I’ve heard good things about Bumble BFF

“Local leftist decides that gay people shouldn’t have human rights because gay human rights don’t comport with the social progress related to non-western societies” is my favorite example of horseshoe theory in action. Please never break containment.

And is it social progress to you for a society to allow gay people to have civil rights?

You Jinxed us! Don’t you know any time anyone ever mentions “it”, nothing ever happens??

This is the answer I was looking for. Thank you

Can you please elaborate on how I’m licking corporate boot?

I am begging the people who live in the states and are horrified about what is going on but feel a need to do something: please join your local mutual aid co-op or neighborhood ICE patrol.

Misogyny is a hell of a drug

Thank you!

Does anyone have a link to the non-paywalled version

What happens if this fungi comes in contact with humans full of microplastics?

And also giving Israelis free healthcare…

Kacey Musgraves is an amazing artist. She has been beloved by the LGBTQ+ community for a decade now.

If you’re not familiar with her music, I would recommend starting with the song “Follow Your Arrow”, which is about living your life as authentically as possible and very explicitly supports the queer community. Here’s the chorus:

So, make lots of noise (hey)\

Kiss lots of boys (yup)\

Or kiss lots of girls, if that’s something you’re into\

When the straight and narrow gets a little too

straight\

Roll up a joint, or don’t\

Just follow your arrow wherever it points, yeah\

Follow your arrow wherever it points

“Golden Hour”, which is her Grammy-nominated album, is an absolute masterpiece and played a significant role in my first queer relationship. The song “Rainbow” still makes me tear up and look back fondly on my coming out years. I have seen her a few times in concert and she always dedicates it to the LGBTQ+ community.

For many, joining the US military is the only way out of poverty, a path to citizenship, or a way to a higher education. Some others just are victims of propaganda, or just genuinely sadistic, but unfortunately most of the people joining the military are victims of a failed education and social security system designed to bring more troops into the meat grinder.

EDIT: Holy moly. I do not condone US imperialism at all. I am not saying that people who fall into the poverty draft get a free pass either. What I AM saying is that the US war machine is a fucked system that results in endless atrocities abroad but unfortunately will only to continue unless we dismantle the institutions that blindly draw people to the machine so that these people who would otherwise be vulnerable can wake the fuck up and turn away from it. These systems include capitalism, propaganda, imperialism, jingoism, a failed education system, etc… Chill out friends.

Part of the issue is that everyone I know that wants to do something is terrified that it’s going to place targets on vulnerable members of their larger communities. A lot of trans people, queer people, black and brown people, disabled people, immigrants, and indigenous folks I know want to DO something. They’re just scared that if they do, then it’s going to only accelerate violence against their marginalized communities and the greater population isn’t going to fight for them.

Nothing is going to happen until we weaponize the cishet white dudes and get them on our side.