It’s sad at the end of May seeing people reblog the “here it comes!” Pride logos post. You didn’t notice that brands have decided it is no longer safe to openly support LGBT rights. The past 2 years have shown a dramatic decline in corporate sponsorship of Pride. And no, we don’t care about the corporations, but you should care that they think the general public will oppose their support of LGBT rights. Anyway pay attention. The logos didn’t change for Pride. It’s bad.
Progress oscillates back and forth before it gains even one inch of long term improvement - which is still always on the chopping block somewhere - and we’re in a pretty obvious backswing ever since Trump, on basically all issues of human dignity and acceptance.
Since my library has gotten rid of the database I usually use, does anyone have tips or resources they’re willing to share to find the cost of common food items in MA in the 18th century? I keep finding links to this one book but the prices all seem to be converted into mid-10th century dollars and that is just far too much math for me
I made the very difficult decision not to go to the Big Event today because of mental and physical exhaustion and while I am proud of listening to my body the fomo is real
As someone who has been trapped on this godforsaken website for over a decade, the 2012 flashbacks @strange-aeons latest video gave me can only be compared to, I don’t know, a grandmother recounting her childhood as a flapper getting zonked every night on bathtub gin and speeding around in a convertible running people over, just before the Depression hit
friendly reminder it’s not “20% of germany” that voted for fascists, or italians that voted for meloni, or france for the far right
it’s 20% of VOTERS
so, once again, i am here telling you ABSTENTIONISM is the problem. and it always fucking is.
people who feel demotivated, underrepresented, or adhere to some purity culture where it’s the revolution or nothing.
THAT is the fucking problem. you get your head out of your ass and you fucking vote
When progressives and leftists stay home or throw their votes away on candidates who can’t win or on protest candidates to “make a point” it only helps the Right.
I think about this post monthly, if not weekly, and have since I first saw it ages ago.
It changed my life.
It’ll be 4:32 AM somewhere and I am in a diner and it is pouring rain or snowing so heavily that it feels god herself is angry at this diner explicitly and attempting to single me out with a death icicle and I’ll randomly remember this post
and
just bellow
with laughter like my lungs are billows desperately attempting to stoke a fire to keep myself alive; it works every time
It gets worse; our buddy Howard set his stories in Rhode Island, so just replace the dialogue in your head with all the worst Seth MacFarlane voices and enjoy
