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theory 1: baseball curses are real bc look what happened to the cubs and the red sox
theory 2: baseball curses are fake bc no one has ever cursed the yankees
theory 3 (synthesis): no one has successfully cursed the yankees bc they employ a cadre of dark wizards
do u want to see the most anyone has ever considered fleein to russia
I can take you to a multiverse worth of paradises.
The video store lets people rent locked rooms where they can watch adult video content. According to the Harford County Sheriff’s Office, they have received complaints from area residents and other patrons about the store.
“I went inside and was hooking up with someone and the next thing I know eight of us were against the wall with handcuffs with plastic zip ties on them,” one man arrested in the raid told the Washington Blade. “And we all spent the night in jail. I was released at like six o’clock in the morning.”
“I don’t know why people have a problem with this. We go there to meet people like us.”
A friend of another of the arrested men said that his friend and another man were in a locked booth together when police “in full riot gear unlocked his room and arrested him and his friend.” They are now facing a charge of indecent exposure for their activity in a locked room.
“They spent the night in jail and were badly treated,” the arrested man’s friend said.
Maryland’s law against perverted sexual practices bans oral sex with other people and animals, as well as any other “unnatural or perverted sexual practice with another or with an animal.”
Like many sodomy laws, the text of this law does not explicitly name gay and bi people – heterosexual couples can also engage in oral sex – but in practice laws like these are only enforced against people having sex with the same sex.
Sodomy laws like this one were overturned by the Supreme Court in its landmark 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision, which said that states can’t use appeals to morality to justify laws that ban private activity between consenting adults.
A 2013 Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision about Virginia’s ban on anal and oral sex reaffirmed that it’s unconstitutional to ban private sex acts even if the laws apply to heterosexual couples as well. Maryland is in that court’s jurisdiction.
“There are cases around the country discussing whether certain areas are private, usually focusing on whether the participants had a reasonable expectation of privacy,” attorney Greg Nevins told the Blade. He said that locked rooms in video stores should be considered the same as locked hotel rooms.
That several of the men aren’t facing charges for indecent exposure at all indicates that authorities are not even accusing them of having sex in public.
The Sheriff’s Office defended the raid in a statement, citing “an increased number of concerns and allegations of a wide variety of illegal activity.” The statement did not say whether those complaints were about sexual activity happening behind locked doors.
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“Court records show that the Unnatural or Perverted Sexual Practice charges appear to have been dropped against the four men who were faced with that charge. In response to a request from the Blade, Harford County Deputy State’s Attorney Gavin Patashnick, one of the prosecutors in the case, confirmed that “all perverted practice charges were dropped with no preconditions.”
But the attorneys — and an official with the national LGBTQ litigation group Lambda Legal — said the fact that law enforcement officials would seek to invoke the Unnatural or Perverted Sexual Practice statute was an unfair practice that subjected their clients to an unnecessary burden of an arrest.”
i told my friend’s dad that he was hot (it was in context with the conversation, he was complaining that he was feeling old, etc), and he said a very genuine thank you and the conversation moved on to other topic, my friend was now talking about something else entirely when his dad goes
“i think if i were born in your generation i might have been bisexual”
and friend got kinda mad at me lmao
Fuck his dad
one thing İ love about fashion photography is the stark contrast of normativity in beauty and taboo in narrative, like you get editorials toying with concepts, more or less abstractly, that would make a movie be 18+ and cancelled on tumblr, but then it's in a glossy magazine just sitting there. "this woman clearly got fucked by a dog", Chanel top 780$, Saint Laurent bracelet 3000$, model Cindy Crawford photography Helmut Newton. and ppl look at it and go ugh classic Cindy, love a good Saint Laurent bracelet
u know?
Chandrayaan 3 on the moon. Go babbbbbyyyyy. ISRO 🥰🥰🥰
my favourite type of poster on here—unironically—is the subgroup of people who make long informed thoughtful and obviously passionate analytical posts detailing the various discourses of their media of choice in relation to theory texts or adjacent literary traditions with all the gumption and sincerity and breadth of knowledge of, like, shakespeare scholars; except, and this is the most crucial element, the media of choice has to just kind of suck, like, at least a bit
supernatural is the worst tv show ever made, but on god, some of y’all have made me weep with your meta
Well guys, it's finally happened. It's my turn to pay the piper. It's my turn to beg for money online.
The context: up until very recently, I was the full time caretaker for my disabled brother, despite being similarly disabled myself. I also was going to school full time and working. I make $800/month and that was enough to survive because I also got a decent chunk of FAFSA every semester.
Then, my grandmother got sick. My mother, who lived with us about half the time, left to take care of her, and took her financial support with her. Suddenly I was not only the sole caretaker of my brother but also a large 3bed/2bath house with a full garden, all while going to school and trying to work. Just to afford food, I wracked up large amounts of debt with the assumption that when FAFSA came in the fall, I'd be able to pay it off.
But the work was too much. I couldn't finish my classes, and had to take incompletes. This resulted in me losing my financial aid. I managed to get the funds together (mostly by guilting family) to afford my last semester of college, but now there's the matter of all that "buying food" debt. We lost SNAP in the middle of all of this because they added work requirements (I wasn't eligible at all, being a student, but my brother had been. Obviously he can't work, but my support makes him not qualify for disability status either.)
The short of it: to stave off the demons of interest rates, I need like $1500 by the middle of October. That's. A lot. I make $800/month, so I can kind of do it if I uhhhhh *checks notes* don't buy food for 2 months. Hm. An issue has been detected.
I hate this because I almost fucking made it in life without having to get on my knees and beg strangers on the internet for cash (giving them my full legal name in the process), but here we are. It's at least an "any amount helps" situation and not a zero sum game, so I'm passing the hat around to see if anyone can throw in a dollar. If you can't, consider reblogging, in case anyone else can.
Paypal: solitare_lee (at) yahoo (dot) com Zelle: available via DM Patreon: elvensemi (it's not being updated atm but in the future there'll be worldbuilding stuff if that's your thing)
Not even 24 hours later we're almost 2/3rds of the way there. I think I might be in shock a little bit??? I don't think the reality has set in yet, it's just like, numbers on a screen and the reality of it has not set in at all. My wildest dream was raising maybe half, and we've already surpassed that completely. Thank you guys so, so much. I'm not very good at processing new emotions (I normally have to wait, talk about them in therapy, and have someone explain to me what an emotion is lol #autism), and the feeling of seeing so many names I don't know throw in $5, 20, even $100, is definitely new and one I don't recognize. It might be awe??? Do people feel awe??? Will update.
In addition, I also made a Zelle, so if you can't/don't use Paypal or Tumblr tips (which I also have, although they take a small chunk) (actually p small someone sent me $25 and they took $1, basically, to someone used to YouTube and Twitch rates that's nothing lol), you can DM me for the qr code.
couldnt get this image out of my mind hes so gorgeous
film bro starter pack or something like that
nothing could have prepared me for the song choice
Chandrayaan-3 makes India the fourth nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon, joining the Soviet Union, the United States and China.
little worm shitpost i did by request in my discord call
Max and Corissa Anderson, t4t couple photographed by Mariette Pathy Allen in the late 1990s and early 2000s (source) (watch them in Southern Comfort 2001)
