It's Not The End Yet. Let's Stay With It.

I guffawed out loud because THIS

there are not many posts like this out there but shoutout to trans women who like their voices, shoutout to trans women who like having a dick, shoutout to trans women who are butch, shoutout to trans women whose transition has been ‘unconventional’, shoutout to trans women who will never pass and dont care to, shoutout to trans women who are tall, shoutout to trans women who break the binary that was reinvented in progressive spaces. you people are so fucking incredible.

Your daily dose of cat memes

I do in fact need everything to be okay

TACO NEEDS TO KEEP HIS LITTLE MOUTH SHUT 

TACO NEEDS TO STAY IN HIS DAMN  LANE

"I can't believe my 50-year-old parent accidentally saw a weird meme on google image search" okay your 50-year-old parent used to get stoned in their dorm and watch ren & stimpy. your 50-year-old parent's first concert was the pogues and shane mcgowan threw up on their shoes in the alley after the show. your 50-year-old parent saw a double feature of porky's and the exorcist at a sleepover when they were nine. your 50-year-old parent was left alone for three hours every day after school and they found ALL the porn hidden in the house. one saturday in 1985 your 50-year-old parent drank water from the hose and then saw a dead body in the woods

anything can be a boy's or girl's name, if you are a boy or girl, and that is your name. replace name with pronouns, clothes, etc.

the new dj crazytimes song … now that’s what I call music!

(At least 9 of) you asked for it, so here we go:

Pick a song based on a bad description: QUEER SONGS OF MY YOUTH EDITION:

Who doesn't love crossdressing and ska, right?

Pick a song, based on a bad description and *~*vibes*~*. Reblog so your mutuals can back up your choices/surprise you with theirs. Also so I have lots of votes to make the playlist interesting. I will make a playlist of all these songs when the poll is over! I will also name and link all the songs with the poll is over! If you don't want to wait, shoot me an ask and I'll tell you which songs are which. Or if there's just one particular song you're curious about. Or whatever.

Have fun!

need to smoke with him

Please reblog if you vote so more people can see.

right now it’s almost halfway through 2023, and 2024 is an election year in the US. I have started to see a growing proliferation of posts suggesting that there is no difference between the republican and democratic parties–the exact same kind of posts I saw an awful lot of before the last major election here. I am unfollowing folks who post or reblog these sort of posts, as I consider these posts to be fascist propaganda framed as leftist discourse, designed to suppress anti-fascist votes and voters. 

Prepare yourself to vote for Biden now, because the only other option is someone who will make 2016-2020 look like a picnic.

You work with what you’ve got, not what you wish you had.

I detest Biden more with every passing day (and he was not in my top 10 candidates in 2020). 2024 will be an election between:

No Labels is an op. It’s being funded by unknown parties to defeat Biden and the Democrats. Their election scenarios are fantasy football for political junkies.

No Third Party has a road anywhere outside statewide offices (Bernie is the exception that proves the rule, and he’s a Democrat for all intents and purposes).

Arguably the rosiest scenario is that TFG breaks with the Republicans to form his own party and tanks any chance the Republicans have, but that’s not looking as likely as it did two years ago.

If you’re pissed, get involved in your local elections. Ensure that no position is running unopposed (and that includes if you’ve got a conserva-Dem somewhere now–primary them).

Get the House back in the Democratic hands (unless you’re up for two more years of this only with MTG as Speaker this time). Increase the margin in the Senate (and send Selema to her post-senate career). Make sure your school board isn’t full of flat-earthers. Wake sure your county counsel isn’t going to shut down your libraries if they have a book someone doesn’t like.

As Stonekettle says, if you want a better country, but a better citizen.

There’s a reason we call it a civic DUTY, not a civic privilege.

Starting mid-April I’ll be posting to-do lists and action items for people who’ve never gotten involved before. One party wants you dead. FIGHT.

Speaking as a Michigan resident:  Look at the laws being passed in Michigan.  Now look at the laws being passed in Florida.  Spot the difference?  That’s because Michigan is being governed by the Democratic Party, and Florida is being governed by the Republican Party.  That’s the difference.  They’re different parties.  It is not the same.

You want what we’ve got?  Vote for it.

(And you want Michigan to stay the way it is and not slide backwards into the shit we had to deal with with Rick Snyder, or even just the way it was when the House and Senate were Republican-controlled?  Keep fucking voting.)

D are not our friends or even allies but R is a staunch enemy

look the main thing is that our first-past-the-poll voting style automatically and always devolves into a two party system where the majority of people dislike both parties. This is now a known phenomenon, a feature of our voting method as inevitable as water running downhill. 

But that isn’t going to change until we get some sweeping voting reform that revises our voting system into some kind of ranked or run-off voting

Meanwhile one of our destined-to-be-disliked parties is actually trying to do things we want (health care, living wages, social services, public transportation, civil rights, education, support for gay and trans people, religious tolerance, etc) and one of our parties is banning books and undoing women’s rights and supporting corrupt racist police and endangering gay and trans lives while paying people to make posts about how both parties are equally bad so that people don’t vote democrat.

Like, we are going to not like a lot of how the Democrats operate, that is a feature of the current design, but they are trying to protect women’s rights, they are trying to help the homeless, they are trying to raise minimum wage they have agendas that include important things. And republicans? are at this point a literal cult that want to create a religious fascist state.

Even my father, now 80 years old, a man whose politics i have often despised, a man who voted for Reagan for fucks sake! even he (unhappily) votes Democrat now, because he’s not an insane person, and the republican party has become SO BLATANTLY EVIL AND STUPID that he can’t ignore it.

Democrats pass legislation we want that republicans then find ways to block. Democrats have passed bills that:

close gender pay gaps raise federal minimum wage make becoming a US citizen easier for immigrants protect civil/public water sources from pollution cut greenhouse gas emissions to fight climate change increase gun regulation lower and control prescription drug prices improve healthcare access for those with pre-existing conditions protect net neutrality protect gay marriage rights

these are all the subjects of specific real bills that democrats have either passed into law or tried hard to pass in the last few years. Meanwhile republicans act to block these bills while championing book bans and attacking trans folk and giving more power to corporations to ruin our planet and taking away women’s rights. 

when you see posts attacking Democrats from the left or whatever, the talking points and quotes can often be traced back to right wing sources

So all posts trying to keep non-republicans arguing amongst ourselves and calling for us to not vote democrat (or not vote at all) ? I will be assuming they are bad-faith posts and i won’t be spreading them or engaging with them or anything.

Honest critique of the party is necessary, but like it or not our system currently is a two party system, and i’ll be voting for the better of the two until we can change our voting style to make additional political parties viable.

I live in Pennsylvania.

Neither of my children is cisgender.

The last gubernatorial election was, literally, do we elect this guy who is overly fond of cops but is generally a normal human being, or do we elect this other guy who believes frightening conspiracy theories and wants my children removed from my care and forcibly detransitioned and honestly would prefer them to be dead?

That’s it. That’s the kind of choice we get in first-past-the-post voting. If that second guy won, we needed to move. There was no safe way to stay here. The votes of my fellow citizens were all that was standing between my kids and serious fucking danger.

And my fellow citizens DID turn out. Lots of them came out and voted to reject the scary death cultist. I am grateful to all those who went, ugh, I don’t really like this guy, but the other guy is worse, and hauled themselves down to the polling place to get it done.

You, too, can vote to reject scary death cultists, in your hometown and your home state and in the country as a whole.

Getting rid of the scary death cultists is a prequisite for getting political representation you actually want.

The problem is a lot of Democrats, including Biden, are really really bad at getting rid of scary death cultists. If people keep voting for Democrats like Biden, then the scary death cult will keep getting bigger.

“Vote blue no matter who” is what got us here. Start demanding better Democrat candidates, because we already know how this Wiemar moderate bipartisan bullshit works in the face of fascism.

As far as I’m concerned accepting Biden as the 2024 candidate means accepting the fascist takeover of America. Even if he wins he will only delay it, and not delay it enough for a 2028 Democrat to actually save us. We need someone who will actually fight against voter suppression and the rigging of the courts and the rest of the ways they are seizing power. We need people whose views of the Republicans are based on post-tea party cult mentality not still thinking of them as the good ol’ boys club you had cigars with 40 years ago.

“We need someone who will fight…”

You mean like Biden is?

It doesn’t make headlines because it’s not glamorous. But he is indeed fighting.

“We need someone (not biden) who will-” cool! We sure do, that would be great! But REALISTICALLY Biden is going to get the Dem nomination. He is. He just is. Vote for someone else in the primaries, sure, cross your fingers and hope for a miracle, but unless something absolutely drastic and unforeseen happens? The incumbent is going to get the nom. I’m not saying this to be defeatist - again, if you think you can make the drastic unforeseen thing happen, more power to you - but I am looking at how elections have always worked, and I’m not seeing a shift in the Democrats significant enough to break the pattern. We need to wrap our heads around it now: whether we like it or not, it is GOING to be Biden vs either Trump or Desantis.

I live in Florida. We all know how bad Trump was. We all know how horrible it would be if Trump were elected. Please believe me when I say Desantis would be even worse.

Yes, it sucks to have to pick a bleh candidate in order to avoid a much worse one. Yes, it does feel dangerously like appeasement! But complaining about that doesn’t actually change reality!

The only way to meaningfully change it is to change how our elections work. That means amending the Constitution. And right now, we do not have the numbers for that. I don’t like it any more than you do. But it’s the truth, and it won’t stop being the truth just because people yell about how much it sucks.

Vote for Biden to stave off the worst. And then vote downticket as well. Vote in midterm elections and one-off local elections. Vote in EVERYTHING. Research candidates if you’re not familiar with them. Get people in power locally who will pass laws to protect voter’s rights and end or at least decrease gerrymandering. Get people on local schoolboards who will resist attempts to keep the next generation of voters ignorant. Get involved yourself if you can! Try to push things in the right direction. Make it easier to get our people in power at the federal level. It’s a slow, unglamorous slog, but if you’re serious about making big changes, it HAS to start small. Sitting out elections (or throwing your vote away on a 3rd party candidate) will never make it happen.

Accepting Biden as the 2024 candidate is NOT accepting the fascist takeover of America. I live in Florida, too, and this is ground zero for the fascist takeover of America. They are requiring teachers to tell kids that slavery gave Black people skills for the future. They are banning books. They are destroying the environment and our economy. They hate education, public schools, women, homosexuals, transgender people, people of color, and the poor.

I’m really sorry you don’t like Biden, but if you think not voting for him is going to somehow STOP this horror show, you’re either incredibly naive or part of some foreign psyop, and we *literally* do not have time for that. Take it from those of us currently living in the possible fucking future of this country—you do not want this. Hold your nose and vote for the old man, then vote blue all the way down the ticket.

For all my fellow oversharers out there.

As a chronic people-pleaser, this is my advice for success.

Offer as little as possible. Be terse. Get rid of all those exclamation marks and tidbits about why you want to take a sick day. State your needs clearly and concisely without reason. Start saying “No, I’m unable.” more often. Say Thank You only when the other party deserves it.

This goes for mistakes, too!! Obviously if it’s something big that’s going to impact other people before you can fix it and/or that you need help in fixing, then bite the bullet and fess up, but for everything else: don’t dob on yourself, because 9 times out of 10, the other person wont notice your error unless you tell them about it.

If it’s something you can fix, then obviously, fix it. If you need help, then ask for it. But if it’s not fixable and its also not something thats going to negatively impact anyone else if left alone, then let it slide. YOU’RE hyper aware of your every tiny little mistake, but no one else is. The only sure-fire way to make sure that everyone notices all your mistakes is if you point them out to everyone. So stop doing that.

As a teacher, I will tell you what I tell my students.

1: If you're afraid of writing a bad essay, don't be. Everyone writes a few stinkers.

2: There is almost no chance of you writing the worst essay your teacher has ever seen.

3: It is literally your teacher's job to help turn bad writers into good writers. If they just complain about a bad essay without helping you get better, they're the one who sucks, not you.

4: All first drafts are hot stinky dog poop. All of them. This is why the gods give us red pens and second drafts.

5: We would rather see a bad essay than no essay. Most of us actually love bad essays, because it shows us exactly where you need help and exactly what we need to do.

6: This goes for all art forms, really, but you might find that what you think is "bad writing" just turns into "your writing style."

7: Pretend that your subject matter is way cooler than it is (I know how interesting essay topics aren't.) and infodump as if you were rambling to your best friend. You can fix grammar later.

8: Good luck, we believe in you! 👍👍👍

I got a paper once where the student just wrote a giant question mark on the page. That was the worst essay I have ever read because I couldn’t even give him points for trying.

(Zeros will tank your grade, but even a half-assed effort will get you points. This message brought to you by the guy who wrote an entire essay about how he didn’t know what the in-class essay topic was because he was late, then spent 5 paragraphs explaining how to change a flat tire.)

And ya know what? A bad essay won’t kill you. Just write the thing. Do it in 5-10 minute increments with a break in between if you need to. Bribe yourself with candy. Put on some music. Write it out of spite.

You can do it!

Blahaj in a suit

"Why don't people recognize Link in TOTK" bc everyone imagines the legendary swordsman to be built like Ganondorf and Link doesn't bother correcting anyone bc being hailed as a hero is like on the bottom of his priorities, which are topped by things like "Bake one of every pie"

Rando farmer: They say that once the noble hero of legend passed by this very village! Isn't that wonderful to imagine, genderfluid stranger?

Link, 5'6" with 2" heels and wearing a backless dress suspiciously stained with blood: no yeah that's wild

"Wouldn't they recognize him bc he's with Zelda" Everyone interacting with Zelda was like "Wow, the princess!! The princess who saved Hyrule is here, talking to us! Plus some guy with three sets of pronouns who's building a bomb but more importantly The Princess!! Wow!!"

Zelda keeps coming across spare genders she doesn't need and Link follows behind scooping them all up off the ground like a starving trash possum

Someone uses an unfamiliar pronoun around Zelda, and she hears the item pickup sound come from Link

Every time this comes across my dash it’s gotten better.

THIS

Link loaned Zelda a set of he/him at one point and he called himself Sheik for about half a game.

@boobosoofa @o-entropy

So here we go! Pick a song based on a bad description -- all songs are... choices that Glee made. (I'm not complaining, really; the weird shit was the best part of that show.) Vote, reblog, go crazy. Literally go crazy. If you sit in the back corner of the choir room, you can...

Anyway. Also, this is just a one-day poll, so please really do reblog so it gets a good amount of answers. I'll post the song titles and a playlist when it's over with.

Grizzly 399 is so cool! I went to her Wikipedia page intending to screenshot interesting facts about her, but I would really recommend you go check out the whole thing for yourself.

Grizzly 399 lives in close proximity to humans but has never caused problems or attacked a human - she has taught her many cubs important skills like looking both ways before crossing the road. She has had more triplets than is normal for grizzlies, and is far better at keeping triplets alive than less experienced mothers.

She had 22 progeny, (though not all survived) including Grizzly 610, who in 2011 adopted one of 399’s triplets along with her own two cubs. 399 previously went viral on social media for keeping her quadruplets alive through two seasons, despite bear cubs only having a 55% survival rate.