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yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

It mattered not because corporations cared and had our backs- they never will- but that it was a measure of how SAFE it was to be openly queer. Corporations play things safe, and are extremely risk-averse. Rainbow capitalism was a good benchmark measurement for safety in public. Now that rainbow capitalism has become much smaller or gone away entirely... everything is far more hostile, and it's yet another sign we're all in danger again.

hi trans indigenous people I love you

hi indigenous people who don't identify with the label trans because you exist outside of the Western gender binary I love you

today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.

reblog this post to help a child break the law

They should play more with the idea that in the same way people around her tend to forget that language doesn't come as easy to her, Cass also forgets that others can't read everything about the people around like she can just as often. She'll be playing pool with Duke and Steph (and winning) and the whole time she'll be wondering to herself why the both of them seem to be avoiding mentioning the two assassins who've been watching them while pretending to drink at the bar for the last three hours. She's not about to bring it up if they aren't though, she's way too awkward.

happy pride month to this post specifically

Over twenty years ago my big brother got me a job at a Taco Bell in the St. Louis suburbs-West County. He warned me that it was the “gay Taco Bell”, but since I was coming from the “gay Howard Johnson’s” I wasn’t shocked. It turns out it was the black trans women Taco Bell complete with black trans women in management. And they’d worked out an arrangement with the local teen Narcotics Anonymous group so that twice a week we would shut down the drive thru and the dining room and exclusively serve 60+ teens in various stages of recovery. And many of the women I worked with were in various stages of being out or transitioning and they were from all generations from teens to over 50. One woman I worked with had a regular corporate job presenting as a man 9-5 Mon-Fri and then came to Taco Bell and worked 6pm -2am Friday and Saturday night so she could be herself surrounded by other black transwomen in those stolen weekends. And we had customers come from all over the metro area because they knew they could be themselves in the dining room. I only worked there from 1999-2001 but for young me, this was a vital, formative experience. Some of the girls came from north city all the way out to the “gay Taco Bell” on Manchester in west county because they heard it was safe to work there. Like- I know times have changed but they haven’t changed much in 20 years. I’m still convinced that for lgbt youth, finding a job at your city’s version of the “gay Taco Bell” is key to survival.

Thank u for sharing this with us

“I’ve discovered some new passages of the Bible that say you go to hell if you’re JD Vance and superhell if you are capitalizing off the AI boom.” and the pope is right

I think there's already enough passages pls stop finding new ones

it’s ok just this once

If only there were some sort of facility where teenagers could be taught new skills.

yeah okay ill reblog that :]

And if you have trouble remembering which hand is which-- the minute hand has to be longer to make it easier to determine the actual minute, while the hour hand can be less exact.

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