Jude Law as Minx | Rage (2009)

Mr. Law, I cordially invite you to dress in drag as often as you’d like.

I would have never known…damn he looks good. o_O

Going through old posts. nice!

The Holiday (2006), dir. Nancy Meyers

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Episode 1: In this episode I discuss the first look at HBO’s Lovecraft County and awesome news from historian Annette Gordon-Reed!

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don’t touch my frens

<3 back after an unintentional summer hiatus!

Not to be furiously antimodern but everything you make is art and you can minimize it all you want by calling it a hobby or a craft or a hyperfixation but it’s art because you created it and humans just make art because it’s what we do and it can’t be good or bad because it just IS and when you make art you are part of something very beautiful and very human

Here’s a video from one of the people who protected her from bar security guards

https://www.facebook.com/leadastraydrag/videos/1345326342284013?s=100007161972534&sfns=mo video transcription and facebook post 

I. Am. Disgusted. SIGNAL BOOST this!! This is unacceptable! We need to remember what pride is and what we stand for.

**** If you’d like to help the trans activist from this set of tweets out, she’s staying anonymous, but her paypal is Timelessvision00@gmail.com ****

so you’ve probably seen the post going around detailing the horrific human rights abuses in what are, undeniably, concentration camps in the US…. accompanied by the suggestion that the only thing you can do is call your senators.

it’s unfathomable to me that someone would see we have actual nazi death camps in our country, and think the solution is writing to the politicians who allowed it to happen.

i have yet to see a post on any social media that has meaningfully helpful suggestions for how to get involved, so:

this article offers a number of suggestions including getting involved with your local chapter of Sanctuary Not Deportation, which connects faith groups to offer sanctuary to immigrants fleeing ICE. it also has a comprehensive list of immigrant-lead organizations to get involved with or donate to, as well as a link to crowdfund for detainee’s phone bills, which allows them to contact their families, legal counsel, and inform the outside world of the realities they are facing in detention.

here is a link for finding detention centers near you. there are many rallies directly outside of these camps you can participate in, and physically going to them is crucial in liberation efforts.

posting bond for detained immigrants is still one of the best ways to get people out of the death camps, even though ICE is increasingly unwilling to participate. the linked article has a list of both federal and state-by-state bail funds/organizations.

host a refugee if you have the room. Room For Refugees is still trying to build a network in the US. keeping people out of ICE’s grip and preventing detention in the first place is the best thong we can do because these camps are becoming more and more impenetrable.

help the legal organizations helping immigrants near you; if you’re anywhere close to NYC the New Sanctuary Coalition needs volunteers/donations, and if you’re on the border get involved with Texas Civil Rights Project.

on top of free legal aid, the NSC specifically also organizes rapid responses to ICE raids, which is one of the most importang things you can do – there are many local networks already in place, but here is how to organize a rapid response network if your city doesn’t have one.

one of the easiest things we can all do is learn the rights of immigrants in this country, and how to react to ICE raids. spread this information to everyone you know and keep the toolkit in easy access on your phone.

the only government policy that can make an immediate and tangible impact is municipal policy; push your local politicians to support or build sanctuary city initiatives – here is a toolkit for local political action.

finally, get involved with local antifa and leftist orgs! follow their social media to get updates on calls to action and protests happening near you. i cannot stress enough how important it is to be aware of efforts in your own city. antifa international’s tumblr is one page you can follow, but please research the orgs specifically in your area that are fighting the rise of fascism. the torch network has a list of chapters in several cities around the US, but again this is just a place to start.

i encourage everyone to find at least ONE thing from this list you can do, beyond donating. i know we are all stressed and have our time/energy zapped by capitalism, but if we do nothing, nothing will change. and please share these links wherever you can – copy and paste this post or at least share the first article i linked.

fascism is here, NOW, and we need to step up, because no one is going to invade us to free the camps this time.

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Friendly reminder that GIMP does pretty much everything Photoshop does, and it’s 100% free. Fuck DRM and the license culture, we have plenty of open source options available to us as a consumer.

If Adobe is going to be greedy shitheads, then fuck ‘em. Don’t use their stuff. Freeware can be just as good, if not better, than Adobe CC.

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@TIEDR on twitter

THIS PISSES ME OFF SO BAD. LIKE IF SHE WAS A MAN OR NOT BLACK THERE WOULD BE NO ISSUE. Let’s be honest, all of the best athletes (Olympic/World Champions etc) have some kind of biological/genetic advantage, whether it’s longer limbs or larger lungs or producing more EPO or even producing more testosterone - they’re want make people win, so you’re argument that to make her reduce her testosterone to make it a fairer field is absolute bullshit because to make it fair you basically have to take the average joe off the street to compete…

Exactly!

on the validity of recognizing emotions

Oh my god

“Dreams do come true in New Orleans!”

The only valid comic event is a-babies vs x-babies. If your event isn’t this cute, then I don’t want it. Look at how adorable this is:

OMG Baby!Ororo <3

Libraries are one of the few remaining public goods that haven’t been completely privatized and profitized. Libraries are virtually free to the public, regardless of race, class, gender, religion or sexual orientation. And it needs to stay that way. Capitalists need to keep their dirty, grubby little HANDS OFF libraries.

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

Strange Days (1995) dir. Kathryn Bigelow