Elia Bonci, who also spoke to la Repubblica, said: “I took courage, used my deadname and signed up for Miss Italy because fighting transphobia is intersectional and even though I’m not a trans woman, I’ve decided to fight for their rights.”
the whole point is to show how “afab” being used as a replacement for woman is fucking stupid and fundamentally incorrect and. whatever else. and it gives me hope to see the community rising up like this. solidarity and unity and peace on planet earth.
“KOSA wont pass, it got rejected the last two times!”
It wasn’t passed because people spoke out against it. People called and emailed their senators. So, CALL / EMAIL YOUR SENATORS. MAKE IT KNOWN THAT WE DO NOT WANT THIS BILL TO PASS!
“But its unconstitutional-“ There’ve been multiple bills passed before that are unconstitutional. This will not be any different to them, they do not care.
KOSA made it out of committee, so now is the time to contact your senator and tell them to vote no on KOSA.
& if your rep is Dem: Remind them, please, that LGBTQ+ content - heck, SEX ED content - is considered obscene by the GOP membership, & maybe consider that keeping kids & teens from accessing either of these things is one reason your GOP colleagues are so eager to collaborate on this bill??
if your rep is GOP: Remind them that realistically, sites that host ‘adult’ content will likely have to collect & keep records of legal IDs, & data breaches happen *on the regular*? Do they know anybody who’s had their identity stolen? How excited are they for the day their *own* browsing habits are exposed by a data breach?
Remind them all that they might trust their opposite-party colleagues, but they *don’t* trust the opposite party any further than they could throw them, and think about every possible bad-faith interpretation of the bill before voting ‘yes’, for fuck’s sake??
I’m tired & deeply worried. The internet has been a relatively safe space for queer ppl the world over. If KOSA passes, it’s a big step towards waving goodbye to that world.
This is anti-LGBTQ legislation wrapped up in censorship wrapped up in “protect the kids” lies. And a bunch of Dems are falling for it, co-sponsoring and voting for it. We have to speak up loudly please.
So Mark Hulmes posted some thoughts on post-campaign Calianna on Twitter the other day and I for one am emotional
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Calianna naming her children after Jester and Caleb may just be one of my favorite things now 🥺 Also dragon wives beloved
Hulmes considers this headcanon because it didn’t happen in game and Matt hasn’t approved it, technically, but it’s very sweet and Calianna is his soooooo. Canon. Yeah.
(I attempted to add alt text for all images but tumblr started replacing every image with the first one so… text transcripts would be greatly appreciated! 🥲)
#The way they probably erased Crowley’s memory of heaven.Also the way Crowley offered a hot chocolate to Gabriel just after even though he still hated him because he knew how it feels to remember nothing (insp from this post by @perpetualcontrolleddrowning)
Noticed something a little funky in the world around you and want to figure out what’s up? Especially if there might be something you ought to be doing about it? Not sure what information sources to trust these days? If you’re in the US, federal agencies like NOAA, USGS, EPA and more collect massive amounts of scientific data every day, much of which is publicly available online - if you know where to look.
A PDF version with clickable links is available for free on my itchio page (quakeandquiver); I’ll add a direct link in a reblog.
anyone think about how Kagome’s classmates probably, and with good reason, believe that she died after high school. like the girl was out sick almost constantly for a year in middle school, seemed to get better, and then just disappeared right after graduation. they all 100% think she was terminally ill and just hid it really well. people she hardly knew probably wrote social media posts like
“we were so close, I can’t believe she’s gone. she was so brave right up until the end. fly high baby girl 👼😔🕊️ rip kagome higurashi”
@dayeongi I’m not letting you hide this in the tags
thinking of max knowing and loving lucas but being so afraid of the latter, being so deathly terrified of being known because being known causes rejection but he holds every part of her—the meanness and the sadness and the hurt and the rough edges—and holds it up to the light unflinchingly. about how he holds every part of her so gently, like he could never dream of hurting her heart despite how many cracks are already in it and she begins to heal and she’s still scared because wounds can be torn open all over again.
thinking of max appreciating erica’s sass but not being able to help worry about her, because one day that witty tongue is going to lead her to bad places, places that could leave bruises on wrists and a bitter feeling in the back of her throat. despite her snarky exterior she’s as sweet and kindhearted as her brother and max knows she can handle herself but worries all the same because she’s seen so little of the world and max knows how naivety gets chewed up in the real world.
thinking of max loving mrs. sinclair but being unable to handle the affection she handles out so freely in the world, unable to compute when she puts an affectionate hand on her cheek. she asks for help with baking and max barely remembers baking with her own mom and it makes her sad and sue’ll rescind the offer. no matter how many times she tells max “call me sue, honey” max can’t just because sue is too close to susan and she feels, if she thinks of mrs. sinclair in any motherly way, like she’s betraying her own mom, who works hard (she thinks so, anyways) for her, and if she thinks too hard for how mrs. sinclair makes her feel happier and warmer than her mom’s ever made her feel she’ll break down.
lastly, thinking of max and mr. sinclair and the hesitance. max knows of fathers—of waiting at bus stations for hours and watching the cars go by and knowing dad was trying his best but it wasn’t enough because he never came at the right time. max knows of fathers—of men with hard blue eyes as cold as a rippling sea, of oceans filled with dangerous creatures and currents that can drag you away no matter how much you dig your heels into the sand, whose knuckles are bruised from punching his son on the nose and being terrified he’ll come after her next. mr. sinclair, and neil and billy are nothing alike, not in appearance, nor in demeanour, but there’s something in her, some subconscious part she’s developed over the years, that just screams danger. he never shouts, he never gestures, he never grabs lucas or erica’s shoulders too tight and he’ll laugh and chuckle at their banter. the worst it gets is when erica and lucas’s petty arguments goes too far and he’ll tell them to knock it off. he’s so sweet and kind and lucas says he’s the best dad in the world and max is happy for him, she is, but she’s unsure of what to think. of her own dad, of her stepdad, and of the dad that she feels bad for flinching around.
“You probably didn’t know that Suzanne was the only contestant in Georgia pageant history to sweep every category except congeniality. That is not something the women in my family aspire to anyway.”
surely this is a good idea that doesn’t have the capacity to end real fuckin badly
Bridges aren’t supposed to have weight restrictions on them. That is, they don’t come with weight restrictions on them when they’re new. So a bridge with a weight restriction on it is a sign that something has gone wrong and the bridge does not meet current standards.
The maximum weight that a vehicle is allowed to carry on the Interstate System per federal law is 80,000 pounds gross vehicle weight (with a max of 20,000 pounds per axle). That’s 40 tons. That limit applies to every inch of pavement, not just the bridges. Since this is a known cap, a new Interstate bridge will be designed to accommodate an 80,000 lb GVW load on it. You could say the bridge’s weight limit is 80,000 lb/40 tons but that doesn’t really have much meaning, because a load higher than that would be illegal to transport on public roads anyway, and the road leading up to the bridge has the same weight restriction. (In practice, the bridge doubtlessly will be designed to have a little bit of let to it just in case some idiot tries to squeak by a few hundred extra pounds.)
Now, note that that law applies to the Interstate System only, because the federal government only has a governing interest in the Interstate System (and other roads that together make up something called the National Highway System) because they partially fund it. Most long-distance roads are owned and funded by the states. The states could theoretically set lower standard weight limits and/or design bridges with lower weight limits…but in practice they don’t.
One, because all of that 80,000 lb GVW traffic on the Interstate system has to go somewhere when it exits the system.
Two, because a group called the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO, who are best known for picking the road numbers) maintains a catalog of standard components for making bridges that meet Interstate System requirements. Engineers are expensive on a per-hour basis, so if you can direct your engineer to use standard components and make a standard bridge, that’s a lot cheaper than having them design a bridge from scratch to go over the creek in Nowheresville. As a result, most new bridges meet Interstate standards and have an 80,000 lb GVW rating even if they aren’t on the Interstate system. (This is also why all new bridges kind of look the same, but we’re not worried about how boring the bridges are for the sake of this post.)
So a bridge only has an explicit weight limit if it has been damaged in some way (through failure to properly maintain it usually) or because it predates the application of Interstate System standards and the standard AASHTO bridges.
Older bridges often have other problems in addition to the weight limits: many older designs are what we call “fracture critical”, which means that if one component of the bridge fails the whole thing collapses. Modern bridge designs have redundancy designed into them so that if one beam fails the other beams will carry the load until the damaged beam can be replaced. Older bridges also often don’t meet other standards, like height (16 ft clearance) and width (12 ft per lane plus 14 ft for shoulders) requirements.
Biden isn’t advocating eliminating weight limits and letting it be a laissez-faire free-for-all where trucks can just go wherever they want. He’s advocating for replacing bridges that carry weight limits with new ones that don’t have them.
wow i got absolutely schooled thank you for all this this is really informative. i have learned so much
This is a great explanation of what the fuck Biden was talking about in his tweet. because I will freely admit that I also went “…….wtf?????” when I read it. So thank you.
AMAZING news: the Reproductive Freedom Act in Ohio has now officially been CERTIFIED to be on the ballot in this November’s election. It gathered 495,938 signatures from 55 counties across Ohio. Republicans messed around & women & young people will make them find out.
Okay, but Ohioans need to get the fuck to the polls for our special election on August 8th!!! The Republican fucks are trying to change our simple majority necessary for amendments to 60%. The Columbus Dispatch says “Issue 1 is one of the most significant questions Ohio voters will be asked in generations,” and that’s no exaggeration. Get out there, and vote no. Early voting and absentee ballot requests are still going on, if you are registered to vote!
We gotta vote no on issue 1 in Ohio on August 8th, 2023.
Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose admitted last month “[Issue 1] is 100% about keeping a radical, pro-abortion amendment out of our constitution.”
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