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depsidase

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mariacallous

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friendlyfrankenstein

the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it's all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there's a chimpanzee again but it's driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.

retroactivebakeries

kiradical

This is how I learn that the famous chimp my dad got my nickname from tried to kill Reagan. Fuck yeah.

1dietcokeinacan

An 'Apocalypse Warning System' monitors more than 31,000 private and business aircraft for signs that the world's wealthiest people are flee

This is pretty brilliant tbh

weekendviking

Link to the site:

Local dashboard for monitoring tracked-aircraft concurrent-activity anomaly signals.

depsidase

lilithsaintcrow

"It rules in ways I have trouble putting into words how deeply John Oliver commits in these scenes, just buying in completely and going Full Soap in a way he didn’t really have to..."

It's nice to sit back and watch a man have the time of his life.

bigboysdrinkmilk

Why is there a diarrhea parasite outbreak in America?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to disease prevention and control.

Why is measles back in America?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including RFK Jr, cut vaccine and measles prevention funding and programs.

Why is the New World Screwworm infecting cattle in Texas, when it had previously been eliminated from the area?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Elon Musk, cut USAID funding, which in part worked to monitor and prevent screwworm outbreaks.

Why was there a flu outbreak in our armed forces?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Pete Hegseth, cut vaccination requirements for our armed forces, putting all of them at risk alongside our military readiness.

What contributed to the Covid outbreak?

Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to a pandemic prevention program in his first term because Barack Obama had created it.

“America first” sends its regards. Trump voters, please learn your lesson. And if you don’t, it’ll be taught to you again with yet another diarrhea outbreak.

bigboysdrinkmilk

liberalsarecool

MAGA spent a decade calling every question about Russia a hoax. Now the FBI director is reportedly planning an unexplained October trip to Moscow on the eve of the midterms, because apparently subtlety was another casualty of the Trump administration. #KashPatel

nymph1e

On Discomfort and Morality

My father finds gay men uncomfortable.

He's told me before that it's like a knee-jerk for him. Something he doesn't consciously control. He sees two men behaving romantically, and his body reacts with mild discomfort.

In the 1960s, when he was in high school, most of the boys in his form thought he was gay on the simple fact that he wasn't homophobic. He wouldn't participate in insulting queer people, he didn't care if someone was gay, he wouldn't have a problem hanging out with gay people. So people thought he was gay. That's how prevalent homophobia was in his formative years.

When I was 10, my dad told me very seriously that Holmes and Watson were gay. That it was obvious from the literature and the time period that they were meant to be a gay couple. When I was 14 and I came out to my parents as bi, when my mum was upset my dad ripped into her for it. Told her that she was being stupid, that it was my life to live how I wanted to and that she needed to get over herself.

My dad formed my views on censorship: that being that it was completely ridiculous and thoroughly evil. He didn't believe in censorship of any kind. If I asked him a question about sex, he answered it honestly. When I was 12 and I asked him about homosexuality, still young and uncertain, he told me that there was nothing wrong with it. That it was just how some people were. That there was likely an evolutionary reason for it. And that for some people it was uncomfortable on an instinctual level.

He taught me that just because you're uncomfortable with something, doesn't make it wrong. He also taught me that most people don't understand this.

I see a lot of this on the internet as of the last few years. The anti shipping movement, the terf movement, the anti ace movement. It all stems from discomfort that people have crossed wires into believing means wrong. Really every -ism and -phobia out there stems from this same fundamental aspect of humanity.

The next time you see something and you automatically think it's disgusting, or wrong, or immoral, I invite you to ask yourself: is this actually wrong or does this just make me uncomfortable?

lizarin

this is something I wish more people understood.

quakerjoe

bamfspock

Happy Fucking Moon Day

bamfspock

saw this suddenly get a flurry of notes which means it is once again fucking moon day! Happy fucking moon day, everyone.

bamfspock

hello all, it's Fucking Moon Day Monday

r2x2

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

okwisenheimer

if anyone hates jk rowling but was confused for the first couple seconds because you're slow like me:

her charity organisation (beira's place, reg 2022, p. 20) is on the list

they removed it and accused defamation

they are financially supporting other organisations to remove themselves from the list

a guardian article

imagine being the kind of human against amnesty international is she not embarrassed

bbc news

Rowling, herself a survivor of domestic violence, set up and funded Beira's Place in 2022 after a row over the management of the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre which at the time was being run by a transgender woman. The author said it was important that survivors of abuse had the option of "women-centred" and "women-delivered" care.

In a statement announcing it was removing the list, Amnesty said it regretted that the briefing was uploaded to its website without going through the established internal review processes. "Its use of language does not reflect the position of Amnesty International UK which is why it was promptly removed," it said.

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