Spiderwebs And Lace

in 2012 we had an anti-abortion demonstrator on campus. I was in a ballet intensive and I walked by him—30 yards away & in total silence—wearing leggings and a sweater over my leotard, and he yelled, “nice cameltoe, dyke!”

I got to class and told my instructor about it and we complained to campus security, who told us that the campus was open to the public and that it was “his legal right to assembly and protest.”

so I guess the NYPD just showed up this time because these protestors forgot to sexually harass students and call them homophobic slurs. Easy mistake to make

Mona Patel at the 2024 Met Gala

hell world!!!! hell world!!!! hell world!!!!

"Small government."

Electronic smart cars like most Teslas can and will record location information which will be turned over to the police

How fucking grim is it that not only do we need burner phones, but we'll need to figure out a way to have a burner car?

It’s not just EVs or smart cars, it’s literally every kind of car. This report just came out last week from the Mozilla Foundation and it’s alarming and disturbing to see what data automakers say that they gather and what they’ll (admit they might) do with it.

The intersection of capitalist invasion of privacy and fascist invasion of privacy is hell, and that’s where we are.

nobody better be posting about the met gala without mentioning the giant pro-palestine demonstration going on outside

absolutely losing my mind that a bunch of nimby assholes spent $500k to build a sandcastle that was promptly wiped away

ted i really could not disagree more this is far from catastrophic. i am ensconced.

literally selling sand to people who live on the beach. some people's hustle and grift game cannot be overstated. world class shit right here

i love tumblr but i hate that we have been conditioned to think you can’t add some of the most insightful shit you’ve ever seen to absolute shitposts. please by all means reblog my posts with this kind of context because it’s so important. excellent points here.

One thing I really dislike abt our modern hypercapitalistic society is how it devalues the year.

So many things require slate years of work or experience that you just have to “get through it”. How you need 5 years experience to be hireable so 5 years of your life have to be “spent” or “invested” somewhere, and suddenly we’re dividing up years of our lives as a capitalist resource for an engine that takes with no give.

Years are so much more valuable than they are deemed to be. You’ll only be 22 once. In the turn of seasons you can have such a wealth of experiences that can redefine you as a person. You can have so much growth over a year. So much life on earth only lasts a handful of years, or even less than one.

I just think its so easy to forget how valuable the time you’re in right now is. Its too easy to be made exhausted and spend your weekdays awaiting weekends. You do a LOT in a year and I think its important to reflect on your experiences through that year.

Anyways don’t let them tell you a year of experience means nothing. A year is so much. Don’t let your life be divided up into groups of fives and tens to sell for someone else’s approval. Enjoy the turn of seasons. Make pumpkin muffins. Make spring salads. Celebrate the full moon. Find sweetness in your most bitter days.

Israel has done what we all predicted and warned about. Simple, pure evil. They pushed Palestinians by carpet bombing everywhere till they all had to go to the least bombed place (No, Rafah was never completely safe. They were bombed there, too, to a horrific degree), and then, after cramming what nears a two million civilians with about 600 thousand children, they are asking them to leave... to where?! Nowhere. They are just saying leave. So then, when they kill them all, they can say 'Oh, we warned them'

It was all predicted, and no one did a thing

Rafah is now the most densely populated place in the world, with a population of about 1.5 million and prehaps more in 64 km2. About 25 miles squere.

25 miles squere

A marathon is 26 miles straight. You can at least run through Rafah in length once and in width twice and pass the 1.5 million Palestinians. That's how crammed it is. With no where to run

rb to make tea for the person u reblogged this from

Regardless of how this ceasefire proposal agreement is going to go, I have to say that it is mind blowing how Israel had spent billions of dollars on weapons and propaganda with the aim of destroying the Palestinian spirit. Yet, looking at my TV screen now and seeing how the people of Gaza are full of hope, dancing and chanting in anticipation of a ceasefire, really shows how Israel continues to fail miserably. This shows us all that there is nothing, absolutely nothing, Israel can do that would actually break the will of Palestinians, ever.

the thing that sucks most about Joanne Rowling being a terf is that she is actively hurting real life trans people every day.

the second worst thing about joanne being a terf is that the Harry Potter intellectual property is So Much Larger than her. look at the credits for just one of the harry potter movies. every single one of those people put YEARS of time and effort and dare i say love into those films. think of all the people involved in theme park design and operation who put together the wizarding world park lands and detailed them so lovingly and fully

and yet even though the intellectual property of harry potter is so much larger than joanne, she's poisoned the whole well

i feel so. so immensely sorry for every person involved in the harry potter ip who isn't jkr. doubly sorry for every trans person involved. it's fucking sad

I want to be very clear, before we have a category 4 piss on the poor moment, that this post is not saying "it's ok to like Harry Potter still because other people were involved in it, and the ip is larger than jkr" NO! you must fully divest yourself from the harry potter intellectual property!

if you go to universal studios, it's fine to ride the rides and appreciate them on a theme park artistry level. jkr had nothing to do with the engineering. and you're already there for other reasons--riding the rides doesn't give any more money to jkr. but do NOT buy any hp branded merch, at the parks or anywhere else! that's where joanne makes her money! hp merch funds anti-trans legislation! almost directly!

"What about buying indie merch? What if I buy from artists on etsy? Nothing goes to JKR then..." I hear you cry. and you have a point. that's harm reduction. buying indie merch is unambiguously better than buying licensed merch.

but you must be aware that it still makes trans people feel unsafe. you become schrodinger's terf. i see people with hogwarts houses in their bios and i feel a chill. i see cars with glasses-and-lightning-scar bumper stickers and i have to wonder if those people literally wants my wife dead or if they're just clueless.

it's just horrifically sad that so many people put so much love and years of work and artistry and blood sweat tears etc into an IP that is now retroactively so emblematic of transphobia