by Japanese photographer Ryo Tajima
Source: twitter.com
cody, padmé, and rex: *discussing something that's probably important*
cody, padmé, and rex: *hears distant screaming and the sound of a lightsaber igniting*
cody: is that my jedi or your jedi?
*cue amused and slightly terrifying laughter*
padmé and rex, sighing: my jedi
I think the logic here is:
>we save people from fires
>fires can kill anyone, including queer people
>we also save queer people from fires
And in an age where paramedics legally refused to save the life of a trans car crash victim, that’s an important sentiment to state
Grabs a sharpie and adds “And Neither Do We”
Don’t worry, it’s there lol.
Without opening your mouth, let others know clearly what mood you are in. This will make a neat Gift for anyone!
It’s never a good time for any app to replicate Twitter but I find it especially mind-boggling that Tumblr and fucking Discord are backpedalling on all of their unique and good features in order to become a clone of a website that is actively losing money and most of their userbase.
Discord is especially egregious considering that it’s NOT EVEN A FUCKING SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE. IT’S A GODDAMN MESSAGING APP. It’d be like if whatsapp decided to recommend other family group chats for you via an algorithm
Ag for silver/agender
(quick, come up with something for non-binary too)
Na for Sodium/enby?
(like "I say 'Na' to gender)
we also have No and Nb :)
“I want this country run like a business!” No.
A business, by definition, strives to get as much profit as it can from its customers with as little output as possible.
A successful business is one that gets money that’s higher than the effort it’s putting in. Because an equal effort-to-money ratio is breaking even, and MORE effort/resources than money is selling at a loss.
I want this country run like a service.
A service which, needs to be stated, I pay for, and I can’t opt out of—I pay sales taxes, income taxes, etc.
A service strives to give as much output as it can while using as few resources as possible.
A successful service is one that can go further with its supplies than any of its individual beneficiaries could alone. The more it’s able to do, the more efficient it is. If it uses more resources than it’s taking in, it’s failing everyone who contributes to it, as they’re not getting what they paid to supply.
No no no you don't understand. I don't want to write a fic. I want to have written a fic. These things are not the same.
AUUUUUUUUGH.
BREAKING: National Security experts demand that Trumper Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene be immediately investigated by the FBI after she goes on live television and admits to committing a crime while trying to smear President Biden.
It all started when Greene went live on FOX News last night and revealed that she a she read a document inside a SCIF ― a sensitive compartmented information facility ― related to phony bribery allegations that her and other Republicans are trying to smear Biden with.
Although she provided zero evidence for her claim, she told FOX News that “The FBI only” let her “see it in a SCIF,” so she decided to “make notes” and “write down everything” that she read — and even held the notes up to the camera so that millions of viewers, and even America’s enemies, can see them.
Experts are alarmed because they say that “a SCIF is typically used only for very sensitive information. Lawmakers generally must check all electronic devices before entering, and cannot take notes while inside.
And usually, information revealed in the SCIF can’t be repeated outside of it.”
Always RB: because there is never enough love. And fanfic love is some of the purest.
Royal Advisor After Grima is kicked out and Gandalf fucks off to do Wizard shit: Hey Theo, we should let the artists capture your likeness for the Hall of History, you know. In the event that something unfortunate happens when we go up against fucking Mordor.
Theoden: Oh shit, you're right. The portraits of my forebearers brought me much comfort in my times of darkness, and I should do the same for my (remaining) descendants.
Royal Advisor: Dope. OK, let's get you into your armor and gather up the artifacts of the era, so the historians in a couple hundred years can reference this. Your sword, your shield, your armor-
Theoden, nodding along: -And Snowmane.
Royal Advisor: Uh. Okay, yeah. We can have him like. looking in a Window or-
Theoden: No. I want him in the throne room with me. Also armored up.
Royal advisor: Uh. OK. Well, look we've got this cool bearskin to put in front of the throne as a symbol of your-
Theoden: Great. Snowman can stand there.
Royal Advisor: Uh.
Theoden: I'll just be to the side here.
Royal Advisor: ...
Theoden: And back a bit, so I don't get in his light.
Royal Advisor: ...Yeah. Okay. Why Not. Hey! Painter! Work fast! You're racing the speed of a horse's intestines here.
Four year old beekeeper distracted by a roly-poly.
Best picture in the world
#im rollin the polies im keepin the bees
#i holy the molies and do as i please
#i’ve circled the sun about four times or so
#the earth gets more lovely the more that i know
(tags via @orcboxer)
End blood quantum now
Blood quantum is how much native blood you have in you and it needs to be a certain threshold to qualify you as a tribal member. Blood quantum varies from tribe to tribe.
It means my mom is a tribal member but because my dad is outside of my tribe... I don't have enough tribal blood to enroll. Neither does my daughter. Our "official" indigeneity ended with me.
My dad is still native tho. Just southern native. Others have two parents enrolled in separate tribes and can't enroll in either one despite being Full native because their parents were mixed with other tribes so they don't have enough blood of Any tribe to qualify.
And to what end are they doing this?
Under the treaties the US govt can lay no claim to native land. So how do they fix that? Get rid of the natives, of course.
And since they can't slaughter us in broad daylight anymore they did the next best thing. What the colonial government has ALWAYS done to us and other poc.
Made up a bunch of arbitrary laws to restrain and limit our power and numbers.
And this can't continue. We are the only race who needs to apply to be part of the community we were born into. The only race who needs to prove our blood.
And that's the thing: it's not even based on blood. Racist scientists defined who was a full-blooded native based on things like shoe size, head circumference, and skin pigment.
Not blood. And besides that it wasn't uncommon for outsiders to become part of a tribe!! You didn't need to be native by blood to be native! Blood quantum has made it IMPOSSIBLE for them to qualify and made it impossible for tribes to practice that long time aspect of our culture.
So please share this post. So many people legitimately think natives are extinct and even less are aware that we do more than just sit around drinking all day. Few people have good feelings about us and within that there are a few who actively help. Please be one of those few.
We need support and allies and for our voices to be heard. Please don't let this post just be me screaming into a void. We need people to know what blood quantum is, how archaic and harmful it is, and to help us spread awareness to people who otherwise would ignore us. Use your privilege.
At the center of this is blood quantum, the system imposed by the U.S. government to determine tribal membership. A new Wilder Foundation Research study projects that unless there is a major change to the criteria, Red Lake, like many tribes across the nation, faces catastrophic population loss in coming years.
Wilder Research scientist Nicole MartinRogers is blunt about what's ahead for the Red Lake Nation.
"A tribal population that is right now about 16,000, is going to drop to 1,000 people potentially or under in the next 100 years, if they continue to maintain their current enrollment criteria of one-quarter blood quantum,” she said. “That's a pretty scary thing."
blood quantum was designed to eliminate native americans while the one drop rule was intended to keep african americans slaves in perpetuity