i cannot emphasize enough how much elon musk is very much not killing twitter on purpose. he is not that smart. you are giving him too much credit. he makes cars that melt. a few weeks ago a billionaire imploded several other billionaires and himself in the ocean because of this same brand of born-rich brainworms. destroying a social media site because of a petty, long held grudge over his paypal co-founders not letting him rename that to “X” is not a stretch.
George is out here trying to get laid with a poster at the pride parade at ninety years old
This is George Montague, he’s an author who is currently campaigning to have a historic conviction for “gross indecency” from 1974 (PDA with his then-boyfriend) struct from his criminal record. You can sign his petition here!
The epitome of “Distinguished Gay”
Update as of 7 November 2018, this guy is now 95 years old and is still looking for his apology.
George Montague, the legend that he was and the ‘oldest gay man in the village’, has passed away peacefully at almost 99 years of age, March 18th 2022, with his husband Somchai Phukkai right by his side.
Per Wikipedia, “His funeral was on 11 April 2022, where there was a procession through the city, which closely followed the Brighton Pride parade route, eventually ending at Downs Crematorium on Bear Road. His hearse had colourful flowers and his iconic sign in the back window. The hearse was followed by a special double-decker bus decked out in pride colours.” Source: X.
Obituary: The Guardian (do read it - his life story is incredible).
George did receive his formal apology in 2017 and you can read it on Pink News. It was so many years overdue but I’m glad he got it regardless.
George told BBC One that he was over the moon with the apology he received.
More people should abandon Internet discourse and get into observing/engaging with local politics. I say this not because local politics often offers more meaningful opportunities for effective praxis (although it does), but because local politics often offers just as much highly toxic and entertaining petty drama.
I highly recommend city council meetings. You might make yourself an informed voter and active community member or something. You also might get to watch an ongoing soap opera of old men ready to murder one another over trash collection ordinances, and unlike the Internet, none of them can effectually tell one another to kill themselves no matter how hard and how clearly they are thinking it.
Shout out to trans women who aren’t computer scientists or musicians or avant-garde artists or whatever.
Shout-out to tgirls who work at Taco Bell. Thank u queen, society would collapse without you
Over twenty years ago my big brother got me a job at a Taco Bell in the St. Louis suburbs-West County. He warned me that it was the “gay Taco Bell”, but since I was coming from the “gay Howard Johnson’s” I wasn’t shocked. It turns out it was the black trans women Taco Bell complete with black trans women in management. And they’d worked out an arrangement with the local teen Narcotics Anonymous group so that twice a week we would shut down the drive thru and the dining room and exclusively serve 60+ teens in various stages of recovery. And many of the women I worked with were in various stages of being out or transitioning and they were from all generations from teens to over 50. One woman I worked with had a regular corporate job presenting as a man 9-5 Mon-Fri and then came to Taco Bell and worked 6pm -2am Friday and Saturday night so she could be herself surrounded by other black transwomen in those stolen weekends. And we had customers come from all over the metro area because they knew they could be themselves in the dining room. I only worked there from 1999-2001 but for young me, this was a vital, formative experience. Some of the girls came from north city all the way out to the “gay Taco Bell” on Manchester in west county because they heard it was safe to work there. Like- I know times have changed but they haven’t changed much in 20 years. I’m still convinced that for lgbt youth, finding a job at your city’s version of the “gay Taco Bell” is key to survival.
It's a little depressing seeing Gen Z kids in my fandom who got onboard via a recent release going, "I wish I knew how to use tumblr to post fic! I wish I knew how to get an invite to AO3 to post fic there!" because... you can just. do those things. Hit the 'get invite' button. Write, copy and paste into the tumblr post box, add some tags, done. "If anyone can teach me how to use it/how to get an invite I'd really appreciate it!" my [redacted] in Christ you can just fiddle around with AO3 to figure it out and visibly see how posting fic on tumblr works.
There's a death here of willingness to try to figure something out on their own that I find really sad. You're 15, that is old enough to try and poke the get invite button before asking how to get an invite. You can do this. I believe in you, I know you can do it. Just try.
I read a thing a while ago that suggested part of this is because Gen Z came along when computers were, like, finally past the point of constantly making drastic changes every 6 months. So for Gen Z, you get a new computer, it works pretty much like every other computer you’ve ever had; maybe the volume button is in a different place but that’s about it.
Meanwhile, most Millenials grew up going from “the OS is stored on a 5in floppy that has to be locked in place with a physical switch every time you turn the machine on” to “now the OS stays on the machine and doesn’t have to be loaded every time but you need individual CDs to run every program” to “physical media? not on my watch!” So we all grew up having to re-learn how a god damn computer works every 6 months (without being able to just look it up on the internet easily if at all) and the only way to do was to fiddle around with it until we figured shit out.
So we have this literal decade or more of experience with troublshooting technology (and the confidence that comes with it) while Gen Z doesn’t.
They don’t fiddle around because they either don’t know how or aren’t confident they can fiddle around without breaking something or some combination of the two and it’s not really their fault. That being said: they have the same internet we do now so they could LEARN to fiddle around with shit until it works, and not doing so is a choice.
Seriously, guys, please for the love of little baby ducks, go learn some basic troubleshooting skills
Tuira Kayapó brandished her machete in the face of a government official who was trying to convince indigenous leaders to accept a mega-dam project in the Amazon, 1989
“Electricity won’t give us food. We need the rivers to flow freely. Don’t talk to us about relieving our ‘poverty’ – we are the richest people in Brazil. We are Indians.”
part of kayapó’s speech during this event
also! she’s still alive! that sort of thing is always worth pointing out to show that we really aren’t too far removed from events like this! here’s a 2019 photo of her:
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