i can't do anything straight

Hello! I am a white queer person! (they/them | 95) I like science, fandom, goats, yarn, and dismantling the kyriarchy.

[gentlier]

What is your eye color?

A 10, 17, 40, or 50

A 20, 30, or 60

C 20, 30, or 40

D 10, 30, 37, or 50

D 20, 34, 40, or 60

T 7, 10, 15, or 17

T 20, 30, 40, or 50

BOTH of my eyes are two different colors.

ONE of my eyes is two different colors.

I don’t have eyes.

Remaining time: 6 days 13 hours

[damndorothea]

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

[tsulasgi]

Sequoyah Indian Weavers' Association memorabilia, date unknown, creator unknown

Cherokee National Collection, Tahlequah, Oklahoma

Framed here are samples created by Sequoyah weavers. These samples reflect some of the colors and patterns that weavers could create through loom weaving. Some of the looms used in the past continue to be used by weavers and their descendants today.

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[1five1two]

'La Corrida'. Bo Bartlett. 2023.

[circusheart]

I do think the post that's like "when they torture you to insanity and then torture you for being insane 😂🤣" is one of the most succinct and foundational analyses of interpersonal violence and conflict that had ever been written

[catchaspark]

californians, consider calling your state assemblymembers in order to object to the current budget proposal stripping Medi-Cal (our Medicaid) from asylees and refugee applicants except in emergencies. also, they’re agreeing to reduce the asset limit for many Medi-Cal recipients back to $2000. That number means that the maximum amount a Medi-Cal recipient who is aged, blind, or disabled can have in the bank at any time is $2000. That figure is obscenely low, and it’s actually lower by about fifty bucks than the amount they’re allowed to get each month in income.* if enacted this policy change will vastly hurt thousands of seniors and disabled people and i’m not kidding. please speak up if you can.

[gatheringbones]

victoria and weed, photographer marcelina martin, 1995.

[shadow-banned-the-hedgehog]

[timefortigers]

problem i have is whenever i read write say or hear "sugar baby" my brain is like oh yeah, i know what that is! pretty sure we can reliably derive meaning for this term based on other definitions that precede it in our internal lexicon, like "sugar glider" and "bush baby". we are definitely talking about some kind of small arboreal marsupial with large eyes. it's probably not ethical for this wealthy patron to be keeping one as a pet

[titleleaf]

In this house we believe

SATOR

AREPO

TENET

OPERA

ROTAS

[mereologic]

a lot of people express frustration at philosophy for not giving them simple answers or intuitive principles to guide their everyday lives, and this is essentially the same as getting mad at someone for not telling you what you should believe.

so fine, here's what you should believe:

it's important to learn how to think and reason for yourself and not let others tell you what to believe without questioning it.

[bill-blake-fans-anonymous]

Early to bed and early to rise give a man spavins, staggers, and sties

[madnessofmen]

The cultural phenomenon of the strongwoman lives in a very special time.

industrialization increases productivity and efficiency of labor -> "Industrialization has made men weak" -> Victorian obsession with bodybuilding a la strongmen (muscular Christianity)

Muscular Christianity + women's suffrage -> strongwoman/muscle mommy fetishism

industrial warfare destroys illusions of man's power against the machine -> decline

[madnessofmen]

Kate Brumbach's husband was the OG muscle mommy fetishist

[digitaldiscipline]

Concussions-to-Lovers speedrun

[animentality]

[salamandersorcerer]

the womens conditions here are still entirely dependent on the men who keep them. the contracts are written by men for men to men. the women are still treated at best as beloved pets who occasionally get a say. these are still sweet stories but this is not actually being treated as a person

[glassphemy]

Agree and it's like, literally one example out of how many billions of women who were married off?

[larkandkatydid]

“Some people claim that women were treated like property but this story of a guy writing an elaborate contract about the conditions in which he will hand over his daughter to some other guy (somehow) refutes that”

[soundclown]

[teethwreath]

[privatedarius]

Galah chicks in gum tree hollow photo credit: Louise Rowland