Gay for Apollo

i look out at the sun; and how it shines onto the leaves, and the ground, and how bright it makes the sky. how beautifully warm it is. and i think of You.

today, i will read a book in the sun for You. i will soak up the light, and the vitamins, and heat. i will look at Your rays; i will feel Your heat — and tears will well in my eyes. tears of pure joy. the pure joy that You cause me to feel. loving You, praising You, and honoring You is such an intense gift that it overwhelms me physically and emotionally. being able to honor You bring me so much happiness.

thank you for Your warmth, my dearest Son of Leto. thank you for the warmth that You have gifted us. Your warmth is through the sun, the way that sweet music flows and fills my body. realizing that hours have gone by, and you’ve listened to a hundred songs. Your warmth is singing along to a song, then hearing yourself and thinking “wow. i’m not too bad!”.Your warmth is reading a line of poetry that makes you stop and ask yourself how someone could even think of that. Your warmth is something i promise not to take for granted. once again, my Lord,

glorious golden archer, healer of the sick, master of the arts, and diviner amongst the divine—I adorn your name with golden glory and dance for your honour—oh Apollon, bless us all today.

i love these guys

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and boy am I glad I did because YEAH THIS IS ACCURATE and fucking damning, also, here’s the full study and an assortment of citations

https://academics.lmu.edu/studyla/studies/policeandcommunityrelationssurvey/

That’s the general study–the part in the post above is from the Data Brief, page 124 (found here)

Below the tweet is a table of data, showing responses from two groups: ‘police force member in household’ and ‘no police force member in household’. The survey asks whether the participant agrees with three statements: ‘proposals to defund the police’, ‘proposals to dismantle the police’, and ‘proposals to redirect money from LAPS budget’. The data is in the form of percentages. End ID]

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RATING: MOSTLY RELIABLE

The study, as kindly linked above, is StudyLA’s 2022 Police and Community Relations Survey. 

The only inconsistency in the data above is in the tweet, which states 52.4% of people with a police force member in their household want to dismantle the police. The data shows that 21.3% responded ‘strongly support’, and 30.9% responded ‘somewhat support’. This adds together to 52.2%, not 52.4%

I would take caution in applying this study more broadly, as the sample size for people who live with a member of the police force is relatively small (132).