Lazy creature, sitting and watching life happen to others. Living with depression and anger. I just reblog things I try to stay positive but it's not always easy. They/them pronouns please. Messages are always welcome, and I love to talk, though I tend to keep people at a distance until I get to know them. SPAM FANMAIL=IMMEDIATE BLOCK.
(Image ID) A tweet by Tony Choi that reads “Pride month starts in three days. Pride isn’t brought to you by T-Mobile and Absolut Vodka. It was brought to you by drag queens, trans women throwing bricks. By lesbians and queer women taking care of gay men dying of AIDS in the face of an intentional government neglect. End ID.
Holy crap this is so important. we need to make sure not to lose the concept of pride in all the advertising and the “we support pride” from companies that haven’t done shit.
Gonna also mention Pride Month was created by Brenda Howard, a bisexual Jewish woman.
i unironically believe electricity is the closest thing we have to magic in this universe. consider:
it’s basically what human “souls” are made of (your consciousness is the result of miniscule amounts of electric charge jumping between neurons in your brain)
when handled incorrectly or encountered in the wild, it is a deadly force that can kill you in at least half a dozen different ways
when treated respectfully and channeled into the proper conduits, it is a power source that forms the backbone of modern society
if you engrave the right sigils into a rock and channel electricity into it, you can make the rock think
there is a dedicated caste of mages (electrical engineers) tasked with researching it in ivory towers
whatever the fuck Galvani was doing with those frog legs
look at this and just try to tell me it isn’t a kind of summoning circle
Just a hunch here, gop. But I think being 14 and married to a gross older man or dying in a mining accident is a bigger threat to a child than hearing about trans people.
Children. Too young to know that they’re trans. Too young to know that they’re asexual. Too young to hear that gay people exists. Too young to listen to drag performers read books to them.
Not to young to be exploited in an 8 to 5 40 hour work week. Not to young to pay income taxes. Not too young to sign their life away to a job they hate. Not too young to be verbally abused by their employer. Not too young to risk their life in a dangerous job. Not to young to permanently harm their body by sitting at the computer 8 hours a day. (Which has permanent health affects)
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European Employers “Work 40 hrs a week”
European workers “Then we don’t want to work.”
European employers “Fine. 30 hrs.”
American Employers. “Work 40 hrs a week”
American Workers “Then we don’t want to work”
American Employers “Then your children will have to work”
The bill’s author made sure everyone understood that it’s not just about journalists, it’s about everyone, even on social media.
A Florida Republican introduced a bill that would make it easier for religious people to sue those who call them out as homophobic or transphobic, a bill built on a suggestion from Gov. Ron DeSantis ®.
State Rep. Alex Andrade ® filed H.B. 991 on Tuesday. The bill would make it easier to sue journalists, publications, or social media users for defamation if they accuse someone of racism, sexism, homophobia, or transphobia. The bill specifically says that publications can’t use truth as a defense when it comes to reporting on people’s anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments by citing the person’s “constitutionally protected religious expression or beliefs” or “a plaintiff’s scientific beliefs.”
I’d try to explain the first amendment to these brainless bigoted cunts but that would require using words of more than one syllable and would likely confuse and frighten them
She was born to a rich plantation family in the American South during the time of slavery. She owned a slave, Hetty, a girl her parents gave her when she was a child. She was absolutely the sort of person whose racism you could justify as being ‘of her time’ and ‘just the way she was raised’.
And she cited the injustices she saw growing up on the plantation as the motivation for her becoming an abolitionist as an adult.
When she was a kid, she tried to give bible lessons to the slaves on her Dad’s plantation, and taught her own slave to read and write. As an adult, she and her sister campaigned for the end of slavery. When she found out that one of her brothers had raped one of his own slaves and gotten her pregnant three times, she welcomed her nephews into the family and paid for education for the two that wanted it.
This was a woman who was raised in a culture of slavery, looked around her as a child and said “hey, wait a minute, we’re all assholes!” and spent the rest of her life trying to put things right.
It absolutely was a choice.
This is something I’ve been forced to learn in the past two years. The world around me is turning into something I was raised to believe could only happen in history books, or maybe in other parts of the world that sort of belonged in history books.
The more I see this happening–and the more I learn about the past and how hard people did fight to stop Hitler from initially rising to power, or to point out the humanity of slaves–the more apparent it becomes that we have always had these choices, and they’ve always been the same.
And we’re always going to have genuinely appealing opportunities to make the worst possible choices again, no matter how much more modern the world appears.
George Washington owned slaves right? Most of the founding fathers did, and in grade school, to smooth over that abuse of humanity by an American hero, we as children were told “Yes, George Washington did own slaves but he freed them when he died.” And you infer that he didn’t like slavery but it was an economic necessity.
And then you’re in your mid twenties watching a food show on Netflix and you learn that because Pennsylvania was a Quaker colony, they led the nation in emancipation and if an enslaved person was in Philadelphia for more than six months, they automatically became freed. And the young nation’s early capital was in Philadelphia, where Washington brought his household of enslaved people with him. And he took them back to Virginia every five months for a time so as to start that clock over and keep them enslaved.
There’s a trend with historians to want so badly to maintain the prestige of George Washington and an exceptional and morally pristine figure. And true, there are many instances in his writing where he sounds like his opinion on slavery as an institution is turning and that he knew slavery was wrong. But his actions. He literally had to do absolutely nothing to free his household staff, and took great pains to keep them enslaved.
It’s important to remember that too. That there were people in positions of enormous power, who know what they’re doing is wrong, and choose to do it anyway.
Do not let anyone tell you his teeth were made of wood.
