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It is, despite everything, once again Wet Beast Wednesday

Gentle reminder here that there are elder queers out there. Real elders, people in their 80s and 90s who survived, who are here. You can get there, old age does exist for us.

I know an old lesbian couple who have been married since the moment they legalized it. One woman can hardly walk anymore but she loves Hallmark ornaments, so her wife supports her against her walker during Christmas so she can look at them more easily.

I know a transgender man who started transitioning only 10 years ago at 60, and he's brilliant and funny and brings his grandchildren by to get sweets.

I know an asexual woman who, beamed and told me she absolutely loved not having a husband, and that she "never once regretted not getting married. I never felt that way about anybody! Why force it?" She lives with her parrot and loves salsa dancing.

Our elders exist. So many of us have been wiped out and erased on purpose, but we're here. And that means you can get there. When you're old and grey, when you're retired and done, there will be people who will love you and will care for you.

wondering why my dash is so silent and then i remember it’s july first and all the gay people are gone 😔

I genuinely mean this, I hope all 5 of those Supreme Court members who voted Yes have to live their lives getting harassed and are extremely bothered till their last dying breath.

Bother them, make their lives miserable, make them not want to leave their homes.

[VD: A Tiktok by @/channel4 that's captioned "When your bestie gets you an unusual gift..." The dialogue is captioned in the style of text bubbles. An older man takes a novelty mug out of a small box and bursts into laughter. A grinning older woman sitting beside him asks, "Do you like it?" The man picks up the mug and turns it around, revealing it's rainbow-striped and leans strongly rather than having straight walls. He asks, "What is that, what's that?"

The woman, reading text off the mug, says, "'I'm so gay, I can't even drink straight.'" The man bursts into laughter again, and she joins him and then says, "I saw it in a sex shop." He sits up and demands, "What was you doing in a sex shop in Benidorm?!" She says, "I was looking, I saw it in the window." End VD]

Thanks for the video description!!

GOGGLEBOX!

girls who learned all their vocab from books and are now constantly embarrassing themselves by pronouncing words slightly wrong in conversation

a dark day... the onion went off

6.29.22

[ID: 5 captioned gifs of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, where Trevor discusses the Roe vs. Wade overturn. The dialogue and accompanied imagery in each is as follows:

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just a heads up to my followers: do not join a server running version 1.19.1 or later.

mojang is adding a chat moderation ‘feature’ to java edition which can get you permanently banned from all multiplayer servers based on player reports, EVEN on private servers. anyone can file a report for theoretically any reason, so false reports will be abundant.

they claim these are moderated by humans, which is doubtful given the volume of reports they’ll no doubt receive.

they claim this will work perfectly, when the existing feature on bedrock not only frequently bans people based on false reports but is also able to ban you from SINGLEPLAYER on some systems.

long story short, stick with the old version, give mojang some flak for not listening to their community.

made some small edits to the links in this post from the original version, added official announcement and official feedback thread. feel free to rb again

nobody: corporations at midnight on the 30th june:

:(

Yeah, it’s time for them to go

This is a blatant act of violent colonialism that undos decades of legal precedent that protected the civil rights of Native Americans. This is an unspeakable and deeply violent tragedy.

like heaving laughing please help me

GOD

reminds me of when i found this 🤩

Trying to keep these tags anon because part of me is very much “what rock have you been living under” BUT

the NHS is already being sold off piecemeal to private firms- one firm does this, one firm does that, a lot of services are being taken away from the public sector.

Secondly, waiting lists are so long for so called “elective” procedures (like hip replacements for people in so much pain they can’t walk) that people who can afford to do so, are increasingly going private to “jump the queue”- in many cases these people are selling homes or assets to pay.

No politician, even Johnson, will stand up and say “today we abolish the NHS”, it is a slow creep, they are not just talking of it, they are doing it, and one day we will wake up and there will be nothing left, if things continue as they are. And by then, it will be too late.

[ID: graffiti that says, "If you're a Middle-Class homeowner thinking it's not a big deal the Tories are privitising the NHS, talk with Americans who were once Middle-Class but had to sell everything including their homes to pay for medical bills"

Image two: Tumblr tags reading, "#i'm sorry what the fuck #they're talking of privatising the NHS?????? #fucking hell" \end ID]

Current NHS wait-times if you need access to specialist services (in the experience of someone living in an area of England with good regional funding but high population density)

Autism screenings and other assessments for neurodivergent people: 3 years

Allergy services including immunotherapy: 2.5 years (I’ve just been given my first appointment)

OT: 1 year

Physio: 12-16 weeks (for serious injuries, if it isn’t so bad you can’t work it’ll almost definitely be longer)

Rhinoplasty: 1.5 years (a guy I know broke his nose nearly two years ago and is still waiting)

CAMHS: 6-12 months for referrals, even longer for treatment (some of the kids I work with literally become adults and are no longer eligible in the time it takes for them to be assessed) 

Dental: Don’t even bother, I’ve phoned round every dentist in my county trying to register various LACs and none of them are taking NHS patients because their waiting lists are just too long.

Even going to A + E or urgent treatment with a serious injury will see you waiting 3-4 hours on a busy day. I had to take one of the young people I look after a few weeks ago, and there was a little kid who’d sprained and possibly broken her wrist crying in reception, because she’d been there two hours and hadn’t been offered any pain relief.

And my experiences of the NHS are those of a middle-class person with good literary and communication skills, if I can write a strongly worded letter or apply a bit of extra pressure over the phone I will, so I can’t even imagine how it is if you’re bad at filling out forms, or you can remember large chunks of information about your own medical history, or English isn’t your first language.

The NHS is being deliberately dismantled to make way for a US-style health insurance system, and though it constantly ranks highest on a list of things British people value above all else, no one seems to be worried.  

"3-4 hours on a busy day" buddy I respect you highly but the last time I had to go to a&e along the lines of 'i can't walk my ankle may be broken' it was an 11 hour wait 3-4 is a pipe dream.

Yeah, this is completely valid- in some parts of the country, 12 hour waits are becoming the norm. People are literally dying in the back of ambulances.

Yeah absolutely. like I definitely remember when 3-4 was the average, but these days? We've had people come in via ambulance for suspected heart issues, for significant bleeding, for broken bones... After the one hour wait for initial triage it's 10 hours before anyone calls out sick. The NHS is underfunded and understaffed in the extreme. There is simply not capacity to deal with the level of care needed.

If you're disabled or chronically ill, it's worth looking to see if your local NHS has a Dental Access team. I got my GP to refer me to our after I moved to Exeter, rang round every single dentist that claimed to even talk to nhs patients, and discovered there were zero (0) wheelchair accessible dentists in town. The local Dental Access team are in one of the hospital buildings, they're very good (used to working with patients with complex disabilities and autistic fear of dentists and so on). It's definitely better than nowt.

As a trans woman I can confirm that they indeed found an ancient forest inside a 630ft deep sinkhole in China

cis people can reblog this but keep it on subject, please

I'm a part time man with flexible hours

[id: a tweet from Stef Stef Stef @StefaniaNight that says:

Love non binary

Some folks: “my gender is incomprehensible Its the wind blowing over a dark ocean, full of gods terrifying mistakes. Its the feeling you get looking down a dark ally and knowing something gazes back.”

And some folks are like “eh im a dude but like not rly” end id]

from a comrade

The people who sheltered Jews in hidden rooms and attics and basements during the Holocaust were breaking the law. The people who smuggled 7,000 Jews out of Denmark were breaking the law. Schindler was breaking the law. The Underground Railroad broke the law. Harriet Tubman broke the law. MLK broke the law. Hell, the fucking Boston Tea Party broke the law.

If saving friends and family and innocent people is breaking the law, break the law. If standing up for truth and justice is breaking the law, break the law.

The law is unjust. The law is morally wrong. Break the fucking law.

the law is unjust the law is morally wrong break the fucking law

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I used to think it makes sense to say "I wouldn't personally get an abortion but I support other women's choice!" until I realized that I can't actually realistically say I "wouldn't" get an abortion and that I am also undermining the pro-choice cause by pretending like that's a position that makes sense.

Because what if God forbid I was sexually assaulted? What if I had an ectopic pregnancy? What if I developed a dangerous medical condition while pregnant? What if I was in a less privileged position: in an abusive relationship, very young, facing houselessness, etc? What if I was a woman who knew I never wanted to be a mother but my birth control failed?

What if (and this isn't far-stretched at all because it nearly happened to me 6 months ago) I had a miscarriage and required a D&C (an abortion) to completely rid my body of the baby so I wouldn't die of infection?

To believe that you'd "never" get an abortion is a privileged fiction to hold. It's the mistaken belief that 1) everyone has the same privileges to protect and control their body as you do and 2) that we all have the ability to completely control the conditions we experience pregnancy in (no miscarriage, no medical issues, no genetic abnormalities incompatible with life, no coercion, supportive partner, etc).

That's why abortion is healthcare and should be accessible to all because really anybody with a uterus may need it and why individuals are best positioned to decide what they need to do with their own bodies.

Thank you John Oliver for bringing this to my attention.