Jun. 19th, 2020

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jenroses:

spinningyarns:

coolcatgroup:

treacle-a:

cat-memes-only:

This is art

NICE

If I caption this “I can haz cheezburger?” do you think the fabric of time and space will rip and we’ll be flung violently back into our own past?

At this point being flung back that far might well be worth it.
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des-shinta:

citystompers1:

Godzilla wins the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, presented by Sir Patrick Stuart

PLOT-TWIST!
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wild-west-wind:

See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth.
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fallingsmp3:

this is incredible

I already love the “bot writes a script” meme and now I’m SCREAMING
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radwolf76:

uesp:

“Frandar Hunding lists thirty-eight grips, seven hundred and fifty offensive and eighteen hundred defensive positions, and nearly nine thousand moves essential to sword mastery. The average hack-and-slasher knows one grip, which he uses primarily to keep from dropping his blade. He knows one offensive position, facing his target, and one defensive position, fleeing. Of the multitudinous rhythms and inflections of combat, he knows less than one.”

–Allena Benoch in Words and Philosophy

Grips Hunding is an outlier and should not have been counted.
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robokitty77:

Am I having a stroke? Is this what a stroke feels like?

tskumoyuuma:

rattlesnek:

More

rattlesnek:

Compilation
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okayysophia:

Teen Vogue is doing the fucking work!!! Since many of you have hijacked the #SAYHERNAME movement…
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detailedart:

Three moons of Jupiter : Ganymede, Callisto and Io. Credits : NASA/JPL.
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okiitos:

I fucking hate smart technology bro I’m so fucking sick of it
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socialistexan:

Don’t forget: ¼ of the original cowboys were black. Over half were Latino/Hispanic Vaqueros. Cowboys and the Old West being white as snow is a complete fabrication of white supremacist/capitalist media.

two-mimir-deactivated20200617:
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dwergaz:

aleph-null-47:

dwergaz:

dwergaz:

aleph-null-47:

aleph-null-47:

zagreus:

dwergaz:

most disgusting part of Tumblr Culture is the kid who love to sag their pirt. not only to sag the jam lid, but to pirt it up. what a waste.

what language is this

english

but in 3018

listen, the year 2018. you are living in the year 2018. and in centuries and centuries, who tid what to rilt or jilt around, so you better appreciate it for what you have. lot of people would stic or joiler to have what you did.

listen to me

dude what the fuck

aaauuuuuuuu auu auu auuuuu…
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ophidahlia:

gravityofstars:

gravityofstars:

radicalclownfriend:

ego-ann-16:

lesbiangender:

ranger-truth:

Guys, guys, let’s get back into Animorphs!!!

They are all free to read with Applegate’s permission on the animorphs website!

Oh yeah babey

She has also written some absolutely amazing books recently.

These are just a few of them. I read The One and Only Ivan to my students every year (and there’s a sequel coming out in May!).

Every one of her books I’ve read has been beautifully written. Yes, they’re written for children, but you won’t regret reading a single one of them. Applegate is hands-down my favorite middle grades author.

Read. Her. Books.

Also this

Animorphs says trans rights
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dreamlacer0221:

Now what? After 3 weeks of protests and educating ourselves and educating others, how do we keep the momentum going for this civil rights movement? How do we make permanent change?

X
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progressivejudaism:

better-latke-than-never:

For anyone looking for good Jewish podcasts, I really love Jewish Public Media. They have several podcasts. The two I like are The Joy of Text and Talking in Shul. 

The Joy of Text provides an in depth look at sex and sexuality from a an feminist Orthodox perspective. One of the hosts is Dr. Bat Sheva Marcus, the “Orthodox Sex Guru” and the president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA).

Talking in Shul handles a wide range of political and cultural topics. There most recent episode was about “how can/should we create Jewish wedding rituals that are interesting, relevant, and/or feminist?”

I’m always looking for great resources that will help learn while also keeping me engaged, so please feel free to add any other great podcasts or learning materials that you’ve found!

Thank you for sharing!
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painted-starlight:

curiouschiroptera:

In collaboration with the Quileute Tribe, this site seeks to inform Twilight fans, parents, teachers, and others about the real Quileute culture, which indeed has a wolf origin story, a historic relationship with the wolf as demonstrated in songs, stories, and various art forms, as well as a modern, multi-dimensional community with a sophisticated governance system. We also hope to offer a counter narrative to The Twilight Saga’s stereotypical representations of race, class, and gender, and offer resources for a more meaningful understanding of Native American life and cultures.

More from this website: 

Misconceptions and Appropriations from Twilight: Their community gets fucking NOTHING from the Twilight Franchise, despite Stephenie Meyer using their name to abandon as one of the major plot points.

Racial and Class Stereotypes in Twilight: How Stephenie Meyer reinforces racist and classcist dynamics in her stereotypical depictions

Cultural Theft in Twilight: Wherein a white woman profits from a Native American community and STILL can’t be bothered to do basic research. 
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sisterofiris:

sisterofiris:

We read this passage in class yesterday and I thought it might interest youse guys. The passage is from Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans 5; it’s a discussion between Clonarium, a young man, and Leaena, a courtesan who had an unusual experience at a drinking party.

Eventually Megilla, being now rather heated, pulled off her wig, which was very realistic and fitted very closely, and revealed the skin of her head which was shaved close, just as on the most energetic of athletes. This sight gave me a shock, but she said, ‘Leaena, have you ever seen such a good-looking young fellow?’ ‘I don’t see one here, Megilla,’ said I. ‘Don’t make a woman out of me,’ said she. ‘My name is Megillus, and I’ve been married to Demonassa here for ever so long; she’s my wife.’ ‘Then, unknown to us, Megillus, you were a man all the time, just as they say Achilles once hid among the girls, and you have everything that a man has, and can play the part of a man to Demonassa?’ ‘I haven’t got what you mean,’ said she, ‘I don’t need it at all. You’ll find I have a much pleasanter method of my own.’ ‘You’re surely not a hermaphrodite,’ said I, ‘equipped both as a man and a woman, as many people are said to be?’; for I still didn’t know, Cleonarium, what it was all about. But she said, ‘No, Leaena, I’m all man.’ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘I’ve heard the Boeotian flute-girl, Ismenodora, repeating tales she’d heard at home, and telling us how someone at Thebes had turned from woman to man, someone who was also an excellent soothsayer, and was, I think, called Tiresias. That didn’t happen to you, did it?’ ‘No, Leaena,’ she said, ‘I was born a woman like the rest of you, but I have the mind and the desires and everything else of a man.’ ‘And do you find these desires enough?’ said I. ‘If you don’t believe me, Leaena,’ said she, ‘just give me a chance, and you’ll find I’m as good as any man; I have a substitute of my own. Only give me a chance, and you’ll see.’

Translation: M. D. Macleod, Loeb, 1961.

So Megilla - who, as a side note, is from Lesbos - was born a woman but identifies as a man, going by Megillus. Still, for some reason, they* disguise themselves as a woman. The whole situation is a bit confusing but the bolded bit is clear: Megilla/Megillus is, in modern terms, transgender.

Lucian’s Dialogues are fictional, but the fact he mentions a trans person speaks for their existence at the time. Remember that whenever people claim trans people are a recent phenomenon!

*I’m using they/them pronouns because it’s unclear exactly how they refer to themselves. Greek conjugated verbs are mostly non-gendered (so what the translation renders as ‘she said’ is actually ‘he/she/they said’), but there is one participle in the feminine (οὐδὲν ἐνδέουσάν με τῶν ἀνδρῶν, I’m as good as any man) despite Megilla/Megillus asking Leaena not to refer to them as a woman. So, unclear.

[profile] polyamorous_lesbian​​

Hi, I’m OP. As of the time of writing, I’m finishing up a masters degree in Ancient Greek, and the history of LGBT+ people is something I’ve studied quite a bit over the last five years. I can confidently tell you that the assumptions you’re making in your reply don’t work here.

The text I quoted, Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans, starts with Leaina (latinised above as Leaena) telling her friend Klonarion (latinised as Clonarium) about an experience she had at a drinking party. The very first thing Klonarion asks is whether Megillos/Megilla, the person Leaina hooked up with, is a woman attracted to women:

Καινὰ περὶ σοῦ ἀκούομεν, ὦ Λέαινα, τὴν Λεσβίαν Μέγιλλαν τὴν πλουσίαν ἐρᾶν σου ὥσπερ ἄνδρα καὶ συνεῖναι ὑμᾶς οὐκ οἶδ᾿ ὅ τι ποιούσας μετ᾿ ἀλλήλων.

We’re hearing strange things about you, Leaina, about how the rich Lesbian Megilla loves you like a man, and you live together and who knows what you do with each other.*

The fact this person is from Lesbos isn’t coincidental at all. “Lesbian” was well-known shorthand, in the ancient world, for women attracted to women - just like it is today. In this fictional dialogue, Lucian is using it to imply that Megillos/Megilla could be a lesbian in the modern sense, thereby acknowledging that they exist. Leaina replies:

Ἀληθῆ, ὦ Κλωνάριον· αἰσχύνομαι δέ, ἀλλόκοτον γάρ τί ἐστι.

That is true, Klonarion; but I am ashamed, since it is somewhat strange.

Ἀλλόκοτος is a word meaning strange, unusual, or different. (Actually, I might almost be tempted to translate it as “queer”.) Leaina is pointing out here that Klonarion is on the right track, but there’s more to the story than that. A bit further along, the dialogue continues:

Λ. Ἡ γυνὴ δὲ δεινῶς ἀνδρική ἐστιν.
Κ. Οὐ μανθάνω ὅ τι καὶ λέγεις, εἰ μή τις ἑταιρίστρια τυγχάνει οὖσα· τοιαύτας γὰρ ἐν Λέσβῳ λέγουσι γυναῖκας ἀρρενωπούς, ὑπ᾿ ἀνδρῶν μὲν οὐκ ἐθελούσας αὐτὸ πάσχειν, γυναιξὶ δὲ αὐτὰς πλησιαζούσας ὥσπερ ἄνδρας.
Λ. Τοιοῦτόν τι.

L: The woman is terribly manly.
K: I don’t understand what you’re saying, unless she is some sort of female courtisan. They say there are women like that in Lesbos, who look like men, who don’t want anything to do with men, but have sex with women as if they were men.
L: It’s somewhat like that.

Again, Klonarion - just like modern “gender critical” people! - doesn’t understand how this person could be anything but a gender-non-conforming lesbian woman. Leaina replies that it’s almost that, but not quite. She then starts telling Klonarion what happened, and this is where the passage I quoted above comes in. The most important element is this: Megilla publicly presents as a woman, but privately identifies as a man and uses the name Megillos.

Let’s repeat that to be extra clear: Megillos is not a lesbian woman presenting as male for safety. They** are a person assigned female at birth, but who prefers to identify as male in the safety of their own home.

Leaina compares them to mythological figures in an attempt to understand better, asking if Megillos is a man disguised as a woman, like Akhilleus (whose mother hid him among the girls in the hopes that he wouldn’t be drafted to war). Megillos says no. Leaina asks if Megillos is a hermaphrodite; Megillos also says no. Lastly, Leaina mentions Tiresias, who was born female but was transformed by the Gods into a man, to which Megillos replies that they weren’t transformed in that way, but:

… ἐγεννήθην μὲν ὁμοία ταῖς ἄλλαις ὑμῖν, ἡ γνώμη δὲ καὶ ἡ ἐπιθυμία καὶ τἆλλα πάντα ἀνδρός ἐστί μοι.

I was born female like all of you, but I have the mind and the desires and everything else of a man.

This explanation has nothing to do with wanting the same rights as a man (especially since Megillos publicly presents as the female Megilla). It has nothing to do with gender-non-conforming presentation either. Megillos is very, very clearly expressing an inner sense of gender, which is male.

So let’s summarise:

Lucian, the author of this dialogue, is well aware of the existence of lesbian women, including gender-non-conforming lesbian women

however, he makes Leaina’s character point out that while this situation is similar, it isn’t about that

Megillos/Megilla publicly identifies as female and is publicly viewed as a lesbian woman, which renders impossible any interpretation that they present as male for safety or extra rights

privately, they explicitly state that their inner sense of gender is male despite being assigned female at birth

which is literally the definition of transgender: “having a gender (identity) which is different from the sex one was assigned at birth” (x)

This text is fictional; Megillos/Megilla never existed. However, Lucian’s dialogues reflect the everyday life and daily concerns of his era, and there’s no reason to believe that this text is an exception. In fact, if we look beyond him to the rest of the ancient world, we’d be quick to realise that people fitting the modern definitions of transgender and genderqueer - both AMAB and AFAB, and probably intersex too - are well-attested, from Inanna’s gala priests in the 2nd millennium BC to the Roman emperor Elagabalus in the 3rd century AD. It would be narrow-minded to attribute millennia of non-cisgender people to just misogyny and oppression.

Turns out that people have always been complicated, gender has always been complicated, and if you fail to recognise that, you find yourself in the uncomfortable position of being less accepting than Lucian, a man from the 2nd century AD.

*All translations are my own.

**As explained in the previous post, I’m using they/them pronouns because it’s unclear which grammatical gender Megillos/Megilla uses, despite clearly identifying as male.
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blossoming–flower:

afacelesschampion:

TILDA SWINTON as GABRIEL in CONSTANTINE (2005)

Me as a kid, watching this movie for the first time:
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spocks-juul:

hc that when Vulcans made first contact with earth they had assumed that all humans have latent empathic abilities, but in reality when you grow up in a culture that actually acknowledges emotion you get a lot better at picking up on subtle emotional cues. When a human points out a Vulcan being emotional they deny it to save face, but internally they’re screaming like how did they KNOW
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girlfriendluvr:

sweeterxfiction:

Breonna Taylor’s petition has still not hit its goal. It takes next to no time at all to sign it. So if you haven’t, please do it and signal boost.

Petition

GoFundMe

the way change.org works is that petitions NEVER hit their goals until their ends, because every time a milestone is met, they raise the bar to the next milestone to encourage more people to sign. breonna taylor’s petition has hit its goal many times, its current goal is set to 7.5 million, and once that is hit the goal will change to 10 million. that said, it’s always important to sign the petition, i just wanted to emphasize that goals ARE being met!
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larrahstylinson:

„[They] try to tell us that LGBT are people” - Andrzej Duda, polish president.

“LGBT ARE NOT PEOPLE!” - Jacek Żalek.

“LGBT-FREE” zones.

“THE FAMILY-CARD” bans “propagation of LGBTQ+ ideology”.

That’s how a “Pride Month” looks like here, in Poland. That’s a daily struggle of 2mln people.

2mln people.

That’s how reality looks like in “free, democratic, European country”. In 2 weeks we’re going to vote of re-election for our conservative government that puts all of these lives on risk everyday by taking their basic human rights away, spreading homophobia & categorising people in better & worst sorts only by their beliefs and sexuality.

LGBTQ+ is not ideology. It’s your friend, family member, your doctor, your teacher, your ex-partner, lady you always open the door for, it’s 14 year old Dominic who committed suicide because of sexuality bullying. LGBTQ+ are people. They’re our people who need to be protected at all costs. You can change it. GO & VOTE.

Be aware. Be smart. GO VOTE. Stay safe. 🏳️‍🌈
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bemusedlybespectacled:

It’s not just RBG: Breyer is 81. If they both get replaced by conservatives, that’s a 6/3 conservative majority on every single issue, and middle-of-the-road guys like Roberts and (apparently) Gorsuch aren’t going to need to temper their decisions to get a majority.

biglawbear:

Y'ALL THERE’S GOOD NEWS FOR ONCE I’M CRYING. HAPPY PRIDE

Supreme Court grants federal job protections to gay, lesbian, transgender workers

THIS IS WHY FEDERAL COURTS ARE SO IMPORTANT AND YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS IN NOVEMBER

You aren’t just voting for a President for four years, you’re voting for who’s going to nominate Justices to the Supreme Court and judges to all Federal courts for the next forty or fifty

Victories like this might not happen if Trump replaces RBG with a 40 year old conservative. RBG is 87.
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ophidahlia:

Federal troops were called against 13,000 miners.Three battles that led to the biggest armed insurrection since the Civil War. 

 Ask yourself why you were never taught this in school. 

cultural-marxist-sjew-agitprop:

Although there were planes used against the miners in the Battle of Blair Mountain, it is not true that this was the first time planes were used to drop bombs on American soil against Americans. 

The Battle of Blair Mountain took place in August and September of 1921. Just a few months prior to that, on May 31 and June 1, planes were also used to help destroy the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a prosperous black neighborhood nicknamed The Black Wall Street. At least 39 people died during the event, which is known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. Hundreds were wounded, and 6,000 black people lost their homes. 

Both of these events were hugely important moments in American history. 

Ask yourself why neither was taught to you in school. Also ask your local school board. 
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Civil Rights Law Protects Gay and Transgender Workers, Supreme Court Rules:

bonos-grindcore-sideproject:

In the mood for a little good news? You know you are!

“The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a landmark civil rights law protects gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination, handing the movement for L.G.B.T. equality a stunning victory.The vote was 6 to 3, with Justice Neil M. Gorsuch writing the majority opinion. He was joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.”
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arcamenel-alatariel:

Let’s add a bit to this. Jury nullification is this awesome thing that happens when a jury turns out a “not guilty” verdict even though they agree that the defendant did the behavior that they’re being accused of, because they think THE LAW IS WRONG. This is a legitimate form of protest against unjust laws and enforcement of those laws.

If you are selected for jury duty service, they will likely say something like, “It is your duty to apply the law as it is given to you, regardless of whether you agree.” THIS IS A LIE. You have the right to nullify a charge because you believe the law is incorrect, immoral, or for whatever other reason wrongly applied to the defendant of the charges.

That being said, do not tell the judge or the attorneys that your intent going in is to nullify the law. You will not be selected.

Know your rights. Exercise them.

zvaigzdelasas:

It’s worth pretending to kiss cop feet for a couple hours if you can actually stop someone from getting pushed thru their system

grootpoepjeplasjehoofd:

Anywhomst, if any of you happen to get called into jury duty in the coming months (assuming we don’t move to full on military tribunals lol) act like you have no horse in the race re: the protests during the selection interviews so you can potentially prevent a guilty verdict
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freelancerkiwi:

Time to throw this as bigoted christians

digital-magus:

That… makes a lot more sense tbh

theconcealedweapon:
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queenstardust:

Idk about you, but I think Hux has absolutely no concept of leisure time or spontaneity. He´s obsessed with timetabels and has his day structured to the last second. So when Kylo wants sexytime he´ll be like: “Didn´t you get my updated schedule? I´ve made time for you next thuesday between 1700 and 1730, if our supply from Ban-Satir II arrives on time (edit: it never does)”
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frompawntoqueen:

.[profile] scotus ruled “Fuck the drop the T movement”

fuckyeahasexual:

I wanted to copy and paste this thread for screenreaders of tweets I found quoting the US Supreme Court ruling today. You can follow or RT here.

Image ID: Tweets from Paul Johnson, Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, who researches law, human rights, and sexual orientation.

5/15/2020 - [This Ruling] should be read as a textbook explanation of why LGB&T rights always go together.

Scotus said: “When an employer fires an employee because she is homosexual or transgender, two causal factors may be in play—both the individual’s sex and something else (the sex to which the individual is attracted or with which the individual identifies).”

[profile] scotus said: “When an employer fires an employee because she is homosexual or transgender, two causal factors may be in play—both the individual’s sex and something else (the sex to which the individual is attracted or with which the individual identifies).”

[profile] scotus concluded: “An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision”.

(Fucking damn, queer theory made into law from a SCOTUS ruling? I love seeing it.)
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expect0-patr0num:

calystarose:

the-awkward-turt:

profeminist:

Source

Want more info? Here ya go: 

This Biology Teacher Disproved Transphobia With Science 

ALSO:

Sex redefined

“The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.”

More on anti-trans arguments as bad science

As a biologist I am reblogging this so hard.

Biological sex is not and has never been a binary. The complexity of the natural world cannot be contained in neat little societal boxes. Stop using science to justify your bigotry.

The complexity of the natural world cannot be contained in neat little societal boxes. Stop using science to justify your bigotry.

EVEN SCIENCE SAYS NO
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babyanimalgifs:

A dog with a flair for the melodramatic. 

(via)
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kermitlesbian:

Tallsbian saga(so far!) in order! 
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Supreme Court Rules You Cannot Fire Someone for Being Gay or Transgender
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winneganfake:

Well, first time I saw this was over on fb, and here’s the attached text from then:

“Minneapolis police built a wall and OH BOY HOWDY IS IT OBVIOUS NONE OF THEM HAVE EVER HAD A REAL JOB

since this is being shared, call (612) 673-3000 and let them know there is a non-permit structure that does not follow building code that is blocking pedestrian and motor traffic at 19 North fourth street ”

Tbat should be enougb for you to localize for ADA as well, yes? (As I’m betting they’ve already been flooded on the permit end)

anditookthepathlesstraveled:

There are definitely ways to report this to the ADA, which office is this? I can’t find any coverage on this online.

cipheramnesia:

Police building walls to protect them from the people they were supposed to be protecting and serving, but who they have been gassing and shooting for weeks, killing for years, it’s just like… it’s something.

scyphers:

[ID: a photograph of a poorly constructed wall made of cinderblock, expanding foam, and a single piece of wood in front of a police precinct. It is at least few feet high and shaped like an L, restricting access to the building on one side, and extends past the sidewalk, into the street.]

queerdo-mcjewface:

Please use keep reporting them for code violations! Based on these photos, as a disabled person I wouldn’t be able to get around this area because they are blocking the sidewalk. I am wondering if there might be a way to report them under the ADA too.

nerdyqueerandjewish:

So there have been continued protests but not anything close to what one would consider a “riot” for awhile, yet multiple police stations have decided to build little walls around themselves and I don’t know if it is bait or incompetence or both but oh man it’s a piece of work.

People are reporting them for building code violations lol

Thats not even glue, it’s that (highly flammable) expanding insulation foam 😬

My favorite part is this bit hanging off the curb:
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headspace-hotel:

adhderry:

Idk shit about Game of Thrones but

Apparently the shows last season is so bad that the r/freefolk subreddit kinda just

Decided they were done with GoT and just

They just kinda

Chose a better series

I know nothing about GoT but mood
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damienhirstsdiamondskull:

heads up uk people: the uk government will only debate petitions if they’re hosted on petition.parliament.uk, NOT change.org. if you want to sign uk-based petitions (e.g. teaching colonialism as part of the compulsory curriculum or improving maternal mortality rates for Black women in the uk) then PLEASE go there

edit: here’s a source for why this is important and as always the tories are evil
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unfortunately i never found any website which could host fanmixes like 8tracks did. i sometimes put mixes up on spotify but you can’t upload music there so it has a much more limited library.

rip 8tracks, you are still missed :(
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newtonpermetersquare:

if you CONCENTRATE, you’ll get this
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Yes, climate change can be beaten by 2050. Here's how.:

thehopefuljournalist:

“Is it possible to turn things around by 2050? The answer is absolutely yes,” says Kai Chan, a professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.

Many scientists have been telling us how the world will look like, if we don’t act now. However, others, like Chan, are tracking what success might look like.

They are not simply day-dreamers either. They aren’t being too optimistic. They are putting together road maps for how to safely get to the planet envisioned in the 2015 Paris Agreement, where temperatures hold at 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than before we started burning fossil fuels, this article from July states.

“Three decades is enough to do a lot of important things. In the next few years—if we get started on them—they will pay dividends in the coming decades,” says Chan, the lead author of the chapter on achieving a sustainable future in a recent UN report that predicted the possible extinction of a million species.

Making these changes won’t mean years of being poor, cold and hungry before things get comfortable again, the scientists insist. They say that if we start acting seriously NOW, we stand a decent chance of transforming society without huge disruption. 

No doubt, it will take a massive switch in society’s energy use. But without us noticing, that’s already happening. Not fast enough, maybe, but it is. Solar panels and offshore wind power plummet in price.  Iceland and Paraguay have stripped the carbon from their grids, according to a new energy outlook report from Bloomberg. Europe is on track to be 90 per cent carbon-free by 2040. And Ottawa says that Canada is already at 81 per cent, thanks to hydro, nuclear, wind and solar. 

Decarbonizing the whole economy is within grasp. We can do this.

“If we have five years of really sustained efforts, making sure we reorient our businesses and our governments toward sustainability, then from that point on, this transition will seem quite seamless. Because it will just be this gradual reshaping of options,” Chan says, adding: “All these things seem very natural when the system is changing around you.”
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Kylo: I hate you, but I hate life without you even more.

Hux: I know. I had so many opportunities to kill you, but I always will stop myself at the last moment.

Kylo: I know.

Everyone else: these are the weirdest wedding vows ever.
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School districts across the country rethink dangerous and insanely expensive contracts with cops:

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thetrumpimpeachment:

School districts across the country rethink dangerous and insanely expensive contracts with cops

Because Black and brown students have been so disproportionately targeted by school police—most of the 4,500 citations to Denver students since 2014 have gone to Black and Latino students—that district has decided to act, spurred into action by the movement that has surged in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. “The reason why we want to move forward without Denver police is simple: We don’t want our schools to be ground zero for the school-to-prison pipeline,” Tay Anderson, a Denver school board member said. They don’t want to see their students losing their lives to cops because they’ve been funneled into a corrupt and racist criminal justice system. On Thursday, the Denver board voted unanimously to have police out of schools in the next 18 months.
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this loser doesnt nail down every object in their room to prevent haters from using telekinesis to launch objects at them at high speeds LOL

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Haters will see me post and use telekinesis to launch objects in my room at me at high speeds
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Egypt will soon be home to Africa’s first vertical forest:

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The Egyptian desert is set to host the African continent’s first vertical forest.

Italian architect and urban planner Stefano Boeri has unveiled designs for three buildings covered with pollution-absorbing trees and plants in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital, which is under construction in the desert east of Cairo.

Vertical forests pack thousands of square metres of greenery into just a few hundred square metres of urban space, providing shade and creating habitats for birds and insects, according to Boeri.

The trees, shrubs and plants absorb carbon dioxide, produce oxygen and filter dust from the air.

In recent years, large-scale green architecture projects have been taking root in major cities, from Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay to Sydney’s One Central Park.

Meanwhile, Liuzhou Forest City - another Boeri project- is under construction in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi. It will have more than 40,000 trees and 1 million plants covering its buildings. The trees and plants in Liuzhou Forest City are expected to annually absorb 10,000 tonnes of CO2 and 57 tonnes of pollutants, while producing about 900 tonnes of oxygen.

In the Netherlands, Boeri has also designed the 19-story Trudo Vertical Forest, which will house 125 affordable units targeting low-income families.
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art is hard work, in case nobody’s told you today

Art is hard work, and it is often unreasonable to come home from your day job or your school or both and then sit down and expect yourself to be a creative font.

Art is hard work. If it’s especially hard for you today I want to remind you it’s not because you are lazy, but that art is hard work.

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