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Queens are fine though ...

No Kings! No Crown!

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Happy Birthday, Eric Idle ❣️

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Protesters carry a replica of the Declaration of Independence as they march through Washington, D.C. on May 1. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

See photos from the nationwide protests against Trump

For the third time in a month, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets, government buildings and the White House in a nationwide rally against the Trump administration.

Driving the news: Thursday's May Day protests fall on International Workers' Day and are calling attention to policies that affect working people, including threats to Social Security and union protections.

By the numbers: About 250,000 people had mobilized by midday on Thursday in more than 1,100 cities, by organizers' count. That's more than double what organizers expected earlier in the week.

Philadelphia

Boulder, Colorado

Washington, D.C

Miami

Los Angeles

New York City

May 1, 2025

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Monty Python pictures that make me chuckle and the reasons why

I mean the caption says it all 🤣. Graham looks so disappointed in himself. Bless him!

Michael looks like he's being held hostage and like he doesn't want to be there. I don't know why it's just the smile looks so forced

Eric's face always makes me laugh. I just want to know why he is pulling that face. What is the context?

Terry J looks DRUNK, it's just such a meme

Terry J looks SO fed up. I love this photo 🤣

Terry G looks like he really needs to go to the bathroom

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The worst thing you can do, as someone who has recently realised they are transfem, is to let terves and transphobes convince you cis women will never accept you.

I was told that when I came out everyone would reject me. That I would find myself isolated from the world, and from other women especially, who would react to me with horror and revulsion.

In reality, within the first months of coming out, in no particular order:

My sister's reaction on my coming out was, "Right, so I have a sister instead of a brother. Cool. I'm taking you clothes shopping tomorrow."

A friend, when she learned I am a woman, immediately invited me to her women-only, girls-night-out birthday party the following week.

Another friend, when a friend of hers expressed doubts about my gender, immediately shut them down and reaffirmed I am a woman.

I went camping with a group of friends, and we had two tents, one for the boys and one for the girls; I was unsure as to which I should enter, to which a girl friend responded by grabbing me and physically dragging me inside the women's tent.

In the women's bathroom at a movie theatre a random woman, whom I'd never seen before and haven't seen since, stopped me as I was going into a stall, to warn me there was no toilet paper in there, because she'd just used the last of it.

All of these, and more, some from friends, some from complete strangers. All within a few months, as a trans woman who hadn't started medical transition yet, and was very visible as being a trans woman.

I've had some people reject me, true, but the vast majority, including almost all cis women, accepted me as a sister with open arms.

Cis women are cool. It's terves who are bigots.

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Transgender: 0

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Drumpf off Dictators!

Eric Idle on X

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The power in the people is stronger than the people in power!

Cory Booker

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Hands off Democracy!

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Teach them Disobedience!!!

Gertrude Stein about the Prevention of Fascism

"When General Osborne came to see me just after the victory [over Nazi-Germany], he asked me what I thought should be done to educate the Germans. I said there is only one thing to be done and that is to teach them disobedience, as long as they are obedient so long sooner or later they will be ordered about by a bad man and there will be trouble. Teach them disobedience, I said."

Who is teaching this to the Americans now?

The great American cubist poet and lesbian Gertrude Stein, who spent most of her life in exile, Paris, France.

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Trans Day of Visibility Art Contest Winners!

We’re so excited to share the winners (and runner-ups) of our Trans Day of Visibility art contest!

Your art left us not only amazed, but with so much joy in the fact that, even in a climate as hostile as this one, the trans community and our art still shines as brightly as ever!

See your art in this post? Share it and tag us! See more art on our blog!

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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

George Orwell, 1984

Why is the Trump administration deleting archive images?

Diversity, equality, inclusion - for the Trump administration, these are irritating words. A comprehensive deletion campaign is therefore underway in archives. It even affects a historic aircraft - named after a woman called Gay. By Stefan Troendle, SWR, 30.03.2025 18:42

A large-scale deletion campaign is underway in archives in the USA. The background to this is US President Donald Trump's actions against diversity, equality and inclusion - i.e. against women, gays, lesbians or transgender people, against minorities and against the disabled.

The ‘Enola Gay’ was the plane that dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. The plane, named after the pilot's mother, has disappeared from the US government archives, presumably because the term ‘gay’ also means ''homosexual'.

Archive images of indigenous people also affected

According to Zurich-based media scientist Roland Meyer, images of Navajo code talkers were probably also deleted at times. ‘These are the Native Americans who encoded secret messages for the army during the Second World War, simply because of their very special language skills. However, the site was restored online after protests,’ says Meyer.

Against diversity, equality and inclusion

Many photos of black war heroes also disappear and research proposals are scanned for supposedly suspicious terms. It's always about diversity, equality and inclusion.

Media scientist Meyer believes that all sorts of things are also disappearing from government websites. ‘Everything that has anything remotely to do with the visualisation of women, of gays, of black people. In fact, this is an attempt to enforce white male supremacy at all levels and by very radical means.’

How is AI affected?

The purging of archives harbours another danger, says Roland Meyer. It changes the training basis for artificial intelligence, which is already male-dominated.

‘These image generators already have a massive problem with racist and sexist discrimination. They are cliché machines that actually repeat and reinforce stereotypes very strongly.’ Meyer says: ‘If you give the command “Show me a soldier”, he would almost certainly be white.’

‘Data to be saved on foreign servers’

What is unclear is what will temporarily disappear from the websites and what will actually be permanently deleted. Meyer says that the famous Internet Archive database in California is starting to mirror its servers in Canada - for security reasons. He himself is in favour of archives based in Europe.

‘History is being rewritten here, as can also be observed in totalitarian systems. And also the prevention and obstruction of research, the destruction of knowledge. That is terrifying,’ says media scientist Meyer.

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Happy Birthday, Eric Idle

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OP, I feel you.

Green eyes shouldn’t actually be considered an eye color. It’s just not common enough, it’s a VERY SMALL percentage of the population, 1-2%. Green eyes are also caused by an irregular mutation. Most people have blue or brown eyes, so those are the two eye colors.

All the “green eyes” positivity is actually a bad thing, by the way. Having green eyes is linked to higher rates of retinal melanoma. You’re celebrating something dangerous that can cause suffering.

And besides, most people with “green eyes” lean closer to blue or brown anyways. They should just make up their minds and be brown eyed or blue eyed. And if it’s too hard to tell, they should get corrective surgery (because green eyes are dangerous, and associated with more difficult medical care!) or at the least wear contacts so they don’t confuse people. But also they should be required to

I hate to sound like this, but green eyes are a far more recent development than blue eyes in the mutagenic history of humans. So humans weren’t created to have green eyes.

And hazel eyes? Those are just a variant of brown eyes—come on, they’re far closer to brown than green. They just have a couple greenish traits. And there’s no way there’s that many green eyed people, or a wide variety of eye colors… It’s just not natural.

I don’t have a problem with green eyed people, they didn’t ask to be born that way—but there’s just too few of them for it to be an actual eye color. We don’t need all this “green eye positivity” or putting green eyes in media. The internet is making people delude themselves into thinking it’s more common than it really is.

‼️ THIS POST IS ABOUT THE TREATMENT OF INTERSEX PEOPLE ‼️

✅ I HAVE GREEN EYES THIS IS SATIRE ✅

⚠️ PLEASE DON’T SEND ME ANY MORE THREATS OF VIOLENCE IN DEFENSE OF PEOPLE WITH GREEN EYES?? ⚠️

💧 THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT EYE COLOR?? IT’S ABOUT INTERSEXISM AND BIGOTRY 💧

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Rare Monty Python photos I found on Pinterest part 2 (that you might have seen already)