Here’s a chance to change some black trans lives

Saw this on facebook and am keeping the momentum going. I’ve copied all the fundraiser links below, and here’s the link to the original post in case you’d prefer to look at the list that way.

looking at this feels like a hate crime

Reddit's tech help threads may heckle you for being an amateur but at least they don't try to gaslight you like Adobe help threads

You think I'm joking but I'm dead serious

i’ve been so into food videos lately.... they’re all like "ten quick and easy deserts you can make at home 😋😍" and then 30 seconds in on the first one they go ok so now take out your blowtorch,

are you seeing this shit

"Talking about being asexual/aromantic is pointless and nobody's business"

Have you considered that I openly talk about being asexual and aromantic because I felt like I was a freak of nature for not being able to relate to other people and I don't want anybody feeling in any way like I did? Shoving asexuality and aromanticism under the rug encourages people to feel isolation and alienation - which isn't good. Talking about asexuality and aromanticism and informing people about such identities is important whether or not you are ace or aro. If it bothers you, then you can leave these spaces. Ace and aro people deserve to talk about their identities and advocate for acceptance and understanding.

They may be our “best friends” but dogs have also emerged as a major threat to wildlife.

While Apple Sauce seems to have people’s attention

love being a choice rather than an expectation or unbreakable bond or destiny makes it more powerful than any of those things actually

Silenced. 

What people like this want is to say whatever they want without consequences, such as losing friends or work or hearing the mildest of complaints. And that’s never how anything has worked so I wonder if they’ve ever participated in a conversation.

in retrospect, video rental stores *would* probably still exist today in some capacity had it not been for blockbuster. the nostalgia for the blockbuster browsing experience undermines the reality of how aggressively the chain snuffed out smaller video rental stores and would eventually become notorious for its abusive late fee collection policy once there were no significant competitors standing. the rise of streaming is often attributed to blockbusters demise, but what’s not often recognized is how netflix’ earliest (and most successful) marketing tactics were in fact advertising the absence of the aforementioned terrible late fees as opposed to the convenience of not having to go to the store. I was actually surprised to find out how much of blockbuster’s demise can be attributed to spiraling out of control as it attempted to manage viacom’s ever increasing debts than to the fact that people just naturally gravitated towards streaming (which is not to say that it wouldn’t have happened eventually, but).

see also: borders / barnes & noble with bookstores. amazon’s original pitch was probably more “look how convenient!” than it was “look, you can avoid the awful sterility of the inside of a barnes & noble!” but it’s interesting that with its aggressive tracking and tailoring of recommendations amazon is having machines do (in an impersonal and invasive way) what the staff at a local, non-chain bookstore would do, which is match their selection to your preferences

Barnes & nobles and Borders raced against each other, across the country, to oversaturate the bookstore market. This isn’t paranoia or conspiracy — it’s the same fucking model Starbucks used. Oh, your community supports three bookstores? We’re going to open five, until the little indies go under. Then we’ll close four of our own (sorry not sorry staff, enjoy competing with each other for a handful of positions!) and now you have no other choice. Movie rental chains did the same thing.

And then all these huge chain retailers have the fucking gall to weep and whine as amazon proceeds to wipe them out, and now I live in a small city where you just… can’t get stuff. If you don’t want to use amazon, if you don’t have a car to drive out to the big box on the highway, you literally can’t buy a pair of socks or an ice pack. No more pharmacies, no more bookstores, no more video or music stores… if this was plants and not retailers you’d call it monoculture, and you’d raise an alarm about how prone to catastrophic collapse monocultures are.

Ohhh that last line.

99% of Celebrities are annoying.

Renting whole ass islands and complaining about how they have to quarantine in a house that's as big as a mall, with their own basketball court and 5 pools. This pandemic really exposed how greedy they are. Your make up artist gets injured, and you ask US to donate???? When you're supposed to be a self made rich dickhead? Complaining about how concerts being canceled will tank the amount of money you make, when there's people currently jobless??? Pathetic, I hope they all rot with their boring, useless asses. Yall need to stop worshipping them.

Fuck celebrities and fuck celebrity worship

Except dolly parton

nah fuck dolly parton too actually

dollywood has been operating (masks optional!) this whole time, with all of the worker's rights abuses and negative environmental impact that it's known for, including the dolly parton stampede, which until 2018 was known as the dixie stampede. it is a civil war themed dinner theater complete with playfully segregated bathrooms ("northerners only" and "southerners only") and ten donated bison being "stampeded" out for the audience at every show.

and just to add insult to injury she rewrote a version of 9 to 5 ("5 to 9") as an ad for squarespace talking about how great the gig economy is.

fuck celebrity worship and fuck dolly parton in particular.

Thank you. I don't know why these people bend over backwards for her.

I feel like it’s bonkers how the CIA and FBI have such a neutral public perception in spite of of the absolute brutal and abhorrent things they’ve done and publicly stated that they’ve done but the us propaganda machine is the most tenacious and comprehensive shit generator in the world so

for a moment I thought this was a tumblr login screen

MYTH: Bisexuals can hide in the heterosexual  community when the going gets tough. TRUTH: To “pass” for straight and deny bisexuality is just as painful and damaging for a bisexual as it is for a gay [person]. Bisexuals are not heterosexuals and we do not identify as heterosexual.

- Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out (1991)