Paladin Complex

The Holy and the Broken Hallelujah. Cis. Late 30s. He/Him. Dad friend. Is proud of you and believes in you.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[meetnategreen]

In 2016, over 75,000 mail-in ballots were left uncounted and discarded because they were received after  mail-in voting deadlines, which all vary by state, according to CBS news. 

Some states like California allow you to check with the Registrar of Voters on-line to verify both if a ballot has issued and if it was received to help prevent voting errors.

Remember, the most common forms of voter fraud are 1) gerrymandering, 2) voter suppression and 3) foreign participation through both lobbying and online misinformation. 

[someweirdjew]

OCTOBER 13. IT’S BEING DELIBERATELY SLOWED. OCTOBER 13.

[museumnelson]

Also know that in most states you can also drop it off either at a polling place or the county elections office too

[atypical-snowman]

The postal service is being deliberately slowed.

[deavydealer-deactivated20260306]

i’m not american but i’m still reblogging this

[official-lucifers-child]

please please please everyone who can vote make sure you’re registered and check when your ballot needs to be in. they are deliberately slowing things down so be careful and cautious about this, play it safe.

[antique-scarecrow]

ELECTION DAY IS OCTOBER 20 OCTOBER 13

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

OCTOBER 13 YA’LL

8 DAYS LEFT

[supercalifragilisticosteoporosis]

2 days left.

[prokopetz]

Honestly, a lot of my favourite elements of popular media have come about directly from writers being passive-aggressive.

Let me give you a classic example: Happy Days. For a lot of folks reading this post, it’s probably before your time, but you’re likely to at least be familiar with Fonzie, a supporting character played by Henry Winkler who ended up being so popular that he’s literally the only thing anybody remembers about the show.

Now, if you recognize the name, you might also know that one of Fonzie’s more notable quirks is that he tends to take his motorcycle with him everywhere - even indoors, including many places where there’s no obvious way for him to have gotten it there. What you might not know, however, is why the writers came up with this running gag in the first place.

Y’see, Fonzie was originally conceived as the “bad influence” character - the cool, dangerous bad boy. As part of that characterisation, the writers wanted to have him wear a leather jacket. (Because it was the 1970s, and that counted as edgy back then.) The network censors, however, objected, claiming that allowing him to wear the jacket would encourage juvenile delinquency and gang violence. (Again, it was the 70s.)

Eventually, the writers worked out a deal whereby they’d be allowed to have Fonzie wear the jacket - but only if he was riding or otherwise physically near his motorcycle, since a leather jacket is a common article of safety equipment when operating a non-enclosed vehicle, and we can’t let impressionable kids see somebody riding a motorcycle without proper safety equipment, can we?

Then they just wrote the motorcycle into every scene, regardless of whether it made sense or not, thereby allowing Fonzie to wear the jacket all the time.

[the-real-seebs]

What. The. Fuck.

That is utterly brilliant.

[positivity-in-recovery]

[arinashitabun]

Art by Hector aka shitty watercolor

[skylowalker]

[moki-dokie]

😭😭😭😭

[drcrowdpleaser]

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

“In 1984, when Ruth Coker Burks was 25 and a young mother living in Arkansas, she would often visit a hospital to care for a friend with cancer.

During one visit, Ruth noticed the nurses would draw straws, afraid to go into one room, its door sealed by a big red bag. She asked why and the nurses told her the patient had AIDS.

On a repeat visit, and seeing the big red bag on the door, Ruth decided to disregard the warnings and sneaked into the room.

In the bed was a skeletal young man, who told Ruth he wanted to see his mother before he died. She left the room and told the nurses, who said, "Honey, his mother’s not coming. He’s been here six weeks. Nobody’s coming!”

Ruth called his mother anyway, who refused to come visit her son, who she described as a "sinner" and already dead to her, and that she wouldn't even claim his body when he died.

“I went back in his room and when I walked in, he said, "Oh, momma. I knew you’d come", and then he lifted his hand. And what was I going to do? So I took his hand. I said, "I’m here, honey. I’m here”, Ruth later recounted.

Ruth pulled a chair to his bedside, talked to him

and held his hand until he died 13 hours later.

After finally finding a funeral home that would his body, and paying for the cremation out of her own savings, Ruth buried his ashes on her family's large plot.

After this first encounter, Ruth cared for other patients. She would take them to appointments, obtain medications, apply for assistance, and even kept supplies of AIDS medications on hand, as some pharmacies would not carry them.

Ruth’s work soon became well known in the city and she received financial assistance from gay bars, "They would twirl up a drag show on Saturday night and here'd come the money. That's how we'd buy medicine, that's how we'd pay rent. If it hadn't been for the drag queens, I don't know what we would have done", Ruth said.

Over the next 30 years, Ruth cared for over 1,000 people and buried more than 40 on her family's plot most of whom were gay men whose families would not claim their ashes.

For this, Ruth has been nicknamed the 'Cemetery Angel'.”— by Ra-Ey Saley

[macaronsandfries]

She’s 60 now, she’s still doing activist and advocacy work, and working on a memoir.

[rainbowdazzle]

MAKE MOVIES ABOUT WOMEN LIKE HER

[vpiuke-deactivated20240227]

https://ruthcokerburks.com/

Inspirational Activist and Motivational Speaker

Ruth Coker Burks, an activist who cared for people diagnosed with AIDS/HIV in the 80s and 90s, is a motivational speaker who inspires others

[thenatsdorf]

Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

[starrypawz]

This footage of Elmo after messing up a take on Sesame Street is peak relatable

[sleepy-shark]

In Elmo’s voice: “I only had three lines!”

[mydesignispeople]

Okay but please watch the whole video. It’s just over a minute.

1. Robin Williams making off-the-cuff jokes that are definitely not Sesame Street appropriate.

2. The slow zoom in on Elmo’s face at the end.

3. Robin Williams

[esoanem]

[yekkes]

Can we ban the use of the word cabal

[yekkes]

The only context I ever see it used is to dogwhistle Jews and push antisemitic conspiracy theories. I know the word denotes Kabbalah and was wondering why it took on another meaning and so I looked up why:

So basically goyim decided to take our word and twist it into something else because they orientalized Kabbalah as secret occult. This second etymology paragraph is deceiving because it quite literally derives from the Hebrew as an absolute root back to Judaism no matter what. It doesn’t even matter to me if you use the word without intentionally referring to Jews because it has the effect of antisemitism against us anyways. Stop using this word, please. It is an antisemitic dogwhistle.

[shapesofglory]

Please add "pharisee," "pharasaical" to the list. Our customs and history aren't sanctimonious or hypocritical. It's a word rooted in oppressive Christian hegemony that seeks to vilify our practices, ideologies, beliefs, ethics, shared traditions, culture and history as strange relics with no place in an enlightened world. Use something to else to condemn hypoticritical politicians and leaders.

[yekkes]

Gentiles are required to reblog this

[catchymemes]

[wereopossum]

The sheer energy. The beauty of this woman. The women hugging in the background. The man in rainbow parachute pants. This whole video is art.

[everythingfox]

“Luna has apparently bonded or is just obsessed with my daughter. This is the 2nd cat we’ve had that is like this with her.”

(Source)

[whitepeopletwitter]

[socksual-innuendos]

election day should be a few days even before that, just to be safe. Never assume your deadlines are to the day.

[gothhabiba]

“Another myth that is firmly upheld is that disabled people are dependent and non-disabled people are independent. No one is actually independent. This is a myth perpetuated by disablism and driven by capitalism - we are all actually interdependent. Chances are, disabled or not, you don’t grow all of your food. Chances are, you didn’t build the car, bike, wheelchair, subway, shoes, or bus that transports you. Chances are you didn’t construct your home. Chances are you didn’t sew your clothing (or make the fabric and thread used to sew it). The difference between the needs that many disabled people have and the needs of people who are not labelled as disabled is that non-disabled people have had their dependencies normalized. The world has been built to accommodate certain needs and call the people who need those things independent, while other needs are considered exceptional. Each of us relies on others every day. We all rely on one another for support, resources, and to meet our needs. We are all interdependent. This interdependence is not weakness; rather, it is a part of our humanity.”

— AJ Withers, “Disability Politics and Theory” (via vulturechow)

[mustardtigress]

rest in power john lewis

[cartnsncreal]

4-year-old Daliyah Arana is the inspiration for this new gig at the Library of Congress.

I salute her parents

#BlackGirlMagic #BlackPride #BlackExcellence 

[vowtogether]

Hi everyone! We are the Voltage Organized Workers!

The writers of Lovestruck have come together to unanimously demand better working conditions, greater transparency, and increased protections. To that end, we asked the management of Voltage USA to recognize us and meet our demands - and since management has refused, we will be going on strike.

All of the Lovestruck writers are members of marginalized genders and/or sexualities. We have been given an invaluable foot in the door to the industry and a platform to tell stories that represent our voices, our passion, and our experiences. We are also all fans of the app, and we care deeply about the stories we tell.

However, not only are we paid less than half the industry standard rate, we are asked to meet extremely tight deadlines and produce enormous amounts of content without protections or benefits.

We want to see our hard work and commitment to authentic storytelling given the value it deserves.

Want to help us? Well first off–thanks!

The best thing you can do is send messages to Lovestruck contact asking them to recognize us.

All our fans are important to us. You’re the people supporting us, and we hope that you will help us improve our situation. We know that you have your own concerns, and we’re confident that this move will help to address those as well.

While our strike won’t immediately affect content in the app, it will certainly delay stories that you’re eager to see. There is a contact field on the Voltage website, and the more they hear from fans, the more likely they are to want to talk to us.

Above all, please do NOT boycott the game. We’re counting on you still being there and reading the stories you love.

Please also do not send anyone any harassment, on our behalf or otherwise. We do not condone such behavior. Keep your messages respectful. At the end of the day, the people you’re messaging are still our coworkers, and we want to get back to work as quickly as possible.

Message us with questions here or on any of the social media accounts listed below!

(Just bear in mind that there are some questions we can’t answer without breaking our NDAs.)

We’re hoping to have good news for you within a few days, and we’ll be sure to keep you updated of any developments.

<3

Voltage Organized Workers

Twitter: @VOW_Together

Reddit: VOWTogether

Instagram: vowtogether

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[vowtogether]

Thank you so much for the support! We would like to reiterate,

PLEASE DO NOT BOYCOTT LOVESTRUCK!

Doing so will only hurt our cause. Instead of boycotting, keep reading your favorite stories! Read a route you’ve never read before! Read a POC LI’s route! Read a nonbinary LI’s route! These stories are important to us, and we want to keep writing them. Thank you again.

[swampwitched]

support @vowtogether !

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Why I wrote it BINGO (transcript under the cut)

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[icarus-suraki]

Quick Reminder...

The COVID-19 virus has not changed

Your immune system has not changed

There is no vaccine

There is no cure

What’s Different?

Fewer government-directed restrictions

That’s literally it: fewer lockdowns, closures, and stay-at-home orders, often due to political pressure.

But COVID-19 is still here. It’s still contagious. People are still getting it. People are still dying from it. Just because it’s not as prominent in the news does not mean that this 2020 story arc has concluded!

Please

Wash your hands

Continue social distancing

Wear a face mask

Protect high-risk and vulnerable people

Self-isolate if sick, quarantine if exposed

Help flatten the curve and contain the outbreaks 

Source: I am an actual contact tracer and I just got home from a very long shift where we are having to reach out to more and more and more people as they are exposed to people with positive COVID-19 tests.

Please stay safe.