“In the 70s it was black and minority ethnic people, in the 80s it was gay people, trans people are just the latest to get it in the neck from comedians who can’t be bothered to try at their jobs anymore. I cannot stand there and watch another dogshit comedian go: ‘Ooohh if a woman can identify as a man, maybe I’ll identify as a chair!’ Why don’t you identify as good comedians, you hack motherfuckers?!”

- Nish Kumar: “It’s In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves pt.2”

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View on Twitter

Yeah but you need to actually hear the full clip and the fury and passion and glee (because he knows he’s nailing them) in his voice. (Wish I could find the audio somewhere other than Twitter, but I can’t.

here it is!

[ID: a tweet by user SpillerOfTea that says: (quote) Why can’t we do jokes about trans people? What makes them so special? (end quote)

You can. This is how you do jokes about trans people without being a down-punching cock. It’s not hard.

Sound on, and pray to whatever god you believe in to bless Nish Kumar.

Attached is a picture of the cover art for Nish Kumar’s It’s In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves Part 2. The track title reads “untitled 06 - 01.04.2019 Show .end ID]

Transcription: content warning for mentions of sexual assault

It’s a fucking piece of shit! The first 10 minutes are shit comedy. No judgements, we’ve all done that. Some of us are doing it right now. But then the next 10 minutes is just him having a go at trans people. Guys, why is everyone so angry with trans people?! What did they do? There’s like 12 of them. Why is everyone so upset? Everyone’s like “Oh, do you say he or she?” I don’t know, ask. It’s not an unsolvable conundrum. Also, in my experience, trans people are not deliberately mysterious when you do ask. It’s not like you ask and they go (imitating a ghost in a sing-songy voice) “Ooooh, oooh I’ll never tell.” You’re thinking of poltergeists!

And there are a lot people, to be fair, most of them cisgender heterosexual men who say things like this (mockingly): “Oh if you let trans women use women’s bathrooms, then they’ll do sex attacks.” Now there’s a few problems with that. Firstly, to be fair, they don’t say “do sex attacks.” Secondly, trans people are overwhelmingly the victims of sexual violence more so than they are the perpetrators of it by an unbelievably large amount.

And thirdly, do you honestly think that if there’s someone out there willing to commit a sex attack, arguably the worst thing one human being can do to another. Do you honestly think if there is someone out there, regardless of their gender identity, who has done the logical gymnastics required in going into thinking that you can perpetuate the worst thing one human being can do to another, do you honestly- do you, do you think they’re currently being put off by a sign on a door? This has never happened. “Oh, I’m gonna do such a big sex attack. Oh it’s gonna be the biggest sex attack. It’s gonna be the biggest se- Oh sorry I didn’t realize this was the ladies.” That’s never happened! (audience cheers and applauds)

Fuck Ricky Gervais! Fuck Ricky Gervais! because what he’s doing is not edgy or interesting. He seems to think that it makes him an edgy or interesting comedian. It’s not. All he is is just the same as every other rich white dude comedian who gets too successful, runs out of ideas, and so just shits on the latest minority group. In the 1970s, that was my fucking family, it was black and minority ethnic people. In the 80s, it was gay people. Trans people are just the latest to get it in the neck from comedians who can’t be bothered to try at their jobs anymore. I cannot stand there and watch another dogshit comedian go: “Ooohh if a woman can identify as a man, maybe I’ll identify as a chair!” Why don’t you identify as good comedians, you hack motherfuckers?!“ . end transcript]

I don't think people realize how some people need abortions because they want to be pregnant. I really genuinely want a child. However, if abortion becomes criminalized, it becomes incredibly dangerous for me to be pregnant. I am physically ill and have multiple health problems that make me susceptible to having various pregnancy complications, miscarriage, and birth defects (that lead to stillbirth). Hell, I have a higher chance of maternal mortality than most women. Banning abortion puts me at severe medical risk. Miscarriage is now under legal suspect and is continuing to be seen as "potential" abortions or just flat out manslaughter; I could be interrogated by the police or even prosecuted in the court of law for having a miscarriage. I could have a pregnancy complication that cannot be resolved because a law prevents me from having an abortion, and I could, at best, be rendered infertile or, at worst, end up dead. I could be forced to go through an excruciatingly long and painful birth so that I can hold a dead infant in my arms because the law wouldn't let me get a "late-term" abortion. The list is endless. Don't let anyone tell you pregnancy is a safe procedure. It is not. Abortion is healthcare.

I've been saying this for years. I have a ten year old kid who I could not have risked trying to conceive were abortion not legal and easily accessible. He would not exist if abortion had not been legal then.

I've miscarried at least twice in my life, both confirmed times, I deeply and dearly wanted to be pregnant.

In my life I've had four pulmonary embolisms. We only knew about one of my three clotting risk factors during any of my pregnancies.

The only reason I survived my pregnancies was that I deeply, dearly wanted to have my babies.

From the age of 21 to the age of about 43, I spent a huge amount of my personal and professional life devoted to parenting, parenting education, labor support, childbirth education, breastfeeding education and support, and especially babywearing, because I genuinely adore babies and want to help people be better, more confident parents.

I know what it means to want to get pregnant and not be able to even try. I know what it means to get pregnant and be delighted about it and have it go wrong. I know what it means to be terrified for the baby in my belly because I was so, so sick during my pregnancy, and i just wanted them to be okay. And I know what it's like to get pregnant accidentally and to face down that choice.

All of my children, even the one I didn't plan, were choices, because abortion has been legal the vast majority of my life. I'm just a few months older than Roe V. Wade. They all know to their bones, that I wanted them, that I walked through fire for them, by choice.

And as deeply as I adore babies, as profound as I find pregnancy and the transition of a possibility into a reality, as much as I couldn't wrap my mind abortion for myself for most of my life...

Pregnancy was torturous for me. It was painful, demoralizing, and brutally difficult, and has changed me and my body forever in ways I will literally never be able to recover from fully.

And I cannot imagine forcing anyone to stay pregnant when they do not want to be or when that pregnancy threatens their fundamental well-being.

I know how badly even wanted pregnancies can go wrong.

Over half of conceptions naturally miscarry. Half of those are before implantation is established. I had one positive pregnancy test that ended with my period coming early.

When it comes down to it, bans on abortion are cruel, and religiously biased *and* based. And our government should not be making those decisions for people.

Abortion needs to be available freely, legally, on demand, without judgment... but more, we absolutely need to support people so that they can choose with open options.

And the fight against abortion is not about babies, it's about control. Period.

Very informative thread -source

Dr. Sarah Taber fucking SNAPPED

My Star Trek friends, reblog with your favourite most ‘out of context’ Star Trek image

I’ll start:

here ya go

Oh my time has COME >:D

Excellent post everyone

How could they leave this out?

Nothing to do but chortle. And possibly add this...

A Twitter Thread from David Bowles:

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I'll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the field’s basically just a 100 years old. We don’t really know what we’re doing. Our scholarly understanding of how learning happens is like astronomy 2000 years ago.

Most classroom practice is astrology.

Here is the link to needanabortion.org.

The silence of the Supreme Court has just effectively allowed Texas to overturn Roe vs Wade.

I never want to hear anyone complain ever again about being told they have to wear a mask, not when shit like this is happening.

Seizure First Aid. 

Learn it. Share it. Know it. Use it. 

100% correct medical information on tumblr for once; also consider calling 911 if you don’t know how often the person has seizures and ESPECIALLY if the seizure has lasted 5 minutes or more (which is why the watch is critical)

I have epilepsy so making sure the word is out on how to help people who do have seizures means a lot to me.

Nas has been spitting nothing but facts this week

These tags are important!

I just think you should sing no matter what you sound like and draw or paint no matter what it looks like

yall see “love” and immediately go to “romantic love” if you translate “love is the whole point” to “romantic love is the whole point” you need to rethink everything because love is found in everything. in community, in friendships, in family, in food, in nature so actually love is the whole point and u can die mad about it. hope this helps <3

18 February 2021 x

One of the things I’m most looking forward to for Campaign 3 is the freedom that comes with lower stakes.

There’s a sense of urgency that comes with end of the world stakes that kind of impedes certain opportunities.

Like here’s an ancient, incredibly advanced city with wonders and horrors and everything in between for you to explore…except don’t because if you take too long this cult is going to end the world.

It’ll be nice for the narrative to take a second to breath.

Sad thing is, this is exactly how I felt about the start of C2, and it did not. work out.

I think the end of C1 had time based urgency , great character development and interaction coupled with that sense of urgency. The changes of scene ep to ep (gods, volcanoes, Titan climbing) made the fact the last two days took weeks of game time still seem fast, urgent and against the clock. It helped that the Titan itself was showing the march towards doom and the race against time to stop it. The characters were much more developed so the personal interactions gave more of an illusion of freedom to explore those interactions towards the end, plus the freedoms of how they were going to get veccna. They chose how many gods they visited, how much of a rush they needed to be in and where to go.

I’ve found the slow dungeon crawl through Aeor - both on prime plain and astral sea- took the ungency out of getting to Lucian. I think the characters are less developed so the personal interactions don’t give you the impression of more earlier freedoms. Which is interesting as I think they had more freedom through the campaign. To me it seemed they had so much choice they picked the big bad themselves, it could have been completely different had they gone after Ukatoa, for example. One they started going after Lucian, Lucian dictated what was going on really, taking away that sense of freedom. We were sat saying “ it’s got to be the big fight next week!” for weeks! VM fought the BBEG on their terms were as M9 have less of a sense of purpose the longer the dungeon crawl ha gone on.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve still loved C2 (the hag bit was amazing!) it’s just not been as exciting for me. The extra freedom they had at the start seemed to make them drift along a lot. Aside from a few moments (eg. Ickython chasing them) there’s not been a big world changing sense of danger since they settled the Cold War. Chasing Lucian has the big danger sense in parts but has been a bit to slow to keep it going.

Coming into a fandom late

Coming into a fandom early and watching it become an angry clusterfuck

Being in a dormant fandom that suddenly comes alive again after a new book/movie

Don’t forget about those who come in the midst of a fandom war. 

Accuracy at its best

Being in a fandom and not even knowing there’s a war going on…

all of this shit…lol

When You’re Not In The Fandom But You’re Nosy AF

When you get into a fandom only to discover it’s dead

This gets better every time I see it. 

@fuboos-mess

Being in a dead fandom…

Or being in such a tiny fandom that it feels like youre the only one

The accuracy hurts.

Being in a fandom that had a shit ending.

When you’ve been fangirling long enough, you’ve experienced all of the above.

Being in a fandom meant for kids.

This just gets better..

@mi-kleos

When you realize that joining the fandom has ruined you

Fandom hell in general

Yes.

This^^^ just… ALL OF THIS.

Being in so many fandoms that you don’t even know what’s going on

THIS IS THE SKULDUGGERY FUCKING PLEASANT FANDOM IN ONE POST!!

Trying to recruit people to your fandom

Annnnnnndddd it’s back

Being in a fandom which has so many antis

I’ve probably reblogged this before, but that was before these great additions.

Being in a fandom that actually works together

Why is this so true? All of it.

being in a fanbase but all your mutuals suddenly turn into Kpop blogs

I always enjoy it when a good post comes around again and has been improved by the reblogs like the years for a fine wine.

Being in a fandom when shit goes down and everyone has different opinions

When you are in a fandom and don’t care for others people opinion…..even if they are right…(believe me, I have met several of those)

Being in a fandom you never meant to join

I love this. and it’s gotten better

After abandoning a fandom you’re still a little bit emotionally invested in….

All of these are me. Lol

Being in a fandom on Tumblr

And it reached its epic conclusion

I CHOKED ON FUNDIP

HISTORY HAS BEEN ENGRAVED INTO THIS POST

It gets better every time it comes around onto my dash

ALL OF THIS…ALL OF IT!

And once again, it’s on my dash

How the hell did it get even better than before-

Never knew it’d be possible :0

https://nerdbot.com/2021/01/09/new-pill-bottles-for-shaky-hands-will-help-people-with-parkinsons/

Maki Naro @ The Nib

Because it needs saying again, especially this year.

Fake Punk: I don’t care about catching coronavirus

Real Punk: I should take precautions to help protect the oppressed groups who are vulnerable to this epidemic like low-income households, homeless people and people with disabilities.

This isn’t “punk” it’s just being a good person

Contrary to what many people would have you believe, being a good person despite societal pressure not to be is kinda what punk is about