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It can be somewhat disheartening when you the artisans and craftsman of yesteryear who created miracles out of limited technology go forgotten. Always nice to see someone somewhere making tributes to them.

"Don't use your autism / disability / mental illness as an excuse" is supposed to refer to people who use their condition as a shield for abusive behavior. It's not a sentence you say in response to every single thing a disabled, autistic, or mentally ill person does that is annoying or inconveniencing to you.

I would want to start my own radio station. I want to specifically start a station where it's mostly female, black, and/or LGBT+ radio DJs because a lot of the radio landscape right now is mostly cishet white men unless it's a smaller local station, and we need more stations with marginalized voices at the helm. I'd also want people on the station to have full creative freedoms with their shows, too. They can play any music they want, talk about any topic they want, make any characters they want. As long as they're not like... Hateful or fucked up or something, then go for it. I'd probably run old episodes of TGDHS on it while working on new projects, too (although I'd do occasional new specials for TGDHS 'cause I do still love the characters).

Sharing this one. AGAIN.

Charter schools have never had a 'best practice' or innovation they could share becuase they do nothing better than other schools.

Reblogging again because I just realized that if I had this advice in high school I would’ve never made a tumblr account.

Also works for most of those news sites like WSJ or NYT that only let you read a little bit, or block adblockers. Also some disable the scroll bar but if you go to the right side of the console after hitting F12 and look for the CSS element “overflow” and change it from “hidden” to “visible” then you can continue scrolling for free. Might have to click around on different parts of the page to find it, but it should work.

Gentle reminder that this phrase was originally targeted at the rich who were hoarding wealth, not people just trying to survive. The phrase has unfortunately been turned to be weaponized against people who just want a living wage by said rich people.

Gay people that you think resemble stereotypes are living, breathing human beings who are, generally, living in a way that feels authentic and meaningful to them. The fact is that a lot of stereotypes about gay people come out of the real behaviors and tendencies of real, living gay people- a lot of lesbians are in fact hairy feminists, a lot of gay men do in fact hold their wrists limply, a lot of gay and bisexual and transgender people are very visibly gender nonconforming in ways you maybe find embarrassing because it makes them stick out, but if you're embarrassed by these people that's really your own problem and your own cross to bear, not the responsibility of every single other LGBT person in the world to recognize and organize their lives around, potentially at the cost of being able to live a life that feels meaningful and healthy for them. Every single time you want to complain about a total queen you saw at pride or how everyone thinks lesbians are all manly, take a second to remember that those stereotypes come out of the lives of men and women who were physically assaulted in the streets and fired from their employment and who lost custody of their children and who were beaten for not owning and wearing enough items of properly gendered clothing and instead be grateful that some people, the queens you find embarrassing, chose to be out when they could have chosen to die in silence and would have spread themselves a lot of pain by doing so. I'm so fucking sick of watching gay people apologize for each other, and I am so so grateful for all the women who came before me who paved the way for me to be someone who owns literally no women's clothing and does not have to fear for my safety every time I leave the house and who can be open in public about the fact that I am partnered with a woman that I love.

In summary clothing should not be a barrier to employment and jobs should not have the right to make demands of your wardrobe and wallet.

Literally nothing should come out of an employee's pocket. Jobs should have to give a gas or public transport allowance as well.