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I used to be @ the-gay-lady-of-ravenclaw-tower

E or Eon, 20s, they/she, genderqueer lesbian

*** If you tag my posts as “q slur”, you will be blocked. If someone wants to filter out the word “queer”, they can go to post content and filter it out specifically. “Gay” is used as a slur at least as often as queer is, especially in the past couple decades, but you don’t see anyone tagging things “g slur”. Queerphobes will always take the words we use to describe ourselves and turn them into slurs because they hate us. Context matters. “Ew you dirty queer” = slur. “I’m a member of the queer community” ≠ slur. I use queer in the second context, and by tagging it as “q slur” you are saying that my identity is too foul for people to even see the word. That’s very hurtful, and I don’t want to deal with that, so you will be blocked. People have been doing this so much I had to put this in my blog title. Please stop. ***

I tag original posts with “#an e original” and asks with “#ask tag”. If I reblog something multiple times in a row I’ll tag the duplicates with “#duplicate reblog” if you want to filter that. I try to tag for common triggers, just ask if you want something else tagged and I’ll let you know if I can do it or not.

This blog is inclusive to ALL members of the queer/lgbtq+ community— queer, bi, pan, gay, lesbian, aro, ace, polyamorous, trans and enby people, people who use microlabels, people who use neopronouns, people questioning their gender/sexuality, and any others I haven’t mentioned. “Discourse” about someone else’s identity isn’t discourse, it’s just bigotry. Also, welcome to anyone who’s not queer but is an ally!

If you have questions about the queer community, particularly about my specific identities, go ahead and ask them! I will be happy to answer to the best of my ability. I don’t know everything but I will do my best to answer based on my own experiences or point you towards resources that can answer better than I can. I will never be upset by questions asked in good faith, and I assume good faith until it’s blatantly obvious it’s not.

If you love Delta Rae PLEASE come talk to me we are so few on here and we need to stick together

Same goes to wanting to come be feral together about whatever I’m interested in and posting excessively about at the moment

I’m also obsessed with codes and ciphers, if you want to work on a code-cracking problem with me or even just like send me riddles or ciphertext to crack I might die of happiness.

I generally don’t do chain posts, but if you tagged me in one, know that I saw it and I’m happy you thought of me even if I didn’t do it!

If you ever want to talk, my inbox and dms are always open. Feel free to go on anon if you’re nervous. If you’re ever on the fence about whether or not you should message me, please do, you’re cool and I want to talk with you! I love chatting with people about shared interests on here and I always try to assume the best, I will never be annoyed with you unless you are being blatantly rude to me.

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I’d have to wait months or even years for...

a-flickering-soul

pizz4s

i swear to god if one more stupid fandom ruins a beautiful text post i am calling the police

touch-all-the-butts

katherinearandez

iwillincendiotheheartoutofyou

katherinearandez

I am obligated to reblog this again, because it is now Superwholock, and therefore perfection.

fatefulfindings

people need to remember that every tumblr post in 2012 was like this

a-flickering-soul

closet-keys

sometimes I wish that every article naming how much a public service would cost (or how much it would cost to repair needed infrastructure for the service or to make the service more accessible to disabled people and poor people) would explain that number in terms of how much time it takes a billionaire to earn that much.

like "it would cost $8.6 million (or, a little under one hour of Bezos's earnings) to build a new public library building in this area which would serve 45 thousand people."

money is literally a social and political representation of how we are choosing to allocate resources. I wish these direct comparisons were made so people who haven't yet made the connection might at least start asking "huh... why should we allocate these resources to one person to do nothing with them instead of to 45 thousand people in the form of an essential service? why do we allocate this amount of resources to this one person every single hour of every single day but it's unthinkable to provide it to tens of thousands of people just once? why are tens of thousands of people (of which I am one), all of us collectively, less valuable than this one guy?"

maybeasunflower

This is a good idea.
When it comes to dealing with politicians talking about cost to the taxpayer, divide it by the number of people it will serve; annualize if appropriate. "This new library will cost $8.6 million, serve 45,000, and last at least 25 years - less than $8 per person per year".

b2em-ho

Me escaping prison on Narkina 5 by doing the doggy paddle

derinthescarletpescatarian

rimonoroni

can’t get over when famous gangster lucky luciano was like “hey lansky seems like quite a hassle getting all those nazis offa your terf you want us to help ya out” and meyer “Left Russia Because of Pogroms and Became A Gangster In The US” lansky was like “no. no getting to beat the shit out of nazis is reward enough for us. sorry lucky this one’s personal don’t worry about it”

rimonoroni

here’s a quote from a New York Times article abt it

also bonus quote from that article

“quick question about the punching, judge perlman: how about murder instead”

Jewish gangsters once took on Nazis in the streets of NYC

In the late 1930s, America’s fascism problem was eventually solved — with some Jewish toughs and their fists, a new book reveals.

New York Post

rimonoroni

everybody says that “the government” enlisted these mobsters to beat up nazis, but like. no. no that didn’t happen? judge nathan perlman illegally called up a man who could have him shot dead at a minute to say “hey. i’ve scoured the fucking law books tryna find a way to get these fucking nazis out of here, but my legal means have unfortunately run out. so-” and meyer fucking lansky was like “ah say no more boss lemme call a buncha friends and we’ll get this sorted out real quick don’t even bother paying me.“

can you imagine that phone call. like genuinely. how am i supposed to continue living my normal life knowing this happened. people who loooove talking about punching nazis, taKE FUCKING NOTES

nonasuch

this is my favorite Meyer Lansky story.

my second favorite Meyer Lansky story is about the time, many years later, that he was at a meeting of mafia heads and one of them started bragging about how his son was following him into the family business.

Meyer Lansky said “That’s nice. My son works for NASA.”

unleashed-bat

henry-fox-biggest-stan

I think about this every hour of every day of every month by the way

dingdongyouarewrong

flowersrooms

love languages

cut up fruit on a plate
doing work at the same table
adjusting someone’s collar, brushing off lint on their shoulder, fixing their hair
bringing home leftovers
excited text messages

vaspider

tentacion2099

Graffiti left on the tomb of Ramses V in Egypt by ancient greek tourists (when the tomb was only a few hundred years old). "I visited and did not like anything but the sarcophagus" and "I cannot read the hieroglyphs."

mortalityplays

Cool article about it if you're interested.

dingdongyouarewrong

cryptotheism

Said with an incredibly condescending sneer: "Whimsyless."

vaspider

goodnewsnetwork.org

20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘Holy mother of god. It worked!’

The man who won't rest until the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is cleaned up has successfully tested his system for doing so.

Andy Corbley

reasonsforhope

““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.

Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.

Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter from thousands of miles away into a single radius.

The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and 27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there, launching from San Francisco since 2013.

GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device, but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed “Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in its first trial.

It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1 millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine life…

Slat estimates ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10 Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21

geocaprican

gortklatuubaradanekto

How much you wanna bet the State of California will “prohibit” use of this system, because “reasons.”

theconstitutionisgayculture

If it’s in international waters they can’t do anything about it. And I’m pretty sure the federal government decides what can and can’t go on off our coasts too, not local or state.

nerdfaceangst

Slat has been working on this since he was literally a child. I remember the first posts, articles, and I think there was even a fundraising campaign at one point.

I am so, so proud of him holy shit.

fthgurdy

^^^ me too!! I remember the first news yeaaars ago that some kid had thought up a brilliantly simple method of cleaning up the oceans, and even that first prototype was amazingly efficient in solving a problem that the grownup world seemed to have given up on. It was so simple I couldn’t believe no scientist or engineer had thought of it before.

And he’s just been refining it and making it better and better? Amazing news!

Well done, sir, well done and thank you <3

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

My big memory of this is that every time he sent out a prototype, people would overwhelmingly go “AH HA! See? It didn’t work as advertised because a storm broke it/it didn’t filter as much as he predicted/etc.”

And every time, Boyan would analyse what went wrong, tinker with it, and send a stronger version back out.

There are still issues with it, like, but this guy isn’t some shitty billionaire - he’s a normal man walking the walk to clean up an international problem that everyone else is just wringing their hands over. I have no clue why everyone is desperately waiting for him to fail. He’s picked his hill, and he plods along, and if the latest design hasn’t met expectations, he creates a new one.

Their website is here, btw, in case anyone wants to have a look; they still accept donations

please come talk to me about andor

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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“quick question about the punching, judge perlman: how about murder instead”

20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘Holy mother of god. It worked!’