Day: September 7, 2018

freefallingflower:

lekswinterisdyslexic:

People are protesting that we must boycott the film Bohemian Rhapsody because, and I quote, “the trailer erases Mercury’s homosexuality by having him flirt with a woman and whitewashes him!” Which is funny, because these people are basically erasing Freddie Mercury’s bisexuality and his relationship with Mary Austin and whitewashing Rami Malek at the same time in order to back their shitty excuse of an argument.

Now, repeat with me:

Freddie Mercury wasn’t gay, he was bisexual. Rami Malek is Egyptian.

Freddie Mercury wasn’t gay, he was

bisexual. Rami Malek is Egyptian.

Freddie Mercury wasn’t gay, he was

bisexual. Rami Malek is Egyptian.

Freddie Mercury wasn’t gay, he was

bisexual. Rami Malek is Egyptian.

This has been a PSA.

Please don’t boycott this movie, my dad worked on it and said that Brian May was talking to him and saying that he was so happy that they were true to how Freddie was and how Rami was doing an exceptional job at portraying him

Also, if anything? They would be Parsi-washing Rami Malek, by having him play Farrokh Bulsara.

(Yes, Freddie Mercury was a stage name. His family fled to Britain from Zanzibar in his teens. They were originally from India, and he spent most of his childhood there.)

Which is…kinda not a thing. At least not that I’m aware of.

xandertarbert:

nomadactual:

viesti3:

kazucrash:

onedoomedspacemarine:

kawaiite-mage:

why are moms so afraid of Doom turning their kids into devil-worshippers. like, Doom has a pretty strong anti-demon message to it

One of the devs of the original 1993 game is a mormon with that exact position.

That would be Sandy Petersen.

Nice

“You kill demons to save the World.”

“That’s devil worship.”

“Lady….you cut in half demons with a chainsaw. It’s not worshipping anything but the chainsaws frankly.”

Terry Pratchett’s view on Doom:

“Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon…”

clatterbane:

clatterbane:

Wtf, how did that first sentence get turned into a shouty title?!

OK, now the Android app seems to be defaulting here to making anything at the top of a new text post into a title. Even being careful not to enter it in the title field ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Time for a break.

Welp, it looks like ugly workaround time!

Restarting the app didn’t help, not that I really expected it to. Trying different things, the main way I found to stop that is something like this:

Wondering if this odd new behavior isn’t related to my putting off updating the app, with their great new “let’s just do away with all the post types!” decision.

If so, given their already awesome code base before they screwed around with it even more? Really doubting it’s remotely intentional. Whatever is causing it.

lexaproletariat:

bandana-roja:

When are y’all gonna realize that we have no direct way to affect legislation from passing once we have an elected official in office?

Literally the only thing we can do is call senators and representatives en masse to say “hey maybe you shouldn’t cut funding for food stamps, social security, education, etc etc etc?” and hope that they listen.

And the only alternate choice for getting a law passed or rejected, which we shouldn’t have to do in the first place, is protest for months on end in order for some diet concession to be handed out on a silver platter.

Does a country that purposefully ignores the voice of the people truly deserve to call itself a democracy? And if not, then shouldn’t we do something to change the set up so it benefits and empowers the vast majority of people to participate in politics?

🚩Another world is possible🚩

Fun fact: if you’re below the 75th income percentile in the US (i.e. if you make less than ~$80,000, which you probably do), your economic policy preferences do not influence the actions of your elected representatives. Like, at all.

wodneswynn:

wodneswynn:

“So-and-so identity I’m prejudiced against is gonna use up all the LGBT resources!” like this is fuckin Age of Empires II or some shit

Reblog if you can’t build any more castles or upgrade your longbowmen because some sneaky asexuals are camping on all the wood and stone

connie-banana:

just-shower-thoughts:

Henry VIII decided he would marry Anne of Cleves based on a portrait of her, only later to be disappointed when they met in person. It was the 16th-century equivalent of catfishing.

Actually it wasn’t. Because Anne of Cleves was a perfectly innocent woman, whose only crime was not being the knockout babe her portrait made her out to be.

She was shipped off to another country, into the heart of a court where she didn’t even speak the language let alone have any friends and was expected to marry a man twice her age, who was grossly overweight and she’d never met.

Upon meeting her, 16th century Trump proclaimed to everyone who listened that she was the ugliest woman he’d ever seen, nicknamed her ‘The Flanders Mare’ and refused to consummate the marriage.

Anne was left stuck far from home and the object of ridicule for the people she was supposed to be the Queen of. She was constantly fearing for her life, fully aware that Henry could (and had in the past) come up with some bogus charge of infidelity or witchcraft to get rid of her. He did in fact execute Cromwell after the annulment, partly as a scapegoat for the disastrous marriage.

She survived by keeping her head down and her mouth shut. Out of all his wives she definitely got the happiest ending, and was described by her servants as kind and generous.

To compare her story to catfishing is wrong; that would imply blame on her part where there was none. The story of Anne of Cleves is one of toxic masculinity and entitlement.

PSA to all now that is is Pumpkin Spice Season

meowingcheesecake:

anarchist-bakery:

renstability:

From someone who worked at starbucks. If you have a milk/dairy allergy AT ALL. DO NOT. I repeat. DO NOT. Drink Pumpkin Spice.

It contains dairy IN the syrup that is used to make the drink. Even if you get it made with soy, you will still be getting doses of dairy in there. 

Depending on the severity and intolerance it can and will cause reactions. I found that as a barista I was constantly warning people about the dairy in the product. No one ever seemed to tell them that there was dairy in the mix. More times than I can count I heard people realize that’s why they kept having reactions, or that’s why it made them sick.

People legitimately do not know that pumpkin spice no matter what you do will always contain some amount of dairy.

(Some local coffee shops make their own “pumpkin spice” syrup that doesn’t contain dairy. I was in charge of creating the syrup for the shop I work at, and being lactose intolerant myself, I made sure it was dairy free. So it’s always a good idea to just ask.)

teddyclopse:

enoughtohold:

homosozialismus:

enoughtohold:

randymaverick:

enoughtohold:

enoughtohold:

people will believe fucking anything as long as it has a link to a “source.” the link could just be to a picture of a dog dressed as a taco and they’d reblog without clicking it like “wow there’s a source link, this is legit”

(source)

Edit: Republicans will believe fucking anything as long as it has a link to a “source.” the link could just be to a picture of a dog dressed as a taco and they’d reblog without clicking it like “wow there’s a source link, this is legit”

i hate to be the one to tell you but it’s really not just republicans that do this

source?

(source)

Can I have like 5 more sources please? They’re very good sources