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happy pride to straight queer people. i love u
i love u transhets, i love u heterosexual aromantics & asexual heteroromantics, i love u straight nonbinary people, i love u straight polyam people, genderqueer straight people, and any other straight people who identify as queer for any reason. i love u
thank you straight people in the kink community. y'all have hosted spaces for us when no one else will. i love you
to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube
they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!
i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies
Sincere question, not bait: to what extent can you think of rainbowwashing and corporate "pride" the way you think of red states? What I mean is: are corporations so massive and incomprehensible that there are parties within a corporation at odds with each other? Is it possible that target (to use your example) is simultaneously working against queer rights generally and also has teams supporting them internally, in the way that there are gays rights activists in red states who can only make symbolic headway? And target corporate just has to suck it up for appearances? I'm not buying their ugly pride merch anyway but I think about this sometimes and I am too ignorant to know the answer.
You're conflating two different forms of organization in a way that's far more disturbing than you realize.
Even the most undemocratic states in the US hold regular citizen elections to select representatives that are subject to government transparency standards and (possibly) the threat of removal. This is completely different than the way that a corporation or privately-owned company operates. The participants in the system (the workers) do not have the ability to influence any decisions that a corporation makes. This choice is made exclusively by a small group of major shareholders, and all authority flows through them and their chosen executives. It operates as one unified whole.
Are there Target employees pushing for a pro-LGBTQ message? Yeah, I'm sure there are. But these employees have substantially less power to alter the decision-making process than even an LGBTQ activist group in a state like Alabama or Mississippi, because there are actual levers of public power that minority activists there can still access. If you don't own large amounts of stock or have some kind of personal pull with the executives, you have no authority whatsoever in the corporation. Any decision Target makes comes down to their strategies for maximizing shareholder returns, and Target has calculated that this means selling things to gay people as a market niche. End of story.
Every corporation is a dictatorship, by definition. This is why trying to affect social change through them is such a massive waste of energy.
Here are some ways to help out some of the Canadians who's lives have been forever changed by the wildfires. (From @mugsy, someone who's there, in the country, and feeling pretty damn scared.) United Way Halifax (https://www.unitedwayhalifax.ca/give/united-way-halifax-wildfire-recovery-appeal/)
Alberta.ca Disaster Assistance (https://www.alberta.ca/disaster-assistance-and-recovery-support.aspx)
RedCross.ca Disaster Assistance (https://www.redcross.ca/how-we-help/current-emergency-responses/atlantic-canada-wildfire-responses)
And a GoFundMe for their coworker (https://gofund.me/f30934aa)
I would also highly recommend donating to victims from East Prairie MΓ©tis Settlement and Little Red River Cree Nation in Alberta, which were hit extremely hard by the fires.
You can find a collection of links for EPMS here (https://linktr.ee/epmsfire)
Little Red River has an official GoFundMe here as well (https://www.gofundme.com/f/fox-lake-fire-evacuees)
Indigenous communities have been some of the hardest hit and least assisted. If you have the means to donate, please please give directly to impacted communities. It goes a long way
Just remember youβre someoneβs most bangable mutual. Maybe multiple. Freaks attract freaks like magnets. Where was I going with this.
Trying to remind myself that im allowed to take painkillers even if the pain is "my fault".
A migraine is a result of, not a punishment for forgetting to eat - take the painkillers.
Back pain is a result of, not a punishment for poor posture - take the painkillers.
Sore joints are a result of, not a punishment for overexertion - take the painkillers.
Pain is not a punishment for a mistake. Painkillers are there to ease suffering. There is no glory in misery. There is no virtue in agony.
PSA: You can call your man baby. You can hold him. Play with his hair. Comfort him. Hug him from behind. Doesn't make him less than a man. Makes him stronger. Makes you stronger together. Men deserve the same treatment they give.
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
The Discord change is good tho, itβs finally just a username and not username#random numbers
Itβs not, actually. Itβs terrible.
Those βrandom numbersβ allow multiple people to use similar/the same usernames with a differentiator at the end, so you can be bob#1212 instead of having to be bob12121212, which makes it possible for your friends to easily @bob. Without the #1234, you end up with the βfirstnamebunchofnumbersβ phenomenon, which is truly annoying. Where before it would just assign you four numbers, now you have to either guess a unique differentiator which is more difficult to remember, or come up with another name.
Those random numbers also mean that itβs hard for people to find you and harass you with DM requests/friend requests/unsolicited DMs. That may not be a problem for you, but Iβm sure not looking forward to some of the random assholes on the internet who love to bother me trying to find me when thereβs no longer a #9756 (not my differentiator, lol) at the end of my Discord login.
Sure, I could pick a different username on Discord from everywhere else Iβve ever been on the internet for the past 25 years, but why should I have to do that in order to not be harassed, when the present system already protects me from random harassment? Itβs a change with no upside for me and lots of downsides.
Likewise, thereβs an issue of impersonators, because getting your new username is βfirst come, first serve.β Iβm sure there will be no problems with impersonation or blocking someone from taking the username theyβve used everywhere, or people impersonating others for the purposes of harassment and defamation!
Hey, did you know that on places which use unique usernames like this, thereβs always a black market for desirable usernames? Do you have any idea how much money changes hands over URLs and usernames? Did you know that a grandpa was killed (he died from a heart attack brought on by the stress) after teenagers SWATted him because he wouldnβt sell them his Twitter username? I literally sold my old professional top-level URL, the one connected to my deadname, for three thousand dollars.
Anytime a black market opportunity opens up, spam and abuse skyrocket. I will bet you money right now that once this change goes through, youβre going to see a huge increase in phishing, spam, etc. so that scammers can get hold of 'desirableβ usernames and then either sell them back to the people they stole them from, or sell them to others. Why do I think thatβll happen? Because it already happens everywhere else:
Sonderman targeted at least five people across the country, demanding they give up their social media handles, according to an indictment. Herring was the only victim who died. If the person surrendered the handle, Sonderman would then put it up for sale on internet forums, the indictment stated. If they refused, Sonderman and his co-conspirator would βbombard the owner with repeated phone calls and text messagesβ and harass them in an attempt to get them to change their mind, according to the indictment.
Did you know that a lot of people were paying for Nitro specifically so they could have custom number discriminators, so once thatβs gone, there will be no reason for a lot of those people to continue to pay for Nitro, so in terms of money, Discord is shooting themselves in the foot again. They think theyβre going to be able to present Discord as a social media site rather than a messaging service, andβ¦ likeβ¦ none of the users actually want that, because thatβs not what Discord is to them.
Last (well, last of the things I feel like writing about, but actually not last of the reasons this is an ill-advised idea) but not least, this actually reduces the systemβs capacity for unique and understandable usernames! It used to be that you could have bob#0001-9999, and then bob1#0001-9999, but now you only have bob, bob1, bob2. That doesnβt even take into account that theyβre doing away with capital letters, so where before you had bob#0001-9999 AND Bob#0001-9999, now you only have bob, bob1, bob2, etc. Theyβve actually reduced their capacity for unique usernames, which seems weird in terms of creating opportunity for growth.
Edited to add: oh hey look, I was already right!
Another thing that seems to be quite interesting; users who will soonest have access to this feature (still primarily Discord staff, partners, affiliates, etc) are operating on a reservation basis β claiming their username, so that it canβt be taken by another high-priority user. Thing is, there are some well-known personalities, in addition to production studios, business groups, etc. that are unable to access their own names because, turns out, someone beat them to the punch. Public statements from indie title, Rust Lakeβs team, reads, βA warning for all the indie devs waiting to claim their own username, we just received an email that we, as Verified Owners, could finally submit a new username and wowβ¦ βrustylakeβ is already taken!β In addition, several partners have discovered names like βmarkiplierβ (a well-known YouTube content creator and online personality) were not reserved early, and now, the affected individual(s) will not have access to their identifying name on this platform.
Anyway, Iβm checking out new chat platforms because this is about to be a whole fucking mess.
Boss's wife upon hearing I'm a medieval scholar: Isn't it crazy all the things medieval people thought would stop the plague?
Me: *Fighting all my devils & angels not to bring up that she drank horse antiparasitic last year.*
Youβre a better person than I
We passed it a couple of days ago, but it has been 10 years since the strip "On Fire" which became the meme "This is Fine" was posted originally on my webcomic Gunshow.
My thoughts on the meme come and go, ebb and flow, and change on a dime depending on how annoyed I am that day. I should be so lucky to get to do all this for a living thanks to what it has become and helped me do, but it's hard to see the forest through the trees and it feels like I'm constantly lost in the woods anyway.
Still. It's relatable! You might use it in your office job if you have one! A lot of people do. It has kind of lost a bit of luster for me when I am still a working cartoonist trying to make something bigger and better and people just like this thing you dashed off for a comic on a Wednesday. Other artists might know that feeling. It's what we all as creators often deal with.
This strip has made me comprehend the idea of one's perception of art. I am bored more often than not, of my own art. I try to make something that excites me, makes me laugh, but sometimes you have a schedule and just need to pop something out now. That has helped me get quicker and let go of precious ideas, but it has also proven to be a double edged sword when the world at large has access to your work.
When a work gets as big as this has, is it still yours? Not talking about copyright and legal stuff. It says something larger that everyone can feel and relate to. I did not go through what Matt Furie has, but there is a similar level of control you just Don't Have anymore when your work becomes a meme on this level. I got lucky being able to ride it out a little. But it's not perfectly in my grasp. There's plenty of bootleggers and grifters who just use memes as freely as the air they breath.
But I've always tried to move forward. I rarely think about my older work or care if it's even easily available online. I'm no historian, I'm just the jester who's makin' up a story or tellin' a joke. But I've been forced time and time again with these 6 panels, to be the party pooper, gate-keeper, girlboss, etc and just to get people to recognize there are artists behind these drawings online. These memes we share.
And it feels like it's only getting harder. The best I can ask for is for people to simply forget, but the dog persists. So I do what I can and try to keep in good humor and be thankful that I can still do what I do for a living.
actually sex is fun and casual if you want it to be and serious and sacred if you want it to be bc you make that choice for yourself and nobody else!
thank you @a-flawless-catastrophe for this excellent way of putting it this is perfect
sitting on this one for a little while but... bibically accurate body horror fractal sunflower
happy pride!!!! I made these paintings for us!!!! PLEASE use them!! as long as it's for personal use only π i have a print shop and kofi if you want to throw any money at me, love u π
ok bye have a great pride month!!!! BE QUEER KICK ASS!!!!!
Your honour, I admit that I do have a superiority complex over not watching Disney "live action" remakes, but in my defense, I am right
Is Crowley a demon who is a snake with a human form, a demon who is a human with a snake form, or a demon with two forms and neither is more important?
He's a fallen angel who can look like whatever he wants to look like.
