[weweantica]

Mollusca bag by Maison G

[lgbtlaughs]

ACT UP, 1990

[eroscestlavie]

[hamza-2a]

My house is one of the houses in the middle of the picture. Our house was wonderful; our life was refined; everything was beautiful. After the recent war, life became sad, and misery filled my heart. Now we live without a home, without the basic necessities of life.

[hamza-2a]

Any contribution, any donation will make a huge difference in our lives. Any action you take is a lifeline for me and my family.

[hamza-2a]

If you are healthy, there are people who are suffering. I am currently suffering from anemia and thalassemia. Please donate, share, anything you can.

[agaywolf]

[lesbianherstorian]

lesbians of color marching at the los angeles christopher street west pride parade, june 1979

[c86]

Queer Nation, San Francisco, California, c. 1990

[souvenirs]

[spitfaggot]

happy birthday, gilbert baker. (june 2, 1951 — march 31, 2017)

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

I think the solution to kids on the Internet is to have specific, kid friendly spaces on the Internet. Kids wouldn't come across "adult content" on YouTube if barbie dot com still had flash games and this is a hill I will die on.

[aetherograph]

Oh! Then I know the EXACT person you should be mad at! Michael O'Rielly! He's the one that gutted the Children's Programming Rules, which covered internet as well as television.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

HELLO?

[aetherograph]

#so the death of the Saturday morning cartoon is THIS motherfuckers fault?????

Indeed it is! The FCC controls how much of broadcasting has to cater to children and that includes how educational that programming has to be, and exactly how much and in what way you are allowed to advertise to kids. That's why for the entire 90s and up to the early 00s, kids shows had shorter commercial breaks, and ads that talked about a website had to say "ask your parents before going online", and those websites had to be non-commercial--i.e. they could not be shops, and could not have any way you could spend money or were encouraged to spend money. That's why Barbie.com was flash games, and O'Rielly LIFTING that ban is why Barbie.com now takes you directly to a storefront instead.

If you're mad about Saturday Morning Cartoons, dark patterns in ads targeted at children, online protections for kids, or wondering why educational children's shows aren't as much of a thing as they used to be, get mad at the FCC and the person in charge of it who is gutting the Children's Brodcasting Rules (sometimes called the Kid Vid Rules), because those rules control all of that!

While O'Rielly is responsible for gutting the rules in 2019, he was replaced in 2020 by Nathan Simington as head of the FCC, and Simington resigned in June of this year. The post remains vacant as of the time of this writing (August 31, 2025).

And a side note: Things like KOSA and SCREEN and all those other censorship bills that use "think of the children" are not going to protect children at all; if you want to protect kids online, there is already a way to do that it's called the Kid Vid Rules and the FCC is the one that can update and change them to keep up with the times! It doesn't need a congress vote, it already got voted on in 1990!

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

"Just because I'm right, doesn't mean I'm being helpful" is a vastly underrated thought process that I strongly encourage others to get comfortable with

[longseasons]

Til the room smells diverse, equal, and inclusive

[captain-price-returns]

Cops busting through a barricade that they set up is pretty tough to misinterpret.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

1991 stamp of the Soviet Union showing the harmful effects of radiation, in recognition of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster in Ukraine.

[zedtron774]

Kawanabe Kyosai, White Heron in the Rain, colour woodblock print, Japan, 1880

[sugary--sheep]

men are somewhat predisposed to rape and kill because they are more likely to be in a position to successfully perform the act and get away with it; it is more practical and the negative outcome is less likely, therefore the expected value is substantially higher. this is due to a number of economic and social factors and has very little to do with a penis or lack thereof.

[queeranarchism]

And we don't need to theorize on this without evidence. From Abu Ghraib to concentration camps to slave owners: when women are given the power to rape and kill and get away with it, a disturbing amount of women do exactly that.

[princesssokphanny]

A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕

[29hyperfixations]

Happy pride gang !!!!!!!

[jenny-holzer]