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socialjusticeinamerica:

None whatsoever, in fact.

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bixbiboom:

Take a look, it’s in a book, a donger rainbowwww…

depsidase:

elfgirlcraftworks:

The completed Afro Victorian ensemble. More to come.

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ivan-fyodorovich-k:

beardedmrbean:

I’m glad I decided to watch this one instead of just thinking I’d already posted it.

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a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark:

madfishmonger:

politicalprof:

Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.

Red marker handwriting on a bathroom wall. Text reads:

“Boss made a dollar
Granddad made a dime
But that was a poem
From a simpler time.

Boss made a thousand
Gave pa a cent
But that penny paid the mortgage
Or at least it paid the rent

Now Boss makes a million
And gives us jack
Smugly blames the workers
For the labor that he lacks.”

And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.

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catgirl-kaiju:

undersea animals when a whale dies

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doctorscienceknowsfandom:

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stovetop00:

We’re winning.

I found his bio on societyofpresidentialdescendants.org and it was so delightful I had to copy paste the whole thing:

“Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave it to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale (BA, 1977), and was trained to be a museum curator in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (MA, 1980). A decorative arts curator at the Newark Museum for thirty-seven years before he retired, Ulysses has never stopped writing for the sheer pleasure of it. Aside from books on Victorian furniture, art pottery, studio ceramics, jewelry, and the White House, Ulysses created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia, the sequel, appeared in 2012. His most recent novel, Cliffhanger, was released by JMS Books in December 2020.

“Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his husband of 45 years. They have two grown children, adopted in 1996.

“Ulysses is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant. His late mother, Julia, was the President’s last living great-grandchild; youngest daughter of Ulysses S. Grant III, and granddaughter of the president’s eldest son, Frederick. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City. He is also on the board of the U.S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University.”

And frankly, the novels sound like they slap:

Desmond was nominated for a Lambda Award.

“With his husband of 45 years.” You kids don’t know … they got together before AIDS, at the peak of the Gay Glam Life. They stayed together as their generation died around them, and made through it to the point where they could marry and have a legal family. He looks like a chipper preppie who never had a serious thought or care in the world, but it took *incredible* determination, commitment, and also luck to get here.

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crystalmethsthings:

matt and dan gossiping:

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jv:

jv:

jv:

Oh

OH!!!

OhOhOHHhhhhhh!!!!!!!11!!eleven11!!!!!

The ✨

Fucking 😻

European Union’s 🌈

Digital Service Act 🥲

Forces large social platforms 🥳

To always offer ♥️

a non-algorithmic option 🌟

To EU users 🤟

Fuck

Yeah

EU!!!!

Originally posted by eggfucker1

[source]

I see US tech jounalists on Mastodon, once again, charging against the EU for “damaging european users” by forcing companies to deliver “a subpar experience”. So let me paste something I wrote over there a few weeks ago:

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I keep seeing very important US tech journalist here talking about how Threads not launching in the EU is:
- somehow shameful and a sign of how “you can’t innovate in the EU”
- a problem for the EU, which will led us to creative interpretations of the GDPR to finally allow Meta to launch here.

And I think folks from the US tech scene really, really don’t understand several things:

1) how incredibly hostile the EU (and a good chunk of the European political parties) are to “big tech”.
2) how surprisingly immune to lobbying the EU Parliament appears to be.
3) how actually popular it’s that the politicians take a hard stance against macrocorps. Every time the European Commission has gone against big tech most the press and the people have cheered them as our champions against evil.

And I can’t even start describing how IMPORTANT for the future could be that people started being able to turn off YouTube algorithmic recommendations. I think YouTube shares with meta, pretty much 50/50, the responsibility for the global resurgence of fascism we have seen in the last decade.

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sango-blep:

keeping the burning shores safe

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