being dana scully would be so funny. you ask your work partner where he’s going and he says “off to water the seeds of doubt” and hangs up on you

OH, COME ON, ZIB! Can you at least pretend you enjoy the party!? We've done all this for you!?!

Fine. Whatever.

Pick up your boy @lackadaisycats, he doesn't like my party 😒

Uh oh. Be right there. I have to find the wheelbarrow.

Me, calling in to my shift supervisor: Gooooooood morning! Are we ready for another super splendiferous day with the public?! 😀

Her: That is too much energy

Me: It iiiiiis fake!! 😀

Her: Still too much energy

Did you just know this

i feel these needed to be compiled. feel free to add more genre related posts in the notes if you want

by Gerard Donelan

For historical context, this is about making a panel for the AIDS quilt, a memorial project which began in San Francisco in 1985. Due to the stigma surrounding both homosexuality and AIDS during this time, victims of the epidemic were often cremated and disposed of or buried without ceremony, their bodies unclaimed by their families or origin or held by hospitals rather than released to same-sex partners.

Each panel in the AIDS quilt memorializes a life lost to the disease. Each panel is 3′ x 6′ (approximately 1 meter wide and 2 meters long), the approximate dimensions of a cemetery plot. The quilt, which then consisted of 1,920 panels representing 1,920 individuals lost to AIDS, was first displayed in Washington DC in 1987. The public response was immediate, positive, and overwhelming, and the quilt began taken around the country to be displayed in more cities. At each stop, the names of the dead were read out loud. At each stop, more panels were added.

By the time the quit returned to the US capital in 1988, it had more than 8,000 panels.

The quilt continues to grow. Today, it has over 50,000 panels memorializing over 100,000 of our dead. It’s too large now to physically display in its entirety, but you can view the entire thing online. There are also curated virtual displays of just panels which honor the Black and native people killed by the virus because in the US (and likely abroad, although I don’t know enough about public health elsewhere to say so with confidence), communities of color are disproportionately impacted by epidemics, as we have seen time and time again.

You can learn more about the quilt and its history here, and you can learn how to add a panel to the quilt here.

If you’re unable to access the quilt, here’s a zoomed in screenshot of the bottom left corner:

The quilt is made up of several panel, each panel itself consisting of 1 to 8 quilts.

Here’s a screenshot of the whole thing:

This is only about half of the people - our people - who were left to die because the government didn’t think “the gay disease” was a problem. This is why we march.

Atlanta hosted the Quilt for many years before it returned home to San Francisco, so we have always had panels at Pride. I make a point of taking the kids to see the panels every year. We read the names. We look at the birth and death dates and discuss how old they are. We take time to walk around the entire perimeter and look at each quilt. They are usually quiet and always respectful. I usually cry when we get to a panel made for a group of children. It’s not the same panel for a group of children every year. I remind them the last time the Quilt could be displayed all in one piece was in 1996 and that it’s too big now.

My kids are growing up in the age of PreP and a wide variety of antiretrovirals that can bring a viral load down to nothing. We have condoms in the home that they don’t have to ask for and that they won’t be shamed for should they need to be replaced. They had access to a wonderful sex ed book, The Pride Guide, plus we talk about safer sex at home pretty openly.

My sons are 22, 17, and 14. They have to see the Quilt to understand it. They need to read the names. They need to see the dates. They need to understand our government was willing to let our community die horribly and that they are ready to do the same at a moment’s notice.

Make sure the kids see the Quilt, y'all. They need to see it to understand.

I've been telling people in online games to "drink a glass of water" as an insult and it seems to destroy their will to hurl slurs or it makes them go beserk. I dont know why yet but my working theory is that it works like the melee style in Dune and gets through a shield made for faster, more energetic weaponry

congrats on being my hero

Omg, this note though:

a lovely creecher

Fucking stupid idiot dies

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

Magnus Archives fan I see

THIS IS SO FUNNY I'M SORRY

🖕🏽🎂♥️👀💅🏼

Hmmm

#hot take but it's about function #asian soups tend to be more liquid and so don't retain heat as well #so having more at once is good for it #western soups tend to be thick and creamy #so they retain heat very well #and thus a flatter spoon allows each mouthful to cool at a similar rate (@khancrackers)

In some ways accurate but does not account for my need to shovel soup into my face with the enthusiasm and ferocity of a honey badger chasing a worm.

the bouillon (boo-yawn) or "broth" spoon was created for dining on clear broths and thinner soups than the European "cream" spoon shown above.

bouillon spoons have a smaller bowl than the cream soup spoon and are shorter in length. cream soup spoons are too big to comfortably fit in the mouth, and you are meant to sip from them.

source: I got real obsessed with that weird spoon in my drawer and I like soup

is this orange or yellow.

its yellow you are all wrong i have decided just now

hey op, what does this say?

nice try but i’m not colorblind it says 71

Am I tripping?

Is that not 71?

You’re slightly colorblind, that is 74 and the color of the car is orange.

world heritage post

It’s orange

it’s literally 71

Bestie it’s 74

Y’all it clearly fucking says 21

where are you getting that from?

Babes it’s 81 what r yall seeing

its 74 bestie you might be colorblind

That 81 person can see shrimp colors

I took exactly the same image, increased the saturation, and shifted it to a part of the spectrum most people can see better.

For all your no-YOU-have-the-weird-color-vision argument-solving needs.

Also, the car is orange.

Scarecrow level=1000

lets get sillay

babushka off her shits lets gooooo

tv show. white man. hes sad. he has to do important thing but its hard. his girlfriend died probably. TWSIT!! theres another white man. maybe MORE. hes sad too but for different reason. its very deep probably. theyre best friends but not gay but maybe they are haha fandom!!! every girl dies or goes away. just not gay white man friend. 10 seasons 100 million viewers. what will moody white men do this week.

This post just turned 10 years old which is pretty fucked up actually. When I made this post people would say things like “actually supernatural only has 8 seasons” but here we are in 2023 so who’s laughing now. Not me I want to die

every day I get on here and see some post going "do not make an account on ZYLPPHONE, the hot new social media! it turns out making an account gives the creators (who are nazis) instant access to your bank account and also causes your pets to explode!" and this is all very baffling to me because I cannot believe anyone is actually fucking around with new social media platforms that shit sounds exhausting. if tumblr ever gives up and goes all the way under I will simply turn into a crab and go back to the sea you will not be finding my on zylophone