cadia

you'd better not kill the groove

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “Donald Trump did it. He banned transgender athletes. Did that help you? Do you feel better now? Do you feel like your life is improved in any significant manner? Of course not. It was always bullshit. It was always a fucking distraction. A very violent one for the tiny minority of transgender people. It’s horrible for them. But it’s not good for you”

[Jenny Nicholson @JennyENicholson]

My Little Pony is supposed to have a mass extinction event every 10 years and then they come back with a new aesthetic and new magic mechanics, maybe no magic at all, maybe the buildings are all dessert. The suspense of seeing what makes it into the universe is part of it

[𝖉𝖆𝖕𝖍𝖓𝖊 @neonhedonics]

barbie’s wild bc ryan gosling is acting like he’s starving on the street he’s acting like this is his last shot to make something of himself like no one is ever gonna hire him again unless he makes everyone else in this stupid toy movie look like they’re asleep

[Shane @sbliss89]

New level of Catholic guilt unlocked: the pope wants to know why you haven’t finished that draft yet.

[DBL MP / Double @dbl_mp1]

How does this video perfectly explain what is wrong with Age Verification laws lol

[Alex Toledo 👑🏳️‍🌈👑 @alejilloTol]

Me apareció en recuerdos la foto que fue LA FOTO del pride de 2024: un señor portugués abrazando una bandera LGBT.
El señor estaba parado en la puerta de su casa viendo pasar la marcha en Porto, sosteniendo una bandera portuguesa lo cual inicialmente asustó a varios porque agitar la bandera nacional en ese contexto puede ser señal de protesta nacionalista anti-LGBT. La gente en la marcha se detuvo, preocupada por lo que podría pasar. Pero resulta que el señor estaba agitando la bandera portuguesa porque no tenía una bandera arcoíris y quería participar de alguna forma.

Una chica llamada Lily se acercó. El hombre intercambió su bandera portuguesa por la bandera que Lily traía sobre los hombros. Lo que ven en la foto es el momento exacto en que él la recibe y la abraza.

Alguien se sintió visto y parte de algo más grande ese día. Eso es el orgullo: dejar de ser invisibles. 🏳️‍🌈❤️✨

[𝕶𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖎𝖉𝖔𝖘𝖈𝖔𝖕𝖊 𝕰𝖞𝖊𝖉 𝕲𝖎𝖗𝖑 @thejunebugfreak]

Marsha P. Johnson with a Snoopy doll in 1987

Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

[週末書房 @weekendbooks_]

卵巣に嚢腫が見つかり、中身は脂や髪や歯だろうと言われた。原因はわからないが卵子が勝手に細胞分裂を始めてそれらの組織を作りだしてしまうらしい。私には子供がいないけど、私の身体の中にはたったひとりで人間になろうとした無鉄砲な卵子がいた。このことを思うといつだって愉快な気持ちになれる

[mrs mind freak @quiet_homeboy]

Ok fr pls sign, it is batshit insane to take DSP away from someone the moment they move in with a romantic partner. Moving in does not make you someone’s financial responsibility and this system makes people w higher rates of intimate partner violence even more vulnerable

[JK @JustSmileYall]

Seeing the prices of these dolls during their release makes me cry on how expensive they are now 😭😭😭

[indrid @motormoder]

Was talking to a 15 year old at a show a few days ago and he jokingly called me an old man and when I said I was a woman instead of being transphobic he instantly switched to calling me grandma. Inclusively dunked on thank you woke child

[alice alice @alicealeph0]

the best hyperpop is melancholic. it's sentimental. overflowing with love. it's about being 22 and missing being 18 with those you love. it's about being 26 and missing being 22 and with those you love. it's about being 30 and missing being 26 and with those you love. it's emo

[Philip Thalis @PhilipThalis]

If only we had a Labor Govt…

[KellieTranter @KellieTranter]

You know it's budget time in Australia when politicians and insiders talk about a program that assists some of the most vulnerable people in the Australian community as being financially unsustainable but at the same time defence spending is increasing at record levels and we're already paying $500 billion ++ for the possibility that we'll get a couple of subs 15-20 years from now.

#auspol #NDIS #federalbudget #priorities

[sick public transit, gloria @seungylee14]

this is why magical realism thrives in Latin America

[Evan @EvanWritesOnX]

I am surprised how my tweet below entered the political spheres of Australians.

It means that many Australians actually care about their country. But if you want to do something about it, the first thing to understand is that the answer is not the other party.

The two parties run the visible layer. The operators underneath is the same regardless of who is in office.

Same mining multinationals. Same four banks. Same supermarket duopoly. Same media owners. Same property speculation engine. Same gas exporters paying almost no resource rent. The faces rotate. The arrangement does not.

So voting harder for Labor when the Liberals disappoint you, or harder for the Liberals when Labor disappoints you,

is not resistance. It is the trap.

It is the pressure-release valve doing exactly what it was built to do.

The way to move the operators in Australia, is how you move any operator in any country.

Stop voting tribally.

Strengthen the cross bench. Vote for community independents and minor parties willing to put structural questions on the table that the majors have agreed never to discuss.

A senate full of crossbenchers extracting concessions is worth more than another majority for either side.

Learn who owns what.

Find out who owns your bank, your supermarket, your toll road, your energy retailer, your superannuation, your media.

Most Australians have no idea how much of the country routes back to a small handful of foreign asset managers and resource multinationals.

Once you see it, the arguments between the parties stop looking like a contest and start looking like theatre.

Build parallel structures. Move your money to a credit union or mutual bank. Buy from local cooperatives where you can. Read independent media. Put solar and battery on your own roof so you stop buying back your own gas at a markup from the people who exported it.

Demand specific reforms, not vague good intentions.

Ask every candidate, federal and state, whether they will support a real Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.

Whether they will support a Norway-style sovereign wealth fund built on actual resource royalties.

Whether they will support ending negative gearing and the capital gains discount.

Whether they will support breaking up the media monopolies.

Whether they will support foreign investment screening with teeth.

Whether they will support rebuilding domestic refining capacity and downstream processing of the minerals that's shipped out raw.

Vote on the answers. Politicians respond to specificity.

They absorb and neutralise vagueness.

Tell the truth in your daily conversations.

The deepest defense of the system is the conditioning that tells Australians their own sovereignty over their own resources, their own currency, their own land and their own future is the unrealistic option.

Norway did it. South Korea did it. Singapore did it. Australia chose, repeatedly, through both parties, not to. That is a choice.

Choices can be made differently. Saying so out loud, in private and in public, in conversations with family and friends and colleagues, slowly breaks the spell.

Australia is managed. That is the bad news and that is also the good news.

Anything that can be managed can be unmanaged.

But not by waiting for the next election to deliver a saviour from inside the same recruiting pipeline that produced the current arrangement.

The change starts when enough citizens stop voting for the marketing departments and start asking who actually owns the building.

[pep 🐟 @SUBMARINER1941]

worst part of the literacy crisis is that you can’t use hyperbole or be dramatic anymore without some dumb fucking idiot thinking that you sincerely believe whatever exaggeration you said

[k @bluehoodiebaby]

"unskilled labor," they say. well i'd like to see them make a latte snail.

[tallulah bankhead @diandrasdiandra]

the concept of 60 minutes australia sending out their hottest reporter as a way to play mind games with the looksmaxer

[sazu_sama @sazu_samalox]

так странно видеть, что иностранцы в твиттере, как оказалось, не ненавидят русских. чувствую себя как человек, которого впервые в жизни обняли, а не избили