Listen, I’m having fun playing with the ultra patriotic voice, but after a couple years in blue-collar landscaping jobs, you really do need to phrase things like that.
“I’m pretty sure that fella ain’t here legally.”
“Well, that ain’t your business Chip, it’s his.”
They hate being preached to. If you pull out words like ‘gender wage gap’ they’ll tell you you’re brainwashed by the far left media.
“He’s one of them transgenders.”
“He got freedoms too, Jimmy.”
You say, “bodily autonomy” and it’s all, “oooh look who’s got a college vocabulary.”
Instead say, “The government shouldn’t be able to tell you what to do with your body. You want some bureaucrat getting between you and your doctor? Making it take twice as long to get treatment? If someone wants breast implants, hormones, or to not get pregnant, that’s between them and their doctor. You know they got surgeries where they can break your leg bones and stretch them to make you taller? I watched a thing about a woman who did that; it was her dream to be a fight attendant, but she was too short (you gotta be able to reach the overhead compartments), so she got the surgery to be tall enough. Living her dream. I think people should be able to do what they want with their bodies. If you don’t want to change genders or get taller or take hormones, that’s your choice, but that’s no reason to tell other people what they can’t do. Mind your business.”
“All I want the government to do is make sure companies can’t rip us off by selling us do-nothing pills, poison us, or overcharge for stuff we need to live. Greedy corporate bastards. Police the greedy CEOs and insurance companies who are scamming us, who would shoot your granny if it increased profits, and leave the end users alone.”
“People worry too much about other people’s genitals. Bunch of weirdos, wanting to check kids genitals before they can use the bathroom or play a sport. Sick freaks if you ask me. Leave the kids alone. When I was a kid, I was the only girl on my t-ball team, and I was just fine. Let kids play sports, doesn’t matter what gender they are, what matters is what skill level they are in the sport.”
“I think the government should stay out of the bedroom. You want to have sex with a man? Two men? Three? You want to get paid for sex? None of my business, none of the government’s business, none of my neighbor’s business. As long as no one’s getting hurt, let people do what they want. We got a huge child marriage problem in this country; you want to fight perverts? Tell the government to fight that. That’s much a bigger problem than gay marriage or trans people or kinksters or sex workers. If two adults want to dress as cats and do sex games with each other, let them! But I draw the line at marrying kids; that’s fucked up, you agree?”
YES THANK YOU LIKE YOUVE GOTTA SPEAK SOMEONES LANGUAGE TO ENGAGE WITH THEM
damn why dont we ever talk about the second moon <\3
three moons? in this economy?
ok enough of my silliness. just discovered my window reflects a whole bunch of moons in a line and my phone cant take a pic of the details of the real moon but i can focus on the reflections which is neat
the disadvantage of a single party state is that abuses within the party cannot be easily challenged, whereas in a multiparty state there is always someone with an incentive to expose abuses and who hopefully has the power to punish the perpetrator.
a similar critique applies to a monolithic religious hierarchy, which tends to be rife with abuse unless it is embedded in a secular society that exercises effective oversight into its operations.
similar problems affect societies with no social safety net, or company towns with only one major employer, whose abuses cannot be easily challenged given the lack of alternatives.
if a person has no means of escape or recourse then you basically have to assume they’re going to get abused as you’ve already conceded that there is no way to ensure that they aren’t or get redress if they are.
the same logic applies to schools, prisons, families, companies, towns, every collection of people.
the disadvantage of a single party state is that abuses within the party cannot be easily challenged, whereas in a multiparty state there is always someone with an incentive to expose abuses and who hopefully has the power to punish the perpetrator.
a similar critique applies to a monolithic religious hierarchy, which tends to be rife with abuse unless it is embedded in a secular society that exercises effective oversight into its operations.
similar problems affect societies with no social safety net, or company towns with only one major employer, whose abuses cannot be easily challenged given the lack of alternatives.
if a person has no means of escape or recourse then you basically have to assume they’re going to get abused as you’ve already conceded that there is no way to ensure that they aren’t or get redress if they are.
the same logic applies to schools, prisons, families, companies, towns, every collection of people.
And DONT REPOST stuff that’s already here! WHY do we even have to go through this again huh? DON’T. DO. IT.
And if you share something from a different platform that isn’t on tumblr already you ASK the creator for permission and then give CREDIT!
reblog, don’t repost, this
Terminology reminder: reblogging is Tumblr’s in-site sharing system but REPOSTING is saving a picture from a post and then making your own post
I have seen genuine confusion about this in the past (largely from ppl more used to other sites that don’t have a reblog system) that’s the only reason I’m adding the explanation
Sadly the nonprofit orgs killer bill passed the house and is now on its way to the senate,endangering orgs such as ACLU,EFF,FTF, Internet Archive, AO3 ( @transformativeworks )and any fighting for human rights.
Take some time to voice your disappointment at the reps who voted yes on this terrible bill,and thanks the rep that voted against it.
If your senator is a democrat, you can use this script:
“I am calling to urge my representative to vote no on H.R. 9495 . This is a dangerous bill would give the Trump administration unilateral power to label any non-profit as terrorist supporting and shut it down without due process. I am calling on my representative to defend civil rights organizations and oppose this bill. Thank you.” You can also tell them you’ll vote for them if they vote no on this bill. Anything goes.
if your senator is republican/MAGA, use their own words against them :
"As your constituent, I urge you to vote NO on H.R. 9495. This bill poses a dangerous threat to the fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment and must not pass the Senate. It grants any incoming administration unchecked authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of non-profit organizations without oversight or due process. Such government overreach is not what the Founding Fathers envisioned for our democracy. This bill undermines the principles of free speech and freedom of association, cornerstones of American liberty.
H.R. 9495 threatens to pave the way for political suppression, allowing the government to selectively target and shut down organizations based on ideological disagreements. This could affect any non-profit, including churches and conservative groups, as well as organizations that champion human rights and civil liberties. Regardless of political leanings, this bill sets a chilling precedent that no American patriot should support.
While situations relating to the hostages deserve careful attention, they can and should be addressed in a separate, narrowly tailored bill. H.R. 9495, however, is a broad, unconstitutional overreach that strikes at the heart of free speech and freedom. It is unpatriotic and incompatible with the values we hold dear as Americans.
I implore you to stand as a defender of liberty and uphold the rights of your constituents. Be a patriot, listen to the voice of the people, protect our God given right to free speech as Americans, and reject this dangerous legislation. Vote NO on H.R. 9495. Thank you, God Bless and God Bless America.”
no you’re not a “pro hater,” you’re just sitting around going “ew” whenever someone mentions something they like. real hating has conviction, passion, drive. We’re not on the same level
no you’re not a “pro hater,” you’re just sitting around going “ew” whenever someone mentions something they like. real hating has conviction, passion, drive. We’re not on the same level
you don’t have a personal responsibility to break stereotypes about your demographics. you don’t have to be the perfect representation. you don’t have to be a good representation. you are allowed to exist as you are, even if it somehow fits into stereotypes.
you’re allowed to have your experiences, hobbies, expressions, traits, problems, symptoms, etc. even if they’re stereotyped. you are not a living stereotype. you are a person. a person who happens to have some traits. you’re not making the world less diverse. your existence already contributes to diversity.
log onto tumblr and you learn that cowboys are secretly leftist and pirates are secretly leftist and superhero comics are secretly leftist and vikings are secretly leftist and greco-roman antiquity is secretly leftist and knights are secretly leftist and the concept of the appalachian region is secretly leftist and all genre fiction is innately secretly leftist and every animated show you ever watched as a kid is secretly leftist and you never have to think about the political subtext of anything ever and you log off tumblr and for some reason people are talking about a descent toward fascism
“oh no we need to practice for our fake dating” is the funniest trope to me cause like. there are so many people who force themselves into a shitty relationship they hate just because of amatonormatiivity that it’s an ingrained part of popular culture to joke about hating your partner.
which is to say, oh my god you dont need to hold hands and go on fake dates, you don’t even need to agree on a single detail of your cover story beforehand. you can literally stand 6 feet apart at all times and look profoundly uncomfortable and all anyone will think is “yikes™. not my problem”
actually people should address this in fanfic more because “i know we could half-ass it, but i would never fake mistreat my fake husband, how dare you” is absolutely delightful
New trope: fake dating for spite.
“Look, my only goal here is for our pretend relationship to be demonstrably healthier than Aunt Rita and Uncle Carl’s fifteen year, three child marriage - which means the bar is so low we probably can’t fuck this up”
preserving @river-gale’s tags for posterity because yes. yes. this is it. you get it.
Recent discourse reminds me of that cult indoctrination trick that’s often used to weed out more difficult marks early on, where they tell you all that you aren’t allowed to eat rice on Tuesdays and then if you protest they go “wow SOMEBODY likes rice a little much huh” as if you’re the fucking weirdo who cares too much about how much rice is consumed between Monday and Wednesday instead of them.
And this forces you to decide whether your autonomy matters to you more than the approval of the group - while they’ll still act like you’re on thin ice either way, if you give in at this point they know you’re theirs forever, because now they’ve established a foothold, you’ve shown a moral weakness, which they will brand you with so it can be used against you in the future (“hey RICE-addict here doesn’t want help break into the city records office”) to force you to double-down and isolate you further.
And if instead you do decide to push back further, after your abrupt departure from the group (“You’re seriously leaving us over RICE?!? Seriously?”) and subsequent ostracism, you can then be used as a demonstration to the others who were more pliable, of how the outgroup is full of people like you who are obsessed with violating the No-Tuesday-Rice rule to the point where they’ll abandon all their friends, who cared so much for them, so it clearly isn’t an arbitrary restriction, you’re the kind of monster these rules are intended to protect them from, thus all the other wise and esoteric precepts of the charismatic leader are implied to be equally justified.
This isn’t just for cults either! Shitty partners, bosses, friends - they all do variants of this where if you kick back the first time they make an unreasonable request, it proves you weren’t ever committed since you’d let such a small thing ruin everything. And of course, if it’s the third or the tenth unreasonable thing they ask of you, it’s SUCH A SMALL THING to be a deal-breaker at this late point in your relationship!
gulls are proof that a) there is a god and b) that god enjoys the pain and suffering of birders
those are all different species. there are many places where you could potentially see any (or at least most) of them at a given time!
and that’s just the adults
short-billed gull, Larus brachyrhynchus
Iceland gull, Larus glaucoides
California gull, Larus californicus
glaucous gull, Larus hyperboreus
ring-billed gull, Larus delawarensis
glaucous-winged gull, Larus glaucescens
American herring gull, Larus smithsonianus
western gull, Larus occidentalis
lesser black-backed gull, Larus fuscus
great black-backed gull, Larus marinus
(to be clear, i am terrible at gull ID in the field, but OP used the first picture on ebird for each species, which made it easy to reverse image search them and find which ebird page they’re on.)
all respect to the violent femmes but nothing compares to the disappointment of hearing that a band is called the violent femmes and then it’s four normal dudes… i’ll never forgive them
here’s the closeted furries “hey man… can u bum me a cig” and “the one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anyways”
if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo
ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE he’s trans in this au (;
