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bealittleimprobable:

hardboiledleggs:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

“The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I’m not a trannie or a fag so I don’t care, just give ‘em the medicine they need.”

“This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility.”

One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.

I think this is something young people in particular are confused about. My dad has always had a slightly off color sense of humor, he always feels the need to privately ask me “boy turned girl or girl turned boy?” if I mention a friend and stress said friend’s pronouns, and yet when we had repair work done in the house and the worker was listening to a podcast discussing the evils of transgender people and how to cleanse society, he went out of his way to contact the owner of the business to discuss his disappointment with that worker’s conduct and stress the negative effect that could have had if there had been trans kids in our home.

Our allies will never be perfect. They will never use the perfect language or have the perfect politics. But we have to appreciate those allies and meet them where they are, especially if they are willing to learn.

When marriage equality was up for debate, I remember the regulars in the pub going “Fuck it, why not, let the poofs be miserable too if they want to!”

Somehow that sentence includes both a slur and a hetero “marriage is misery” joke, and is still more supportive and welcoming than the well-spoken people who wanted to have “a civilised debate”. 

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trollprincess:

skulki-d:

museum-of-artifacts:

The Swedish warship Vasa. It sank in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and was recovered from the sea floor after 333 years almost completely intact. Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, is the world’s best preserved 17th century ship

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Kinda funny that the best example of its kind is the one that sucked as bad as it possibly could.

Oh, it was *ridiculously* bad. That initial post says “from the sea floor,” but that implies it made it out to sea.

So Gustavus Adolphus is king when Sweden is fighting wars all over the place. They need more ships, so he commissions four of them, two big and two small. The Vasa was supposed to be one of the smaller ones. Emphasis on “supposed to be.” Because Gustavus Adolphus keeps ordering changes. Like, add twelve more feet to the keel! Pile on the carvings! Add another gun deck for the hell of it! It got even worse when Sweden lost ten ships in a huge storm, so now they needed the Vasa *yesterday*. But Gustavus Adolphus is STILL demanding changes. So the shipwright scales up the measurements to try and make things work. Which might have worked, except the ship was being worked on by Swedes, Finns, Danes, Sami people. Communication is hard enough, but also it turns out that there are two different types of rulers being used by the workers. One is in Swedish feet and one is in Amsterdam feet. Amsterdam feet were only eleven inches long. (There’s a joke there I’m too tired to make.)

Anyway, because of that, the port side is heavier.

Okay, so you have to imagine the Vasa, with its hastily-scaled-up measurements, its *seven hundred* decorative carvings, its sixty-fucking-four bronze cannons. It’s a goddamn mess, AND its center of gravity is way off. Except that’s not something you could measure with instruments at the time. What you’d do is, you’d put it in the water, then have a bunch of guys run back and forth from port to starboard a bunch of times to test if it’ll tip over.

The guys who did this test could only do it three times before the Vasa was like, “I think I’m gonna hurl,” and almost tipped over right then and there.

Everybody there is like, “… uh-oh.” The admiral conducting the test just sighs and goes, “If only the king were here,” because Gustavus Adolphus wasn’t, and maybe if he had been he would have seen they fucked up and decided to pull the plug. Oh, and those bronze cannons? They weighed down the ship so much that the lowest row of gun portals was almost at the waterline.

But. Sweden needed the Vasa. It needed it to go to war. At that time, it was the most expensive thing Sweden ever spent money on.

SO. It’s August 10th, 1628. It’s the port in Stockholm. There’s music, there’s festivities, everybody’s showed up to see the Vasa off. A few ships tug the Vasa out to the current, let her loose, she drops four of her sails, and off she goes.

For about thirteen hundred meters.

Then, a light breeze blows. When I say light, I mean light. But that was all it took. The Vasa flops to port, water flows into the gun portals, and down it goes, still in the fucking harbor with its masts sticking out of the water.

So when that original post says “recovered from the sea floor,” it means brought up from the *actual harbor*. Like, within sight of the docks.

Oh, oh! But cool story about all this. Remember those sixty-four bronze cannons? Yeah, Sweden kind of needed those back, so about three decades later in 1658, the Swedes go down and retrieve almost all of them with a diving bell. Which is kind of badass.

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packedandstrapped:

“When a trans guy found out that I was butch and not trans he said, “Didn’t you ever want to take testosterone and go the whole hog?” looked at him and said, “I am the hog.”

“The WHOLE hog.”

There’s all this pressure to be binary.

To be a trans male.

But I’m a masculine female. Full stop.

I’m not on a journey.

I’ve arrived and put my suitcase down.”

The Butch Monologues

The whole hog.

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paulthebukkit:

https://twitter.com/HypraSeaPea/status/971531769508896768

I litterally haven’t been able to stop thinking about this video all day

you know what? i knew this video was going to be bad and yet i can’t stop thinking about it. i feel like the modern day adam and eve. i knew just by the thumbnail it was going to be bad but it was worse than i could ever imagine once i took the bite. and now i am infected with evil. op is a serpent.

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homunculus-argument:

I love those winter hats with the ear flaps, they’re so expressive and they’ve got so many options for how to wear it. Such as:

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manywinged:

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manywinged:

blood being frequently described as having a “coppery smell” in fiction is kind of funny considering that there is a metallic component to blood and it’s not copper

in fact if your blood smells or tastes like copper you probably have more urgent things to worry about than it being outside your body. it’s probably better that it’s not inside you anymore actually.

story where blood is described as smelling or tasting “coppery” and it’s actually early foreshadowing that all the characters are suffering from heavy metal poisoning

ALT

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retroactivebakeries:

lesserknownwaifus:

Garlic Girl

#seeing op’s url killed me immediately

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polishbarnowl:

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sweet-soul-brotha:

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funny phrases to use when something goes wrong instead of jokingly saying “i’m going to kms”:

• i’m going to kill god
• i’m going to delete my blog
• i’m going to explode
• i’m going to blow up this entire website
• i’m going to become the joker
• this is going to be my villain origin story

feel free to add on

THIS ONE WINS

oh you know

What is homestuck? Is it like goncharov?

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alisonzai:

just must say that this makes me very happy like… yes b*tch make that cheese i love u and dedicate this comc to u 

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nataliezaki:

I FUCKING LOVE THE GAMEIFICATION OF EITHER TEDIOUS OR UNNOTABLE TASKS IT HELPS ME IMPROVE SAID THINGS IN MY LIFE AND THEREFORE MAKING ME HEALTHIER AND HAPPIER

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deafmic:

a couple weeks ago, someone called and left a message on my team’s phone at work. this was a phone number that he should not have been able to find and which isn’t actually manned. we are an IT team and have the number to keep our team zoom account. so no one picks it up, but every time someone leaves a message, everyone on the team gets an email with the transposed text.

this man left a 7 minute long message with my tech team about how he wanted a job in our sales department.

in it, he called himself a savage no less than 12 times. he spent most of the 7 minutes talking about how well he closes deals and sells. he left this message over the weekend. in it, he said the words “i’m a beast, i’m a killer” multiple times, which i now can’t seem to get out of my vocabulary. i say it literally every day and i can’t explain it because it’s like a personal meme.

my team actually found this message so fucking funny that we immediately found the sales team recruiter and got him over there. we all dearly hope that he gets hired so we can meet him. he’s like a celebrity to us. he’s a beast. a killer even.

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sometiktoksarevalid:

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microwavebeeping:

microwavebeeping:

microwavebeeping:

One fun fact about me is that there is a pit in the forest. It is a part of me. I do not know where my reflection ends and I begin and I am so entwined with its murky waters I have begun to wonder if I am human at all, or if I am some creation of mud and wood given life against its will. When I die look for me in the pit. I will be in there, watching you.

Visited the pit again today. The waters gone. There’s a dead bird at the bottom of it. I don’t know what this means.

I keep accidentally ending up at the pit. Like I’ll tell myself I’m not going to go to the pit and then I go to the pit. Or I get lost on the trail and end up at the pit. I’m having fucking dreams about the pit. What is with me and this pit.

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an-alarming-number-of-bees:

memingursa:

This really makes the Studios costing themselves even more money (and getting more unions involved) by prolonging the strike for the promise of free ai labor even more fucking funny. you dumb fucking bastards lol

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