#17th June 2023

[one-time-i-dreamt]

One of my pet rats could speak, and he revealed to me the secrets of life, the universe, and everything. 

When I woke up, I remembered none of it. 

[dreamthinkr]

[gnfthinkr]

[lifesizecorpsekit]

june 17th of 2023 is the night when my brain chemistry was inevitably doomed to be altered forever and ever and i am still suffering from consequences

[sapnapthinkr]

[dopescissorscashwagon]

A jaw dropping tornado producing supercell with incredible storm structure formed today (17 June, 2023) across the Oklahoma Panhandle into Oklahoma City, USA. Spotted one tornado wrapped in rain near Balko and amazingly a gustnado near Orienta that produced a rear inflow jet. Something I had never come across before. See the full gallery at flickr.com/photos/daniels…

[royalchildreneurope]

Happy 17th Birthday to Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau -June 3rd 2023.

[thekotaroo]

Profiles of Pride: June 17th! 🏳️‍🌈Sister Mary Elizabeth Clark🏳️‍🌈

Sister Mary Elizabeth Clark (born 1938, in Pontiac, Michigan) is the main mover of the AIDS Education and Global Information System database, previously a pre-World Wide Web bulletin board system.

Clark was born in June 1938 in Pontiac, Michigan and assigned male at birth.

In 1957, she enlisted in the United States Navy and rose to the rank of chief petty officer (E-7), serving as an instructor in anti-submarine warfare. Clark had an 11-year marriage which produced a son, but ended acrimoniously.

She married again, and later revealed her gender dysphoria to her second wife, who helped her through self-identifying as female. Upon learning of her psychological evaluations, the Navy discharged her honorably. In 1975 she underwent a sex reassignment surgery and took the name Joanna Michelle Clark.

A U.S. Army Reserves recruiter who was aware that she was transgender enlisted her as a woman in the Army in 1976. A year and a half later, she was nominated for promotion to warrant officer. Her enlistment was voided when her transgender status became known to higher-ups. She brought suit against the Army and won a settlement of $25,000 and an honorable discharge.

During the 1970s, she was an activist for the rights of transsexual people and was instrumental in winning the right of Californians to have their gender changed on their birth certificates and driver licenses. In 1980, she founded and led the ACLU Transsexual Rights Committee.

She had been raised Southern Baptist, but left the church due to disillusionment with racism in its congregations. In the 1980s, she felt a religious calling and worked to become an Episcopal sister. Conflict with the Episcopal diocese over the validity of the order she sought to found led to her leaving the denomination shortly after she took her vows in 1988, and she later became a sister of the American Catholic Church, a small independent Christian denomination following Catholic rites.

Also in the 1980s she continued the work of the Erickson Educational Foundation, aiding transgender people.

In 1990, inspired by meeting an isolated young man with AIDS in rural Missouri, she returned to her family home in San Juan Capistrano, California, taking on the bulletin board system AEGIS begun by Jamie Jemison and eventually building it into the "most definitive – and perhaps the most accessible – source of information on" AIDS.

She is the recipient of the Award of Courage from the American Foundation for AIDS Research, the Jonathan Mann Award for Health and Human Rights from the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, the Crystal Heart award from the San Diego GLBT Center and the Joan of Arc award from the Orange County Community Foundation.

[frogeyedape]

Moon madness Thursday: 54th moon landing anniversary

[bryan360]

🐰🎤Windy: That’s an incredible story you’d share, Rita. So glad after winning your kids than any medals to achieve. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦♥️

🐰🎤Windy: By the way, appreciate for your creator’s past desktop device to share as well. We’ll do miss it to any older generation from previous years.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was in a movie theater with my family, watching Across The Spiderverse, but a bunch of polar bears suddenly appeared out of nowhere and started attacking everyone, and the world was sent into an apocalypse because there were murderous polar bears everywhere.

[dreamthinkr]

[gnfthinkr]

[1984-daily]

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right!

They were wrong and he was right.

The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold onto that!

The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall toward the earth’s center.

With the feeling that he was speaking to O’Brien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote:

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

[sapnapthinkr]