We Are Fucking Tired

[kropotkindersurprise]

February 9, 2000 - The London Lesbian Avengers stopped the no. 15 bus in London's Piccadilly Circus, and painted it pink. This was done to demand the repeal of homophobic Section 28, and to protest the involvement of homophobic millionaire Brian Souter in a Scottish campaign against the repeal. Souter was also the owner of privatised bus company Stagecoach, operating route 15. Section 28 was finally repealed in England and Wales in 2003. [video]

[quasi-normalcy]

It is kind of funny how all of the civil disobedience by previous civil rights movements just gets memory-holed so liberals and the press can wag their fingers are the present ones for not doing things "the right way"

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

"Militant" really is a word that needs to go on a top shelf

[aqarititss]

[unhappytogekiss]

a new reality tv show called So you think you can write Doctor Who

twelve episodes, twelve contestants - a mix of annoying middle aged sci fi authors, fan fic authors and random people off the street

a variety of against the clock writing tasks, big finish scripts, ability to interact with actors without shouting at them and challenges where you have no budget or doctor for an episode

judged by solely by christopher eccleston

this is how you find the new doctor who showrunner

[wizardshark]

99% of queer discourse stops right before they define the true difference between bisexual and pansexual!

[saspitite]

FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME

BISEXUALS GROW FROM THE GROUND

PANSEXUALS GROW FROM THE CEILING

[stackslip]

we're moving to an internet where children would be banned from reaching out for help and friendship online but abusive parents can post their children's every second online to humiliate and expose them for money with no pushback

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Biblically accurate bisexual

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 16 June 1531, English king Henry VIII modified the vagrancy laws he brought in the previous year, which were key in creating the working class. People kicked off communal land who were not in wage labour were designated as vagabonds, and on their first offence were to be whipped, then on the second whipped with half an ear sliced off and upon a third offence they were to be executed. This and similar laws enacted across Europe, backed up by intense state violence, created a class of people forced to sell their labour to survive: the working class. Karl Marx described these legal mechanisms in volume 1 of his work, Capital: "Thus were the agricultural people, first forcibly expropriated from the soil, driven from their homes, turned into vagabonds, and then whipped, branded, tortured by laws grotesquely terrible, into the discipline necessary for the wage system." This expropriation was extended across the globe by violent colonialism. Rather than being a natural state of affairs as it is often portrayed, the creation of the working class was fiercely resisted for hundreds of years, and indeed still is to this day in some areas. Learn more about the expropriation of common lands in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/stop-thief-the-commons-enclosures-and-resistance Pictured: illustration of punishment of a Tudor vagrant

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

hi, i'm northern irish + live in belfast. the only people claiming a "truce" are the far right, who want to make it seem like more of us support them. we don't. 20 000 people came to the rally against racism the other day (in a city of 350k!), last i'd heard several dozen people have signed up to bring food + other supplies to people who feel unsafe, and £200k+ has been raised to help the people who have been attacked.

no, they were not just targeting sudanese people. anyone not white was a target - i know of indian and syrian families who were attacked, and their shops destroyed - along with people who aren't the "right" type of white (ukrainian, especially).

there were almost certainly some catholics in among the rioters, because catholics/nationalists/republicans are not immune to racism, but the vast, vast majority of them are loyalists - that's why they're going after people in those areas. they're attacking people in their own areas. i think it's important to note that well-known loyalist paramilitaries were seen in the riots and were egging it on on social media. genuinely, one of the people who was posting about it is a convicted UVF bank robber.

these are the same sort of people who rioted last year, and the year before that, and every time there have been riots. they're the same people who have spent months building bonfires taller than houses and who will cover them next month in the irish flag and will put signs calling for the killing of irish catholics alongside the signs denigrating refugees and other immigrants. the targets are different but the hate is the same, because they are deeply, viciously xenophobic. you don't have to be a person of colour. you just have to be Not Them.

Well this sounds Horrible

[thebearcametoo]

Loyalists/protestants in Northern Ireland used to be pretty much guaranteed a job for life in industries like ship building and also housing. Catholics didn’t have the same safety net and were barred from most of the housing and a lot of the jobs. This is why the Troubles happened. It was a deeply divided province/country.

With the collapse of industry (exacerbated by NI no longer getting EU money after Brexit) the Protestant working class is bored, angry and struggling for identity. The loyalist paramilitaries are invested in stoking hatred of immigrants as ‘stealing their jobs and houses’ because it’s easier than saying we fecked up and should have a united ireland that’s in the EU.

This is coming into the marching season and the bonfires mentioned above where a large section of the Protestant community remember King Billy (the Protestant William of Orange) and his victory over the catholic king James II in 1690 - yes it goes back that far.

(Very simplified but useful context imo)

[natalieironside]

My boyfriend was showing me his cat and I leaned over to kiss the cat on his soft little baby head and he went "meow" and scrambled away because I'd been wearing my headphones and I accidentally jabbed him with the microphone.

And I said "Damn, this is exactly like in the Iliad"

[rebels-cairn]

#explanation: this references the scene where Hektor the prince of troy goes to his wife after a battle and leans in to kiss his son #(who is still a baby and being held in andromache's arms) #but his son cringes away in fear of his father's battle helmet #it's a gut wrenching scene about how war dehumanizes you and separates you from the people you love #this interpretation implies that being a gamer is analogous

[talesfromthecrypts]

Walking backwards into my future.

Mārama (2025) dir. by Toa Stappard

[thebearcametoo]

And it’s got Toby Stephens in it.

Plus Umi Myers who I saw last year in Dracula at the Lyric Hammersmith and she was excellent

[invisible-goats]

rewatching red dwarf

god what a fucking show

a million aus

the cat and his outfits

servant bot learns to swear

canon mpreg that gets handwaved when they don't want to write babies

trans ai

futuristic swear words but no pop culture references beyond the 1990s

[thebearcametoo]

Happy Pride month from the Courtauld Gallery

[futchlings]

"incurious" still GOAT insult. You could be better but you're not. You could learn but you won't, and for no good reason, just a base dispositional apathy. Get fucked

[onedirectionforever]

“you support gay rights so you must be gay”

i support animal rights do i look like a fucking alpaca to you

[onedirectionforever]

turns out i am gay

[monsieurenjlolras]

holy shit how’d this alpaca learn how to type

[mywitchcultblr]

Diversity win! The alpaca is gay!

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

[thebirdkiwi]

he was a llama

[depsidase]

[snrland]

At my university women use the men's bathrooms because there's just so much more women. I haven't really seen cis men use women's but I doubt anyone would give a shit. No one has died yet. It's almost like it's bullshit to gender bathrooms at all.

[thebearcametoo]

A lot of the theatres I go to have all gender toilets. The doors will say 5 urinals and 3 cubicles on one set of toilets and 8 cubicles on the other. Or they’ll just all be cubicles. It means men have to queue for the toilets more often than in gender segregated toilets. Some men need to improve their aim please. And some women need to not be nasty bitches and put your used sanitary pads in the bins provided and don’t just chuck them on the floor.

[fellshish]

i’m so glad goncharov happened pre ai slop era

[romanitas]

#weird way to describe 1973 but i guess it’s accurate

[milfmaekar]

Black sails behind the scenes videos creating never before seen ships