No More Pipelines & #punchanazi

I am small and full of rage. FUCK the POWERFUL. Blog mostly filled with pictures I like, things that resonate with me, political stuff, and occasionally gaming/dnd shenanigans. As a Canadian, I would rather DIE than become amerikkkan. ... "When the rich rage war it's the poor that Die." "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Prick a TERF, a fascist bleeds.

[vintage-tigre]

[rank-sentimentalist]

@gothiccharmschool and @the-ravenscove

[animals-riding-animals]

crab riding jellyfish

[criminalizegolf]

any printer born after 2007 can't print... all they know is bluetooth , hide they usb port, tray feed error, be out of magenta , eat paper & tell HP my social security number

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Hey! I saw this article on CBC and thought it was worth sharing. As we get closer and closer to Alberta’s municipal elections on October 20th, it’s worth being keeping the agendas of groups like Take Back Alberta and Parents for Choice in Education.  Especially their focus on school board trustees—as Mr. Parker said back in 2023 (and as was brought up previously on this blog):

“Albertans and Canadians are apathetic and lazy. They never show up,” he said during another October 2023 speech in Calgary. “You could take over every school board in this entire province.“

Here’s to proving Mr. Parker wrong. So keep an eye out, both for news coverage of the trustees that are running and for the topic of "parental rights.” And if you have the time, you might even want to check out the Alberta School Board Association’s website for more information, including a map of all the school boards in Alberta to help you find your municipality’s school board.

https://allthecanadianpolitics.tumblr.com/post/775409013778251776/a-shadow-war-on-libraries

[thewitchoftheweed]

We live in the dumbest, lamest cyberpunk dystopia possible.

So LA has been — and continues to — protest against ICE. These protests haven’t gotten any smaller or lost any momentum, but social media wasn’t reflecting it.

TikTok users, realizing that the platform/other social media are censoring/deleting/shadowbanning these protest videos, decided to find a workaround.

They’re calling it the LA Music Festival. Ice detention centers and other protest locations are “stages.” The hottest band is Rage Against the Machine. “Here’s what gear you should be bringing to stay safe at the LA Music Festival.”

And it fucking worked.

TikTok has become a proving ground for a lot of new music, meaning lots of labels and organizations have lucrative deals with TikTok to promote their new artists and music festivals. So they absolutely cannot censor the words “music festival” or train the algorithm to ignore it, or they risk endangering that very important revenue.

So now protest videos are flooding feeds again, but it’s the LA 24/7 Music Festival. Truly an incredible timeline we’ve landed in.

[charonsferry]

During the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s, radio broadcasts would refer to upcoming marches as "parties" and use other such euphemisms to sneak calls to organize past censors. For example, the Birmingham marches of 1963 were called "a field trip in the park with a luncheon".

This is, frankly, a timeless strategy, just done online.

[maculategiraffe]

(me, my parents, my sister, and the baby are sitting at the kitchen table eating lunch)

baby, pointing at the light fixture over the table and signing "on": o.*

my sister: we actually can't turn that light on right now, because the lightbulb inside is burnt out! it needs a new one.

baby: ighbu.

sister: yes, lightbulb! granddaddy said after we eat he's going to climb up there on a ladder and change it, and then the light will come on!

baby: gadada! adda, uuu! ighbu o!

sister: exactly!

baby, signing "on" and pointing at the light and then my dad, with increasing urgency: GADADA ADDA UUUU. O.

my sister: we're going to finish eating first though, ok?

baby: nonono. O. gadada adda uuu.

[a split second goes by]

baby, pointing to himself: ba. adda uuu. ighbu.

me: you're going to climb the ladder and change the lightbulb yourself?

baby: dzyeah. *pointing to the buckle where he is buckled into the high chair* ububu.

me: unbuckle you? so you can change the lightbulb?

baby, highly businesslike: dzyeah.

*pronounced like "on" without the n

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[teethwasbones]

Actually, if you have a dynamic disability or if you are an ambulatory wheelchair/mobility aide user it IS okay to lie. As someone who has had surgery if you need the lift/ramp etc or someone is giving you shit for not looking disabled tell them you just had surgery, theyre more likely to give it to you (ask me how I know 🙄). Tell them you're recovering from a car accident. Tell them youre dying. Whatever. You don't owe prying ableist strangers your actual medical history. Do whatever you need to get accessibility and whatever you need to get to safety if someone is harassing you.

[luulapants]

If we wanted to engage in nuance (lol, lmao) on the "are audiobooks reading" debate, we really do need to bring literacy, and especially blind literacy, into the conversation.

Because, yes, listening to a story and reading a story use mostly the same parts of the brain. Yes, listening to the audiobook counts as "having read" a book. Yes, oral storytelling has a long, glorious tradition and many cultures maintained their histories through oral history or oral + art history, having never developed a true written language, and their oral stories and histories are just as valid and rich as written literature.

We still can't call listening in the absence of reading "literacy."

The term literacy needs to stay restricted to the written word, to the ability to access and engage with written texts, because we need to be able to talk about illiteracy. We need to be able to identify when a society is failing to teach children to read, and if we start saying that listening to stories is literacy, we lose the ability to describe those systemic failures.

Blind folks have been knee-deep in this debate for a long time. Schools struggle to provide resources to teach students Braille and enforcing the teaching of Braille to low-vision and blind children is a constant uphill battle. A school tried to argue that one girl didn't need to learn Braille because she could read 96-point font. Go check what that is. The new prevalence of audiobooks and TTS is a huge threat to Braille literacy because it provides institutions with another excuse to not provide Braille education or Braille texts.

That matters. Braille-literate blind and low-vision people have a 90% employment rate. For those who don't know Braille, it's 30%. Braille literacy is linked to higher academic success in all fields.

Moving outside the world of Braille, literacy of any kind matters. Being able to read text has a massive impact on a person's ability to access information, education, and employment. Being able to talk about the inability to read text matters, because that's how we're able to hold systems accountable.

So, yes, audiobooks should count as reading. But, no, they should not count as literacy.

[naamahdarling]

Finally, a good fucking take.

[ghiblin]

The Secret World of Arriety (2010) Howl's Moving Castle (2004) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008) The Wind Rises (2013) When Marnie Was There (2014) My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

[draconym]

Had a dream that I drew this dragon and felt disappointed when I woke up that it wasn't real so I drew it all over again.

[redavexat]

[honeydewcorporation]

Tried to figure out how I've been running these things and I came up with this

[sephirthoughts]

SO MUCH THIS. it drives me up a fucking WALL when people call male witches wizards

[raccoonskoodilypoopdungeon]

my take on this

[xxcosmicaura]

remember kids

Artist 🎨: @vhsdogs

[helenestica]

Showing your favorite song to someone is so embarrassing lol what if I get a bad grade at my own taste and interests....

[tea-kitten]

I used to be concerned about this until I realized how fucked up it was that I felt like I needed to write a 5-paragraph persuasive essay extolling the merits of my favorite movie (Dragonheart) just to convince my ex-fiance to watch it with me.

If you are willing to share a piece of yourself with someone else and they choose to respond with judgment about the "objective quality" of your favorite thing rather than curiosity about why that thing speaks so strongly to you, then the problem is not with your taste or your interests.

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