#liberal testing

[anglerflsh]

who's do you relate most in arcane ?

i think my name's clue enough

[cinematic-literature]

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003) by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld

Book title

Animal Liberation (1975) by Peter Singer

Living in Harmony with Animals (2000) by Carla Bennett

Constitution, Jefferson’s Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives

Food Drug and Cosmetic Act: A Practical Guide to Law & Regulation

Animal Testing Question: Alternatives & Analyses

History of the FDA 

[selamat-linting]

imagine living during an era where the us is systematically sabotaging and dismantling countries in the global south using manufactured consent, writing a book where a pacifist in a meeting argues for their ideals only for them to be gunned down by the caputalist government a few chapters later, but still loudly proclaim yourself as an pacifist. you cant even prove your ideals are right in the realm of your own fiction! i'd be fucking embarrassed lmao.

[compacflt]

went through all of your three fics and omfggggg they're by far the best topgun fanfics out there. no contest. are you still posting here? cuz i have a small question. If your maverick grew up in texas, wouldn't he have a southern accent? does he repress it? has ice ever heard him speak southern?

not the same thing

[deus-ex-mona]

my five surviving braincells when something remotely good happens:

[stevehairingtit]

what if i wrote pre-canon chimney/tommy lol

[gentle-isnt-kind]

Why is it so acceptable for people to shit on vegans and say how annoying we are and that they don't want any vegan friends/partners but, the second I say that I wouldn't date someone who isn't vegan it's a problem??

[ashtxrie]

thinking about that specific lana del rey line “i think i’ll miss you forever / like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky” like wow the lyrics itself but also the melancholy in the melody?? (+ sunoo angst potential…)

[todays-just-a-daydream]

Saturday, November 16, 1996 Book looks for Oasis from press Invasive tabloid stories prompt third Gallagher brother to tell his own

By JANE STEVENSON Toronto Sun

Don't Look Back In Anger appears to have double meaning for British supergroup Oasis. It's not only the title of the band's current single, but also the mantra of Paul Gallagher, the older brother of notorious band members Noel and Liam. "I mean, if it helps one person, then it's done its job," says Gallagher of his book, Brothers: From Childhood To Oasis, which details the three siblings' violent childhood at the hands of their brutish, mean-spirited father. "There's other people growing up in the same environment -- the only difference is they haven't got two brothers who are the biggest rock and roll stars in the world." Brothers, which was only released in Canada two weeks ago, is already a huge success in England, where it's sold 45,000 copies since mid-September. It helped that the publishers (General Publishing in Canada), who had only expected it to sell about 10,000, moved up the release date to capitalize on the band's headline-making cancellation of the remainder of their U.S. tour. "I expected it to do more but I expect more than anyone else," says Gallagher, sounding a lot like his ambitious brother Noel, who has already layed down four tracks at Abbey Road Studios for the new Oasis album expected next April. Book sales will likely pick up again given the recent Group of the Year honors for Oasis at the MTV Europe music awards, not to mention Liam's arrest on suspicion of possession of cocaine. "It's just mass hysteria over here," Gallagher says. "I mean if Liam walked backwards in the street, they'd say he was retarded and make a story out of it. The press over here is just like scum, basically, and I'm not afraid of saying that. We get doorsteps every day of the week, which means the press just arrive on your door." In fact, Gallagher had just arrived back from London where he was visiting Liam, who has to report back to police on Dec. 30. "I've been doing my Highway To Heaven bit, which means angel of mercy sort of stuff," Gallagher jokes before adding that Liam is holding up well. "He's fine, he just doesn't want permanent press attention 'cause he hasn't really got a private life anymore -- and it's very, very sad that it has to come to this." Understandably, neither Liam nor Noel initially wanted their older brother writing Brothers, but it apparently had less to do with airing their dirty laundry in public than with Paul's choice of collaborator, Manchester-based journalist Terry Christian. "They still don't like him, probably because he's a Man United fan, but there you go." (Liam, Noel and Paul are supporters of Manchester City, the local soccer rivals of Manchester United.) But Gallagher decided to proceed, with the blessing of their mother, Peggy, and says the book has now brought the three siblings closer together. "I think Noel has read it, and he's behind it. Liam probably read the bits about himself 'cause his attention span isn't very large, and he says it's okay. "In the end, I don't really care, okay or not. I mean it was a book that was personal to me and everyone says, `Well, why share it with the world?' And I say, `Well, the world is on my nerves at the moment.' Cause the press was just digging up stories just for the fun of it, trying to disgrace us." There are actually nine books about Oasis currently in Britian, but, as Gallagher points out, "I'm the only one with the divine right to write one. "Brothers are brothers and they'll fight anyway but at the end of the day they still love each other. They've got a stronger bond than anyone on the outside could ever have. You can have lifetime friends until you're ninety-nine but your brothers are forever." As for their estranged father, who still lives in Manchester and has sold his own stories to the tabloids, Gallagher doesn't think he's read the book. Nor does he care. "He just thinks that nothing's happened. He thinks we're his three darling little sons. Well, we're not his sons, we're me mom's sons."

Toronto Sun on Paul Gallagher’s Brothers book release, as copied/transcribed by a fan and posted in the Oasis Usenet (24 November 1996)

[jyndor]

literally get out and register non voters instead of shaming people trying to push biden and democrats to the left, the shit you folks never ever do because you really don't care to

you want to keep the biden labor department? get non voters to the polls

scared for your trans and queer friends? get non voters to the polls

worried about reproductive justice? get non voters to the polls

instead of whining about people whose red line is genocide (and lbr like joe biden's red line, for many of us that may not even be true) get your fucking apolitical apathetic friends registered, drive them to the polls. stop blaming the democratic base for expecting the bare minimum from the people we have donated to, canvassed and phone banked and volunteered our time for!

these apolitical people don't even follow the news, they don't want to know because it's too painful or whatever. go for their votes.

and also stop pretending you are actually concerned about anyone other than americans, or westerners.

[repurposedmeatlocker]

Like, if I'm going to be honest, it admittedly feels like a lot of people online when talking about this stuff are kind of living in their own echo-chamber, without actually taking into account what the wider population will think or do.

[transfeminism-s]

Materialist transfeminism

an afab transfem inclusive type of transfeminism ?

Materialist transfeminism is a feminist current of thought that recognizes the reality of social mobility between gender groups (man to woman and vice versa, cis woman to trans woman and vice versa..). It considers gender transition as a gender transfuge which can be either a "promotion'' or a "downgrading".

It rejects the idea that trans women constitute a biological group, defined by maleness at birth, and considers them a social group constructed by transmisogyny. It this believes that trans women's oppression is not rooted in biology, but is primarily social. Materialist transfeminists therefore opposes any argument that seeks to explain the material condition of trans women by a biological characteristic of this group. They examine the social relation between trans women and non trans women as a group antagonism. They emphasize transmisogyny, which organizes the oppression of trans women by transmisogyny exempt people (TME). Because the distinction between gendered categories is recognized as the result of oppression, eradicating oppression would entail eliminating these categories.

Materialist transfeminists oppose bioessentialist transfeminists, who regard trans women as a biological group, defined by maleness at birth and believe that transfeminism's goal is to preserve and revalue transfemininity.

[aurazoo]

*rolls around in my bed* i love to be a boy in a girl wayyyyyyy

[banjo-butch]

maybe this isn't my post to make but I hate the trend of people saying stuff like "congratulations drugs on winning the war on drugs" for shit like marijuana being legalized or companies not being as strict with their drug testing and it's like. The war on drugs was very clearly not a war on drugs, it was and is a way to justify massive police budgets, police brutality, and incarceration, to harm and kill drug users, and the specific rhetoric of the war on drugs directly exists to target POC. White people being allowed to order weed edibles via doordash in progressive parts of the world isn't like, some win over those systems. Thousands are still incarcerated for drug charges. Living in a city where the toxic and unregulated drug supply is killing thousands, including my friends, and not knowing whether or not I'm gonna see those still alive again because of the criminalization and violence of the drug war, knowing people who have the threat of jail time and violence over their heads because they're trying to keep each other safe and test and distribute safe drugs, and then seeing "haha lol we won the war on drugs" puts such a bad taste in my mouth

[spidergvven]

hunger games is having a tiktok renaissance and the way people still hate gale for all the most stupid reasons has me heated

[death-rebirth-senshi]

Ough Lady Maria.