#THE 19TH

[callmeblake]

From meetmebythedoor twitter:

frank is real #wwwy

Snippet at Fontainebleau Theater, Las Vegas on October 19th, 2024

[birb-boyo]

Chat I literally cannot consume information right now😭

I guess I have no choice but to go to sleep now

[fitzfunnymoments]

*Pretty Rave Girl plays loudly*

[postcard-from-the-past]

16th-century Château de Sugarde in Altillac, Limousin region of France

French vintage postcard

[betweenthetimeandsound]

"Temecia said that in her case, she noticed a huge difference in the care she received during her pregnancy and delivery with Mila using a midwife, versus her pregnancy and childbirth with her two sons in hospitals.

“I had a team of doulas who were texting my phone making sure I’m eating properly, checking in on my mental health, checking in on how I’m doing physically, all through my prenatal,” Temecia said. “Then during the birth, I was at home and comfortable. … It was a beautiful experience.”"

I find this article interesting, because of how different women decide to give birth and how perceptions impact if midwives are truly capable of healing a child. In the United States, maternal mortality is higher than in most developed countries, and Black women are more impacted by that. So, why not make things easier for them?

[goldensunset]

idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time

[nemfrog]

Dancing bugs. The population of an old pear-tree. 1870. Book cover.

Internet Archive

[steampunktendencies]

Old Pencil Sharpener in Action

[callmeblake]

From shelly19041904 twitter:

It was far away, but I was able to get this close with the telephoto lens on my iPhone 16 Pro. Frank.

Fontainebleau Theater, Las Vegas on October 19th, 2024

[paintingispoetry]

Albert Aublet, "Selene", 1880

[thatstormygeek]

Turner, a Democrat, said they watched Oklahoma Democrats, particularly party leaders, respond to rising anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and policy with ambivalence. In a state where Republicans control both chambers of the legislature, Democrats were too afraid to make waves or alienate their conservative colleagues by discussing trans people, they said. For example, Turner pushed for Democrats’ public discussions about abortion access to be trans-inclusive. They were told that it wouldn’t be effective messaging to reach Republicans. But Republicans already don’t listen to them, they said — so why water down the message?

This year, Oklahoma lawmakers introduced 55 anti-LGBTQ+ bills, more than any other state. Only one of them became law. To Nguyen, that lack of traction was largely caused by Republicans under pressure from their constituents after the death of 16-year-old nonbinary student Nex Benedict, who died after being bullied by schoolmates. Lawmakers wanted to avoid the negative national spotlight cast on the state following Benedict’s death, when the state superintendent for Oklahoma’s public schools doubled down on his view that transgender and nonbinary people do not exist.  ... Oklahoma Republicans made fewer attempts at replacing routine laws with anti-trans laws this year because of the groundwork they laid the past four years, Turner said. Anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry and rhetoric have become bigger and bolder, to the point where Republican lawmakers don’t have to hide their harmful policies as much as they had to before.  “This year, blatantly bad bills were started at the beginning of session. They didn’t have to hide the bigotry because they knew Democrats weren’t going to really fight back,” Turner said.  ... In Missouri, which tied Tennessee for the second-highest number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced this year,far-right Republicans stalled business as usual to push anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.  It took over four weeks for the Missouri Senate to debate any bills once its legislative session started. The state’s newly established far-right Freedom Caucus hadformally joined the state legislature. ... In a state that should be prioritizing rural school districts and passing nondiscrimination protections, the infighting, dysfunction and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric made this past legislative session especially exhausting,Berkowitz said. Although the infighting helped prevent anti-LGBTQ+ bills from being passed, it also created more opportunities for anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric to spread from the statehouse into political campaigns and media sound bites, they said.

[constanzarte]

The Death of Icarus, by Alexandre Cabanel

[fitzfunnymoments]

It's everyone's favorite girl <3

[postcard-from-the-past]

17th-century Château de Chazeuil in Varennes-sur-Allier, Bourbonnais region of central France

French vintage postcard