Marriage was and is a huge fucking issue for the gay men who died of aids alone because their partners couldn't visit them in the hospital because they weren't family

The audacity

Also, being able to be on your spouse's health insurance can be pretty important if you're a sick person.

Also the ability to retain custody of your own children or foster children if your partner dies. The ability for your partner to make medical decisions for you instead of your parents. The ability for your partner and their legal children to inherit things from you. The ability to jointly file taxes. The ability to live together if working in the military.

And general like. Acceptance and legitimacy in the eyes of society. You can personally not like the institution of marriage all you want but legal recognition of a relationship is massive in the current world and the ability to have your relationship with someone officially recognized by a legal or religious institution is incredibly important to a lot of people regardless of socioeconomic status. The normalization of gay relationships is important on a global scale in terms of the safety and personal well being of many queer people. Even if it’s not important to you personally.

All of this is true. The original tweet is ridiculously ignorant. And they didn't even mention a genuine way "gay marriage" solved nothing for some of us.

"Gay marriage" is unavailable to a huge chunk of queer ppl who rely on benefits to survive. I have none of those positive aspects of marriage available to me. SSI is BRUTALLY means tested. If I marry, my benefits will get slashed. I can't afford to take the hit and still be housed AND fed.

I may never marry the person I love. If you can, do NOT take that for granted. Not for one MINUTE.

Keep fighting, your siblings still need you.

End survival gatekeeping.

"I've decided not to vaccinate my animals. Think about it, how often do you see a rabid dog?"

Yes Heather think about it. Think about how few rabid dogs you see in your comfortable western country with easy access to vet care. Think about why it might be that you've never seen a rabid dog. Really dig deep here you absolute fucking fool.

You want to know how close you are to rabies at any given moment?

A box of kittens was given away for free in an elementary school parking lot here. This is the largest city in my state. One of the kittens became ill and later tested positive for rabies. All of the other kittens in the box and every single person who petted them in the parking lot had to be tracked down, and many of these people had to get painful and incredibly expensive shots. The kitten obviously died. I still have no idea if the people giving away said kittens were ever found and hopefully they were not bitten.

Give your stupid fucking dog a stupid fucking rabies shot. Even if you don't boost them every year, one shot is usually enough to grant a life long immunity. Stop fucking with incurable diseases. You'll lose.

I had a bat in the house earlier this year, and while I was 1000% sure I had no contact with it, I couldn't be sure about the cats, so they got their annual rabies booster a month earlier than planned. They're indoor cats, but mice and bats get into houses, so they're always fully vaccinated. It cost me $15 for both of them to get the shot.

Don't mess with rabies.

You will die if you get it, and you won't get euthanized humanely like your pets. It's a horrific way to go.

Vaccinate your animals. Indoor, outdoor, vaccinate them.

I asked on twttr, but maybe we have different demographics here, so pls let me know.. which laurent do you prefer?

As someone that has grown up surrounded by beaches and done surf life saving, I know how the sea works. Lots of people dont. Every summer multiple tourists die here because they don’t respect the sea, if you’re going to the coast, here’s a thing I saw on Facebook.

wow.

reblogging for all of us that grew up in land locked states, then visit the ocean and are used to just plunging into a lake.

These are not unique to the sea btw. Rip tides are also a danger in other large bodies of water, like the Great Lakes

I had heard of rip tides, but I would never have guessed they were the calm-looking part. If I had been looking for a safe space to wade, I would have avoided all of the white parts (turbulent! terrifying!) and gone straight for the rip.

lake michigan has rip tides and strong currents and also the highest kill count of all of them because people think of superior and huron as The Scary Ones. lake michigan has beautiful beaches along very big cities, and eats tourists like popcorn. do not underestimate lakes, but particularly not the great lakes.

what a beautiful day to not be in high school

This is the like those “remember to be grateful you don’t have a sore throat right now” posts. It IS a beautiful day to not be in high school! Thank you!

i was gonna reply directly to the user but since this is making the rounds again, i want it to be more visible and not in the replies: “holler” is actually a dialectal pronunciation (and word at this point) in appalachian english, which is a legitimate and recognized dialect of english. a lot of the time, “-ow” endings in a word take the “-er” sound, e.g. “holler,” or “winder (window)” i’d say it seems like you’re the one who could do with a little more education on the matter.

by the way, we have plenty of schools, but they are incredibly underfunded, so if you really care about appalachians and education, maybe you could advocate for that instead of being condescending and shitty about things you actually, clearly, know literally nothing about

and since you seem to value education so much, i hope you enjoyed this lesson <3

“I’m gonna get up on my bullshit for a second here. There’s a thing that happens on social media, whenever some - I moved from the west coast to the Midwest for a while, then all the way to the South. There’s a thing that happens any place south of the Mason Dixon line elects somebody bad or passes something bad, is that everybody outside of there rises up and goes, ‘man, fuck those Carolina assholes,’ no matter where it is, ‘man if they vote for this, that’s then end, burn these peoples’ houses to the ground.’

“They all do it, and they’ll argue with you with you about it, right? […]. What was the first state in the union to pass the gay marriage ban? California. But you didn’t hear one person go, ‘man, fuck California!’ No, of course, obviously this was the work of dastardly people, gerrymandering and doing bad shit that happens in every single state of the union. But if it happens to be where a lot of poor people and especially a lot of poor black people live, then ‘fuck that state,’ right?

“And when they do that, they are shoveling - Alabama, South Carolina, the percentage of black people they’re saying ‘fuck you,’ to […] is huge! You’re condemning the working poor when you say ‘fuck Alabama.’ You’re condemning the working poor when you say ‘Fuck Georgia.’ All those places, you take all these people and throw them under the bus to look like a self-righteous liberal, which makes us look how in the big elections? Bad, right?

“So I get really mad, right, I go, ‘you have never been to have never been to Alabama, fuck that,’ and I was thinking about that, and I go, ‘oh I have a song about Alabama!’”

- John Darnielle, prelude to “The Stars Fell on Alabama,” 14-Dec-2017

they should be safe too

The governor of my state doesn’t want kids to eat.

Why is that a fuck us problem and not a fuck Republicans problem?

Why is it something we did to ourselves, not something they did to us?

And furthermore, they don’t deserve to be victims of their own bullshit. Just by virtue of being people, the people who vote against their own interests still deserve the good things they fight to keep from being put into place.

Inktober Day 23: Muddy Nibble

Me, on the welcome desk in the library: Good morning, how are you today?

Customer: I have welcomed Jesus into my heart and so I am well today and every day.

Me, a little unnerved: Okay then! Is there something I can help you with?

Customer, digging around in his bag and pulling out an iPhone in a box: Unfortunately, Jesus can't help me with this fucking phone, so I came to the library.

The Library!

For When Not Even God Can Help You!

"If he had been offered this as an adult he couldn't remember it." King's Rising by C.S.Pacat

fucking idiot gets PRANKED

8th dimensional superbeings doing this shit to me right now

Doing more than one? Choose whichever you found the most helpful. ❤️

Raise your hand if you have also been personally victimized by the barometric pressure changes 🥲

*raises hand for friend with migraine*

*raises hand again for my broken fucking foot*

reblog to meow at the person you reblogged from

RB if you think CD drives in computers are not obsolete, but in fact still necessary, despite being artificially phased out