gryffon:

darthgryffon:

gryffon:

every time i see steven universe discourse i think “what if people were this intensely analytical about My Gym Partners a Monkey”

my url is better than yours

youre my shadow self and i need to kill you

I looked that show up on wikipedia because I was curious whatever happened to it. Anyone know why it got cancelled?

enoughtohold:

enoughtohold:

enoughtohold:

keep seeing people say trump’s gender proposal would apply to driver’s licenses but i can’t find any evidence that that’s true, because they are dealt with at the state level.

also, so far the state department claims to have no plans to change its sex policy for passports, though i think it would certainly be prudent to get your passport applications in as soon as possible nonetheless.

clarification re: passports: this probably depends on your situation. there have been some reports of problems (which may or may not be systematic, dating from before the leak of trump’s draft proposal) so i think you’ll want to weigh that against how urgently you need a new passport. if you need one urgently, though, my personal read is that it’ll probably get worse before it gets better. as always, i am not a lawyer

@cesoirvert replied:

Wording on the doctor’s letter matters a lot for passports. It has to be an originally signed letter from an MD and has to state permanent and irreversible treatment to a new sex, it specifically needs to say sex. The letter can say “gender and/or sex” if that is preferable to you. It also has to state how long the MD has treated you (month and year treatment started is fine). Anyway that’s what my work does and so far it’s worked with these tweaks but … we’ll see I guess

this seems like actionable information, thank you!

@philosophersmuse

afrodesiaq:

hachama:

jewish-education:

jewish-education:

jewish-education:

How was your Shabbat experience this week?

My current shul had 2-3x the typical turn-out and apparently my brother’s shul couldn’t fit everyone in the room!? (The synagogue he goes to is freaking huge??!!)

Okay, so update. For some context his synagogue is Reform and also in the South. Apparently his synagogue had more people than on the high holidays (sounds like about 2x the number of a weekday high holiday?) and all sorts of other faith communities were there ❤ (Muslims, Sikhs, Christians,…). And so they had to set up a live-stream ( 😯 !) of the sanctuary to other rooms in the synagogue so everyone could see!!!

The campus Hillel was at capacity in their usual space, probably two to three times the usual turnout. There were visitors from the campus community (an Arabic TA and a couple of Muslim students, professors, a librarian), and from the surrounding town, like me.

my shul (which also has a LARGE building) was completely at capacity and had literally hundreds of people waiting outside (IN THE RAIN) who could not fit into the building even after we squeezed lots of standing room people in. rather than turn anyone away, the food that had been prepared for after prayer was served to the people who were waiting, and an unplanned second service happened immediately after the first so that everyone who didn’t fit could still come for prayer.

We had 75 people at ours when we usually get around 20-30. Lots of allies showed up.

becausedragonage:

freshest-tittymilk:

princealigorna:

And this is why we used to make cars out of STEEL instead of FIBERGLASS! Sure, fiberglass is a lot lighter in weight and hence a hell of a lot better for gas mileage. But you hit anything at more than 20 mph and the entire body explodes off the fucking thing, and now you’re spending more to repair the car than it’s worth because you need a entire front end, read end, or side panel. They can’t just take the damaged section off, beat it out with a hammer, sand it, and repaint it.

Everything is made with the idea of it being easier to replace than to maintain, aka planned obsolescence. Thanks, capitalism

You guys are obscenely, dangerously wrong. 

It’s not planned obsolescence, it’s physics.

Modern cars crumple to absorb and distribute the forces of impact in an accident in an effort to protect the occupants. When cars didn’t have those crumple zones, the occupants, being the soft, squishy things they were, took those forces and were mangled or killed in horrible ways. Also, those older cars took hidden damage that often went unnoticed and made them very dangerous to drive. 

I recently watched a TV show where a small sedan was run over by the trailer of an eighteen-wheeler. Run. Over. They had to unwrap the crumpled ball of a car from the undercarriage of that trailer. Guess what? The driver suffered only minor injuries because the car collapsed in exactly the way it was designed to so that she, in the very strong frame surrounding the passenger compartment, was protected. 

And no, don’t thank capitalism for these modern cars. Thank Ralph Nader and countless other safety activists who worked tirelessly to make car manufacturers accountable for the safety of the people who drove their cars.