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RIP Miss Major

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.

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A good way to honor Miss Major's memory, if you have the ability to, would be a donation to the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project Black Trans Cultural Center.

This is a project originally led by Miss Major herself and aims to provide political education, leadership development, re-entry resources following incarceration, and legal advocacy to Black and Brown members of the transgender, gender-variant, and intersex community.

Donate today and help TGIJP continue in the fight for self-determination, gender justice, and abolition! Donate Today!

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waterbugsanonymous

hi, this is your gentle reminder and PSA: there are ELECTIONS happening in November 4th. PLEASE GO VOTE. Trump is the most unpopular he has ever been, but does that mean your average independent, or republican will vote for a dem this time around-likely no- they probably will just skip the process entirely if they don’t have a candidate they feel strongly about. this is why i’m asking YOU SPECIFICALLY to make sure to go vote. and i don’t wanna hear any doomerism shit about how voting is a waste of time bc of whatever, guys voting is the last of anything we have it is clear most of these people who represent us do not actually care, HOWEVER trump currently has the house, senate and courts and making it even slightly harder to do anything or having a large enough group to speak out against what he’s doing will help hundreds of thousands of people in the US. now more than ever is it important to make sure that they know that we do not stand for this

thearchaeologicalwitch

Hey!

THERE ARE FUCKING BALLOT PETITION PROPOSALS ON THE BALLOT THIS YEAR.

THINGS LIKE WEED, CENSORSHIP, VOTING RIGHTS ETC. GIVE A SHIT AND LOOK IT UP ON YOUR STATE'S ELECTIONS/ SECRETARY OF STATE PAGE.

scutesketch

YOUR ART ON TUMBLR IS BEING USED TO TRAIN AI!

The setting that prevents your work being used to train AI models is turned off by default! I had no idea about this until now! Artists, go to your settings, click “visibility”, and turn on this setting! Protect your work!

portlandalites

《Made a visual guide of how to get there, because it's under a weird tab.

Go to your blog (you have to do this for each individual blog) and the visibility tab

It's this last option here

Hate this shit, but turn it off babey》

This is more so me venting than anything.

I don't know how much I can handle posting here for the time being. A thousand things keep happening constantly all the time in my personal life so paying attention to how the world is burning down on top of it is honestly so fucking soul destroying. My grandmother, whom I live with, has been recently put on hospice now that her dementia has gotten to the point that she can't even swallow liquids 95% of the time. The A/C has been broken for over a month so it's been impossible to keep her clothed, including her Depends, she recently had a UTI and it was like she was possessed. She was hitting people and screaming things like, "I hate you," and, "I'll kill you," and she was spitting everywhere, including at people, constantly. The hospice nurse said that they can't treat her until we got her over her infection. She spits out most of her meds because she can't swallow, but we're not allowed to try to get her a feeding tube because that's considered prolonging life which would take her off of hospice which is the only way we can get her meds right now. She says she's starving but she can't even swallow pudding or yogurt. That's barely scratching the surface of how horrible this has all been. Then on top of it my brother's girlfriend is going through hell with major health crises that aren't mine to share. And we have no money. And my hair is fucking matted and I'm probably going to have to cut it off and it's all so much all day and night all the fucking time. All of this on top of having a lot of my own issues already and my mom and uncle being incapable of going more than 2 weeks without a screaming match. And then we have the state of the world and I just can't look at it anymore. Not right now. Not for awhile. Staying informed feels like trying to breath underwater.

I don't even have appropriate clothes for a funeral and I don't want to buy any because I don't want to think about it. I don't have the fucking money anyway even if I was in the headspace for that. I don't know. I don't know what to do. Everything is wrong.

onlytiktoks

This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s ri

saveaboudfamily

In every speech, Netanyahu justifies his crimes by saying he is fighting Hamas. I want to tell him that in 1948, when Israel killed my grandfather, Hamas did not even exist.

saveaboudfamily

Netanyahu speaking today, repeating the same false excuse to cover the same ongoing crimes.

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Because of this criminal, I lost my sister’s child to famine, I lost half of my family to bombing, and my mother and father were injured while trying to get food. Please, donate to my family if you can, share widely, and speak about us so we are not forgotten.

aboodgaza0

Guys, we are only €520 away from reaching 22k.

dancinginmyeyes

for transgender US residents

the court order blocking the trump EO that was revising trans people's passport gender markers is probably going to get dropped by october 6th, here's some helpful resources on what to do if you want to change that while it's safest to do so.

the op here in general has a lot of useful tips for going about this. good luck!

themiserychic

For my Texas friends the Trans Legal Aid Clinic of Texas has been following this closely and has up to date info on their socials along with a direct link to the forms you will need to download and fill out on their Linktree page:

Helping trans/non-binary Texans w/resources for name/gender marker updates.

dancinginmyeyes

just to clarify, you should also be privy of this if you have already changed yr gender marker but plan to change yr name on yr passport.

daysleftofsecondterm

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creature-ofthenightarisen

Actually two black men were found hung in different parts of Mississippi on the same day One is a college student and in spite of evidence of being beaten they are calling it a suicide Bullshit! Who gets to decide which life matters more than another A white right wing tool vs two innocent men in Mississippi I want to see national outrage over this too or stfu

fawnfaggotry

He has a name, the student is Demartravion Reed, known as Trey. He was a light to his family, they describe him as sweet, well mannered, would give you the world if he could.

the other person is a white man, Cory Kuzatis, who i could not find much information on

A few news sites have misreported this, still alarming for 2 hangings within hours, facts are a little different

queen-mihai

Alright Tumblr

Let's test your resolve

Utah idiot got DAYS of your attention

Let's see how much you care about two black people

Demartrayvion Reed and Cory Kuzatis

By the end of this week I better never be able to forget these two names as long as I live

I'm not playing with yall. I'm. Fucking. Watching.

boobachu

Well I couldn't find a Kuzatis, but that's cuz it's Zukatis.

Cory Zukatis, a Mississippi man, was found dead after he was hung from a tree, leading locals and other people to want to know what happened

A Brandon man was found dead Monday afternoon in a wooded area off Washington Street. Vicksburg Police Capt. Curtis Judge confirmed that thi

Also only tangentially related, but these aren't the first lynchings in recent history a Ferguson protest organizer's son was lynched in her own yard

Police are investigating Danye Jones' death as a suicide, despite his family's skepticism and a slew of suspicious details.

Melissa McKinnies wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post that her son, Danye Jones, was lynched.

So not first time within the past decade an obvious lynching was waved off as a suicide.

daysleftofsecondterm

Sigh

The fact that there are only 1,213 days left isn’t exactly comforting. But it is all I’ve got to offer you. I’m sorry.

icedsodapop

'The Bear' writer, Alex O'Keefe was arrested on a train for sitting while Black;

I was arrested on the @MTA train to Connecticut today, pulled off, handcuffed, and detained. An old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting. I refused so she went to the conductor and complained. The conductor called the police and stopped the train. While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said “You’re not the minority anymore.” The police told me to leave the train, I refused and asked what was I doing illegally. They said I was disturbing the peace by not leaving the train. They pulled me off the train and arrested me without even talking to the Karen who reported the one black person on the train. On the platform, the police detained me and interrogated me. Only black folks stayed nearby and recorded the arrest. When I demanded a lawyer and reminded them they didn’t even take a statement from the woman who complained they eventually released me. This country is growing more psycho by the day. What will you do about it?

Source: Instagram

Disheartening to know that not only did the conductor called and helped the pigs, the non-Black people also just sat by in silence. And yet, it's utterly unsurprising. Grandma snitching on a Black man for sitting unproperly is pure Carolyn Bryant behaviour and she deserves to die a slow, painful death.

And here are cops' badge numbers, dox them:

brehaaorgana

I miss when I would get Tumblr asks that actually said things and weren't just digital panhandling scams.

brehaaorgana

If I was a sociologist, I would definitely be doing a study on the methods and language of charity scammers. Especially the use of emojis, and identification by copied messages vs stock phrases.

For example, these four are all the same, with only slight variation in #1:

(I actually have duplicates from some of the "self-identified" anons above.)

But these two anons share the same new stock phrases:

"days are heavy" / "days that feel impossibly heavy."

brehaaorgana

Fascinated with the random person who commented on this post saying they've reported me for "genocide denialism."

Not to put too fine a tin foil hat on it, but:

That is the kind of threat someone involved in these kinds of financial scams and the social engineering behind them *would* make! It's a threatening statement to the existence of my blog which usually means heightened fear/anxiety of the target, which makes people more likely to fall for a financial scam. Social shame and embarrassment are also heightened emotions! Bullying works! This would make an excellent social engineering counterpoint (if tugging on heartstrings doesn't work!) and might even be effective on many people!

Sure, you can search the supposed connected usernames those anons claimed and find out specifics that way — but not a single one of those screenshots I showed specifies what they're referring to! The IDENTICAL messages from four "different people" never actually mention what their "family's struggle" even is! There's zero fucking context in the space of those messages. They're all IDENTICAL. I literally cannot be committing denialism about anything specific because those asks don't actually say anything I could be denying. How does this person know that these anons aren't a recently impoverished Nigerian prince?

So now you're asking why don't I just click on the usernames and find out more details? Simple. Because they're fucking fraudsters who sent me the same message like, six times with 4 different usernames attached AS ANONS. Why as anons if they have their own blogs and could send the messages that way? SIMPLE AGAIN: because if they're not logged into the blog accounts, you could have whole teams of people copying and pasting these anon asks to various Tumblr users constantly, and you can probably just bypass the ask limits by changing VPNs or going incognito or something. This is a DEDICATED scam. Is it a bot? MAYBE! But that also would explain some of why it doesn't work *while logged in* to the blog accounts — because being anon probably makes it easier to focus on volume.

Anyways a fool and their money are soon parted.

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While we're on the subject of the incredible gullibility some people display on these scams, I'd just like to remind everyone that most online scams these days are being run out of massive scam farms, which often employ human trafficking.

Falling for these isn't just an 'oopsy doopsy, you're out some money' sort of a thing. If you send money to obvious scammers and if you platform obvious scammers, you are very likely directly financially supporting modern day slavery. That's not an exaggeration, and I'm not being alarmist. Please read any of these articles on the subject if you don't believe me:

Tens of thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people in America and around the world out of millions of dol

A man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared

Traffickers are forcing thousands of people from across Asia to work in online scam centres.

Myanmar youth recount life inside a cyber-scam mill before a city’s fall brought the scheme crashing down.

This is what you are supporting when you send these people money. It's not a neutral act to give to these scammers; it's a horrible, evil act, because in most cases, it directly supports horrific exploitation. And if you really were fooled? If you gave to one of these scammers and you really had no idea what you were probably supporting? Then I'm sorry, but digging your heels in and insisting that the lies you were fed are the truth helps no one. Take your blinders off and face reality, and start doing better.

daysleftofsecondterm

please stop falling for scams the next 1,213 days

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blackjame

The mother of a Michigan elementary school student is speaking out after her 11-year-old son was expelled for taking a gun away from a class

Link if you want to help with his schooling:

On what could have been a tragic and devastating day, 11 year-old Sakir Everett … Catra Davis needs your support for Help Sakir Everett Cont

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homucifer-ryotan

PSA for Canadians. EDIT (September 16th): The petition is up until October 25th. You have plenty of time still to sign.

Link source

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Important on 1,216 days left

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yesjohnnash

Just like a Nazi.

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The order says that "divisive narratives" must be purged from the US museums and research centres.

President Donald Trump’s executive order to remove exhibits that display so called “anti-American ideology” from Smithsonian museums is bein

A Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit will temporarily close for upgrades, sparking concern from some staff over potential changes amid Presid

Updated August 15, 2025—On August 12, 2025, the White House notified the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution that the administration wi

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Amid a crackdown on materials related to enslavement, Trump ordered a national park to remove a print of 'The Scourged Back.'

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