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Had a dream where Johnny from âThe Devil Went Down To Georgiaâ came out as a trans woman and the response was so unanimously positive it reversed nearly all of the transphobic bills in the South. She played live in Georgia to an audience of about a third of the US.
Happy late pride month to Joanie, the best thatâs ever been đłď¸ââ§ď¸
Joanie recently changed her name to Jolene because âitâs funnierâ, she says
Don't just do it for systematic bigotry, do it for everything. We need more people who can understand the world in terms of systems
Now that the lead dev of silksong has publicly come out, I can share this funny story.
So, back in october I was at a monthly trans meetup just chatting with the other women there. We were talking about how all the best games are made by transfems, and I made the joke that someone from team cherry needs to transition. One of the other women cackled at my joke. At the time I didn't think anything of it.
Fast forward one month. The person who cackled at my joke brought a friend with her this time. I was chatting with this new girl for a while, getting to know her, as you do.
After like an hour of chatting, the conversation turns to silksong and team cherry. I casually say "My impression of team cherry is that they're all really chill dudes," and I swear to fucking god the girl next to me says, "Yeah, we are."
Cue me being absolutely dumbfounded. I actually couldn't believe that my offhand joke from a month ago was real.
Anyway that's how I met the lead developer of silksong.
This was parked in front of the club
I donât care if Mondayâs yuck
Tuesday, Wednesday tread through muck
Thursday maybe eat a duck
Itâs Friday, Flat as Fuck
you ever have a dream about the coolest person you've ever met only to wake up and realize she's not real?
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/what_state_prisoners_get_to_wo.html
OMGÂ
Things that I knew about: that the mass incarceration of people in the USA , particularly black men, has direct ties to/is an extension of slavery. Things I did not know: this specific shit about Louisiana HOLY FUCK this is evil.
OH MY GOSH????
When activist Sam Sinyangwe was awaiting a meeting with the governorâs office at the Louisiana state capitol building in Baton Rouge, he not
The 13th Amendment provides a loophole that allows for the legality of unpaid prison labor, which is sometimes called "modern-day slavery."
Grew up next to Angola. Itâs much worse than you think
I wonder how many people are imprisoned for weed
Iâm from Mississippi and itâs like this in my home town. Enslaved prisoners clean roadways, pick cotton, everything theyâve done since before slavery was supposedly ended. What they teach in schools is nothing but propaganda.
im just so happy i live in a time period where actual meaningful biological transition is possible. even if we lose rights or the ability to exist in public, nothing can turn back the clock on that, and just by having any sort of access to that our lives are made immensely better. millions of our sisters throughout history would never have dreamed of a day where they could have what HRT does for us.
please don't lose the plot of this. if you're a trans person on HRT you're a living miracle, the dream of hundreds of millions of your ancestors. your lives are all deeply meaningful no matter what anyone says.
A prayer by Kalonymus b. Kalonymus ben Meir that appears in his poem ץפר ××× ××××, ×× Sefer Even BoḼan (§13), describing the author's wish t
Cursed be the one who announced to my father: âItâs a boy!"... ...How could he twist the course of the stars so much? How could he have erred so in his astrology? A lying tongue, a foolâs mouth it had given him For he foolishly transformed justice to poison He altered the law and transposed the lines
Oh, but had the artisan who made me created me instead â a worthy woman... ...I would say "how lucky am I"
Father in heaven who did miracles for our ancestors with fire and water... ...Who would then transform me from a man to woman? Were I only to have merited this being so graced by goodness...
What shall I say? why cry or be bitter? If my father in heaven has decreed upon me and has maimed me with an immutable deformity then I do not wish to remove it. the sorrow of the impossible is a human pain that nothing will cure and for which no comfort can be found. So, I will bear and suffer until I die and wither in the ground. Since I have learned from our tradition that we bless both, the good and the bitter I will bless in a voice hushed and weak: blessed are you [HaShem] who has not made me a woman.
I think I'm gonna go lay down for a little while.
This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capitalâŚ
Listen, this is serious.
Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!
It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.
Like, itâs literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.
So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?
Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.
Oh, and while weâre talking about books, if youâve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely donât go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately theyâre completely free.
Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid
Another inside tip from academia: Those papers in really expensive journals that are effectively inaccessible to anyone not in a university network? Depending on the discipline itâs very likely that same paper is on a âpreprintâ server somewhere, with no access restrictions.
Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.
So the next time you get hit with that paywall, you may not even need sci-hub, just click the arxiv link on google scholar instead.
if for some reason none of this works, the old âsend a email nicely asking for the paper to the authorâ is always a good trick. remember most scientists hate the commercialisation of scientific knowledge
Donât mind me, just gotta share this with my bf so that he knows what websites to avoid
Many authors of papers are on ResearchGate! You can ask for papers there, if they donât just post a copy to download. If theyâre associated with a college, you can usually find their email addresses in the department directory, also.
Always reblog.
Reblog if you say "Y'all"
I've done all twenty, guess I'm Nobody.
@firlalaith hello nobody, I'm nobody
Aye gather round and heed the song
Of generations born without wireless or bong
At grandmaâs was rotary
At home, mothers primo IBM typewriter and DOS
We never considered their permanent loss
âPon dialup we waited on the AIM screen
âPon our t-9 Nokia bricks when receiving a text our parents did scream
And now the youth sit with their smartphones and TikToks
And look up at us else elders and say âBoomer whatâs a registryâ?
So neâer thou forget the moral of this tale
For many tech lifecycles will ye watch rise and fail
And whence thou art wizened and at least three decades hath seen
A teenager will look up on you and say âI canât believe you got rid of CDs physical media is so important!â
I know that, as Americans, we live awash in a sea of anti-China propaganda and as such a lot of us on the left want to course correct and cut through the lies to stop seeing China as some great evil, and that is definitely a good instinct and desire, but in the process of unfucking ourselves from US propaganda it's important to not then immediately walk into supporting Chinese propaganda. I feel like I've seen more and more folks in my communities jump on the rather concerning trend of uncritically accepting Chinese news and the word of the Chinese government as the antithesis of Americas lies about the country, but the truth is that both the US and China are massive imperialist nations with major skeletons in the closet, whom have committed atrocities to attain and sustain their power, and who continue to exert their influence on the global stage in pursuit of their own ends, and who are constantly attempting to shape narratives about their own countries, their governments actions, and the world at large. Please apply the same critical thinking skills, skepticism, and standards you would hold US news to when talking about other large and influential nations, China very much included.
the justification when law enforcement kills someone for no particular reason always boils down to âwe got really really scared, you should feel bad for us because we were sososo scaredâ ok. piss yourself or scream or something. why is killing someone the only option
The thing about the Karen Read trial is that when I first heard about it I was like âI hope they acquit her because I think women should be allowed to back over their cop boyfriends.â and then I dug into it and realized she genuinely was framed and she was framed by complete dumbasses and if she wasnât a middle class, college educated, home-owning white woman, they would have gotten away with it and theyâve probably done this to people who could not afford to defend themselves. Then I learned about Sandra Birchmore and the other acts of heinous misconduct and violence committed by the Canton PD and I almost wished it was just a woman killing her fundamentally unlikable cop boyfriend and not open season on girls and women in Canton, Massachusetts. God, what a scary place to live and what a sickening rabbithole to go down.
too much of law enforcement is men with grudges protecting men they see themselves in from consequences. we only really hear about this phenomenon when it comes to rich people because their cases are more high profile (see: #metoo in hollywood, epstein files) but regular women just kind of have to accept the fact and move on lol because only money can save you in such circumstances
i am very politically vocal on this blog. i have always stood for people from other counties. so if you can, please speak out for us, the people of my country too. we, the students, the civilians are suffering and our media is not covering our side of the protests but spinning the narrative to further invalidate the brutal assaults of protesters. we are asking for resignation from the people in-charge and our government is silent. foreign journalists are doing more for indian journalism than indian journalists themselves.
when you are scared to speak up in a country where you have a right to freedom of speech because you're afraid of the backlash from the government, that alone should tell you that this is dictatorship. i do not support any political party or individual that are joining the protests simply for promoting their agenda and ask for votes. i support the innocent kids and farmers that committed suicide and other protesters that are being assaulted and detained for protesting. we are fighting for them.
it is truly my humble request to anyone reading this, please speak up for us.
