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Othello Avery Brooks are you free tonight

my dear friend is encouraging us all to engage in mermaid summer, so in honor of this vision I have created a hyper-specific quiz for mermaids looking to relocate to the greater washington dc metro area. enjoy!

having once lived in the dmv and taken many runs along the Anacostia, this feels accurate <3

Casi todo esto se puede achacar al imperialismo cultural estadounidense. El inglés es útil para comunicarse con gente de todo el mundo, pero su omnipresencia sirve de barrera para todos los demás idiomas. Quizás habría que reflexionar un poco sobre por qué coño el resto del mundo tiene que tragarse años de clases de inglés para hablar del juego que le gusta en una red social mientras muchos angloparlantes no se dignan ni a meter un texto en un traductor automático y prefieren pasar de largo.

during the activist's interview, the radio host asked him if he could quickly dispel some of the myths around trans youth in sports somehow being unfair to cis youth, and his response was to awkwardly shrug off the question and say that the answer is simply too "complicated and nuanced" to give a short soundbite on air about. are you fucking kidding me? live on WNYC with about 1 million weekly listeners, and you can't just say with your whole chest that trans girls belong in girls sports because they are girls too? come on

If anyone would like to center the 2 trans girls at the heart of this ruling, here's some stuff I wrote about Becky Pepper-Jackson (whose case is the one involved in this ruling and what she has said about the issue in the past) and here's info on Lindsay Hecox, who actually withdrew her case due to the transmisogynistic harassment she was experiencing.

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Schism today

Frede's nightclub (Frede shown right) Montmartre, Paris, December 1950.

I would put sea mines around medieval britain. i would give hannibal barca ww2 era heavy artillery and tell him not to stop till he starts seeing gauls. i would give boudica a fucking abrams. i would appear before jesus like an angel and tell him "you gotta stop. not cause theyll kill you, youre fine with that, surprisingly, but because your fanclub is gonna spend about 1500 years making everything worse for everyone, everywhere." I would take a glock back in time and shoot romulus, shoot remus, and shoot that damn dog too just to be safe. i would be on the side of christopher columbus' ship in a scuba suit planting c4 on that bitch like rainbow six siege. i would be waging a one woman campaign of terror across andalusia to prevent the reconquista. i would be getting way out in front of that shit is what im saying,

Saw this on FB and tried to find the original, which I haven't, but the point is so solid.

It's an interesting article that explains why the German court disagreed with Google's shitty "it's the user's responsibility!" arguments and goes a bit into accuracy and free speech protections.

When the CEO of the company that didn't turn away Nazi business says "this isn't going to work" you know it's bad.

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