Oona81

She/Her/Hers

[dikleyt]

new yiddish curse just dropped

זאָל דזשיי די ווענס שטיצן דײַן צוועק.

zol dzhey di vens shtitsn dayn tsvek.

May JD Vance support your cause.

[copperbadge]

On Saturday I said to my partner, as I have said for months, "A ten thousand dollar a year raise would solve so many of my problems."

As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.

As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.

May all of you get the $10K raise your soul has yearned for. And whatever level of sex you can be satisfied with for $200.

[vergess]

hey bestie i think ur post might be charmed 'cause you aren't gonna fuckin believe what happened today

[oona81]

Like to charge, reblog to cast

[honey002]

In regards of the Trump government scraping all trans inclusion in its queer information portion of its websites I have made this thing. Spread the word. Don't let them pretend we never existed.

P.S: Don't like! Reblog! <3

[abracadaze]

i feel so bad for nikola tesla like imagine spending years beefing with a guy who has conned the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and you end up dying broke and starving and alone and then 100 years later another guy cons the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and he's doing it all IN YOUR NAME. he must be rolling in his grave like a fucking rotisserie chicken

[satusepiida]

His ghost is setting those cars on fire actually

[coyotegestalt]

I hadn’t really considered “the agnostic demigod of electromagnetism is the reason Musk’s companies fail” before, but I like the concept. 

[blackwoolncrown]

Let’s help him out. Likes charge, reblogs cast

[jaydove-writes]

Nikola Tesla is a son of Hephaestus for sure.

[kawuli]

"voting makes you complicit in US war crimes"

that's not how anything works. if you live in the US, if you pay taxes, if you are using a cell phone, if you drive or ride in a car, if you own anything with a rechargeable battery, you're technically complicit in war crimes.

not voting for Harris is, in effect, a vote for Trump. (mathematically you could argue it's half a vote for Trump but that's still voting for Trump)

I heard a National Parks employee a couple weeks ago say he wasn't sure the National Park Service could survive another Trump presidency. Federal agencies across the government are racing to get money out the door before January - EPA climate justice grants. USDA grants to Black and Indigenous farmers. immigration courts are racing to process as many citizenship applications as possible before January.

They're doing this because they know what will happen if Trump is elected again. We all know. Because we've done this before. There's no "he's just saying stuff he won't actually DO anything" this time around.

Not voting does not keep your hands clean. Not voting is not a principled stand for anything. If you have the ability to vote and choose not to, you have if anything increased the amount of blood on your hands.

[q-kanbas]

[dangerphd]

this is real! you can fax, mail, or dropoff in person, but there is no provision for online registration.

ELECTION CODE CHAPTER 13. APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION; INITIAL REGISTRATION

[pleaseexcusemyderp]

TL;DR: The Texas government is trying to trick you into thinking you've registered to vote online when that's not possible.

[waknatious]

This has not been circulated widely enough.

If you know someone in TX, pleeeeease make sure they see this.

What's so worrying about this is that it's specifically targeted at younger people.

"I'm not handing someone a piece of paper.... wtf"

"Mail? As in... put a stamp on it? Where tf would I get a stamp??"

"FAX???? You have got to be joking rn."

Younger people statistically vote more liberal than conservative. By tricking younger and "more online than not" people into using a fake registration service, the state of TX makes sure that fewer liberal votes are counted.

SPREAD THIS.

[qqueenofhades]

Honestly, this sounds fucking FANTASTIC to me, and we should do it. Cry harder, Mitch.

[crescent-coral-base]

Like to charge. Reblog to cast.

[lurkiestvoid]

By existing as a citizen in and paying taxes to the imperial core, we automatically hold complicity in imperialist oppression because we are literally footing the bill for it. That is just the basic nature of being born to privilege in systems of oppression in general. We can be disadvantaged and marginalized in every single other consideration and we still have to understand and cope with this, and ensure we leverage it as effectively as possible.

Voting abstinence/sabotage does not absolve us of our responsibility to do everything in our power to lessen harm, but it DOES show that when our personal morals aren't satisfied, we retreat into (imperialist, this time) privilege to 'wash our hands' of the situation and declare it's not our fault and it's not our problem.

[sinisterbutinthelatinsense]

In other words “I know the trolley is gonna kill more people this way but the lever is icky and it’s more important that my hands don’t feel gross than it is that fewer people die. I’m a good person, watch me continue to shovel fuel into the trolley and preach against its trajectory while doing absolutely nothing about it”.

[anyawen]

reblogging with @azriona's tags because YES

if the candidates hold the same views on issue 1, look at issue 2, and issue 3, and issue 4. you WILL find ways to differentiate them and find that one of them is more closely aligned with your views. it's not rocket science.

[hareofhrair]

Gonna need yall to stop putting Biden is Just As Bad propaganda on my dash. Had to unfollow someone because I don’t want to a start a fight with them over it, but I’m about to bite the next person who puts that shit in front of me.

If you don’t like Biden, vote in your god damn local and mid term elections for third party or further left candidates so that we get better democratic candidates for future elections. But this one is already fucking decided, and I’m NOT ending up under a Trump led dictatorship because yall value protecting your personal sense of moral purity over the collective good. Whether it offends your personal morals to vote for Biden is IRRELEVANT in the face of the alternative.

This isn’t a lesser of two evils situation. One guy sucks. The other guy is LITERALLY PLANNING TO OVERTHROW OUR DEMOCRACY AND INSTALL HIMSELF AS A PUTIN STYLE DICTATOR.

PLEASE look up Project 2025 and stop acting like abstaining is some kind of personal ethical decision!

[tgraywrites]

JK Rowling has used her billionaire legal team to silence a Jewish woman for telling the truth about her contempt for trans victims of the Holocaust.

Scotland’s network of “freedom of speech” organisations, as per usual, have nothing to say about the use of wealth to gag critics of the wealthy.

However fast they race to condemn the LGBT+ community for saying the names of those who harm us. Statements at the ready to insist that transphobes no one wants to work with anymore must be given every possible opportunity to gain from their bigotry.

But it's not the billionaires who are being silenced, as our media breathlessly echo their every hateful proclamation.

It's journalists and activists forced to publicly humiliate themselves under the weight and the threat of billionaire legal teams or be driven into destitution.

We deserve better. Freedom of speech needs to mean something

[tgraywrites]

The Streisand Effect strikes

This will swiftly become one of the primary things JK Rowling is remembered for. Trying to erase crimes of the Holocaust against trans people and then silencing Jewish journalists for calling her out.

[the-seelie-court-official]

With your help we can make sure JK Rowling is known as a Holocaust denier first, author of mediocre children's books second

[vang0bus]

sorry but i want to hit every american talking about not wanting to vote democrat anymore with hammers. lol

[vang0bus]

yes the democratic party also sucks but you know what sucks more? republicans winning elections because the left is too idealistic to vote. fuck you. not only would that have massive repercussions on human rights and just about every social issue in your country but it influences international politics too dipshit!! a far right government in the us is bad for the whole world!! i dont care that you dont like liberals you dont have to like them just fucking vote for the party that doesnt want poc and queer people dead. yes even if they have shit stances on things like israel. because its better than having a republican government. fucks sake

[vang0bus]

i just. i want to grip these people by the shoulders and shake them. i dont care that you dont like biden. i dont like biden. but if your other options are trump and desantis you have a moral obligation to vote for the guy that isnt trump or desantis. abstaining wont get you a better government that doesnt contribute to genocide itll get you a far right government that contributes to genocide even harder

[ashelyskies-deactivated20241121]

THANK YOU

[maryellencarter]

i don't know if any of my followers actually need to hear this but: speaking as an ex-far-right activist. you are competing against people who are trucking their 13 adult children to the polls the minute those suckers turn 18, with prefilled lists of the most far-right politicians on every ballot to vote for.

do they agree with every policy of every one of those politicians? no! they're like "eh, he's on the kkk board and we kinda don't like that, but he'll vote against abortion rights every time, and if we don't vote for him then the democrat will get in". (real example. i was in a campaign ad for him as a toddler. he is still in office.)

so the only way, the ONLY way that anything even remotely centrist let alone left-leaning can get done, is if we are also willing to say "we don't like this guy, but he's kind of on our side, so we gotta vote for him because the other person who could get in is Against everything we stand for". and help with resources of who holds what positions, and with getting our friends to the polls if we can, and so forth.

presidential primaries start in just a few months. that's when you can vote for whoever you like best to try to get the democrat nomination. in november, no matter what, vote your fucking ticket.

[rat2rrj]

Vote blue because my parents vote for whatever loser blindly hates my transgender ass

[dancinbutterfly]

Vote blue because the reds want us all dead yall for real

[megpie71]

Just for the sake of information:

No election, anywhere, at any time, has EVER been called off due to "lack of voter interest".

Instead, what happens is that the ballots of the people who did turn up and vote get counted, while the ballots of the people who abstained from voting (or were prevented from voting, or who just didn't bother to show up to vote because they didn't care) don't. And as far as the electoral results are concerned, all three of those things are lumped together as "did not vote".

Your principled refusal to vote is treated exactly the same as the "fuck it, I can't be bothered" decision of Joe Disinterested Bloggs.

(And for fuck's sake, if you're wanting a shouting chance of getting a candidate you ARE willing to vote for in the general election, then show up at the fucking Democratic primaries in your state.)

[elfwreck]

Voting is not our only tool for improvement and change.

Voting may not be our best tool.

But voting is ONE OF OUR TOOLS, and the assholes who want us all dead or in prison absolutely DO use it - and voting is the only way to block their elections.

We outnumber them. Even in most of the red states. They win elections through voter suppression, gerrymandering, sometimes outright cheating - not public support.

Nationwide, there are 48 million registered Democrats and 36.4 million registered Republicans.

The races only look close because

The media industry likes close races; it sells more papers/gets more views.

They work damn hard to shut out Democratic voices, especially marginalized ones.

And one of their big tactics is "nobody is really worth voting for."

Maybe nobody is. But I absolutely promise you - someone is worth voting against.

[vaspider]

Hey uhh Lyft what the fuck

[vaspider]

Non-binary does not mean "woman+."

How do you think the average cis woman who uses this would react to a 6'8" genderfluid Viking with a luxurious goatee? Do you think she's going to say, "Of course non-binary people don't Look A Certain Way" or do you think she's gonna throw a shitfit about how she Doesn't Want A MAAaaAAaan Driving Her? (Never mind that this match isn't guaranteed anyway.)

Non-binary does not mean "woman+."

Surely, this won't be used by transphobes to get a trans person alone in a car in an isolated area!

Non-binary does not mean "woman+".

This will surely be Totally Safe and won't be used to target women and queers!

Did I mention that non-binary does not mean "woman+"?

I am a survivor of domestic abuse and CSA perpetuated by cis women. The idea that being with a woman or trans driver makes me safer is... cringe, at best.

Hey, you know, if I were a violent transphobe, it would be super fucking easy to create a dummy profile with a fake girl picture and use it to target women and trans people.

As always, if you're a trans man, this does not include you, which is, you know, super weird, bc Lyft pushes this about being about economic opportunity for drivers and trans dudes have some of the statistically worst rates of poverty.

I get what they're trying to do, but like... how many people who have actually driven Lyft or Uber for any length of time were involved in this? How many people who were AMAB and are non-binary, or who are Just Fucking Sick Of Being Treated Like Women+ or Spicy Cis Women?

For fuck's sake, they literally CALLED IT WOMEN+.

[nerdlog]

Got shut out from an LGBT programming scholarship because I'm a genderfluid AMAB. They said "it's only for women and nonbinary women." Then they called me a nonbinary man and I wanted to rip out someone's throat

[vaspider]

... wow.

[oona81]

They're trying, but did they talk to any actual GNC people about this?!?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"smart appliances" fuck u i want them dumb as a brick and incidentally as sturdy and enduring

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"it has an LCD and an app!" that will be so fun in 7 years when everything still works except the dead screen and the abandoned software.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"so many extra features" so that's why it costs 3x more and has 1/5th the lifespan of the old model.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"4 year extended warranty" buddy where I'm from the dishwasher is a family heirloom and the washing machine helped raise us

[oona81]

I don't want voice-command anything in my house. Ever.

[gorkaya-trava]

so, today we, russian queers, may become "extremists" by decision of russian supreme court and thus our existence will be silenced and erased. any queer activism will be impossible for us. I don't know what to do anymore. I was heartbroken when they passed the laws about "gay propaganda" and transgender people, now I'm just numb. I don't want to escape. I just want to live safely in my own country.

please hear us.

[infiniteglitterfall]

Russian court bans 'LGBT movement'

Russia's Supreme Court declares the "international LGBT public movement" an extremist organisation.

Oh god.

[vaspider]

[oona81]

Horrific

[wintersmitth]

If you fucks actually go through with not voting on your next USA president elections and subsequently lead Trump to power again.

Yes. Yes I'm going to blame every single American for that. Collective responsibility and all that jazz.

[ohsalome]

Explaining in simple terms: if you don't vote for Biden because "he is murdering palestinian babies", you will get Trump as a president, who, being an open and proud islamophobe, will murder even more palestinian babies.

It is no good situation when you have to choose between two shitty candidates. But you have a two-party system.

russia has previously aided trump during elections, and they will do so again. A call to boycott the elections = a call to support trump

You are in no position to afford the privilege of being idiots.

[almostdefinitelydying]

Also this.

Also, a lot of his goons have been filling a LOT of important spots in the military and civilian fields to have positions available for trump to fill in with his loyalists and to easier do a hostile takeover if he wins the election.

IF YOU DON'T VOTE FOR BIDEN YOU WILL GET A DICTATORSHIP BY TRUMP AND WE WILL ALL BE FUCKED

[wintersmitth]

I don't know how many times we have to tell people to make everythingin their power to stop Trump from coming to power again. USA will be fucked. Ukraine will be fucked. Palestine would be fucked. We don't know how many other countries will be fucked.

Trump's presidency already gave cart blanche for the international far right rise, and I don't think we need to spell out to people that the state of the world today is directly credited to Trump's presidency, his incompetence, him being Russian puppet, etc etc.

As much as I am actually an opponent of the whole idea that USA is responsible of everything in the world, it does have a huge influence on international politics scene.

SO GO VOTE.

And since USA is a democracy, then, again, y'all are responsible for the president you elect.

[starlightomatic]

Also, in 2016 Russia went hard on surreptitiously spreading propaganda to get people not to vote for Clinton. We already know that Russia is using bots to spread misinfo about the Israel-Gaza war. I don't think it's a coincidence that we are suddenly seeing tons of posts about how we shouldn't vote for Biden in 2024. You are not immune to propaganda.

[striving-artist]

This is why I'm always bringing up the nuance. Because Biden and Trump are not equally bad. They are not even in the same orbit of bad.

Biden is a leader too moderate for my tastes, who I really really wish wasn't so old. The things he has done have been unexpectedly good despite being hamstrung by the opposition. Love him? Nope. But Biden is making sucky choices from an array of sucky choices, domestic and foreign.

Trump is calling his opponents Vermin, outright explaining that he is 'retribution' and cracking jokes about victims of political and racial violence. He brags about being the one to kill Roe v Wade. In 2020 he asked why the cops didn't just shoot the protesters in the legs. He wants to deport immigrants, including all dreamers, and his plan starts with 'put them in camps.'

I know most people don't track political news. I get it. Its nauseating. But this idiot's gotten stupider, and he's gotten more hateful.

We are, horrifyingly, going to have to watch another Trump v Biden election barring some act of god. (on Nov 5, jfc) And I will walk you through your specific hesitations about Biden if that's what it takes to get through to you. We don't get to vote for a candidate we love. We get to vote for one who won't actively kill american citizens.

[exemplarybehaviour]

#deciding not to vote just strips yourself of any power you have. that’s performative. it’s not activism

[argyleteatime]

Never too early to remind this. We have a profoundly flawed system that has disenfranchised whole swaths of people, but until we have a better one, the guy who will maintain the not great status quo is universes better than the guy who will send us back 50+ years. It sucks, but it can suck way more if we don't do anything.

[tagteaming]

like i can not stress enough despite my issues with some things how much i respect russell t davies for getting the opportunity to write an anniversary special for one of The british pieces of media ever now of all times and deciding that the importance of loving and caring for trans children would be integral to it. you can save millions of people all you need to do is love your trans daughter more than anything in the world.

[revolutionarykoolaid]

Never Forget the Reign of Terror waged against Muslims (and by extension, Sikhs profiled as being Muslim) in the nearly two decades following 9/11.