this is edited. here’s the original photo, taken at the Second National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights, in October of 1987:

Article 27 of the Maryland Annotated Code was a law prohibiting a number of common sexual acts; sections 553/554 specifically criminalizing sodomy and oral sex, and making them punishable by up to ten years in prison.

that law wasn’t repealed until 2020. i don’t have the time to do more research on this right now but reading some articles it seems like its repeal was fraught and maybe not even complete. there’s definitely cases of it being used to arrest patrons at gay bars.

so like yeah fuck censorship and the hays code but this young man (who i think is identified somewhere, again, if i could do more research rn i would) is humorously protesting the criminalization of gay sexuality, specifically sodomy. kinda shitty to edit the original message.

hope this helps!! 🥰

The Mandela Effect makes me so angry because it's so stupid but it also reflects the way some people in the first world see the rest of the world. Nelson Mandela was not like, some actor, he was one of the greatest political leaders of the 20th century, the father of the modern nation of South Africa, a key if not the key person to bring down apartheid which was one of the greatest crimes against humanity of the century. A South Africa and indeed a world without Nelson Mandela would be very different, we're talking about 58 million people who would still live under an oppressive racist regime or a devastating civil war; this was all avoided thanks to the tireless effort of Mandela and others to create modern South Africa. If you ever picked up a newspaper or watched the news or watched the 2010 World Cup, you MUST have at least heard of him.

And then some dumb pseudoscience "paranormal researcher" doesn't remember him and says that's proof of parallel dimensions and the whole internet takes it as a meme, and the other examples, together with a political leader spoken about in the same tone as Ghandi or Martin Luther King, are a children's book and Pikachu's tail. Just say you're a fucking dumbass who lives in a bubble and doesn't pay any attention to the world around you, it would be less embarrassing. Fucking hell.

Just to be clear, the original "Mandela Effect" thing was not about false memories (those are called 'false memories' and it happens because humans are dumb) but a "paranormal researcher" who thought Mandela died in prison in the 80s and was surprised to see he actually died in 2013. So one of the explanations she gave was that she came from a parallel dimension where Mandela did die, and her proof was that so many other (dumb) people had similar memories, most likely mistaking Mandela by other anti-apartheid leaders.

Apparently, the fact that one of the world's most important leaders died or not had absolutely no effect whatsoever beyond confusing this single dumbass lady. The entire nation of South Africa with its millions of people might as well have been in civil war, still under apartheid, or taking a completely different course, but who cares, right? That's in like, Africa.

That’s not quite true. The reporter behind the story, Daphne Caruana Galizia, was murdered.

(Source here)

To say the Panama Papers accomplished nothing is an insult to Daphne Galizia’s memory. Her work, and the work of the hundreds of other journalists who contributed to the Papers, changed the world.

Disinformation like this is designed to discourage you, to make you feel you’re powerless against the monsters of the world. They want you to feel that way, because they are terrified of your power to make change.

Take your power back. Demand better. Keep fighting for a better world, because a better world is possible.

before pride month ends i wanted to put together a little slideshow~

oh no please say this is a joke

I would never joke about fujoshi heritage

did you know that its impossible to throw an egg really hard onto your bedrooms wall right now try it

thats photoshooped

you gotta learn how the internet works on a basic level so that you do not get your shit rocked because of how you assumed things work. lets start with history. ada lovelace invented computers in 18whatever so she could show everyone her dad’s cringe poem he wrote during his divorce. nothing happened until 1970 when computer perverts from a university dorm created the internet during a failed attempt to turn a doll into the perfect virtual woman. in 2016 the internet invented hell on earth. i hope you learned something today

Tumblr Code.

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: ”17 cocks”

always reblog tumblr identification

this post makes me want to gouge my eyes out

im laughins so hard who changed it

WHO TF EDITED THE SHOELACE POST

No seriously the edit function has been gone for years who did this

how to access tumblr on iphone

Okay I know everyone’s losing their shit about the Snowgrave route right now but can we talk about uh. THIS????

Diversity Win! Sans Undertale is bisexual and fucked both your parents!