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I'm Terra, a Texan crafter, uncomfortable with having a blog, so there's not much original content here. But, I like to think I follow and reblog some lovely folks. Find me on Etsy www.etsy.com/shop/Terrables

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The worst thing about rainy days, I gotta play the Let Me Out-No Let Me In-Let Me Out game with these guys.

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This is an actual tweet by dennys

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hang on

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what are you playing

I–

–Denny’s just made me question my own objective existence while casually hinting the inner workings of Tumblr user dennys

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WTF

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@drhayes 😍😍😍

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Tired of your baby girl being seen as a genderless imp? Afraid strangers might not recognize your sexless proto-human as the soft femme heartbreaker she is? Well now you can glue some shit on her head! That’s right, just glue some gender conformity right onto her unclosed fontanelle! Say goodbye to awkwardly explaining that no, despite her bald head, your androgynous poop machine is actually a demure coquette! Glue your fucking baby today!

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17-year-old transgender boy wins Texas girls' wrestling championship

Mack Beggs is prohibited from competing against boys, under Texas rules. His controversial win comes soon after President Trump rescinded Obama administration guidelines on transgender students.

This is what happens when conservatives restrict the rights of transgender students and it does not go the way they expect: 

At this year’s Texas state wrestling championships, a boy won the girls’ contest. That’s because 17-year-old champion Mack Beggs is trans; he’s banned from competing in the boys’ league. In Texas, wrestlers are required to compete as the gender they were assigned at birth, and so Mack beat the girls in his weight class (again, in the girls’ championship, even though he is a boy) and he went on to win. Whoops. 

Some parents of female wrestlers have vocally objected to the fact that Beggs, who has been taking testosterone as part of his gender transition, is wrestling girls. One parent even filed a lawsuit against the league that organizes public school sports.

The controversy has been heightened because his victory arrived on the heels of President Trump’s decision to rescind Obama administration guidelines on trans students’ rights in school. […]

“He wants to compete against boys,” Merritt says. But under Texas rules, boys can’t compete against girls, and students must compete as the gender marked on their birth certificate. That meant if Beggs wanted to wrestle, he had to do it in the girls’ league. Which he did, with great success — he had an undefeated season.

Not sure what to tell you, Texas. This is what will happen if you don’t respect transgender students for who they really are. Let it also be known that Texas is considering a bill similar to North Carolina’s HB2, which would force students like Mack to only use facilities matching their birth-assigned sex, leading to even more situations like this one.

Congrats to him on his win, but let’s not miss the opportunity to talk about how ridiculous this whole thing is. Mack is a boy. He should have the right to compete with other boys, and be treated as a boy in every other way. Full stop. 

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I can’t wait to see this movie.

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the significance of trump’s recent statement on the wave of bomb threats targeting jewish community centers (that they may be a false-flag and are possibly coming from inside our own communities) is not lost on most jews but i’d like to reiterate for non-jews who may not know why this isn’t just a stupid or clueless explanation to avoid accountability.

this is something white supremacists and neo-nazis say. it mirrors almost perfectly the lie they’ve been disseminating for centuries: jews are the orchestrators of our own oppression; antisemitism is a jewish scheme. (take this cartoon from stormfr*nt for example). this is the type of rhetoric holocaust denial is built on.

do not let this slide. this isn’t the fist time trump has parroted antisemitic conspiracy theories in ways that are just vague enough to seem harmless but are still recognizable to fascists. 

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The Struggles Of Austin's Music Scene Mirror A Widened World

As the face of Austin's music office prepares to depart, the city's problems and successes may offer a lesson for the world at large about globalization and technology.

The Austin music industry isn’t whole. The business underlying “The Live Music Capital of the World” stands bifurcated between its lucrative festivals (SXSW principally, but Austin City Limits, Fun Fun Fun Fest and others, too) and, as studies have found, a dwindling local music scene. Austin didn’t become the self-styled “Capital” solely by hosting a handful of gargantuan events, which were first born from and since have capitalized handsomely on Austin’s brand to increase their now-global footprints, drawing outsized attention to the city. These large events and a rapidly expanding population have put an unintended strain on the infrastructure of the local music scene which helped create them and on which they still rely — it’s hard to throw innumerable shows, as during SXSW, in a city with fewer and fewer venues to put them.

Austin musicians’ “main source of income,” says Don Pitts, is “through live performance. Anyone who’s been keeping an eye on live performance on a local level sees that it’s continuing to go down year after year.” As the founding face of the city government’s Music and Entertainment Office, Pitts has been in a centralized orbit around the problem of trying to balance these disparate sides of Austin’s coin.

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How to organize your bookshelf according to “Call the Midwife”

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Sister Monica Joan is a gift

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Texas Senator Shatters Table Trying to Silence Woman Testifying Against Anti-Abortion Bill

It only took state Sen. Charles Schwertner ten minutes of listening to testimony against anti-abortion bills before he broke a table.

Schwertner, the Republican chair of the Texas Senate’s Committee on Health and Human Services, spent Wednesday morning introducing and defending a bill that would ban most women from donating fetal tissue from their abortions to science. His legislation was bundled with two other anti-abortion bills — one to throw out the safest abortion procedure for second-trimester pregnancies, the other to mandate all abortion remains are buried and cremated — penned by two other GOP senators, Charles Perry and Don Huffines. After discussing the bills amongst themselves, the committee opened the floor to three hours of public testimony — which started with a bang. “I’m here on behalf of all absent women, families and doctors across the state whose lives will be negatively impacted by this bill,” began the testimony of Maggie Hennessy, a UT student and intern with NARAL Pro-Choice Texas. She was the fourth person to speak (of more than 50). Hennessy verbally shredded Sen. Huffines bill against second-trimester abortions. Her voice shook with anger as she scolded lawmakers for openly putting women in danger. “Ms. Hennessy —” Schwertner interrupted a minute into her testimony. “Your time is done.“ 

But Hennessy went on, saying, “I urge you to all stop playing with reproductive health care like it’s your own political puppet.” That’s when Schwertner dropped the gavel — so hard that he shattered the glass table before him. “Your time is done,” he repeated. That Schwertner broke a table while trying to silence a woman opposing a bill that would solely impact women is all the more jarring considering the events that grabbed headlines last week. During the February 8 confirmation hearing for now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used an arcane senate rule to silence U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s criticism of the former senator (which, perhaps to McConnell’s chagrin, made her testimony go viral). Schwertner’s reaction, coupled with McConnell’s, sends a jolting message to Texas women. And if Schwertner was really table-breaking concerned about the time allotted for public testimony, he probably wouldn’t have let the first speaker (and dozens after), a representative from the anti-abortion advocacy group Texas Right to Life, ramble on in support for twice as long as Hennessy was allowed to speak. 

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THIS TWEET STORM BY LUVVIE GIVES ME LIFE.

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HABANERO HITLER

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Seriously tho.