Youth Are a Fascist Moral Battering Ram

[liberalsarecool]

"I want children to suffer" is the ultimate flex by red-pilled conservative anti-feminist dorks who are equally racist when screeching about birth rates dropping.

[starlitbeetle]

Hey all, while we're busy normalizing women with hairy legs, hairy armpits and bushy pubes, let's also normalize women with hairy upper lips, hairy chins, hairy side burns, hairy chests, and all the other places where women are supposedly magically hair-free.

[rejectingrepublicans]

[subjectedvanished]

The Black Panther, November 8, 1969 

The Black Panther, August 9, 1971 

Artist : Emory Douglas . A revolutionary and minister of culture for the Black Panthers from 1967 to the early 1980s .

[zmpl]

Compulsory Aliveness by Tabitha Lean

[oaluz]

these images are making me emotional lol even just the image of the hands. kind face strong hands. it is interesting to me that patriarchy is predicated on the idea of women as weak and also inherent caregivers when ethical, effective caregiving is an integration of kindness and strength. the strength tells the little one being cared for that they don't have to worry about the caregiver and they can focus on processing what is inside. but that strength is not something that can be summoned out of nothing - "to stay bigger, stronger, wiser, and kind, you need to talk with another adult and let them help you"

[sibirsibir]

Conjuring Mongolian deer stones: biographical statuary of Bronze Age Central Asia and south Siberia: Deer stones continue to play an important role in rural Mongolia, reminding herders of their ancient heritage and serving as ovoos, ‘altars’, for display of combined Buddhist and shamanic belief, seen in these blue silk prayer khadags and horse skulls.

[derekscorner]

[kropotkindersurprise]

July 31, 2026 - A cannabis dispensary in Michigan, USA, responded to the Flock camera that was put up facing their parking lot by blocking it with a "NO FLOCK ZONE" sign. [video]

[noneedtofearorhope]

apparently, this is in response to a wisconsin man who frequented the shop being arrested after wisconsin jackboots noticed his frequent trips to a legal state

Thanks to Flock Cameras, “Drove Across State Lines” Is Now Justification for Police to Search Your Car

Police in Wisconsin searched a man's car for cannabis because Flock cameras told them he often traveled to Michigan, where weed is legal.

[batboyblog]

Hi! I want to thank you for your hopeful political posting and encouragement to stay engaged. You were a real bright spot on my dash during the last election and I really enjoy seeing your thoughts.

I’m new to calling my representatives about things (shout out to 5 calls) and I was wondering if I could get your take on something. Is it possible to call reps TOO much? I know you should only call once for a given issue, but everything is happening so much I could probably call about three different issues every day of the week and never run out of things to talk about. What are your thoughts?

hello and good morning

I think part of it is for your own mental health, that it's better to focus on a few key issues, but clearly there's A LOT going on. Upside everyone has 3 members of Congress (two Senators and a Representative) so you can make a rotation of calling their different offices if you want to mix it up

However, it is the most magical time of the year, election time! So you and really everyone should check out https://www.mobilize.us for opportunities to volunteer with candidates from statewide Senate and Governor candidates down to local state house candidates and many many campaigns are doing virtual from anywhere phone banking

if people are shy about canvassing or phone banking, maybe live somewhere where they're far from any competitive races, there are LOTS of groups sending post cards to voters and nows the time to get signed up for that

Postcards to Voters

Progressive Turnout Project 2026

Center for Common Good

Active America

any ways I'm gonna be out and about knocking door this weekend and if any of you live in Alaska, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, or Texas you better be out there too, this is ours to lose kids

[fatliberation]

I saw a comment on your blog that says 'the way you eat does not cause diabetes'...are you able to expand on that or provide a source I could read? I've been told by doctors that my pre-diabetes was due to weight gain because I get more hungry on my anti psychotics and I'd like to fact check what they've told me! Thank you so much!

You Can’t Sweets Your Way Into Diabetes

There are a lot more factors at play in diabetes — more complicated than “I had a cupcake at lunch.”

Pre-diabetes was rejected as a diagnosis by the World Health Organization (although it is used by the US and UK) - the correct term for the condition is impaired glucose tolerance. Approximately 2% of people with "pre-diabetes" go on to develop diabetes per year. You heard that right - TWO PERCENT. Most diabetics actually skip the pre-diabetic phase.

There are currently no treatments for pre-diabetes besides intentional weight loss. (Hmm, that's convenient, right?) There has yet to be evidence that losing weight prevents progression from pre-diabetes to T2DM beyond a year. Interestingly, drug companies are trying to persuade the medical world to start treating patients earlier and earlier. They are using the term “pre-diabetes” to sell their drugs (including Wegovy, a weight-loss drug). Surgeons are using it to sell weight loss surgery. Everyone’s a winner, right? Not patients. Especially fat patients.

Check out these articles:

Prediabetes: The epidemic that never was, and shouldn’t be

The war on ‘prediabetes' could be a boon for pharma—but is it good medicine?

Also - I love what Dr. Asher Larmie @fatdoctorUK has to say about T2DM and insulin resistance, so here's one of their threads I pulled from Twitter:

1️⃣ You can't prevent insulin resistance. It's coded in your DNA. It may be impacted by your environment. Studies have shown it has nothing to do with your BMI.

2️⃣ The term "pre-diabetes" is a PR stunt. The correct term is impaired glucose tolerance (or impaired fasting glucose) which is sometimes referred to as intermittent hyperglycemia. It does not predict T2DM. It is best ignored and tested for every 3-5yrs.

3️⃣ there is no evidence that losing weight prevents diabetes. That's because you can't reverse insulin resistance. You can possibly postpone it by 2yrs? Furthermore there is evidence that those who are fat at the time of diagnosis fair much better than those who are thin.

4️⃣ Weight loss does not reverse diabetes in the VAST majority of people. Those that do reverse it are usually thinner with recent onset T2DM and a low A1c. Only a tiny minority can sustain that over 2yrs. Weight loss does not improve A1c levels beyond 2 yrs either.

5️⃣ Weight loss in T2DM does not improve macrovascular or microvascular health outcomes beyond 2 years. In fact, weight loss in diabetics is associated with increased mortality and morbidity (although it is not clear why). Weight cycling is known to impacts A1c levels.

6️⃣ Weight GAIN does NOT increase the risk of cardiovascular OR all causes mortality in diabetics. In fact, one might even go so far as to say that it's better to be fat and diabetic than to be thin and diabetic.

Dr. Larmie cites 18 peer reviewed journal articles (most from the last decade) that are included in their webinar on the subject, linked below.

Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes

Available to buy on SendOwl

[canadianwheatpirates]

The link to “Prediabetes: The epidemic that never was, and shouldn't be” goes to the wrong article, here’s the correct one:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-prediabetes-diabetes-pharma-epidemic-perspec-0801-jm-20160729-story.html

[fatliberation]

Oops! Thanks for this!

[awfulpunk]

this is insanely racist and I haven't even seen much about this online yet

[checkyourasianbias]

after Bad Bunny won they added a Latin song category and after Rosé got three nominations the grammys added a k-pop/c-pop/j-pop category they have always been afraid of well-performing artists of color challenging white artists in mainstream categories

[el-shab-hussein]

Pretty dystopian to be campaigning for fundraisers to save the lives of your countrymen trying to survive genocide and the top trending topics on Tumblr is the most recent zionism and fascism American military industrial complex propaganda movie.

[el-shab-hussein]

Also I don't think it's a coincidence the zionist producer teamed up with the shoot and cry propaganda character played by this guy:

To make a movie about how AI mass surveillance tech is good for society actually because it helps you eliminate the inhuman subversives.

[el-shab-hussein]

My bestie told me people are calling him Palantir Parker right now on Twitter cuz of the movie.

[el-shab-hussein]

Anyways Disney is a priority boycott target for the BDS movement! Don't watch any more Marvel movie trash, the MCU has been collaborating with the Pentagon to make Western imperialist propaganda since Iron Man 2008!

If you were going to spend money on tickets to see the movie, go send that money to Mona's mutual aid fund instead to help feed Palestinian refugees today! Your outrage should be translating into concrete actions to help Palestinians!