#large spread

[metanarrates]

I haven't seen a lot of coverage in the news about this, but my state has just advanced legislation on a bill that would criminalize trans bathroom use in publicly owned buildings. this could mean up to 6 months in jail and up to $1000 in fees for those convicted.

most alarming aspects of this bill:

-"publicly owned buildings" include airports, schools, libraries, government offices, some hospitals, and most terrifyingly AND explicitly within the bill, domestic violence shelters and rape crisis facilities. transgender people, who are estimated to be almost 4 times more likely to be victims of violent crimes than cisgender people, could become criminalized in the very spaces they seek out to shelter from abuse.

-on that note, the bill potentially threatens federal funding of already-underfunded domestic violence and sexual assault facilities. to recieve federal grants, facilities are required to follow nondiscrimination laws. this law could place the facilities in danger of losing the grants they rely on. this is severely going to impact victims' abilities to access critically needed services.

-the bill legally defines "sex" in a way that has a lot of potential impact across state legislature. according to the bill’s text, HB 257 would legally define a female as “an individual whose biological reproductive system is of the general type that functions in a way that could produce ova,” and a male as “an individual whose biological reproductive system is of the general type that functions to fertilize the ova of a female.” this could effectively end the state's legal recognition of trans people.

-the bill demands that trans people who DO use bathrooms in publicly owned buildings must have undergone both gender reassignment surgery and have had their birth certificate changed. this has several issues, obviously, but the biggest one I want to highlight is that this opens the door to potential genital inspection by law enforcement if someone is accused of being transgender in a bathroom. in addition to any other indignities suffered by being harassed by cops when trying to use the restroom, it is completely possible for law enforcement to now demand to see whether someone's genitals are in compliance with these laws. it's an unconscionable and humiliating invasion of privacy.

-the bill requires trans students to develop a "privacy plan" with their school in order to arrange access to unisex spaces. if unisex bathrooms are unavailable, the student can be granted access to a sex-designated space “through staggered scheduling or another policy provision that provides for temporary private access.”

-the bill allows the state’s attorney general to impose a fine of up to $10,000 per day on local governments that don’t enforce the bill. in essence, any government that isn't sufficiently committed to enforcing these draconian laws may face massive fines until they have reached the attorney general's standard of enforcement.

this is one of the most unbelievably severe anti-trans laws that have ever been proposed in the united states. it would effectively ban trans people from participating in public life, harm nearly every single victim of domestic violence and sexual assault who seeks services in the state, enforce criminality on random trans people in bathrooms, and open every single person who could be potentially accused of being trans up to a wave of harassment and discrimination from both private citizens and law enforcement. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that this law would literally force me and my transfemme fiancee to flee this state.

the law's been fast tracked to an insane degree through the legislature. similarly to the anti-dei bill currently making its way through, it's only been a week since it was introduced, and it's already passed the house, and is now up for vote in the senate. if it passes both sets of votes, the only thing left in its way is the governor's decision to veto.

please share this post. make as much noise as you can. if you live in utah, please call and email your district senator as soon as possible. it doesn't matter how late you see this. the bill is up for vote this week (1/23/24 at the time of writing) and we need to do whatever we physically can to protest its passing. we've already moved past the opportunity for public comment on the bill, but a few organizations have called for a rally at the capitol steps on thursday (1/25/24) at noon. if you are in the salt lake area or are able to make it there, please consider attending. wear a mask and bring a sign. we are stronger together.

#narrates #signal boost #please tag anyone you can think of with a large platform in this post. we need this to spread asap

[onfjre]

TUMBLR PHANNIES

hey everyone!! ive created a survey to compare/contrast phandom experiences by platform....and i really want to hear from you!

its abt a 5-15 min time commitment depending on your answers, but your feedback is invaluable and it's completely anonymous!! (i hope it doesn't need saying but this survey is run without platform bias and the last thing i want to do is pit people against each other! i just need a bigger sample size!)

thank you <3

#if i get a large enough sample size ill write a paper with the findings #bc its always been so interesting to me #but i cant make sweeping generalizations without having data to back it up yk #so if u filled it out ill give u a live turkey and my hand in marriage #please #dan and phil #dan and phil games #phandom #dnp #amazingphil #danisnotonfire #daniel howell #phandom survey #hate begging for retweets but if i get 2 responses from tumblr and 20 from twitter it would be so skewed #so i rly want to make sure i get a relatively even spread #thank you thank you thank you

[oshawatt4t]

Unknowability, and the Big, and the Small

A wikipedia poem (a la @headspace-hotel) that may or may not make sense about scales of human understanding of big things that was brought on by a bout of cosmic perspective when learning about the life cycles of stars.

#wikipedia poetry #my poetry #wikipedia poem #this was literally a frantic spread of inspiration and of feeling way too small and young in a universe thats way too large #astriphysics fucks you UP

[liminalweirdo]

[image id: two screenshots of four tweets by user lisa_iannattone on Twitter, posted on 19 December 2022 at 1:14 p.m., reading sequentially: "It's absolutely wild to me that we're pretending that the higher than average number of respiratory tract infections and the pandemic of adults with pneumonia this year is not a warning sign of immune impairment. This is literally how immunodeficiency would present.In clinical practice, we we want to screen for the possibility of an undiagnosed underlying immunodeficiency syndrome, "how many respiratory infections do you get in an average year?" and "have you had pneumonia more than once?" are the 2 first questions we ask.There's been more pneumonias among my healthy adult friends & acquaintances in the last 6 months than among my immunosuppressed patients in the last 6 years. Something is clearly off. And healthy adults with pneumonia is not a viral transmission dynamics issue.This thread blew up and some people aren't sure if I'm suggesting immunity debt. Definitely not. Staying healthy doesn't make you sick, pathogens do. As for the immunity "gap", it's likely a contributing factor but doesn't explain adults with pneumonia. It's SARS2 I'm worried about.

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hey, the pandemic is not over. wear a mask.

in case this is unclear, immunocompromised, immunosuppressed, and other disabled people are not getting sick the same way as healthy adults because they are masking the fuck up and/or still largely being forced to isolate, while many many “healthy” adults are not. just because you are healthy doesn’t mean you are immune to long-term effects from covid. anyone can become disabled at any time. immunity debt is not real.

do your part to protect yourself and others. not wearing a mask is worse than ableism. It’s disablist.

Please at least wear masks in public indoor, and crowded outdoor spaces. Make public spaces safe and accessible for everyone.

#immunity debt #immunity debt is not real #ableism #wear a fucking mask #wear a mask #pneumonia #immunodeficiency #immunocompromised #disability #pretending the pandemic is over doesn't make it true #disablism #described #like disabled people are largely still isolating because of people who don't give a shit if they catch or spread covid

[ailendolin]

BBC Ghosts Ask Game

Since Ghosts started five years ago today, I thought I'd create a little ask game to celebrate five years of happy haunting! 👻

Who are your 3 favourite main ghosts?

Who are your 3 favourite minor ghosts (including the Plaguers)?

Who is your favourite living character (apart from the Coopers)?

What is your favourite thing about Mike and Alison's relationship?

What are your 3 favourite dynamics in the show?

What is your favourite moment from each series?

What is your favourite Christmas Special?

What lines never fail to make you laugh?

What are the 3 most touching scenes for you?

What would have been your perfect ending?

What is your favourite thing about the show in general?

Is there a flashback scene you wish we'd gotten?

What storyline(s) would you have liked to see (more) explored?

What is your favourite part of Button House / West Horsley Place?

What is your favourite chapter of the Button House Archives?

#bbc ghosts #bbc ghosts ask game #mp bbc ghosts #this is framed largely positive because I'm tired of seeing negativity in this fandom #let's spread some joy instead

[charlie-rulerofhell]

the smoothest flirt

#chris harms #lord of the lost #lotl #esc #my gifs #chris running around eurovision spreading the panromantic agenda #too many good moments to choose from why do posts have to be limited to 10 gifs? #anyway sorry for the lousy quality in most of these #figured out too late that the size was too large and had to convert them again

[macleod]

Becoming increasingly convinced that high-speed rail might be the only economically viable (megacorp and politicapitalism friendly…) thing that can drastically lower the cost of living for everyone while additionally massively increasing general economic gains and aide in scientific and knowledge seeking innovations.

Between high speed rail, nuclear energy, and hydrogen development, we would could seriously launch this planet into the future at breakneck speeds.

#not that it took much convincing #politicapitalism #(is that a word? it should be #the cross between corporate lobbying and politics) #high speed rail #trains #megacorp #nuclear energy #hydrogen #mine #that it #it would solve so many social issues by spreading and connecting the populace over large areas

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

fauci saying “vulnerable people will fall by the wayside” and that some will die but that’s ok because we’re not going to see the “tsunami of cases” we’ve seen before is so dehumanising. so babies with no immune system, elderly people, disabled people, and people without adequate access to healthcare can all die of covid. but it’s ok guys because actually they’re just falling to the wayside and everyone else will go back to normal and be fine (sarcasm).

my death or the deaths of my family or friends wouldn’t be us “falling by the wayside”, it would be us being failed by our government, healthcare systems, and communities who have refused to take coronavirus seriously despite mounting anecdotal and scientific evidence of the harm this virus does. fact that people can accept the deaths of vulnerable groups just because they want to eat in a restaurant or don’t want to wear a mask is horrifying

#yall can reblog this #for those of you touting community care or progressive values or allyship to marginalised communities #i better see y’all masking #it goes without saying that if you can’t mask then my saying mask up does not apply to you #but for the people who can mask please do so to protect yourself and others #masking up also protects people who aren’t able to mask #I’m just so tired of being told that death to a virus that is preventable via masking and air filtration and proper testing availability to #prevent spread by allowing people to stop their chain of transmission #is just. fine. like all these people will die and apparently that’s fine and actually a great thing #also. with one or two covid infections formerly healthy people enter vulnerable groups. because the studies coming out right now and #what we know about long term sars1 effects (because covid is not a cold or flu. it’s sars2. it’s severe accuse respiratory syndrome) #are showing that the long term effects on the bodies of people who have had covid will be disasterous #and if covid had been properly felt with then maybe only some people would be facing that reality. but the amount of people who have been #infected not just once but multiple times. with some people having close to double digit numbers of infections. means that the amount of #people looking at sars2 long term symptoms could be quite a large group #coronavirus #my post

[finitevariety]

Umberto Eco (1995) 'Ur-Fascism', New York Review of Books, 2/14

#succession #logan roy #the name of the rose roy #this one was so interesting to do bc it's so clear that the disease logan sees in his children #that they're spoiled hothouse flowers who don't KNOW anything--especially struggle #is a disease he sees endemic in britain and spreading around him (THANKS to him in large part) in america too #could atn and capitalism be the problem? no. it's the meth and yoga that are wrong #and the gay little websites. it's Soft #and so are his kids. they're unserious they're queer they don't KNOW like he knows #he has a back he won't show them and he's mad they don't know #they have wealth HE bestowed them and he's mad they don't know! #where is the fight in the mud where is the big dick competition where are all the things logan built his empire on #he creates a micronation/family where he encourages these things and Kendall gets to the heart of why in austerlitz

[thefreelanceangel]

Nothing quite like the ADHD flare of organizational frenzy when you go through and sort out all the characters you have appearances/lore for, sort them into "active" "hiatus" "available" "background" "screenshot only" and then immediately add another category because you're inspired to rewrite your Fatal Frame inspired GW2 necromancers into FFXIV for some reason

I'm blaming @sealrock and @riftdancing for this.

#OOC #I realized I didn't have a coherent story to write #largely because my RP is thin and far spread and involves mostly C'allie and the Kyhos #but dang it sometimes you want to write something a bit more cohesive so why NOT dig out old favorites

[sabrinaacarpenters]

#polls #books #i’ve been seeing ppl who have such a large amount of unread books on their shelves and to me thats insane #like for example i could never buy the whole series when i havent even read the first book bc what if i dont like it #maybe if its a beloved author but still i’d probably buy them one by one lol #anyways im curious! pls reblog to spread <3

[cookinguptales]

heads up: I just started experiencing partial blindness, which is kind of scary because that's a thing to watch out for with EDS. I'm eating and getting ready to go to the doctor now. my vision is steadily getting worse, so I just wanted to make a post before it gets too bad to do so. if you abruptly stop hearing from me, that's probably what's going on.

#that said I got scared and cried and that actually seemed to help #so I'm hoping it's related to something like that nad not permament damage #please excuse typos I'm largely touch-typing rn #thank god for middle school typing classes I guess #I don't htink it was an eye injury because it's both eyes #I really have no idea what's happening #I was fine and then I wasn't #sort of like the vibe where you see a bright light and it leaves a dark smeary imprint that goes away quickly #but it's gotten worse not better and it's spreading #;; #for now I'm just taking a lot of eye drops #and hoping it clears up #but I'll be heading to wills eye either way

[toskarin]

as random trivia, Jetkaiser and VesalBlood actually kind of exist around the same time, if you assume that they're both descended from a world with otherwise similar chronology

VesalBlood experienced a more catastrophic sort of flesh magic imperialism that completely erased existing power structures more or less immediately, while Jetkaiser had those power structures linger for as long as they could possibly manage before collapsing in on themselves

one had a dark age of destroyed information at the hands of a sort of "flesh alchemist nightmare war leading into a biotechnotheocratic data apocalypse", while the other had information-worshipping cults that preserved everything they could for as long as possible in hopes they could one day restore the world from before the god-like entity manifested

VesalBlood has three enormous church entities (one a bit nondenominational) fighting for scraps in a dying system, Jetkaiser has a bunch of ostensibly allied corporate conglomerates competing in a neverending game of hyperexpansionist colonialism and proxy wars

while Jetkaiser is about carving up the pieces of a dead god to power this horrifying future, VesalBlood is about desperately trying to create something to fill a god-shaped hole that was seemingly always there, at the expense of ever feeling like enough has been done

the Third Cycle isn't the same as the Eternal era, but they're like... cousins who somehow ended up looking more like each other than their actual siblings.

#it's honestly mostly a difference in scope #because one is spread out very widely and allows player characters to have meaningful adventures in an enormous world #while the other is very compact and plays on the disempowerment of small people in the service of (literal) large people #in both cases someone's at the wheel who really shouldn't be #but in Jetkaiser the player characters can at least hold onto hope about things changing one day #which is why one of these is good for a ttrpg and the other is better for traditional storytelling

[vole-mon-amour]

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#dave jones #people #that's why we need feminism #I have so much respect for him #I'm so grateful for Dave for spreading awareness #and for being the way he is #dude will take no s//t from anyone #like we know him (as much as you can know the person on the internet) #but he's a large fella and encountering him alone at night? #I imagine that'd make the experience quite nerve-wracking #so I'm grateful for his own awareness #overall he seems so wholesome

[news4dzhozhar]

#cnn #gaza is a graveyard for children #apartheid #save palestine #ethnic cleansing #israel is an apartheid state #seek truth #free palestine 🇵🇸 #genocide #illegal occupation #israel is committing genocide #israeli war crimes #spread awareness #kamal adwan hospital #12800 children dead and the number continues to grow #this was NEVER about Hamas #this is a textbook example of ethnic cleansing #zionism is nazism for the 21st century #speak up and speak out #boycott divest sanction #protest for palestine #malnourishment #humanitarian crisis #there is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent children #israel is not the victim #israel is a terrorist state #netanyahu is a war criminal #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #we will never forget #never again means never again for ANYON