Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

Happy #worldgothday 🖤🦇🖤

@Grandalf @MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson

Forcing the poor to have children they can't afford to feed, house, or educate, is also a technique of impoverishment.

Explore >1,000 classic sound effects rescued from crumbling magnetic tape in the Sunset Editorial Sound Effects Library from the USC Archive ▶️ https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/20/crash-bark-boom-the-usc-sound-effects-library/

Included in the collection is the full recording session of the famous 'Wilhelm scream.' The track, recorded as "Man eaten by alligator; screams," has become iconic. Take #5 was first used in 1951's "Distant Drums," before sound designer Ben Burtt incorporated it into Star Wars & Indiana Jones. https://archive.org/details/SSE_Library_VOICES/SCREAM/VOXScrm_Man+eaten+by+alligator%3B+screams+%5BWilhelm_CS_USC.wav

From the Los Angeles Times: “Indigenous tribes warned of a buried kingdom in Owens Valley. Now, Caltrans bulldozers are unearthing bones”

#OwensValley #CalTrans #Indigenous

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-22/caltrans-indigenous-burial-site

101 years ago today, the House of Representatives passed the 19th Amendment recognizing the right of (white) women to vote.

Black women finally gained the right to vote with the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

It's been a very long, recent road to emancipation, and no, women do not have Equal Rights under the U.S. Constitution.

Abortion laws across the country are designed to strip women of the right to vote. If a possibly pregnant woman seeks healthcare or has a miscarriage, she can be prosecuted as a felon and lose her right to vote forever.

That's what "pro-life" is all about.

Pass the ERA. Protect emancipation and body autonomy.

#19thAmendment #PasstheERA

You *need* these massacre weapons without restriction, because there might be a need to massacre somebody someday for a good reason, as opposed to all those other people who massacre people for bad reasons—and you know they were bad reasons because you personally disagreed with those reasons, as is your right as one of the few who gets to decide who should live and who should die, based on who you have decided is afraid and who you have decided is a threat and who you have decided is a person.

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A truly amazing and exhaustively cited act of investigative journalism by the phenomenal @zinnia

It turns out that virtually ALL of the sham "science" behind the anti-trans movement can be traced directly back to a very small number of purely ideologically driven "doctors" citing one another over and over again to try to give the impression that standard evidence based trans healthcare is controversial.

It's basically the scientific equivalent of writing a blog with nothing more than your own opinions, your friend writes an article citing your blog, another friend writes an article citing both of you, and then showing up in front of public health boards saying "see, here's 3 articles showing how I'm right!"

In any normal and reasonable political environment, these quacks would be laughed out of the room with such flimsy "evidence". Yet because the far right has captured statehouses across the country, they're laundering this junk science into "real" science.

https://genderanalysis.net/2023/05/the-far-right-law-firm-alliance-defending-freedom-offered-a-florida-anti-trans-hate-group-15000-to-refute-the-wpath-standards-of-care-for-use-in-litigation/

Took off from San Jose, California, US.

[radical militant leftist voice] it would be good if men with large guns could be asked not to menace children waiting for the school bus

Astronomer Williamina Fleming was born #OTD in 1857. She developed a system to classify stars according to their spectra; cataloged over 10k stars; and discovered numerous novae, nebulae, and variable stars.

Image: Harvard College Observatory

Using silly putty to “copy” little parts of the newspaper…

#ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontNow
#HashtagGames

You'd have to question the training of NSW #police that a senior cuntstable with 12 years experience would find it okay in his tiny little mind to #Taser a 95 year old woman approaching him slowly using a walking frame and #armed with a steak #knife

#ClareKnowland might weight 50kgs dripping wet and it's believed she has dementia.

Seriously in what universe does this even make sense? It makes more sense every time someone says all cops are cvnts.

Please boost the shit out of this.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/19/homicide-squad-officers-to-investigate-senior-constables-tasering-of-95-year-old-aged-care-resident?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#ClareKnowland #NSWPolice #australia

Recently I posted that some libraries in southern Oregon were under attack. Racist, bigoted fascists were trying to infiltrate their Board so they could ban books.

Well, the voters have spoken. Our candidates—kind people with integrity—won the election. They won!

Small elections are huge. They mean so very much. Just wanted to share, because these victories have been few and far between.

https://votelibrary.com/we-won/

#Fascism #Elections #Libraries #Library #Oregon #Voting #LGBTQ #SystemicRacism