arundhati roy is an Indian leftist activist and author, and this is a criticism of Gandhi and Gandhian politics. this context is important. she’s lived through the failure of gandhi-esque politics.
We should be fine as long as we do not reblog bread.
Question.
I’ve rebogged bread.
I have done nothing but reblog bread for the past three days.
Where, where have you been sending it?!
I love how there are more reblogs than likes
This post. This fucking post. I cannot believe after nearly 7 years its still going around. Let alone ON MY OWN DASH! A kid born on the day i posted this would be entering 2nd grade right now.
I'm going to need the tumblr transfem community to refrain from reclaiming Richard Nixon
I was so convinced this was Goncharoving me, but the rap thing is real?????
The gender-questioning one is someone making fun of Nixon on Twitter. (for when Twitter goes down forever, note it was posted Sep 19, 2023, by robinheliotrope, an out trans woman.) (I also found this twitter post quoted in the forums of some kind of web-based catan-esque RPG that looks like it might be in the process of being taken over by nazis????? jfc I cannot believe I just typed that sentence. anyway, someone over there quoted it like it was a for real actual Nixon quote, but it is not.)
ALTComing soon to Tumblr: a button on posts that allows you blast the 'pain3' sound from Half Life (1998) directly at the poster
I had no idea giant porcupines made fucking precious sounds
THAT’S THE SOUND IT MAKES!?!?!?
UN-BE-FUCKING-LIEVABLE
We got asked if this is cute and okay. I can very happily say yes, this is stupid cute and those are happy porcupine noises.
One of my favorite things about doing zoo work was all the noises you never realize the animals make when they’re excited or interested in a new thing. Coatimundis squeak and snuffle, and giant porcupines make that sound.
Omgggg the sounds.
Teddy is back on my dash and all is right with the world
WE ALMOST TO OCTOBRE POST OF PUNKINBEARS
HI TEDDY I MISSED YOU
Happy October, everyone! Have some pumpkins and a happy porcupine!
if you all won’t stop demonizing queer men we are not surviving the fucking winter
if you all won’t stop calling gay men boring or cringey or shaming them for being attracted to men and acting like trans men are somehow lesser trans people and demonizing transmasc transition and bottom surgery there is no fucking hope I’m sorry
I still think that a key function of the way we think of the concepts "adult" and "child" is to separate the human population into "people who deserve autonomy but no protection" and "people who deserve protection but no autonomy" and in the process dehumanize both groups of people. We ignore the fact that all people need both autonomy and protection, and that our society could easily be set up to provide everyone a healthy mix of both.
And to be honest much of what we label as "protection" for children and "autonomy" for adults is merely the appearance of such. We act as if dictating what children are allowed to say, think, or feel is a form of care, and as if cutting away all social safety nets for adults is a form of empowerment.
perhaps some will disagree, but i think the world got worse when we changed the colour of the night
this is what i mean
To be clear, THIS is how nights of the future should be lit
This is bat friendly street lighting, which not only looks sick as fuck but allows bats to pass through without disturbance, as they cannot see red.
orange and especially white lights deter bats and prevent them from reaching feeding grounds at nighttime. Please if you can, write to your local council and encourage red street lights!!!!
Brennan went live on Instagram from the set of Game Changer to “defend Elon Musk” and I only managed to record the last 3 minutes of it but its very good.
Odds are that 90% of this will not make the actual ep so I’m posting for posterity
