This season especially has sooooo many genuinely good players with great personas, compelling history, a good understanding for how to contribute to exciting TV & plenty of drama.
I wish production would get out of their fucking way & let them play the game 🙄
What made yesterday's episode of survivor fun & memorable to me wasn't the production twists or celebrity cameos, it wasnt even the 2000 coconuts.
It was the player being creative and coming up with a new way of using the basic game mechanics to their advantage.
Map showing the results of yesterdays hungarian election im Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén with tisza taking all but one electoral district
I honestly cant begin to explain how incredible it is to me that fidesz lost these districts. The whole thing seems like a dream but I was there not even two weeks ago and would have laughed in your face at the suggestion.
There is so much work to do but this is an incredible first step.
Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"
The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]
I hope more people focus on the import of this turnout last year. Not least bc standing up to bigotry can itself be a rallying cry.
Huh, I wonder where the other quotes came from then... anyways, have a good trip up and enjoy, i like West End Girl a lot 🥰
Ok, this is the 3rd Lily Allen quote ive seen tonight, what did I miss?!
!!! Right?!?
Thank you!! Tonight I'm celebrating, tomorrow I'll go back to being worried about what comes next 🙃
Holy shit, Orbán has just conceded?!
I'm still struggling to be truly optimistic but this is as close as I've been to it feeling good about my homes future in 16+ years 😭
Its been a while since I got to watch a national election where I was actually excited about where the results were going 😍🥰
As I try to use my phone less and less, I've removed as much visual stimulation from it as possible and introduced friction to stop me from opening apps I dont really want to spend my time on on autopilot.
the thing about cringe millennial sjw tumblr feminism is that for most people it was the first step on a long journey of self-reflection and re-education. i certainly outgrew that phase and have plenty of issues with it, but i also would be a much worse person if i'd never gone down that road at all
Even made me make it my background after months of just black
We just finished watching this video about some of the images made, theyre so cool!!!
youtu.be/oaXRREHVkHo
Queer- & transphobia were already rampant in this system before this change but I'm sure the savings from denying this one-time, 4h workshop are gonna pay for a few meters of highway or the removal of a few bike lanes or some other regressive shit nobody needs.
The city of Berlin no longer finances LGBTQI+ sensitivity workshops for employees working in refugee housing facilities, so they are no longer mandatory for people working in these facilities. Contractors now decide whether to pay for their own workshops when running a facility for the city.
The Hungarian parliamentary elections are 4 days away. They will test whether a hugely unpopular and corrupt authoritarian can cling to power with the help of big lies, a false flag fake terror thing, and the support of Vladimir Putin, Benyamin Netanyahu, and JD Vance (who is on site). (1/2)
We didn't deserve this day.
I was going to write today, but until we know more, I don't have any new words for this moment. What I will say is that if you are reeling, and you know you want to be part of making things better, Mariame Kaba and I wrote a book for you. I hope it helps.
Who you are is not a destination, but a declaration. The past is gone, & the future is not guaranteed. Therefore, impose your will upon the present & proclaim, "I am here. I have always been here, & ever shall I remain." Those of you starting now have it so much harder than I did 10 years ago.
A series of photos of Kiri showing her transition from 2016 to 2026.
I can't believe I get to say I've done ten years of transition. We used to say, "It gets better," but that feels even more trite now than it probably was then. Instead, in the face of all the ways which progress for trans people has regressed, & in light of the will we have always had to overcome...
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Thank you for sharing this, what a heartbreaking and powerful tribute ❤️
8 years ago today, I called myself Laura for the first time.
I'm starting to think this phase might last a while 🤔
The intellectualization of harm is a tactic of oppression. Engagement with art is not passive. That's entertainment. If watching wand-wielding fantasy teenagers bankroll a terror campaign against a real-life vulnerable minority is entertaining to you, you might be just as inhuman as they are.
We watched it last fall and it gets me every time ❤️
(She's going to be ok, she has a safe place to stay tonight & will get access to relatively safe housing & a decent support structure & all that, but this is trauma she abaolutely didn't need on top of everything else)
I fucking hate cis people.
I'm gonna finish my workday & go home before I even start to process having to watch you kick a refugee trans woman out of her safe(ish) home for an absolute formality while also misgendering & deadnaming her in the process, just to call security on her while she giggles in complete shock.
But yes, I'm gonna be a well behaved, "good" tranny & keep my tears & anger to myself, don't worry. You wont actually have to face any of that cause you still hold all the power & if I want to be able to soften at least some of the impact in the future, I need you to feel comfortable around me.
