Project 2025 would ban anything the far right considers pornography. The far right considers anything queer-positive to be pornography, and they WILL encode that into law if given just a TINY bit more power.
Have queer fanfic (or trad published literature) or pics of your transition, or of two men kissing, saved to your hard drive? If the GOP get their way, you’d be guilty of possession of pornography. Did you share any of it? You’d be guilty of distribution of pornography. Have a sweet coming of age story with a queer protagonist? That’d be child pornography.
Even now, states are trying to make it a crime to be openly queer in public (by, among other things, classifying dressing as the “wrong gender” anyplace kids might see as a sex crime against children). Oh, and Florida tried (and thankfully failed) to impose the death penalty for the above.
This is just one example of the horrors awaiting us if the project comes to fruition.
And the far right is already screaming that any adult who mentions around kids that queer people exist is “grooming” children. Wear your Pride shirt past a playground? You’re now a child groomer. Think they won’t put that into law if allowed? You’re naive.
The GOP currently controls the Supreme Court (which is how they overturned Roe v. Wade) and has a majority in one branch of congress. Imagine what will happen nationwide with the GOP controlling every branch of government, including supermajoroties in both houses of Congress.
Oh, and top GOP officials have also announced their desire to NUKE Gaza, so don’t come at me with, “but I can’t vote blue because Biden…” Or tell me how you think Gaza would somehow be better off with Trump and the GOP.
In France, the left and center joined together–even though they disagree vehemently on many issues (get two leftists together and they’ll have three positions on any issue)–to stop the far right from totally taking over, because the one thing they ALL agree on is that fascists dictatorships are BAD.
Much the same with the UK finally kicking out their own neo-fascist party, the Torries, to install 400 Labour MPs. Not everyone loves Labour’s policies, but virtually everyone with a brain cell recognizes that the Torries are fascists, and that FASCISM BAD.
“Every election, they tell us this is the most important election if our lives!” Yeah, because each election over the past several decades has been more important than the one before, until we are now at a tipping point between remaining a fucked up oligarchy with SOME resemblance to freedom, and an outright neo-fascist military dictatorship.
Trump has literally stated publicly his intent to criminalize dissent, use US armed forces against protesters (Kent State, but multiply it by thousands), purge all agencies and stuff them with those personally loyal to him, and use the DOJ to go after anyone he perceives as a threat to his political power, among other things.
And remember the things he did in office, like pulling the teeth of federal workplace protections for queer folks (which Biden reatored).
I don’t care if you don’t like Biden or Harris. Neither do I. But the alternative is Trump, and anyone telling you not to vote in 2024, or to vote third party, is rooting for Trump, and for Project 2025. Anyone telling you not to vote does not give one single solitary flying fuck about vulnerable populations in the US or anywhere else in the world.
“You’re just being an alarmist!” Right. Like I was being alarmist when I predicted the failed Jan 6 coup attempt. Like I was being alarmist when I said the GOP would try to use control over SCOTUS to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Kids are interesting. I’m babysitting a 9 year old boy right now who’s homework is to write a fictional story and he wrote about how in millions of years the sun will expand killing everything and one man fell asleep at the beach and missed all the official announcements about the world ending but he managed to be the only survivor of the solar flares because he applied SPF 100 sunscreen.
Sounds like the plot to the craziest comedy anime ever
Sounds like the plot to
the craziest comedy
anime ever
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
“If you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we
are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means
necessary. I ain’t giving up. I swear.”
Spotted in Clackamas, Oregon
I can’t stop thinking about this message, so I spent a while trying to isolate just the writing and make it transparent. I might order a shirt with it
Whoever in Clackamas wrote this message on their bus stop, I love you
July 21 2016 - During the Olympic torch relay in Brazil an out of control motorcycle cop hits a bicycle cop who hits a cop on foot and they all fall to the ground.
Luckily the bystander in green knows how to react when cops get hurt in your vicinity. [video]
“Two weeks ago a man in France was arrested for raping his daughter. She’d gone to her school counselor and then the police, but they needed ‘hard evidence.’ So, she videotaped her next assault. Her father was eventually arrested. His attorney explained, ‘There was a period when he was unemployed and in the middle of a divorce. He insists that these acts did not stretch back further than three or four months. His daughter says longer. But everyone should be very careful in what they say.’ Because, really, even despite her seeking help, her testimony, her bravery in setting up a webcam to film her father raping her, you really can’t believe what the girl says, can you? Everyone ‘knows’ this. Even children. Three years ago, in fly-on-the-wall fashion of parent drivers everywhere, I listened while a 14-year-old girl in the back seat of my car described how angry she was that her parents had stopped allowing her to walk home alone just because a girl in her neighborhood ‘claimed she was raped.’ When I asked her if there was any reason to think the girl’s story was not true, she said, ‘Girls lie about rape all the time.’ She didn’t know the person, she just assumed she was lying… No one says, ‘You can’t trust women,’ but distrust them we do. College students surveyed revealed that they think up to 50% of their female peers lie when they accuse someone of rape, despite wide-scale evidence and multi-country studies that show the incident of false rape reports to be in the 2%-8% range, pretty much the same as false claims for other crimes. As late as 2003, people jokingly (wink, wink) referred to Philadelphia’s sex crimes unit as ‘the lying bitch unit.’ If an 11-year-old girl told an adult that her father took out a Craigslist ad to find someone to beat and rape her while he watched, as recently actually occurred, what do you think the response would be? Would she need to provide a videotape after the fact? It goes way beyond sexual assault as well. That’s just the most likely and obvious demonstration of ‘women are born to lie’ myths. Women’s credibility is questioned in the workplace, in courts, by law enforcement, in doctors’ offices, and in our political system. People don’t trust women to be bosses, or pilots, or employees. Pakistan’s controversial Hudood Ordinance still requires a female rape victim to procure four male witnesses to her rape or risk prosecution for adultery. In August, a survey of managers in the United States revealed that they overwhelmingly distrust women who request flextime. It’s notable, of course, that women are trusted to be mothers—the largest pool of undervalued, unpaid, economically crucial labor.”
AZURE:Kyu kyu! SCRATCH: Do I have to…? AZURE:Kyu!!
[Azure began dragging Scratch out of bed.]
SCRATCH: Fine…
[Scratch got up, slowly walking out of the room.]
SCRATCH: Why’re we even doing this? SCRATCH: Blue doesn’t care… AZURE:Mi… kyu kyu, mimikyu. SCRATCH: I don’t need a break! AZURE: … SCRATCH: I’m fine. COPY: ŏ_ȏ SCRATCH: Oh-! SCRATCH: S- sorry, I didn’t see you there… COPY: 0v0; AZURE:Kyu? SCRATCH: Do… you two… wanna get to know eachother? AZURE:Kyu.
[Azure began to drag Scratch along again.]
SCRATCH: Aww… COPY: OnO
[Copy dashed towards them, follwing the two inside the battle room.]
[The room changed in a flash of light, now resembling a grassy field. Relaxing ambience could be heard, though there wasn’t a source to the noise.]
COPY: u‿u SCRATCH: Huh… AZURE:Mi? Mimi kyu kyu? SCRATCH: Yeah… this… this is really nice. SCRATCH: …Thanks for bringing me out here… reminds me a lot of home…
[Scratch layed down in the grass next to Copy.]
[The two of them layed there for a while, listening to the music. Half an hour had passed and]
CRACK.
[A small purple crack appeared in the grass, grabbing the attention of Copy and Azure.]
COPY: ó_ō AZURE: Kyu…
[Azure reached a claw into the purple, causing it to expand rapidly. He fell in, Copy running away. It wasn’t fast enough.]
I am once again thinking about how batshit crazy it must’ve been for paleolithic humans to encounter kangaroos for the very first time
I suspect OP knows but when humans first hit mainlaind oz there was a very real chance that procoptodon- a giant kangaroo that had a flat face and walked instead of ran- would have been there.
(art by nobu tamura)
i woulda turned the boat around and tried my luck with the rest of Oceania, tbh. that there is an ogre.
They didn’t just cut out the parts with the oat milk, they skillfully edited over all the god-damn branding and replaced the audio.
But what I still find most hilarious about this whole commercial is the fact that everything they show in this solar punk world seems to be made with sustainable, zero waste and reusable materials.
Everything EXCEPT THE FUCKING CHOBANI BRANDED STUFF! The only plastic you see in this whole commercial is all the straight to the landfill packaging made by the very corporation that tries to sell how sustainable and “green” they are. Unintentional self satire at its finest.
They couldn’t even show their yogurt and milk in (basically infinitely reusable) glass containers because they pretty much only sell their shit in plastic
It is such a perfect example of the true face of “green” capitalism, it’s hilarious.
The punk in this solarpunk comes from cutting the corporation out of the picture
ALSO
Another really interesting thing about this edit is that they changed the label on the side of the apple-picking machine.
From “donations” to “commons”. It’s a subtle change, but it makes a huge difference in the world-building of the video. The former implies that this big orchard belongs to an owner and that they’re donating the fruits to “the less fortunate” (and, by extension, that poverty is still a thing); the latter implies that the orchard belongs to everyone and that the fruits are free to take in the spirit of solidarity.
Waffle To The Left brought out the potential in this gorgeous video and made it an actual solarpunk utopia — without brands and without corporate pandering, complete with true common ownership over land and resources.
Tobi is a member of the Welcome Home production crew & a wonderful puppet builder who needs your help - if you like Welcome Home & puppetry & if you believe artists deserve to thrive, please donate, boost, donate & boost or any combination thereof 💛 things are rough all over for artists, especially artists who are LGBTQ+ - every little bit helps.
hmm technically it probably counts as having millions of familiars… 🤔 your taxes this year will be astronomical
Wizard tip: if you put a spoonful of sourdough discard into your brownie batter it might become a bit magical
There’s actually a book about this! It’s called A wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by Ursula Vernon. I read it a long time ago. The sourdough was the main thing I remember.
hmm technically it probably counts as having millions of familiars… 🤔 your taxes this year will be astronomical
Wizard tip: if you put a spoonful of sourdough discard into your brownie batter it might become a bit magical
There’s actually a book about this! It’s called A wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by Ursula Vernon. I read it a long time ago. The sourdough was the main thing I remember.
For context this was in response to someone saying their cybertruck was heavy duty
oh no no NO no no I am sorry my dear @thebirdtm you are NOT underselling one of the most seminal pieces of television of my entire childhood like that on MY watch.
“How is claiming they drowned a Hilux possibly underselling it” GREAT question.
To start with a little disclaimer, Top Gear’s Hilux did not start off, as in the video above, in pristine condition. It started off with nigh-on 300k kms (for you yankees, that’s about 8.4 million Boeing 737 wingspans) and a condition to match.
And it’s only once careless driving around town yielded zilch in given shits…
(look, I found a local newspaper picturing it being driven around!)
…that they decided to drown it. Now, the underselling part: if you told me that they drowned a pickup the first place my mind would go to would be “driving it through a river a bit too deep for it, perhaps as deep as its height, until it stalls and then tugging it back out”. You will concede that’s rather different from tying it down on the seashore with the second highest tide in the world…
…and leaving it there until it engulfs the whole truck…
…only for the ropes to snap…
…and for the truck to be lost to the tides for FIVE HOURS.
(and for those wondering, yes, just as promised, well within an hour and the mandatory limits of basic tools and no spare parts, up the mechanic made the thing fire and away the presenter drove it - I must imagine doing a number on his clothes in the process.)
Oh also I would have mentioned the caravan.
Or at least the wrecking ball.
But hey, at least the fire was mentioned.
Still, I feel it’s criminal to leave out how they celebrated it surviving all it did: by parking it at the top of a 23 story building for all to see! :)
Wait NO-
Well, that was uncalled for. Given what it survived, it deserved to rest in a museum instead of being unceremoniously cleared out with the other chunks of public housing that buried it.
Or at least, given that buried it wasn’t…
…to be tumbled down from the rubble utop which it sat…
…and be fueled up.
“be fueled up”, pfft, what for?, I hear you say. And you are right.
Look at that thing, you say.
Let’s be serious now, however pretty of a story it would be that’s not a truck that will do anything remotely in the ballpark of firing up, let alone running.
And again, you are right.
The battery was disconnected.
Sorted that, tho
“You can’t be serious.” Oh darling I sure can! “Well the presenters can’t then” no no, I assure you, it lived. Go see it for yourself! It’s at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieau, England!
I grew up watching Top Gear and it shaped me in many ways. My adoration of old Toyota Hiluxes is one of them.
everytime someone, usually white, talks about the IOF using major US cultural events as “distractions” to commit more genocidal operations in Palestine, I want to SCREAM. The assumption that the IOF is hanging on the us’s every fart to make their moves is US centrism, narcissism at global proportions. the IOF don’t need “distractions” they’ve been murdering, torturing and displacing Palestinians and other Arabs for almost a century with impunity because they KNOW they can get away with it. Because the IOF knows practically no one who can actually stop them gives a fuck about Palestinians and Arabs. The IOF don’t need a presidential assassination scandal, a met gala, or any large event to cover for their atrocities because they’ve been doing them in broad daylight everyday, all day for decades, AND BRAGGING about it. Claiming the IOF is doing anything because some event is providing a “distraction” is a vapid projection of a personal inability to deal with the cognitive dissonance and guilt of bearing witness and experiencing these events simultaneously. Not to mention, it plays into anti-jewish conspiracies of Jewish world domination by insulating connections between major events that are often unconnected. It’s okay that you feel scared and confused and overwhelmed, but stop pretending the IOF even cares about Palestinians and Arabs enough to wait for the world to be distracted to kill us. They don’t need to. They never have and it’s hugely ignorant of at least a century of history, anti-Arab racism, and Zionism to say otherwise.
while it’s important for us to protest, raise awareness, boycott, and pressure our governments… it is also important that we appreciate palestinian people and palestinian culture. they are more than just victims. they are artists, entrepreneurs, fashion designers, movie makers, writers, musicians, scholars—they are people. so let’s celebrate all that makes palestinians who they are by supporting their businesses and showing our appreciation and solidarity.
the soap dispensary - the business itself is not palestinian but they are selling “nablus soaps” (made in the 13th century old tradition of soap-making from nablus) and all the proceeds from the sales will be donated to PCRF
Reminder: the companies and political entities pushing Project 2025 have addresses and go out to lunch a lot and should never eat a spitless meal for the rest of their lives.
Practice bagpipes outside their secure compounds.
Follow them around ringing a bell wherever they go.
If they are going to be farcically evil, be Animaniacally good. Be the definition of chaotic justice.
Also, vote. It might just kick the ball down the road a bit, but that gives people more time to organize a concerted resistance (in no way on any social media platform) to the fascist creep happening in America. It is possible to take this country from the bastards who control it, it will take work, effort, and occasionally going offline and talking to humans though.
“If they are going to be farcically evil, be Animaniacally good. Be the definition of chaotic justice.”
Don’t skip past the part where they want to get rid of it because having data on weather supports the idea of climate change. :|
Reminder: the companies and political entities pushing Project 2025 have addresses and go out to lunch a lot and should never eat a spitless meal for the rest of their lives.
Practice bagpipes outside their secure compounds.
Follow them around ringing a bell wherever they go.
If they are going to be farcically evil, be Animaniacally good. Be the definition of chaotic justice.
Also, vote. It might just kick the ball down the road a bit, but that gives people more time to organize a concerted resistance (in no way on any social media platform) to the fascist creep happening in America. It is possible to take this country from the bastards who control it, it will take work, effort, and occasionally going offline and talking to humans though.
“If they are going to be farcically evil, be Animaniacally good. Be the definition of chaotic justice.”
Don’t skip past the part where they want to get rid of it because having data on weather supports the idea of climate change. :|
