I hope this isn't a hot take but everyone, regardless of income level, deserves to have nice things in their life and to experience occasional luxury

I want everyone to have access to basic necessities and a high quality-of-life. But I also want people to thrive, and that means more than just the basics. Humans deserve to have good lives! They deserve to live in comfortable homes, and take vacations, and eat a variety of foods, and explore the world they live in, and be surrounded by bright colorful things that make them happy. People deserve to be excited about being alive! They deserve to enjoy the amazing things this world has to offer! And it's ridiculous that in a world full of this strange new abundance of wealth and wonders and resources—things beyond anything our ancestors could predict!—the majority of the population still struggles just to meet basic needs.

Humans deserve better lives. All of us, not just the ones on top.

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I’m gonna say this again since folks keep tagging popular blogs in that tumblr blackout post with not a second thought about how disabled folks will be affected by it

First off- starting an indefinite blackout from the start of disability pride month IS ableism. Intentional or not. I do not care if it’s a “statement about accessibility.” You cannot talk like you care about disabled people by silencing our voices. Majority of disabled folks I’ve seen have been explaining over and over again why this is a monumentally shit idea which is just going to hurt us.

Second- We are not Reddit. So you can’t copy paste something that worked there and hope that’ll work here. Do we not remember the blackouts in the past that did not fucking work? Also- I say this as someone who is disabled and cares deeply about accessibility- there is an extreme difference in the severity of the issues that are going on with Reddit and what’s going on here. Poorly review tumblr, stop buying crabs, stop fucking blazing posts. Dude. We are also not in a union or employed by tumblr. WE CAN’T BE SCABS.

Thirdly- I’m presuming that most people who’ve been reblogging the og post have other social media sites they can go to. That they can easily go to like, Instagram, that they have friends irl, and they have the ability to leave the house. A lot of disabled people on here don’t have that. They’ve been bullied off social media platforms like Instagram or Twitter or Tiktok for being disabled, they don’t have a solid friendship group in real life and some of them can’t actually leave the house without help. I don’t want disabled people to be completely alone during disability pride month. They deserve to at least deserve to keep their support network on the funny hellsite.

And if I sound angry it’s because I am. I’m angry about disabled people being lowest priority yet again. I’m angry at our own month being used against us because of “accessibility”. I’m angry thinking about disabled people being isolated during a time that should be celebratory. I’m not being chronically online or overreacting or “trying to be an activist.” I’m just a disabled person who would absolutely be negatively impacted by this blackout that has apparently been timed with our accessibility needs in mind but no caring for how disabled people will be effected.

I don’t know if the plans have been updated. Honestly I struggled to even read the og post because of the font and the inaccessible use of language. But I do want ableds to know that they cannot say they’re participating in this blackout to benefit disabled people.

Feel free to tag anyone you want in this post btw I want ableds to understand

@thebibliosphere

Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.

I know I've been over this but man HRT is good stuff. I wanna shake the hand of whoever invented it. It's a crime that I don't know who that is actually. They're more important than Einstein

id also been really curious about the history of hrt so i had some tabs open:

The first hrt treatments were mostly estrogen extracted during pregnancies to be used for menopause symptoms, but the first usage of those medicines for trans women is credited to the world's first Trans Clinic, opened in pre-WW2 Germany by Magnus Hirschfield, a gay jewish man.

Oh he looks delightful

Thank you grandpa

The comparasion to Einstein was actually made at the time too! He was commonly refered to as “the Einstein of sex”, to which he supposedly once replied that he would rather Einstein be called “the Hirschfeld of physics” lmao

Oh my god

I wanted to put a more positive spin on the popular skeleton leaving meme

Happy Eid ul-Adha(or Bakrid, or Eid Mubarak) to any people of the Muslim faith this year! This is for 6/29/2023

We’re all goin here right

Imagine if play was something encouraged in adults, places to run and jump and climb because it's fun

I never know what the machines do at the gym, but i will clamber to the top of the tower to slide into a ball pit

I am 100% certain I would be in better physical condition if adults were allowed to play in ways that focus on fun and aren't competitive.

hey full offense but the ‘use the right pronouns even if the person is horrible!’ statements arent made to coddle horrible ppl, its saying ‘dont view correct pronouns as a fucking privilege that can be taken away once people decide you’ve fucked up enough’, misgendering someone on purpose is transphobic no matter what bc it equates transphobia as a ‘punishment’ for bad people, pronouns are a part of baseline human respect, its that simple

Funy how tumblr has become the place people go when there is nowhere else. give us your tired, your sick, and your cringe masses or whatever

Seen a couple posts on the dashboard lately about writing with ADHD. So, for the ADHD and neurodivergent folks who like writing but struggle sometimes… check out StimuWrite.

You can set it to make little sounds as you type (or leave them off), and emojis pop up in the corner. You can change the background, dark and light themes, set your word goal, and it gives you a percentage and total word count at the bottom. Though it’s more meant for getting a draft written up, so it doesn’t have spell check or anything like that. You’re meant to just copy and past what you write here into Google Docs or Word or Scrivener or whatever else you use and go from there. Honestly love it when I’m struggling to get words down, though. And apparently there’s an update now for StimuWrite 2?👀

Anyways, give it a try if it looks like it may help. It’s currently name-your-own-price.

Yo I just downloaded this thing and hammered out 3000 words????? Which is more than I’ve written in years????????

Hey I’ve accidentally written 20,000 words in six days.

Reblogging to potentially save a fur friends life

letter from a mother of a gay man. sent to ONE magazine, 1958.

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This post was flagged as adult content and the original poster was deactivated so I'm bringing it back.

“Mrs R” was the pseudonym of Phyllis Shafer, a Kansas City local who helped found the Phoenix Society for Individual Freedom in 1966, a full three years before Stonewall. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she and her son Drew operated the Phoenix House, a safe haven for queer people in the city, and a hub of national queer activism. Drew passed away due to AIDS related complications in the 1980s, and his lover, Mickey Ray, spent the rest of his life fighting to keep his memory alive, largely contributing to the creation of the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America.

“We tend to view American history as this constant march toward progress, which is total crap,” he says. “You gotta fight for that stuff. And if you don't fight for that, you can fall backward. Like it's not just this linear history."

Good quote from the article which may be relevant right now.

Bring this bad boy back with some delicious context for pride

a study i did because i realized idk how to draw environments at all LMAO

STOP SCROLLING THIS IS A PAINTING

“In one of the most notable moments in sports history, Kenyan runner Abel Mutai was just a few feet from the finish line, but became confused with the signage and stopped thinking he had completed the race.

 A Spanish athlete, Ivan Fernandez, was right behind him, and after realizing what was happening, he started shouting at the Kenyan for him to continue running; but Mutai didn't understand his Spanish. Fernandez eventually caught up to him and instead of passing him, he pushed him to victory.

A journalist asked Ivan, "Why did you do that?"

Ivan replied, “My dream is that someday we can have a kind of community life where we push and help each other to win.”

The journalist insisted “But why did you let the Kenyan win?" Ivan replied, "I didn't let him win, he was going to win.” The journalist insisted again, “But you could have won!”

Ivan looked at him & replied, “But what would be the merit of my victory? What would be the honor of that medal? What would my Mom think of that?” Values are transmitted from generation to generation. What values are we teaching our children? Let us not teach our kids the wrong ways to WIN.”

i think cis girls can have a packer as a treat

actually no make this a thing. itd probably be so good for making trans girls feel safe

im glad like at least 500 people can agree that gender affirming prosthetics shouldnt be exclusive to just trans people. honestly this goes for cis guys too feel free to get some breast forms. just dont be surprised if afterwards you decide you dont want to be a guy anymore

Anybody else got that Evergiven sized writers block

“Where’s the next chapter?!” Well buddy you’re never gonna guess

What’s the comic sans trick?

#i feel like someone just asked me to eat dirt for my health

wingdings' true purpose as a font