BOTCHED COUP D'ETAT LEADER YOON SUK YEOL HAS BEEN IMPEACHED CONSTITUTIONALLY AND UNANIMOUSLY, AND THE DECISION IS FINAL!!!!!🥹🥹🥹🥹🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

WE DID IT!!! WE KOREANS DID IT!!! PLEASE SPREAD THE WORDS!!! I WANT ALL INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES TO KNOW THAT WE DID IT🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵🩵💙🩵💙🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💛💛💛💛💛💙🩵💛💛💛💛

I'm nearly in tears. All the mental and physical pain and suffering that me and other Koreans have gone through waiting for his ousting has finally been paid off.

It was NEVER easy. I can't believe how many obstacles there actually were to come to this conclusion. Yoon and his cronies, his ruling far-right conservative party, and their blind supporters never gave up till the last minute. They took numerous cards in their sleeves to prevent this glorious day from happening.

Still, such is life. Life is full of chaos. Humans are just chaotic. Some are unbelievably great, while some others are just downright scumbag. That's just how it is. All we need to do is never give up going forward. 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

does anyone else feel me. can anyone hear me in here.

do you see the issue now

for a long time i lived alone, but then i got a service dog. after a lot of training, the service dog came to live with me—except, the same day the trainers brought quincy, an orange tabby tomcat also showed up.

"you didn't tell us you had a cat!" said the trainers, both very upset (because they hadn't trained quincy to live with a cat).

"i don't have a cat," i said. "I don't know who this is."

the cat never went away. i named him poe dameron and he lived with me and quincy. they got along fine, in their own way.

we had our quiet adventures. poe was very cuddly but sometimes he just took off for a day or two. once he got into some paint.

after a while, i found out that poe dameron really lived across the alleyway, and belonged to my neighbor elizabeth's teenaged son, and his real name was PUMPKIN. but poe apparently didn't like the teenaged son (probably not least because he named him PUMPKIN), so he had come to live with us instead. elizabeth was fine with it.

the years went by and one day poe dameron crossed the rainbow bridge too soon. i took his ashes to elizabeth. we were very sad.

a few weeks later, she asked me to come over to see something.

it turned out that poe dameron had also lived with a THIRD lady, a few streets over. this lady, whom neither of us knew, was a painter, and she had made this painting of poe dameron. i don't know what she called him, but she painted him like one of your french girls.

"i think you should have it," elizabeth said, tactfully. "after all, he spent the most time with you." i was quite sure she just didn't want this hideous painting in her gabillion-dollar house, but i agreed.

the painting now hangs in the kitchen over my stove—not least because its brick-red frame matches my curtains. and because it delights me to see poe dameron every day, looking so fluffy and sultry, like an orientalist renaissance odalisque.

Everyone reblog consummate cabana boy moocher and orange cat extraordinaire Poe Dameron and his odalisque.

This is what we're talking about. This is the resistance someone can do in their everyday job. Judgement gets passed down and you're just supposed to dot the i's and cross the t's? Don't. Just refuse.

Now, I know an acting county clerk isn't just anyone - this man had a very unique opportunity to do some very serious blockading in his everyday job - but that's kind of the point! Nobody's just anyone. You never know when you'll have an opportunity.

They're openly going after immigration lawyers now

She fully didn't watch the segment because Jon did a very nuanced, thoughtful segment. He drilled down to kids just wanting to have a community and have fun.

What these TERFS are pissed off about is that he showed how disingenuous y'all are when you go "omg that trans athlete hit a ball really hard and it hurt a cis women" because when you look into it cis women even on their team hit harder then them. Because he pointed out that cis girls harm each other in sports all the damn time. He pointed out that when there was a bill to protect cis women athletes against sexual predators like coaches. Y'all decided not to pass that while passing an anti-trans bills all while claiming you just care about protecting women.

I may be too chronically online, but there has not been more likely allies in the past 30 years.

I'd say tech bro and trad wife are the most prominent conservative architypes for anyone under the age of 45.

Today I explained why I can't really travel to Florida right now to my dad & watching him get increasingly frustrated with the realization that Transphobia Exists was honestly something else.

him: "well if you're not allowed to use the men's bathroom, just go to the women's! that'll show them."

me: "yeah but I'm just as likely to have the cops called on me for 'using the wrong bathroom' in there. have you seen me lately?"

him: "but if one of the options is wrong and not allowed then the other one has to be the right option. what do they want you to do?"

my grandma, helpfully: "I think they want trans people to not go to Florida"

my dad: spluttering frustratedly

me: "I think the thing is that you are more logical and reasonable than Ron DeSantis."

the face of a semi-reformed(?) conservative when realizing with dawning horror that laws can be unfair on purpose is truly special tbh

my grandma also questioned how often it actually happens that people are calling the cops on trans people in airport bathrooms & started talking about the statistics she wanted to look up, and I got to explain that there isn't even basic research on some decades-old trans healthcare procedures, so the statistics she wanted almost certainly did not exist.

the shocked outrage of someone learning for the first time that bigotry is bad is strangely comforting. reminds me that most people are pretty normal, I think.

Had a really similar experience when a coworker was talking about a trip to an over the top conservative area and how much I’d love it.

“I’d like to, but I can’t safely travel there,” I told her.

“Wh-wait why?”

“I’m visibly queer. If I went there with my partner we’d be unsafe.”

“Oh… you could just… not hold hands?”

I gave her a flat look and asked, “Would you want to travel somewhere that holding your husbands hand put you in danger?”

“Oh… I guess not.”

“Besides, it’s not enough. Just looking like we do is enough to trigger aggression. Even if we don’t hold hands. I’ve been threatened just walking near my girlfriend in a parking lot on multiple occasions.”

She looked visibly shaken and never brought up travel again.

I love when you post a species on inat and seconds later someone called "salamandergirl" "solidagoman" or "troutlilly_identifier" swoops in to ID it. Like yeah, you know what youre about. I trust your ID of my Bombus bimaculatus, "bombusboy200"

I posted western tiger lily and it was correctly sent up to research grade within 10 seconds of upload by "Lilyboy"

This is EXACTLY who inspired me to make this post

If I had a time machine I'd get in right before QAnon and introduce the American right wing to the concept of an ARG. I'm pretty sure that's what those guys wanted. A good ARG and maybe a local larp group could've saved so many of them. Instead they got caught up in something where they thought that the only way to get emotional fulfilment and catharsis indulging their little conspiracy brains was to believe it was actually real.

If you look at early QAnon stuff it is so so clearly a bunch of people desperate for an ARG but they weren't provided an alternate reality and had to dump all their bullshit into this one.

Seriously, a lot of conspiracy theorists are pretty obviously just starved for certain kinds of mental enrichment, like using their imaginations in complex ways. This isn't really surprising when you consider how anti-intellectual and anti-art conservatism is.

People always talk about how these sorts of radicalisation are based on bigotry, and that absolutely is true! It's not some whoopsy coincidence that 90% of conspiracy theories end up blaming Jewish people for everything, it's because most of those were invented by rampant anti-semites who wanted to blame Jewish people on purpose and the rest were by subconscious anti-semites who never questioned why their minds naturally defaulted to blaming Jewish people for everything. Same with other forms of bigotry; when you start spinning conspiracies, you're either just going to self-radicalise reaching conclusions based on your own worldview, or be radicalised based on the worldviews of the dominant theorists in the space.

But that's not why people get pulled into these things. People don't start doing bible math and looking for symbols hidden in the ramblings of some anonymous guy claiming to be a secret service agent because they're like "boy, I'm dissatisfied with life, I sure wish I could blame Jewish people and the Trans Agenda for this somehow!" They do it because wildly theorising and solving weird puzzles with dramatic outlandish solutions is fun. They get started in this for the same reason that the Superwholock crowd got obsessed with a Secret Good Sherlock Episode and segments of the Swifties and Kpop fans are forever looking for evidence in music videos and random interviews that their faves are secretly gay. Nobody gets into a rabbit hole because they want to be where it leads; they get into a rabbit hole because crawling in and wondering what's around the next bend and how deep it is is fun. Then they look around a bit and suddenly "man, I wish my favourite popstar was more like me" or "I'm so annoyed that my Jewish neighbour has a better job than me because his brother happens to be a movie director who could tell him what industry jobs are available and my brother could only get me this warehouse gig" has turned into some massive unhinged conspiracy and there's rabbit tunnels everywhere and they don't know their way to the surface any more, and even if they did, it would involve leaving their closest social group (the one they have all this tunnel-navigating fun with) behind and what would they even do with themselves? Something less fun than solving dramatic, interesting puzzles that never have a provably wrong answer, only more fascinating possibilities?

Honestly I think a lot of people's lives could be improved with a good ARG.

#i dont know what ARG means and at this point I am too afraid to ask#its probably a puzzle I should try to solve

Boy do I have a fun new hobby for you

Beyblade heavyweight division

[two tumblr soldiers bleeding out on the internet frontlines]

“heh… remember strawbebby…. And ranibow spramkle… always made me laugh”

“Don’t talk like that man. We’re gonna get out of here i prommy.” [mortar fire sails overhead and land nearby] “christ its like a childrens hospital out there”

[through shallow breaths] “I always loved…… the color of the sky…………”

End scene

Tumblr did not “Goncharov” Poob. Poob is Glupp Shittoing Tubi/Pluto/Roku Channel/Hulu/etc.

MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Magic Mike (2012)

The thing is that the most interesting and novel invention of the MCU is a universe where billions of people turned into dust and then were physically reconstituted on the spot five years later, in a world that had just barely adapted to their absence.

That is wild. That is intense! That is a series of pathos-ridden emotionally complex doorstoppers waiting to happen. Half the entire world! All dead! And somehow we coped with that! And now we have to cope with them all being back?

A whole street of empty houses--surely not everyone there became ash. Some of them moved to better places, now opened by the mass mortality. Some of them died afterward. Who will live there now? Even if inheritances are reversed by resurrection, surely leases aren't renewed. What the fuck happens to everyone who remarried?

What happens to the children snapped back to a world where their parents didn't survive, or the reverse?

But they had to then hastily smooth over this utterly batshit sci-fi premise and get the world mostly back to normal working order as rapidly as possible, without too much emphasis on how literally every person in existence has been placed in a mason jar by a narcissist and shaken twice in five years.

So they could get on with more superhero whack-blam business, which is customarily done against a background of Normality.

This is, tragically, the most Comics thing these movies have ever done.

It is beyond satire that they did this immediately before and during a worldwide pandemic that everyone was pressured to smooth over and 'return to normal' about within 2 years if not sooner.

Here are emergency issues for this week about which to call your Congresspeople (202-224-3121):

1) The bill mandating a strict code of ethics for SCOTUS needs a yes vote.

2)Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home. Jess Craven has great scripts for your phone calls.

3)Vote no on Bill HR1526. This bill states no court in the US can tell Trump and the Executive Branch what to do. It is the final nail in the coffin of democracy and will complete the transition to full dictatorship.

4) Vote no on the Save Act.

From Jess Craven, here are the scripts for the Garcia issue:

[See extra talking points at the end of the script!]

Hi, I'm a constituent calling from [zip]. My name is ______. I’m deeply alarmed that the Trump administration is ignoring the Supreme Court’s order to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home. Trump is in clear violation of the Constitution, which the Senator/Congressmember has taken an oath to protect and uphold. If the government can bypass courts for Abrego Garcia, they can potentially do it to any of us. We are in a Constitutional crisis. What is the Senator/Congressmember doing about it?

[If GOP add:] If the Senator/Congressmember won’t act to uphold our constitutional rights then they should resign. And shame on them.

[If Dem add:] I understand that Senator Chris Van Hollen has announced that if Kilmar is not home by midweek he plans to travel to El Salvador to check on his condition and discuss his release. EVERY DEMOCRAT should be saying the same.

If your lawmaker’s staffer says “but he is a criminal/gang member” you can say “first of all, that’s false and your office shouldn’t be spreading lies. He’s been neither accused nor convicted of any crimes in the U.S. or in El Salvador. Would you like me to send you the article debunking that misinformation? There are several. And even if he were a criminal, he’s still entitled to due process, which isn't optional in America—it's guaranteed.

If they say “he’s not a citizen” you can say: He was here legally. Let me read to you from the Supreme Court’s ruling: The United States has acknowledged that Abrego Garcia was subject to a withholding order forbidding his removal to El Salvador, and that the removal to El Salvador was therefore illegal," The Justice Department acknowledged the removal was the result of an “administrative error.” This is very cut and dried. He needs to be returned to the U.S.

If they say “the President no longer has jurisdiction over this. El Salvador needs to do it,” say: “So Donald Trump is admitting that he’s weaker than the President of El Salvador? That’s pathetic. It’s also not true. If we could extract Kristi Noem from that prison we can extract an innocent man. We need to do so now.”