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The BBC is releasing over 16,000 sound effects for free download

The BBC have released their incredible, expansive library of bizarre and obscure sound effects, all available for free download.

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THIS will be sooo good for my soundboard. Those online sessions are about to become even better :D

First music, then voice modifiers... Now this. Perfect.

Also, I’m pretty sure it can be used for a lot of other activities.

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Yay, no more Soundbible!

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Yellowstone National Park are in possession of a treasure trove of ambient samples which they've released into public domain for your sampli

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The direct link: https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/photosmultimedia/soundlibrary.htm

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It’s Pride Month, and often seen as a celebratory time for people in the LGBTQ+ community. But I can’t help to be disheartened as their is a growing rhetoric of genocidal speech towards transgender people (as seen brought up in this video). On top of that, there is mounting bills at the state level in our country that are actively undermining gender affirming care. Did you know that people who are seeking gender affirming care and get it have a lower rate for suicide? Here’s just one article (of many) that report on medical reports that are finding this: https://fenwayhealth.org/new-study-shows-transgender-people-who-receive-gender-affirming-surgery-are-significantly-less-likely-to-experience-psychological-distress-or-suicidal-ideation/

Because here’s the thing about Pride Month: that’s why it exists. Many of members of the community have to fight just to be able to live their lives without people trying to enact laws about it, trying to kill them, or trying to make life so difficult that the only choice seems to be to leave life. I am a bisexual man who has blessed by being able to live my life thanks to the efforts of those in the community (especially transgender people and people of color of the community) who fought for rights not just for themselves but for the entire community. I encourage you to donate to a cause that fights for the rights of the transgender community. I just donated to the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF). Their organization fights for rights for the Transgender community during this time of many anti-transgender laws that are being put in place. https://transgenderlegal.org

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Watched a great talk today about web/technology accessibility, and the speaker pointed out that yes, accessibility is important for people with permanent disabilities, and we should definitely care about that. But also accessibility helps EVERYBODY, because everybody will, at some point in their lives, find themselves in situations that accessible technology can help with. Here are permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities that accessible technology can help with:

Remember that whether something is disabling or not depends on the situation, the environment, the technology, etc. We’re ALL disabled at some point. It is important to support permanently disabled people, but it is also important to remember that accessibility helps us all!

borosarrowman

As a person who teaches young adults with intellectual disabilities at the young adult level (ages 18-21), I often think about how accessibility efforts go way farther than you would think. Many of my students have difficulty with reading. When we go out to stores, I am overjoyed when I see signs that have both words and a picture describing the section of the store. Even a person who can read benefits from the picture and it helps them relate what that section of the store has. Accessible buttons that hold open doors aren’t just great for my students who use wheelchairs, but are great when you are trying to get through a doorway and your hands are full! And, if you’ve ever noticed that at the ends of sidewalks before a road they have that bumpy surface (known as a detectible warning paver) a distracted walker might be able to sense the change in their feet, similar to how a blind person would use their cane to alert them that the sidewalk is ending and the street is beginning. Accessibility is a benefit to all individuals, and when you realize that, you allow yourself to ensure the world is a better place :)

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I've been thinking a lot about queerness lately and I keep getting stuck on how deeply I want it to be normal. I want little girls to come home excitedly telling their parents about a pretty new girl in school that they have a crush on. I want young boys to have their first kiss with another boy and be able to tell their friends about it. I want them to be impressed and slap him on the back and say congrats. I want to bring home a woman to my family and have my father give her that whole fake threatening, "you better be good to my daughter" speech before offering her a handshake and a beer. I want people everywhere in the world to be able to hold hands in the street and not even think twice about it, not have to feel afraid, not have to feel like they're making a statement. I want so desperately for the world to catch up with something that so many of us already understand as normal. I don't want to be merely tolerated, and I wish pride wasn't necessary. I wish that having confidence in myself wasn't a revolutionary act.

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This! This is so beautiful and we should all strive to make this a reality!

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Dear Alison,

Thank you so much for sharing that wonderful story with us today! Your stories have been a favorite of mine for magic and I loved the little details about the community bulletin board for planeswalkers on Ravnica (it felt so perfect). I was wondering, what was your favorite little detail you added into the story?

Eric

Have you been to New Capenna? It's my favorite to visit on holiday—there's this beautiful dance hall we can check out. You've never seen so much gold in your life! Sometimes there are fights, but it is very safe, I promise. Saheeli reassuring Huatli that the (frequent) fights on New Capenna aren't that bad is peak citygirl flirting

borosarrowman

Omg omg omg! You answered my question!! Thank you so much Alison!! You bring so much joy into Magic the Gathering!

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ALERT! ALERT! DINOBOTS IS CANON! I REPEAT: DINOBOTS IS CANON! THIS IS NOT A DRILL

moisellethefae

With story by Alison Lührs!

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/note-stranger-2022-05-02

wilwheaton

“People might be confused about how a Republican Party that once worried about government overreach now seeks to control medical care for transgender children and retaliate against a corporation for objecting to a bill targeting LGBTQ students. And why is it that the most ambitious Republicans are spending more time battling nonexistent critical race theory in schools than on health care or inflation? To explain this, one must acknowledge that the GOP is not a political party anymore. It is a movement dedicated to imposing White Christian nationalism. The media blandly describes the GOP’s obsessions as “culture wars,” but that suggests there is another side seeking to impose its views on others. In reality, only one side is repudiating pluralistic democracy — White, Christian and mainly rural Americans who are becoming a minority group and want to maintain their political power.”

— The GOP is no longer a party. It’s a movement to impose White Christian nationalism.

zipmartini

The Republicans have, indeed, ceased to be a political party. A political party has a legislative agenda by which it achieves its goals… which also means it also, y'know, has goals. In a two-party system, those goals are often shared goals (at least on the surface) and it’s only the approach that’s up for debate. One party might be hawkish, believing in global stability via dominance and threat. The other might believe in peace through diplomacy and cooperation. But they both believe in this vague concept of “world peace.” Similarly, one party might favor applying financial benefits to the most needy, while the other believes in top-down economics, but both have the shared goal (again, perhaps only superficially) of strengthening the middle class. That’s why it was easier in past times to “reach across the aisle,” to say, “I can work with this Senator, I can work with this President,” to have the fabled beer together at the end of the day. There was compromise to be found. Even saying “we’ll try it your way” was possible because your opponent’s goal is roughly in the same ballpark as yours. Heck, sometimes it was enough rope for your opponent to hang themselves with.

The current GOP only has one agenda: stop the Democratic Party, from whatever it tries to achieve. Do not give it a single win. Do not concede a single inch of ground. Do not allow them an accomplishment to brag about. Socially. Economically. Geopolitically. if the Democrats advocate for the virtues of inhaling, every member of the GOP should performatively hold its breath. Admit no fault. Acknowledge no flaw. Anything other than a shutout is a loss: do not allow a single blue point on the board.

Bonus points for cruelty.

That’s it. That’s the entire current Republican agenda.

That is not a political party. That is a counter-party.

There is one group trying to achieve its goals, and one group trying to stop them. The United States currently has one political party, and one counter-party.

How did we get here?

I believe part of the problem is that there are three political philosophies in the United States, and only two viable political parties in the United States to contain them. And two of those philosophies switched places over the last ten years.

Progressives believe in change, as quickly as possible. They bear the weight of all of those in society who are suffering due to systemic injustice, today, and cannot wait another moment. Lives are miserable, lives are lost, cycles remain unbroken, and all for reasons completely outside the moral compasses of the oppressed. It is the party of empathy, of treating others the way you’d want to be treated had luck and privilege gone the other way. I count myself as a progressive, by the way. The Democratic Party is the home of most progressives.

Conservatives believe in change, but as slowly as possible. They are the politics of tradition, of history. They do believe in innovation — much of their economic policy is, in fact, based on innovation completely unchecked by regulation — but carefully, minimizing the impact to the status quo, making sure that the future America is moving towards is still somewhat recognizable, at least to them (after all, there’s nothing scarier than being lost), even if many of the things that are “recognizable” about “America” culturally and economically marginalize a great many people; but then, empathy is an anecdotal factor to be discarded, to conservatives. Eventually, they come around socially, boiled frogs, as more are more build concrete empathy via exposure, rather than the abstract empathy progressives already possess (you see this all the time: a conservative will believe marriage between homosexuals to be an affront to society, until it’s their daughter who wants to marry another woman, and then that one conservative suddenly embraces the concept. I do believe abstract empathy, caring for a kind of person you’ve never met and possibly never will, is the biggest difference between progressives and conservatives). The Republican Party used to be the home of most conservatives.

(Not to be condescending, but often, oddly, ironically, conservatives could be empathized with by a progressive, if one thinks of their lack of empathy as a kind of learning disability that needs to be accommodated just like any other. “Slow in the heart,” if you will. Taken by the hand, like children, and guided to a more equitable future. Actually, now that I type it out… yes, that’s condescending. But you can see how bridges could be built if you try hard enough.)

The third group are the regressives. Regressives do not believe in change at all. In fact, they believe that too much change has already happened, and we need to undo a large amount of progress that’s already been made. They see an America that is getting browner, getting spicier, getting louder, getting prouder, and they are definitely not getting used to it. They believe that any progress that is being made, is being made at their expense… often, literal financial expense (when people talk about the “economic anxiety” behind regressives, the concrete emotion is “I’m afraid my little boy will not be able to achieve his dream of becoming a firefighter someday, even if his scores are the best.”) They believe others’ progress is their oppression… and they believe that this “oppression” is due to forces that have nothing to do with the moral choices they’ve personally made, like any other marginalized group that progressives care for.

Regressives didn’t really have a political party as a home. The Republican Party in the USA prior to the mid-2010s was really three political parties welded together: The Business Party, The Christian Party, and the Regressives, joined by a tiny sprinkling of Libertarians who don’t like losing. The Business Party has no opinion on abortion rights. The Christian Party has no opinion on banking regulations (it may be worth nothing here that prior to Roe v. Wade, the Catholic Church was considered one of the most liberal organizations in the country, and it was a big issue when Kennedy was elected). And neither of those parties have any opinion on the Second Amendment, unlike Regressives, who want to go back to the Old West approach to firearms. They’ve been in an alliance purely for numbers, each in opposition to the Democratic Party but no particular interest in the goals of each other. Regressives were tolerated for the warm voting bodies, but relegated to the fringe, given a tiny bit of lip service but little else.

This changed with the Tea Party movement. Regressives suddenly became organized. And in the middle of the last decade, they found their leader: Tea became T, for Trump. The Regressives had found their perfect candidate, someone who will say anything. You have to understand the appeal, even if you’re a progressive. You yourself may have fantasized, “if I ever met George W. Bush in person, I don’t care: I’d just go right up to him and call him a war criminal to his face, decorum be damned.” There were so many Regressives, and even Conservatives, who talked in a similar way amongst themselves: “I wish a candidate would stop being so cautious about their political career and just flat-out call Hillary Clinton a crook on the stage like she deserves. Just do it.” Well, Trump did it. In a little over a year, the Regressives took complete control of the Republican Party out from under the Business and Christian parties, away from the Conservatives. They’re still stunned. Before, they just had to fake it a little bit about caring about the agendas of the other. But to watch the Business Party have to rave about the business acumen of Donald J. Trump of all people, and to watch the Christian Party tie itself into knots praising the holy sanctity of Donald J. Trump of all people… it’s really breathtaking.

This cannot be overstated: the Republican Party’s candidate for the Presidency of the United States was Mitt Romney, only ten years ago. Mitt Romney! The Republican’s Joe Manchin! Their most fringe centrist! When he was chosen as their candidate, “The Dark Knight Rises” was in theaters! This is not ancient history! The regressive conquest of the Republican Party and its transformation into a counter-party happened, in political terms, overnight, and we’re still waking up from it.

As to how the Regressives got so radicalized into a counter-party so opposed to the Tip O'Neil “beer after work” type of cooperation, it probably has to do with turning the anger dial up to 11 around Y2K. In the 1990’s, you certainly had folks like Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh whipping up emotions, but it was really Karl Rove during the Bush II campaign who decided to apply sports-team loyalty to politics, to turn these opponents into rivals, and then rivals into enemies, and then enemies into anathema. Republican/Democrat became Yankees/Red Sox, and not even a brief reconciliation during 9/11 could turn the knob back down again.

All of which is to say: there is no middle ground between party and counter-party. It’s a binary. The one party will succeed, or be thwarted. That’s all there is. There can be no bipartisanship because bipartisanship requires two parties. There is only one party, existing alongside the legislators sent to stop it and only that.

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This is way better than straight up telling your kid “Santa isn’t real.”

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I never thought about it this way, and it makes me really happy

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I teared up reading this, this is so wholesome!

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There's a new Belle in town — and she's shattering all kinds of princess beauty standards

If you ask a young child to describe the heroine from “Beauty and the Beast,” they might reference the slim, fair-skinned Disney princess in the memorable blue-and-white dress from the animated movie or the petite Emma Watson from its live-action remake.

In the production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” currently running at the Olney Theatre Center in Maryland, however, Belle is played by Jade Jones, a self-described queer, plus-sized Black woman.

The production’s Tony Award-nominated director, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, said Jones’s presence has made an impact on the audience from the very beginning. After the cast sang about the most beautiful girl in town during the opening number, Jones stepped on stage. “Little Black girls in the audience screamed out, ‘Is that Belle?’” Dodge recounted. “And it’s not just a Black Belle who fits into the size 2 replica dress, but a plus-size Belle. So [all] little girls can dream big about them being princesses, too.”

“I never imagined I would play a Disney princess in my entire life,” Jones said. “I mean, there were never any Disney princesses who looked like me…. It’s just a dream to do a show like this that I never thought I would be cast in. I’m living my musical theater dreams.”

prismatic-bell

Do I also see an amputee Beast?!

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you do! the actor, Evan Ruggiero, is a bone cancer survivor

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14,000 years old bison sculptures found in Le Tuc d'Audoubert cave. Ariege, France.

borosarrowman

This is amazing but I am the first person who at first glance thought these were real bison taking a nap 🤣

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So apparently last year the National Park Service in the US dropped an over 1200 page study of LGBTQ American History as part of their Who We Are program which includes studies on African-American history, Latino history, and Indigenous history.

Like. This is awesome. But also it feels very surreal that maybe one of the most comprehensive examinations of LGBTQ history in America (it covers sports! art! race! historical sites! health! cities!) was just casually done by the parks service.

tarastarr1

This is really great??

Chapter 1: Prologue: Why LGBTQ Historic Sites Matter by Mark Meinke

Chapter 2: Introduction to the LGBTQ Heritage Initiative Theme Study by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 3: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History in the United States by Leisa Meyer and Helis Sikk

Chapter 4: The History of Queer History: One Hundred Years of the Search for Shared Heritage by Gerard Koskovich

Chapter 5: The Preservation of LGBTQ Heritage by Gail Dubrow

Chapter 6: LGBTQ Archeological Context by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 7: A Note about Intersectionality by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 8: Making Bisexuals Visible by Loraine Hutchins

Chapter 9: Sexual and Gender Diversity in Native America and the Pacific Islands by Will Roscoe

Chapter 10: Transgender History in the US and the Places that Matter by Susan Stryker

Chapter 11: Breathing Fire: Remembering Asian Pacific American Activism in Queer History by Amy Sueyoshi

Chapter 12: Latina/o Gender and Sexuality by Deena J. González and Ellie D. Hernandez

Chapter 13: “Where We Could Be Ourselves”: African American LGBTQ Historic Places and Why They Matter by Jeffrey A. Harris

Chapter 14: LGBTQ Spaces and Places by Jen Jack Gieseking

Chapter 15: Making Community: The Places and Spaces of LGBTQ Collective Identity Formation by Christina B. Hanhardt

Chapter 16: LGBTQ Business and Commerce by David K. Johnson

Chapter 17: Sex, Love, and Relationships by Tracy Baim

Chapter 18: LGBTQ Civil Rights in America by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 19: Historical Landmarks and Landscapes of LGBTQ Law by Marc Stein

Chapter 20: LGBTQ Military Service by Steve Estes

Chapter 21: Struggles in Body and Spirit: Religion and LGBTQ People in US History by Drew Bourn

Chapter 22: LGBTQ and Health by Katie Batza

Chapter 23: LGBTQ Art and Artists by Tara Burk

Chapter 24: LGBTQ Sport and Leisure by Katherine Schweighofer

Chapter 25: San Francisco: Placing LGBTQ Histories in the City by the Bay by Donna J. Graves and Shayne E. Watson

Chapter 26: Preservation of LGBTQ Historic & Cultural Sites – A New York City Perspective by Jay Shockley

Chapter 27: Locating Miami’s Queer History by Julio Capó, Jr.

Chapter 28: Queerest Little City in the World: LGBTQ Reno by John Jeffrey Auer IV

Chapter 29: Chicago: Queer Histories at the Crossroads of America by Jessica Herczeg-Konecny

Chapter 30: Nominating LGBTQ Places to the National Register of Historic Places and as National Historic Landmarks: An Introduction by Megan E. Springate and Caridad de la Vega

Chapter 31: Interpreting LGBTQ Historic Sites by Susan Ferentinos

Chapter 32: Teaching LGBTQ History and Heritage by Leila J. Rupp

granniekid

We used it in my LGBT history class and it’s SO WONDERFUL I LOVE it PLEASE READ at least some chapters. It has photos and sources and goes into detail in footnotes when it doesn’t have time for a tangent.

uniquecrash5

Fascinating.

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It is still a balance of trying to let go and not be rigid despite knowing this. I am not expecting to reach perfection, but just getting through every day, a day at a time, and knowing that bending is okay.

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There are only three genders

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