[sandersstudies]

There is something very special about driving around at 3-4 AM. Like, am I up ridiculously late? Am I up ridiculously early? The world may never know.

[sandersstudies]

*sees other car* and what the FUCK are you doing up

[anchovy-official]

Why is apple so obsessed with making very thin things at the expense of power and features

[anchovy-official]

“Yeah my computer doesnt have an hdmi, but at least it’s so thin and fragile that typing too hard could split the computer in half”

[shirbertflavoured]

The sooner you acknowledge that Apple is a fashion company and not a technology company, everything else makes sense

[strangehorse]

i have so many Feelings about the word ‘bitch’. i love when it’s used humorously (’i’m out here ruining my own life as always bitch’), i love when it’s reclaimed (’i’m a boss-ass bitch’), i love when my female friends call me jokingly (‘listen here bitch’), but when a man says it? sirens, warning lights. when a man calls a woman it it comes with such hatred. it’s stabbing. it’s sharp and vile and it drips misogyny. it’s funny how the word can be fine 95% of the time and the other 5% of the time it genuinely fills me with fear

[foxtarts]

URGENT- HELP A TRANSGUY OUT

Let me start off with saying, I’d never do this if I didn’t need it. I hate asking for anything from anyone, but this has got to be one of the worst times in my life that I’m facing.

I’m a 19 year old trans-dude who’s freshly out of a job, I have no money to pay off my car insurance this month or pay for gas while I’m job hunting and I’m under the threat of getting my driver’s license revoked. 

My family refuses to help me out at all at this time, my own mother won’t even talk to me. Despite paying for the car myself and everything on it, she’s threatened to take my keys and refuse to let me go anywhere even if it means finding a new job.

I currently have a little under half a tank of gas and by the time I drive home tomorrow, I’ll have a fifth of a tank. After that, I’m out of gas completely. 

Currently, I’m taking commissions to help me get through this, but even those aren’t enough to help me out. 

I need $300 to get me through the rest of the month, my current account balance looks like this:

I hate to ask for anything, but if anyone could make a donation of any kind I’d be so grateful. A dollar, two dollars, anything would help. I just can’t get my license revoked, guys, I’m so scared.

My paypal is https://www.paypal.me/foxtrotteds and the name on the account is unfortunately my birth name.

I’ve seen you guys help out so many people, I’m begging you, please help me out, too. I need to be able to make it through the month.

[steviemcfly]

We Snuck into Seattle's Super Secret White Nationalist Convention

These guys mostly work in tech.

[gendernihilistanarchocommunist]

White nationalists generally don’t want to look like characters out of American History X anymore. Fashion choices at the convention ranged from Ruby Ridge to Mad Men, but most of the people there looked like you might run into them on Capitol Hill or in the U-District. That said, there is a type. According to my observations, the standard Seattle Nazi is a white male under 30 who either works in the tech industry or is going to school to work in the tech industry. “You’re also a coder? Do you mind if I send you something I’ve been working on?” I heard that more than once.

[koobaxion-deactivated20220403]

“That movie Hidden Figures was bullshit,” a guy dressed like John Goodman in The Big Lebowski said out of nowhere. “We never went to the moon, Stanley Kubrick faked all of it.” Water almost squirted out of my nose and it was the closest I came all night to breaking character.

[berqamot-deactivated20190704]

“ Much bleaker is Dr. Johnson’s Seattle-suitable, “secret agent” racism plan. Basically, white nationalists meet in secret at conventions like Northwest Forum while paying “lip service to diversity” at their day jobs. They move into positions of power where they can hire other racists and keep non-whites from getting into the company. Two years ago, this method would have seemed like a total joke, but these guys really do mostly work in tech, and they were doing a lot of networking. When talking about the people he has counseled on the “secret agent” method, Dr. Johnson has written that they include “college professors, writers, artists, designers, publishers, creative people working in the film industry, businessmen, and professionals, some of them quite prominent in their fields.” ”

I wonder when liberals are going to stop pretending racists are just a bunch of rural rednecks and start taking a serious approach in combating racism. And conservatives are outraged whenever they perceive an “Inquisition” like “you can’t hold conservative views anymore in your job:(” gee I wonder why my guy.

[theexistentialanarchist]

Lol I keep trynna tell people seattle is racist but they don’t hear me tho

[moesartblog]

Let’s celebrate fat butches today

[moesartblog]

pls reblog this version with a distinct lack of transmisogynists as far as im aware

[starlightandtears]

Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.

[vodcar]

Flossie Wong-Staal - Wikipedia

Flossie Wong-Staal - Wikipedia

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossie_Wong-Staal

[visionsofeverybody-deactivated2]

URGENT! Help Amber escape human trafficking

My name is Amber or Kelly. I am an 18 year old trans girl. I was raised in a human trafficking ring with cult elements for my entire life. As a result, I developed conversion disorder, DID, and conditioned emotional responses. I was sold from a young age to the highest bidder, as well as there being a substantial amount of child pornography created. I am working in therapy very hard on an outpatient basis. I need money for groceries, rent, therapy, greyhound tickets, psychologist appointments, as well as for Uber so I can get to my local FBI field office. Click this post for a link to my PayPal. Message me for cash app. I also release music under the name amber$ (emo rap), magnetictape, and Amber Morton. Check my description for a link to my Bandcamp! Thank you, all reblogs are appreciated!

[marisatomay]

like….not 2 get into this really but..freedom of speech means that the government can’t tell you what you can and can’t say. freedom of speech does not protect you from the social/private repercussions of your actions

[marisatomay]

furthermore: freedom of speech does not entitle you to a soapbox and a bullhorn. people don’t have to listen to you. they don’t have to give you a platform. you’re allowed to say what you want but no one is required to listen to you or help you say it.

[jasperstudies]

dear white followers

poc isn’t an adjective - i’m not a “people of colour blogger”, i’m a blogger of colour

don’t say poc if you mean a specific group of people. black lives matter isn’t about all poc. it’s about black people

you don’t need to tell us about every instance of racism you see. if someone’s said something racist about us & we weren’t there, sure, we probably do want to know. but if it’s along the lines of “can you believe this person was racist”? yeah. we can. we don’t need you to remind us

if you have a friend of colour, please don’t expect them to give you the rundown on every racialised issue you see. i’m black. that doesn’t mean i’m automatically an expert on how the modern beauty industry is influenced by india’s colonial history. i don’t speak for all poc - ask someone who’s affected by it

remember that talking about race is tiring. wanting to be more aware of it is great, but discussing exactly how white supremacy affects our lives is frankly depressing. please respect that we don’t always want to do that

if you ever say you’ve “got an [ethnicity] friend” so you can’t be racist to try and sidestep being genuinely called out for racism, i’m stealing your friend. you’re tokenising & they deserve better

poc aren’t a monolith & individual ethnicities can trivialise the racism they don’t face. just because you’ve heard a brown person say the n word or a black person be anti-asian doesn’t mean it’s suddenly okay

talking about our relationship with whiteness ≠ “making everything about race” & anyone who says that from now on owes me £150

this is okay to reblog even (especially) if you’re white

[jasperstudies]

the point of this post is not to be a performative ally and act as if you as a white person have to endorse it for it to be worth reblogging. i do not need your commentary about how you, someone who will never be affected by racism, think this is important. i know damn well it is! adding things like this:

is incredibly patronising - and this is just a small example of the nonsense i’ve had in tags, responses, and my inbox. if you don’t think a black person telling you something about racialisation is believable or important without your saying so, you are part of the problem, and you need to self-reflect before you start trying to contribute to the conversation. 

reblog this version instead.

[lichfucker]

[image description: 3 tumblr tags that say, “I’m white and… yeah these are pretty important rules to abide by,” “I’m white but this is super important so I’m reblogging,” and “as a white human this was v important.” end id]

[badsciencejokes]

[cupidcore]

NEW PAYPAL LINK

Proof + Extra Information

Please Reblog this new version my post and discontinue reblogging the old version

From the bottom of my heart ty for reading. Thanks to you all I’ve ordered a cane. Let’s keep the goodness coming.

[just-shower-thoughts]

Glitter is just homosexual sand.

[goddamnlethamlet]

semi-related, but this one kid who was in my chemistry class last year had a shirt that said “sawdust is man glitter” and every time he’d wear it i’d tell him “glitter is man glitter if you aren’t a fucking coward”

[4a0000-deactivated20180901]

[twerklina]

[niggazinmoscow]

It’s the circle where people pretend the American Dream is real so want the aesthetic that shows they worked their way out

[afrodesiaq-deactivated20250629]

so when i was a teenager, i was homeless, and also did a lot of activism surrounding the issue of homelessness among queer youth. occasionally some newspaper or magazine etc would do an article about this activism.

there was one time that stands out to me in particular because a fashion magazine had done an interview with me and subsequently sent folks to do a photoshoot to accompany the article. they had a stylist they sent down to select clothes for the photo shoot who, i am dead serious, was picking out clothing they thought fit The Homeless Teenager Aesthetic. artfully pre torn and frayed $250 jeans (studded, for extra Edge, with a skull design. in rhinestones.) a $70 tank top with Graffiti Print Design. (the clothes did, in fact, still all have price tags on; i gathered they had some sort of policy around keeping them in Like New condition for… return? reuse on different photoshoots? i wasn’t really clear on what happened after they had served out their life making real homeless teenagers look fake homeless.)

i tried explaining that this was Kind Of Silly and didn’t actually look anything like the clothes i wore, since what with the homelessness and it being chicago and, uh, cold, i preferred my clothes as hole-free as possible for as long as possible in order to be alive.

but they were very insistent. people will expect you to look the part.

and, you know… subsequently go out and buy the expensive clothing that tells them exactly how to look the part, from the comfort of their cushy homes.

[glitterpen1s-deactivated2013012]

you know that feeling when you’re on your period and you take a shower and you feel so clean and relieved and nice but then as soon as you turn the water off it’s a race against you, gravity and time

[cant-adult-will-fandom-for-free]

I swear the last line made it feel like the plotline of an action film

[nathaniels-otps-deactivated2017]

It is a period drama