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Pronouns: Any but I prefer It Hi, I'm Wolfmelon! I'm your locally grown, BPA free intersex wolf therian! I'm old enough to have a problem with putting personally identifying information like my birthday on the internet, and young enough to be on Tumblr, and that's all you need to know! I'm really tired most of the time and don't post a lot except for reblogs, but I'm friendly and welcome interaction if you want to!
Also on age verification: I have been on this website since 2011. Unless you think I started blogging at age 2, you KNOW I'm an adult.
#the fact that 'can prove access to an online account at least 12 years old' or even 'account to be verified is itself fully 18 years old'#AREN'T accepted methods of age verification is such a telling sign of what the real purpose of age-gating laws is:#data harvesting and deanonymization and the buildout of state-controllable ways to restrict both content and internet access itself en masse (via @shinelikethunder )
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talking about stuff like prison reform or the SO registry really quickly makes you realize how many peoples political ideology boils down to "look, just tell me who the bad people are so I know who we should be killing."
CeCe Rogers on Facebook writes: "Two Black Tennessee lawmakers were physically escorted out of chambers this week while Republicans quietly held a hearing to approve gerrymandered maps that would eliminate the state's only majority-Black congressional district.
No referendum. No special election. No public vote.
Because they know what happens when voters actually get a say — just look at Virginia, where the people spoke so loudly that Republicans had to drag the courts in to override them.
This isn't new. During Reconstruction, Black Americans held more congressional seats than at any point in the prior 90 years of American history. And white supremacists spent the next several decades tearing that down, through gerrymandering, poll taxes, and voter intimidation.
150 years later, the same tools. Different suits.
The audacity of escorting Black lawmakers out of their own chambers while dismantling Black political representation, and then telling us the courts aren't political, is breathtaking. These are the same courts they're counting on to make it stick.
This is a coordinated, multi-front assault on Black Americans. And we need to say it exactly that plainly."
Pay attention to this one, folks, as the more you look into it, the worse it gets.
Firstly, I found a data-focused analysis of the redistricting. The tl;dr is that Republicans claim the redistricting was done to balance urban/rural voting blocks, BUT the actual data indicates that urban voting power was ONLY broken up in Black-majority Memphis and other urban centers in east Tennessee were left alone (Nashville was also chopped up a bit, but my potentially flawed understanding is it was already divided up a lot from a previous redistricting). There's also statistical evidence that gerrymandering increased across the board. The NAACP of Tennessee has already filed a lawsuit.
Secondly, in a really heinous move, a bill was passed* that eliminates the requirement to inform voters of district changes. That means a lot of people are not going to know their voting place and/or precinct changed until they actually show up to vote because there's no legal obligation to tell them (they would have to know to go online and check), UNLESS everyone gets really loud about this. Also, learn this lesson: double and triple check your voter registration leading up to elections, because shit like this can happen. *All news coverage I found was written before it was passed, but this bill tracker indicates it was signed by the Governor May 7.
Finally, I wanted to note that the redistricting happened ultra fast and after some primary elections had occurred on May 5 (the new district map was adopted May 7). That means that: 1) the process of candidates qualifying and campaigning was already in full swing and now many candidates will have to scramble to either re-qualify or continue in a new area. I don't have any sources to back this up, but my hunch is that is will disproportionately affect Black candidates running in previously majority Black districts, whose entire voter base just changed overnight. And then 2) because this happened AFTER primaries, that means some voters will be forced to vote in a general election for candidates that were not in the primary they participated in. Both prospects are insanely undemocratic. (For further context, the May 5 primaries were only for a handful of smaller positions and primaries for bigger positions will be in August, so that's why a lot of coverage of this is sort of just ignoring some primaries already happened.)
Additionally, I wanted to provide some context to the photos above. The gentleman burning a paper print out of the confederate flag is Rep. Justice Jones, who is a house representative from Nashville. The two gentlemen being escorted out are Rep. Justin Pearson (Memphis) and his brother KeShaun. News coverage is here-- basically, as is common when there's tons of protesters, the gallery was ordered to be cleared and Rep. Pearson went up to check on his brother. Unclear to me if KeShaun was refusing to leave or if it was a situation where cops moved in to grab people the second the order to clear was given. Either way, Rep. Pearson can be heard on video fairly calmly saying to let his brother go and he'll walk him out, escalating to some yelling and swearing when cops continued grabbing at his brother (who seems to be calmly making his way out of the building). Both Rep. Jones and Rep. Pearson were briefly expelled from their positions in 2023 after participating in a protest for gun control in the wake of a school shooting in an elementary school; the white representative who protested with them (Gloria Johnson (Knoxville)) was not expelled. Both Jones and Pearson were later reinstated, but it was a huge scandal. Basically what I wanted to stress here is: the government of Tennessee has some deeply rooted evil, but there are dedicated representatives working to improve Tennessee for their constituents. Staying politically active and voting matters.
I think we've lost the plot on ICE a little. The focus has become too much how their presence affects the local citizen population and not enough on the inherent inhumanity of the deportations in the first place.
public defenders get behind me. i’ll defend you this time
“so you like criminals?” I LIKE THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL.
There is something sooo deeply American going on with Seattle Children’s Hospital that I think would brick the minds of everyone outside of the United States.
The CHILDRENS hospital has to restrict helipad landings because of noise complaints from the wealthy home owners living next to it. Only the most urgent patients can land directly at the hospital. While the other kids have to land a mile away and are taken to the hospital via ambulance. Which is an unnecessary risk to the child’s life and also makes the families pay for the helicopter AND ambulance.
The hospital says some limits on helipad access add pressure when children need lifesaving care.
Apparently this has been going on for decades and is only getting traction because a pilot complained on Twitter.
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Story Time:
Working in retail is really fun, and the times when major fuck-ups happen, they can be either anxiety-attack inducing, or make it possible to get through the rest of your god-awful shift with a smile depending on the customer. My all-time favorite absolute fuck-up is as follows:
This kind woman is just doing her thing. She scans her membership card from her keychain. The register beeps to acknowledge the scan. We continue as usual. Neither of us notice right away, but after I’ve scanned a few more items, I hear a very quiet, “Um,” from the lady, very polite. I look at her. She is looking at the screen of my register, blinking. I, too, look.
And lo and behold. There is a charge of over four-thousand dollars ($4,000) worth of garlic bread staring us in the face. There are no words for a minute. We’re just… in awe. How did this happen? How the hell did this happen?
She didn’t even have garlic bread in her cart.
I sputter a partial apology - I was incapable of forming actual sentences in the moment - and try to void the garlic bread. Since there was no garlic bread to scan, I try to manually remove $4,000-some from this transaction.
Well, the registers don’t like it when you try to void off more than five dollars ($5) from a transaction, so naturally it pings my manager for confirmation, but she’s not by her pager.
At this point, both myself and the lady are just… dumbfounded. She’s not even mad. I’m not even all that embarrassed. Both of us are just looking at the screen. There’s a bit of laughter, but it’s mostly just… confusion.
I have to call through the whole store for my manager on the intercom because she’s not answering. She shows up, ready to override and void it, when she too, sees what exactly is being voided.
“What… did you do?”
“I genuinely. Have literally. No. Idea.”
She voids it, and I go to finish the transaction and tell the woman her total (minus the garlic bread). My register pings. It tells me that she hasn’t scanned her membership card. Odd. I distinctly remember her doing that. The woman goes to scan her card again, and I notice that her library card is stuck to her membership card. I tell her gently, and she separates the two and scans her card.
My manager, hovering nearby still, sees this and says, “I think it mistook the barcode of her other card for garlic bread, and the remaining digits were read as the price.”
And that’s when the laughter really came over us. There were no hard feelings at all. In fact, the woman was incredibly glad that the receipt still showed the garlic bread and the voiding of. I will remember it until the end of time, my only regret in the entire situation being that I didn’t take a damn picture, because she has proof and I don’t. But I swear to God it happened.
TDLR; Library Card Charged $4,000 of Garlic Bread.
that’s just how valuable library cards are. each one is worth at least $4000 of garlic bread
A picture is worth a thousand words, a library card is worth $4000 worth of garlic bread, if we can figure out how many words the average library card can check out at once, we can probably work out a picture-to-garlic bread conversion here, too.
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i love him on android their eyes are even more off-center
i don’t usually talk outside of tags but this was really funny to me
images: two tweets by stand-up comedian Benny Feldman.
the first picture shows a tweet:
"Don't police comedy" Well. I'm not going to arrest anyone. I'm not even trying to cancel anyone in the 2010s sense of having them lose their job. My goal for comedians who make regressive jokes is for them to change their minds. And for everyone to understand why jokes matter.
the second picture shows a quote retweet. twitter user ChoppedBeef says:
"All I want is for everyone to agree with me"
to which Benny Feldman's response is:
I would like everyone to be not racist instead of racist, yes
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benny feldman's the man who gave us 'it's just a joke dude. and the joke is just rooted in ideas. that i'm enforcing' and also 'it's just a joke dude. it's just one of the most digestible and powerful forms of persuasive rhetoric my guy'. he posts a lot of his one-liner sets online. he's a very good person to check on occasionally if you're interested in the philosophy of humour.
The problem with so many of these regressive, right-wing people is they view social censure as equivalent to an attack on them, personally.
If you say shit that's mean or racist or transphobic, some people will not like you! Some people may, in fact call you an asshole.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from social and economic consequences! Somebody calling you a dick and refusing to give you money is not the same as throwing you in a gulag.
You are not owed an audience and you are not owed access to people.
Part of the reason why I'm so passionate about being against the whole 'kill all men' mindset is because it does affect me directly as a trans woman.
If you're the type of person who automatically assumes men are bad people, then I have news for you. That assumption isn't going to wait until I tell you I'm trans. You're going to—whether subconsciously or consciously—assume I am just a man, and even after I tell you I am a trans woman your perception of me will still be permanently altered.
Discriminatatory beliefs aren't going to wait for me to tell you my pronouns.
I grew up in Florida, where at the age of twelve I was a victim of terror campaigns telling adults that I was going to sexually assault their children in the bathrooms, specifically because of the reason that 'men are all evil.'
I went through way too much at the hands of those people to see practically every ""leftist"" online continuing to push that ideology. Unlearn it. Please. It directly affects us trans women, too.
I still, to this day, have internalized this ideology, and I cannot look at myself in the fucking mirror because I think to myself people see me as a threat, no one feels safe around me. As a direct result of 'all men are evil.'
It doesn't matter whether or not transfemmes are your intended target. You are hurting us just as much as you're hurting everyone else.
(Source: Sen the donkey)
Stop warning me about mature content I'm literally an adult
fuck man, this. like. i'm in my 50s, I am the mature adult you're assuming is suited for this content. why am i still seeing warnings. i've earned the mature content. give it to me. it's my right. it is for me. if it's not for me, a whole-ass grown man in, i must emphasize again, my 50s, who tf is it for. how old do i have to be before you just show me things on the interwebs without a pearl-clutching warning attached
