Like a Phoenix

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

Hell yeah moon holiday

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

moon day is 20th July!!!

Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!

Happy moon day to all who celebrate

This is your reminder to prep for Moon Day on July 20th.

Moon day Monday is SOON!!!!!

In Argentina it's friends day!because the w y ole world was paying attention to the same thing in unity!

Friends Day with the moon!

Didn’t anticipate one of the bonuses of going to a drag show in a smaller more conservative town would be getting to see a bro who clearly wandered into the wrong part of the bar by mistake experience what looked to be a transcendent awakening upon seeing his first drag show.

We love the character development

Yeah I'll probably not be on really today. You might see a post if something happens that I wanna talk about but otherwise I'm taking a break for the day.

I don't understand the argument that "transandrophobia truther" is antisemitic for having "truther" in it. The word is primarily associated with conspiracy theorists. I guess a lot of conspiracy theories boil down to antisemitism but then that'd make "transandrophobia truther" a false accusation of antisemitism, not in itself antisemitic. I've seen the explanation that neonazis call people who don't think the holocaust was faked truthers, but that's not really the main association with the term. If anything it's an example of misusing the term to rhetorically frame people as conspiracy theorists for not believing in your conspiracy theory. Which is similar to what people who say things things like "transandrophobia truther" are doing in reframing an oppressed group's recounting of their own mistreatment as conspiracy theory, but if that's the point you're trying to make it's probably better to actually make it rather than allude to some similarity with nazis and leave it at that.

*laughs at my own failure* wow I hate me.

Honestly I think my cancer scare is really getting to me. Nobody cares Zhenya stop being a problem .

*laughs at my own failure* wow I hate me.

Honestly I think my cancer scare is really getting to me. Nobody cares Zhenya stop being a problem .

*laughs at my own failure* wow I hate me.

‘I don’t feel like a girl’ ‘I don’t feel like a boy’ well great they’re not feelings, now you can stop worrying about it ❤️

*laughs in non-binary*

*laughs in xenogender i created a couple days ago*

You can make up all the nonsense words you want; you’re still either male or female

*laughs in intersex (xxy) genderless trans woman* fight me, I don't even use gender

Yeah sure I'm a dsd. I'm a deep space dragon!

‘I don’t feel like a girl’ ‘I don’t feel like a boy’ well great they’re not feelings, now you can stop worrying about it ❤️

*laughs in non-binary*

*laughs in xenogender i created a couple days ago*

You can make up all the nonsense words you want; you’re still either male or female

*laughs in intersex (xxy) genderless trans woman* fight me, I don't even use gender

Revealing the ignorance of my youth here, but who is this and what is she known for?

Anita Sarkeesian, feminist who interpreted media under a feminist lens. She did a series about video games and she was the subject of targeted harassment. That was the start of gamergate

Minor correction, the start of gamergate was based around a different reporter, Zoe Quinn, but they were both absolutely violently threatened over their involvement in video game criticism and development. A hate campaign was started by Quinn's ex-boyfriend when he wrote a post falsely accusing them of dating video game journalists in order to receive positive reviews on their own game, Depression Quest, which led other bad actors to accuse all women in the industry (Zoe identified as female at the time) of perceived sexual immorality. Anita Sarkeesian's brilliant Youtube series Tropes vs Women in Video Games (which everyone should watch, right now) sparked a particular nerve for criticizing popular games of killing and/or victimizing any important female character (there is a CHILLING bit that borders on ludicrous where she describes the plots of a seemingly endless parades of games as "In [title], [male player character's] wife dies, and you then have to rescue [his] daughter."). That series did actually make a huge change in the industry, especially when touted by progressive legacy developers like Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), who went on to expand hiring in his company to front women and minority voices, but the shift didn't really show for a long time and echoes of the sexism that plagues the industry at its core are still rampant.

Thanks for the correction! I was like 8-10 years old when this all went down (2014-2016) so I only know vaguely about it. I’m still learning about this.