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Adequate shelter is a basic human right. Period. No discussion is possible.

if you want to actually start to end homelessness, you need to give homeless people unconditional homes, including when we use them to do drugs or sit around drinking. either housing is unconditional or it isn’t

someone sitting at home alone, an active alcoholic, squandering your charity, drinking all day is better situation than a street homeless alcoholic. someone using drugs in your charity house is better than them doing the same w no shelter

most of you would not like most street homeless people, I definitely don’t and didn’t when I was street homeless. for every one person who uses unconditional shelter to turn themselves around, someone else will do jack shit and very slowly, if ever, work through the issues that made them homeless, will maybe never be able to live independently. still better than street homelessness, still worth doing. ultimately either you believe that shelter should be universal or you don’t

homeless people actually can’t be rehabilitated if you want to end homelessness. we either affirm the right to shelter for the worst drunken, lying, filthy, cheating, self destructive homeless people that exist, genuinely irredeemable wankers, or we concede that shelter is not a right

#end homelessness #shelter is a basic right #nobody is saying that we have to give them mansions #who in their right mind even wants a mansion #if you want clean streets and a nice looking town or city or community then everyone has to have a place to go indoors where they are safe

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It’s not stupid, it’s bad faith.

you can't fix stupid

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That would be fun, but I think it would be even better as a mix of classic recipes of Arkansas and tips on fighting very strong enemies like with the Anarchist’s Cookbook.

If the midnight burger pod ever release merch, one of them should be a cook book that starts off like a regular cook book that focuses on diner staples (burgers, fries, sandwiches etc) but then it transitions to mexican recipes (im thinking chile rellenos, pozole, cafe de olla). But then it transitions to weirder recipes like how to not burn coffee and how to make moonshine. Then Like the end of the cook book is like diagrams of quantum machines and math notes calculating the universe.

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Wow! This is huge!! I don’t think it will succeed, but I fully support impeachment for a justice who is seriously corrupt, who is willing to consider making the presidency a fascist dictator, and whose wife is a known traitor.

We have to control both the House of Representatives and the Senate to impeach someone successfully.

#impeach clarence thomas #supreme court #republican assholes #traitors #corrupt hacks #fascisim

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Has everyone forgotten generic stuff?? White wrapper rolls of Toilet Paper. White boxes of Cereal. I know it’s been a minute since “private label” store brands started popping up, but this is an “everything old is new again” moment. Not that I don’t give Canadians credit for making the packaging yellow, but…

theres a popular brand in canada called no name brand and it manufactures everything you can imagine in a grocery store and it kind of makes me feel like im in a world no one bothered to do much world building for

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Random, say you? Random numbers, say I. Have at, you!

oh uh! rb this if ur comfy w me @ ing u randomly or sending u random asks

just like talking to u in general :D

this is open to anybody not just the gimmickverse!!

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Yes

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If I were a teacher of reading, writing, language arts more generally, rhetoric, logic, or possibly even psychology, I would be so ashamed of my students right now. And I would probably go drive off a cliff.

all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

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This. This right here. THIS is amazing. NASA still rocks so hard. I regret every decision I ever made that led me away from working at NASA. I could have at least sorted office supplies.

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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I don’t think I ever saw your call to action, but I have two trans kids of my own and more in my family. We advocate for every pro-trans law we hear about. Glad to know we can celebrate this success with you!

Because I circulated a call to action about it here that got some traction: to those of you who contacted Maine legislators when it counted, thank you— it worked. Maine just passed sanctuary-state-level protection for trans rights.

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Every December, on some television outlet I cannot remember, there is a presentation of several Nutcracker versions from professional dance companies, some of whom are from different countries than the US. My wife and my mother used to always watch this until my mother passed away. It is a bit of an overload for me, but all the variations are quite interesting.

My favorite period, though, was when I had the time to join in my son’s productions for a few years. I was in charge of the local community college’s theater facilities and we had a fabulous costume library. So we cooperated with local dance schools including my son’s. I got to perform as a parent in the party scene (last time as the host father) with the most incredible suit I have ever worn. I still have flashbacks when I am out somewhere and happen to hear a snatch of the music.

(we know we've posted about this before but ofc we can't find it) anyway

when we were 11 and we were in an amazing children's choir that had contemporary composers writing for us, we sang a set of five carols by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (queer composer from the Orkneys)

as a basically atheist jewish kid (also quietly animist) we always found christian hymns really uncomfortable, being made to sing or play in them at school - but these were different, partly because they're based on weird mediaeval carols that were a mix of latin and older english, and partly because they were hauntingly beautiful

this one Ave Domina was always our favourite, and while we knew that for christians ave domina, caeli regina (hail lady, queen of the heavens) was supposed to mean jesus' mum, for us it was always a song to the moon

the way the chorus builds into a staggered round across three verses (and we made sure never to know what the verses say, knowing they were just for christians) is just amazing but the high soprano of the verses is also really beautiful musically

sorry if you've heard this before from us :)

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I never had the opportunity to be part of a group like FCMG (Maine in the 70s had few options and they were highly competitive), but I am always glad to hear of groups new to me. I must admit to a small spurt of jealousy, but I am glad to know you had the chance to do such things.

Speaking of the Nutcracker, I am also very familiar with it. My eldest son has been a dancer since he was 3 years old and was in one or more productions of the Nutcracker every year from the age of 5 until a couple of years ago in college.

(we know we've posted about this before but ofc we can't find it) anyway

when we were 11 and we were in an amazing children's choir that had contemporary composers writing for us, we sang a set of five carols by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (queer composer from the Orkneys)

as a basically atheist jewish kid (also quietly animist) we always found christian hymns really uncomfortable, being made to sing or play in them at school - but these were different, partly because they're based on weird mediaeval carols that were a mix of latin and older english, and partly because they were hauntingly beautiful

this one Ave Domina was always our favourite, and while we knew that for christians ave domina, caeli regina (hail lady, queen of the heavens) was supposed to mean jesus' mum, for us it was always a song to the moon

the way the chorus builds into a staggered round across three verses (and we made sure never to know what the verses say, knowing they were just for christians) is just amazing but the high soprano of the verses is also really beautiful musically

sorry if you've heard this before from us :)

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That was delightful. Were you part of this recording?

(we know we've posted about this before but ofc we can't find it) anyway

when we were 11 and we were in an amazing children's choir that had contemporary composers writing for us, we sang a set of five carols by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (queer composer from the Orkneys)

as a basically atheist jewish kid (also quietly animist) we always found christian hymns really uncomfortable, being made to sing or play in them at school - but these were different, partly because they're based on weird mediaeval carols that were a mix of latin and older english, and partly because they were hauntingly beautiful

this one Ave Domina was always our favourite, and while we knew that for christians ave domina, caeli regina (hail lady, queen of the heavens) was supposed to mean jesus' mum, for us it was always a song to the moon

the way the chorus builds into a staggered round across three verses (and we made sure never to know what the verses say, knowing they were just for christians) is just amazing but the high soprano of the verses is also really beautiful musically

sorry if you've heard this before from us :)

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I would like to ask about the “roll” off the M. In every language with a rolled consonant that I know of (admittedly not comprehensive), it is always R that is rolled. Also, we are discussing the name someone gave their cat. When using a word from another second language, I would generally think that the pronunciation would be as per the language from which the word is chosen. Is that a minority approach? I’m okay with being thought of as too weird, it’s been kind of a life theme for me.

Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

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Totes hilairs

went on someone’s blog who didn’t post in over a year and their last post was about getting married. like your marriage is more important than posting on tumblr? grow up

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It wasn’t me. The videotape was doctored.

You

you specifically who's seeing this

Y O U

I KNOW UOU SEE THIS

you know what you did

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Very nice pictures. Let’s see… breakfast, lunch, dinner, annnnnnnd… yep! All the snacks!

Burn a baby on a stick you people came out of the woodworks.

hello. 76 people who for some reason like garlic bread.

Good for you.