Blogging mostly about the LEFT WING, of which I am apart. Random other stuff too! Of all kinds!
Casual reminder that The Washington Post is owned by Nash Holdings, which is controlled by good ol’ Jeffery Bezos.
Was going to keep this in the tags BUT I think it’s important people understand that sturgeon caviar is only a luxury in the first place because of colonization. Anishanabae and other Great Lakes area tribes (and I’m sure more I’m just speaking where I am from) have been fishing Sturgeon for literally thousands of years. Besides consuming the fish eggs and meat we also made glue from its bladder, bags from its skin and used the oil from the fish as well. Sturgeon is important to many of our tribes traditionally and spiritually. So much so we even have Clans in honor of the Sturgeon. Than European settler-colonizers showed up and like they decimated Buffalo populations to starve Natives they did similarly with Sturgeon. When they pushed our people onto reservations they also created laws and legislation to keep us from fishing and hunting in our own ancestral lands. Than they built fisheries and Damns, destroying habitats and overfishing sturgeon to near extinction.
a lot of people in the notes are saying “this is the opposite of what happened with Lobster” so I wanted to point out that no it is actually exactly what happened to lobster.
Happy birthday to the man, Bernie Sanders
In his honor, let us never forget this iconic moment:
I didn’t know we had the same birthday. It’s also Star Trek’s Bday! :D
Websites that help with content filtering and content warning
Can I Play That? - accessibility of video games
Does the dog die? - tracks different content of movies and shows, you can check if a particular one has content you don't want seeing
Trigger warning database - like doesthedogdie, but with books
Unconsenting media - for all media, checks with whether or not there's sexual violence in a certain piece of media
Regular reminder that "humans are parasites" and "maybe we're the virus, maaan" are ecfoascist dogwhistles.
The average person won't produce nearly the same contribution to climate change in their lifetime as corporatism does in a single day.
Also climate change is happening as a result of colonialism as well as capitalism.
Black, brown, and indigenous people have been the ones responsible for actually trying to save our climate and it's mainly white colonizers (ESPECIALLY the ones in the US military, which is the world's biggest polluter BY FAR) that are the ones destroying the climate.
Abolish the US Military and the Military Industrial Complex, give all the land back to the indigenous people, and decolonize rather than say ecofascist bullshit like "we are overpopulated" and "humans are the virus".
The fact that NoFap was enduringly popular on reddit for like ten years is an encapsulation of everything that's wrong with the mainstream anglosphere culture around sexuality.
Like you've got:
- internalized shame around sexual expression making people feel guilty every time they jerk off, causing them to pathologize it and view it as an addiction or whatever else
- insecurities around masculinity manifesting as constant fear over testosterone levels and anything that might lower them
- society's ever present ascetic undertones convincing people that pleasure is inherently unvirtuous and abstaining from pleasure makes you morally pure
- the whole health-craze whatevermaxxing mindset by which people feel they constantly need to reshape themselves into ever more optimized instruments with our new full body health plan and training system available for just $19.99 that's right just $19.99 if you call today or visit us on the web
And people end up believing that if they don't jerk off for a year they'll turn into a masculine god who gets all the bitches and no longer hates their job where their boss yells at them every day at the PR wing of the pig shit scooping factory.
FOR SALE: old Star Trek fan collectables, from the late 70s all the way up to the early '00s!
first up: a whole bunch of old Starlog magazines, from late 70s into the 80s, along with some other magazines and Star Trek fan club zines, a little picture book with a vinyl record, and... a tiny lunch box!
next: a huge bunch of Star Trek Universe collectable binder cards! with synopses, behind the scenes info, trivia, and cool pictures, from the original series to the next generation, and, although it's hard to see because i spread a couple of the pages out as an example, five big empty star trek universe binders with which to hold your many pages. or your schoolwork. or your printed out spirk fanfic, i'm not gonna judge you.
finally: giant poster books, several unofficial fanbooks, an Uhura comic book, ACTUAL PHASER GUNS (functionality not verified, but they look unused besides the box being a little squashed. storage'll do that to ya.) some collector cards i think? and then, honestly the prize of the collection imo, a photocomic book of AMOK TIME, the ORIGINAL fuck-or-die episode.
i'm going to be completely truthful here: i don't even have a price in mind for any of this. i know it's just old fan stuff. this collection belonged to my late mother, an absolute diehard trekkie from the moment it aired, who valued being able to engage with her stuff rather than keep it pristine or focus on big ticket items. like, again, it's all just old fan stuff!
but i know that the star trek fandom pioneered a lot of that old fan stuff. i don't know how much of that my mom was actively involved with beyond just collecting these things (if she was secretly a spirk truther, she took that to the grave with her), but i know it meant a lot to her. thus, primarily, i want this stuff to go to someone who will equally treasure it for its history, not for its (lack of) collector's value. so, DM me an offer for whatever jumps out at you. i'll consider pretty much anything, and i'm happy to take closer pictures on request.
i'd appreciate this being reblogged far and wide, in the hopes that it reaches the classic star trek corners of tumblr.
in my mother's memory, live long and prosper.
Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.
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