whales-are-gay:

mushymlmthings:

mushymlmthings:

mushymlmthings:

being registered to vote in the midterms!! vote those nasties out of office!

go vote, gays. 

voting for primaries is coming up! in many states, early voting has already begun. be sure to do your research and vote for candidates that voice their support for LGBT rights! if you’re old enough and you’ve voted, leave me an ask telling me that you did so we can all thank you for supporting us

election day is even closer. Let me make something clear.

50% of the LGBT population lives in a state where they can be fired for their sexual orientation or gender identity. 

50% of the LGBT population lives in a state where they can be evicted for their sexual orientation or gender identity. 

72% of the LGBT population lives in a state where they can be denied access to loans or credit for their sexual orientation or gender identity. 

70% of the LGBT population lives in a state where they can be sent to conversion therapy (aka torture camps), even if they are minors.

This is our last chance for another two years to change anything. Participate in the rainbow wave.

btw this youtube channel has videos for how to vote in every state

tenderlesbian:

“Actually, Cory is leaving the police force. He’s decided that he feels - now after doing this - that there’s a life for him as an activist or doing something along those lines, because he realized he could reach a demographic where a lot of people aren’t open to us”

— Karamo Brown confirming that Cory Waldrop has quit the police force

broadlybrazen:

baron-von-count-5-4-3-2-1:

princessofbadassery:

broadlybrazen:

In light of recent Supreme Court decisions & all the other bullshit poised to fall on us: I just want to personally thank every insufferable “progressive” moron who stayed home, voted for Stein, and/or spent all of 2016 smugly proclaiming that they were too morally pure to vote for “lesser evil”

You led us to this and you own it just as much as the Trumpers. You’re not forgiven. Every single fucking person who dismissed the power of voting, who pretended that voting doesn’t matter and isn’t a VITAL part of activism - some of you follow me, and yes bitch I mean you too - you own this. The racist gerrymandering and denial of hard won voting rights? The challenges to reproductive rights and marriage equality? The upheld Muslim ban, the babies in cages? All of this fuckshit is your fault as much as Trump voters - actually, even more so, because you ostensibly are against this bullshit but couldn’t be fucked to protect anyone.

You enabled evil. You enabled these idiots to dismantle literally FIFTY YEARS of hard-fought, hard-won social progress. You helped destroy the achievements of all those who labored and sweated and bled to make their county better, fairer.

I never want to hear your useless political opinions ever again. Just shut the fuck up and help fix what you broke, and - if you can find the moral courage - try not to stab everyone in the back again. I know, it’ll be so hard for you, you’ll actually have to give a shit about other human beings instead of indulging your own stupidity, but try. Because this shit will affect you too, you incompetent vermin.

This post doesn’t mince words, and it shouldn’t. The name of the game in American federal politics is harm reduction, has been for a while. You choose the lesser–FAR, FAR lesser–of two evils. You choose between genuine, supervillain evil, and a candidate who is imperfect but will not kill everyone. Because if you don’t, it will mean chaos for people of color, LGBTQ people, poor people, and disabled people for a long, long time.

Vote third party in your local elections if you want, idgaf, but vote Democrat down the ballot for federal and state.

This is the issue ultimately and why the 2 party issue will always be a issue.

Honestly no it’s not their faults (the ones who voted 3rd party that is (the ones that stayed home deserve to live in a dystopia because that’s what they voted for, also not the joker votes for obvious reasons) but to the people who honestly voted Stein or whatnot I’m okay with them; and here’s the reason: the democratic side of things didn’t give a candidate that was all that good; they stuck possibly one of the most shamed people in there against a popular racist. Ultimately does Hilary deserve her bad rep? No but we certainly shouldn’t shame people for voting third party. Shame the almost half of the country who voted for The Fourth Reich, cause ultimately those are the fucked up indiduals who fucked us.

People keep whining that Dems should be more civil, so allow me to say with all courtesy: Kindly go fuck yourself. And keep your bullshit off my post.

I’m glad you’re so fucking sheltered from the Trump administration’s horrorscape that you can still bring yourself to excuse people who helped bring us here, but the rest of us are being destroyed and we don’t have to fucking soothe hurt feelings of people who can’t bear moral accountability for their actions.

Voting 3rd-party in presidential elections, as they are currently structured, is stupid. Doing so when a Supreme Court sear and a half-century of social progress is at stake? Morally inexcusable.

The Green Party is a fucking national disgrace and in fact does its best to hamper its own relevance by reserving all its energies for dumbass grandstanding every 4 years. You want vibrant third parties? BUILD THEM FROM THE GROUND UP. Where the fuck are Greens when it comes to standing up to ICE? Where the fuck are Greens when it comes to raising awareness / fighting for alternatives like instant runoff voting?

The Green Party limits itself to grandstanding because when you only bother with elections you KNOW you’ll lose, you never have to fucking worry about being held accountable for anything you promise - you can be unsullied, an underdog who has done no wrong (because they’ve done no work & avoided all fights). I don’t have time for laziness or cowardice, and on a national level, that’s what the Green Party represents. It’s more fun being a feisty spoiler than actually fucking FIGHTING for their beliefs, working and struggling to enact good policy, building their party and organizing voters. I don’t respect that and I don’t respect people who enable it.

Third-party candidates who run and fight for their local communities are doing the real work - and, vitally, they can’t afford to grandstand. A much greater chance of winning means a much greater chance you’ll be held responsible for what you said you would do, which is fairly fuckin important expectation for politicians. But people like Stein et al couldn’t give a shit about attempting to build up a political base starting with their local communities because (a) that’s work and they’re fundamentally lazy, (b) it means being held accountable for shit they say and do, which they avoid at all costs, and © it’s thankless and it’s just not as FUN as wandering into the fray just for shits and giggles every 4 years.

Fuck third-party presidential voters. It was a spineless choice. There were four presidential candidates but only two potential outcomes - and you KNEW that, but you still valued your imagined political purity over protecting people from the worst possible outcome. You enabled evil with your cowardice. Face that fact and fucking atone.

dancinbutterfly:

slaygentford:

hahaha fuck

i love this story

so 

first you have to know that antony and cleopatra had known each other at this point for like…. shit almost 15 years? and had had a correspondence on and off throughout that time. they’d known each other through her exile, through his campaigns, through her first child, through his (failed) interim consulship. it’s conjectural to say they were on good terms but… i don’t know why they wouldn’t be. 

so when antony found out that cleopatra had funded cassius and brutus during the civil war? he was like, what the fuck. what theFUCK! (yells out window) OCTAVIAN DID YOU HEAR THIS! WHAT THE FUCK!  

so antony issues a summons: cleopatra is to come to him so she can Explain Her Self. to this cleopatra replies: what the fuck did you just say to me? 

(and you might be like, wait, why is that an issue? and i’ll tell you why, it’s because cleopatra, despite essentially being a (very tenuous) client king to rome at this point, vulnerable to invasion and just barely out of the woods re her connection with caesar, was a macedonian through and through: from language to looks to, you guessed it, ego. and she was fucking. insulted. HOW DARE HE! she probably yelled to charmian. I AM BLOOD! OF! PTOLEMY! NOBODY SUMMONS ME! charmian: i understand that your majesty can you please eat your dinner now)  

antony summons her twice more. finally cleopatra, personification of the upside down smile emoji, says, okay! i’ll come. see you soon!! (: 

now. cleopatra knew two things: 

One: that she was richer than antony, and antony wouldn’t be able to afford a reciprocal feast if she went all out, which would be hugely embarrassing for him

and Two: that a lot of people liked to say antony was a dumb hoe, impressed only by material goods and lavishness, and that he didn’t like when people said this.

so naturally cleopatra proceeds to sail up the river to tarsus in an huge fuck-off ship, plus her entire waitstaff, 12 dining tables, a feast that was lavish beyond belief, entertainment, probably some peacocks or whatever, all decked out in pearls and jewels.

antony: wtf! why are you being so mean rn!
cleopatra: mocking baby voice: why are you being so mean rn??? (normal voice) FUCK you 

antony didn’t ask her why she had supported cassius ever again. and that was the beginning of the most famous love affair in history  

Why don’t we ever get to see THAT love story played out? That is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

pajamabees:

anyway can we talk about how the caps gave absolutely no fucks this playoff season by eliminating EVERYONE on away games? Like the CBJs were eliminated on their home terf, penguins were exorcised in pittsburgh, lightnings were beat in tampa bay, and finally the golden knights were annihilated in vegas? Washington was going to win the cup and they made sure everyone knew it. What a big fucking statement. a fucking power move.

witchyfaekin:

mswyrr:

favedump:

Mr. Rogers had an intentional manner of speaking to children, which his writers called “Freddish”. There were nine steps for translating into Freddish: 

1. “State the idea you wish to express as clearly as possible, and in terms preschoolers can understand.” Example: It is dangerous to play in the street. ​​​​​​
2. “Rephrase in a positive manner,” as in It is good to play where it is safe.
3. “Rephrase the idea, bearing in mind that preschoolers cannot yet make subtle distinctions and need to be redirected to authorities they trust.” As in, “Ask your parents where it is safe to play.”
4. “Rephrase your idea to eliminate all elements that could be considered prescriptive, directive, or instructive.” In the example, that’d mean getting rid of “ask”: Your parents will tell you where it is safe to play.
5. “Rephrase any element that suggests certainty.” That’d be “will”: Your parents can tell you where it is safe to play.
6. “Rephrase your idea to eliminate any element that may not apply to all children.” Not all children know their parents, so: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play.
7. “Add a simple motivational idea that gives preschoolers a reason to follow your advice.” Perhaps: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is good to listen to them.
8. “Rephrase your new statement, repeating the first step.” “Good” represents a value judgment, so: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them.
9. “Rephrase your idea a final time, relating it to some phase of development a preschooler can understand.” Maybe: Your favorite grown-ups can tell you where it is safe to play. It is important to try to listen to them, and listening is an important part of growing.

Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children - The Atlantic

Rogers brought this level of care and attention not just to granular details and phrasings, but the bigger messages his show would send. Hedda Sharapan, one of the staff members at Fred Rogers’s production company, Family Communications, Inc., recalls Rogers once halted taping of a show when a cast member told the puppet Henrietta Pussycat not to cry; he interrupted shooting to make it clear that his show would never suggest to children that they not cry.

In working on the show, Rogers interacted extensively with academic researchers. Daniel R. Anderson, a psychologist formerly at the University of Massachusetts who worked as an advisor for the show, remembered a speaking trip to Germany at which some members of an academic audience raised questions about Rogers’s direct approach on television. They were concerned that it could lead to false expectations from children of personal support from a televised figure. Anderson was impressed with the depth of Rogers’s reaction, and with the fact that he went back to production carefully screening scripts for any hint of language that could confuse children in that way.

In fact, Freddish and Rogers’s philosophy of child development is actually derived from some of the leading 20th-century scholars of the subject. In the 1950s, Rogers, already well known for a previous children’s TV program, was pursuing a graduate degree at The Pittsburgh Theological Seminary when a teacher there recommended he also study under the child-development expert Margaret McFarland at the University of Pittsburgh. There he was exposed to the theories of legendary faculty, including McFarland, Benjamin Spock, Erik Erikson, and T. Berry Brazelton. Rogers learned the highest standards in this emerging academic field, and he applied them to his program for almost half a century.

This is one of the reasons Rogers was so particular about the writing on his show. “I spent hours talking with Fred and taking notes,” says Greenwald, “then hours talking with Margaret McFarland before I went off and wrote the scripts. Then Fred made them better.” As simple as Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood looked and sounded, every detail in it was the product of a tremendously careful, academically-informed process.

That idea is REALLY worth learning to talk to the kiddos. Mr. Rogers still has a lot to teach us–especially for our own kids.

faceoffs:

“The things that [Donald Trump] spews are straight-up racist and sexist. Some of the things he’s said are pretty gross. I’m not too into politics, so I don’t know all his other views, but his rhetoric I definitely don’t agree with. It hasn’t come up here, but I think I already have my mind made up.”

— Devante Smith-Pelly on a possible White House visit in the event of a Capitals Stanley Cup win

domesticharry:

someone: so….. one direction huh?

me:

i’ve had a lot of urls tbh, and i don’t do sideblogs so all of my interests get smushed into one completely incoherent mess. i’ve been into everything from hannibal to star wars to marvel so like ?? it is entirely possible that you followed me before i got back into hockey lmao. we’re all on this completely incoherent ride together tbh