blow me up scotty

a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

27 year old coming of age story

okay im so mad because i just found out they changed the lyrics to epic iii from hadestown when it went on broadway and they got rid of all THE BEST PARTS. the fucking romantic bits!!!!???

these are the lyrics to the new version and like yeah they’re fine they’re good

BUT COMPARED TO THE ORIGINAL??? COMPARED TO THIS???

ALSO- reeve carny will never hold a candle to damon duano, the original off broadway orpheus

I'm hoping Cory Booker's record breaking speech is an indication that Dems are at least *trying* to change their tactics or messaging or something. Literally anything other than what they've been doing. Especially because Booker has tended towards the center of the party (not the center of Congress, but in between the left and center flanks of the Democrats)

Like, call it performative or whatever, but sometimes you need that. Bernie's filibuster in 2010 is a prime example, hell that's when I started paying attention to him as an important figure moving forward, and that was barely a quarter of the time Booker spent.

Now we need to pair it with action.

“cory booker is not actually accomplishing anything” I need you to stop being a pessimistic hag every second of ur life. u can be disillusioned. u can wish there was more done already. but this is SOMETHING!! he has broken the longest senate speech record and has been standing up for americans (and against a fascist racist oligarchy) for over 25 hours straight. hundreds of millions have and are watching him. HE is the news cycle. he is reading democratic and republican testimonies alike. people are hearing him, whether they chose to or are forced to!!!!!!! will it solve all our problems? no. but it is a Spark that will hopefully catch flame

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.

me: uh oh! if i fail to block any more of these spells, the evil wizard will take over my mind and make me suck him off!!! i need to be careful, i can feel it working already...

the evil wizard trying to blow my head off with lightning bolts: that's not what I'm trying to do

All of you people tagging Israel are so vicious and so absolutely right.

reminder that if you ever meet a sweet, morally good, chivalrous knight: it's your most sincere obligation to corrupt them. "but my vows," this, "this is against the rules," that. if you haven't completely fucked up their entire code of conduct and destroyed all ability to discern right from wrong without you being the one to tell them by the time you're done with them, then you need to up your game. inside that pretty, rule-following chained dog of a knight is someone yearning to be set free of their self-imposed shackles, and it's your duty to help them get there.

Why else would they allow themselves to be shackled, unless they believed they needed to be controlled, that something inside them was already rotten and dangerous? All you have to do is convince them to hand over the end of their lead.

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when people say talking about mouthwashings anticapitalism themes is ignoring the actual message (anyas story and her abuse) i shake my head like an old granny. girl. its the same story. theyre not two separate plots theyre completely intertwined

yeah its so crazy. a system that treats human bodies like cargo/work horses that are replaceable so long as the payloss isnt too great. something that treats an individuals suffering as some extra paperwork and a headache and not the complete upheaval of their entire life. where a man abusing a woman is considered 'poor team synergy' and that the first thing people are worried about is losing their job, not the wellbeing of their coworker because they all realize they are just meat in the machine. only made worse because anya is the only woman in the crew and constantly undermined and disrespected. because she dropped out of school.

the thing jimmy brings up first is that he and curly are going to lose their jobs. if anya is the focal point of the story then pony express/capitalism are the looming anvil hanging over everyone threatening to fall at any minute. she gets squashed with all the rest of them because it was the power imbalance of capitalism AND the patriarchy that allowed her to be abused in the first place. its the same damn picture!!!!

"Trans Liberation"

Mural in Basel, Switzerland for Trans Day of Visibility

hold my hand. sometimes someone who creates something you care about is going to do something terrible. it is okay to mourn your trust in them. it is okay to be upset to find that a youtuber you liked is racist, that a musician is transphobic. i won't tell you what to do next but your hurt is real.

i don't think its parasocial actually to think "man this thing that brought me joy is harmful, and i am going to miss it, and my memories of it will hurt now. this feels bad."

"Don’t mess with Trans Kids"

Banner spotted in San Antonio, TX on International day of trans visibility 2025

there are characters for whom “poor little meow meow” doesn’t quite cut it. To me he’s like a traumatized pit bull mix with a bite history and I’m the white girl with a savior complex trying to stop them from putting him down