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A history and mythology lesson reminding you that trans and non-binary people have always existed! [Long post]

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Matt McCreary

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Mama void with all of her voidlings 🖤🐈

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I saw something in the news today that truly took my breath away. If you have been paying attention to U.S. politics over the past few days, you’ve most likely seen this woman:

This is Bishop Mariann Budde, and on Monday (Trump’s inauguration) she led an interfaith prayer for Trump and the incoming administration. During the service she asked him to have mercy for LGBTQ+ Americans and undocumented immigrants. This was badly received by the Trump administration (as expected).

After seeing headlines about this woman, I read something that I wanted to share. In 1998 a man named Matthew Shepard was murdered for being gay. I’m not going to get into the details of his death on this post, but please be warned it is extremely triggering if you do choose to read more on your own. Matthew Shepard’s death caused a lot of change in the U.S. regarding how LGBTQ hate crimes are handled, and laws that were passed to protect LGBTQ+ people.

Now you’re probably wondering what Matthew Shepard has to do with an Episcopal bishop. For years after Matthew Shepard’s murder, his family had held onto his remains, too scared to lay him to rest in fear of his final resting place being vandalized. In 2018, Budde had his remains interred at the National Cathedral, which is also the place where the interfaith prayer for Trump and his administration took place. The impact of this really had an effect on me. Budde could have led a non confrontational prayer service, and chosen not to mention the harm that will come to the people Trump and his administration are going after. Instead she chose to call out hate and fear in front of some of the most powerful people on the planet, and at a place that has such a large historic meaning to the LGBTQ community.

In the next few years there will be many challenges in protecting free speech, standing up against hate, and protecting those in our communities. But I would like to believe that for every Donald Trump and Elon Musk, there are people like Marianne Budde. There are those of us who can’t speak up for themselves, so it’s important for those of us who can to amplify our voices, even if it’s not the ‘popular’ thing to do.

“And he said you should apologize. Will you apologize?

I am not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others.” - Mariann Budde’s response in a Time interview

Link to articles: x x x

Link to the Matthew Shepard Foundation if you would like to donate

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I think it’s kind of funny how coin (who obviously wanted peeta rescued from the arena instead of katniss) doesn’t see what an absolute nightmare he would be for her to deal with if she left katniss in that arena

Like she thinks katniss was hard to deal with/manipulate/control after she left peeta behind? Peeta would’ve had her whole district eating out to the palm of his hand before she even realized who she was dealing with. She thought katniss was too single minded/stubborn about her focus on saving peeta over the revolution itself? He would have been her absolute nightmare (and I adore him for it)

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Turned on TikTok today and got a video from Spiders Georg. Amazing.

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licks for grandma Pangur

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kate's 365 days of ships:

day 5: anne shirley-cuthbert & gilbert blythe anne with an e

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which day of the week were you born on?

monday

tuesday

wednesday

thursday

friday

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sunday

I added a helpful link if you don't already know - H :)

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realtalk: i can’t wait for AI to get better to the point where you can have a legit conversation with your computer or phone just for the heck of it imagine how innocent they’d be, and like they don’t know what swearing is until you teach them then they go overboard with it like a child and hhHHHG

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Costume. Chitons.

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as a connoisseur of videos of people showing animals magic tricks, I think they show some fascinating stuff about how different animals think and what different levels of animal intelligence look like.

Reptiles, fish, small rodents (i.e. not rats) etc are indifferent. They lack an internal model of the world sophisticated enough to have expectations about the behavior of the things around them.

Cats are startled. They understand that their expectation has been subverted.

Dogs are excited. They understand that their expectation has been subverted by you, and so this is not alarming and must be some kind of game!

Apes are amused. They understand that their expectation has been subverted, by you, in a deliberate demonstration which was intended to entertain them. Apes understand that there has been a trick.

I just think that's neat.