#i voted no

[dsmsix]

[goatandgooseinatrenchcoat]

i think my heart broke somewhere along those last few minutes

[tomdelongeschlong]

I'm laughing blink's own fanbase don't trust them

[luigicat117]

I couldn't have said it better myself.

[gaywatermelonbread]

This reminds me of that one German case where the dude consented and even signed a form that he did consent to being eaten.

*person has consented to being eaten; they’ve donated their body. they died without suffering. you can cook the meat. you will not get sick from the meat.

bonus: explain why!

[official-lucifers-child]

[slyandthefamilybook]

why do you guys talk like you think not voting means no one gets elected

[specialagentartemis]

“Which fictional universe would you rather live in—“ Star Trek. Star Trek. There is a correct answer and it’s Star Trek. “I want to have cool adventures—“ Star Trek. “I want to live in high tech but ethical peace and comfort” Star Trek. “I want to be a psychic alien—“ Star Trek. “But I want to do magic—“ do you know how much weird magic shit happens in Star Trek. Also Star Trek has holodecks you can pretend to be in Lord of the Rings or Star Wars or whatever and then come home to your usually peaceful interstellar community. There are basically no downsides to living in the Star Trek universe if you take the assumption that you remain you, a human living on Earth. You can join Starfleet or you can stay home and enjoy fully automated luxury gay space communism. The answer is Star Trek.

[half-assed-ascent]

"It" as a pronoun is something I'll admit to having some struggles with because it carries a dehumanizing connotation traditionally.

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As I was writing that out, I think something clicked over in my head, though. As I was going to discuss the ways "it/its" have been used and why that felt bad, I wanted to start with categorizing where we would normally use it. I started with "non-human things," but obviously we gender animals all the time. Up next was "inanimate objects" but that wasn't a complete enough categorization.

Long story short, I realized that (although some people do) we don't generally gender plants, mushrooms, single-celled organisms, etc. Just huge swaths of the entirety of life on this planet that are tagged as "it." We're viewing the pronouns only in light of their discriminatory use, and not in their commonality with the majority of life on this planet

So yes, there is still something sort of dehumanizing to it, and particularly how it (no pun intended) has been weaponized against nb/trans (and bipoc persons, and women), but that's essentially true of any of the terms we're reclaiming. Why should this be the bridge too far?

Since I am having a Bad Day right now and I think my family members are making up their "nonbinary friends" who are personally offended by my existence-

And since I want this to reach the outer corners of Tumblr, not just my mutuals who I know are okay with my pronouns, please reblog!!!

[alanaisalive]

Now that Eurovision is over, I want you all, especially the Americans, to take a good hard look at how the voting results turned out when people boycotted the event.

In the UK, the viewing figures were down about 2 million people compared to last year. Up to 2 million people made the conscious decision to not watch and not vote because of Israel's inclusion.

The final results of the public vote, Israel came in first place in the UK and got 12 points. Because the only people watching and voting were people who backed Israel or at least didn’t care one way or another.

This doesn't matter. It's a music contest. The boycott was still the right thing to do because it is just a show at the end of the day, and the viewing figures have more impact than the results.

But it is also a good object lesson to show you what happens if you boycott a vote over something that does matter. Choosing not to vote in, let's say, a presidential election will have similar results.

[captainjonnitkessler]

You know I used to think "tumblr's absolute refusal to actually engage with the Trolley Problem in favor of insisting that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is just a short-sighted idiot is really fucking annoying, but I guess it's not actually doing any harm".

Anyway that was before we asked tumblr at large to decide between "guy aiding a genocide but making progress elsewhere" and "guy who would actively and enthusiastically participate in a genocide and would also make everything else much, much worse for everyone elsewhere" and the response was that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and that anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is a short-sighted idiot.

[batcavescolony]

Non-Americans please look away, this is private family matter.

[alinalal-art]

miku.

[threefeline]

Like we literally have a sliver of a chance at getting Blue Georgia and Blue North Carolina in this years election and genuinely it feels like people are just willing to throw that out. Hell, even Texas over the past 20 years has had a BIG shift in voting habits.

The last 20 years in Texas ^^^

Georgia ^^^

And fucking NORTH CAROLINA. Look at how close this margin is. This is absolutely batshit insane to me. They are now basically swing states.

Please

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