TheseRunningHands

Toiling in obscurity /// Local They/Them old.

[hballegro]

Attacked by very sudden torrential downpour and went to check the weather radar and then remembered this image

[free-and-to-none-accountable]

he made a nintendo playstation

[runninghands]

This has the same energy as a Micarah Tewers sewing video.

[felysha]

Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who was murdered on the first day of Pride month as well as Indigenous History Month. He died protecting his trans husband. Homophobia and racism aren’t marks of the past, and this is a heart breaking reminder of that.

Praying for a safe journey back to the spirit world, Uncle ❤️‍🩹🦅

[felysha]

Today is the anniversary of the death of Jonathan Joss (King of the Hill, Parks and Rec). Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who died protecting his transgender husband, on the first day of Pride month. Today we remember him and how he protected his family.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[calciumcryptid]

I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.

[genderoutlaws]

sorry still reallyyy fucking pissed off that me and my dad couldnt park in a disabled spot bc all 4 were taken up by a county sheriff car. i left a note like hey jackass dont park across FOUR disabled spots at once. went to go do our shit. came back out n the cops like surprised us around the corner n started trying to intimidate and threaten us with a LITTERING CHARGE for leaving a note. so i took the note n threw it in the trash n said im sooooo sowwy :(( n then they just kept lying n like showing their entire assholes by showin not a single damn person in their entire office knows the first thing about the ADA and think it doesnt apply to parking spaces in front of businesses. n i was like ohhh okay so its okay for you to break the law if youre in a hurry. n theyre like it was an important larceny we were responding to. lol

so important that they had time to repark the illegally parked car, search for the dashcam footage of me leaving the note, and sit around the store entrance with their dicks in their hands while they waited for a chance to direct their waste of life towards a 62 yr old disabled man with a cane!!! but fuck him i guess you had to get to the bottom of the missing candy bar

also when we walked away this ugly shrimp dicked pussy ass little fucker called after and said umm its literally fine cuz i parked in the middle lane thing n i shouted back THAT EXTRA LANE IS HOW DISABLED PEOPLE GET OUT OF THEIR CARS

[marzipanandminutiae]

"man, museum work pays peanuts, has an incredibly low supply of full-time jobs for current demand, sometimes involves getting yelled at by the public, causes Imposter Syndrome, and is often undervalued by people who assume it's easy"

"but is it unsp-"

"unspeakably cool? YES"

[conservethis]

Some of the moments when I have felt the coolest in my life are when I was doing internships in a museum. Because they kept the dang room where I was working below 70F and my fingernail beds turned blue.

[yraelviii]

Museums and archives are unspeakably cool, but not *just* because the records and artifacts and legacy A/V like a brisk 50-something°F (10-15°C) at all times.

The cardigans are there for a reason.

[marzipanandminutiae]

You guys have A/C???

[cries in his historical house Museum]

[reckless-glitch]

[ramblingandpie]

[Video description: Gritty is turning the crank on a flagpole to raise the Progress Pride Flag. He gesticulates angrily that the flag is not blowing in the wind, then gestures offscreen. The flag begins blowing. As Gritty begins raising the flag more, the camera pans out to show a man in a suit and sunglasses, looking like a stern Secret Service agent, is holding a leafblower that points at the flag. End description.]

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[fae-they]

so are we keeping our glasses on or off during sex

glasses on or off during sex

on

off

i do not wear glasses (u better rb this)

Remaining time: 2 days 16 hours

[digitaldiscipline]

[strawhatsufi]

"Racialised" is much better than PoC but I've been leaning a lot on the concept of racial markedness. Because that allows us to make statements like "the name Jamal is racially marked in USA". Rather than saying something like "Jamal is a PoC name", a nonsense statement, saying it's racially marked in USA allows us to contrast with societies like Albania or the Arab countries where the name Jamal is ordinary, thus unmarked.

[strawhatsufi]

It's a concept I've kind of imported from linguistic analysis; saying a speech pattern is more or less marked does not really allow us to avoid the subject of who's doing the marking. A statement like "womens' speech is more marked in Lakota" necessitates that we understand that it's the Lakota who are marking womens' speech. A foreigner can't tell the difference and probably doesn't understand why it would thus be weird to see a man using speech patterns associated with women, in the same way an Albanian wouldn't understand why USA people would think Jamal is a Black name.

[strawhatsufi]

You! You get it. In my view, if someone is saying "racialised" or "racially marked" without acknowledgement of context, they are doing it in a way that is gramatically incorrect.

[black--stars]

[Start ID: tumblr tags that read "#ohhh fuck that's a really good way of lookking at it #it forces the relative nature of it all to the forefront #it *makes* the listener pay attention to the fact that their context isn't THE context #and removes the assumption of Default]

[foxehrobot]

You Have More Power Than You Think You Do: A Case Study In Getting Shit Done

I don't live in a walkable city.

I live in a mid-sized Texas town that only realizes that there are people who don't drive when TXDoT gives them money for active transportation infrastructure.

People constantly tell me that you just cannot walk or ride a bike in this city. It's impossible!

I do it anyway, because I firmly believe that solarpunk is a useless aesthetic if you aren't living it as best you can. We don't need technology to solve our problems we need will.

Also I do volunteer work on the political side of the local animal shelter and so I find myself at city hall several times a year and there's no bike rack.

Or rather there wasn't a bike rack.

I complained to someone, politely, informing them that I am doing this volunteer work and I don't have any safe place to lock my bike and that locking it to a handrail is inconvenient for everyone and also hideous.

A few months later a single staple-style bike rack was installed at city hall. It's not much, but I got sent a photo of someone else who got to use it before I did, clearly there was a need, if small.

Then I turned my gaze to the local grocery store, which had a bike rack, but the bike rack was terrible. It was too short for modern tire sizes, it was placed too close to the wall so one side was useless, and it was generally pretty cramped.

It took some time, but an advocate friend told me to contact the property owner instead of banging my head against the wall contacting HEB itself, and so I sent another polite complaint with a photo, explaining why it wasn't a very good bike rack and it would be really cool if we had a different one with better placement.

And about two months later, we have new staple-style racks at the grocery store, properly placed for maximum parking.

It's not a new bike lane. It's not a removal of parking minimums. It's not infill development or an active transportation advisory board.

They're just bike racks.

But that's the beauty of it. I, a person with an email address, some basic "how to be firm but polite while making an argument" skills, and a willingness to work out who to contact, fixed two problems for the local community. Trust me, I have had people wait on me to unlock my bike so they could have the "good spot." I was not the only person annoyed at the old rack.

It can be done. You're not powerless. Solarpunk doesn't have to be a wishful aesthetic.

Technology will not save us.

We have to save us.

[themechnamedashley]

Every. Little. Bit. Counts. That voice in your head that says "this thing is too small to be worth it"? Staple it shut. Do the small thing. Make the world a better place, one small thing at a time.

[rederiswrites]

I think that media literacy step one for any video is "why is a camera pointed at this?" If there's no obvious reason for a camera to be pointing that way all the time, someone filmed the video on purpose. We aren't a fly on the wall, we're a deliberate audience.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Annual reblog of Freddie and his magnificent cats.

[tumbalendar]

happy Pride Eve!

[runninghands]

My first Dayflower dye extract attempt was…not entirely successful. I think I used too much isopropyl so when it was drawn up into the paper it had too much time evaporating and oxidized.

[runninghands]

Attempt #2! This flower was already a little past it’s prime (idk how it’s 3 in the afternoon but whatever) but I used 1/4 of the isopropyl for this extraction. Hopes are high.

[runninghands]

It WORKED!!