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Posted on 16th May at 9:28 PM, with 17 notes

sivavakkiyar:

The California state Senate has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would make discrimination on the basis of caste illegal in the state. 

Sen. Aisha Wahab’s bill, SB 403, flew through the Senate in a 34-1 vote. It now goes to the Democratic-controlled State Assembly and, if it passes, on to the desk to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who hasn’t taken a public position on the bill. If the bill clears both, California would become the first state to protect caste.”

Posted on 16th May at 8:54 PM, with 72,970 notes

withswords:

acesvega:

something i’ve noticed. people seem to think the most nature-y nature is forests. so forests are always prioritized for conservation, and planting trees is synonymous with ecological activism. my state was largely prairies and wetlands before colonization. those ecosystems are important too. trees aren’t the end-all be-all of environmentalism. plant native grasses. protect your wetlands.

deserts also!!! it sucks so bad that people think of desert as ‘wasteland’ just because it’s not suited for western european style ag development, they’re beautiful and delicate and valuable ecosystems and, i think it’s good to point out that humans have been living willingly in them for thousands of years

Posted on 15th May at 4:48 PM, with 12,708 notes

gerardwaygirlmoments:

telltaletypist:

nosferatumaam:

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American Pronoun (2000) dir. Mary Harron

he didn’t say that

Yes she did

Posted on 15th May at 4:32 PM, with 64,256 notes

artsekey:

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For at least some speed-runners, this is canon.

Posted on 15th May at 4:14 PM, with 13,271 notes

softichill:

softichill:

Hey so your girlfriend got put into a fandom and um, they kinda. Yeah they made her the Mean Lesbian Friend. Yeah it’s entirely because she’s the only girl who’s not overtly caring or kind. Sorry. Also they– yeah she’s characterized entirely as a wingman for the popular gay ship. Sorry again

“This is so me lol” “I do this” this is a complaint post. This is a post complaining about when this happens. This post is about the constant 1-dimensional characterization that happens to women characters in fandom when they are not cute or nice. The last part especially is complaining about how once these women are made Mean Lesbians they are characterized entirely though their “endearingly rude” support of a relationship between two men.

Posted on 15th May at 3:58 PM, with 65 notes

kaijuno:

Got a call because I’m my dads medical contact (he’s just in surgery) and he wrote me down as my preferred name instead of my legal one 🥹

Posted on 15th May at 3:42 PM, with 8,242 notes

natalieironside:

natalieironside:

My toxic trait is also corrosive and mutagenic so I should be transported carefully and only handled by licensed professionals

If your boss tries to implement me without the accompanying OSHA and EPA training, call your union steward.

Posted on 15th May at 3:26 PM, with 59,137 notes

notanarutoblogs:

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File under: even more blatant proof cis people can joke about trans people without it being at their expense

Posted on 15th May at 3:08 PM, with 285,306 notes

rustbeltjessie:

dovewithscales:

shadows-haunt-angels:

dovewithscales:

dzamie:

dovewithscales:

dovewithscales:

anais-ninja-bitch:

a-poor-decision:

ultralaser:

brunhiddensmusings:

daywatch:

puckconnolly:

Everyone may *think* they hate country music, but when Jolene, Before He Cheats, Take Me Home Country Roads, or Life is a Highway comes on, everyone is suddenly a liar.

I know this is a funny post but

There are a few major points in Country Music’s history that got the entire genre labeled as ‘annoying’

  • Post 9/11 nationalism
  • A term that I couldn’t make up “Bro-Country” which intensifies themes of booze, objectifying women, and partying that were present in past decades but not to such an extent
  • This is Gospel Music But With an Accent

Now looking at the songs op listed there is

  • A woman pleading to another woman
  • A woman wrecking a shitheads life
  • A guy loving the scenery of where he lived
  • A song that could easily be mistaken for a number of other genres

But it is easier to say that one hates country while privately enjoying select songs than explain why one doesn’t like the current market oversaturated with our nation’s problems of nationalism, sexism, and so on

see also jhonny cash/willie nelson era songs which were deeply emotional stories often about painful and deep subjects. prison, loss of loved ones, hard labor, facing despair, passion. ‘ghost riders in the sky’ and the like are also deeply satisfying as they bridge more into folklore then ‘murica fuck yeah im sponsored by bud light yall’

another example- ‘midnight in montgomery’ where hank williams junior sings about the ghost of his father

“ … And felt the wind die down,
And a drunk man in a cowboy hat,
Took me by surprise,
Wearin’ shiny boots, a nudie suit, and haunted, haunted eyes,
He said: “Friend, it’s good to see you,
It’s nice to know you care”
Then the wind picked up and he was gone,
Was he ever really there?

‘Cause when the wind is right,
You’ll hear his song,
Smell whisky in the air,
Midnight in Montgomery,
He’s always singin’ there, “

the reason we ‘hate country’ is because we know its supposed to have FEELING and its infuriatingly absent now

70s country - bluegrass traditional

80s country - power ballads

90s country - pop crossover

00s country - white supremacy

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it’s about the folkloric story-telling tradition of oppressed poor folks vs marketable capitalistic ass-kissing.

Yes. So much yes. See Dolly Parton and Wille Nelson and Johnny Cash sing about something real and they mean it and they are amazing. Modern country with some rare exceptions doesn’t start with something meaningful to say, it analyzes the market trends to figures out what will sell and then they do that. That or it just plain caters to white nationalists.

But there’s some damn good country out there. It’s just crowded out by utter garbage written and performed by sell-outs.

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Can confirm.

“Curses” by The Crane Wives is a great song, and I legitimately have trouble singing along to it because I choke up at a couple lines.

…though I do tend to listen to it at 125% speed.

Oh I love that song!

Colter Wall and Corb Lund also understand the assignment! Dig Gravedigger Dig; Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier; The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie; Sleeping on the Blacktop: all bangers. Even Poor Man’s Poison, who got really popular for a minute via memes, consistently puts out good songs because they mean something!

I have new music added to playlists now

I would like to add a recommendation for my close personal friend and amazing musician, the First Lady of Queer Country, Cindy Emch aka the Secret Emchy Society.

Posted on 15th May at 2:36 PM, with 46,139 notes

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

If you’re going to get a cat, you must understand two things:

1. As far as a cat is concerned, the highest form of entertainment is annoying another cat on purpose.

2. If you have a good rapport with your cat, you count as another cat.

You can divert much of this behaviour by getting two cats, so that they can annoy each other, but tradeoff is that sometimes they’ll decide to team up on you instead.

People keep giving me a hard time about this post like “well, obviously your cats aren’t getting enough enrichment, you must be neglectful”, and what you need to understand is that cats generally know what they want, and she doesn’t want to play with the toy mouse. She doesn’t want to chase the thing on a string. She doesn’t want to come outside and help me rake leaves. (Read: constantly get underfoot while I try not to bonk her with a rake.) What she wants is to repeatedly bite her sister’s tail until her sister gets fed up and puts her in a headlock.

Posted on 15th May at 2:20 PM, with 18,341 notes

elateridae:

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had a fun encounter with a customer today

Posted on 15th May at 2:04 PM, with 850 notes

sillyfxmme:

sillyfxmme:

I think I have a controversial thing to say: I love and recommend (have recommended) Stone Butch Blues as much as the next person, but there’s other books from and about butches that get slept on because people only know Stone Butch Blues

Here’s a couple that I recommend all the time:

Butch is a Noun by S. Bear Bergman

Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan Coyote

No, but like Ivan Coyote for example has so many books and I have some of those here

Posted on 15th May at 1:46 PM, with 57,369 notes

alexseanchai:

ravingsockmonkey:

furrypost-generator:

furrypost-generator:

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bitches be sucking farts there

Found the source of the infographic that explains how the results were obtained!

Curious about CO being skunk? So am I. I went deeper and broke CO down to counties. Arapahoe County is the only one to be mostly Skunk. The data has, for some reason, Arapahoe getting 100s of "Skunk furry" searches a month which, on a state level, is more than the others. pic.twitter.com/War8zodpWO  — Riley RiRi Winters (@Horsefur1) November 11, 2020

there’s sixteen Colorado counties that their most searched was “wolf furry”, plus thirty-odd counties (not counting either Arapahoe or any of the ones marked here as “Insufficient Data”) which may well have had plenty of searches for “wolf furry”, just fewer than for whatever they’re labeled here

and “skunk furry” searches in Arapahoe County outnumbered “wolf furry” searches in the entire state of Colorado

something tells me Skunks Georg

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