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Ian McKellen  says that all gay people should be trans allies

Sir Ian McKellen urges gay people to be better allies to the transgender community.

The legendary actor and Stonewall co-founder joined It’s a Sin star Olly Alexander for a special LGBT+ History Month talk on TikTok on February 25, Pink News reports. 

Sir Ian said: 

This is not the first time the actor has stood up to transphobes. 

Speaking to lifestyle magazine Attitude, the veteran star talked about how happy he was about Elliot Page coming out as transgender. 

He felt “so disappointed” with himself for not recognizing the struggles that the then-teenage actor could have been facing when they worked together.

The actor talked about why it is important to be honest with oneself.

Top photo from The Talks.

1. KING SHIT

2. yes

3.”common or garden gay”

you will NEVER be able to guess what this post from the official US government consumer product safety commission was in response to (under the cut)

...Now I'm going to dispute that the founders could not have dreamed this. I think they would have found this scenario extremely plausible once you explained the stage upon which this little human drama takes place, if not the outright logical outcome.

Because you can't tell me that is not EXACTLY how Benjamin Franklin would behave if he were around today.

First tweet: “I saw a piece of fabric? on the floor of my room so I went to pick it up but it was actually the moonlight that entered through the window lmao”

Quote RT: “1000 years ago this would have been a poem, not a tweet”

The game becomes open-world when you master the skills: Talk To People and Ask For Things

I promise this is especially true for museum folks, library folks, and academics. We are always looking for an opportunity to talk about our silly little special interests and we will love you for providing one. Send the email.

Send the email!

this is legit I have made a habit of emailing prominent researchers in overly specific things and it has opened many doors...

obsolete angel

i’m so happy, i found my favorite reddit post of all time.  i thought i lost it forever

First off, spin this wheel.

You just landed on one of 200 fandoms that have been very popular somewhere on Tumblr over the years. Topics were chosen either from appearing on a @fandom end-of-year recap or from my own long (long, long) site memories before that.

also all of these fandoms are definitely things that really exist in the real world and none of them are Tumblr creations

i gotta make a banner and a pfp for it but I kinda wanna make a community for recipes that are like. SPECIFICALLY retrieved from unhinged calls made to 60+ year old parents with absolutely no actual ingredient measurements.

I already have a bunch of these on this blog that I can reblog to it, but know the vibe is gonna be like the antithesis of the average polished recipe community.

I want to be able to scroll through recipe that your nonna vaguely guided you through on a 9pm phone call or recipes you cobbled together after calling your baba on a 6pm ingredient run and end the call with a near net zero of informatoin.

i'll let yall know when it's set up so you can start reblogging shit to it

okay here we go again, this time I've sourced my banner from a 15 year old facebook picture i took of my family's kitchen after an attempt was made to make gingerbread TARDIS's that went as messily as it could have

happy pacific rim breach closing day everyone

steam events where they show off demos are so bizarre because I always download like 10, try them all for 5 minutes, get bored pretty much immediately, except that maybe once in every two or three events there's a demo that utterly blows my pants off and makes the whole concept worth it

anyway Cobalt Core feels like someone opened a portal to one of the less awful timelines and took the source code for their version of Slay the Spire, so it has a bunch of really clever creative mechanics and a ridiculously cozy vibe for a game meant to kill you

the "campfire" equivalent (a repair bay) is staffed by a cat person who can randomly greet you with "meowdy"

...but also the core loop is incredibly tight, feels really satisfying, and even in the demo there's this constant sense of "okay that run was really fucking fun but I want to try this other kind of build and maybe I won't get the cards that make that work but I absolutely trust that that other build will work too" etc etc

just a really fucking good demo, game comes out in two weeks, I have it wishlisted and you should too, holy shit

Here's a funny little story about disability accommodation.

So I'm a bit deaf. Like...I have a prescription for a hearing aide but don't own one kind of a bit deaf. And I used to work at this noisy ass addiction treatment clinic. So even in my office I relied a lot on lipreading.

So one day I'm working with this client, and she's getting more and more upset and shut down, no matter how I try to steer us onto a calm, relaxed subject of conversation. And I can't figure out why the conversation has gone so far south.

And then I realize I am sitting at a buckwild angle in my chair, leaning waaaay over to the side. I'm almost falling off this chair. I look like a total goober.

And then I realize I'm doing that because I'm trying to lipread this client, who keeps turning further and further down and away from me. I probably would have noticed sooner but lipreading is actually kind of hard and I was focusing on noticing her upset rather than my body language.

And then it clicks.

She thinks I'm leaning like this because I am being a passive-aggressive asshole who is trying to force/shame her into making eye contact with me. I'd known this client enough to know she hates eye contact- possibly autism, possibly anxiety. Always possible it's both or something else.

I sit up straight and say. "Oh! Hey, I don't give a shit about eye contact, I'm trying to read your lips so I can understand what you're saying to me."

Instant vibe change. She relaxes, and sits upright comfortably in her chair, looking about a foot to the left of my head, so I can see her face clearly but she doesn't have to either fake or evade unwanted eye contact.

From then on things go a lot smoother, and we can get some good work done.

One side benefit from normalizing accommodations and reducing barriers to them is that it allows for low-stress conversations about what everybody needs in order to fully participate in an interaction. If I hadn't named the need I was trying to meet, she wouldn't have realized she could have her need met as well.

I know we talk a lot about keep jumping on boxes, but I'm honestly so grateful for Joe hills' knife theory; a variation on spoon theory that says once you're out of spoons, you can choose to take knives instead in the knowledge that it will hurt later. and the number of times I've told myself 'ok let's take the knives' is so high that I've found it really helps to acknowledge it. Thanks, Joe

I think there is a message here that a lot of people don’t get: there is a cost when you do not have the spoons for something and some force compels you to do it regardless

this is the first I’ve ever heard of “knives” in the context of disability, but I’m disabled and retired entirely because I took more knives than I can even begin to count at my old job, and was never given a chance to recover from all the stabs and slices

so i feel like “knives” could do for being more widespread, so that people better understand the choice they’re making and the toll it can take if they do things that they don’t have the spoons for

VACCINATE YA KIDS FFS

The other thing about measles is that it resets your body’s memory of other diseases. So all those times you’ve gotten sick? Your body’s memory cells no longer remember those illnesses, so even if you get the same type of illness again your body will react like it’s the first time you’ve been sick.

It’s so much worse than “just a disease”. 

Measles does WHAT

Holy fuck

What the fuck what the fuck what the fUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

antivaxxers also, in part, helped sabotaged the human lyme disease vaccine for lyme disease caused by borrelia burgdorferi infection (until 2016 the only known species of lyme disease causing bacteria in the USA). In 1998, the first lyme disease vaccine for the strain of the bacteria prevalent in the USA licensed. It passed clinical trials and was shown to be safe and effective; it was between 76 and 92% effective at preventing lyme disease with 3 injections. Antivaxxers proceeded to abuse the adverse affect reporting system, often complaining of arthritis, and this caused media and general hysteria about the vaccine. if you remember the flu vaccine hysteria around the swine flu epidemic, it was kind of like that. despite double-blind trials conducted both before and after licensing, that was unable to support their claims and instead displaying that the vaccine was safe and effective, the damage was done, and the vaccine was shelved in the USA. you can get a lyme disease vaccine in Europe, but Europe has a different strain of the bacteria that causes lyme disease.

Lyme disease can become very serious, it can infect the nervous system and cause neurological problems especially in young children who are often bitten on the head or the neck, undiagnosed it can cause chronic health issues that mimic other diseases. Without safe prophylactic measures beyond trying to minimize contact w ticks, this has driven people who have had lyme disease, have chronic effects from mass-disseminated lyme disease infection, or people who believe they have chronic lyme disease to go to quack doctors and undergo unsafe, unapproved medical treatment in an attempt to stop suffering.

This would not be happening on the scale that it is if antivaxxers didn’t straight up execute a supervillain plot to sabotage the lyme disease vaccine. the vaccine was licensed in december 1998, which was the year andrew wakefield published his fraudulent research on the MMR vaccine

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/7/17314716/lyme-disease-vaccine-history-effectiveness

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/lyme-disease-vaccines

these people are fucking dangerous beyond compare

edited for clarity

Sisyphus complete.

the fight is harder each year.

gotta keep going because nothing ever stops.

you deserve to be new and whole.