#rrf

[ekko0712]

Drip Butchercup

[satedsaint]

on “we don’t have all the facts”

Girls to the Front, Sara Marcus

[the-elisakou]

So I was thinking of the little snowman in the R-R-F level background, the little birds you save during that level, and the outfit of Peppino on the tittle card… and I made this :D

[krasivaa]

Super cute photos of Princess Ileana of Romania and Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia ✨

[galpal95]

I have reached nirvana.

[windsorcourt]

Ooh there we go

[lunaphobia49]

You called?

he’s got that previously neglected shelter dog rizz. he looks like he wants to quietly sit next to you on the couch while you watch TV

[solarpunksapphic]

like ultimately i'm for a point where gender is not a strict thing that everyone recognizes as innate and i agree with the fact that some opposition of gender norms subtly reinforces them (ex. "i'm not a girl because i don't do girl things" or the reverse) but while we're in this hell of sex and gender-based oppression (which we will be for a long time) i look at every masculine woman with the largest heart eyes imaginable.

invent yourself completely. steal things from men because butches do it better. men never owned any of those traits in the first place. make up entirely new fucking genders and ways of life because all of it is fluid!

work together to use our influence over the queer community, especially the younger queer community, which is growing up online with extreme exposure to racism and misogyny. knock down their perceptions of "man" and "woman". encourage them to treat everyone as a human person. things have been and are still terribly shitty, but they get better. i have to believe in a better future.

(and in queer spaces: demand our agency. assert our space and our rights within those spaces. be aggressive. and work with people who engage in good faith but feel free to go apeshit on the others. work with those that share our perception-based oppression, and those who do not. the modern queer movement has problems but it is not nearly as reductive as trfs say it is. we're all fighting against our taught perceptions every day and there is history and progress being made in those spaces. share our history!! we can move forwards!!)

[head-post]

Italy’s post-RRF spending cuts create risky case for EU funding

The Italian government’s draft decision to use resources from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Fund (RRF) to cut public spending risks setting a dangerous precedent for future EU co-financing, Italian MEP Rosa D’Amato of the Greens and the European Free Alliance group told Euractiv.

She warned that the decision signed by Italian economy and interior ministers Giancarlo Giorgetti and Matteo Piantedosi, which includes budget cuts for municipalities and regions, will hit hardest local authorities, which have been among the main recipients of RRF funds since the pandemic, and will particularly affect southern regions.

The funding cuts, which will form part of the Meloni government’s forthcoming spending review, involve a €1.25bn reduction in spending between 2024 and 2028 – 50 per cent of current spending and a further 50 per cent of “contributions allocated to each authority from RRF funds.”

In a letter sent to European Commissioner for the Economy Paolo Gentiloni on Wednesday and made available to Euractiv, the Greens MEP asked for a formal assessment of the measure to determine whether it violates the RRF’s objectives.

She said the move would breach the principle of additionality enshrined in Article 5 of the 2021 RRF measure, which states that “support from the fund does not replace budgetary expenditure and respects the principle of additionality.”

RRF funding totalled €6.1bn and covered public crèches and kindergartens as well as urban development projects. Marco Leonardi, professor of economics at the University of Milan, told Euractiv:

From the very beginning, municipalities have warned the government of the risk of making investments such as in kindergartens and then being left without the current expenditure transfer needed to hire, for example, kindergarten teachers.

Leonardi said the cuts envisaged in the draft regulation, which are based on RRF payments, are “exactly the opposite of what should be done and are an incredible negation of the core principle of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRP)” – the national rollover of the RRF programme.

Read more HERE

[yourninjasareajoke]

coming to the end of ‘23 i said is that alright? now it’s coming to the end of u and me (and thats not quite alright)

why have an instagram spam when u can have a fire tumblr blog !

[buddiebeginz]

rob: i came here to tell you i protected you from the police

aaron: go f*ck yourself

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[satedsaint]

hello!!! i'm what would be considered newly exposed to radfem theory/somebody that noticed just how ineffective liberal feminism is today. i have a question that's been on my mind for a while and i was hoping to get this answer from a lesbian!!!

so, on the basis that (most?) sexual attraction is sex-based, as in a lesbian might find a trans guy hot because he's female/afab, or a gay guy might find a trans women hot because she's male/amab, does it mean that sexual attraction is inherently transphobic/discriminatory against trans people? ive been trying to answer this myself by doing some research, watching videos etc. i've come to the conclusion that someone could say that they indeed are, but at the same time, it can't be that black and white. then i stopped because i realized that's a whole new conversation on "genital preferences" and my head started hurting. but i wanted your opinion on it as you happen to be a woman who experiences same sex attraction.

thank you in advance :D!!!

hello! i obviously do not speak for all lesbians, nor am i educated in the sciences of sexual attraction. sexual attraction is not inherently based on genitalia. have you ever been attracted to someone you saw out at a club or on the street? it's safe to say the majority of people have. congrats, you just experienced sexual attraction that wasn't sex-based!

in fact, purely sex-based sexual attraction would have to occur only upon contact with genitalia, which is not how people experience the world! lesbians have been trying to explain for years that no, we're not a threat to other people designated as women around us, in locker rooms, bathrooms, etc, because we do not experience attraction simply from seeing another body. "attraction to women" does not mean attraction to all female bodies. sexual attraction is not "inherently transphobic" because sexual attraction is not a binary, same as sex and gender are not a binary. we have not been able to identify any switches in our brains or structures that make people entirely same-sex or opposite-sex attracted. research on genes associated with same-sex behavior in humans "suggests that there is no single continuum from opposite-sex to same-sex sexual behavior", as well as stating that it is impossible to determine someone's sexual preference simply by looking at their brain.

now, as a lesbian, i resent this sentiment that biology says in likelihood there is no switch in my brain that says "no men". brother sign me the FUCK up for the no man switch!! however, cultural aspects of sexuality are, in my mind, a much larger part of sexual development than the "born this way" culture of the 2000's to 2010's suggests. if you don't want to have sex with men (as i don't), that is entirely your prerogative, and, as far as i'm concerned, that makes you a lesbian.

the concept of genital preference is complicated by the popularity of strap-ons in lesbian spaces, as well as post-op trans people. my personal opinion is that genital preference is absolutely present in some people. however, there are happy lesbians in healthy relationships with pre-op or no-op transfems. there are straight men in healthy relationships with pre-op or no-op transfems. essentially, humans are messy. same as there is nothing in our brains designating us as "female" or "male" (even after years of socialization and hormones), there is nothing in our brains strictly defining our attraction to one set of genitalia or the other. attraction is a combination of social factors and hormones. i'm happy to expand upon any part of this response, or answer further questions.

[bonegloss]

awwwrrr~.... heee~ 🤍☁🧵🧶

[galpal95]

Was tagged by @galfrey to make picrew of me. :3

^^^ that me. Loved that they had a Paramore shirt. If you take away anything from this post, it's that I'm a slut for Paramore.

tagging: @raptorofwar, @nosfagratu, @seawillfuckyourshitup, @goinghometotheshire, @grapecaseschoices, and anyone else who want to make one! (I wanna see!) No pressure, of course.

[boyrobott]

panels from the 2009 graphic novel that made me choke