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If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:

While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.

Please don't stop speaking about Palestine.

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this does not apply if you wear exclusively leggings. Those things tear all the time you need like a million on standby

#I have had the same single pair of black pants since Obama’s presidency #and I have found exactly one pair of jeans in the past decade that is comfy to wear and I have a death grip on them #everything else in my wardrobe? leggings and skirts #(counting jegging-type faux pants as leggings for this instance)

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in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

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Minor Dungeon Meshi spoilers for this week:

They translated that line from Toshiro as “curses” but he honestly could have gone for a good “fuck you” and it would have been entirely fitting

#dungeon meshi

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Watched a great talk today about web/technology accessibility, and the speaker pointed out that yes, accessibility is important for people with permanent disabilities, and we should definitely care about that. But also accessibility helps EVERYBODY, because everybody will, at some point in their lives, find themselves in situations that accessible technology can help with. Here are permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities that accessible technology can help with:

Remember that whether something is disabling or not depends on the situation, the environment, the technology, etc. We’re ALL disabled at some point. It is important to support permanently disabled people, but it is also important to remember that accessibility helps us all!

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#mad respect for Dee Snider #we love a man that went shopping with his wife for women’s lingerie for HIM in the 80s #so he could wear it onstage in front of thousands of people with the most 1980s drag makeup you ever did see #I will say he’s had some bad takes regarding trans issues but I respect that he’s still educating himself on those issues #but he’s never been against us and he’s certainly never been for The Establishment

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i think that people should start using “in poor taste” as a descriptor again given it is often the most applicable and clearest phrase when discoursing about media and analysis; sometimes a piece of art isn’t actually THE most problematic thing of all time is is. ​just in poor taste (not JUST in poor taste as a reductive take on potential harm but/and as in regardless of intent the impact is this was an offensive or stupid take/choice)

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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

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#my Pathfinder GM pointed out that I’d been playing an off-brand Laois in our campaign since December of 2022 #I had never heard of dungeon meshi but I did have a broke-ass war priest with shitty social skills who cooked and ate monsters and forage #and he was even an older brother with a sister that had gone missing as a plot device and needed rescue #and he was constantly creeping out his coworkers just by being himself #so uh. yeah at that point I was morally obliged to watch dunmeshi

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IG : @emperorofmischief

#SCREAMING YELLING CRYING. LOOKIT EM GO #pet rats #rat #rats driving #rat rod

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"how can you like this objectively bad thing!" because i have bad taste. move on.

#sometimes I am a fan of my fav media and sometimes I am an apologist 🤷‍♀️

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REMINDER TO NOT TALK TO THE GUARDIAN ABOUT DIY HRT IF ASKED ❗️❗️❗️

Susanna Rustin is a huge TERF too, and a quick search of her name on The Guardian brings up repeated proof.

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#incidentally this is your reminder that the five love languages are not all inclusive #they were designed by a conservative Christian man to describe heterosexual Christian romantic relationships #love how you love and the people that love you will either get it or they will make the effort to get it #that got v serious on a joke post but I regret nothing #love you in a way that makes Christians angry <3

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#fyi. this trad stuff is fascist #and on top of that it’s not healthy for anyone involved #whether making it or consuming it #there are plenty of ways to “’embrace tradition’ that don’t push a classist and supremacist narrative

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"School districts that don’t respect transgender and nonbinary students’ pronouns or force them to use restrooms that don’t align with their gender identity could be committing federal civil rights violations beginning this fall.

Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced the issuance of a final rule under Title IX to protect people in public schools from sex-based discrimination and harassment. The announcement marks a significant update in federal efforts to combat sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions. During a call with reporters, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona emphasized the administration’s dedication to ensuring that Title IX effectively serves all students by providing safe, welcoming, and rights-respecting educational environments."

Read the full piece here