some of my favorite replies to this tweet. happy lesbian visibility week!

Hey, I'm a queer black enby who desperately needs to get an abortion, but literally can't due to my state's (idaho's) restrictive bullshit abortion laws. I'm mentally ill and have a part time remote job, but can't hold more hours. my roommate/friend is a trans person with a full time remote job, so fortunately we can stay employed out of state. but with mounting bills and the soaring cost of living we need some extra help with being able to move to oregon.

i'm setting my goal to $500 for gas, motel, and food, but literally any bit helps. thank you guys. paypal (pls ignore the deadname): paypal.me/jennycarsons cash app: $aboriginalsoull 0/500

420/500! ALMOST THERE.

Hey not to dox myself online or anything but I go here. I was not one of the many brave protesters (whose cause I support fully) but I must say how far gone are we as a government and a society where universities have trained snipers for crowd control. This isn’t what IU, Ohio State, Columbia, or any university with standing should be doing especially when they so heavily promote free speech.

The universities are treating it like it’s Vietnam all over again. Protesters being criminalized because they’re going off their first amendment rights and are seen as ‘too left-wing’. What makes me the most pissed off though is how IU changed the encampment laws a day before the protests. There were 33 arrests (including a professor’s wife if I remember correctly) and one person has a suspension off campus for a year.

This is all happening though after the faculty vote of no confidence against Pamela Whitten (the president), Rahul Shrivastav (the Provost), and Carrie Docherty (Vice Provost). They have been nothing but incompetent these past few years with their COVID policies, poor treatment of graduate students, the suspension of Professor Abdulkader Sinno, the cancellation of Samia Halaby’s (a Palestinian-American’s) art exhibition, their funding of Palestinian genocide, and their shift of prioritizing IUI (The Indianapolis branch of IU more commonly known as IUPUI).

Needless to say, fuck this administration and their leaders for having such shitty policies and not caring about their student body. If you’re are able to risk your record and potentially your education go out and protest these corrupt institutions. If you can’t and you have a little money to spare donate to the cause or just do your daily clicks. Something is better than nothing here.

I know I’m not the best model of political advocacy here but if it means sharing my perspective on this app and it reaches a few people then I’ve done my part here.

Thank you for your time.

To clarify for readers who are US citizens in the US, in most cases "your record" only contains convictions unless someone goes through court records. Anything overturned or dismissed (as most of these cases are rn) will not be on your "permanent record" etc.

Don't touch cops, don't resist arrest, don't carry anything that could be construed as a weapon, be very careful if you have an open case already.

Tumblr is not the place for a know your rights training but please go to these protests if you can, follow local SJPs as they'll tell you which precincts/universities to call and how to show up in person for jail support if possible. You can call even if you don't have a university affiliation. Charges get dropped en masse because people call.

Technophobes need to apologise for "just put it in plain English you stupid machine!" because, well for one the decline in accurate error messages in favour of simplicity has contributed to the rise of tech illiteracy, but also because now whenever an "app" has a net connection error it will pop up a box saying something like "oo ooopsie! Your super duper feed went poo poo. We'll try again soon!" which having said to me by a corporation is about 8 million times worse than having to hear the word "network".

To no one's surprise

This website is a self fulfilling prophecy of mild annoyances

A small victory to celebrate for today

meh, broken clocks

incredible that biden is giving you guys a slam dunk against him, giving you the chance to (accurately!) call him a genocidal monster- and you're fumbling it so bad you're defending him lmao.

Even Biden supporters want this motherfucker gone like what are we doing here?

There wasn’t one in my state, fuck face.

The DNC purposely did not have any debates between any of the democratic nominees with the intent to squash any competition. Thus any challenger was unlikely to outraise Biden or compete with the sitting fucking president on TV time. Biden was never challenged within his own party. They deliberately manufactured this outcome by suppressing any type of opposition.

the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.

they can imagine a society where women get some designated safe spaces without men around. they cannot imagine a society where the presence of men is not inherently a danger to women.

May i add this to your thesis

Not to mention

The ever-classic

can anyone pls send me some money for food. my other post is getting a lot of rbs but nobody’s sent me any money and i don’t have anything to eat. i hate asking like this but i haven’t even heard back from any of the jobs i’ve been applying to. my cashapp and paypal

update 4/25: my boyfriend got hit by a car, we have to get him a new one bcoz i start irl classes in just a few weeks, we're still broke, and we're moving in a few months. please spread this around even if you don't have any cash to spare, anything helps.

Since my birthday post died down I am posting this again, as these two women still need to get their families out of Gaza:

Rawda and Enas are single mothers with children who are stranded, unable to cross the border, without medical supplies, food, and proper shelter.

These fundraisers are being organized by Maha Saymeh and Dina Zaazaa, Canadian family members of Rawda and Enas, who are currently working to get them out of Gaza. Both were found under the Gaza Evacuation Fund Relief Fund page, which was verified by the Ottawa4Palestine team.

Here is Maha Saymeh's Instragram page.

Dina Zaazaa is an elementary school teacher in Ontario (x).

Both fundraisers have still have a long way to go before they reach their goal, so please reblog if you see this, and d0n@te if you can, even if it's just a dollar or two.

isnt the world so beautiful....all the little ways we're immortal...71 million years later they still sleep like you

i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return

Candy cane snail, Liguus virgineus, Orthalicidae

This arboreal species is found in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Photo 1 by pedrogenarorodriguez and 2 by margomora