Man, if only he were in a position to do something about it.

the thing is that broadly speaking I do agree that trans solidarity is essential to getting anywhere. but also, "solidarity" doesn't actually mean "sticking your head in the sand and ignoring any legitimate grievances that may Sow Division"

Is he "female socialized" or is he just a standard flamboyant sensitive artsy gay dude who would honestly be indiscernible from any other fem gay guy if you didn't see him as a walking vagina first and foremost.

Is she "male socialized" or is she just a tomboy with a fucking spine who doesn't let anyone talk to her any old kind of way who would honestly be indiscernible from any feminist cis woman y'all gas up on here if you didn't see her as a walking penis first and foremost.

lol

@demilypyro

Checked to confirm. It’s true, it’s recent, and the source is beautiful

(also the ‘children’s charity’ Lumos doesn’t recognize trans children, so this failed fundraising event is an all around good thing)

Oh gods, alright. Of course Livraria Lello would be the one to have it. I wonder if they were trying to get rid of it?

I actually would like to talk about Lello and their relationship with Harry Potter and also just ask you to visit the bookstore.

So, anyway, Lello opened in 1906 in Porto, North of Portugal.

JK. Rowling lived in Porto for a bit in the 90’s, where she first started writing the Harry Potter series. It was said she might have frequented it and some important stairs from the book were based on Lello’s stairs. In fact: The book release of Harry Potter and The Cursed Child happened in Lello.

What this meant is that this bookstore ended up having to fight to remain a bookstore. There are so many tourists, a lot of them that only wanted to look at it because it was Harry Potter related somehow and buy nothing. There were (and still are) insane queues to enter the bookstore.

Lello, who wasn’t particularly interested in becoming a Harry Potter museum, ended up having to make a system where people have to pay to enter. If you buy a book that goes above the price you paid for the ticket, the money you paid will be deducted from the book price.

I can tell from going there fairly frequently that they try to be less connected to Harry Potter as possible if they can manage. Yeah they have the books for sale but they also have a plethora of books and their own merchandise to choose from.

Despite JK. Rowling’s involvement with the bookstore, in the Portuguese Wikipedia page, even in the part about the famous writers that went there, there isn’t a single mention of her. Zero. Not in the history nor anywhere else. It’s beautiful.

Last time I went they had an exhibition about José Saramago’s work (portuguese author who won the Nobel Prize) and on the upper side of the stairs had an enormous collection of winners of the Nobel Prize and authors Lello concidered had the quality to also have won (it the Nobel Prize existed when they were alive) and authors that might win.

It’s quite interesting because all was very thought out and you had a whole reason as to why those books were there. Me and my mother ended up chatting for a long while with one of the bookshop employees (they have a lot of young employees btw) and we even ended up chatting with other foreigners that went there shopping.

Also, did I mentionthe bookshop is gorgeous?

As are their book editions (my English edition of Tom Sawyer I bought there)

Have also a photo of the bookstore from 1906 :)

So, if you go there, please don’t go because of Harry Potter. And please don’t shit on it because of Harry Potter too. It’s a very good bookstore and it deserves recognition, but not from there.

David Lynch

To anyone here boycotting Kamala Harris because you listen to permanently online losers saying she’s “”pro-genocide””: fuck you. Seriously, fuck you.

“Genocide Joe” is no longer running and Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz over Josh Shapiro, the latter of which has a lot of dicey connections to the IDF.

We’re getting the best realistic ticket for progressives and some of y’all still don’t think it’s enough?

Fuck you.

How did this go lol

This person dmed me after this btw

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there's this iconic tv variety show in the autonomic andalusian tv station (canal sur) presented by possibly the most loved andalusian in his homeland, juan y medio (he's also a vocal antifascist and overall great guy i love him) that has a section that is basically a dating show for the elders, it is quite cute and it has formed ton of elder couples.

well, after decades of existence, this year the program coupled their first queer couple !!!! meet paco and juan carlos 🥹🥹

the article says: 'from clandestinity to the program of juan y medio: paco and juan carlos fall in love at 70 years old. two andalusian 70 year olds that have been hiding their homosexuality most of their lives, are grateful for the 'normality' in the way their neighbours accept their relationship'

unfortunately the article is behind a paywall and i'm on my phone but when i'm back home i'll try and read more into it and add links and such <3

AY MI TIERRA DI QUE SIIIII

If you deny people safe access to public bathrooms you are banning them from existing in public. Things like jobs, schools, shopping, and public events all become impossible if you can only be out of your home as long as your bladder can stand it,

Something my partner pointed out that they said in the hearing was that ‘some trans women are attracted to women’ and it sounds like it about to be bad for lesbians and queer people of all identities soon.

I just found the earliest email I ever sent from my email address, and it’s the funniest goddamn thing I can possibly imagine a fourth grader sending her teacher:

(Context - my fourth grade teacher was on maternity leave, and the state of the classroom fish tank was dire under the substitute teacher’s tyrannical rule. The class convened at recess, and decided to inform our (24yo, new mother) former teacher of the situation. I was selected as the duly appointed representative for this solemn communication.)

Further context: I am now a practicing attorney.

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i know this is a predator. like a hardened killing machine. tempered by hundreds of years of evolutionary prowess to fine tune him into a living weapon. but ohhhh the little BABYYY look at the Little Bouncing Baby he is going Boing Boing Boing oh my gooddddd

on some subconscious level i never even thought of david lynch as someone who could die