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Speaking of the Super Bowl, this is a screen shot of a video ESPN posted (the commentary text on the video is theirs) and I find it *fascinating* that the official video of the show didn’t show this angle.
So most folks at home didn’t see the shadow being cast on the ground, which is a very classic “hangman” from tarot. Although, I’d assume we’re supposed to think of other hanging men when we see this. Strange fruit, if you will.
Powerful. Upsetting. And of course, hidden from TV viewers.
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op turned off reblogs but i wanted this on my blog so i screenshotted it
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@oh-tobeafrog thank you for inspiring me with this galaxy brain take on my two favorite marvel heroes :)
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So wait are livestock guardian dogs to their flocks like… Clark Kent among the residents of Smallville? He’s been here since he was a baby, we all know him, and he’s… generally one-of-us shaped, uh, approximately. And then when something goes wrong he suddenly leaps into action and does some terrifying impossible shit none of us could do. And then comes back home and settles in like nothing happened and he’s one of us again.
Hmm.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
that is CLEARLY two completely different dogs
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❗️GAME TIP❗️you can take your autistic girlfriend to the aquarium to stare at fish🐟🐠
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Tim Stoker is the epitome of “the love was there. It didn’t change anything and in fact made things worse in many ways, but it was there and it mattered,” if you even care
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>Join a union
>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it’s all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what’s going on
>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members
>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that’s going on
Yeah, there’s a surprising amount of people who just…don’t interact with the union they are in at all. At all. And then complain when shit gets voted in they didn’t want.
Maybe get involved. Show up to shit. Just a thought.
This is also true of the Democratic Party btw. People are always complaining about what “The Democrats” should do, or aren’t doing etc etc.
but like literally in my early 20s I started going to my local party’s meetings regularly and with-in a few months they were like “hey you want to be on the committee to re-write our by-laws?” yes, yes I do thank you. “hey you want to get elected to be one of our representatives to the meetings of the state party?” why yes thank you so I got to go and debate the budget of a swing state Democratic Party.
I had to move for work not that much after that but like people I know from that have been delegates to the DNC, have elected officials come to their homes for events. Literally there’s a middle aged lady I know who when Hillary Clinton decided to run for President, Hillary started with a small tour on a van, she called it her Scooby Van, and her first stop in New Hampshire, with its “first in the nation” primary was to a bakery in my home town and the person she sat with at what was her first or second official campaign stop of her run for President is a lady I know who isn’t some super secret Democratic overlord or anything but a local lady who volunteers a lot.
Just the other day I got invited to meet my Senator (again) tomorrow I’m going to meet my state’s governor (again) because I volunteer, if I wanted I could likely get to be a delegate to the DNC
so many organizations are open doors that people just refuse to push and then are big mad it didn’t read their minds and do what you think.
I live in a town of 960 people, and four years ago I ran for an open seat on the Library Board; within three months I was chairing the board because the lady who was the chair had been doing it for 14 years and she wanted a break. Someone also threw my name in the ring to be on the school board; another candidate won the seat that time.
In my first three years on the library board, we
- a) lost a librarian to a car accident,
- b) hired an interim librarian,
- c) hired a permanent librarian,
- c) wrote an anti-censorship policy,
- d) balanced the library budget three years running,
- d) started a Friends of the Library group,
- e) organized our social media campaign,
- f) joined the statewide electronic catalog, and
- g) quadrupled our library membership.
So when I ran for library board for my second term, I got voted in with 100% of the votes cast… and I also won an open seat on the school board as a write-in candidate with 19 votes; and I lost an election to the Select Board (our ‘mayoral’ system is a 3-person board) by just 38 votes out of 450 cast.
So now I’m solving library problems on the one hand, and solving school board problems on the other hand. It’s an education in educational policy and finance — federal and state aid programs, local policy on athletics and sports and core education vs arts funding, union negotiations, and more. If I ever decide to run for select board again, I’m going to be much better informed and prepared to understand the issues.
Meanwhile…Just yesterday, I drove through a town of 65,000 people. There was a group of people on a street corner holding up “pro labor” signs and “free Palestine” signs and “anti-war” signs, and “Jill Stein for President” (mind you, this is March 2025 – there isn’t a presidential election until 2028!) and “The Green Party wants your vote!” signs. There were maybe ten of these folks?
So when I got home, I went to their city’s “Boards and Commissions” website. They have 19 vacant seats on various committees and boards and commissions, including two (the Wetlands Commission [wouldn’t that be a Green Party issue??], and the Diversity Commission) that don’t have enough members right now to hold meetings under state quorum rules. And there are 85 people on other commissions and boards that are up for re-election this year, and more than half of them don’t want to keep running for these seats; they’d welcome a challenger.
In other words, the local community is STARVING for people to fill local government responsibilities.
Why are these people out here holding up signs for a woman to run for president in three years, when there are 104 seats in their own community government that are up election this year? Demonstrate to someone, somebody, anybody that you want to help solve community-level problems, and that you know what you’re doing… and there’s no holding you back.
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It’s not just to have a “do over” that doesn’t involve the original cast, it’s to cut them out of the royalties. Literally the entire point is to make sure all the money made by Harry Potter goes to transphobes or people willing to work with transphobes.
If you watch it, you are supporting bigotry, hate, and oppression. That’s just objective reality. All for a story that you probably have already seen in movie and book form.
#the last point is especially true since the old cast receives royalties for anything with their likeness on it#meaning the original trio still gets money for every mug with their 14 year old faces on it#if they stop making those and replace them with the new cast which they will the old cast gets cut off completely#which is again exactly what rowling wants because she cannot stand those ‘ungrateful brats’ as she would likely put it#and as she has last say in anything that gets made in harry potter paraphernalia this might also explain the decrease in faces on products
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I hate Rowling so much.
There’s people in the notes saying they’re going to watch it anyway, and you know, I understand how you can start feeling so burned out and numb from the world that it may feel too hard to avoid things that will give you a little immediate relief in some way in order to avoid the long-term impact of funding these things.
But. If you can’t bring yourself to avoid watching it, you better at least fucking pirate it.
FYI, Rowling posted this today. She is actively queerphobic, do not support this project in anyway.
I know that this was a foundational thing for so many people. I was one of them. Without Harry Potter, I probably wouldn’t be the person I am today.
If you’re thinking about watching this anyway because you feel all that nostalgia: It’s time to grow up. It’s time to move on.
Don’t even hate watch it. Make it fail.
It is the easiest thing ever to simply not do anything.
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ALTComic by howbabycomic.com. Perfect for people with chronic illnesses and disabilities
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