Aliko Dangote, the richest man in Africa, has been tormented by a Brazilian man named Osvaldo for the last several years.
Aliko is not taking it well
It’s fitting that this would happen during Pride Month.
“Progress Shark” outside the Australian Museum, ahead of Sydney Mardi Gras/World Pride Festival 2023.
More flags should be inflatable sharks
Ok this is making me go insane because. that’s a photoshop. it absolutely is, someone’s edited a progress pride flag onto the shark.
you can see spots where the red is misaligned with the top of the body and even extends slightly beyond it. the lines of the flag don’t conform to the shape of the shark’s body at all. you can see the gills through it as if it’s at like 70% opacity.
but like. the progress pride shark is real and it looks like this:
yknow. cause it’s a flag wrapped around a model shark.
why was this edited????? it’s a real thing but for some reason someone edited a digital flag over it instead of just using a real photo of the real thing??? why????
Tintin remembers what comes after 15.
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FUCKING HELL IT’S BACK FROM LAST YEAR
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This literally gets reblogged every 15th of the month. It’s almost two years old. It’s beautiful.
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listen up ya’ll this post is 6 years old now and you’re still reblogging it. every month. once a month, my notifications blow up for this one video, but only until the 16th. then the notes on this vid completely stop. it’s so eerily spot on and impressive how you just all collectively know what to do. if I’m not online, people irl still remind me that it’s the 15th. thank you for six surreal years of me wondering if I completely fucking lost it. here’s to the 15th
I swear to god this app eats more posts than a horny t-rex
This is one of those moments where I need one of those “are you challenging me” memes but with a t-rex superimposed over Shaggy.
Now, researchers have put a nail in the coffin of porn addiction. Josh Grubbs, Samuel Perry and Joshua Wilt are some of the leading researchers on America’s struggles with porn, having published numerous studies examining the impact of porn use, belief in porn addiction, and the effect of porn on marriages. And Rory Reid is a UCLA researcher who was a leading proponent gathering information about the concept of hypersexual disorder for the DSM-5. These four researchers, all of whom have history of neutrality, if not outright support of the concepts of porn addiction, have conducted a meta-analysis of research on pornography and concluded that porn use does not predict problems with porn, but that religiosity does
If the concept of pornography addiction were true, then porn-related problems would go up, regardless of morality, as porn use goes up. But the researchers didn’t find that. In fact, they cite numerous studies showing that even feeling like you struggle to control your porn use doesn’t actually predict more porn use. What that means is that the people who report great anguish over controlling their porn use aren’t actually using more porn; they just feel worse about it.
Having moral conflict over your porn use (PPMI) does turn out to be bad for you. But that's not because of the porn. Instead, higher levels of moral conflict over porn use predict higher levels of stress, anxiety, depression, and diminished sexual well-being, as well as religious and spiritual struggles. In one study by Perry and Whitehead, pornography use predicted depression over a period of six years, but only in men who disapproved of porn use. Continuing to use porn when you believe that it is bad is harmful. Believing that you are addicted to porn and telling yourself that you're unable to control your porn use hurts your well-being. It's not the porn, but the unresolved, unexamined moral conflict.
This is a really good writeup.
It's a clear case of "mind over matter" - if you don't mind, it doesn't matter :P
i know it’s been like ten years but one day soon i swear i’m gonna finally draw my favorite honse ladies holding hands as a treat to myself now that the Fandom isn’t batshit insane
they would Never hold hands
but i care them very much
okay maybe today i’ll doodle that crumb of art for me
instructions not clear, i am once again drawing two characters hate-flirting instead of holding hands.
Happy Pride Month to my fellow Demigirls. We are sorely lacking in memes…
The third one seems like less of a problem, considering what that dragon does in the next few panels…
But if I eat my social group, I have no more social group...
So a little back story for you all. I come from a very religious, homophobic family. Which as you might imagine, makes it very hard on me, being a gray-asexual amab demigirl married to a trans woman. Essentially I’m still in the closet about everything when I’m around my family. You ever see that comic with the two male lions and the one is shaving off the other one’s mane, then they are standing outside the one’s parent’s house, ringing the door bell, and the shaved lion, now wearing a dress, says, “Next year you’re shaving to meet MY parents...” Ever see that one? I’d post it if I could flipping find it again... Well that’s pretty much my life... The only other person in my family who isn’t out of their mind, is my brother... Who married what was at the time a lovely young woman who later came out as non-binary. And instead of being me and finding work arounds to remain in the closet, they decided to actually come out to my parents about it. They did it just this past Christmas. My parents of course reacted exactly the way I expected them to react... By flipping out, telling my brother that he has forever ruined Christmas, and refusing to use they/them pronouns for his partner. And to make matters worse, my mother calls ME about it and spends the better part of a couple of hours ranting and raving about it as if she expects my closeted ass to take her side and justify what she did. Went so far as to try to quote Bible scripture to me which I was quick to tell her didn’t have anything to do with what she was talking about and that she was twisting it to try and make it fit her own ends... She didn’t appreciate that, but she also didn’t seem to take the hint that I was on my brother’s side. Even when I tried to explain the workings of the English language to her and point out the existence and the workings of the singular they, she still didn’t seem to get the message. And that’s been bothering me since Christmas...
Now of course I’m not going to come out to her. Yeah... not ready to take that kind of abuse now that I’ve seen what it looks like. But today my wife, Violet, loudly announced that it was time to be gay and do crimes. And after thinking about it for a bit, I realized I would like to do crimes this year. Maybe it’s not an actual crime... but I have thought of a deliciously wicked little way to get back at my mother for what she put my brother and his partner through. (Not to mention making me sit through listening to her trying to justify herself when there was clearly no justifying it.) I thought to myself, if Mom refuses to call my brother’s partner by They/Them pronouns because she says “it will cost her her salvation,” what if their pronouns suddenly became something else? Something that was also gender neutral... and there was an actual legal reason for it that had nothing to do with gender...? Hell... what if mine did the same? What if not just her child-in-law, but one of her own children as well were now insisting on being called by a gender neutral form of address and had a legal reason for it with documentation to back it up? One that she couldn’t go running to her Bible to try and demonize...
What am I talking about? Well... the proper form of address for a Duke is my grace/your grace. Instead of saying “he ruined Christmas” or “she ruined Christmas” you would say “my grace ruined Christmas.” Mom can’t go trying to demonize that the same way she did with they/them. I mean, her argument was incorrect anyways, but she still tried. But with a noble title...? Titles of nobility existed and were used even in the Bible. What is she going to do? And the title of Duke is perfect because in addition to my grace being completely gender neutral, Duke itself is gender neutral. Most people mistakenly believe that a man is a Duke and a woman is a Duchess, but Duchess is just a title given to a Duke’s wife. A woman can still be a Duke herself. Queen Elizabeth II was also known as the Duke of Lancaster.
Oh but the best part is, while I completely intend to buy my nonbinary sibling-in-law a Duke’s title, I’m not going to inform my mother of that little detail right away. I’m going to buy one for myself first and excitedly share the news with my mother that I am now a Duke. Get her used to it... More importantly, get her used to calling me my grace/your grace... Because I’m sure as long as she doesn’t suspect any gender politics are at play, she won’t have any problem going along with it... And only then, after she’s feeling nice and comfortable, will I inform my brother that he can tell mom that his partner is also a Duke now. Then I get to sit back and watch my mother sweat as she slowly realizes that she now has to give in and address my sibling-in-law by a gender neutral term just like we all wanted, or be forced to admit to being a hypocrite.
So now I’m just sitting here watching my bank account, waiting for my paycheck to drop. In a few hours you will be able to call me Your Grace, Helen Arlet the Duke of Merania. Maybe not a crime in the eyes of the law, but it will certainly be a crime against my mother’s sensibilities once she realizes what has happened.