i don’t know how to explain to you people that no matter what a country’s government is like i do not and will not support the US indiscriminately bombing that country’s civilians and i don’t know why that’s a controversial take tbh

“oh iran is a dictatorship!” “oh palestine is homophobic!” i don’t care like literally i don’t care that’s not a problem to be solved by other countries blowing innocent people up

Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of free resources for different sign languages:

Please feel free to add on if you know of others, be it more resource for one of the sign languages above, or resources for learning any of the other 300 plus sign languages.

Edit: I updated the ASL reference to Bill Vicars, but reminder that these are just things I found around, please find Deaf teachers wherever possible! And for ASL, lifeprint.com is another wonderful resource.

This post is still actively getting notes every day, so I wanted to share a new resource with you: Lingvano. This app is:

The app currently only offers courses in three sign languages: American Sign Language (ASL), British Sign Language (BSL) and Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS).

I will add this to the original post momentarily, but I wanted to put this in a reblog too to raise awareness. I found out about this app from a Deaf content creator, so I really do think it's legit.

Latvian Sign Language: zimjuvaloda.lv

men love to make fun of women for overreacting in emergencies when they are, in fact, massively under-reacting

we have this conversation every hurricane season but if your man is refusing to evacuate for a natural disaster or shelter for a tornado because “it’s not that serious”, just leave, stop arguing, let him die. that’s my opinion. don’t die with him. write your number on his arm in permanent so they can call you when/if they find him in the floodwater and go. if he’s right, he’s already shown you his true colors by mocking your concern. if he’s wrong, he’s fucked.

According to the National Weather Service, 65% of direct hurricane victims are men. Not deaths during cleanup efforts, direct hurricane victims. So leave his ass to join that 65% and do not die with him.

this might sound stupid but I can’t help but believe that the new wave of “birth control is actually horrible for your body, you need to get off it immediately” misinformation from influencers and the ‘natural cycle tracking’ apps suddenly being advertised is a sneaky underhanded way of causing more unplanned pregnancies that people now cannot abort. now is possibly the worst time ever to turn towards ‘natural family planning’

“doctors often use birth control is often used as a panacea to avoid addressing any issues in the reproductive tract. different forms of birth control can react poorly with your individual physiology so it’s important to keep trying different options until you find one that works for you. it’s okay if hormonal birth control is not for you, it is crucial to the health and wellbeing of some people but might not be a good option for you.” sensible, educational, empowering.

“all birth control causes cancer and strokes and it destroys your fertility* and your body so you need to get off of it NOW. detox off birth control. big pharma is LYING TO YOU!!!” reeks of ulterior motivations, spreads dangerous misinformation, often pops up in thinly veiled alt-right ‘alternative wellness’ spaces, once again being spread in the wake of abortion being criminalized and more people expressing fear of having planned pregnancies in today’s world.

(*failing to mention that pregnancy can also cause cancer, strokes, hemorrhages, permanent reproductive harm etc.)

btw being excessively nonconfrontational is NOT a positive trait. it does not mean u are “too nice” or just too kind to hurt people, it means u have a problem communicating and you need to work on it.

There are people in the notes saying that the alternative reason is that they’re doing it because of trauma and i gotta say that

1) same. I did have this same problem and reason for doing it.

2) this is not actually an alternate reason. You guys also have a problem communicating and while you can trace exactly WHY you have trouble communicating that doesn’t mean it’s okay to treat everyone like they’re potentially your former abuser and that you DO still need to work on this.

‘This behavior comes from trauma’ and ‘This behavior is harmful to you, to others and to your relationships with others’ are two truths that can co-exist, and that do co-exist quite frequently.

Not sorry but if you consider a person automatically and irredeemably guilty because of their country of birth, country of residence, religion, or ethnicity, you’re just a bigot actually, no matter what reason or excuse you might give yourself for why it’s morally good this one time.

How dare you hide this in the tags

—The Bacchae—

An older art piece I did for the play The Bacchae! 💕🍇🍷

that's art

this might actually be one of the coolest things I have ever seen

this might actually

be one of the coolest things

I have ever seen

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Being demisexual and bi is funny to me. Anyone can hit it but you must suffer The Gauntlet first

You must answer me my riddles three

You must jingle your little jester hat in a tone that doth please me

I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought “why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff,” so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It’s alright if you can’t because apparently I fuckin couldn’t either

Cutting something out of your life because you think you don’t need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like let’s say public health and the social safety net and vaccines

I had a liver transplant when I was 14 and like six months later I was chatting with my surgeon and he said “there’s gonna come a time, probably when you’re a teenager, where you’re gonna think, ‘I feel great, why am I still taking all this medication? I haven’t needed it in years.’ and you’re gonna want to stop taking all this medication. Guess what’s gonna happen then? You’re gonna go into rejection and your liver is gonna start failing, and you’re gonna be dying again, and we’re gonna have to find you another liver. So don’t do that.” And I said “why the fuck would anyone do that?” and he said “people are stupid.”

every once in a while when I get annoyed by a pharmacy or don’t wanna get out of bed to do my drugs I think “ugh, this is dumb, why do I do this?” and that conversation slams into me like a truck and I remember that I am, in fact, stupid

#you are not immune to the recency bias(via@arrows-for-pens)

Every person on earth needs to read this post. It will make people’s lives a lot better and lessen the crises everyone faces in day-to-day lives.

One day, a couple months after Bobby dies, Buck gets a notification in his phone that Bruce Springsteen is touring again and there’s going to be a date in LA.

And he’s torn, because, on one hand, the idea going to a Springsteen concert without Bobby brings up this fresh, awful kind of grief, and why did he forget to unsubscribe from that mailing list anyways, and it’s just another reminder of Bobby is dead, and things will never be the same.

And on the other hand, the thought of not going feels awful in a different kind of way, because he knows that Bobby would have loved to go to this, and he would have wanted Buck to go, and, who knows, maybe Bruce Springsteen will decide that he’s officially done touring for real this time, and Buck will have missed out on his last chance to see him in concert one last time, which would mean missing out on this one last chance to connect with Bobby in this way, even if just in spirit.

So he buys two tickets, because he knows that he can’t not go, but he can’t go alone. But he can’t go with Maddie, because she doesn’t like Springsteen, and he can’t go with Eddie, because he’d just be worried about how Buck is doing the whole time, and he can’t go with anyone else, really, because it just wouldn’t be the same, and there’s really only one person who he can even imagine bringing.

So yeah, he brings Chris to his first Springsteen concert. This is an activity for a father and his son, after all.

I don't know how to explain it, but this FEELS illegal. He's literally painting with fucking play-doh!

Bob Rossing it with polymer clay and a trans flag in the background.

Bob Rossing it with

polymer clay and a trans

flag in the background.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Older Black gay men in long term relationships are rarely covered or seen by main stream media.