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i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

mattheuphonium-blog

fabulous

tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020

i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.

counterpunches

#HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY

#tumblr heritage post

citizenscreen

On March 24, 1984, five students at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois reported to the library for detention.

friend-crow

BLM has published a plan to maximize logging in Oregon forests, including old growth forests, without due regard to wildlife (including endangered species) and waterways. They're claiming it will help prevent forest fires, though that seems to be contrary to current science, including that published by the forest service (you can find a list of sources here). This is in response to Trump's executive orders 14223, Addressing the Threat to National Security From Imports of Timber, Lumber, and Their Derivative Products and 14225, Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production.

We have 30 days to submit comments if we want to prevent this. This article has suggestions for what you can say, and how:

One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

You can read more about it here:

Conservationists say proposal to “maximize” logging across nearly 2 million acres of Western Oregon BLM lands would devastate fish, wildlife

If you live in Oregon and you love our forests, please submit a comment before March 23rd.

If you don't live here, it would be super helpful if you could reblog to spread the word.

noknowshame

I know we’re all like lawless nonconformists but you really can’t be texting and driving. that’s one of the ones you’ve gotta listen to for real

briannyssey

everything surrounding the id laws that just passed in Kansas is fucking horrible

briannyssey

terramythos

Hey Bri I hope you don't mind me sharing this on your post but in case anyone reading this is in Kansas or knows trans people in Kansas, Colorado is nearby and considered one of the safest states for trans & queer people. I know relocating is logistically expensive and challenging for many reasons, especially for people in a vulnerable situation, but if it is an option anyone is considering, there is a nonprofit here that may be able to help.

Steps These steps are intended to be a linear process to get you out of there and resettled here. But we get it, you’re a big kid and can do

strigops

this is extremely local and also a shot in the dark but if literally anyone on this site lives in frederick county, maryland i am begging you to sign the referendum to vote on the expansion of the data center in frederick. they have until march 15th to get 18,000 signatures, after which we can vote to slap that expansion right out of their hands if we're lucky. you will need to sign at one of their in-person signing events, but it will be worth it. unfortunately they've already started construction on the site, but we CAN deny them from destroying another 1000 acres of forest/wetlands, high value farmland, and rural legacy areas.

the data center is being built on the site of an old aluminum plant, and the area surrounding it has already undergone numerous investigations for soil and groundwater contamination containing PCE, arsenic, fluoride, and the cancer-causing compounds PAHs and PCBs. while the linked EPA report seems to conclude that the contaminants on the site are "residual", it is still very much an actual superfund site. and someone decided to plunk a data center on it. the factory closed in 2005 and they were still finding new waste storage areas up until 2014, and construction is going to churn up all of that soil. i don't know enough about how well those contaminants travel as airborne dust, but it WILL get into the groundwater again with extensive disturbance like that. the current owners are now responsible for any remediation and i frankly do not trust fucking meta to keep anything from leaching anywhere. the site is also quite literally on top of tuscarora creek, which is extremely close to and flows directly into the potomac (and considering the current shitwater horizon situation our poor river REALLY does not need any more issues).

as a final kick of irony, the plant the data center will be built on closed because it was using so much electricity that they could no longer afford power. now. does that seem like a great place to build a data center, which are famous for slurping down so much electricity that it raises everyone's electric bills in the entire surrounding area. what was the thought process here. how did this ever get approved. please if you can, sign that referendum to nuke this expansion from orbit.

#Maryland #Ai #Data #Data centers

geddyqueer

hello. this message is for trans people in kansas who are looking to leave asap. I live in colorado, in a relatively cheap rural area. the hospital I work at is hiring a multitude of positions; the job is fine and the wages are adequate at worst and good at best. this is a trans-friendly community in a trans-friendly state. I am happy to act as a reference for you and am happy to connect you to housing resources. please hit up my ask box or email me. feel free to share this post with people who may need this information. thank you, good luck.

ticklefighthockey

i think it's pretty cute that carter vaughn is trying to be so clumsily supportive of shane's figure skating friend. i know it's trading in stereotypes and making problematic assumptions about male figure skaters yada yada but i saw a quote from jacob where he was like, "i want you to deliver this line like you have a lesbian sister" and i think it's REALLY charming to imagine carter bursting in there being like I STAND WITH THE LGBTQS AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW IT. of course it's very funny that he's talking to two closeted gay guys but from his perspective it's statistically soooo much likelier that he's talking to two socially conservative jocks who were raised in a deeply homophobic sports culture. and he just wants to be ON RECORD saying that if your little skater friend is a [bleeped out slur that no one has told him is a slur when a straight person says it], carter's cool with that. carter thinks that guy rocks. later he proudly tells his big sister about the conversation and she's like oh carter hon you can't say that word but yeah you've got the spirit

foreverrhapsody

#Carter a few years later: oh god oh fuck

#heated rivalry

nijuukoo

To my Canadian followers, here is a petition on the House of Commons website aiming to revoke permissions that would allow ICE offices to operate on Canadian soil, and to cancel funding and subsidies to Canadian companies who are arming ICE agencies with services, goods, and surveillance technologies that would further enable the lawlessness and abuses that ICE has committed. When you sign, you must click on the confirmation email link that will be sent to the email you sign with in order to verify your signature, otherwise it will not be counted.

For my non-Canadian followers, please share this petition and hopefully this will further the reach to other Canadian users on this platform. It is abominable that any company in this country help or in any way facilitate the unconstitutional and dehumanising acts that ICE has done. In my city of Vancouver, we have been protesting and boycotting Hootsuite, a social media platform that has a $2M USD contract with DHS providing them with social media services from 2024 to 2029. Hootsuite claims they don't use tracking or surveillance with their tools, but the mere fact that they have chosen to work with the violent group in whatever social media capacity, despite previously *turning down* a contract with them back in 2020, is egregious.

Jim Pattison Group is a enormous conglomerate also based in Vancouver, owned and run by one man, Jim Pattison. Pattison previously considered selling an industrial building in Virginia to ICE for them to use as another "holding and processing facility," or more accurately, a goddamn concentration camp, but because of backlash he reversed that decision. Thank fucking god for that, but that does not mean he won't reconsider it again in the future. In Ontario, ICE ordered 20 armoured vehicles from a Brampton firm called Roshel to the tune of $7.3M USD. Canada should not be arming a violent group that has shown itself to be nothing more than a racist group of masked kidnappers and power-tripping thugs that has violated the rights of US citizens and violated numerous court orders.

I'm disgusted that there are Canadian companies that are willingly partnering with DHS and ICE despite the carnage that has been documented over the last year. It is exactly why I've signed this petition and am sharing it with you. Do not let any Canadian companies think they can rest easy by choosing to work with a violent group that is terrorising, abusing, and murdering US citizens of all walks of life, all at the orders of a fascist government run by abusers and tyrants.

kropotkindersurprise

that was a very expensive superbowl ad

frenchtugboat

Do not for one fucking minute believe this will meaningfully stop your stupid fucking internet camera from being used by law enforcement or adtech data companies. This is one partnership being (allegedly) cancelled for now.

Get rid of your stupid fucking internet camera.

queeranarchism

Yeah, this is a win in that it is a big FUCK YOU to ring and flock, and a sign to others that profiting of collaboration with a fascist regime is not popular with 'consumers'. But it doesn't mean ring cameras aren't still dangerous to you and your community. Get rid of them.

#Psa #Privacy #fuck the surveillance state

paperstorm

Wait I’m sorry parent/child incest fic?????? Why does that exist? Why do you KNOW that exists?????? What the fuck 🤢

I feel like you can sort of tell how long (or not) someone has existed in fannish spaces by how outraged they get about things like this. Like rings in a tree trunk lol. I've been in so many fandoms. At least one, but often multiple at the same time, since I was a teenager. I've seen just. Everything.

Sex pollen. Mpreg. Incest. Monster fucking. Tentacles. Pairings like Snape/Hermione that would be crazy abusive and illegal if they were real. Wild kinks. The babygirlification of all kinds of villains. So much RPF (the 'I sincerely believe they are secretly a couple' kind and the 'this is fictional but it's fun to imagine they're in love' kind.)

You learn to just scroll past shit you don't like or unfollow people or filter tags. The tldr of fandom is that humans are weird as fuck. And creative, and unhinged, and traumatized, and talented. And amazing. And every single thing that you clutch your pearls about 'well surely someone doesn't want to read/write THAT!' - someone does. Probably lots of people do. And those people are perfectly normal. In their offline lives, they're parents and siblings and they have jobs and friends and they go about their lives and they don't cause any harm. And that's the sticking point. There's this really concerning, frankly highly Evangelical idea that if someone enjoys the wrong kind of fiction, they are obviously a Bad Person. But nothing is that simple, and thought crimes aren't real, and you definitely have some thoughts or ideas that someone else would find fucked up. You don't have to like every kind of fic that exists. I certainly don't. But shaming people for their harmless fantasies about fictional characters is so boring. I saw Goody Proctor enjoying a Toxic Ship! Good for you, I'll alert the pope.

#fandom #this is excellent