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But also, how many of tumblr users have to work miserable schedules with miserable customers more at Christmas than any other time of year? We can talk anthropology all day, but also if you work retail or any customer service position, this is the worst time of year.

Can someone put together a universal theory for why Tumblr loves Halloween to a fault but hates Christmas

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I think it's going to be more than just Trump. But he wants the people who were in charge of the teams, and those are probably very high profile people.

Does anyone else feel like Mueller is letting too many people get off with little to no punishment in exchange for information? If trump is the only one who really gets in trouble it will send like no message to anyone other than pick a better stoodge next time.

True I don’t have the whole story but damn, it’s not like most of this shit is a secret either.

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For height-dysphoric trans men - list of shorter male celebrities.

Posted by @ TRANSFlNN on twitter

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I can think of a lot of people who could use this, on both android and iOS. 

I came up with a concept for an iPhone app I badly need and my siblings helped me refine and design it!

Here’s what I need: an app that lets me set up a few distinct routines or “workflows” for certain times or situations, such as when I get home from work or every Sunday evening when I prepare for the workweek. I want it to be very simple and barebones, so I don’t get distracted. (That automatically disqualifies almost every app of this sort in the App Store.) I need it to show the routine steps to me almost like flashcards and let me swipe through them as I complete them.

An app like that could be really helpful for people with executive dysfunction, or who need to complete routine but specific tasks at work. It’s kind of like the Checklist Manifesto, but not just for operating rooms or airplane cockpits. You can swipe through your “leaving the house” routine to make sure you don’t forget shit you need at home. You can swipe through your “submitting the expense report” routine so that your boss doesn’t have to email you yet again because you missed some part of the form. You can swipe through your “monthly deep cleaning” routine to get yourself through the steps without getting overwhelmed at the whole long list of what needs to be done—because you’re not looking at a list!

I called this idea Routine Flow and sketched it out. Now I just have to hope that learning how to code apps isn’t as painstakingly difficult as it feels.

[This is a “here’s a cool thing I thought of, tell me if you’re someone who would benefit from it and/or encourage me to move forward with making it” post, not “critique my idea and/or submit your feature suggestions here” post]

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Abuse survivors wishes for Thanksgiving ❤️

May all of our estranged, abusive relatives who want to see us this Thanksgiving (but won’t get to because: abuse) take just a moment to actually reflect on their behavior.

May all of us who have no choice but to see our abusers this Thanksgiving find the strength, peace, and resiliency we need.

May all abusers feel shame for what they did and no rest or peace.

May all abuse survivors be safe, happy, and well cared for this week and always.

You are not alone. I love you!

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And the monarchy was destroyed because fruit companies (looking at you, Dole) wanted more profits. (And a Dole was made governor as a result of the coup that deposed Queen Liliuokalani). Then Hawai’i was made a state so that those same fruit companies didn’t have to pay tariffs on their imports like pineapple. Hawai’i deserves self-governance, and that was taken from them and sacrificed on the altars of capitalism and imperialism.

Most Americans: “MONARCHY IS BAAAAADDD!!”

Me, a Hawaiian: “While Hawai’i had a queen we were at the forefront of innovation, technological advancement, and international alliances. All the way up until the “democratic” government of the US illegally arrested her in her own palace and threatened to kill her and massacre her people unless she signed her country over to them. I’d like to have a queen who cares more about her peoples lives than her power again. Also, fuck Trump.”

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Warwick, England

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Are these book covers? I feel like these need to be book covers.

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... Actually, that law was because Jill Stein demanded a recount in WI in the 2016 presidential election, and state Republicans got angry about that. But it’s still sweet irony.

SCOTT WALKER IS OUT IN WISCONSIN WISCONSIN HAS A DEM GOVERNOR WOOOO

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Here’s to the non-binary adults trying to deal with the fact that they can’t be out at work.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who can’t even try to be out with their parents because they’re trying to keep things ok for the grandkids.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who say “Oh it’s ok, I’m used to gender-specific binary pronouns” and die a little inside.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who have learned not to care.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who really don’t care about pronouns.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who have to gender-binary themselves for PTA meetings and talking to business owners and government officials.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who feel lost and without community because so much of the vocal and out enby community is very young.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who don’t feel welcome in the trans community and aren’t part of the cis community.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who feel guilty about calling themselves trans because they don’t “feel trans enough” or that they don’t deserve to call themselves trans.

Here’s to the non-binary adults who don’t identify as trans without any guilt about it at all.

Conditional Acceptance is like living on a high wire every day, and “passing privilege” is a painful myth, one that can leave us feeling miserable and crushed and empty.

Love yourself and honor that living in the closet isn’t a privilege. It hurts, and it’s ok that it hurts. You didn’t do anything wrong, the world did.

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So the election is over...

And now we have 2 years before the next national one. We can’t stop pushing for change, though. And may I suggest one of the things to push in a number of states be the National Popular Vote Act?

https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/state-status

As the link above shows, we’re over halfway (by electoral vote count, not by state count) to this Act taking effect. It won’t be easy, but it can be done.

No, it isn’t necessarily the most important push right now. But state legislatures are potentially more likely to respond to their constituents than the US Senate is, and if by some miracle we could get the right states to pass it before the 2020 election, well. It’s an option. Because, frankly, with the EC someone could theoretically win with about 27% of the total popular vote cast (it’s an edge case scenario, I ran the numbers for a research paper a while ago, but it could happen), and that’s just wrong.

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for a quick change of pace–i know we’ve all seen a thousand posts about voting, but what i haven’t seen (not yet) is one saying thank you. 

thank you for those who made it out in the rain and the cold, who organized and canvassed and took on the onerous task of working with non-voting & conservative friends/family to change their stance if at least just this once. thank you for those who stood in line for hours, who had to travel because your voting place was moved, who had to jump through ridiculous fucking hoops to register, who weren’t inspired but showed up anyway for the disenfranchised and the greater good. thank you as well to everyone who voted early, absentee, and provisional. 

it mattered. 

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Preliminary exit polls show that women voted for House Democrats by a 21-point margin, 60 percent to 39 percent, while men split (48 percent backed Democrats and 50 percent backed Republicans).

Women will save America, and we men need to get out of the way and stop impeding them. (via wilwheaton) Except that when you look at white women, it's closer to a 50/50 split from the numbers I've seen. The splits by race are interesting, but basically say "white people, stop. Just stop."

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I stayed up entirely too late last night to keep an eye on the result. We’ll see if, after absentee/military ballots are all counted, the difference remains above the 1% cut-off for candidates to request a recount...

Tony Evers won governorship in Wisconsin! Bye bye Scott Walker!

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If I celebrate voting tomorrow by making some delicious, homemade Indian flat bread, does that make me naan-partisan?

Goddammit, take your upvote and get the hell outta here.

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Thanks for making it explicit, Tammy! I know I had an easier time adapting to friends being non-binary because I had the exposure to Alanna as a kid and the principle made sense to apply in different ways as well.

You've mentioned that Alanna picks whatever she wants from both male and female gender things. If Tortall had a word for it, would she be somewhere in the agender/genderqueer/genderfluid parts of the gender spectrum?

She would probably be genderfluid, but there isn’t a word for it there, and she probably wouldn’t use it if there was. She’s stubborn like that. 

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If you are a woman of color over the age of 20 who is willing to be interviewed for a class project, please hit me up.

I have a project due on Monday, November 19 that requires I take down and analyze an oral history of a woman of color. While younger women are allowed, the types of issues we’ll be covering would potentially be more fruitful from someone with more life experience, as they have to do with lifetime discrimination, otherization, etc. Realistically, the older you’ve been alive, the more experiences you have.

I will prioritize people who have experiences related to the below issues, as those are what we have focused on in class so far:

Discussions of colonialism, imperialism, and slavery, and the way that women of color have navigated and resisted these powers

The feminization of poverty, vulnerability of service workers (specifically Asian and Pacific Islander women working in the nail industry) and sweatshop/starvation-waged workers

The criminalization of the “welfare queen” and punishing poor Black women for their poverty

Reproductive justice, allowing women of color to choose when and if they want to have kids, providing access to resources for family planning or preventive care, including abortions

Intimate violence against women of color, touching on Crenshaw’s Mapping the Margins, Say Her Name, #MeToo, Anita Hill, etc.

More details are below the cut. If you need any points to be clarified, please feel free to message me or send me an ask off anon. I would really like to have someone secured by Sunday, November 11. 

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