The Government Does Not Have The Right To Force Me To Use My Organs To Save Someone Else's Life.

It breaks my heart that this is necessary.

If you publicly and unreservedly condemn the actions of Nazis in Charlottesville and elsewhere, including everything from quiet hate speech to vehicular terrorism, can you please reblog this post.

I think a few friends, a few followers, every Jew who happens across this post and my own heart could do with knowing that there are more of you out there than there are of them

They are absolutely coming for contraception, on top of everything else listed above.  Legislation is in the works now to classify abortion as a homicide, beginning at the moment of fertilization.  That takes out many of the more effective forms of contraception.  We need to work together to stop this, or it will only get worse.

Hey. They’re coming for ALL OF US.

Didn’t want to append this to a well-written post about how conservatives in the US are angling to eliminate gay marriage. But.

They’re coming for gay marriage and for interracial marriage and “fornicators” (people who engage in consensual sex acts outside marriage*), and they’re going to ban contraception if they can. They’re testing steps to prevent co-housing too. Basically if you’re not a white Evangelical in a nuclear family with a desire to have hordes of children, your rights are in danger right now.

As long as we keep fretting about only our own groups, we’re not going to get very far. All of these civil rights were achieved through alliances between marginalized groups. We’re all in danger right now because we’ve allowed exclusionists – many of whom are bots or campaigns created by right-wingers – to divide us with nonsense about “ADOS” and “the q slur” and “class first” anti-woke leftism. Right-wingers have always understood that divide and conquer is the easiest way to deal with the left; we have always been a coalition of disparate groups with disparate needs that puts some of those needs aside when it’s time to fight for something. We’re not ready to fight right now. But we can start getting ready, and the easiest way to do that is to remember that you are not the only group under threat right now.

Boost other groups’ campaigns and attempts to raise awareness. Learn to exclude the people calling for exclusion, because most of them aren’t actually on your side. Read the histories of successful civil rights efforts, and pay attention to how they formed those alliances. This is work that takes years. Fixing everything that’s broken in our society cannot be done quickly or easily – but for fuck’s sake, try to get your head out of your navel and look around.  See your fellow soldiers, and put your shield alongside theirs, fast. We got incoming.

*Many states still have laws on the books that make everything from oral sex to shacking up illegal. And best believe Evangelicals want those laws enforced again.

Seriously, this thing is terrifying if you like having, well, rights. Please protect the US from Project 2025 and vote Republicans out of office!

From @stopproject2025comic, here's one about what Project 2025 means for libraries. Full alt text at the site.

Sometimes, this is the same cat.

There are two types of cats

Check this out if you’re on Instagram and want to try to win a book with an ace character!

Win an asexual book of your choice! [Details here]

Ace owls!

Ace + gender identity owls for anon~

From top to bottom:

Ace and Transgender, Ace and Nonbinary

Ace and Genderqueer, Ace and Pangender

Ace and Demigirl, Ace and Demiboy

Ace and Genderfluid, Ace and Genderflux

Ace and Agender, Ace and Neutrois

People are free to use them as icons.

Pride desserts -- yum!

pride desserts and sweet drinks

click here for individual posts with flavour descriptions

This is one of many reasons why it is very useful to be friends with someone who is a little more extroverted or has less social anxiety than you.  If that isn’t an option, many places now allow online ordering so you have less human interaction!

wait… if you have social anxiety… and i have social anxiety…

then who’s going to order the food?

This is beautiful!  It reminds me a bit of @the-other-sandy‘s neighborhood when we were teenagers.

“A house I pass on the way to work has this sculpture in its yard. Its about 8 feet tall.”

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[swoon] My hero!