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Im not going to reblog the posts these are from because I don't want to give them reach, but if you see shit like this

It's not fucking real! There is no "Native American zodiac" because Indigenous people in the americas are not a monolith! In the US alone there's more than 500 federally recognized groups, and thats just the ones the government has legitimized (and there are massive issues with a colonial government getting to decide who counts but thats another story entirely).

All of these groups have different beliefs systems, languages, systems of symbology, ect. Im sure there are Indigenous groups somewhere doing something like astrology because there are Indigenous groups all over the world doing a wide variety of practices, but I've never heard of anything like this. And even if there were a zodiac system being used by some Indigenous groups it would not be the "native american zodiac", it would be specific to whatever group was practicing it.

Im really tired of people making up new age bullshit, assigning it to "Native Americans" like we're all one thing, and then passing it around the internet like it's real. I did a cursory google search for this term and there's loads of sites talking bullshit about it like it's legit. The few named people I've found claiming to have knowledge about this don't mention connection to any specific group or band, they don't claim to be Indigenous at all, and Ive never heard anyone in my real life talking about anything like this.

So yeah, anyways if you see this know it's fake. I'm tired.

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Palestinians protecting a Jewish Synagogue in Beirut from attacks during the Lebanese Civil War. December, 1975 Until 1982, about 25,000 Jews remained in Lebanon. However in that year, the Israeli Defence Forces attacked Beirut and bombed the Wadi Jmil synagogue [pictured], nearly destroying it. The siege of Beirut and the widespread destruction of the city by Israeli forces led the majority of Lebanese Jews to flee. Today it is being rebuilt with Lebanese state money for the remaining Jewish community of Lebanon, numbering around 100.

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Daily reminder

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One of my favourite things about hanging out in the trans community is how it has and will continue to slowly erode my ability to blend into cishet dominated social settings. I'm just fundamentally on different wires now, and that's great because I never liked those social settings anyway

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Friendly reminder than the surgeries that 95% of all infants born with intersex traits receive to "correct" their bodies often leave them sterilized and unable to reproduce. Reproductive justice should always include intersex people but it never fucking does.

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"The nonbinary afab who goes by she/her, dresses femininely, and uses a push-up bra when I—" when you what? What's wrong with her?

Is she not nonbinary enough for you? Is the way she experiences her queerness and how she presents not perfect enough for you? Nonbinary people don't owe you androgyny, right? So why is she the exception? Why does she have to hate herself to appeal to your standards? Why is she any less trans—any less worthy of respect—cause it's "not visible"? Queer solidarity my ass. Don't spout this bullshit on Pride, man.

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if you are a trans man or masc who has ever been asked to tone down your masculinity in order to make other people feel safer and more comfortable, i just want you to know that you're doing nothing wrong by being a masc and/or man. there's nothing wrong with masculinity or manhood. you are not inherently dangerous or a threat for being those things. they are refusing to make the space safe for you, not the other way around.

you are not inherently harming anyone by virtue of existing as a man and/or masc. you don't have to tone down your identity for anyone. you are not endangering someone else's identity by having your own. there's nothing to be ashamed of or wrong with being a masc and/or man. hang in there

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queer people of all kinds. i am looking you in the eyes. do not fucking kill yourself. are you listening to me it will be okay. it will get better. i am shaking you by the shoulders do. not. fucking. do. it. you have so much to keep going for and so many people who love you. the cost of the present will not outweigh the life ahead of you. i love you. chin up or down keep walking you'll get there. we will pull you back up onto your feet should you fall. i love you

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When you see a really good post but there’s some form of guilt tripping to reblog it added on at the end

(ID: A screenshot of Marge from the Simpsons looking dismally at the camera with one arm raised. A caption underneath her reads “It’s true, but I’m not reblogging it.” End ID)

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It’s important to go through the vetted fundraisers list regularly & see what families have little to no funds. This could be for any number of reasons, like language barriers or maybe not being familiar w Tumblr. Either way we shouldn’t expect families to know how to market themselves in order to platform. This shouldn’t rely on networking & connections. As many fundraisers as possible should get their turn in being promoted and circulated. Appealing to you first should not be a prerequisite

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I hope none of you disappear in the coming days. Seriously don't do anything that can't be undone.

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i made a gift for my fellow americans. feel free to steal and put it wherever

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To all the trans people who see this tonight, no matter what happens, we will survive. Trans people will still be here 4 years from now and 10 years from now and 100 years from now and tomorrow. We have always existed and we always will. The world cannot unlearn about us; we are too public, too loud, too beloved, too present. Ill be here tomorrow. Please stay here with me.

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I guess I just expected this. I was terrified and ready to die back in 2016, but this time I'm anxious and ready to keep on living and working with my local queers to keep all of us alive. Fuck it.

Who actually expected Kamala to win after how 2016 went? Who didn't see this coming the moment they announced they were pushing the moderate war-mongering woman as their presidential nominee? My feelings on her don't fucking matter - she was doomed the moment she was announced. Not only is the majority of the American public not going to vote for a woman due to all of history and human biases, but she alienated a lot of the voterbase who would vote for a woman. Like Hilary did, only Kamala is also a woman of color, putting her at even more of a disadvantage in American society. This result isn't shocking at all, just numbing. It felt like when she was announced and every move she's made has been a game by Dems to hand the election to Trump. Voting has always made me feel as powerless in the USA as needing to have car insurance does. There's too much money going to too many awful people that influence all of this shit and we are so stuck under chaotic bored billionaires to do anything but fight small and fight local.

I don't think Kamala would have made things better than they are now - they would have kept declining. But it's about to get fucking wild in a bad way and all we can do is fucking build actual solidarity and community, support each other with mutual aid and access to resources, and believe people when they tell you they need help. Don't blame people for where they live, how they present, or how they communicate their distress. Be a lifeline so we can make a web of lifelines. Understand that the queer people who are different from you, who have different experiences than yours and are saying different things than you are your family members to fight for, not the source of your hardships. It's more vital than ever.

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I saw a TikTok the other day with several million likes that said something along the lines of “my little sister is a therian and wearing cat ears to school and im so scared for her” and like. Weird video obviously but what really did me in was a comment that said “my younger sister was also a therian, im glad I bullied her out of it, it was for her own good :(“ and it had like several thousand likes. are you people okay. that is such a miserable way of living your life. bullying someone out of doing something is already disgusting but for it to be your younger sister, someone who looks up to you? and for what? because you’re afraid they might get bullied? congratulations! you’ve just become their first bully! you have just mocked and scared them out of a passion or something that brings them joy most likely because YOU’RE embarrassed. what an awful way to live and treat others

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saw/house/hannibal crossover where all three of them are trying to manipulate the same patient into succumbing to their true nature which naturally ends with a fistfight in the parking lot while the patient quietly leaves

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