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National Coming Out Day is coming up (October 11) and I just want to remind everyone:
1) Please do not out anyone (even if you “think you are doing them a favor.” Trust me when I say you aren’t) and make sure you don’t accidentally do so.
2) It is okay to be in the closet. Please do not feel pressure to/obligated to come out because there so happens to be a Coming Out Day. (Do it for you if it’s what you want).
3) If you are a non-lgbt, please don’t come out as a joke. seriously, don’t.
4) don’t “come out as straight”, period. joking or
not. even if you have good intentions and are trying to be an ally/show solidarity since “lgbt people shouldn’t be the only ones who have to come out :)” like……i get what ur going for but…..just…..Do Not.
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do people who speak languages that aren’t roman characters do keyboard smashes what does skjlhdgjsh look like in Mandarin
I never actually thought about it
No one types: بنقةزلةيمسظوةب..I might be the only person now who’s done this
Another cool thing to see in other languages is how they type lols and hahas
For e.g. in Arabic hahahah is هههههههههههه
And laugh out loud is لول. It literally has no meaning it’s just the pronunciation of lol in Arabic letters. لووووول = looool
I love that
In Japanese lol is like wwwwwww bc it stems from 笑う/ 笑い (warau/warai) which is like the verb to laugh/smile, which begins w a wa sound, so I’ve seen people use wwwwww and also just 笑 but now 笑 is seen as more sarcastic.
I’ve heard from my host sister that its also used bc it looks like a little upturned mouth. But I’ve never seen a keyboard smash in jp, mostly bc everything goes thru a sort of autocorrect to type kanji
Love that!!
im going to lose it laughing
the older I get the more I realize the value of privacy, of cultivating your circle and only letting certain people in. You can be open, honest, and real while still understanding not everyone deserves a seat at the table of your life.
“The white liberal believes something should be done, but not too soon and not here. He is all negation, the white liberal: now is not the time, this is not the place, the weapon you have is too large or too small. He is all ceremony, all ritual. He pretends, he postures, he resolves. Always, everywhere, in every age, the white liberal flees the principle made black flesh. He wants results without risks, freedom without danger, love without hate. He affirms tomorrow, denies yesterday, and evades today. He is all form, all means, all words - and no substance.”
— Lerone Bennett, Tea and Sympathy: Liberals and Other White Hopes (1964)
everyone: why are recidivism rates so high this is inexplicable
everyone: felons aren’t allowed in public housing
everyone: felons don’t get food stamps because people with criminal records don’t need food
everyone: let’s not hire felons. ever.
everyone: let’s require felons to have jobs as a condition of parole
everyone: what if we just… take 100% of felons’ income for their fines, parole fees, and child support
everyone: felons on parole aren’t allowed to talk to other felons. what do you mean “in this neighborhood most men have a criminal record” I don’t know I can’t read suddenly
everyone: felons can’t vote or serve on juries
everyone: never mind felons can vote but only if you pay hundreds of dollars in fees. this is not a poll tax because of reasons
everyone: WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE COMMITTING CRIMES. IT IS PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THE MIND CONTROL PROPERTIES OF SAGGY PANTS
On This Day: October 7
- 1714: People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar, Netherlands.
- 1763: King George III issues Proclamation recognizing “Indian” rights in British North America & closing certain land to settlement.
- 1879: Industrial Workers of the World member and musician Joe Hill was born in Gävle, Sweden.
- 1886: Slavery abolished in Cuba.
- 1903: The Structural Building Trades Alliance (SBTA) is founded.
- 1911: Zapatista revolutionaries conquer Axochiapan from government forces during the Mexican Revolution.
- 1921: State officials in Texas begin plans on a ban on parades by the Ku Klux Klan.
- 1922: Anarchist Lidio Ettorre is assaulted by Italian fascists, who then burned his house down.
- 1931: End of four week strike by coal miners in Estevan, Saskatchewan.
- 1931: French ndividualist anarchists André Colomer dies in Moscow. He was editor of Revue Anarchiste and started the weekly L'Insurgé.
- 1933: Anarchist and labor organizer Joseph Labadie dies in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1941: Anarchist James Ferdinand Morton Jr. dies in New York. He was a writer, a notable museum curator, an esperantist and a close friend of H. P. Lovecraft.
- 1942: United Mine Workers withdraw from CIO.
- 1944: Riots begin against Nazi occupation in several cities in the Netherlands.
- 1944: Sonderkommando prisoner revolt in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 1946: Picketing members of the Conference of Studio Unions disrupted an outdoor shoot by holding up large reflectors that filled camera lenses with blinding sunlight.
- 1964: The North Western Homosexual Law Reform Committee (NWHLRC) is founded in London.
- 1968: Rioting continues in Derry, Northern Ireland.
- 1969: Sixteen hour wildcat strike by 3,700 Montreal police & firefighters.
- 1975: British Columbia government passes emergency measures back to work legislation for striking forest, railway, propane & food industry workers.
- 1977: Environmentalist activist and green anarchist Eric McDavid born in Foresthill, California.
- 1982: In Poland, the union Solidarity and all other labor organizations are banned by the government.
- 1985: Upholsterers’ Int’l Union of North America merges with United Steelworkers of America.
- 1985: Riots continue in areas of London including Peckham, Tottenham and Brixton.
- 1989: Over 40,000 march on Washington DC. demanding the US government to provide affordable housing for the homeless.
- 1998: General strikes in major Russian cities against low pay and unpaid wages.
- 1998: Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being beaten in a homophobic attack.
- 2006: Respected Russian journalist and human rights activist, Anna Politkovskaya, is murdered in Moscow.
- 2011: The Egyptian Libertarian Socialist Movement held their first conference in Cairo.
- 2016: Washington Post releases videotape of Donald Trump boasting of groping and kissing women without consent.
