(Image description: ten square pride flags with white text that reads “you’ll never have the comfort of our silence again”.)
The flags are the intersex inclusive progress pride, trans, leather, genderqueer, bisexual, pansexual, gay man, lesbian, intersex, and nonbinary flags.
These are inspired by this post, an image of a sign taken at an anti-Anita Bryant protest in 1978.
I got an extension called DeArrow that replaces Youtube thumbnails/titles with crowdsourced ones to make them less clickbaity and obnoxious. If there isn’t one available I set it to just grab a random frame and remove ALL CAPS!!!.
Here’s some comparisons (Original on the left, DeArrow on the right):
“PUTTING NEWPIPE, OR ANY FORK OF IT, INTO THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE VIOLATES THEIR TERMS AND CONDITIONS.”
if you install newpipe from anywhere other than what is listed on their official website, you are not downloading newpipe and may be downloading something malicious. uninstall immediately. I linked the website in the first post because there are people who maliciously insert bad code into all kinds of great apps and then release them somewhere else. there are no ads if you download from newpipe’s github, website, or f-droid entry, through the link in the first post.
if you see someone in this post talking about getting ads on their newpipe install, please consider reaching out to them with this information. I know not everyone will see this, and it really sucks to see so many people finding downloads from somewhere other than the official source I posted and accusing newpipe itself of being malicious.
I just wanted to share this article about Palestine’s right to revolt and why it is important that we support it. It also has sources embedded in the text that debunk misinformation about them and Hamas. I implore everyone to read it and spread this information around.
Always remember that Palestine was explicitly granted the right to armed resistance by the United Nations, against the zionist occupation. The article mentions the U.N. enshrining that right for occupied and colonized people, but the U.N. also explicitly named Palestine in the resolution, as well as Namibia and Zimbabwe who were also fighting against apartheid and illegal occupation.
it’s always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there’s just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone’s praises whilst destroying them.
this guy pulled out his dick in front of like 5 billion feminist protestors holy shit
Some context for the idiots claiming the women are overreacting:
This occurred at a Slut Walk. For those not familiar with it, the Slut Walk is basically a peaceful protest seeking to eliminate the rape apologism so prevalent in society. The basis is that no woman is “asking for it,” with “it” being rape. It’s not a feminist protest; it’s a human rights protest.
Many of the protesters, as you can probably imagine, have dealt with sexual harassment or rape in their own lives. Many of them have structured their daily activities to avoid being raped. The gathering is supposed to be a place for them to feel empowered and able to recover in the company of those who understand what they’ve been through or who will not blame them.
Nobody at a Slut Walk will tell a survivor that it’s her fault. They will not ask what she was wearing to provoke her attacker. Nobody will say she had too much to drink. Nobody will tell the men in the group that they are inherently rapists themselves, and nobody will tell a male survivor that his experience “wasn’t really rape.”
Then, this fellow comes along. He sees this gathering of survivors and their supporters, and to him, it’s a joke. He sees feminazis. He sees girls who are taking “a bit of fun” too seriously. And what does he do? He exposes himself to this group of survivors and supporters - some of whom are, in fact, underage.
He sexually harasses literally hundreds of women in one act. Aside from public indecency, there was cruel intent in his actions. He wanted to make them uncomfortable. He wanted to “put them in their place.” Other photos from this event show him flipping the protesters off and laughing at their anger.
And there are still people defending his actions. There are those who still feel like these women were asking for it and that they deserved to be harassed for trying to claim they weren’t. There are those who feel that women should be taught a lesson this way, and they applaud this man’s actions.
So no, he didn’t pull out his dick in front of feminist protesters. He harassed dozens - if not hundreds - of rape survivors. The reaction to his actions alone outline the purpose of the Slut Walk.
For those of you still doubting whether what he did was wrong (and I do wonder if there’s something wrong with you, if you have doubts), let me give you an analogous situation. Imagine a gathering of black civil rights activists. Imagine Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and all their colleagues gathered together to demonstrate that being black did not make them lesser people. That being black and living in the South did not mean they were “asking” to be the target of hate crimes.
And at this gathering, a white man decides he should teach them a lesson by pointedly hanging a noose from the nearest tree and laughing at their anger. And other white men, laughing along with him, commend him for taking these activists down a peg.
That’s what happened here. It’s not an “OMG, I can’t believe he did that!” moment. It’s an “OMG, there are people who think this is okay” moment. And the fact is, it’s not. It never will be. And that’s the take home message of this ridiculous rant I’ve written up.
And this is why we still need feminism.
What got me was not only this commentary, but the freaky-ass look on this guy’s face…Wow!
Its a war crime to destroy cultural heritage sites. Israel has destroyed over a hundred.
why are the world’s devout christians not absolutely rioting at every moment
like they spend every moment lobbying congress incessantly for everything else, like why is this not the biggest thing in their entire belief system right now? why are they not going berzerk??
Actually, no, fuck you. Changing your sheets for you. Swaddling-fabric blanket in the dryer for 15 minutes, wrap yourself up and get cozy. kissing you on the forehead and tucking you in. nap for up to two hours or go to bed if it’s that time.
yemen is the poorest nation in the arab world. but in two weeks time, it did what no oil or gas- rich arab nation could do. by seizing three ships and costing i****l more than 2 billion by forcing its ships to go around africa, yemen showed up.
Going through the pile of books to go to charity shops and there’s this amazing kids history one that’s literally like
Give your friend a neolithic burial
Exactly
I’m so glad this post is finally reaching the people it was meant for; weird little kids who liked playing history and death
The book also had instructions for making a paper replica of a mammoth bone/hide hut 🦣 🛖 and I was never allowed to take over the living room and do it
Reblog to give your mutuals a neolithic burial 🦴🌼⚱️🗡️
oooo ok these are actually so cool tho some of them would be covered in animal hides and the hides weighed down with rocks around the edges and also some would be lost to time and then other burials would be done over the top of them making it hard for archaeologists to determine what time periods things are from and its so cool!
it’s okay to do things that make your symptoms worse (as long as you’ll stay safe)
every once in a while you need to eat something yummy. or go on a walk. or a trip to the zoo. take a hot shower. cry your eyes out. dance. listen to music. draw for way to long. write. laugh. sit in a cafe with a friend. paint your nails. dye your hair. go on a run. pet a cat
sometimes you need to do things that are cathartic or make yourself feel alive. sometimes you need the reminder of why you’re fighting so hard to stay alive
this is your reminder that just because it makes your symptoms worse, it isn’t always the wrong thing to do. there can be value in these actions
If you think about it too, abled people do it all the time. Deciding to drink to excess at a party knowing they’ll have a hangover. Going to a theme park knowing walking all day is going to hurt their feet by the end. We have the right to make those same decisions.
This is called Dignity of Risk, and it’s an important concept in disability justice.
Everyone weighs their physical and mental/emotional health against one another in constantly shifting balance; inevitably, there are times when we choose to accept consequences to one for the sake of the other.
Infantilsing us by undermining our agency in the name of “protection” or “care” is yet another way that we are disabled by society.
this has always fascinated me. I first learned it about 25 years ago, and ever since, every time I see a capital letter A a tiny voice inside me goes “bull!”
Fun to see an actual scholarly version of this, because I first read it as explained (-ish) by one of Kipling’s “Just So Stories” a very, very long time ago…
UPS has reached an agreement with the Teamsters union to equip its iconic brown delivery trucks with air conditioning for the first time for new units.
The agreement, announced by UPS on Tuesday, comes as the delivery giant and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters negotiate the terms of a new contract for more than 330,000 U.S. employees. (source)
Unions work, unionize.
THEY DIDN’T HAVE AC?!
Nope! And the UPS headquarters is in the south, right in Atlanta! They fucking knew how hot it was, and still wouldn’t spend the money to give their workers basic fucking accommodations for making deliveries!
Make more demands of your employers! They won’t give you jack shit if you don’t!
Good God this seems like it could kill somebody. Imagine driving around for an entire work shift in the Atlanta heat.
Jsyk USPS (post office) drivers also don’t have AC in the LLVs. So. You know. That’s something to be aware of. I delivered for just under a year there and got the worst of both summer and winter in Georgia without AC or effective heat.
I dunno I mean I knew a lot of Americans were against it but I assumed they were all elitist right wing weirdos.
What’s the mainstream left wing position then if it’s not socialism?
Oh
Oh no
Your first warning sign should have been when they called the Bismark Model of healthcare, literally named after the nationalist monarchist and noble statesman who invented it, far left.
I don’t know how to explain to people that, in any other country, Biden would be a conservative and somehow most Americans have been convinced he’s a commie.
The horrors of realizing that the American Far Right is further right than you thought
The horrors of realizing that America’s “left” is your “far right” and America’s “far left” is your “center” and centrist Americans believe their “far left” is no better than their “far right” because they believe in horseshoe theory.
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