if you're not cool with anyone so much as threatening to withhold their vote, then what political pressure do you imagine you're gonna apply to Biden? strongly worded emails his interns will read for him?

Voting against him in the primaries.

“My son is fine” your daughter spends all day wishing she were a brainwashed cybernetic sex doll kept in a perpetual state of ego death

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Took some inspiration from some WWII posters to put together this Restoration Auxiliary Team recruitment poster.

No new artwork, just repurposing stuff I've done before and applying some graphic design onto it.

Was a fun little thing to make.

Join the RATs today!

Always assumed every major american city has the population of London and only realised the error recently. NYC is smaller than London, Chicago and LA are each two Birminghams stapled together. San Fran is actually smaller than Birmingham. Other major cities like Detroit and Denver and Seattle are comparable (though larger) to a Manchester or Leeds I live in a city actually the size of New Orleans which doesn't feel right at all. They've got states in the West whose largest cities are smaller than Blackpool.

america doesn't have cities. many are saying this!

oh yeah i had this realisation last month too when i got the list of city sizes of British and American cities from wikipedia and put them together in excel

New Orleans was the biggest shock to me because it's like the size of Preston. how does a city that size command a whole coastline? is this the 18th century?

There's also a giant city called "Mesa" I had never heard of before.

Make sure you’re getting the metro area, not just the city itself. Basically every American city has a bunch of suburbs that exist just outside the city proper, so they can dodge taxes that would support the cities. Garden variety racism is a factor, as well.

2024 is the year we stop “consuming” and go back to “reading/watching/listening to/playing” things

Vote to replace “consuming” with “beholding” as a generic term for interacting with media.

can we like…get rid of the so-called leather and rubber “pride flags” ? it’s honestly ridiculous and offensive to the lgbtq community. those aren’t pride flags. 

The leather pride flag is the second oldest pride flag. It has been at almost every single US pride parade and protest in history.

It’s older then you are, it’s older then I am. The leather community is responsible for pride. Leather daddies were the ones chasing away cops when they tried to arrest us for being queer in public back when Pride Parades were illegal in the US. They are still the ones chasing away cops and corporations from smaller pride events and those that aren’t sanctioned by Wells Fargo. The leather community is essential to the queer community and has a long and rich history.

Please fuck off if you’re not going to learn the actual history of pride.

And don’t fucking out your hate in our tags, asshole.

The leather pride flag represents an expression of self which is inherently queer, and a community which has been around for generations. It is not offensive to the LGBT+ community in any way. I have seen cis gay and bisexual men standing shoulder-to-shoulder with trans men, all of them united by their leather community roots. The leather community is more diverse and nuanced than you perhaps know, but that is no reason for you to shit on a community you don’t understand.

Here is a photograph from 1998, displaying the leather pride flag, the bear gay pride flag, and the rainbow flag. This is our history.

Source.

Here is a photograph from 1987: three queer women entering into the Ms. National Leather Association Contest, or simply gathering as spectators.

Source.

A flyer from 1989, rallying the leather community to march in a Stonewall anniversary protest.

Source.

A photograph from 1988: Tony Deblase, the creator of the leather pride flag, and a gay man, embracing a fellow member of the leather community. Over his shoulder is Judy Tallwing McCarthy, a Native American woman who was part of the leather community from 1959. She co-founded the first lesbian BDSM group in Portland, along with her partner, Sashie Hyatt.

Source. Source.

Just because you don’t know the history, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Be humble, and always assume you have more to learn. Hatred, and outright dismissal of communities you know nothing about, is the most aggressively anti-LGBT thing I can imagine.

The leather community has always included trans people, lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals. The leather community is global and nuanced. The leather community is where many of us encounter our found families, and our lovers. For you to dismiss that is cold-hearted and ignorant. Just because queer sex is involved, doesn’t make the community dirty or bad.

I’m again fucking begging the baby gays to read/watch/listen to How To Survive A Plague.

Do you have any. Any idea. Any god damn clue. How kink intersects with LGBT and queer community. Queer history. Do you know why the community pushed for, and against, closing the bathhouses during the 80s? Do you know who organized awareness campaigns about HIV, even way back when it was still called GIRD. Do you know who created the safe sex pamphlets, the classes, who pushed for disclosing your health history to partners, who distributed contraceptives and condoms and dental dams at parties and meetings and baths? Do you even know where the safe sex education we have now comes from? Do you know where a bulk of the language about consent came from? Do you have any good god damn idea what the kink communities have done for us, and continue to do for us?

Keep their names out of your mouths because you clearly don’t know what the hell you’re talking about

If there is one thing I could say to young queer folks, especially young queer folks in the U.S. who are coming of age in a world that is more accepting than the one I knew growing up, it’s this:

Don’t be so quick to sanitize your queerness and make it corporate pride daytime TV-friendly. Don’t be so quick to jump on the purity bandwagon. Don’t be so quick to speak on what your community should look like before you’ve actually learned the history of your community, and always be aware that there are things you probably don’t yet know.

These things will not protect you. They never have. And all you’re doing is isolating yourself from community, from support, from the strength we all have when we stand together in a world that would gladly pick us off one by one.

Queerness isn’t as hidden or embattled now (in some places) as it once was, but make no mistake: when our existence was illegal everywhere the people you have this knee-jerk “hide the weirdos” reaction to are the very ones who would’ve had your back against the cops and the gay-bashers.

The people who made me feel safe to come out in my 20s flew the rubber and leather flags alongside the rainbow flag and often the trans flag as well. You don’t get to tell any of them they don’t belong anymore just because you don’t understand.

Rip this from my cold, dead hands

It has the electrolytes that God craves

Adding "Catholicism" to the very short list of existing things generative AI could maybe safely replace

Tumblr user intheparlanceofourtimes out here trying to start another church schism

The way I was taught was that you could use Gatorade/Soda/whatever ONLY if the person had sustained a fatal wound and there wasn’t time to go get water.

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love this pyro cosmetic (pyro the flamedeer) cuz it looks like a furry drone fetish hood 10000%

When I was a kid I was convinced that “sub-tle” and “suttle” were two separate words that happened to mean the same thing. Used to say “sub-tle” with the b pronounced all the time.

Hearing the phrase "fiduciary responsibility" come up as a plot point in Fallout was like being slapped in the face with the corpse of a semi-viral post.

I've been playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and my son keeps renaming the characters. Aerith? No, that's Aerin. So I asked him what all the other characters were named.

Yuffie - Paren

Tifa - Squaren

Cid - Staren

Red XIII - I don't know, it's a dog

Barret - Karen

Cait - Taren Cat

Sephiroth - Strwaren

Vincent - Twaren

Cloud - Mark

Ecoterrorism is the ultimate form of Karening.

trying to recreate a space alien character I saw in my dream last night.

They were invading earth with a massive fleet but ended up just chilling halfway through to play video games and build like weird theme park resorts or something. Idk it was a weird dream.

This was literally the plot of the dream

matching pfps