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You ever click on someone's blog to look at one post or to follow someone, then put your phone down and come back later and think you're on your dash but actually you're still on someone's blog and you're just liking everything so their notes are going to be littered with your name like some kind of freaky stalker?

Sorry about that y'all, I'm not tryna creep I'm just dumb.

roxierambles

KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) has passed the House.

From now until the Senate vote, This period of time is our last chance to stop KOSA.

Upset at Discord and Youtube's age verification policies? If KOSA passes, your alternatives to these sites will be affected too. You would not be able to avoid it, not unless you decide to leave social media entirely, which many people cannot do. You would have to choose between privacy and access to your accounts. All is NOT lost, but our hope relies on calls, petitions, emails. I cannot stress enough how important these next few months are. Every call made in the next few months is for the future of the online world. If you have struggled to find time to make a script, or don't know what to say, use 5 Calls. They give you a script to use while calling. People have also provided other scripts. @daytimemin for example has a document with scripts.

Find your senator here: U.S. Senate: Senators

Everyone is free to tag people, tag fandoms, anyone you think should know about this. This is serious EDIT: Guys I messed up. I accidentally said "Passed the SENATE". It has NOT passed the Senate. It has passed the HOUSE. I'm sorry if I scared you more by saying it passed the Senate.

roxierambles

I encourage everyone who reblogged this post to plz replace your reblog with this updated version. I don't want to scare anybody else by having the "passed the Senate" version spreading. Ty <3

@iwantrelics @sticky-twig @sillyangla @sillypupsponge @reebroswaifu

metrotransitposter

metro transit fact: it’s called public transportation because it ports us trans folks from place to place

yourreddancer

Mitch McConnell is reportedly brain dead.

Mitch McConnell is reportedly brain dead. The journalist who broke his cardiac arrest is at the hospital waiting for them to move his body. Her name is Desirée Townsend.

She's the independent reporter who obtained the EMS scanner audio confirming paramedics performed CPR at McConnell's D.C. home on June 14. NBC and CBS spent a week catching up to her.

Yesterday she tweeted that she's physically at the hospital, that multiple sources have told her the 84-year-old senator has been declared brain dead, and that his Capitol Police detail was still there as of 3:39pm ET.

Laura Loomer posted the same claim, citing a White House source. McConnell's office will not confirm or deny. They insist he is "continuing to improve."

The brain-death claim is not yet verified. Here's what is.

McConnell has been hospitalized for three straight weeks with no public explanation.

His office has never said why he was admitted. His last vote was June 11.

His wife Elaine Chao was photographed in Beijing meeting the Chinese vice president three days after her husband collapsed. She has not come home.

His daughter deactivated her X account.

Neighbors of his D.C. townhouse say no one has come or gone since the ambulance took him away. Not family. Not staff.

Kentucky's Democratic Governor Andy Beshear says McConnell's office is not returning his calls.

Now the politics.

Kentucky Republicans quietly rewrote the state's succession law in 2024. If McConnell's seat opens, Beshear cannot appoint a replacement. A special election gets triggered instead.

And the timing matters. If he can't finish his term after August 3, the special election just rolls into November. Before August 3, the GOP has to hold a standalone race.

They’re watching the calendar.

The election they're trying to avoid is the GOP's nightmare. Thomas Massie, the Republican congressman who has become one of Trump's loudest critics, would be a heavy favorite to run and split the red vote wide open.

Every day they hide McConnell's condition is a day they don't have to hold that race.

Whatever is actually happening in that hospital room, this is the picture from outside it: a senator who has not been seen in three weeks, a wife who left the country, a family that has gone dark, a governor being frozen out, and a party racing the clock on a succession law they wrote themselves.

Townsend is still at the hospital.

BESHEAR SHOULD SHOW UP AT THE HOSPITAL AND DEMAND TO SEE HIM - OR HIS BODY!!!

Schrödinger’s turtle

He’s a public servant, the public have a right to know his condition.

when Beshear won the election, before he took office Kentucky changed the law so he could not appoint a replacement. Beshear should do it just to push the issue. The GOP would have to prove McConnell is alive or dead. And then they would have to act accordingly sooner rather than later.

sea-puppy

Weekend at Bernie's wasn't an instruction manual

sea-puppy

Harambe this, creepy clowns that. What really doomed this timeline was that the Killers stopped releasing their annual Christmas songs, and the final nail in the coffin is that the 2016 one was a cover and not an original

writingdose

bellaskhakhiskirt

I love how all of them are trying to make a pun related to medieval times and the last one is just a free lancer 😂

sea-puppy

Freelancer, as in lance, the weapon. So still medieval!

batmanbeyondrocks

Menswear modelled by Black Men

Creative Director Rock Mitchell

Credit: BLK Culture@blkculture_ via Rock Mitchell (@rockmitchell)

genderkoolaid

do you guys remember when it came out that there was targeted sexual abuse & forced labor of transmasc & other queer perceived-female people at an ICE facility, and like it was very specifically "transmascs getting both sexually harassed, told to wear makeup, actively assaulted to make them act more feminine, while also being forced to do grueling manual labor & being directly told this was a result of them "wanting to be a man""? do you remember when that came out and then it was crickets from the community it feels like.

sea-puppy

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/ice-immigration-queer-trans-louisiana

genderkoolaid

The award-winning model says his banishment was the worst day of his life.

A gay Canadian adult film star claims that he was detained for over eight hours by U.S. Customs before receiving a 10-year ban from the country. Milo Miles said he was traveling to Las Vegas from Toronto's Pearson Airport in January when a routine U.S. customs screening turned into a nightmare. "It was the worst and most painful day of my life," Miles told LGBTQ Nation. "I was subjected to derogatory comments, with an unsettling focus on my sexual orientation and my sex life." Miles said his phone and luggage were searched, and he was asked intrusive questions about his sexuality and line of work. “All of this happened on two hours of sleep. I was starving, dehydrated, and in a state of complete exhaustion. I was treated like a criminal despite having done nothing wrong. I felt coerced, manipulated, and powerless. I am devastated.” U.S. Customs has the right to deny entry to people they believe are sex workers, even if they’ve never been convicted, and will use coercive tactics to try and elicit a confession, according to Maggies, a Canadian sex worker justice organization. [...] According to Miles, who was planning on visiting his boyfriend in Florida after the award show, U.S. Customs accused him of "escorting with no evidence" and were fixated on the "gay clothes," fiber pills, and PrEP he had packed, despite finding nothing illegal in his possessions. Miles ended up missing his flight due to the lengthy interrogation. When he came back the next day to catch another flight, he was interrogated again, and this time they found evidence of his career in the porn industry. "This officer decided to be a lot more thorough with his search and interrogation," he said. "After about two hours of intense interrogation, he found evidence that I do porn on my personal phone. Then, over the next two hours found evidence of escorting on my other phone." Miles said that they never found any evidence of prostitution, but noticed text conversations he had with past escorting clients — who he mostly provides with a boyfriend experience — and current text messages where he was trying to make plans with a client in Las Vegas. "Escorting is an exchange of money for time spent with an individual," he clarified. "For example, most of my clients are looking for 'the boyfriend' experience. Or someone to go to dinner with. Prostitution is an exchange of money for sexual services. There was never any evidence of prostitution on my phone, only escorting." Getting banned from the U.S. isn’t just bad for his career — he shoots a significant portion of his adult film project in the country — but has also damaged his personal life. "I was planning on building a life in the United States with my [future] husband, with my partner, who's American," Miles said. When asked by LGBTQ Nation what advice he would give other queer travelers, he said, "Avoid the United States at all costs. It’s not worth it. It’s not worth it to put your life at risk."

Even if he were a prostitute, the government should have no right to do this to any sex worker.

There is no queer liberation without liberation for sex workers.

genderkoolaid

#I wanna know why they targeted him in the first place#bc it sounds like straight up discrimination

They targeted him because he was queer & a sex worker & a man of color (& he is a sex worker, since some people in the notes seem confused: doing porn / "adult films" is sex work, escorting in sex work, stripping is sex work, etc. these are just different types.)

The link above to the organization Maggie's goes to a fact sheet they made specifically for sex workers traveling to the US for this exact reason (just a few pages from the whole thing:

IF I AM QUESTIONED AND SENT BACK, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? Most likely you will be banned from entering the US for a minimum of 5 years. If you travel in the US before the ban is over, you will be charged with a federal crime. After the ban, you may or may not be subject to questioning again. Remember that legally you cannot enter the US within 10 years of working as a sex worker.

This is something the US is just allowed to do! And has been for a while! I'm sure it will be weaponized increasingly against all sexually marginalized people, but it is first and foremost whorephobic.

ahotknife

where’s that article by james frankie thomas where he says like “prior to my transition there was only one kind of sex i wanted to have. and i thought i could never have it” because i am about to blow these people’s minds

ahotknife

i found it 😌 the article was published on Slate and here’s JF’s commentary on it

ahotknife

i have gotten some very odd anons about this post that i’m choosing to ignore. but i am going to double down on this. no i don’t care if girls watch gay porn or imagine themselves as a gay person or wonder what it would be like to have gay sex. so many people imprison themselves by thinking they could never be gay and/or trans. well i’m telling them they better watch out. being gay and/or trans is real. and it could happen to YOU. as a matter of fact i sincerely hope it does

projectxa3

from Anarchopuppy

#tbh i think the intense stigma against “straight” ppl “fetishizing” queerness keeps a lot of ppl in the closet

#theres no harm in exploring those feelings in private. indulge in the fantasy and see where it takes u

#dont be a creep to other ppl obv but that goes w/o saying #if id had the courage to confront the ache id feel when i thought abt lesbian sex and how id “never be able to have it” earlier

#it wouldve saved me a lot of time

sea-puppy

"dont be a creep to other ppl obv but that goes w/o saying"

Think this is good to emphasize, also, because even though of course cis/straight people can fetishize and be creepy to queer people, it's not like just because you ARE genuinely queer, you can't be creepy about it. Being creepy in that regard has nothing to do with personal identity and everything to do with feeling some sort of ownership or entitlement over that person. Whether that's sex, or wanting to know all the details of someones romantic or sexual life, or whatever.

#people in our community can be predatory #unfortunately #and they can't be given a pass just cause they're queer

transfem-issues

Seeing takes on here like 'trans women are defined by experiencing transmisogyny' make me so sad.. What a doom-spiralling thing to push onto the community, especially any hatchlings.

Instead of going "you are trans and thats okay, being trans isn't bad, the word just treats you in a bad way because of it and it hurts, sure, but you need to stay resilliant and relearn to love yourself and take pride in your identity" y'all wanna push the narrative that our trans identity is defined by pain and suffering. Nothing else. There's no joy in transfemininity, just suffering. Being trans is to suffer.

And that is a rhetoric I hate deeply. It is filled with so much internalized grief over trans identity, I don't understand how anyone would push that onto other people.

If you want to give up hope we'll ever get rights & believe that no trans woman will ever be happy, do that on your own time, but don't make it a major point in your queercourse opinions. Genuinely cannot believe I must make this statement.

pingintech

^^^

pingintech

damn thats poetry

youngadultread

“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time. In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows: “The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.” In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts.”

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PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)

Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it.

(via iamayoungfeminist)

sandersstudies

Every time you go in a public place and something ISN’T disgusting it’s because somebody cleaned it. Every time you feel comfortable using a public bathroom or sitting at a restaurant table or setting something on a gas station counter or playing on a playground it’s because somebody cleaned it.

Thank you to everyone who cleans the world, especially those who are underpaid and under appreciated.

my-life-is-a-sidequest

I worked in a supermarket for 7 years and I don't think I can understate just how much cleaning you had to do for it to look clean (it very often where not in the places you aren't supposed to see)

sandersstudies

True for food service, retail establishments, gyms, outdoor areas, schools, religious buildings, office buildings, etc. People usually only notice when a space is NOT clean, meanwhile every time a space is clean it’s only because of the diligent work of janitors, maintenance staff, custodians, parks workers, or volunteers.

danceundersparklinglights

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

sea-puppy

Like just take a second to consider that maybe they didn't mean it the way you interpreted it and ask a clarifying question so you can continue the conversation productively. ESPECIALLY with text. If someone isn't explicitly being a horrible asshole, give them the benefit of the doubt! Please!

sea-puppy

I made a zine! It's not the big project I mentioned before, but I promise that's coming eventually 😅😭 But it's still a therian zine. It's about species dysphoria and longing to be a theriform dog with an owner. This is a lightly revised version of an older poem I posted a few years back. I hope you enjoy!