Reblogged fl1p-wizard
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HOA freaks are just on a level I canโt even begin to comprehend like what exactly am i supposed to be offended by in this picture I genuinely do not know
Reblogged justsomeraddude
I donโt have the book anymore because I slipped it into the locker of my depressed mormon lesbian coworker on the last day of my retail job but it was that kate bornstein book about 101 reasons not to kill yourself and she had a whole section on how every gay and lesbian in history was betraying their assigned gender so utterly that they automatically became trans people and itโs one of those brilliant batshit things trans women say so often that drives the right people bugfuck nuts and I wish I had the full quote
"The next chapter of gender activism was written by the early gay rights activists. They tackled the law of gender that says loud and clear, 'Real men love women, real women love men.' 'No we don't!' cried the homosexuals.
And these pioneers transgressed a deeply rooted rule of gender. Lesbians and gays transgressed gender. Lesbians and gays are transgender. And they needed to band themselves together under some flag.
But it's a terrifying thing to say, 'Hey, I'm a man who loves men, so maybe I'm not a real man!'
And it's a terrifying thing to say, "I'm a woman who loves women, and so what if I'm not a real woman?"
People were even meaner about that kind of talk back in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries than they are today. It was difficult enough to say the lesbian and gay stuff, and in most areas of the world, it still is. No one was ready to hear not-man, not-woman, So they called themselves lesbian women and gay men, and they said things like, 'We're just like you."
They named themselves after the system that had oppressed them for such a long time. By the simple act of naming themselves women and men, it seems, in Minnie Bruce Pratt's words, that their imaginations were in thrall to the institutions that oppressed them."
Kate Bornstein, Hello Cruel World.
Reblogged fl1p-wizard
โMany people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, โWhat do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.โ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.โ
โ Vincent Van Gogh
โIf I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.โย
- Vincent van Gogh
My dad was dealing with some mixed feelings so I told him "In therapy when something is too complicated to do a simple 'pro and contra list' we sometimes do an excercise where you imagine all these mixed feelings around a table in some kind of conference, letting each tell their bit and you leading the debate."
and my dad didn't really respond and just stared ahead so I kept preparing lunch. Until a few minutes later when he suddenly piped up: "I am having a bad time at the conference"
Reblogged youarenotaneggplant
Reblogged practiceroompiano
Reblogged youarenotaneggplant
The Gimli Glider is one of those stories where every aspect sounds more fake than the last and yet it all actually happened.
-A passenger plane was underloaded with fuel because Canada had just converted to the metric system and everyone supposed to double check their numbers got it wrong. -When the plane ran out of fuel they were too far away to make it to an in-service airport and had to head towards the Gimli military base.ย Which was shuttered. -They were coming in to fast due to a lack of flaps control and had to perform a series of slips (as shown in the video above) to slow down, basically drifting a giant passenger plane. -As they come down they realized that just because Gimliโs been decommissioned doesnโt mean itโs abandoned because a bunch of people are having drag races on the runway theyโre about to need. -Despite everything they managed to land safely and no one was killed or even hurt which is why itโs one of the best air disasters to meme on.
The Wikipedia page on this is fantastic and my favorite line from it is โFlying with all engines out was never expected to occur, so it had never been covered in training.โ
Nice
Reblogged practiceroompiano
Reblogged practiceroompiano
I find your lack of whimsy disturbing
Reblogged secretlyaperson
Reblogged secretlyaperson
$15/hr, 8 hours a day, that's $120
Eggs are like, 5-6 bucks a dozen
This dude was so damn close