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Queer history fact: Billy Lee Tipton(1914-1989), a jazz musician who managed to marry five times without anyone finding out that he did not have the genitals a cisgender man is expected to have, had a son who said of his father:

“I think he probably never told us because he was afraid we might have rejected him. I could have accepted it. He did a helluva good job with us. That’s what mattered. He was my dad.”

Cory Booker fasted and stood all day and all night and spoke till his voice nearly gave out for his constituents. And Republicans can't even show up to town halls. The contrast could not be starker. Let Senator Booker be an inspiration to us all. "The power of the people is greater than the people in power."

Let’s goooooooo

Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.

Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.

He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor

Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going

For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.

He has yielded the floor at 25 hrs and 4 mins. His eyes are so wide they look like they’re going to bug out of his skull so I don’t blame him for stopping. He said to go out and get in some good trouble.

Addition for those unaware: Cory Booker is black. Strom Thurmond set the previous record about 70 years ago in protest of civil rights. Booker spent much of the time I was watching talking about the importance of working together for the people and the idea that it's not "left versus right but right versus wrong."

The new record speech is on the right side of history.

Minor correction: the questions from other Democrats did not allow him to sit down as he must remain standing and at his desk in order to retain the floor. Additionally, I believe the final time was 25 hours and 7 minutes.

Self correction: final time 25 hours 5 minutes.

Happy Birthday Big Bill!

funny you should mention that

Republicans: we can just have Elon Musk go to Wisconsin and give everyone money. He'll give them a million dollars. It's all legal as long as we hold power forever and can stop anyone from doing anything to stop us. All of Wisconsin is bribed, nothing can go wrong now

The invincible Susan Crawford:

NBC news: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-results-rcna198353

The Blue Spirit putting out firebending with a bucket of water is the absolute funniest thing ever done in avatar combat. It just is.

oh my god @murple

Sorry, I could never be a capitalist, I suffer from “wanting humans to have their basic needs met” disorder, where I care about people who aren’t me.

Someone once asked me if, assuming we got universal healthcare, I would be okay with the rise in “healthcare tourism” where people who are sick come to our country to get their medical bills taken care of and life-saving medical treatment cheaper than in their home countries. I was just like, yeah thats fine, I’d actually prefer it if 0 people died from preventable causes kept behind a paywall for no reason.

“even the addicts?” yeah dude did i fucking stutter

“even the people with permanent disabilities who will be taking up these resources forever” uh yeah especially them

I love telling people that Gary gygax was a biological essentialist because they always are so reticent to believe it. Like. he literally proudly said it out loud. Also have you ever actually read D&D? like. 3/4ths of everything is ontologically evil from birth

"As a biological determinist, I am positive that most females do not play RPGs because of a difference in brain function" - Gary Gygax

the funniest part about this quote is that if I’m remembering right he was talking about his wife and daughter not wanting to play D&D with him

This was the full passage that that quote is a part of. (The final emoji was an eye-rolling GIF, though you can't really tell in the screenshot).

Here's another quote by Gary Gygax in case it wasn't clear enough what a horrible person he really was

didn't he also comment a lawful good character would kill orc babies as 'nits make lice' I think referencing a slogan encouraging the genocide of natives

besides that, as a minor point, he was a tax evading libertarian, which is supposedly why the chaotic good alignment exists, which is more funny but y'know

This is his quote in full for those who might wish to see it. Chivington, if you might not know, was the perpetrator of the Sand Creek Massacre, an atrocity by any possible standard, even those of the time. He was found guilty by a congressional investigation, on the back of testimony by Silas Soule and some of his men, a captain under his command who refused to take part. Soule was murdered a few months later by a man who had served under Chivington (which, gee, no way to know how that happened).

This is the guy who Gygax thinks defines lawful good.

Have you ever looked closely at a car windshield?

The edge of the glass is painted where it is glued to the car but it has these small dots between the clear and painted glass.

These are there for a reason. When the sun hits the glass the painted areas and the clear areas will absorb heat at different rates. This causes the glass to expand and contract differently putting stress on the glass.

These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.

Fun fact: the Tesla cybertruck doesn’t have these.

Yes, the glass will spontaneously crack or explode in the sun.

He was as tall as he was tall, and his eyes were the color they were. To describe his hair one would say that he had some. His face had all the features you'd expect, and none of the ones you wouldn't. "There he is," people would often say of him, but only when he was there. And they were right.

Douglas Adams ass type sexyman

Guy: “So what does X mental illness feel like?”

Me: “Feels like shit, bro.”

Guy: “Hmmm. I don’t think so”

Cool so like what if I hit you with a rock. What would that feel like hypothetically

I once had a licensed professional medical doctor tell me to my face within 7 minutes of meeting me that I didn’t have depression because truly depressed people don’t use metaphors.

The metaphor I used was, “I know that all these little day to day things shouldn’t be this hard- taking a shower, eating, getting out of bed- but it feels like everything I try to do, everywhere I go, I’m dragging a king-sized mattress around with me.”

So like. I guess expanding on the idea, don’t just mean “don’t tell me it’s not bad”. I kind of also wanna say, “you asked me how it felt and I fucking told you, so maybe listen to what I say when you ask instead of picking apart how I said it or how it fits within your idea of what it might be like in theory”

If you would like to fight them, I am with you in spirit.

Unless you'd like to buy me a plane ticket to come visit, then I'll hold their arms for you to get a few good shots at their ribs.

Ao3 does not need an algorithm, you're just lazy

Ao3 does not need a 1-5 star rating system, you just want to bring down authors writing for FREE

Ao3 does not need automatic censorship, it is an archive, therefore anything can be posted

Writing or reading about something illegal does not mean the author nor the reader condones it, if that were true, you could never read a story involving anything negative

Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying

I hate when you catch yourself having a thought that hints at deeper insanities than previously imagined

whenever I am given a choice of flavors I always always always have plain chocolate ice cream

just now I opened the freezer and saw that my parents had a choice between plain chocolate and moose tracks.

“the moose tracks look pretty good,” I thought

“NO!” shrieked the tiny demon that lives inside my mind and churns out madnesses

“but what’s the matter?” I asked it

“TO CHOOSE OTHER THAN CHOCOLATE WOULD BE DISLOYAL!” it screeched

“I am thirty or forty years old” I told it, and grabbed the moose tracks, for which it has been punishing me with a miasma of dread and guilt

Jolteon whose name is Toaster! ✨💛