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It seems like the older I get, the more irrationally angry casual censorship makes me. And it isn't just the "unalive" "grape" alleged filter-dodging vernacular, but the way normal words will be peppered with asterisks, or screenshots will have words like "gay" "hell" "fuck" etc either partially or entirely blurred. Who is this helping? What is the purpose of it, except to reinforce shame and elevate a flimsy perception of purity and safety, however those things manifest. It's so tiresome and I'm sick of it.

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She's 81 now, and still with us.

Here's a more recent photo because I think it's nice to see our elders

y’all remember this iconic photo?

This is Lani Ka'ahumanu, bisexual activist and co-founder of BiPOL, the first bisexual political organization in the United States.

Born to a Japanese and native Hawaiian mother and an Irish and Jewish father, she began her activism in the 1960’s in pro-civil rights and anti-Vietnam war protests. She identified as a lesbian and began her involvement in the LGBT liberation fighting for the rights of lesbian mothers. However, she would later fall in love with a (bisexual) man where she would realize her true sexuality. After a change in label, she felt shunned from mainstream lesbian and gay movement and began to push for bisexual visibility. She published the article “Biphobic: Some of my friends are” in a popular lesbian magazine in 1982 to spread awareness of biphobia within the lgbt community.

She launched a 12 city campaign for the inclusion of “bisexual” in the gay and lesbian march scheduled for 1993. Thanks to her efforts, it was renamed “March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation.” She was also scheduled as one of 18 speakers, taking her place as the only out bisexual on the panel.

Right before taking stage, she was told to cut her speech from 5 minutes to 2 because they had gone over time. She started with,

“Aloha, my name is Lani Ka’ahumanu, and it ain’t over til the bisexual speaks.”

She used her speaking time to raise awareness about the treatment of bisexuals and trans individuals, saying ..”recognition of bisexual orientation and transgender issues presents a challenge to assumptions not previously explored within the politics of gay liberation.”

Ka'ahumanu also considers herself to be a sex and body positive feminist. She created a “Peer Safer Slut Team” with Cianna Stewart, another activist, during the AIDS crisis to spread information through education workshops about safe sex for women and the lgbt community. held many educational workshops on safer sex

1993, she served as project coordinator for an American Foundation for AIDS Research grant awarded to Lyon-Martin Women’s Health Services. This is the first grant in U.S. to target young high risk lesbian and bi women for HIV/AIDS prevention/education research.

She co-authored “Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out” in 1991. This is largely considered the “bisexual bible” and helped kickstart the modern bisexual movement. She’s still alive today and doing work to promote bisexual activism and body positivity.

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Midwest Pupcess

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Quick poll, only for Spanish and other romance-language speakers (a more general one will come next)

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can u imagine if other pieces of media were as scared of calling their monsters what they are as zombie media is about calling zombies zombies

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re the tags, yeah maybe a rich person thing. Seem to be semi regular guests at McMansion Hell. There's one in here for example, appropriately hideous of course.

TIL that ‘tailored bedspreads’ and coverlets still exist for sale, both quilted and non. The last I remembered seeing them was in my distant childhood, generally in sailcloth-heavy cottons in autumnal 1970s florals, or in cheap motels in aggressively synthetic quilted polyester, and often smelling of dust.

Huh.

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now feels like a good time to reiterate that Iranians have been martyred by america + israel already, both empires that possess nuclear weapons, and that Iran does not have nuclear weapons. so now is not the time to joke about america getting nuked-- any retaliation on Iran's part is justified and the only way we escape this situation, but Iran is not going to nuke us, because the entire premise that Iran has nukes is how america justified bombing them and also the exact same rhetoric we used against Iraq and how we killed my countrysmen when there was again no evidence of nuclear warfare. New York City is not going to get fucking nuked. go listen to a podcast or something

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i go to the shop and I ask if they have any raspberries. they say no, they used to sell raspberries, but they haven't had any in stock in the last 15 years. I ask if there's somewhere else I can go to buy raspberries. They say no, with confidence and pride, they're the only shop around who has ever sold or will ever sell raspberries. Other shops might sell other fruit, sure, but they have a monopoly on all raspberries forever. I ask if they're possibly planning on them selling them again in future? they say they can't tell me that.

on the way home, I encounter someone eating raspberries. I ask and they tell me that they grow their own, they got some seeds from the shop back in The Raspberry Days and kept them. They take me to a field of many beautiful raspberry plants and invite me to pick my own, they're free for all the town to pick whenever they'd like.

someone comes up behind us. It's the shop manager, President of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa. he hatefully throws a bob-omb that blows up and kills both of us instantly for stealing 200 trillion dollars worth of potential Raspberry Shop That Doesn't Do Raspberries Anymore profits that they weren't making and then he turns around to the camera with a big thumbs up and says don't do piracy or something ok please

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at the company holiday party and a buddy proposed "suicide via throwing yourself into the alligator moat at the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid, irrevocably changing the lives of dozens of horrified onlookers" as the coolest way to die which was the most inspired thing i've heard in a while

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Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

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Honestly every time this happens I feel ten+ years older. That can't be the solution I'm supposed to come to can it? It certainly feels like the only option but it's so clunky.

Don't make me be an aunt at a concert with a full size ipad.

Using QR codes to link things in circumstances where it would be inconvenient to laboriously type in a url by hand are all well and good, practical, I see it. But now I get emails like "Here's our event! Scan the qr code to register!" with a jpeg of a flyer and no url in the email or on the image. Oh you want me to...hold up my phone to a computer screen to scan a jpeg email attachment to get to a website? Instead of you just linking it to me, in the email you have already sent me, that I am already looking at on my computer? That's what you want me to do? Are you sure?

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ibuprofen should grow on bushes like wild berries

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Decriminalised abortion!

we can have good things sometimes, I'd almost forgotten.