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I just remembered that this was a thing that was HILARIOUS in 2006 and apparently that was ten years ago now.
Old people: join with me in remembering how funny we found this on LiveJournal.
Young people: look at this lolrus, it’s so happy, it has a bucket.
And then they stealed away the bucket and we realised we had fucked up a perfectly good elephant seal and given it anxiety.
listen this vintage meme is high quality and i will hear nothing said against it
20 years. I am not happy about this.
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some of you are painfully unaware that part of the whole reason many kinksters are like "what happens in my or someone else's bedroom is no one else's business"
is because people have been arrested and put in fucking PRISON just for having gay sex in the privacy of their own homes. in the United States. this millennia.
if you think i'm joking, look up Lawrence v. Texas (2003). 14 out of the 50 US States STILL had laws on the books criminalizing sodomy--and yes, you could be imprisoned for multiple years and sometimes even life for repeat offenses.
in the years directly leading up to the landmark case, enforcement even in those 14 states varied, but it was absolutely weaponized against queer people, especially when stacked on top of other offenses to make up a longer sentence.
um so anyway, what happens between two or more consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes is none of my OR YOUR business, and i'm not fucking kidding!
Important additional context:
"Sodomy" does not, in a legal context, mean "anal sex."
It means "any sexual act the court has decided is deviant."
BDSM? Sodomy.
Crossdressing for sexual pleasure? Sodomy.
Jacking off to nude photos or video your consenting adult lover sent you of themselves? Sodomy.
Het oral sex? SODOMY!!!
If you're starting to think "but how could anyone prove that happened without breaking down the door?"
Ha. Haha. Ahaha.
First, I'll give you one guess how they did prove it.
Two, these were often scapegoat charges--basically they couldn't actually nail you on anything because you hadn't done anything actually illegal, only things they didn't like, and they relied on public disgust against your "degenerate character" (yeah there's a very big reason we keep saying not to use that word and it's not to be killjoys) to make sure you knew your place.
Which means that in practice:
Went to a socialist meeting? Sodomy.
Male kindergarten teacher? Sodomy.
Mixing races? Sodomy.
Not Christian (or the right kind of Christian)? Sodomy.
Kink is only the beginning. They'll come after the kinksters because they're low-hanging fruit, and you'll gleefully help them dig a hole, laughing all the way and never consider that it's way too big for the number of bodies you need to bury.
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caption by @/ashleytheebarroness on tiktok: People reach for the Gestapo comparison because it sounds extreme and foreign. It lets white Americans pretend this kind of policing came from somewhere else. But ICE looks closer to slave patrols because that's our history. Local enforcement. Racialized suspicion. Vague authority. Taking people first, justifying it later. Gestapo is a warning. Slave patrols are a mirror.
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Tumblr Tuesday: This one's light on the heat but heavy on the rivalry.
If Heated Rivalry left a hockey(-ish)-shaped hole in your life, if Hudcon at the Golden Globes isn’t enough for you, if you’re looking to replicate the drama, the jerseys, the intensity, and, well, the hockey vibes—may we offer you some NHL? The fandom has been here all along, and they’re out there liveblogging their faves’ way to the top. Here’s some of the fan art they’re making along the way.
(tap on the attribution to go to the original post :)
@xieliancore:
@losingarchives:
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Generally in favor of coyotes. Wolves, as well. Bobcats. That sort of thing.
In support of the humble varmint against all its various adversaries
love this post so much i made a doodle about it
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This is your reminder that if you are feeling helpless and cannot be on the front lines, there are other ways to help.
People need to be fed. Check to see what your local food pantry situation is. Make hot meals for people you know have been out in the cold for hours on end. Emergency kits for field medics need to be supplied. People need help getting to the pharmacy, the grocery store. Help shovel your neighbor’s sidewalk if you’re able. Find a way to do something.
Build connections. Build community. They want us frightened and isolated. Refuse.
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Here's a link to the EFF page that contains this information:
On Android
With the release of Android 12, Google began allowing users to delete their ad ID permanently. On devices that have this feature enabled, you can open the Settings app and navigate to Privacy > Ads. Tap “Delete advertising ID,” then tap it again on the next page to confirm. This will prevent any app on your phone from accessing it in the future.
On iOS
To see which apps you have previously granted access to, go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking. You can set the “Allow apps to Request to Track” switch to the “off” position (the slider is to the left and the background is gray). This will prevent apps from asking to track in the future. If you have granted apps permission to track you in the past, this will prompt you to ask those apps to stop tracking as well. You also have the option to grant or revoke tracking access on a per-app basis.
Apple has its own targeted advertising system, separate from the third-party tracking it enables with IDFA. To disable it, navigate to Settings > Privacy > Apple Advertising. Set the “Personalized Ads” switch to the “off” position to disable Apple’s ad targeting.
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30 Antifa Actions
For our 4th anniversary in June 2018, we posted a different anti-fascist action every day, partly in response to the flood of questions we get from people that want to take antifa action but aren’t sure just what to do. Each one was something we reported on at some point over the last four years and most of them are actions that anyone could pull off anywhere, no matter their age or (dis)abilities. Here’s the full, linked list for handy reference:
#1: Show ‘Em Where You Stand
#2: Table Shows
#3: Take The Streets Away From Fascists
#4: Know Your History
#5: Go Where They Go
#6: Love Football, Hate Fascism
#7: Declare An Anti-Fascist Zone
#8: Welcome Refugees
#9: Write Your Bulgarian Ambassador
#10: Cancel Their Plans
#11: Get Them Fired
#12: Go On Patrol
#13: Start ‘Em Young
#14: Keep The Fash Off The Beach
#15: Ride With Them
#16: Put On A Dance Party
#17: Know Their Signs
#18: 100 Nazi Twitter Scalps
#19: Start Training
#20: Show Some Solidarity
#21: Movie Night!
#22: Expose ‘Em
#23: Stop Deportations
#24: Write To Antifa Prisoners
#25: Raise Money For Antifa Causes
#26: Keep Your Town Nice & Clean
#27: Banner Drop
#28: Start An Anti-Racist Neighbourhood Watch
#29: Work On Yourself
#30: Read And Share
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la-laborista-republiko
How To Get Active And Get Organized!
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"while some of my deepest held beliefs are about playing with string" <- I am curious, what is a playing-with-string belief you hold deeply?
every human culture on earth figured string out, inventing and creating tools to work with whatever material was convenient.
then, every human culture figured out fabric. woven, netted, naalbind, crocheted, knitted, sprang, whatever.
fabric is
warmth (clothes, rugs)
cool (shade and sunscreen)
the ability to travel (bags/slings to pack and carry infants and food and tools...SAILS)
shelter (tents)
safety (wound binding, injury splinting, sling support)
so, the belief is this: string and fabric connect every single human to every single other human in an unbroken web millennia in the making and heading unbroken for the horizon like fresh warp.
playing with string is connected to alladat, and I find spinning on a double treadle wheel to be one of the best activities for achieving a contemplative and meditative state, because all four of my limbs are engaged and that's enough to occupy my monkey mind and free up the thinking me.
i love the way this is worded because some of my deepest held beliefs are about playing with mud and fire!
every culture also figured out pottery and ceramics! our oldest ceramic cooking pots are at least 20,000 years old and our oldest evidence of controlled fire is 800,000!
cooking our food is the difference diffrence between us and every other living species on our planet, being able to control fire made the difference. All of it all comes back to that. We should thank Prometheus for his gift.
now we weave and compress CERAMIC FIBERS into sheets to make the shell of rockets and use combustion engines to send us to fucking space
my deepest held belief is that we are inherently curious and experimental and without our ancestors fucking around and playing with string and mud and fire we would have nothing. we must play.
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Stained glass and Stone (2019-2023)
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Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.
They were us.
Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.
Like
Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not
A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it
This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.
As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.
There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.
Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.
We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.
One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, "This was my world." It was a profoundly moving experience.
Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They'd worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.
One time, in a French history class, my teacher randomly at the end of the class had all of us draw a sketch of a horse. And we were all like ??? Okay???
At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.
He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.
And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"
Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.