Fuck if I know what's going on

But Montoya explained that the whole situation was much more banal than what Shapiro suggested.

“My trans masculine friends were showing off their top surgery scars and living in joy, and I wanted to join them,” she said in a later TikTok video. “And because it is perfectly within the law of Washington D.C., I decided to join them and cover my nipples just to play it safe.”

“I was simply living my joy and my truth and existing in my body,” she said in the video captioned “free the nipple #trans.” She also said that the rightwing freak out over her chest shows that they see her as a woman.

making a collection

ruh roh, it gets worse

I’m not a Redditor so I could be wrong. But this looks pretty fucking bad

reddit is proving to be the france of social media sites: make fun of them all you want (cuz often they deserve it) but they know how to riot better than any of us

This is terrifying rhetoric but I need to add that my stupid ass thought the fish changed its sex out of spite after getting transphobic comments. Like it could read and that was the catalyst

[ID: Tweet by @MaryHeglar reading "So sick of hearing that government 'inaction' brought about climate change. They acted: they subsidized fossil fuel companies, gave them leases, spouted their misinformation, criminalized protest. Nothing about that is passive."]

bloop

It was already bad! It started as a Mormon-owned company that probably used your data to sell you Jesus ads and posthumously baptize your heathen family. This is just a turd on a turd

The shape of perfection

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Because it’s clear that being “the last public space” isn’t a privilege. It’s a sign that something has gone terribly wrong.

I’m so sick of having to prove “usefulness”. Living things don’t exist for you. A species of ugly inedible bug living under a rock has as much right to keep existing as a pretty deer.

This is such an important concept and something that I think I need to work on more when talking conservation with people. So often I’ll instinctively defend a species by saying something like “spiders are actually so cute and they’re important for managing insect populations” which, while true, doesn’t really do anything to address that fact that spiders do not exist for our convenience. All animals are deserving of our respect and responsible stewardship, whether they meet our human standards of “value” or not.

Just read a perfectly fine fanfiction that took place in Germany but something that stood out to me was a chapter where the characters walk across a field and is approached by the farmer yelling at them to get off his land.

I’ve come across this plot point a few times and I feel like it’s worth telling writers that most of Europe has some version of Right To Roam. The laws aren’t the same in every country but generally you’re allowed to walk and rest on private property like fields and forests so long as you don’t destroy anything or leave trash, but not gardens or fenced in areas. The owner of the land might put up a sign asking you to follow certain guidelines like no horses or keeping your dog on a leash but but there’s no real repercussions to not following the rules besides the owner eventually fencing the area off so people can’t enjoy it anymore.

I’ve personally walked around on a field while the farmer was harvesting potatoes with his big ass machine and collected the leftovers while my dog was trotting calmly besides me and he looked straight at me and didn’t care one bit because Denmark also has an old tradition of letting people collect what’s left as a form of charity (for my fellow Danes, that’s what “rev vi marken let, det er gammel ret, fuglen og den fattige skal også være mæt” means in the song Marken Er Mejet) This is just a tradition and not a law however so it depends on the farmer.

The very north of Europe like Norway and Sweden even give people the right to put up tents and camp on other people’s private land (except gardens and such). Again, the laws vary from country to country but as a rule of thumb you have more right to roam the further north you go and less the further south but if you want to write in a specific country look up the laws there.

Wow. Yall are really just allowed to exist in public huh?

I mean this is both true and untrue. Roma have been fighting discriminatory laws that limit their right to travel and camp, in the UK and elsewhere, for years. Obviously the enclosure of the commons is less complete in much of Europe compared to say the U.S. but we also should be careful not to act like it's a simple or uncontested history. European states have been increasingly limiting these rights, and whether someone could meaningfully access them in prior times has always been a function of communities recognizing one as an insider or an outsider, welcome or unwelcome. For Romani people with travelling cultures, their right to pass or camp has often been constrained. The application of these rights are very racialized in Europe and have been a major site of contestation.

26-inch thick armor from Japanese Yamato class battleship, pierced by a US Navy 16-inch gun. The armor is on display at the US Navy Museum

Where is her nipple

It was blown clean off by a US Navy 16-inch gun

Damn, never thought of it like that, god bless our troops for facing these horrors of war.

California would suck enough if all the water wasted on growing nut trees was just for like, completely frivolous reasons but California becoming the #1 pistachio grower in the world just to spite post 79 iran really just makes me

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.

blood quantum was designed to eliminate native americans while the one drop rule was intended to keep african americans slaves in perpetuity

i do have to get my unabomber take in before the discourse gets unbearable so what i wanna say is that yes anyone who thinks he was a le epic based anarchist is unserious because he was a right winger who hated socialists, but also a lot of people who feel the need to virtue signal about how he was Um Actually Problematic either don’t know or don’t care that he was literally MKUltra’d. so i guess if you want to blame someone for the unabomber blame the fuckin CIA

expecting someone who fucking went through an actual literal 200 hour psychological torture session in which their entire belief system and sense of self were completely obliterated Just For Funsies to share whatever political and moral values you have in whatever direction is fucking infantile and stupid. this man was doomed from the start and it’s ridiculous to moralize about him

man this is like the worst year for tech and websites

discord is forcing a username change that no one wants, twitch nearly banned sponsored streams, imgur is banning NSFW and removing old pics, reddit is restricting their API usage and killing off all mobile apps, apple introducing some shitty overpriced AR headset, the amount of fuckups twitter is doing i cant even count on my own two hands its all becoming too much i hate technology i hate you silicon valley