#current history

[icubud]

Examples: The Lies about the Trump Russia dossier, the stolen 2020 election, the incarceration of people for the false story of Jan. 6 riot, the DOJ’s false charges against Trump which they unethically secured indictment, the fact that Comey and his cronies were not even brought up on charges, the DOJ prosecution of General Mike Flynn, the corrupt judge who insisted on pursuing charges against Gen. Flynn, etc.

[morgan-la-fay]

There is something supremely wrong with modern wars. Not that wars were ever right but ever since WW2 there’s been a shift that I only heard about very recently. You see, before WW2 most wars that have recorded victim numbers had more military casualties than civilian casualties. WW2 changed that. Out of the estimated 70 million people who died (and that’s the lower end) around 2/3 were civilian. That is people who should not be directly affected by warfare. 50 million people, conservatively. And the thing that almost frightens me more? According to my Professor for modern history it`s been that way ever since. In every war since 1945 (excluding ongoing conflicts) more civilians have died than soldiers. That information terrifies me. I don`t know why exactly this piece of information hit so hard for me, but it did and now you have to deal with it too

[lgbtawarenessproject]

Part 7: Nigeria and Angola

Keep an eye out for a post soon, I have an announcement I want to make about the pride month history project I'd like to make.

(Should I be leaving my name on these things?)

-Soul

Nigeria

Homosexual activity is illegal in Nigeria, but it hasn’t always been like that. In January of 2014 Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan passed a law known as the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act, or SSMPA. The law bans every part of LGBT+ life, even just talking positively about it(similar to Russia). Supporters of this bill say it protects their culture, which is baseless if you look at African history(Sources 1-4). Nigeria itself was not accepting of gay-relationships in pre-colonial times, but it was accepting of lesbian ones according to a paper by Chan Tov McNamarah. (It is important to note that when making criminal laws against homosexuality the excuse is often that homosexuality was brought by western cultures)

Prior to SSMPA, Nigeria queer culture was often socializing in clubs, parties, and other similar things. These clubs were often private and hidden to protect themselves and the people in them from discrimination. Some methods to protect these clubs were that in order to enter you had to be vouched for by someone already approved, and that in order to find them you either had to identify the owner or learn by word of mouth. The scene inside was very social, and the drag scene specifically was doing very well. 

After SSMPA, gay weddings(which were already hidden and private) became even more difficult to have, and cohabitation that was used as an alternative to marriage, became dangerous. Partners were no longer able to trust their neighbors to respect their privacy, and now that SSMPA existed would get called in by those neighbors. Violent homophobia began to rise as well, safe havens being raided, and people being pulled from their houses and beaten. Nonetheless, the queer scene in Nigeria continues to exist. Only now, the locations change and modern technology helps to keep it private.

Sources: 1 2 3 4(cw below) 5 6 7 8

Source 4 contains the slang version of the N slur, but it is from a black run website and I used it as a reference so I added it as a source. If any black person wants me to remove it as a source I will. (I specifically use the word black because Africa is a very diverse continent with many different colors of person.)

Angola

In January 2019, after gaining their independence as a country in 1975, Angola made its first new penal code. While making this code the Angola Parliament made a vote remove a law commonly interpreted as an anti-gay law. In addition, they also banned discrimination against people based on their sexuality. 

This amendment was not unexpected, as in 2013 they had granted legal status to an LGBT organization called Iris Angola. This organization had often complained about discrimination against their employees by health care. 

Additionally, in 2016 Angola held its first LGBTIQ festival called FESTÍRIS, which gathered the LGBT+ community, allies, and others, to raise awareness to LGBT+ issues. In 2019, they celebrated the laws and reflected on the history of their chosen day, May 17th(International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia)

Despite all of this, and all of the celebration, the new penal code only went into effect in February of 2021.

Sources: 1 2 3

I gave myself limited time to make this one so there are less sources, and it is shorter.

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[humanvoicebox]

I swear once you start digging out their crimes you'll dig to hell and back.

This article is more that 24 years old

[thunderlina]

In the wake of the TikTok ban and revival as a mouthpiece for fascist propaganda, as well as the downfall of Twitter and Facebook/Facebook-owned platforms to the same evils, I think now is a better time than ever to say LEARN HTML!!! FREE YOURSELVES FROM THE SHACKLES OF MAJOR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND EMBRACE THE INDIE WEB!!!

You can host a website on Neocities for free as long as it's under 1GB (which is a LOT more than it sounds like let me tell you) but if that's not enough you can get 50GB of space (and a variety of other perks) for only $5 a month.

And if you can't/don't want to pay for the extra space, sites like File Garden and Catbox let you host files for free that you can easily link into NeoCities pages (I do this to host videos on mine!) (It also lets you share files NeoCities wouldn't let you upload for free anyways, this is how I upload the .zip files for my 3DS themes on my site.)

Don't know how to write HTML/CSS? No problem. W3schools is an invaluable resource with free lessons on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and a whole slew of other programming languages, both for web development and otherwise.

Want a more traditional social media experience? SpaceHey is a platform that mimics the experience of 2000s MySpace

Struggling to find independent web pages that cater to your interests via major search engines? I've got you covered. Marginalia and Wiby are search engines that specifically prioritize non-commercial content. Marginalia also has filters that let you search for more specific categories of website, like wikis, blogs, academia, forums, and vintage sites.

Maybe you wanna log off the modern internet landscape altogether and step back into the pre-social media web altogether, well, Protoweb lets you do just that. It's a proxy service for older browsers (or really just any browser that supports HTTP, but that's mostly old browsers now anyways) that lets you visit restored snapshots of vintage websites.

Protoweb has a lot of Geocities content archived, but if you're interested in that you can find even more old Geocities sites over on the Geocities Gallery

And really this is just general tip-of-the-iceberg stuff. If you dig a little deeper you can find loads more interesting stuff out there. The internet doesn't have to be a miserable place full of nothing but doomposting and targeted ads. The first step to making it less miserable is for YOU, yes YOU, to quit spending all your time on it looking at the handful of miserable websites big tech wants you to spend all your time on.

[landsccape]

[bisexualbaker]

Not to mention The Owl House getting cut short and having to pack their final season into three (extra long, but still) episodes.

I wish more people understood how fucking hard Legend of Korra was actually censored. It's not "LGBT bait" it was CENSORED and the writers had to fight hard just for Korra and Asami to HOLD FUCKING HANDS

[sayruq]

[cansu-m]

[luvingsunshine]

sapiens: a brief history of humankind

[voidcatdoll]

One thing from genderqueerdykes recent transmisogynistic screed thats stuck in my mind is the insistence that trans women exhibit toxic masculinity by interrupting people, cause like. The main way that men talking over women manifests isn't men interrupting women (they do that a lot too, but its a lesser contributor). What happens when a man wants signifies he has something to say? Everyone shuts up and listens. What happens when a woman does it? Everyone carries on as if nothing happened.

So what are you to do if you aren't content with simply not speaking, and waiting until social decorum decides it is your turn doesn't work, because your turn is never? You make it impossible to ignore you, social decorum be damned. You interrupt people, you are aggressive and confrontational about getting a word in because its the only way you'll get one in at all.

Feminists got framed as aggressive bitches so often because they correctly determined that your options as a woman are to either not be heard, or to be heard and called an aggressive bitch for it, and they chose the latter. How insidious is it to reframe that feminist practice of demanding your voice be heard irrespective of social decorum as a signifier that trans women exhibit toxic masculinity, are man-like, to weaponize both dysphoria and the language of feminism to shut down transfeminists.

[prokopetz]

To be very pedantic, if Charles croaks in the next couple of months he will be the shortest reigning King of England of his line. The shortest reigning King of England period is apparently some asshole named Sweyn Forkbeard who reigned for like five weeks in the year 1014.

[politijohn]

Source

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

I’m was watching a video about a Jewish custom, and the entire comment section was like this

It’s about anti Zionism my ass.

This is the case whenever a post has Hebrew/ Jewish symbols/ etc. it’s obviously not about Israel.