“In the spring of 1940, when the Nazis overran France from the north, much of its Jewish population tried to escape the country towards the south. In order to cross the border, they needed visas to Spain and Portugal, and together with a flood of other refugees, tens of thousands of Jews besieged the Portuguese consulate in Bordeaux in a desperate attempt to get that life-saving piece of paper. The Portuguese government forbade its consuls in France to issue visas without prior approval from the Foreign Ministry, but the consul in Bordeaux, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, decided to disregard the order, throwing to the wind a thirty-year diplomatic career. As Nazi tanks were closing in on Bordeaux, Sousa Mendes and his team worked around the clock for ten days and nights, barely stopping to sleep, just issuing visas and stamping pieces of paper. Sousa Mendes issued thousands of visas before collapsing from exhaustion.
The Portuguese government—which had little desire to accept any of these refugees—sent agents to escort the disobedient consul back home, and fired him from the foreign office. Yet officials who cared little for the plight of human beings nevertheless had a deep reverence for documents, and the visas Sousa Mendes issued against orders were respected by French, Spanish and Portuguese bureaucrats alike, spiriting up to 30,000 people out of the Nazi death trap. Sousa Mendes, armed with little more than a rubber stamp, was responsible for the largest rescue operation by a single individual during the Holocaust.”
—Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
yall are so fake for making sans undertale jokes like wasnt our Friend. like he didnt buy us a Meal at grillby’s. like he didnt help Hide You from papyrus. like he didnt stack hotdogs ON YOUR HEAD. yall are such fake friends and you need to know.
seriously, fuck the false dichotomy between Science and The Arts. as if capital-S Science isn’t an art that requires creativity, perseverance, patience, and skilled observation. as if The Arts don’t require rigor, discipline, practice, and attention to detail. as if both aren’t cultural structures that stand on foundations of sexist, racist, capitalist hierarchy. as if they both can’t be used for purposes of enrichment and revolution. i am so fucking over this idea of presenting science and art as opposites, when they have so much more in common than people think.
UM!!!!!!! UM!!!! this is a beautiful post!!!! and I feel it with every part of my soul!
never let people forget that the main target of nazis are jews.
Lgbt people are targets, black people are targets, other poc are targets.
but their main targets are always Jews. don’t forget about us. Don’t forget that they’re targeting jews.
because everyone seems to be doing so, and its not fair. We’re real people, being targeted. our death, our elimination, is being Claimed as a main goal publicly on television by these neo-nazis.
You don’t get to leave us out of your solidarity posts about the victims and targets of these white supremacists.
To do so is to perpetuate the very antisemitism that these people are spreading. To do so is to be complicit in these neo-nazis goals.
I know most people making posts in solidarity with the targets of these people mean well, but you can’t leave out their main target, for any reason.
not that we needed another reason to advocate for single stall gender-neutral bathrooms but
when I’m out in public with my residents, and only multiple-stall gendered bathrooms exist, i have to force them into a space where extra attention is drawn to the fact that they need assistance in the bathroom. I have to find workarounds for being discreet in a bathroom full of people, I have to choose a gendered bathroom that might be uncomfortable for both of us
Disabled people (including disabled trans people!) have a right to exist safely in public and have their right to privacy respected
When the elderly need help using the bathroom, the most logical person to provide that help is their spouse of many years, if they have one. But gendered bathrooms leave heterosexual couples in this situation with no choice that doesn’t require one of them to face social embarrassment and possibly to break the law.
Single stall no-gender bathrooms are better for everyone.
G: Rhysie is waiting for his boss. I drew this for Lins, my soulmate and co-author because she loves this little boy xD And because we are writing a small rhack text again. Feels good to be back to BL!
PS This art is inspired by the moment from first episode of Superjail! that I rewatched lately xD I just saw Warden lying on his desk and I was like ‘YES, THIS IS WHAT I NEED’.
Wtf is tumblr mobile not actually responding to any of my settings? Safe search is off and its still blocking “sensitive content” and its recommending me posts on my dashboard even though i have THAT disabled too.
ugh 