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hi as pride month draws near for june reminder that cishet aces/aros are not LGBT and don’t belong in our spaces

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that weird adhd grey area where your brain is understimulated in some areas and overstimulated in others. i open tumblr for distractions. but i scroll past almost everything bc i’m too stressed to process Reading and Comprehension. i’m in hell.

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Professor Doctor Sir Terry Pratchett OBE, born this day (28 April).

OP and this art by Paul Kidby.

This pixel art by CoffeePoweredMachine.

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Hate diet culture so much bitches will b like “don’t eat processed carbs they’re so bad for you” like and??? So what?? God did not give us grain and stone to grind it with for no reason. Bread is inevitable. Bread is food for the heart and the soul. U think I’m gonna give that up in pursuit of instagram fitness?? U think I’m gonna deny myself the simple pleasure of toast with jam so I can endlessly chase an ever-shifting standard of beauty that ultimately means nothing? In 20 years I will no longer be beautiful and in 60 my body will be vacant food for other, smaller creatures. But the taste of fresh bread? Of homemade donuts and still-warm pie? I will carry the taste on my tongue into whatever follows this life. So like. Stop telling me I should diet lmao. I’m not abt to martyr myself just to get a man to look at me.

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Link to donate to KhalsaAid

https://www.khalsaaid.org/donate

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Remember that Euros and American dollars go really far in India. Even a very small donation can literally save someone's life.

Link to donate to KhalsaAid

https://www.khalsaaid.org/donate

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have you seen the price of gas?

Seen at the entrance to my local liquor store

[Image description: Text written on a whiteboard reads "Beer is cheaper than gas! Drink! Don't drive!" End description]

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On a social media platform like tumblr, that arguably has the most awkward and oddball user base of almost any of the social media platforms... why do I feel like the most awkward person on this site? every single interaction I have feels like I've committed some kind of faux pas that I have zero comprehension of... either that or I am literally invisible. I haven't decided which.

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We don’t need more diverse Disney movies, we need Disney to be shut down and broken up so that it stops dominating entertainment and choking out smaller creators and studios.

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hello children

a lot of young teen lesbians on tumblr r aligning with the terf ideology without knowing properly what it stands for. so as an Older Lesbian with some 6 years of Being Out Experience i wanna clarify some things for you.

nobody is forcing you to be attracted to anyone

nobody is saying that if you aren’t attracted to [insert a trans woman name], you’re automatically transphobic and a terf. nobody is saying you have to have sex with trans girls if you aren’t attracted to them. just as nobody is saying you have to be attracted to every cis woman. and nobody is saying you have to have sex with gay girls you aren’t attracted to.

we are only asking you to respect trans women as women

and that’s really the least you could do! trans women (trans lesbians and wlw in particular) are just other girls out here trying to survive in this hetero world. and it’s hard being a lesbian already - but being a trans lesbian is so much harder. don’t make these girls feel even more alienated, don’t contribute to the hate that is turned against them. 

“but i don’t wanna have sex with someone with a penis”

if you end up never sleeping with anyone w a penis, that’s okay. being a lesbian isn’t just about who you have sex with. it’s also about who you love, who you’re attracted to and who you date. and one day you might find yourself falling in love with a trans girl. 

if that happens, just like in any relationship, you can negotiate your limits in sex. there’s no point in saying “i am not attracted to trans women” - because it makes it seem like trans women are inherently so much different from cis women, makes you sound like you think all trans women look/are the same and like you think of women as walking genitals. which is pretty misogynist! 

so please just don’t listen to terfs. protect your trans sisters because they need it and they will always be there to support you if you support them too. 

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cool thank you for the info

if we establish a system in which we use already existing empty housing to house homeless people…. it wont matter if the housing market crashes because were proposing the housing being free…..

like how do u get so stuck seeing housing as only a commodity that even when we discuss how housing should be a right and not a commodity, u think “that wouldnt work, because its a commodity” qualifies as a response

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or is it just western washington that has near zero empty houses available.

if we establish a system in which we use already existing empty housing to house homeless people…. it wont matter if the housing market crashes because were proposing the housing being free…..

like how do u get so stuck seeing housing as only a commodity that even when we discuss how housing should be a right and not a commodity, u think “that wouldnt work, because its a commodity” qualifies as a response

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I haven't looked into it very hard, but just a cursory glance around, aren't most of the empty houses (not including airbb) not in any kind of proximity to the actual concentrations of homeless people?

if we establish a system in which we use already existing empty housing to house homeless people…. it wont matter if the housing market crashes because were proposing the housing being free…..

like how do u get so stuck seeing housing as only a commodity that even when we discuss how housing should be a right and not a commodity, u think “that wouldnt work, because its a commodity” qualifies as a response

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It is increasingly concerning to me to see more and more “sustainable” and “cruelty free” food alternatives & legislation that aims to ensure that small farmers cannot raise and/or hunt their own food. So many of these alternatives focus on corporate sold/lab made foods and legislation that will ensure only large corporations are the only ones that can afford to keep producing food.

Food is a human right. You should not have to pay a massive corporation to be able to eat. Legislation that makes it harder for poor people to keep and raise their own livestock is harmful. Legislation that excludes indigenous peoples from their native hunting lands & food species is harmful.

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How to Stop Republicans from Stealing Elections

Republican-controlled state legislatures have introduced over 361 voter suppression bills in 47 states, and some states, like Georgia, have already enacted them into law. 

There’s only one way to stop this assault on our democracy. It’s called the FOR THE PEOPLE ACT, and the window for Congress to pass it is closing.

These Republican voter suppression bills are egregious —they shrink early voting periods, add onerous voter ID requirements, limit eligibility for mail-in ballots, ban ballot drop boxes and drive-through voting, and even make it a crime to give voters in line water.

The FOR THE PEOPLE ACT, on the other hand, would prevent these tactics and make it easier to vote. In addition, gerrymandering would be reduced and the power of small political donors would be amplified.

It could not come at a more critical time.

The Republican assault on our democracy is based on the lie that there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. Multiple recounts in battleground states like Georgia found nothing. Investigations by the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department found nothing. 61 out of 62 courts found nothing.

Republicans claim they’re just listening to the concerns of their voters and restoring “trust” in our elections. Rubbish. The real purpose of these restrictions is to hamper voting by Black people, people of color, young people, and lower-income Americans. 

After Black voters and organizers in Georgia flipped the state blue for the first time in decades, the GOP is pulling out all the stops to prevent the same from happening in other states. The situation is even more dire given the upcoming once-in-a-decade redistricting process, allowing Republican-controlled states to further gerrymander congressional districts.

Their assault on the right to vote is a coordinated, national strategy led by top party leaders and outside dark-money advocacy groups like the Heritage Foundation. That group is working directly with state legislatures to provide them with “model legislation” and gearing up to spend $24 million in eight states to advance these bills ahead of the midterms.

Unless the FOR THE PEOPLE ACT becomes law, these restrictive state bills will go into effect before the upcoming 2022 midterm elections, and entrench Republican power for  years to come. So it’s essential we protect voting rights now, while we still can. 

This is not a partisan fight. It’s a battle between forces that want to go backward to an era of Jim Crow, and the majority of Americans who want to build a more inclusive democracy.

Yet the FOR THE PEOPLE ACT faces an uphill battle in the Senate because of the archaic filibuster rule that requires a 60-vote supermajority to pass legislation.

The good news is Senate Democrats have the power to end the filibuster and thereby allow the FOR THE PEOPLE ACT to become law. It’s time for Democrats to unite on this, without hesitation. 

The stakes could not be higher. Simply put, it’s democracy or authoritarianism.

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just gonna leave this here

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Im' pretty sure it's more like someone worth $100,000 complaining about paying $0.01

It's so hard to grasp how much more a Billion is.