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have you guys seen this

I want this BLAZED across tumblr like a banner at the top of the screen, permanently

Sometimes I want to expand my etsy to include the hand-dyed silk veils that I make for bellydance, but its such a niche item that it feels like it wouldn't sell well. I can get the silk I need in bulk, which drives down the cost and it kind of does feel like the majority of colors are all the same combos, so there's probably a market. Its just the... is this going to be another THING that I have to market and store and list and... etc.

I went ahead and got the supplies for it anyways.

That's true! Though I'm not sure if they're going to be the desired thickness for what you use them for. The supplier I've been using is very thin, intended for low-wind environments.

Mark Twain with his Colt Model 1903 pistol, 1908.

i cant stop thinking about this picture. the stance. the white suit. the way the gun looks like he’s just making a gun symbol with his fingers. the way his eyebrows are more prominent than his mustache. his fucking neck

Mark Twain on his way to stop Data from going back to the future

welp.

Guess we'll be removing the Gilbert Baker 1977 Pride Flag from our site, along with the links to the Gilbert Baker Foundation.

Heads up to other queer artists: if you use the original 1977 flag in anything, definitely don't make any reference to who created it in your listings or you might get threatened by the Gilbert Baker Foundation! :)

Happy End Of Pride Month From CMG /s

I'm just here going "... so, to be clear, you are issuing legal threats to a small Jewish-owned company in the name of Gilbert Baker... because we used his name in identifying the colorway associated with his flag?"

My wife just looked it up -- we've made less than $500 in the last 5 years on any items in that colorway. It is not popular. We spend a lot of time educating young queer people what that flag even is and why it's important.

Well, spent. Because we're not doing that anymore.

Good job spreading awareness of Gilbert Baker's work, guys!

Unreal. What would Gilbert Baker think?

~ Gilbert Baker

Apparently in 2019, after Baker had passed away, the Foundation partnered with an LGBTQ business student group called Pride Corp. and became litigious about the use of the flag?

Nice work guys, honoring Gilbert Baker by shitting on independent queer creators (who are doing your job for you) sure is one way to do it.

It's specifically about the name. We can use the flag, but giving credit to Gilbert Baker as its creator by calling it the 'Gilbert Baker flag' is the issue, because we are 'using the name for promotion.'

It's ridiculous on any number of levels, especially that WE HAVE TO TELL PEOPLE WHO HE WAS. They don't KNOW. Gilbert Baker's name is not a draw for our customers. It's a history lesson.

[Image description: White text against a darkened background of the red, orange, yellow, and green stripes of a pride flag, saying, "A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that's why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people." The quote is from Gilbert Baker. End description.]

Update:

They're asking us for nearly 2x what we've made from anything using that color scheme because we referred to it using the name of the original artist.

Fellow artists, I would advise you that if you have anything using the colors of the 8-stripe flag and calling it by or in any way referencing the name of the original artist that you either a) take it down or b) rename the flag, lest they ask you for twice what you've ever made.

This may have the unfortunate effect of keeping us from ever talking about that particular Jewish artist of blessed memory, and that does seem like a strange tactic for the Gilbert Baker Foundation to take, but...

I really think people have forgotten just how bad things were under the Trump Administration. Literally every day there was news about some service being cut or someone terrible appointed somewhere they shouldn't be or what have you. He constantly flirted with WW3 and military dictatorship. It was such a blur of badness that there aren't big standouts for people to point to to make him "the XYZ president." it was everything. all the time. Why do we not remember this.

Remember how everyone learned Zelenskyys name? he wasn't the presiden of Ukraine standing up against a longshot defense against a Russian invasion. He was that guy that Trump tried to extort in order to get blackmail against Joe Biden.

Can anyone name the current secretary of education? I can't. But I can list the shitty things Betsy DeVos did

He literally signed an executive order blocking people from six (primarily Muslim) countries from entering the United States a week after he took office. A week after he took office, we had people on airplanes back to the States getting turned away. We had people with legitimate visas getting turned away. Permanent residents were being detained at airports for days. People with dual citizenship didn't know what the fuck to do. There were lawyers camped out at airports. There were protests. We went from taking 1800 refugees a week to taking 2. 2 refugees. The entire time the executive order was in effect.

A week after he took office he did this. A fucking week.

Here is a list of what Joe Biden did on his first day in office

It's a lot of smaller, occasionally kind of policy wonk-ish stuff. He didn't save the world and create an eternal paradise in his first hundred days. But a lot of people could breathe a little easier, whether or not they knew the work that went into it.

And, you know, people weren't being held indefinitely at airports while Trump fought to revoke their visas for being the wrong kind of Muslim (aka the poor kind), so there's that.

#i was in elementary and middle school during trump so i don't remember what it was like but I'm sure it was awful

@writingraccoon it was! And it's going to be even more awful if he's elected again, because he's actually got a plan this time--it involves staffing every government office with loyalists, which would include things like the department of education, the EPA, the CDC, and so on--and now thanks to the Supreme Court he gets immunity on anything he does in office ever.

The fact that all this is going on and all the media seems to be concerned with is how old Biden is is making me fucking insane.

Vote team blue down the whole ballot. Save us, please.

When I was in vet school I went to this one lecture that I will never forget. Various clubs would have different guest lecturers come in to talk about relevant topics and since I was in the Wildlife Disease Association club I naturally attended all the wildlife and conservation discussions. Well on this particular occasion, the speakers started off telling us they had been working on a project involving the conservation of lemurs in Madagascar. Lemurs exist only in Madagascar, and they are in real trouble; they’re considered the most endangered group of mammals on Earth. This team of veterinarians was initially assembled to address threats to lemur health and work on conservation solutions to try and save as many lemur species from extinction as possible. As they explored the most present dangers to lemurs they found that although habitat loss was the primary problem for these vulnerable animals, predation by humans was a significant cause of losses as well. The vets realized it was crucial for the hunting of lemurs by native people to stop, but of course this is not so simple a problem.

The local Malagasy people are dealing with extreme poverty and food insecurity, with nearly half of children under five years old suffering from chronic malnutrition. The local people have always subsisted on hunting wildlife for food, and as Madagascar’s wildlife population declines, the people who rely on so-called bushmeat to survive are struggling more and more. People are literally starving.

Our conservation team thought about this a lot. They had initially intended to focus efforts on education but came to understand that this is not an issue arising from a lack of knowledge. For these people it is a question of survival. It doesn’t matter how many times a foreigner tells you not to eat an animal you’ve hunted your entire life, if your child is starving you are going to do everything in your power to keep your family alive.

So the vets changed course. Rather than focus efforts on simply teaching people about lemurs, they decided to try and use veterinary medicine to reduce the underlying issue of food insecurity. They supposed that if a reliable protein source could be introduced for the people who needed it, the dependence on meat from wildlife would greatly decrease. So they got to work establishing new flocks of chickens in the most at-risk communities, and also initiated an aggressive vaccination program for Newcastle disease (an infectious illness of poultry that is of particular concern in this area). They worked with over 600 households to ensure appropriate husbandry and vaccination for every flock, and soon found these communities were being transformed by the introduction of a steady protein source. Families with a healthy flock of chickens were far less likely to hunt wild animals like lemurs, and fewer kids went hungry. Thats what we call a win-win situation.

This chicken vaccine program became just one small part of an amazing conservation outreach initiative in Madagascar that puts local people at the center of everything they do. Helping these vulnerable communities of people helps similarly vulnerable wildlife, always. If we go into a country guns-blazing with that fire for conservation in our hearts and a plan to save native animals, we simply cannot ignore the humans who live around them. Doing so is counterintuitive to creating an effective plan because whether we recognize it or not, humans and animals are inextricably linked in many ways. A true conservation success story is one that doesn’t leave needy humans in its wake, and that is why I think this particular story has stuck with me for so long.

(Source 1)

(Source 2- cool video exploring this initiative from some folks involved)

(Source 3)

Same

young woman wearing a granny squares vest (Chicago, 1974)

im putting together a couple of scottish folk mixes bc that’s what i do and im honestly curious if anyone in my country has ever been unequivocally happy about anything ever

scottish trad music genres:

We have of course the traditional Irish music genres to go with them:

* Everyone I Love Is An Allegorical Representation of Ireland

* The English Stole My Farm And Put Sheep On It

* You Were My Boyfriend But Now You Won’t Even Come To The Window To Look Upon Me And Our Dead Infant Child (In The Rain)

* Whack Fol Too La Roo Umptytiddly Good They’ve Stopped Listening Now Let’s Talk About Revolution

* Something In Irish, I Think It’s About Fairies, Or Maybe A Cow

oooo can I add to this? don’t forget Appalachian folk balladry, the American cousin of Scottish and Irish traditional music and just as uplifting as its Anglo-Saxon highland forbears!!!

genres include:

Don’t forget that old standby “The Mine Collapsed and Everyone Died”!

I think someone needs to put in a word for the English folk tradition though:

behold mongolian folk music genres

THE MONGOLIAN FOLK SONGS MADE IT BETTER.

now with more okinawan!

As the daughter of a folksinger and spouse of a folklorist, I love this SO MUCH.  Here’s some from the sub-sub-genre of French folk songs of the Midwest…

Some Italian Folk Music Genres

A Spider Has Bitten Me And If I Do Not Dance I Will Die, Alas

I Am A Very Fancy Man With A Very Fancy Hat

The Cable Car Is A Thinly-Veiled Metaphor For Your Feminine Torture, O Woman

Rome Is The Very Best Place And Every Other Place Is Just Awful

I Love You, But You Are Married

I Love You, But You Are Fickle (Why Did You Dance With The Baker’s Son, Thou Vixen?)

I Love You, But You Left Me All Alone On This Romantic Wind-Swept Hillside, Which Is Actually Very Pretty, But Not As Pretty As You, Foul Temptress

Rome Is Still The Best Place And Every Other Place Can Go Right To Hell

Seriously Once You Have Been To Rome You Will Just Be Sick At The Thought Of Being Anywhere Else, You Will Pine Away And Die

I Love You, But You Are Dead (Or Maybe You Just Went To Live In A Slightly Prettier Place)

Rome, Rome, O Rome, Ah Rome, Rome Rome Rome, Have I Mentioned That I Love Rome?

Venetian Special Genres:

Women Are Like The Ocean: Salty And Full Of Drowned Sailors

Women Are Like The Ocean: I Cannot Figure Them Out At All

I Saw You One Time At A Party And I Have Designs Upon Your Feminine Virtue

I Love You, But You Are Married To The Ocean (For Some Reason)

I thought I would add some Dutch ones, because I saw no one had added any: - That Girl Is A Prostitute (But At Least She Goes To Church)

- That Incompetent Sailor Is Actually A Girl, But She Will Have Sex With You If You Don’t Kick Her Off The Boat

- Someone Of Any Occupation Is Doing Something, But Unfortunately They Are Now Dead

- Fuck You Spain (Haha, We Sunk Your Boat And Stole Your Silver)

- Fuck You England

- We Might Be Small, But We Will Fight You

- Life Isn’t So Bad, If You Just Go Outside

- Fuck You Winter

- Look At That Guy (Wild Racism)

- We Like Going To Other Countries (More Wild Racism)

- Drinking Is Fun

- Drinking Makes Me Long For Sea

- God Is My Dad

- My Province Is Great And Full Of Nature

Some nice Russian folk songs:

And my personal favourite:

I just couldn’t miss an opportunity to provide you a comprehensive summary of Ukrainian folk music genres.

~ I Married To A Man And Moved Far From My Home But I Want Fucking Back On My Fucking Land To My Parents And A Guy Whom I Actually Planned To Marry Before My Society’s Patriarchal Structure Destroyed My Life

~ A Guy Whom I Loved Loved Me And Also A Some Other Bitch So I Poisoned Him So That Nobody Gets Him

~ This Is My Land And I Love It Very Much, Period

~ I Made A Traditional Kupala Wreath And Released It On Water To Find My Love, No Sexual Hits Involved

~ I Have A Veeery Deeeeep Well In My Garden, And Also A Veeery Curly-Wurly Cabbage, And Also A Veeery Sweeeet Carrot Growing There, Come On Guys Check It Out, Oh, And There Are Totally No Sexual Hints

~ Graphic Descriptions Of Lesbian Sex

~ Everybody Is Dead After A Battle But There Is One Particular Cossack Whom I Am Especially Obligated To Mourn About Because He Is A Representative Of Our Entire Nation’s Young People

~ The Couple Cannot Be Together Because Of Various Reasons And Everybody Cries

~  The Couple Cannot Be Together Because Of Various Reasons And Everybody Cries And It’s Compared To Some Sad Shit Happening In Nature

~ Let’s Kill All People Who Threaten Ukraine Hahaha Yay!

~Let’s Kill All People Who Threaten Ukraine And Involve Some Couple Who Cannot Be Together Because Of Various Reasons And Everybody Cries

Adding these well-known Cajun hits

~ I have a boat and have procured many crawfish do you love me?

~ I sure do love crawfish, boats, the bayou, and also dancing

~ My girlfriend can cook, and is therefore superior your girlfriend, who cannot

~ my girlfriend cannot cook and is therefore inferior to all other girlfriends

~ I saw you over a pile of crawfish and knew I was in love (on the bayou)

~ a list of regional dishes set to the tune of kitchen utensils

I feel like we’re missing the huge goldmine of blues standards:

I’m from Wisconsin.

• The Packers are Great • Beer is Great • Deer Hunting is Great • We Drink Beer Instead of Shooting Deer • The Deer That Got Away • Canada Seems Nice • The Drinking Beer, Eating Venison, and Talking About Dem Packers Polka

Classic: https://youtu.be/DZOC1QXTQLk

As promised, some of the Czech folk songs themes:

• Alas, beautiful girls, they’re going to recruit, weep your lovers. • Blue-eyed girl, don’t sit by the stream, it will take away your beauty. • Hey, hay, hey, you’ve been unfaithful, I’m going to die. • Oh dear, oh dear, I’ve been recruited and now my girlfriend is far away. But I got a nice horse and a sword, yay! Anyways, I’m going to die. • Oh the beauty of the green woods, you’ve been unfaithful, you’re going to die. • Oh the beauty of this or that little town, I love you, my black-eyed girl. • Had you listened to your mother, you wouldn’t have been recruited, my poor son. • I gave my scarf to a boy and he doesn’t love me anymore. I have no more scarfs to give. • My boyfriend is angry because I lost the scarf he gave me. • Random Song About Farmwork • Give me a kiss, beautiful girl! I will not, but come to our house this evening and I will kiss you. • I am poor, I don’t have shoes. • Please don’t come to our house, I am ashamed of your poverty. Come on Sunday in better clothes, my mother will be happy to invite you in. • Random Song About Handicraft

Aaand many more…

…and sometimes also a random Symbolic Bird that symbolizes Beautiful Girls or Innocence. Or both at once.

Also those (mostly eastern) Slovakian folk songs I know?

French Folk Songs:

Australian Folk Songs (AKA the stuff they made us sing at school)

Here are some Canadian standards:

Hungarian folk songs:

Some more Russian folk songs:

- I have a mean father who doesn’t let me love my man but I’ll sneak out anyway, also I have an awesome new porch and oak gates

- I fell in love with a man but can’t tell him because can’t find words / can’t even look at him because he’s so handsome and cool, let him guess that I love him

- I fell in love with a dumbass

- A (metaphorical) bird/animal stole my crops, I’ll find it and make it sorry

- I drink a lot and cry because life is hard and no one loves me

- I was drafted, so I’ll die heroically and my woman will cry

- I’ll run away from my village, join Sten’ka Razin’s gang, live fast and die young

- Sten’ka Razing drowned a woman because his gang mocked him

- My czar doesn’t care for me, my pomeshik doesn’t care for me, my government saw me in a coffin, but my country is the greatest, and all those around it suck

- Cold won’t discourage me from going out with my love

- Cold won’t discourage me from kissing

- Cold won’t discourage me from working

- Cold won’t discourage me from riding

- Cold won’t discourage me period

- I’m freezing and I will die

what the fuck

saxo cere comminuit brum

what the actual fuck

@nekrotikon

the word for brain here is cerebrum, and it's been literally split in two

I've seen wordplay like this before in Latin, but with compound words that are clearly made up of separate parts

but "cere" is not a word and neither is "brum"

you could translate it something like

"he split his br apart ain with a rock"

and it's only slightly less unreadable than that due to freer word order

needless to say something I'd expect more from a modern experimental poem than an ancient epic

Latin linguistic shitposting is amazing. Like, I can't recall exactly, but there's a line of poetry that says basically "Claudius lives in the mountains mountains".

Except because Latin is inflected and word order is less important, it's actually written like "in the (mountains) Claudius (mountains) lived"

And it still means the same thing. Except why the duplicate of mountains? Because it turns out, Claudius didn't live in the mountains. He lived in a valley between two mountains.

They changed the word order of the sentence and duplicate a word, to do a word-order pun about where some random guy lived! It's great, and exactly the kind of thing you can't do in English, because we depend so much more on word order.

official linguistics post

@latinare hey, you like stuff like this right?

This isn’t even an onion article 😭 bro ran with the power of god AND anime on his side

Can't get over this becayse why did she do thay

me when i throw away an apple core: too bad i haven't any hogs. i could have put this in their trough.

I know I've been posting more about politics lately, and it's caused me to lose a chunk of followers.

But I'm a queer person with a degree in political science and its an election year. I'm old friends with several of my city council members. I've been to trainings on how to run elections. I spent my college years working for nonprofits (and being the world's worst canvasser). I'm close with more than one person who works for unions, and I have family members who work for government agencies.

I think about politics in a very pragmatic "I know how the sausage is made" kind of way. We're in a vice press, and there's only one way to release the pressure.

The revolution ain't coming. There is no one to save us but us.

So yeah, I'm going to be pissed if your answer is "let them tighten the vice -- there's no way out of the vice, it doesn't matter if they loosen or tighten it."

There's a difference, and anyone telling you otherwise is likely a psyop or someone who fell for a psyop. This literally happened before, and it's happening again.

Stop falling for it.

I really don't know who to vote for

You have two choices. And they aren't even close to each other.

(and Line 12 is misleading -- because Trump has literally stated he would like to help Israel "finish the job," while Biden is the only President of my lifetime to threaten withholding aid to Israel)

There is no third choice in American politics. You vote for the candidate who will do the least harm/most good, and you remember that it's not the end of your activism.

Had a revelation recently and thought it might help other people too.

There is absolutely NO shame in having a ton of projects on the go and switching between or even dropping them on a whim.

Hobbies are meant to be FUN.

You can have 20 writing projects, or knitting, or whatever your thing is, and putting them down for a bit or abandoning them is a-okay.

I personally would never think that someone who started playing a video game and then decided to play another before it was finished was a quitter, so why am I so judgemental towards myself?

Doing your hobbies in a way that brings you joy isn't selfish or weak, it's...literally the whole point of them. Go nuts!

Watching the UK results roll in and seeing the voter turnout and just how many votes the Reform party is getting like:

Jesus Christ.

THANK YOU. This is legit giving me fits bc sure, they only got 4 seats, blah blah, but if you look at the actual breakdown of voters, they're literally the third highest voting bloc:

And if you look at the vote tallies of individual constituencies, especially ones that flipped CON>LAB, you repeatedly see where it's obvious that if there hadn't been a schism between the Tories and Reform, Labour wouldn't have even remotely had the votes to succeed. Examples:

Everyone celebrating Labour sweeping really needs to analyze this for what it actually is and plan/act accordingly before the pendulum swings back again!! The evil hasn't been defeated by a long shot!!

Christ, I hadn’t seen the final numbers yet. 4 million people voted for the fascist party. I’m not even being hyperbolic. The Reform party ran on the platform that the Tories/Cons were too liberal.

Fucking hell.

The above is a video shared by smrchildsadness on Twitter, showing a person participating in a pride parade exchanging a pride flag with a person standing on his (am using his pronoun based on the TikToks/Tweets of what happened) doorway who had a Portuguese flag. There are sounds of cheers and crying and the two people hug each other as they exchange the flags. The man at the doorway then waved kisses to the crowd within the pride parade.

The Tweet says: "NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE WAS WAVING THE PORTUGUESE FLAG BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A PRIDE FLAG AND THEY TRADED FLAGS AND HE'S SO EMOTIONAL TO GET HIS OWN PRIDE FLAG I'M EMOTIONALLY RUINED"

For context, apparently they were worried that maybe he's a nationalist because he was waving the Portuguese flag and some nationalists opposing the pride march were waving that flag. But upon interacting with him, it turns out he didn't have have a pride flag and he wanted to wave *a* flag in support of the pride march. So they had an exchange and now he has his own pride flag 😭🥹.

The image above is a Tweet by kunwara_ladkaa that says "I'm crying so much right now (Image taken by Manuel Fernando Araújo/Lusa)". The image shows the same man from the pride parade crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

The above image is a Tweet by dudz_zZzz that says "ainda não parei de pensar nele," which according to Google translate from Portuguese to English is "I still haven't stopped thinking about him." The image is a drawing of the person from the pride parade, crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

Posts were made on July 1, 2024.