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If you're in Australia you'll already know this, but for our international readers, basically the whole of Australia ground to a halt today because one of our two mobile/internet networks - Optus - just completely shat its dacks for about 9 hours, taking out the country's phones, internet and banking.
The funniest part though, is that apparently when the national broadcaster tried to reach out to find out what was going on - they discovered the quite forseeable problem that everyone at Optus used Optus for their phone and internet, so there was basically no way for their company to contact anyone inside or outside the company to work out what was going on or to try and fix it.
What a country.
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"you are tearing me apart lisa" is such a raw line, you could read it in an ancient greek tragedy or a hardcore yaoi doujinshi but actually it's from the room
Are you fucking serious?
Trans woman needs help to leave an abusive home!
My name is Sara and I'm a 19 year old trans woman in need of serious help.
I've been mentally and physically abused all my life by my parents and brother and that continues to this day. I'm trapped and afraid for my life. I can't take it anymore. I've been suicidal since I were a child and it's becoming too much to handle. I can't take this for who knows how many more years, I seriously can't. I feel so miserable living in these conditions and the dysphoria is intolerable. I can't do anything about it whatsoever because my parents are heavily against the lgbtq+ people. It makes me even more suicidal. I'm miserable and desperate.
My parents are keeping me dependent on them and not allowing me to work, making it impossible to escape. I did find an online job but my parents found out I was working in secret and made me quit. This has also made the home situation even worse :( I'm too scared to try to find anything else, especially non online because of the abuse that will follow. I can't do something like that in secret and I can't take the pain again.
For now I just need the money to guarantee my physical and mental safety: to move out to another city and be able to pay rent and food for a couple of months so I can find a job that pays enough to not end up homeless. I also need money for driving lessons and a cheap car so I'm not tied to one place and can go to work if it happens to be a non walkable distance away. Later I'd like to start therapy and transitioning but that's the lowest on my priority list right now, as survival's most important :(
I'm estimating it to come out like this:
- Rent and food for 2 months: ~$2800
- Driving lessons and a cheap car: ~$2100
- Transport to another city: ~$50
Total: ~$4950
I understand these are hard times and not everyone will be in the position to help me out and that's alright. I'm really sorry for having to ask like this :( I just don't know what to do anymore.
If anyone could donate even one kofi ($3) it will be immensely helpful for me to get out of here 🙏🏻 If you can't please please consider reblogging so more people can see this. Thank you very much!
Unfortunately my parents have a hold of my paypal, so I set up a kofi with my friend's paypal so all donations go to her and then she will give them to me. I don't know how paypal donations work and don't wanna trouble my friend too much as even giving me her paypal email was a lot to ask for. Please consider donating on kofi ❤️
You can be anonymous, don't need a profile and don't need a paypal 🙏🏻
Was tagged by @okayboomerang to post 10 songs I've been listening to, plus 10 songs that fit my URL. Thanks so much for tagging me!
I tag @tipolover22 and @certifiedcoolkidno1, feel free to not do the challenge if you don't want to
1. This is Berk by John Powell
2. The Last Goodbye by Billy Boyd
3. Grace Kelly by MIKA
4. The Other Side of Hollywood ft Cheyenne Jackson
5. Unsaid Emily ft. Charlie Gillespie
6. Bummerland by AJR
7. Be My Eyes by Pentatonix
8. Happy Now by Pentatonix
9. Take On Me by A-ha
10. Would You Come Home by Tyler Blackburn
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A - After Ever After by PAINT
S - Show Stoppin Number by Robert Manion
K - Karma by AJR
Y - Y.A.S by Todrick Hall
R - Rollercoaster by Bleachers
I - I'll Make A Man Out of You by Donny Osmond
D - Deliver Us by Eden Riegel and Ofra Haza
E - Eleonora by Marianas Trench
R - Rise by Superfruit ft Mary Lambert, Brian Justin Crum and Mario Jose
S - Spirits by the Strumbrellas
D - Dick Turpin, Highwayman by Matthew Baynton
O - Oh No! by Marina and the Diamonds
M - Make Me Feel by Janelle Monae
A - Amen by Todrick Hall
I - I Wish by Hayley Kiyoko
N - Now or Never ft Charlie Gillespie, Owen Patrick Joyner and Jeremy Shada
i don’t know if they don’t teach internet safety in schools nowadays or if kids just don’t take it seriously, but if you are a kid or teen, please:
don’t give out your socials to random people. i was just in an among us room with a 14 year old giving out her instagram and asking others for theirs. DO NOT DO THIS.
if someone makes you even the TINIEST bit uncomfortable, block them! don’t feel bad about it. don’t worry that your reason for doing so isn’t “good enough”. just block them.
don’t post any sort of identifying information about yourself. anything beyond like, your first name and the state/country you live in, should be kept to yourself. this goes double for dms with people you don’t know irl.
if anyone asks for your “asl” block them and do not answer. these people are always creeps. i block them as an adult! (asl refers to “age sex location” and the vast majority of people asking this are looking for someone to hit on)
if anyone has any more tips, feel free to add on!
At this point I would pay you to record ghosts series 2 and email it to me I want to watch it so bad
At this point I would pay you to record ghosts series 2 and email it to me I want to watch it so bad
You never showed up before.
I’m sure I’m going to get yelled at or tone-policed for this post, so let’s start here: spare your fucking breath.
But if you feel you must rant back at me, read the whole fucking post first.
A few years ago, Black Harry Potter fans pointed out the lack of Black characters in the books. If memory serves me, there are two–Kingsley Shacklebolt and Blaise Zabini. One is a Death Eater. The other one is literally a man named after a kind of prison chain. And fans went “well Jo supports Black Hermione headcanons and she was played onstage by a Black girl!”
A few years ago, Black readers expressed concern over how Rowling portrayed S.P.E.W., and the concept of house elves being slaves. People dismissed this as being because the house elves are based on the folkloric brownies–and while this is true, there was absolutely no attempt to show why Hermione was wrong beyond “lol silly girl, wanting to free the house elves,” nor was any attempt made to show why the treatment of Dobby and Winky was wrong beyond “well their masters were Slytherins what can you expect.” Black readers’ concerns were dismissed.
And a few years ago–around the release of Cursed Child was the first time I encountered it–Black fans pointed out that Lavender Brown was Black in the movies … until she became Ron’s love interest and was recast as a while girl. People got kind of mad and then forgot about it.
Over a decade ago, Jews pointed out that the goblins were antisemitic stereotypes. They were largely ignored. More recently, these pointings-out have been gaslit, ahistorically waved away, or the critics have been threatened.
About four years ago, I wrote a piece about why Snape is an antisemitic stereotype, and why, while he’s fascinating as a character, his narrative is extremely concerning within the context of being framed as Jewish-coded. I was largely ignored, except by Jews. I was still a gentile at the time and even so I was told by other gentiles that I was imagining things–or that I was the one stereotyping Jews by recognizing the negative stereotypes in the work, so maybe I was the bigot, huh, how about that.
A couple of years ago, someone actually took Rowling to task on Twitter about there being no Jews in the books. Her reply was “there are plenty! Anthony Goldstein is Jewish!” Anthony has no spoken lines–his biggest interaction with any of the main cast is shooting Harry a dirty look–and his Jewishness is not mentioned or shown anywhere.
I can’t be sure when I started seeing this, but as a onetime Harry Potter fan myself, I can say for sure it was within a year of Deathly Hallows the book coming out: criticism of the fact that the only gay character in the books turned out to be a master manipulator who was in love with a Hitler parallel, was in charge of children, and was actively grooming a young boy. (Later criticisms have been angry that Dumbledore was never mentioned as gay in the books. On that one, I have to give Rowling a very begrudging pass–even if she’d found a way to bring it up, in 2007 it would have been censored right back out.) And yet other than the occasional stray comment, that criticism has largely been ignored.
LGBT activists and gay men have been outraged since 1999 because Rowling stated that lycanthropy was supposed to be a corollary for AIDS. Ah, yes: because AIDS makes its victims turn into deadly, feral beasts once a month but causes absolutely zero other health problems, and it’s most commonly spread by ill actors who know they’re poz and deliberately infect others. Yep. Sounds accurate to me … not.
Twenty years ago, Chinese-American readers and Chinese-British readers pointed out the racism inherent in the name “Cho Chang,” which sounds quite close to the racial slur “ching-chong” (and also is not a real Chinese name). They were ignored. At best, their legitimate grievance was trotted out as a “tsk tsk” addendum when the focus on Rowling’s anti-trans views started coming to light.
When the background lore for Fantastic Beasts came out, Native American readers were horrified by what Rowling did with their culture. I don’t think I can even list all of their complaints here because they were so many, so myriad, and it’s literally easier and more to the point to just say “she was lazy and clearly did not do a single line of research, ever, at all, and did not get anything right, at all, and in fact got a lot of things very offensively wrong.” People got mad for about five minutes and then forgot all about it when the movie dropped.
Readers with ties to the African continent were also horrified, by the way, because supposedly there’s one magical school for the tiny little islands of the UK and also one magical school for the biggest continent on earth. The many cultures, languages, and the basic geographic impossibility of this were all ignored by Rowling and her publishers–and fans, who got mad for five minutes and then forgot about it when the movie dropped.
When it came out that Nagini was some kind of snake woman, being played by a Korean actress, some fandomers pointed out that it was really fucking gross to have a Korean woman trapped by a man who then “impregnates” her with part of himself. Among other things, it’s at best an unfortunate parallel with the Korean “comfort women” of WWII. (translation: Korean women who were raped and tortured by Japanese soldiers.) People got mad for about five minutes and then forgot about it.
At some point–again, Potter has been in my direct or periphery for such a long time that years start blending together–Rowling made a statement about how the reason there are no disabled people at Hogwarts is because they’re “fixed” by magic. There was basically no outcry at all.
And now that Rowling’s rabid anti-trans views have come to light, you want to pretend you never knew she was a terrible bigot.
You’re showing up for trans women. As you should. Good job, have a gold star.
But do not forget, and do not give yourself a pass, that you never fucking showed up for the rest of us. You were passive and dismissive and justifying.
She is racist, ableist, queerphobic, and antisemitic. You have had a way to know this for twenty years. Even if you missed some of the early criticisms–I did, I was twelve years old and I fully recognize that many Potter readers aren’t even as old as the series itself, I don’t expect a five-year-old to have noticed this stuff–the evidence has piled up and piled up and piled up.
And only when it became a cause that’s politically convenient did outrage begin.
Speak out for the trans women who have been and will be harmed by Rowling’s recent drive off the cliff. Please do. I mean that genuinely. This is not okay.
But speak out for the rest of us too. Call her to task for EVERYTHING. Otherwise it’s empty performative posturing.
Your activism must be intersectional. Or it’s bullshit.
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I’m sick to my fucking stomach
The map flag had the same color scheme as the pan flag and now they’re switching to the bi flag
If you see anyone with this flag or any variation
Run
Don’t fucking hesitate to block because pedos are now using this new “flag” and other forms of it
Can I get a signal boost from larger accounts? Start tagging people so this will spread
I have a friend who is really depressed..she is not well at all. She's borderline, her family situation is really bad. I don't want her to....go. She can't hold on at all. Please save her.
I have somehow convinced her that for every 50 notes this gets, she'll live another day.
Can you please save her?
More than 1/8th of the White Mountain Apache Tribe has tested positive for Covid-19.
They have been hit EXTREMELY hard and I have seen no posts going around talking about it. It is one of the hardest hit places in ARIZONA, a state that already has horribly high case numbers.
They have a Covid relief gofundme. Please donate if you can and spread this if you can't.
Hey friends!!! I dont like asking for donations unless I'm in a super tight economic crisis, and thankfully I'm not. However, i am struggling to find work but really need to save up some money to get my dog's vaccinations this year and to add to my housing funds to move out and get an apt with friends.
So!
Please consider helping me out by letting me help you-
Click here for information about writing commissions (fanfic, one shots, poems).
And click here for information about beta reader and editing commissions (if you need any help with your own writing).
Also I wouldnt mind doing some art commissions, though they arent as professional as the big names of course.
If you've read my stuff and enjoy it and just wanna say thanks, consider leaving a comment on my work or helping me out through venmo: @aphoenix-rising (like getting a kofi, but without the weird technical difficulties that website gives me).
We're in a pandemic. We're all struggling. So I get if you cant do any of these things. Even a reblog helps! Thank you!!!!
-sincerely,
A freelance writer trying their best♡
people talk all the time about “primal instincts” and it’s usually about violence or sexual temptations or something, but your humanity comes with a lot of different stuff that we do without really thinking about, that we do without being told to or prompted to
your average human comes pre-installed with instincts to:
Befriend
Tell story
Make Thing
Investigate
Share knowledge
Laugh
Sing
Dance
Empathize with
Create
we are chalk full of survival instincts that revolve around connecting to others (dog-shaped others, robot-shaped, sometimes even plant-shaped) and making things with our hands
your primal instincts are not bathed in blood- they are layered in people telling stories to each other around a fire over and over and putting devices together through trial and error over and over and reaching for someone and something every moment of the way
REMEMBER THAT POST WITH CINDERELLA WHERE HER DRESS CHANGES TO THE COLOR OF YOUR BLOG?
THIS ONE DOES IT TOO!!
I found a bunch more!!
x
anyone please ask your crush out like this
The Shukri Abdi case is absolutely mind blowing because you have a case where a little muslim black girl was killed by her classmates, someone witnessed it & came forward, her body had bite marks, the same killers tried to kill her before, yet it’s ruled an “accident” and buried.
Would the killers still be walking free if they had been black muslims? Would they still think she “accidentally drowned herself” if Shukri Abdi had been a little white girl? They can’t bury her story. She’s my little sister, and your little sister.
#JusticeForShukriAbdi
via @thebootydiaries on twitter
Sign the petition.
Donate.
CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS
CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS
CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS
CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS
Archive.org is facing a lawsuit
tldr: the Internet Archive/WayBack Machine is super important in term of archived content, billions of stuff are on there, and with the current event happening in the world like stated above,without this tool, it will be hard to properly document what took place. It will be easy for certain people to rewrite history. Dont let them.
DONATE HERE (post dont get much exposure with working links sorry)
archive.org/donate/
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
IF YOU CANT DONATE THEN PLEASE SPREAD THE INFO
On twitter,tumblr,facebook,heck,anywhere you want,this needs to be talked about !
While people are inclined to whip out their phones and film when they see something alarming happening, those videos are not always recorded in a way that can be used as evidence in a legal proceeding or to support advocacy tactics.
At the human rights organization WITNESS, where I work as the senior U.S. program coordinator, we’ve learned that video has a greater chance of making an impact when it’s filmed ethically and strategically, and released in coordination with advocacy and legal efforts. Using the camera in your pocket can be a valuable way to ensure the world bears witness to abusive policing and systemic racism, help hold authorities accountable, and advocate for the real safety of our communities.
