I’ll never forget when I was on the Hill in 2019 when the Notre Dame fire happened. Every member of Congress was talking about it and posting on their socials. Now UNESCO sites in Iran were BOMBED but because they’re not in the west, it’s not viewed as important.
yknow how the ozone layer was essentially fixed through people taking it seriously, but, because it was handled without a great deal of fanfare for the solution, many people now view it as an example of irrational fearmongering over something that ended up just not being a big...
the “i don’t really do politics” crowd is something i genuinely struggle to understand once you are past a certain age. politics is not a hobby you opt into. it is the system that determines how you live.
Like sorry not sorry if I come off as harsh but Americas literacy rates are in the GARBAGE and its impacting every aspect of life and youre telling people its fine to not improve their writing for themselves?
something that makes svsss peak to me is that binghe is both the person having the "kyaaa~!" romance moments AND the werewolf that fiercely guards his wife. there's just never a dull moment with him as the gong
📚 Archive of Our Own etiquette 101
ao3 has been under a lot of pressure lately. more users, more traffic, more reports, more confusion. which is great in one way because fandom is alive and people want stories, but it also means we all need to breathe and remember how the site actually works.
this is for everyone. old readers, new readers, writers, lurkers, people who just discovered fanfiction last week, and people who have been here since dial up.
let us talk about how to exist peacefully on ao3.
Fandom should've remained niche, the moment people started disagreeing with AO3's principal message of freedom of artistic expression and actually supported moral panic and pro-censorship stances was the moment we all should've locked down. Hard.
i love binghe’s continued insistence in controlling the degree to which he is babied. he never wants to be ACTUALLY powerless / reliant, he wants the indulgence as a choice
This is a big win. Kristi Noem was a disaster, and people speaking up got her fired.
But Kristi Noem is not the architect of Trump's dangerous mass deportation policies, and we can't let up the pressure.
Fire Stephen Miller.
https://t.co/fpBaVCGmie
Read that again.
$4.5 MILLION tax break. 10 jobs created.
Corporate tax breaks were never about creating jobs. They were about making billionaires and their other wealthy shareholders richer.
Boycott all the companies that profit off of stolen Palestinian land!!! These companies help fuel the Israeli settler colonial project amounting to genocide, illegal occupation, and apartheid.