balaclava-trismegistus:

its really bizarre how after a couple decades of mostly uncensored internet access and raunchy premium cable made it so nobody gives a shit about swearing, we’re now re-entering an era of quaint self-censorship in the name of platform marketability rather than politeness. im sure nobody actually cares. im sure none of the advertising dicks, or boardmembers, or anybody really cares that much personally. they just think it will scare people off somehow. so now grown adults are saying “h-e-double-hockey-sticks” ass bullshit on the same social media websites where they try to get their meat slonked and find a dealer.

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sivavakkiyar:

metamatar:

metamatar:

the european quest for indian riches changed the world so irrevocably, and it leaves these terrible echoes, for those that live in the caribbean now are deemed west and east indians and the native americans deemed indians too and when india is finally opened up inevitably the forms of immiseration evolve. but the plunder continues.

@andreagrimes replied

in colonial times the spanish also called filipinos ‘indios’ a term which denoted illiteracy and poverty

colonizers see non white people and be like is anyone going to call them indians

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wildewasframed:

shutyourmoustache:

shutyourmoustache:

shutyourmoustache:

Solidarity Summer is well and truly ramping up. AS IT FUCKING SHOULD.

And another one! 📢

Barnes and Noble booksellers are working on forming a union as well! 

https://www.reddit.com/r/union/comments/rwczci/barnes_noble_workers_want_union/

Their flagship store and New York has unionized along with 3-4 other stores! This is happening! People are tired of being seen as dollar signs and being made to work just to get to work more, to survive instead of thrive. Keep it UP. 

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nevertheless-moving:

funnytwittertweets:

same energy as that buffy episode where the big bad ‘can’t be hurt by any weapon forged’ and she’s like ‘it’s been a 500 years are you sure’ and annihilates it with a fuckin M136 rocket launcher

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alamuts-lair-of-madness:

galuby:

theradioghost:

theradioghost:

I STEPPED OUTSIDE OF THE FRONT DOOR OF MY OWN HOME ONLY TO FIND THE DEER THAT TRIED TO KICK MY ASS LAST YEAR STANDING RIGHT THERE IN MY FRONT YARD. BOLD AS BRASS.

AM I NOT SAFE ANYWHERE ANYMORE

for those of you who were not here last year: this deer is the most obnoxious, unnatural red-orange color I’ve ever seen, only appears when it’s raining, and once chased me a quarter mile through the woods. her name is Hot Cheeto Hatred and she is my nemesis

dude, i think that’s a fairy

Is this the deer?

Originally posted by ttauriontherise

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mariacallous:

HOT STRIKE SUMMER CONTINUES

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hanaofthenorth:

a girl does start to feel optimistic in a patch of sun

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fullhalalalchemist:

🚨🚨CONGRESS SECRETLY TRYING TO SNEAK IN EARN IT ACT COPYCAT INTO MUST PASS SPENDING BILL (PLEASE READ EXTREMELY IMPORTANT)

July 20, 2023
Congress is right now determining what is included in a must pass spending bill the NDAA. Often congress will sneakily add as amendments their bills that they can’t pass in a normal setting.

If you remember, I made a previous post about EARN IT being reintroduced here.

The EARN IT Act and it’s copycats are bipartisan bills that will greatly censor if not completely eliminate encryption and anything sexual and LGBTQ+ from the internet, globally. Anything the far-right doesn’t like will be completely gone.
The best way to stop them is to use https://www.badinternetbills.com/ to call your senators.

Following it’s initial introduction earlier this year was massive opposition from human rights, LGBT, tech, political groups, and grassroots groups. Bc of this, the senators decided to remake the bill but give it a new name, so they can still pass Earn It without actually passing Earn It. Those bills are the Stop CSAM Act (yes really, they actually named it that), and the Cooper-Davis act.

The entire point of these bills is to mass surveil and censor everyone and I don’t know why more people or senators speak out against it. There is a direct timeline from when the Attorney General Barr (under Trump) said he wanted to do this to it’s initial introduction in 2019, and how the senators explicitly knew they couldn’t actually say that so they lied and said it was about “stopping CSAM” or “stopping drugs” for Cooper-Davis Act.

These bills essentially do the following:

1. they gut encryption, the one thing actually protects you from having your data seen by anyone. Do you want republicans to know you’re trans? that someone had an abortion? that they spoke out against the govt? to see your private photos you have uploaded to the cloud? to see what porn you watch? if youre a journalist, or an abuse survivor, any hacker or abuser can see your stuff and track you.
2. they gut parts of Section 230, the one thing that allows anyone to post online and birthed social media. Previous gutting into 230 gave us the tumblr nsfw ban and killed that site.
3. they create an unelected commission with some already established govt body (DOJ, FTC, etc) that will include law enforcement and people from NCOSE or other Christian conservative groups who will decide what is and isn’t lawful to say. no citizen can vote who’s on this commission, and the president gets to pick. it’s like the supreme court, but for the internet.
4. lead to mass censorship and surveillance because of the above

We have until the end of the month to stop this, but this can be added literally any moment until then. It’s literally code red. If this is added it goes into effect immediately. The BEST way to stop this is to drive calls and emails to the senate. https://www.badinternetbills.com/ connects you directly to your members of congress & gives you a call script.

It is ESSENTIAL to call the Senate leaders who can stop this. Here’s a more precise call script you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1huD5Ldd1lPTECYTEb9Gg2ZzrqW6Y9tryHT-MdjOl8kY/edit

All these people expressed concern over Earn It, so we need to press them hard to not allow it’s copycats Cooper-Davis or Stop CSAM into the NDAA. This is URGENT and needs all hands on deck.
Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (202) 224-6542
Maria Cantwell (D-WA) (202) 224-3441
Jon Ossof (D-GA) (202)-224-3521
Alex Padilla (D-CA) (202) 224-3553
Cory Booker (D-NJ) (202) 224-3224
Mike Lee (R-UT) (202) 224-5444

Please please please spread this message and blow up their phones.

TLDR; The Senate is trying to quietly push the Earn It Act’s copycat bills into the must pass NDAA, which will lead to mass censorship and surveillance online by gutting Section 230 which is the entire reason you can even be on tumblr and why the internet exists, killing encryption which put everyone’s lives in danger, and appointing far-right people to a supreme court-esque commission that the president has direct control over. They could be added in ANY DAY and we need to push hard to stop it before it gets to that point. CALL YOUR SENATORS **NOW** BY USING https://www.badinternetbills.com/ AND CALL THE SENATE LEADERSHIP AND SPREAD THE WORD!!!!

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kdinjenzen:

b0tster:

reading the receipts on how bethesda resorted to fucking extortion in a pathetic attempt to force Leona (a trans woman) to resign without pursuing a discrimination lawsuit by holding her fucking surgeries hostage & holy fuck

her experience at bethesda was a harrowing but depressingly familliar one filled with a sudden loss of respect by her superiors, public outing by her manager, falsified reports on her yearly review to convince corporate that she was a liability…

i struggle to find the words to descrive how i felt going through it all.

they were HOLDING HER SURGERIES HOSTAGE TO COERCE HER TO RESIGN

fuck this fucking industry. you cannot fix this. it is beyond saving

Literally every trans person, especially trans women because misogyny is at the heart of the entertainment industry, inside the gaming or entertainment space is dealing or has dealt with this shit.

Myself included.

Companies will absolutely say “WE LOVE DIVERSITY! WE LOVE THE GAYS! HERE’S OUR BIPOC AND LGBTQ MERCH FOR CHARITY! CHECK OUT OUR ICONS THAT WE PUT UP IN SOLIDARITY!”

And then treat their BIPOC and Queer employees like this or even worse.

And then we end up jobless and untouchable because we are labeled as “difficult” by the industry because we hold them accountable for the things they promise.

We’re all tired. We all want to work. But now we’re all broke and jobless.

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escuerzoresucitado:

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super-metroid:

official-boob-posts:

super-metroid:

hey, dont cry. titties in fishnet tops, ok?

promise?

cross my boob (the one in front of my heart) and hope to die

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deirdreskye:

I loved watching ghost in the shell stand alone complex on adult swim when I was a completely normal 12 year old boyworking out the logistics of uploading my consciousness into a woman’s body like I probably couldn’t tell my family but I think I could keep a few of my closest friends. I’d probably have to pick a new name it’d be kinda weird if i just kept going by my current one. I better look up girl names on wikipedia to figure it out. remember to avoid looking in the mirror while brushing my teeth tonight I really can’t stand to see my own body for reasons I can’t even begin to comprehend much less articulate but I think it might have something to do with not liking the freckles on my shoulders lol.

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