*sips coffee* what a beautiful day to remember that asexuality is real and what the A in LGBTQA+ stands for and that they are not straight but a part of the LGBTQA+ community
What a beautiful day to remember that the people who create the “ace people are straight,” the “bi people are straight,” the “trans people are misogynist,” etc. propaganda are trying to tear the queer community apart to make us all easier to pick off so if you’ve fallen for it or spread it yourself, you’re enabling people who want to do harm.
What a beautiful day to remember the Q stands for both Queer and Questioning, and that Queer isn’t a slur and also it’s okay to not really know what you are yet.
The Finns are posting pics raking or even vacuuming the forests, to ridicule Trump’s claim that Finland’s president told him their nation collects the woods to prevent fires. (Finland’s President said he never discussed it with Trump.)
Below is a picture of our fearless leader using a rake for a golf club.
The Finnish President probably did say it. Sarcastically and in jest, which any normal remotely intelligent person would have gotten the joke. But if it’s a person with the temperament of a toddler and the vocabulary of a 5th grader, then no.
“Rake the forest floor” is the brain-vomit of a mediocre man who misremembers something he once half-heard and never fully understood at the time but now considers himself an expert on the subject and oh, the absolute and serene confidence of a moron is indeed a thing to behold.
I’ve given it some thought and I have concluded that out of the entire second half of the 20th century (1950-2000), the early 1980s were the weirdest years in which to be born, followed by the late 1960s
logic:
people born in the early 80s had an internet-free childhood and early adolescence, then became the transition generation for most modern technology and social media. People who were babies in the early 80s seem to have been dressed like clowns. 9/11 happened just as they were reaching early adulthood, and they had to start their adult life in the reactionary shadow of the GW Bush years and the bizarre early 2000s cultural landscape
late 60s people were the first generation after baby boomers, came of age right as the economy was going under and never caught up economically or professionally with their older peers, and were at a relative age disadvantage during the late 90s boom. Apparently higher mortality rates than other people born in the late 20th century. They were kids in the 70s, so bad hair and bell bottoms. High school and early adulthood highlights included Reagan-era right wing politics, crack cocaine, the AIDS epidemic, and mullets
That last part sounds a bit like We Didn’t Start the Fire
Honestly, you have no idea. I was an ‘83 baby and I can’t properly convey how much things changed during my childhood. Going through my teens having been told the worst was over (Cold War, The Troubles, late 80s-early 90s fashion) only to have the Dot-com crash and 9/11 happen the year I turned eighteen. 9/11 and the resulting spike in islamaphobia and racism being in particularly sharp focus for me, being from a city where about 14% of the population and a third of my classmates being Pakistani Muslims.
Technology advanced at a baffling pace, especially looking back at it now. When I was a kid, we had four terrestrial TV channels, VHS was a luxury and my first video games came on cassette tapes. My grandparents still had a rotary phone. By the time I was an adult, we had games and movies on DVD and everyone had mobile phones. As a precocious, technophilic little brat, I, starry-eyed, read articles the internet and how the web was gonna change everything. By the time I left home, I had unmetered broadband.
It’s fucking wild.
I was born in 1975, so I have a pretty good idea.
The most striking, memorable thing for me, re: all the wild changes over the past few decades?
There was a short (2-3 pages, at most) comic in … I want to say Boy’s Life (the official Boy Scouts of America magazine), don’t ask me what issue but given when I was in Scouts, had to be circa 1988 or so. It depicted a bunch of speculative but plausible future technologies, along with some jokes about them; the only one I remember was a couple of panels that essentially predicted the smartphone.
I don’t remember the time frame it gave, but it struck me at the time as unlikely, given how horrifically expensive car phones were in the mid-late 1980s (and they were very much “car phones” at the time), and I’m pretty sure that it put them at least a decade further out than it actually took. I certainly wouldn’t have predicted remembering enough to be talking about it on one of the same devices.
Giving homeless people MONEY instead of FOOD can save their lives this winter, shelters cost money, being able to sit in McDonald’s and nurse a coke for a couple hours to warm up costs money, often accessing public toilets (whether it’s to use them, wash up or just to be out of the wind) costs money.
Just give homeless people cash, just do it, no excuses, no whining about “enabling their drug habits”, if you have money to spare, give it and possibly save someone from literally freezing to death.
Flu season would be way less prominent if parents just let their kids stay home when they’re sick
true and also parents would let their kids stay home when they’re sick if school districts didn’t send threatening letters and truant officers to their home when a kid misses 4 days without a doctors note.
And if they had someone who could stay home with them to care for them and still be able to pay rent.
I find it interesting that fascists in countries like Brazil and Poland use the same rhetoric about ‘protecting western civilisation’ as the fascists in Britain or the United States, who, in general, consider Brazilian and Polish immigrants to be degenerate scum who are polluting their ‘western’ way of life.
It’s almost as if fascism is an incoherent grab-bag of paper-thin excuses for behaving like an irredeemable shitgoblin.
I don’t think that it’s a coincidence that the sort of encroachment of childhood into the 20s that is like most explicitly shown by some form of “yr brain doesn’t start forming until you are 25” is usually used to deny the agency of younger people and put them at the hands of the state or other social apparati and absolutely never used to argue that they should be protected from the state (most clearly in when one can be tried as an adult, conscripted or otherwise put in the military, executed or imprisoned, responsible for life derailing loans, wage labor, etc).
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