Day: November 19, 2018

aintnosintobefinallyclean:

october-rosehip:

love-geofffree:

cutehaywood:

the straights are at it again

Reblog if you are a greedy gay hoarding refracted light all for your greedy gay self

I totally am, but also: I have a story. The time: 1995. The place: a small liberal arts college. We decided to participate in “denim day” which was a widespread event wherein on National Coming Out Day, you would wear denim to indicate SUPPORT FOR the LGBT community. Our support group made posters that were very, very clear about this. Wearing denim did not mean that you were coming out, it meant you supported anyone around you who might.

I have never seen so many suits and khakis IN MY LIFE. People who accidentally wore jeans went home and changed.

The community took it as a rebuke. We drew in closer to eachother, and felt unwelcome everywhere we thought we had friends before.

And I had people later tell me “You know I support you, just… I didn’t want anyone to think I was.” First off, I DON’T know you support me. Not if you refuse to, for one day, change nothing about your life to show it. Second off… why is that such a terrifying thought to you?

I remember before rainbows were a “gay thing”. They were everywhere. Church walls next to arks. School walls next to sunshine faces. People have VOLUNTARILY abandoned every other use. I have HEARD PEOPLE SAY they just couldn’t use rainbows anymore because people would think of “gay stuff.”

So I know this is a joke, and a stolen one at that, but you’ve done this to yourselves. If someone is so terrified of being perceived as queer that they will INSTANTLY abandon something they like if it has queer germs on it now or something, then they don’t deserve refracted light.

Maybe help us change the world into a place where being mistaken for queer would be just a thing to chuckle about and you can have refracted light back.

The LGBTQ+ community didn’t steal the rainbow. The straights abandoned it.

dollsahoy:

dollsahoy:

sulegeo44:

Making Distressed Jeans

Enh, more like “lasercutting/etching a picture of distressed jeans out of a piece of denim,” because, trust me, you can’t wear those, nor can you sew them into something you can wear.

I mean, YES, lasers are how mass produced distressed jeans are ‘distressed’ these days, as well as how all the pieces are cut out before assembly, but the better caption would have been “demonstration of how jeans are distressed”

because this not how jeans are made

sincardinality:

perspicaciousembroiderist:

ek-vitki:

ek-vitki:

Viking traveler’s amulet, based on the Lillbjärs picture stone. The back reads: “Unharmed Go Forth, Unharmed Return, Unharmed Back Home”, Frigga’s blessing to Odin, possibly from Vafþrúðnismál.

How does this have almost 10,000 notes ?

Because the world is full of trouble and every little bit of help counts.

Sadly the text of this is just English written in Elder Fuþark

“unharmed go forth – unharmed return – unharmed bak hom”

The proper runes for Frigga’s blessing, actually from Vafþrúðnismál:

ᚺᛖᛁᛚᛚ ᚦᚢ ᚠᚨᚱᛁᚱ
ᚺᛖᛁᛚᛚ ᚦᚢ ᚨᚠᛏᚱ ᚴᛟᛗᛁᚱ
ᚺᛖᛁᛚᛚ ᚦᚢ ᚨ ᛋᛁᚾᚾᚢᛗ ᛋᛖᚱ

And their transliteration in Old Norse:

heill þu farir
heill þu aftr komir
heill þu a sinnum ser

The approximate English meaning:

[with] health you go
[with] health you return [literally “after come”]
[with] health [as] you wend your way

And a vernacular translation by me:

Go in good health
Return in good health
Travel in good health

Source: Vafþrúðnismál, Norwegian high school

argumate:

betterbemeta:

argumate:

jaherafi:

discoursedrome:

argumate:

there’s a type of wannabe communist I think of as LMAOists who are in many ways rebranded kekistanis (or vice versa); despite being superficially opposed on an ideological level, they are extremely similar on an emotional affect and practical day to day life level.

I’m going to strive to adopt this term solely out of appreciation for the neologism

i once knew a dude who went straight from stalinist to ancap

I think I’ve heard of about the same number of people making the fascist <-> tankie transition in each direction, without really changing much else.

On some level I think there are just people out there who are kind of insulated from the outcome of any path and primarily choose their allegiances based on who their friends are– or even who they end up in one-sided audience-broadcaster relationships with. Most of us tend to want to please our friends or echo broadcasters who we like, we make commitments to what those people have already committed to. So it stands to reason,If so-and-so had randroid friends rather than anarchist friends, they may have made totally different life commitments and choices… and it’s not always so clear how essential or permanent those commitments will turn out to be.

We pretend that like, we’re devoted or shaped down to our very core by our political leanings and that the values different systems represent are irreversibly branded onto us, with our enemies being total anathema, but for lots of people that probably isn’t true. For some people, all it takes is finding a new crowd to settle in with, a new fandom or media personality, falling out of friendship with only a few lifelines, or making new friends that are more rewarding and responsive than prior friends, or who ask for less compromise.

that’s crazy, that implies that your choice of religion would be almost entirely determined by your family and surrounding community.

bloglikeanegyptian:

bloglikeanegyptian:

bloglikeanegyptian:

gamedteneen:

gamedteneen:

let’s post about this in the spirit of accountability bc within a week or two this will probably be mainstream news that ended badly

so this guy, an egyptian activist and i think he worked in bassem youssef’s show but is generally known on social media made a video today where he blew up condoms as balloons and handed them to the police patrolling downtown (yesterday was the national holiday for the police, as well as being the anniversary of the january 25th revolution. the main instigator for the revolution was police brutality, and downtown is on lockdown because protests are no longer legal and hundreds of people have been arrested for “intention to protest” in advance.) the video has 15k likes and over 10k shares on facebook.

anyway so the gesture of blowing up condoms as balloons is unmistakably intended as an insult towards the police, although the video itself is very mocking because this guy has a background in satire (he made a status saying “if opposition voices are banned and protests are banned, then the only thing we have left is to do is keep making jokes about you, even if we die making jokes we’ll keep doing it”) and offended many because he seemed to be making fun of the policemen’s ignorance of what the balloons were, as many come from a poor background.

anyway the egyptian police facebook page has since made a post calling him out that says, “we swear to God you won’t get away with this, and if we don’t get our justice through the law we know how to get to you on our own very well… you’ve just made an enemy out of 37 thousand officers” which is deeply ominous. there are a lot of factors here that make this very bad news for everyone involved, but maybe given enough publicity it will play out in the public sphere, which is potentially safer.

https://twitter.com/AlMasryAlYoum/status/691958724714479616 he’s been arrested for the video according to this for “offending the police force” (i don’t think he’s been officially charged with anything yet though). a well-known young actor friend who participated in the video, although he wasn’t in it clearly, made a public apology and has not been arrested yet afaik, but he has been prevented from working.

both of the men involved in the video have a long track record with activism and were personally affected by egypt’s interior ministry’s brutality over the past five years (ahmed malik, the actor, was run over by a car at a protest when he was only 15).

egyptian media is bein rly extra about this but he actually hasn’t been arrested yet, although he released a statement on facebook saying he’s terrified and knows his days outside jail are numbered. both him and his actor friend are being publicly denounced. his statement actually begins with, “ايه ؟ قفشتوا ليه ؟ انا بهزر…ده انا حتى مفقعتش عين متظاهر ولا سحلت بنت في قلب الشارع وعريتها…ولا هو يعني كان لازم اغتصب بنت في كمين علشان الموضوع يهدا ؟”

(what? are you mad? im just joking… i didn’t blind a protestor or drag a girl through the streets naked or do i have to sexually assault a woman at a checkpoint so this whole thing blows over?) which imo is a very brave (and likely stupid) thing to do, but he seems to be sticking by his opinions now that it’s over for him.

it’s been two years since i made these posts and two years since shady has posted anything remotely political on social media, but the egyptian state has a long memory. 

Last week, Shady was abducted without notice from his home, his house ransacked and his belongings destroyed, disappeared for over a day with no news to his family until he was taken to trial on charges including “belonging to a terrorist group” and “spreading false news.” he was originally in detention for 15 days, and his detention has just been renewed.

shady is still in prison and his detention has been renewed another 45 days