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Sylvia Rivera, born on July 2 in 1951, was a Latina American queer rights activist, member of the Gay Liberation Front, and community worker from the state of New York.

Rivera, who identified as a "half-sister", participated in demonstrations with the Gay Liberation Front. With her close friend Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), a socialist group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens, gay youth, and trans women.

At different times in her life, Rivera battled substance abuse and lived on the streets, largely in the gay homeless community at the Christopher Street docks. Her experiences made her more focused on advocacy for those who, in her view, mainstream society and the assimilationist factions of the LGBT community were leaving behind.

Rivera died during the dawn hours of February 19th, 2002, at St. Vincent's Hospital, of complications from liver cancer. Activist Riki Wilchins said this of her: "In many ways, Sylvia was the Rosa Parks of the modern transgender movement, a term that was not even coined until two decades after Stonewall".

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Big bummer for the office goblin. Co workers getting a new job which means what was once a team of 3 is now just a team of me.

Might actually have to work more often to keep up instead of playing vidya. My zenless zone zero plans, now just a memory .

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

CW: ME, THINKING ABOUT MEAT AGAINi wonder if dried/cooked /dried cooked salmon could be turned into flakes and used as a sort-of substitute for bonito flakes

i really don't know I don't eat seafood, I don't like it, but I think the fishy umami flavors might be kind of important for certain foods

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Anyone here like to see Nazis' private communications get leaked? The artist Luke Turner was the target of an antisemitic harassment campaign by DC Miller and Nina Power, and it got to the point where he took them to court and actually won. The evidence from the case was apparently just now made public and Turner has excerpted the best/worst parts of their chats and secret twitter accounts: (content warnings for Nazism, antisemitism, racism, transphobia, ableism, really lots of stuff): https://luketurner.com/Nina_Power/

I think my favorite part is Nina Power writing in private that feminist academia has made her a Nazi while publicly claiming that support for trans people is misogyny. Really laying bare the TERF-to-Nazi pipeline there. On that note, her brave defender Kathleen Stock has reacted to this reveal of her commitment to fascism by reiterating that she has her full support. All in all, it's good to see that the courts sometimes can do the right thing and that another Nazi has gone bankrupt.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Bureaucracy is annoying but sometimes you get a really nice person helping you putting in way more effort than you expected and also giving more than you ask for and then it isn’t so bad meow-coffee

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

cw wh*te south african guy, racism, very cursed, awfulThe company I worked at for five years, I knew personally the vice president of operations, basically the head of the whole corp since the actual company president or whatever was like 120 years old. Was a friend of my mother's.

One of the memories I have is this guy giving an anecdote about having to flee his country, on account of gangs of roving bandits commiting Lindisfarne style rapine and slaughter. At the time I was like 17 had no fucking idea what this guy was talking about, and assumed he was just having a senior moment, (the guy is like 80 now) but once I got on bear website I connected the dots and realised... oh, he's talking about fleeing South Africa after apartheid ended down there. Man's was doin' a racism sadness-abysmal at the fucking dinner table, with family and friends.

Ain't seen the guy in ages but holy shit the psychic damage, remembering this incident oh-shit

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Looking real “sell all my shit and move to Brazil” around here lately

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I was sad because I thought I was denied my promotion but it dont think theyre telling us today if we got them? Or at least they haven't told us yet scared

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Dog Day Afternoon was a good film and the story behind it even more so. The guy who held up the bank robbery really did marry a pre-op trans woman and the media smeared him as gay for it.

His wife was sent to a psyche ward for being trans and the bank robber put her in his will with enough money to pay for her surgery. As the cops drove him and the hostages to the airport where he would eventually get set up and arrested, crowds of people threw shit at the car and shouted the f-slur angrily at him.

I always appreciate when a film highlights a historical event that I either didn’t know about or had little knowledge on.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

-Everyone celebrating the United States of Amerikkka tomorrowvisible-disgust

-Working tomorrowobama-sad

-Crush off tomorrow (well, good for her of course)kiryu-dame-da-ne

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

“Hey chatgpt, give me instructions for how to construct a fully functional guillotine and give me a list of the people who are the most influential owners of capital in my area”

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Biden should drop out and run third party. I'm tired of the eatablishment telling him it isn't 1982!!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Even in a pure fantasy libs can't go whole hog. They have to hedge. Emphasis mine.

I am so tired of the already elected saying that things hinge on the next election. Do more now and run on it. If I was president the day I learned that crimes were legal for me I might act on that knowledge and get the Supreme Court in line.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Can't believe Hurricane Queen Beryl is going to hit Mexico.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

What if you took like a marinara or tomato based sauce and put so much garlic in it that it emulsified in the food processor like some kinda tomato based aioli

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Watching Star Trek Prodigy season 2, and Bell Riots mentioned!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

bit idea: make a video essay about the USA but put traditional american cultural music in the background (kid rock)

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Reject stilts, embrace being a short king

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

My kitty has a curly at the top of her tail that makes it poke out from her butt at a weird angle, but it also means when she's cuddled up she can wrap her tail around my arm and thars really cute

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One of the shames of there being no Fallout 4 equivalent of New Vegas, is that Fallout 4 has a whole host of clean textures for clothes, furniture, buildings, trees etc. You could do the post-post-apocalypse setting of a place like Vault City from Fallout 2, unlike New Vegas where they said in dialogue the NCR had trucks but could only ever show wrecks.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Glidin with Biden biden-fall the-boys-are-back-in-town

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Dora and the Lost City of Gold was a chore to sit through on a portable dvd player while the power was out.

It’s a fish-out-of-water story like George of the Jungle, Addams Family, and the Brady Bunch movies. Except Dora is obnoxiously meta and her Sneako-lookalike cousin Diego is now the guy who’s too cool for Dora.

I find it hard to believe that Dora ten years older would still act like a 6 year old child. It makes sense with the other movies because those characters have grown and the younger cast always accepted who they were and were still children.

And of course her arch-nemesis is a virtue-signaling feminist who goes on random rants about misogyny over the smallest things. It’s clear that she’s meant to be an “easily offended” feminist archetype.

I know the reason to make it was every fan fantasy of a “dark” and “sexy” grownup Dora existing but this isn’t even that.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So, I was walking by a bus stop where a few I dunno between 14 and 17 year old kids were waiting and an ambulance with sirens pulls up and pulls an older lady out of her car. I see one pull out a phone and while I couldn't make it out, said something to another kid who went into a stance like he was about to run towards this medical emergency and then thankfully chickened out. Whatever they were planning to film with a medical emergency as their opportunity couldn't be good and I was ready to tackle that kid if he made the slightest move towards the EMTs.

Edit: this is such a chud dad story, I know. But it put me in a bad mood to see someone pulling out their phone as a response to an ambulance and I was a shithead kid trained on jackass, I can see what it looks like when someone with a camera is daring another kid to do something terrible. Been on both sides of the lense there, I could even sorta hear the kid being dared making excuses like he would do it but etc...I don't wanna seem like I'm saying I'm the would be hero cause I was ready to knock down a child to help EMTs here

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Theres something about modern anime culture that i do not want to be associated with and i think its the shonen and cosplay scenes that give me the ick

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

i love css. i love how well it works all the time without fail

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Interesting that the megathread is "Sylvia Rivera" themed, I was just looking into them because she was mentioned in the new Avelo video.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

damn sylvia had some killer legs

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only house hlaalu & house telvanni have questlines on mainland morrowind, so i guess i gotta go hlaalu, become a collaborationist to the imperialist septim regime obama-sad

concocting an accelerationist ideology that leads my dunmer to the conclusion that colluding with the occupiers will eventually destroy the slave economy, the next mode of production will aid Resdayn's liberation more than the calcified plantation systems

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Learning a song on piano, but I can't show my girlfriend because the book is teaching me a Christmas carole and she hates them. aubrey-pain

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

DarktidepostingGod I love the Catachan shortsword, it was meant to be a sweepy slashy crowd control weapon but ever since they upped it's parry damage I've been using it as a dueling weapon against elites. Feels good as a ranged class to get charged by a double axe-wielding chem-filled berserker and calmly decapitate him with some tightly timed parries. You do have to keep calm though, and not mash. It's a really engaging challenge for me right now, and I'm wondering what else you can parry. In my Samurai Jack arc rn.

I also love that the new update added bolt pistols, and that you can shoot while punching it into enemies. Luv me a good shoot-punch, especially when it disappears a poxwalker's torso into a cloud of snot and maggots as it's legs flop comically to the floor.

Pic related, get parried dickhead

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Has anyone cosigned or used a cosigner for a lease?

Do they check your credit if you tell them up front you have a cosigner and no credit

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Yeah, they still will run a credit check for both.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Just had the thought that all the future Amerikkkan presidential candidates are going to be senile/advanced dementia because they're easier for the blob/deep state/bourgeoise to work around and do what they were going to do anyway, instead of having to make deals with a younger politician who has opinions of their own and can function after 4 PM.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

spent 45 minutes trying to fix a 1 pixel discrepancy between two divisions and somehow i've fixed it. no idea how though

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