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do y'all remember when people on tiktok were talking about how it's morally wrong to name yourself "arson" because it's a crime?
anyway if you're trans and you need a new name, may i suggest Murder?
they were like "that's a real crime that happens to real people!" like how did they think that would go irl? do they think someone would introduce themself, say, "hey, my name is arson, what's yours?" and then the response they'd get us, "aāarson...? š° like.... as in... setting property on fire....? that.... that happened to me once, i... i need to sit down.."
stop being funnier than me on my own post!!!
when someone raises a concern w me about the "irreversibility of allowing children and teens to transition" (which is a lot, having these discussions w people is literally my day job) i think about the fact that when i was 13/14 my mum bought me an epilator for christmas. my cousin got one too.
now i had shaved my legs maybe once or twice at this point, because my (frankly barely visible) leg fluff was apparently "bad" and did not enjoy the process or result. my mum, to her credit is p progressive and never pressured me to shave (except for my pits. she's odd about pits. convinced having armpit hair is bad for the skin or something idk) but there was this ASSUMPTION that bc i "was a girl" i would now inevitably need to remove the hair from my legs for the rest of my life. we were both given epilators SPECIFICALLY bc our mums believed that if we started epilating early, the follicles would get damaged and the hair would stop growing.
we were too young to get our belly buttons pierced (something that if we changed our minds could be removed and leave only a tiny mark as evidence), too young to start even puberty blockers among the people i often talk to, but plenty old enough to start the attempting to permanently destroy all the follicles on a good third of our bodies to the extent we were gifted these devices despite showing no real desire to do so!!
now quite apart from being trans, i love my leg fuzz. love all of it actual. had to shave my pubic hair for surgery once and threw a FIT i was so mad (turns out it wasn't actually 'necessary' at ALL) i would have been gutted to have missed out on that because I'd used the fucking epilator.
these arguments are always framed as 'what if they change their minds' or 'blah blah some risk' or 'they're too young to know what they want' but it's never actually about that.
the issue isn't that they MIGHT 'change their minds about being trans and wanting to transition', it's that those people are HOPING they will. its not a fear of those young people regretting their decision, it's a fear of running out of time to talk them out of being trans.
i swear screening tests have the worst phrasing in the world sometimes, tell me what you mean in words that make sense or iām setting you on fire
Oh yeah, disability tests do that sort of phrasing all the time. Like they ask you how well you do things, and so you think they mean on an average day. But really theyāre asking you what youāre like at your worstā the very reason why youāre disabled in the first place. On a good day putting socks on is easy enough, a bit of a struggle but I manage. On a bad day? Forget the socks, Iām not even leaving bed.
I think the rule of thumb is evaluate yourself like every day is a terrible day, or else people wonāt think you need help at all. Whether itās a physical disability or youāre nuerodivergent, people will try to get away with not having to pay money for your needs. Better to have things in place because you never know when a bad day will become a bad year.
So this is UK specific but I think can apply everywhere!
A friend of mine works as a disability advocate, and has spent most of her working like battling the DWP and making sure low income and disabled people are able to fucking survive. (She also provides this service for me for free because weāre friends and I can say without a shadow of a doubt I would be D-E-D if not for her)
And because I have trouble understanding questions, we go through any paperwork together.
So one of the questions I tend to trip on is ācan you walk X distance?ā because⦠I can! On a good day! Or with my crutches! Or leaning on a wall! Or very very very very VERY slowly.
So sheāll ask the question and Iāll answer and then sheāll ask if I could do it on my worst day, completely unaided. Because the point of the benefits is to get you that aid.
So once youāve parsed out what the question is really asking you, ask yourself āCould I do this on my absolutely worst day, completely unaided?ā And if the answer is no, tell them you canāt do it.
Any time you answer a question with āYes, but-ā in these situations it means the answer is probably no. Because theyāre really asking ācan you do this thing the way everyone else can?ā and if you need a system to handle socks, or crutches to walk X distance, or noise cancelling headphones to get on a bus, or three alarms to make dinner, or anything else to help you do a ābasicā task by everyone elseās standards, then you canāt do it the way everyone else can and you answer the question with a no.
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Threw an empty plastic Easter egg at Tim for him to play with but he just... solemnly held onto it, thinking deeply about his newfound responsibility
It seems like today, the first anniversary of bringing home my Tiny Tim, is a good day to again share his most popular post and one of the many memes attached to it
Classic R.L. Stineās Goosebumps covers by Tim Jacobus.
ian mckellen directed these movies actually
Ian McKellen was not going to stand idly by and allow these movies to be heterosexual <3
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With Halloween just around the corner, NASA has released its latest Galaxy of Horrors posters. Presented in the style of vintage horror movie advertisements. As fun and creative as all three posters are, they're based on real phenomena. š
Can you hear this exoplanet screaming?
As HD 80606 b approaches its star from an extreme, elliptical orbit, it suffers star-grazing torture that causes howling, supersonic winds and shockwave storms across the planet. Its torturous journey boils its atmosphere to a hellish 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit every 111 days, roasting both its light and dark sides. HD 80606b will never escape this scorching nightmare.
This bone-chilling force will leave you shivering alone in terror!
An unseen power is prowling throughout the cosmos, driving the universe to expand at a quickening rate. This relentless pressure, called dark energy, is nothing like dark matter, that mysterious material only revealed by its gravitational pull. Dark energy offers a bigger fright: pushing galaxies farther apart over trillions of years, leaving the universe to an inescapable, freezing death in the pitch black expanse of outer space.ā
Cygnus X-1 Presents:
Itās Dinner Time and Youāre The Meal!
Lurking in our galaxy, approximately 6,000 light-years from Earth, is a monster named CygnusX-1. This black hole, which has about 14.8 times the mass of our Sun, will stretch and squeeze anything it captures in its immense gravity. Cygnus X-1 is waiting, snacking on its neighboring star. Donāt get too close, or youāll become its next meal!
This chillingly haunted galaxy mysteriously stopped making stars only a few billion years after the Big Bang! It became a cosmic cemetery, illuminated by the red glow of decaying stars. Dare to enter, and you might encounter the frightening corpses of exoplanets or the final death throes of once-mighty stars.
Something strange and mysterious creeps throughout the cosmos. Scientists call it dark matter. It is scattered in an intricate web that forms the skeleton of our universe. Dark matter is invisible, only revealing its presence by pushing and pulling on objects we can see. NASAās Roman Space Telescope will investigate its secrets. What will be revealed?
In the depths of the universe, the cores of two collapsed stars violently merge to release a burst of the deadliest and most powerful form of light, known as gamma rays. These beams of doom are unleashed upon their unfortunate surroundings, shining a million trillion times brighter than the Sun for up to 30 terrifying seconds. No spaceship will shield you from the blinding destruction of the gamma ray ghouls!
These doomed worlds were among the first and creepiest to be discovered as they orbit an undead star known as a pulsar. Pulsar planets like Poltergeist and its neighboring worlds, Phobetor and Draugr, are consumed with constant radiation from the starās core. Nothing but the undead can subsist in this most inhospitable corner of the galaxy.
This far-off blue planet may look like a friendly haven ā but donāt be deceived! Weather here is deadly. The planetās cobalt blue color comes from a hazy, blow-torched atmosphere containing clouds laced with glass. Howling winds send the storming glass sideways at 5,400 mph (2km/s), whipping all in a sickening spiral. Itās death by a million cuts on this slasher planet!
Sacheen Littlefeather has passed away on October 2nd 2022. While people remember her for her acceptance speech on behalf of Marlon Brando, know that she also ended the media blackout of the Wounded Knee occupation, won an Emmy & co-founded the American Indian AIDS Institute of San Francisco.
The Garden of Childhood - Alice M.Ā Chesterton -Ā 1905 -Ā via Internet Archive
Flautist Melissa Jefferson plays slaver James Madison's 200-year-old crystal flute in the Library of Congress.
a few notes: --this is apparently a piece that is very difficult to play --this flute is keyless, which requires the player to use extremely precise finger positioning --Lizzo is wearing two inch acrylic nails
the runs at the end are both stunning and flawless!
Cool. The flute is cool. But I got some more info that I feel is important.
That's James Maddison's flute. James Maddison owned over 100 slaves. Due to debts he had to sell land and slaves over his lifetime. By the time of his death he owned 36 slaves. No slaves were freed during his lifetime or in his will.
The power that this successful Black woman has over his legacy right now.
Not just playing his flute, but shaking her ass while playing his flute.
With some help from the Library of Congress, @lizzo got to play President James Madison's crystal flute at her recent Washington, D.C., conc
Oh, the white supremacists are so mad.
You know how often people play instruments that are hundreds of years old? Instruments are made to last hundreds of years. They're preserved through use. First chair violinists in major orchestras often use violins that are centuries old.
My aunt owns and sells instruments both young and old, and it's a huge dishonor to the memory of the creator to demand that the instrument go in a museum never to be used.
-fae
Something really cool about this video is that Lizzo is usually in really extravagant outfits, which is awesome to see! But we as fat people are expected to over-perform gender and be dressed to the nines just to deserve basic respect. If we're seen wearing baggy pants and a simple shirt, we're called slovenly, lazy, ugly. So I love seeing Lizzo being able to wear not just the extravagant outfits but also outfits like this that are a "fuck you" to every fatphobe who thinks fat people must put on a performance to earn basic respect and dignity.
Not only is Lizzo playing James Madisonās crystal flute, she was invited to by Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress and the first actual librarian to have the job since 1974 (she was appointed in 2016). She is also the first woman and the first African American to be the Librarian of Congress.
She invited Lizzo by @ her on Twitter because she saw Lizzo would be in town for her tour. Lizzo spent three hours touring the LoC and looking at historic flutes in the collection.
Carla Hayden was previously the head librarian of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, which is the city library organization for Baltimore. She kept the libraries open during the Freddie Gray riots so people would have a safe place to bring their kids.
Sheās a cool lady and I hope more people get interested in the LoC and itās holdings. They have a lot online and you donāt need to make an account to look.
Just jumping back to the first comment cuz itās driving me crazy...Ā āthis is apparently a piece that is very difficult to playā.
I mean... yes. And it blows my mind as a flautist that that isnāt obvious to all listeners. I mean, just the speed of the last section alone should tell you that. But a little ~insider knowledge~ on this instrument: changing octaves on the flute (ie jumping from very low to very high) is less about finger positions and more about ombrochure, AKA what your mouth is doing. (Most of) the fingerings do change, but unless you also change the angle of airflow and the tightness of your lips, the sound isnāt going anywhere. When you go up steadily, like in a scale, you get there pretty smoothly and itās not hard. But two octave jumps remain a pain in the ass. So to play that fast, with frequent two octave leaps, not only hitting all the notes but also staying in tune on every note AND maintaining a beautiful quality of sound takes SKILL. That short clip is all I need to know that Lizzo is a phenomenal flautist.
Little Grey Seal Earrings //Ā LittleBlueSeal
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More links, PLEASE reblog or repost and add more resources: OHCHR - Iran: Women and girls treated as second class citizens, reforms urgently needed, says UN expert Iran: Where the regime opposes womenās rights Read: The Wind In My Hair - My Fight For Freedom in Modern Iran by Masih Alinejad
Watch: Kiosk - Sweet Destiny (the movie) I donāt think Iāve ever asked my followers to reblog anything but this time it would mean. The actual world. To the people of Iran. If you could spread awareness of the Iranian peopleās fight for freedom right now. Iām not on Twitter or Instagram (although this post is optimized for instagram so PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REPOST IT ON IG) but from what I could see there is not as much noise about this as it should be. Nor is it easy to find posts with resources and basic information. And on tumblr Iāve only seen some posts from dedicated feminist blogs or actual Iranians. And from what Iāve gathered they NEED US to share whatās going on. They are shutting down internet in Iran so itās up to us to not let the world look past this, not this time. PLEASE join the fight for womenās rights!!!
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