Overthinking

Observations of a Queer obsessive/compulsive.

[everythingfox]

Do not separate them

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[everythingfox]

Such a good boy

[transperceneige]

in much more interesting news, today at work I got to explore an abandoned 500-year-old castle, seized by the state because of the owner's massive tax evasion

we spent an hour and half going all over the grounds, I'd never felt so #urbex

[transperceneige]

just want to point out that we found this door at one point

[purronronner]

WHY

[sigmaleph]

seeing this door makes me feel like i have never truly contemplated the possibilities of doors as a concept, as though a new understanding of what it means to be a door has been forced upon me

[whitepeopletwitter]

[this-machine-k1lls-fascists-dea]

Really happy to see this at my local library

[oracleanne]

OOOOH. *happy YA librarian dance*

[thessalian]

I want this in every library, everywhere. After all, some kids won’t even google this stuff because they don’t want parents/siblings checking their browser history.

[adventurer-c]

This is really awesome. And if you’re not familiar with how the Dewey Decimal system works - the numbers subject-based, which means these numbers are applicable in EVERY library. So if you see something you want to research on this list - look for those same numbers in any of your local libraries.

[jkfngkjwnfgkfnkslf-deactivated2]

This is wonderful.

[the-woman-of-belgravia]

Reblogging to possibly save a life

[whitepeopletwitter]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[theconcealedweapon]

[keithspyder]

A little louder for the people in back.

[loamsome]

What did we do to deserve Bill Nye

[wilwheaton]

Speaking as a non-religious person, I can confirm.

[queergrrrl502]

Yesssss.

[templepriest-motherfucker]

Say it with me folks:

“Eat the rich” means 1%ers and billionaires

middle class is closer to poverty than being a multimillionaire

“The rich” does NOT include children of billionaires (come on we’re at least slightly better than the plagues of Egypt)

Upper middle class children SHOULD NOT feel guilt over having money

Being aware of privilege and using your privilege to help others IS NOT a guilt trip

Constantly feeling guilty helps no one

Billionaires, however, should feel guilty over hoarding wealth.

Upper middle class is NOT rich

Black Lives Matter

Trans rights are human rights

[kelila-rivka]

My uncle was one of the top surgeons in the country. He was upper middle class definitely. When he got cancer, his insurance didn’t cover all the treatments he would need and after 5 years he drained his savings on cancer treatments (while still working most of that time) and eventually died because he couldn’t afford the expensive treatments that might have saved him.

If you are upper middle class and you get sick, it will likely bankrupt your family. It’s fucked.

[olddukeofficial]

For all of the idiots in the notes ^

[dancinbutterfly]

Honest to god - even if you make 6 figures a year? you're closer to poverty than true wealth. Check your shit and remember who your real allies and enemies are guys.

[uvradical]

A 6 figure income is a lot right? That’s say: 223,000 dollars a year Which is 112 dollars an hour. Most people would consider that upper middle class. That’s enough money to have a nice house, go on fun vacations. That’s slight more than the average doctor makes.

223,000 dollars is what Jeff Bezo makes in a minute

the well-off and the rich are not the same. 

[vbartilucci]

I always love to quote Chris Rockon the difference between “rich” and “wealthy”:

“LeBron James is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy”

[whitepeopletwitter]

[queergrrrl502]

Say that out loud to yourself. 🙄

[wilwheaton]

•1863 New York, NY: 120 African Americans murdered

•1866, New Orleans, LA: 50 African Americans*(assume the following figures are all Black) murdered

•1866 Memphis, TN: 46 murdered

•1868 Opelousas, LA: 250 murdered

•1868 St. Bernard Parish, LA: 135 murdered

•1868 Camila, GA: 15 murdered

•1873 Colfax, LA: 153 murdered

•1874 Vicksburg, MS: 300 murdered

•1874 Eufaula, AL: 40 murdered

•1875 Clinton, MS: 50 murdered

•1887 Thibadeux, LA: 35+ murdered

•1898 Wilmington, NC: 300 murdered

•1906 Atlanta, GA: 25 murdered

•1908 Springfield, IL: 14 murdered

•1910 Slocum, TX: 100 murdered

•1917 St. Louis, MO: 250 murdered

•1919 Chicago, IL: 38 murdered

•1919 Elaine, AR: 237 murdered

•1919 Washington, DC: 40 murdered

•1920 Ocoee, FL: 4 murdered

•1921 Tulsa, OK: ~200 murdered

•1923 Rosewood, FL: 150 murdered

•1943 Detroit, MI: 34 murdered

•1985 Philadelphia, PA: 11 murdered

•2015 Charleston, SC: 9 murdered

I had previously known about maybe half of these, but seeing it on a graphic floored me so I decided to look in to the various death tolls. I took the higher figures in every instance because we all know old racist white folk would do whatever they could to minimize the heinous actions of their white communities. It’s also worth noting that for most massacres, they are typically listed as riots (IMO a racially charged word because of right-wing right media); and a lot of them have 10x as many injured than killed which I omitted those figures for brevity. A (very small) handful of the deaths were white people defending their black brethren, and so I also included those in the figures.

Let this history never be forgotten nor white washed (more than it already has).

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[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.

[afronerdism]

She published her book November of 2020

[saint-batrick]

even all the way in dallas, gay men in the late 80s/early 90s said her name with reverence.

[queergrrrl502]

She is a Saint. 🌈

[eunnieboo]

pink in the night

[sourcherrymagiks]

If there is a time I don’t reblog this it will be because the apocalypse got me

[kingjinxii]

also the creator confirmed the brunette girl is trans!!

[whitepeopletwitter]

[patrocles]

keep floridas name out of yalls mouth challenge

[enbyofdionysos]

people are on twitter throwing shade at Texas and Louisiana as if Texan republicans didn’t just file a federal lawsuit to throw out 127,000 votes -- Texas (which could fit the entire UK in it 2.8 times need i remind you) also closed hundreds of polling sites, leaving one county with only two sites. TWO. Louisiana also ordered hundreds of polling places to close early ON ELECTION DAY.

i don’t want to hear people going “oobloobloo these boomers” and “oobloobloo the south” and “oobloobloo these hillbillies”

IT’S DIRECT VOTER SUPPRESSION.

so stop making jokes about sleeping when southerners need help during hurricanes because your middle class white ass was able to safely get in your subaru to drive to your local polling place on your lunchbreak meanwhile voters on their way to their polling places in north carolina were pepper-sprayed by police.

[wilwheaton]

We have to stop thinking about Red States as places that are filled with redneck dipshits who keep these awful people in power. We need to start thinking about Red States as Occupied by a gerrymandered, popularly unelected minority, who are oppressing the majority who live there.

[keithspyder]

Thank you, Wil. Yes, please.