"Jackpot"

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Did you have an imaginary friend when you were younger? Describe them. 

What’s your comfort show?

Whose podcast would you want to be a guest on?

What was your first ship/OTP?

What was the first fanfic you ever read?

Do you talk to yourself? How often?

When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?

What do you want to be when you grow up now?

Tell me a piece of gossip.

What is an act of kindness you have never forgotten?

What is a childhood quirk you never grew out of?

What is your favorite drink?

What is your favorite snack?

Describe your first crush.

What is your biggest pet peeve?

Do you have any phobias?

What’s something random/odd that you find hot/attractive. 

What is your favorite flower?

What do you smell like?

Describe yourself how your love interest would describe you in a book.

If you were a main character in a romance book/movie/show, what tropes would you want associated with you?

If you could bring back an extinct species (with no major consequences) what would it be?

Do you think Atlantis was real?

What hobby/activity do you keep saying you’ll take up when you retire?

how many posts are in your drafts right now [*whispers* post one]

What’s an achievement big or small that you’re really proud of?

Do you have any recurring dreams? What are they?

What would be your death row/last meal? (no limits)

What is a book/story from your childhood that has stuck with you?

What are your top 5 most used emojis?

What celebrity do you feel like you could realistically be friends with?

PBS and NPR were never beholden to the US government.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created so that the US government could fund public media without public media being influenced by the government. It was a private non-profit funded by the government, not a part of the government itself. This is by design. This was a good thing. It meant that even small local TV and radio stations, could afford to create media for the public good, without government influence.

This meant TV and radio stations for poor communities. For non-english speaking communities. For rural communities. For minorities. It meant that free and accessible media could be created for everyone, even if the government didn't like it.

That's why conservatives defunded it.

Because if they couldn't control it, and if it helped the people they hated, then they would have to destroy it. Do you really think that a fascist government would defund their own propaganda machine?

Not only is the idea that PBS before being defunded was propaganda wrong, but ignores the fact that defunding it is going to have long-term negative effects on vulnerable communities.

So, I think there are some important things I should address.

First: The show in question, PBS Origins, has been running since 2017. They have been focusing on these sorts of topics the entire time. This is not the first time the channel has discussed the US government's role in genocide and slavery. It's not the first time it has criticized the US government. It is also not the only shown on PBS to have ever done so.

Second: People have considered PBS and NPR to have a left-wing bias for a long time, even before it was defunded. That's why conservatives wanted it defunded, and why they had been trying to defund it for decades.

Third: PBS and NPR did a lot more than history and politics. Weather reports, local news, children's programming, cooking shows... Something like PBS Origins, even an episode as provocative as the one in the OP, would pass under the radar of most people, especially because it doesn't usually play on TV. (It's made primarily for YouTube)

Third: Defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was not an easy task. It took decades to finally pass a bill doing so. It was not something the government could just do at the drop of a hat if PBS did something the current government didn't like.

It's the rare instance of 'no, this visitor was actually doing everything right; some jackass in a truck that pissed off the bison is at fault.'

What started as a yearly trip for a grandfather and his grandson turned into a visit to a Montana hospital after a bison attack at Yellowstone National Park.

Carl McDaniel, 65, was hospitalized with a broken femur after a bison charged and tossed him into the air Friday evening at the park’s Bridge Bay Campground, according to McDaniel and the National Park Service.

He was visiting the park with his 13-year-old grandson when they decided to take a walk after dinner.

Along the way, they encountered a large bison that appeared to be rolling around in the dust and was not bothering anyone, McDaniel told CNN.

“We were about a hundred yards away,” McDaniel said. “He was not aggressive; he was not having problems and we took some pictures and decided to walk on.”

McDaniel and his grandson snapped a quick photo and continued with their walk, video of the encounter shows. At the same time, a truck drove by, and the driver laid on his horn in what appeared to be an attempt to get the bison to move, McDaniel said. There is no audio on the video.

The bison then appeared to become agitated and began running toward the pair.

“There was little time to decide what to do. At that point, he was within 100 yards; he could be to us in seconds, so I told my grandson to run in one direction and I went the other to try and draw him away,” McDaniel said.

The animal then pushed McDaniel with the top of its head, sending him flying into the air before he hit the ground, the grandfather said.

“When I was on the ground immobile, unable to move, he was right on top of me. He could have stomped on me, he could have gored me, he could have done almost anything to take my life, and he did not do so,” McDaniel said.

After McDaniel hit the ground, photographer Mike MacLeod, who captured the encounter on video, had to step in, he told Cowboy State Daily.

“I was really afraid he was going to gore the guy on the ground, so I stopped videotaping and ran at the bison, yelled loud, and was trying to be as big and intimidating as possible,” MacLeod said.

After the bison took off, people rushed over to McDaniel, who was in a lot of pain, MacLeod told Cowboy State Daily. Yellowstone EMS arrived soon after, he said.

“Park emergency medical personnel responded and transported him to a nearby hospital,” the National Park Service said in confirming the incident in a statement to CNN.

This is the second bison attack at Yellowstone this year. A 12-year-old was injured near Mud Volcano on June 26, according to the agency.

After Friday’s attack, “all the people that were there were amazing; they were all positive, they were trying to help as best they could,” McDaniel said. A nurse started tending to his leg, while another bystander held his head.

He was then transferred to a hospital in Bozeman, a two-hour journey during which he was in intense pain. He said he was grateful for the paramedic who helped him along the way.

McDaniel broke his femur, the body’s strongest bone, in four places near his hip and suffered several bruises. He had surgery Sunday and could stand by Monday.

“I will be doing physical therapy for the next few days to get to walk, but it was not as catastrophic as it could have been,” McDaniel said.

you know what you are right. im sorry. it wasn't crickets, it was one post that got a little traction & people in the notes were actively preemptively saying anyone who suggests this could perhaps be an example of transmasc oppression should die.

erasure is an action (to quote @transfemme-turtlebug's tags on this post!) and its something everyone internalizes by virtue of being part of an anti-transmasculine society. but because of the backlash to transandrophobia theory (which tries to describe this), tumblr users now have developed an even more intense internalized erasure, where their first thought when it comes to transmascs being targeted is not, "oh shit, transmascs are vulnerable!" it is "fuck, we NEED to make sure the transandrobros can't use this!"

also since a number of people in the notes have mentioned not having heard of this at all, here's an article and a link to the complaint filed. here's a quote too:

"(Reyes) was using this program to intentionally punish people on the basis of their gender identity." Decker said. "The people who were involved in this were all either trans men or masculine-presenting LGBTQ people." 

More baby bugs :3

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

People killed: around three quarters of a million.

Like it's bad when a "tattoo is undulating" (as opposed to... "drawn in a wave like pattern on the skin"?), or when hair is "wet wheat from a late Summer field" (as opposed to "sort of brownish light yellow that dries lighter, but is not actual wheat stalks growing on someone's head but kind of reminiscent of the color and texture"?), or when when ice cream tastes like midnight at the fair" (as opposed to "ice cream flavour bringing back memories of undefined ice cream flavours that are individually popular but always tied to a memory of late evening at the fair ground and probably smelling vaguely like popcorn and sugar"?).