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How queer deathcare is changing the way LGBTQ+ Ohioans die

“In their deaths, they’re just taking matters into their own hands and applying their own rules,” she said. “And a lot of times that has to do with having a firm idea of who you are and what it is that you want — and knowing how to get it in a society that doesn’t necessarily have the options for you that you deserve.”

When America Met Sinéad O’Connor

Even from a distance, you can’t miss the massive man in the crosshairs of a gun that’s been painted onto the side of her shaved head, an arresting image even if you don’t immediately catch the reference.

Calls for anti-LGBTQ+ protests to an Ohio library’s Pride Month display backfire

“It wasn’t until a public library opened in the town over from mine in eighth grade that I was able to start navigating big questions around how my identity and beliefs might differ from others,” said local resident Becca Lachman. “There are items in our libraries I don’t agree with either or want my child to read or view, but I welcome those conversations with her when she does, and I can’t imagine parenting without access to all that a public library offers.”

Why Do Neo-Nazis Keep Getting Arrested For Child Sexual Abuse Material?

As mentioned by Pitcavage, this isn’t necessarily a new phenomenon; some of the most well-known neo-Nazis of the old guard have been caught with CSAM or with underage women including James Mason and National Vanguard founder Kevin Alfred Strom. Strom, an influential neo-Nazi for years, was found with child pornography in 2007, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 23 months in prison.

Why we no longer keep our dead at home

In 1898, folklorist Richard Blakeborough described the emotional resonance of this moment: “It is looked upon as a kindly action, when standing by the corpse of some dear one, if the visitor gently touch the same. In some undefined way, this solemn contact of the living with the dead, makes known to the sorrowing ones that nothing but sympathy is felt.”

He’s The Trans Son Of An Anti-Trans Influencer. It’s His Turn To Speak.

"But Renton is neither a prodigal nor a daughter. He’d like you to know he’s never going home to Tania because that home was hell — the type of hell he’s horrified that Republican legislators are trying to recreate for every trans kid in America."

The Strange Appeal Of Mystery Flesh Pit: How Trevor Roberts Built The Wildest Theme Park In All Of Fiction

The whole thing packs a snapping satirical bite with an endless supply of ironic dichotomies: a disarming park mascot known as “Caver Coop” contrasted with man-eating creepy-crawlies scuttling within gloomy folds of tissue; corporate partnerships with AT&TT and Coca-Cola juxtaposed against enzyme pockets waiting to turn hapless visitors into quivering puddles of raw genetic material.

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming

“It’s oh, so simple: several years of sweet-talking medical professionals, receiving hormone therapies, and enduring complex gender-affirming surgeries, and that swimming trophy will be mine!”

Sex Ed Books Don’t “Groom” Kids and Teens. They Protect Them.

When right-wing groups petition and protest to get sex education books off the shelves of school and public librarians, this is the effect. It stops the most vulnerable people in our society from accessing the tools and language that can help them. It helps to shield and hide abusers. It communicates to children suffering from abuse that they are shameful, and that it’s not safe or polite to speak out about.

Anti-Fascist. Armed to the Teeth

The John Brown Gun Clubs operate independently but share a similar ethos: Direct action to counter the threat of the far right, and their members are dedicated to anti-fascism, anti-racism, and anti-bigotry. Most groups I spoke to emphasize that showing up armed is only part of their work, mentioning supply drives for unhoused people during Texas’ deep freezes and other mutual-aid events. “The gun stuff doesn’t exist without all this other stuff,” says one JBGC member who goes by the name Accountant. “If we’re going to be carrying guns, there has to be a community reason for it.”

50 years after release, Disney’s Robin Hood is still a life-changing furry phenomenon

Katav approached the film similarly through their childhood experience. “Robin Hood was very much my window into a world where animals spoke and acted like people do. These were characters who could do people things — shoot a bow, dress in drag, play badminton, etc. — but they still could be a beautiful array of species. In my conservative upbringing, this was a window into a world otherwise, a world like our own but different, where there could be more and freer self-expression.”

Debunked: No, 80% Of Trans Youth Do Not Detransition

Ken Zucker’s research on transgender youth was performed in 1995, a time when youth could not legally or medically transition. In fact, trans youth in that time likely all “desisted” for some time because of bullying, lack of access to care, and severe repression. I myself grew up as a transgender youth in that time period and I “desisted,” one of the many reasons I am writing this article.

Swearing Like A Sailor May Not Be Such A Bad Thing

“There’s a point where it’s just more efficient to say, ‘F*&^ you,’ than it is to hit somebody,” adds Jay, a world-renowned expert in cursing. “We’ve evolved this very efficient way to vent our emotions and convey them to others.”

Lawrence library’s ‘Left Between the Pages’ exhibition offers unique snapshots of community

Every day, approximately 2,000 items are returned to the Lawrence Public Library. Many items — notes, drawings, postcards, photographs and much more — are left between books’ pages.

The strange and very Albertan history of the Cadillac Ranch

Kissel, who’s 32, remembers learning the Cadillac Ranch in phys ed. The singer went to school in St. Paul, a town roughly two hours northeast of Edmonton. But he’d memorized the steps and music before the Cadillac Ranch was one of his class requirements. “I mean, it was played at every wedding,” says Kissel. “I’ve got such a big family with endless cousins. You play the Cadillac Ranch at about 10 p.m. and you just watch the dance floor get flooded. Whether it be a live band or a DJ, it’s the song of the night.”

Leading Neo-Nazi Website Is Now Publishing in Spanish

The Spanish site also includes appeals for donations and unpaid articles, and a forum where people complain about Chile and Argentina filling up with "negros," referring to people from Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay.

Puritanism took over online fandom — and then came for the rest of the internet

Older Gen Z and younger millennials who learned the language of social justice on Tumblr are now teaching younger generations how to wield those concepts for ill. “I think they grew up with faux activism as it was starting online,” Aburime told me, “where it was like, ‘if you like this, or if you don’t do this, you’re a bad person,’ when it’s just cartoons at the end of the day.”

Girl, 9, accused of being trans at Kelowna track meet

Starr said the man's wife then started calling her "a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile."

Originally posted on Lawyers & Liquor, April 11, 2017.

Backing these up from Boozy's site because he was talking about closing it down recently and there's a couple good articles I sometimes link from there.

This is the original article Boozy did about furries and the RMFC sovereign citizen shit. It's no longer on the L&L site, but I pulled it from the Wayback Machine. Some of the images are missing, unfortunately.

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Originally posted on Lawyers & Liquor, September 28, 2018.

Backing these up from Boozy's site because he was talking about closing it down recently and there's a couple good articles I sometimes link from there.

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Originally posted on Lawyers & Liquor, January 26, 2018.

Backing these up from Boozy's site because he was talking about closing it down recently and there's a couple good articles I sometimes link from there.

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Originally posted on Lawyers & Liquor, January 12, 2018.

Backing these up from Boozy's site because he was talking about closing it down recently and there's a couple good articles I sometimes link from there.

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Originally posted on Lawyers & Liquor, August 25, 2017.

Backing these up from Boozy's site because he was talking about closing it down recently and there's a couple good articles I sometimes link from there.

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Originally posted on Lawyers & Liquor, August 11, 2017.

Backing these up from Boozy's site because he was talking about closing it down recently and there's a couple good articles I sometimes link from there.

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i'm awake too early. took a sick day but woke back up around work time anyhow, so i'm just putzing around online

Toxic Positivity: When Nice Isn't Kind

You don’t have to reduce love to trivial smalltalk. If you want, set that boundary and watch what happens in your life. The people who don’t love you will be put off, and the people most willing to love you will be attracted.

this one above got a WILD spectrum of commentary on it in the chats i shared it in. made me wonder if we were reading the same words, tbh. it's been fascinating to see

some random responses from the various discussions. no shade to any of these individual people, just noting the juxtaposition of opinions

- I'm glad I don't know this person, they sound like the biggest killjoy in the world
- It really articulates what I’ve already been thinking
- it's a little "stop being happy, people are dying"
- i mean i find that stuff annoying, too. it feels like a way of making things about yourself while pretending you’re being altruistic or nice.
- Jesus. I’ve never seen someone so upset over random compliments to the general public
- nobody drive by cares about 1000 people at once in any meaningful way, it’s just making noise for no reason
- I think the person who wrote that got some deeper issues than just being annoyed because it’s a random compliment XD
- Superficial, generic messages like the one that kicked off this article are one of the things that's made sites like Facebook unusable; it becomes 80% meaningless fluff and no actual content. And using it to change a topic of conversation is just selfish; "I'm uncomfortable, so I'm going to derail the entire chat to better suit myself instead of coming back when the topic is more relevant to my interests."
- I feel like the kind of person who's writing this has a lot of free time on their hands lol
- It really articulates what I’ve already been thinking
- it's also full on armchair psychiatrist nonsense
- This is the kinda stuff that needs to get talked about more. I don’t feel more loved when people throw that out there. Personally I feel more isolated because a random person in a chat or a TikTok video is the only way that’s been communicated and makes me feel even more alone
- Not gonna say they're an asshole. I don't know them enough and I can't judge it from one post. I can say it is quite a rant and seems to do a lot of assuming and projecting.
- It's kind of selfish, really. "I'm uncomfortable, so I'm going to derail the entire chat to better suit myself."
- Tl;Dr I don't think they're malicious just that they lack social skills and awareness

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Moms for Liberty Has Aggressive, Predatory Tactics—and They’re Working

Ingram was also doxxed by members of the group because of his off-duty activism around removing local Confederate monuments. “I received death threats like, ‘he shouldn’t be breathing, much less teaching,’ as well as people emailing my principal and our superintendent that I should be fired for ‘indoctrinating children’ and teaching ‘CRT.”

As Rail Profits Soar, Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School

An eighth grade girl waited 10 minutes before she made her move, nervously scrutinizing the gap between two cars. She’d seen plenty of trains start without warning. “I don’t want to get crushed,” she said.

The Trees That Miss The Mammoths

Today, the evidence of human impact is all around us, but now we know that even the most pristine of wilderness areas have many missing pieces. We’ve learned to see the ghosts of the lost megafauna in the rotting fruit, poor dispersal, and useless thorns of Osage-orange, Kentucky coffeetree, honeylocust, and others. But what are we still missing?

Calvinism and the American Conception of Evil

Calvin believed that humans were fundamentally depraved and incapable of being good. Only God is good and only by God’s direct action could a human think or act with moral goodness. Without God’s intervention, humans are left in the clutches of Satan, who would use humans for evil purposes. The world is infected with sin, because this is Satan’s world, and the devil “howls outside the door.”