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I call this the create a new problem technique

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(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.

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stop being silly in front of me

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hey uh new type of ao3 spam comment just dropped. (I know it's spam because the fic they left this comment on . doesn't have chapters. lmfao). Report this kinda comment as spam and don't take it personally it is literally recycled bullshit

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art idea i've had since last night

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"This is my comfort movie," she says as the T. rex terrorizes children trapped in a vehicle.

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I absolutely should NOT be arguing with this person, but I find the weaponization of crowd numbers kind of fascinating- as a person who organizes events and DOES use those numbers for a purpose.

"Your (small city) pride had 'hundreds' of attendees? The Taco Truck festival had TENS OF THOUSANDS."

Some key points that pointed out to him- Taco Fest was held in a much larger city (900k to our 34k), on a larger plot of land (35 acre park to our mid-sized parking lot), with a longer showtime (three days to our three hours.) It's somewhat ridiculous to compare the two.

"People from the small city go to the big city all the time. Surely people from the big city must come to your small city- if they were interested. But they weren't interested, which is why your pride was a failure."

Somewhat an admission that you're not from a small city, but also that you've never organized a community event before.

There is something to be said about crowd estimates as an insult, but it has to be in the context what the expected crowd size was vs the outcome. We expected 400, we got 500- success! It's unreasonable to compare our little pride to the big city pride, which draws crowds that are 20x the population of our city. We were not expecting 700k people, so 500 people is not an insult.

It might be a different story if we were expecting 400 attendees, but instead got 100 attendees and 300 protesters. Thats a different message.

So when people say 'very low attendance, little interest,' its very Trumpish.

And this is also why I took a ton of photos- so I could show what 500 people in a tiny parking lot looks like.

But.

Low attendance does not stop community pride events. We'd put on pride festivals if the expected attendance was one five-person polycule and their nervous bichon frise.

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these are KILLING me

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HEY

so if you know someone who went to the LA protests today no you don't actually! All of those people have no identity. You've never been to a protest, you've never seen someone at one, and you certainly have never known the names or faces of any individuals associated with the protests.

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Minnesota Representative, Hortman and her husband were killed in what is believed to be a targeted act of political violence last night and Senator Hoffman and his wife weren shot multiple times by a man impersonating law enforcement. As of this time Hoffman and his wife are out of surgery and alive.

There’s a live statement ongoing.

If you’re local to these affected areas and someone claiming to be police come to your door, it is advisable to dial 911 and confirm with dispatch that they are legitimate officers and not the impersonator.

I don’t know if it’s still happening but Brooklyn police were reported to be moving in pairs to avoid being confused for the impersonator who is as far as we are aware, alone.

Please, please, please if you are going to the protests across Minnesota today, be extra careful of anyone in uniform. Cops are already not our friends, but this is an added layer of unpredictable violence.

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YAO as Bo Chow SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence