i love sunny days and hate cops. reblog if you love bisexuals
i love rainy days and hate landlords. reblog if you love lesbians
I love foggy days and hate billionaires. reblog if you love gay men
i love windy days and hate homeowners associations. reblog if you love trans people
i love snowy days and hate ceos. reblog if you love queer people
Bi pride in June 11th's Boston Globe! Page B6, coverage of Boston Pride for the People parade.
"[To fascism, the enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”" - Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism (a short and easy read (about 10 to 15 minutes) that you can find here)
“That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.”
Zora Neale Hurston
Sometimes, while I try to backlog some of the lore mentioned on twitter, I come across things that I miss. [Source]
[image id
A tweet from Mary Kirby that reads:
Mary Kirby
@BioMaryKirby
Narratively, he kind of needed it to happen. Sebastian was the extreme Chantry view to balance Anders' extreme anti-Chantry view, and being the guy (or being replaced by a demon who was the guy) leading the Exalted March on Kirkwall was sort of poetic.
end ID]
Thanks for adding this, I got so excited when posting I just totally failed at giving context on this lol
there is only one empire in the world and it is baklava empire
our glorious baklavastan
If you don't count Alexandria and Thrace, that's almost exactly the area conquered by Alexander the Great
THE LORD OF THE RINGS costumes appreciation: ― Eowyn’s funeral dress (costume design by Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor)
Controversial opinion (somehow) but it should be illegal for schools to assign homework on the high holidays.
No but really, I cannot put into words how fundamentally wrong it is that public schools can assign things over incredibly meaningful holidays like Yom Kippur.
Last year was a vivid example, and also one of the worst fasts I’ve ever done. My history teacher assigned us a full paper, insisting that it was reasonable since we had the entire day to do it. As one of the few practicing Jews in my class, I immediately objected because not only was that unfair, it was actually impossible to do without serious harm to my own health.
Because Yom Kippur started that very night with a solid two hours of services. I would go home, eat dinner (at like 4:30 because you have to do it before services), change, and then be at synagogue. Services would go until at least 8 o’clock, which meant I would get home around 9.
See any time for homework in there?
Now, pretend you’re me for a moment here. Services tomorrow morning start at 9, and you usually want to get there earlier unless you’re willing to end up in an overflow room. So staying up late to do it isn’t an option if you want more than four hours of sleep.
Now, it depends on how religious you are, and you can pick and choose, but there’s services more or less throughout the entire day on Yom Kippur. If you want to attend, which should absolutely be an option without compromising yourself academically, then you’ll be there until break the fast comes.
That’s right! You’ve been fasting all day, because that is an absolutely key part of Yom Kippur. (If you are under age thirteen, are pregnant, or are sick you are exempt but otherwise fasting is expected.) There are many reasons—reminding yourself of your mortality, to remember the sufferings of others—but ultimately it’s not an opt-out kind of thing.
But when can you break the fast exactly? It actually varies! Because it’s meant to be done one hour after sundown (25 hours total), but that’s a little different each year. It’s usually around 8 pm, which would be when services end for the day.
Now you can eat! Let’s aim low and give it half an hour to get home from services, and then another hour and a half to actually break the fast.
It’s 10 o’clock. You’ve only just eaten and your stomach probably hurts, because stuffing yourself after a fast can be really bad for your health. You’re back home for the first time all day.
You still have a paper to write.
How is that fair? If I’ve just gotten off of a fast, having spent all day immersed in religion and contemplating my own mortality, I’m not gonna be in a place to do any kind of work, academic or not.
And even if I’d had breaks in services (I can’t stay still all day, so I usually head home for a few hours in the middle), I was still fasting. When I’m hungry I have trouble working, for obvious reasons. And in this case the issue isn’t access, but the fact that I am prohibited from eating anything. Depending on how seriously you take it, you might not even have had water today. I fast with water after nearly passing out from dehydration during a fast for Tisha B’Av, but not everyone does! If you haven’t had anything to eat or drink, it’ll be incredibly difficult to focus on writing anything.
I explained all of this to my teacher, and she instead said I could just turn it in late. She also said I’d still be marked down for late work, so how is that any help?
I did that paper the day after. It was a day late, a few points off, but I held it against my teacher for months. Not because of the grade itself, but because she put me in that situation to begin with.
I should have been allowed to observe Yom Kippur. I should have been able to spend the day thinking and reflecting on my mistakes and contemplating my own life. That’s literally what the holiday is for. But instead I spent the whole time with that stupid grade in the back of my head.
Even on what is arguably the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, I still wasn’t given a break.
Separation of church and state my ass.
ALSOOO wanna hop in and mention that orthodox jews literally CANNOT PUT PEN TO PAPER OR USE ELECTRONICS on high holy days. It would literally be 100% impossible for them (me lol) to do any sort of assignment on Yom Kipur regardless of mental health or time allowance. It’s just that simple.
100% this. I have had to have some very stern, forceful talks with ignorant gym teachers who assigned my Muslim students mandatory rigorous unbroken cardio exercise during Ramadan while they were fasting.
These holidays exist for a reason. If you are actually going to preach religious equity, prove it through practice. Learn about the religions of the students in the room with you. Celebrate with them – and advocate for them when their right to observe holidays near and precious to their hearts and culture is encroached upon by ignorance or a limited cultural perspective.
watching reddit go into a full death spiral is like watching the specifically trans equivalent of the library of alexandria go up in flames
like yes reddit is also the only place on the internet you can get an actual answer to any question in general. but it’s also a huge centralized community database about which surgeons will fuck you over, who takes what insurance, which doctors you can trust, how to write a template therapist’s letter, insurance appeals, peer support, questions that feel too stupid to ask anywhere else, diy guidelines, “hey this is embarrassing but,” finding trans people in your area, explaining why you need PTO without getting way too personal about it, safety tips, et cetera you get the picture
Someone on trans Reddit just bought the url transgender.org and have put out a call for folks to help turn it into a replacement (and more). Here's a link on r/ftm but it's open to everyone
Here's how to use the archive.org Wayback Machine to save webpages. Get what you can while it's up, prioritize the most important information. And save links to the pages in a text file so we have a record of what survives.
r/datahoader is also providing resources for saving and archiving reddit info. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/142l1i0/archiveteam_has_saved_over_108_billion_reddit/
ILYSM! 🤣Happy pride! 🫶🏾🌈🥹
[ID: tiktok captioned: The moment they realized it was the real Janelle Monae on the ACLUE pride float. Janelle stands on a small float and speaks into a microphone decorated with the trans flag. They say, "We are here, we are queer! We are trans! We are the LGBTQIA+ community and we celebrate us right now! The video turns to the crowd and shows shots of people half paying attention to the float, then doing double takes as they see Janelle Monae singing. /]
The Japanese hairdresser Megumi Takeichi cuts patterns into the hair of a camel ahead of the Bikaner Camel Festival in Bikaner in the western Indian state of Rajasthan on January 10, 2019 by Dinesh Gupta
happy pride month to them
looking through my old art from when I was a teen and this deserves to be posted
Can you stop applying status effects to me for two fucking seconds I'm trying to get divorced.
reblog w the song lyrics in your head NOW. either stuck in yr head or what yr listening to
The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021
“Average Danish ship in the 1930s was incredibly gay.” False, Georg Stage, which flies rainbow sails, is an outlier an should not be counted
Indeed
