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Text: PSA to anyone with a tree nut allergy who frequents starbucks. We have a new drink called the pistachio cold foam cold brew and our pistachio sauce not only has real pistachio in it, the syrup sticks inside the blender and will 100% not fully wash off with the rinsers we use (its just water). I highly suggest if you want a cold foam drink during Jan-March you request it done in a sanitized blender to lower the chance of having a reaction if you are at risk.

Some baristas are also suggesting holding off on frapps as well (reddit thread)

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Trans activists in Mexico City, protesting violence against the LGBTQ community.

Yes at this point I’m reblogging this every time I see it.

Why real artists NEED to be protected from AI.

Full article here.

I wish all AI artbros a very: get fucked and please pick up a hobby that actually involves you learning to *do* something.

hey, can my cat stay on your blog for a little while?

i'm going out of town for the night and could use someone to watch her

SO YOUR TELLING ME THAT THE REASON I FIND MENS PANTS MORE COMFY IS CAUSE THEY DONT TRIGGER MY SENSORY ISSUES

I AM SO MAD.

[Image ID: A series of screenshots from a Twitter thread by Jason Coupet / professajay.

Text begins: Man voting in Georgia is so different than in Illinois. When I lived in chicago, during early voting, I went to the local elementary school, waited in line about ten minutes, and they gave me a sheet of paper. I checked people off then I put it in the machine and left.

Not Georgia. We drove downtown because *every* other polling place had a line >90 minutes. We paid ten bucks to park. We went in the building, then emptied out pockets to go through a metal detector. We then saw a sign about where to park to get our parking validated. Inside.

We then waited in line ~80 minutes. We got to the end and we were given a form to fill out (?). We were told *not* to sign it until told. Then we were moved into a waiting room where we were given a ticket number, like when you are at the dmv.

We were told to get our IDs out and wait. We waited here for 15-20 minutes. When your number is called they took your form, did some stuff on the computer, then told you to sign the form. Then you get a little green card. You insert it into the machine.

Then you go through three or four prompts, including a very serious™️ warning about perjury, a totally necessary warning given how huge a problem stolen identity is for the purposes of voting on behalf of someone else.

You then finally vote, and after an “are you sure” prompt you get a sheet. You then have to walk the sheet over to feed it into a machine. About half of these were working.

The bottleneck was clearly the weird application and waiting room thing. There are two dozen people at a time sitting to have their stuffed checked. Think of it as regular voting except when you got there they had to run a credit check for *each person* like you need financing.

It was easier finishing my PhD paperwork. Thankful for the kind people (nearly all black women) the shepherded the processes. But man if you are poor or disabled or whatever, good luck yo. That should have been easier. We finished tho. Text ends.

Image ID: Two Black people are standing beside a city street and smiling at the camera, a man and a woman. The man has close-cropped hair and a beard. He is wearing a black hoodie that says Southside and has a sticker on his chest with a peach on it. The woman has large tortoiseshell browline glasses and long twist locs. She has a light brown leather crossbody bag, and is wearing a salmon-colored windbreaker. She also has a peach sticker on her chest, which she is pointing to. Her hand has a wedding ring. End ID]

Not-so-fun fact:  the reason this kind of shit is happening is that, in 2013, the Supreme Court killed the federal oversight provision of the 1965 voting rights act.  

Quick history lesson:  After the US Civil War, the 15th Amendment established that states could not bar Black people, including freed slaves, from voting.  This happened during so called “Radical Reconstruction,” the brief period where former Confederate officials were barred from political participation. 

 As soon as that period ended, white officials in the former Confederate states began making laws to prevent Blacks from exercising their right to vote--the poll taxes and “literacy tests” that you’ve probably heard of; there were also some other things like requiring a first-time voter to be vouched for by an established voter.  All of this was legal because the Constitution gives each state the right to decide how it’s going to conduct elections.   They could have any restrictions they wanted, as long as those restrictions could theoretically be applied equally to all races.  

After decades of Black struggle for civil rights, the Voting Rights act reiterated what the 15th Amendment already said, but added an enforcement mechanism, in the form of federal oversight of voting procedures in locations that, according to a formula laid out in the Act, had a history of discriminatory practices in the conduct of elections.  Those states could still set their own procedures, but they had to run them by the Department of Justice, and allow federal observers to monitor actual their actual practice.

In 2013, some of those states went to the Supreme Court and said, basically, “We’ve been doing this for 50 years now, we know how to run a fair election, some of our best friends are Black, honestly aren’t you the real racists for treating us differently due to our long history of racism?”

The Court agreed with this argument, despite critics predicting that removal of federal oversight would immediately begin a slow creep of practices that would make voting more difficult, in ways that would add up to a racially discriminatory effect.  

Lo and behold, just four federal election cycles--two presidential election cycles--since oversight was ended, here they are, back on their bullshit. 

This is why there needs to be a Constitutional amendment to establish federal and state level independent election agencies, not controlled by political parties, who handle:

The Welsh Viking is pretty cool! 

He’s going to run 5 kilometres in his viking armour on May 9th to raise money for Stonewall!

Oh my goodness this is getting a lot of notes! Since I see posts on tumblr about how a lot of people seem to think all historians and archaeologists are crusty old bigots I’d just like to add that this guy is an archaeologist. A very vocally anti-racist archaeologist who goes out of his way to be as inclusive as possible to queer people.

Reblogging to watch later!

Always get your historical facts from anti-racist archeologists.

Wait, how’d the run go!?

Oh gosh I forgot to update on that! It went well, he was sore and tired but no injuries, and he raised over 1700 pounds! 

Not to completely derail this post, but I’d also like to recommend Miniminuteman to anyone interested in history and archeology from a non bigoted source. He’s absolutely fantastic, his tiktok is essentially him just debunking bs conspiracy videos and he recently started making a youtube series called Awful Archaeology and there are only three episodes so far but they own my entire heart, it’s great.

Also Bernadette Banner, who is a edwardian/victorian fashion historian who does everything from reconstruction work, educational videos and debunking historical fashion myths, to more fun stuff like rating historical drama costumes or recreating Wheel of Time outfits.

And these are just the two I’m most familiar with right now, there are SO many great historians and archeologists and anthropologists out there who have a passion for their field and want to share that knowledge while ALSO being great, humble people who stand up against bigotry, racism, and all the historical lies that come with. I’m falling deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole of historical content every week, and I’m loving every minute of it.

This post got me to watch Jimmy’s channel, and I ADORE it AND him, and I’m very thankful. 

I also want to recommend Tasting History with Max Miller, who is a food historian and excellent at pointing out when things in the past were racist or classist. He even had a recent Da Vinci video talking about checking sources and the importance of acknowledging when you get information wrong.

Also the Townsends, are reenactors that talk about food and culture and lifestyle of the 16-1700s of the colonial USA. They make a point of bringing in women and people of color regularly to talk about what those days were like for more than just white guys!

this is all amazing all i have to add is that max miller used to be a face actor as prince charming on disney cruises so please enjoy prince charming teaching you history and cooking

it wasn't "some reason", it was 2D animators being unionized and 3D not being unionized. and the simple truth that capitalism kills art.

I remember when 2D faded out, the reason studios kept giving was "it's because 2D is a lot more expensive to produce". I was a child back then so I didn't think too much about it, assuming it was about the process itself, but as I grew up and learned more about art as an artist, and gained friends who were professional 3D artists themselves, I started to question it. Because 3D is very different from 2D, but it's definitely not easier or faster to make. Also, both European and Asian studios kept producing 2D animated movies

The answer was unions. The answer wasn't "this kind of art is cheaper because it's easier to make", it was "this kind of art is cheaper because these artists can't force us to pay them correctly"

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you have auditory processing disorder

This is the only day I can post this

You know those images you can hear

Two and a half years ago, shortly after my book Outside the Charmed Circle was published, I came across a request for a PDF of it on a subreddit known for distributing pirated books. Someone on that subreddit registered an objection to the book being, well, stolen goods, and another redditor responded with (a.) the dubious claim that pirated books drive sales, and (b.) even if they didn't, it was "a tax on the golden elite," meaning me.

"A tax on the golden elite." It's one of those phrases that sticks with you, especially when it's directed at you.

To date, my humble little book has sold somewhere around 2,000 copies. My royalty rate is pretty standard for authors in the niche I write in, right around a dollar a copy. This means that, since the preorders for the book were first opened in (I believe) December of 2019, I've made somewhere around $2,000.

I can't even be glib or coy about this: two grand over the course of three years is not "golden elite" money. That's why I have a day job, and why I have no interest in pursuing full-time writing as a profession. Dying of consumption in drafty garrets is romantic nonsense, and so is the notion that my work, our work, should be a gift to "the community" without any recompense. We need to eat, and pay bills, and maybe even support other artists, too.

There isn't a week that goes by that I don't think about that phrase, "a tax on the golden elite," and how it made me feel. And you know what? That feeling sucks. It sucks worse than having TERFs say my book is garbage, worse than people leaving mediocre reviews on multiple platforms because it wasn't the book they expected to be, worse than my own family's disinterest in reading it. It sucks because, in a way, it's the ultimate insult. These are people who valued my work enough to want it for free, sure... but not enough to pay me for it.

They are, in a very real sense, erasing me from the work I created for them.

And if that sucks for me, I can only guess that it sucks for other artists, as well.

@evilwizard is that you?

yeah i was doin some sky stuff. don’t worry about it

staff continuing to choose violence as twitter sinks

tags via @mylittleredgirl : #the check mark crab rapture is coming#time for crab

oh holy sweet lucifers lunchbox… is this the plan? Can this be the plan? The checkmarks remain until Twitter collapses and then they all hatch into crabs for a day of celebration and song before vanishing? I would very much like this to be the plan. @staff please. if this was not the plan, please at least consider making it the plan.