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@blckookie

Need to be mindful for our feathered friends!

I’ve queued this to post around the time that alot of babies will be hatching.

Go buy some frozen veggies and feed the babies

It is baby season right now. A lot of babies are being born right now and people keep bringing them into the sanctuary. Sometimes its best to leave them alone.

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white lgbt ppl dont know how much trouble theyve caused for us -_-

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white lgbt ppl will constantly have to be informed about racism and nonwhite issues bc they're only ever friends w other white people, speak over lgbt ppl of color when it comes to representation and problems in media, not acknowledge when white supremacy feeds into intracommunity bigotry. and then say things like "the lgbt community shouldn't be at odds with each other! 😤" i don't know if you guys know how big a split there is between you and us at the best of times

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white gays can reblog this if u can keep ur mouth shut

This is pure art.

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ice-creamsocialist

For those curious, this was taken at the Oceti Sakowin camp during the No DAPL protests in Cannon Ball, North Dakota. The photograph is titled “Defend the Sacred” by Ryan Vizzions. I did not find the name of the subject on horseback.

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Her name was  Marissa Blacklance. #Dakota38 rider, & front line water protector at Standing Rock. She was killed by a drunk driver in January of 2018.  Her mother is using this tragedy to make changes benefitting our community with the Yellow Scarf tribute. 

Thanks for the important information!

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for anyone who doesn’t know, the photo is from sometime in 2016 and shows Marissa Blacklance standing off construction companies and law enforcement from building an oil pipeline

The pipeline had been deemed too unsafe to put in along the first proposed route, few miles from (largely white) cities and waterways

so instead they found a loophole that would avoid the environmental safety assessment for a new route

and ran it within ½ a mile of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

Not only that, but the oil pipeline literally runs along the bottom of the lake that provides them water them downstream, as well as being trenched through sacred sites and burial grounds

The protest stalled the construction while a legal battle was fought trying to get the assessment the construction company had loopholed out of, trying to get our government to honor first nation treaties we never took out of law but ignore whenever it suits us. 

It was a big deal. In September of 2016 members of more than 300 federally recognized Native American tribes were residing in the three main camps, with around 3,500 additional pipeline resistance demonstrators, and several thousand more gathered at the camps on weekends. It was the largest known single gathering of first nations people in over 100 years. They invoked treaties that our country never took off the law books but which we ignore any time it suits us. As many as 2,000 US military veterans joined the protest. Air force veteran Elizabeth Williams said, “We are prepared to put our bodies between Native elders and a privatized military force. We’ve stood in the face of fire before. We feel a responsibility to use the skills we have.” Other nations around the world recognized the tribes’ sovereign rights as an indigenous nation and signed declarations in support of their demands to halt construction.

The protesters fought for like, 8 months or something. Law enforcement shot them with firehoses in below freezing temperatures, arrested them and kept them in literal dog kennels, all kinds of stuff.

It got built anyway, of course. At one point the US Army Engineering Core was authorized to stop the construction, citing concerns for human and environmental safety and calling for an investigation into health and safety, but then Trump literally signed an order himself to make them let construction continue without any such study.

The construction company that profited from this defilement of Dakota land was called Dakota Access LLC, named after some of the very tribes they transgressed against.

truly evil shit

Cancel your HBO

Time to continue not paying for HBO

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Ya'll, please don't boycott/cancel/etc. as a form of protest unless the union calls for it. I appreciate the urge to 'help,' but this is one time when you really gotta follow the union's lead. If you cancel/begin boycotting now and the union calls for a boycott later, it will be harder to tie you cancelling your Max/HBO to the union's call for a boycott.

As far as I can tell right now, the union has not called for a boycott as of 1:44AM Pacific Time, 5/9/23.

Here, in convenient meme format. Feel free to hold onto it for the next industry to strike too.

(ID in alt.)

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I don't care if no new shows come out for 2 years, the sheer amount of media that exists couldn't be watched in a million years. Go back and watch old movies and shows, YouTube videos, documentaries, read a book. Anyone acting like this writers strike is less important than their entertainment, you aren't a leftist or an ally to the working class, you're a spoiled bougie brat

I have very strong opinions on this subject, and I'm curious how others feel.

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Hi, public librarian (lower case l, no degree) here, please don't.

We're already, in general, severely underfunded. Shocker, the capitalist hellscape we're stuck isn't great about allocating county budget to such a socialist outlet.

When you write in the margins, that's considered damage, and we just do not have the funding to replace every book we have to weed for damage.

Use sticky notes. Please. Write your margin notes on sticky notes in the book. You can even keep your place that way. But please please please don't write in the books, don't crack the spines, and don't dog ear them. That's just going to force us to weed them, and we can't always replace them.

Hi, capital L Librarian here, if you think your notes enhance other readers' experience of the book 1) you're wrong and 2) no one's going to get to read them anyway because you damaged the book and we had to throw it away.

Good job breaking it, hero.

Also capital L Librarian here: do not write in the books. do not highlight the books. do not cross out the swear words. do not mark in the book! If you do, we remove the book. It's been damaged. And damaged books are removed from our collection, usually to the trash can. And replacing books with intentional damage eats into our already tight budgets!

bitches be like "these are my comfort characters!" and it's a group of murderers

SOMEONE TAGGED THIS AS BTS????????????

???????????????????

yeah basically a bunch of their music videos starting from i need u (2015) have contained a running story with the members playing different characters. i dont remember much about it because a) im not as big of a bts fan anymore and b) their recent mvs havent referenced it but this article has decent rundowns of each of the characters (uhh tw for mentions of car crashes, family death, hospitalization, abuse, murder, and suicide) https://www.koreaboo.com/lists/heres-brief-explanation-character-bts-universe/

LOONAVERSE?????????

i have seen man made horrors beyond your comprehension

(diagram credit to u/bragen on reddit)

you try to read this and your brain explodes

This is what it feels like to chew 5 gum

this is worse than what inspired redesign your logo

what inspired redesign your logo.

the pepsi logo document that included stuff like the gravitational pull of the pepsi logo and compared it to the mona lisa.

GRAVITATIONAL PULL OF THE PEPSI LOGO????????

i think I’ve seen someone saying this before but it bears repeating:

when you’re writing the summary/description for a fic, i promise just using a quote/excerpt from your story is 100% better than writing a disclaimer about how bad it is or saying ‘idk I’m bad at summaries’ or whatever.

if you’re insecure, don’t give in to the impulse to get out in front of criticism by being self-deprecating. if you want to address something you feel is a shortcoming of yours, at least wait until the end note, and try to think of it not as “I’m bad at X” but as “im still working on X.” If you want constructive criticism, ask for it. If not, thank your readers for coming with you on a journey out of your comfort zone.

(actually it’s a good practice in general to try to say thank you instead of over-apologizing, but I digress)

fanfic is a hobby with no rules but even when you’re engaging in something for fun you’ve got to stay vigilant about not talking down about yourself. it harms you in the long run and puts people off. practice confidence even if you’re just faking it! of all the places to try out something new—be it writing or confidence—the internet is a pretty low-stakes place to do it

The first PRIDE was a riot

Stormé Delariverie, the first woman pictured is a mixed Black butch lesbian who was dressed in drag that night because she had just finished performing as a Drag King at the The Apollo and Radio City Hall. She's literally referred to as the "Rosa parks of the gay community." Not trans but certainly a gnc black lesbian.

Sylvia Rivera, who has admitted to throwing the 2nd Molotov was a Puerto Rican/venezuelan trans woman, she's pictured last holding the banner with the bob cut.

Rivera is standing beside the beautiful and always smiling Marsha P. Johnson. She was another Black trans woman who pioneered the movement. She was at so many protests and queer events that I couldn't pick a photo!!!

On August 5, 1961, four party-going sailors entered Black Nite, a popular St. Paul Avenue gay bar in Milwaukee, on a dare. They started a fight with the bouncer, only to be chased out of the bar by gender-nonconforming Black “queen” Josie Carter, who knocked one of the men unconscious with a bottle. It's the first recorded LGBT uprising.

One day in 1966, an officer placed his hand on a trans woman at Compton’s—she responded by throwing her cup of coffee in his face. A riot erupted as dozens of trans people, drag queens and gay men fought the police. They broke windows, destroyed a police car, and set a newsstand on fire. Drag queens hit police with heavy purses. In the end, however, police arrested the women.

The 'Flower Power' Protest. The Patch was an LGBTQ bar in Wilmington owned and managed by Lee Glaze. Glaze had a secret signal—he’d play “God Save the Queen” on the jukebox—to announce that police officers were entering the bar, allowing patrons time to comply with the discriminatory laws. On August 17, 1968, undercover cops left the bar and returned with several uniformed officers for backup, though it’s unclear what prompted this action. They fanned out and began to screen the crowd, looking for IDs that didn’t “match” the holder’s outward appearance.

He marched everyone to buy flowers and then they waited at the police station for the two to get out.

There are cis white people in these photos because the trans people were in jail. This is them standing in SOLIDARITY for their GNC community.

You DO owe Stonewall to POC and trans people and drag queens and drag kings and GNC people, whether you like it or not.

I hope nobody ever feels comfortable saying this ignorant ass shit to me again.

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A wiecie, że największy* protest robotniczy w historii Królestwa Polskiego zaczęły kobiety? 

140 lat temu w Żyrardowie szpularki odmówiły pracy w odpowiedzi na planowane obniżenie pensji. Do akcji strajkowej w kolejnych dniach przyłączyli się wszyscy robotnicy fabryki, łącznie ponad 8000 osób. Mimo starć z carską policją, aresztowań i śmierci trzech osób, protest zakończył się sukcesem i uznaniem większości postulatów przez właściciela zakładu. 

Crochet is all over fashion again this spring. Reminder that crochet cannot be done by machine, so someone had to make it by hand. There is literally no fast fashion brand that is paying a fair wage to the artisans who are doing that work, even taking local wages in other countries into account. And you can tell that by the pricing. I crochet faster than most people I know, and a jacket always takes me at least 20 hours. And dresses take 30-50. The smaller the yarn, the more hours it’ll take to make something.

There are tons of crocheters on Etsy setting their own prices. Check there before you shop Target or Express or any other place selling on a rack.

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pastassassins

reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

this has almost 11 million notes what is this

I’ve never seen this post once in 10 years on this site

I’ve never even heard of this before tho??? Wtf??????????

oh my god, I didn’t think there were any surviving versions of this post left

For those who weren’t around in the Deep Lore times, this is one of the relics of the editable post era. This post has THE SINGLE HIGHEST NOTES of ANY post on this site, bar none, but with more than a dozen variations. Every single post you’ve ever seen with more than 3 million notes has been a different version of this one.

This is the “Dean’s Gym Shorts” post. This is the Flubber post. This is the original “Reblog if you support gay people” post. it was ALL of them. before half the site got nuked, it had even more notes than it has now - at one point, well over 15 million, and that was years ago.

This, with no exaggeration, is the ONE TRUE heritage post

We’ve waited a year to reblog this. Happy Bread Anniversary!

Because it’s important to celebrate the little victories in life. 

No, no, no!

This is April 19 on the Julian Calendar.

The real bread day is on April 7th