guy from the year 10,000 adding lead and microplastics to his meals for an anthropocene diet because ancient humans built the bass pro shop pyramid and the lost city of miami
@juxtaposition_j I got mine pre-panorama and he’s still technically got a young face, but it’s under Jim Henson-tier hair and beard so def looking older & less approachable. Doesn’t like his mom as much as he used to, but is that my influence, hers, or COVID, who can say
A lot of cishet people started saying “partner” in this context because queer folks advocated for that as a means of cover and protection and it’s finally been becoming mainstream over the last 5 years. It is not appropriation, for the love of god.
@MittRomney @marx_knopfler Hey Mitt, when folks pay back those mortgages, student and car loans, credit card balances, who gets the money? Is it their immediate community and the folks who conduct business and society there? Or does it go directly to the corporate profits of firms you take donations from?
@lizziekaniecki stereotype actually just statistical error. Average lesbian is not handy or crafty. Spiders Gigi who lives in cave and fixes 10,000 broken things/day is an outlier adn should not have been counted
One wild thing about the shooting in Brooklyn today is that train drivers helped folks get away, a victim called 911 when a cops’ radio didn’t work, and two doctors on the train helped with wounds until paramedics arrived. People helped each while cops let the shooter get away.
The notion of regretting a gender transition sticks with cis people so hard because they're terrified of the body horror of being left with permanent physical changes--or, as most trans people know it, dysphoria
THREAD. Today the New York Times responded to a mass subway shooting with a relentless string of copaganda. Let’s look closely at how the NYT used a crisis to boost police talking points and lies in some creative ways:
@davidaxelrod ya know this is like that saying, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now?? This is just like that. Take the opportunity to help, now.