Years later, a second set of WTNV Valentine’s. Welcome to Valentine’s, if you would.
Feel free to print these and give them to humans, ethereal beings, dogs, or unusual fleshy masses.
Category: Tumblr crossposts
Crossposts from tumblr (for posterity)
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Trans Women on Bandcamp
I spent the last couple hours compiling this list. It is by no means the entirety of trans women/trans feminine folks on Bandcamp, it’s just the ones I could find.
Reblog it, add to it, buy their music.Lich
Witch House/IDMJane Doe and the Misery Loves Co
Folk PunkAshby and the Oceanns
Folk/Punk/IndieBella Trout
Folk/Punk/IndieLittle Waist
Punk/Pop PunkHazagussa
Black Metal/Noise MetalLyskoi – Alyssa Kai
Folk/Folk Punk
-Do not know for sure how Alyssa identifies, but there’s a good chance that Alyssa fits here.Calliope Wong
Instrumental/Classical/Electronic/NoiseVenus Selenite
Spoken WordStars on a Bedroom’s Wall
Tremendously VariedTrrtle Nation
Experimental Electro NoiseEllie Rose
Instrumental SynthpopSkeletor Rising
Electronic Harsh NoiseHot Noisy Mess
Electronic Harsh Noise/ExperimentalMya Byrne
Folk/AmericanaPain Wife
Electronic Harsh Noise/Death IndustrialBog Witch
Doom Noise/Noise MetalVirtual Intelligence
Cyber-Goth/Industrial/Neon MetalThrough Waves
World Fusion/DarkwaveEllah a Thaun
Lyrical DissonanceToxic Delirium
Gutter Punk/Noise GrungeHIRS
Speedcore/Thrash/GrindNoize Pervertz
Harsh Noisepinkclaws
Ambient ElectropopRuby Price
Pop Punk/MumblepunkShe/Her/Hers
http://sheherhers.bandcamp.com
Folk Punkplease reblog! So many artists here to support!
Violent Pastels
“Gaudy crossover thrash/hardcore punk” -
Watch The Founder of Girls Who Code Perfectly School Trevor Noah On Why Culture Makes Or Breaks Women In Tech
On The Daily Show with Trevor Noah guest Reshma Saujani, an Indian-American lawyer and politician, discussed the initiative to encourage young women and girls to pursue studies and careers the booming tech field, where they are falling behind. But there are two moments in a girl’s life where we can reverse the trend.
Gifs: The Daily Show/cc.com
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This implant could give humans sight 3 times better than 20/20.
Good news for everyone with blurry vision or a strong desire to become Superman. The Ocumetics Bionic Lens may give you 60/20 eyesight — three times better than 20/20. It’s a major leap in eye prosthetics, takes 8 painless minutes to install — and could be here sooner than you think.
turn me into a fucking cyborg
Imagine if when people get it, they start seeing crazy shit.
“Tragedy struck today when a man was murdered by his best friend for asking “What do your elf eyes see?” for the billionth time”
^^^
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I saw this step-by step tutorial of how to Gird Your Loins and it needed to be readjusted.
I liked Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies, but the Bennett sisters needed to learn this important skill.
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A+ Adulting (to steal a phrase)
So today I set a list of things to do, and incredibly exceeded it. I got onto optional items, and even nearly finished several of them.
Main tasks were dull things like ‘cleaning the kitchen’ and ‘checking every single remaining box to see if anything’s broken’. Amazingly it’s looking pretty good. I may extract my valve radio and just check it’s okay, although it was pretty well packed in there so I’m fairly inclined to leave it where it is.
I had great fun (sarcasm may be noted) extracting each glass and ceramic item, checking them and re-wrapping them. Then writing on each box the actual contents, as opposed to the cryptic and often inaccurate descriptions from the movers. Now ‘K-Ware’ has more helpful things like ‘Ceramic Bakeware’ and ‘Spoons’ on it. Other boxes have comments like ‘health files, electronics tools’. Which is handy, because one of the things I was looking for is my vaccination records, which (ta-da) I found today. Yay.
That was another of the ‘must’ tasks.
Then, having completed the ‘must’ tasks I got on to fun things. Like ruining the turntable mat for my SL-6 Turntable. I’ve (broadly) got the turntable working, speeds are pretty close to correct (although a strobe would be handy*), but it came without a turntable mat and it turns out the SL-6 requires an ultra-thin rubber mat. I foolishly picked up some random-mat from another technics deck which is way too thick and causes the record to clip the internals of the case (it has really little clearance). I’ve tried hacking the strengtheny bits off it (since I’d already ruined it to make it fit the center hole), but I still need to do more. I shall continue my hackery later, but it’s an improvement. I can now at least play some records, and I can now hear that there’s a dirty connector somewhere in the headshell/tracking mechanism.
It’s kinda tempting to see if there’s anywhere around here that’s a proper turntable servicing place, because now it’s more-or-less working, a little going over would probably make it into a lovely piece of kit.
Next I attacked the speedo in the Minor. Its been hideously inaccurate since JLH replaced the diff and gearbox, and indeed the indicator needle was more, kind of ornamental. After much time with an excel spreadsheet I came to the conclusion that the 780tpm speedo guts I had would be pretty good for the setup I’ve got. It’s not perfect but it’s pretty close and as long as I set it correctly around town (25-35mph), it should read accurately enough for any speed I’ll be doing.
Irritatingly, though, I reassembled it with the needle not quite in the right place. A quick test revealed it’s about 5mph out across the range, so I’ll have to take it back out of the car on my next day off. Since I’m still waiting for the customs documentation to appear, I can’t title her at the moment anyway, so I’m a bit unclear on the deal with driving her. The nice email from the DOL says I can drive her for 30 days, but that does presume I’ve got the documentation with me. Which I haven’t. When I at least know where the documentation is, I might feel a bit better…
Still, productive, all in all.
* But with my laser** tacho I get 33.4 and 44.9 rpm, which is pretty good
** Laaaaaaser.A+ Adulting (to steal a phrase) was originally published on Mostly lemon based
BUT DID YOU BOOPLE?!
Of course! Not today, though.
It wasn’t on my To-Do list today.
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Michigan is too busy trying to outlaw anal sex to address toxic water in Flint
Who has time for water that cannot pass a quality test when you can legislate anal sex? The Michigan Senate recently passed a bill that outlawed sodomy, traditionally defined in legalese as either oral or anal sex. If the bill passes the Michigan House, sodomy could be punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Michigan joins about a dozen other states that have sodomy bans on their books.
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I’m going to give lessons. “Make your rhododendron look like a mushroom in ninety minutes or less!”
Impressive. Now you just need to trim the other one to look like Mario ;)
Thus far my topiary skills have been limited to ‘mushroom.’ I’ll have to work on that. Maybe I could manage a koopa…
I’d offer to help but my topiary skills are largely limited to “mauled by a jaguar with poor impulse control”.
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This Woman Stopped A Planned Parenthood Protest By Chanting “Yeast Infection”
Meet Mary Numair, a 29-year-old copywriter from Portland, Oregon. She describes herself as a “generally kind person” and likes cats.
Over the last few weeks, Mary had seen a woman holding a sign that read “abortion kills children” outside the Planned Parenthood building near her office.
Mary said she is a supporter of Planned Parenthood – the non-profit organisation that provides reproductive health and family-planning support in the U.S. and internationally – because it had helped her personally in the past. When she was 20years old, the clinic treated her for UTIs and yeast infections. They also provided her with her first birth-control pills.
“Planned Parenthood is vital resource for so many people,” she told BuzzFeed News.“We have to look beyond the pro-life/pro-choice debate and recognize this organization is out there providing some of the most important care to our sensitive medical needs.”
After several failed attempts at approaching the protesters outside her local clinic to discuss their complaints and reason with them, she decided to try a different approach.
Yesterday, Mary approached the anti-Planned Parenthood protesters while chanting “yeast infection” and holding [a sign].
“The protesters kept moving their children away from my yeasty cries, so I kept moving closer,” she joked.
“Initially they had spread down the sidewalks on both sides of the street, but after some yelling and high kicks on my part, they huddled together,” she said.
“They glared at my princess wave and cheerleader enthusiasm, and they began a prayer circle. This is when I really shined. I have never made my voice louder.”
After a short while, Mary’s chant ended up driving the protesters away. She said they grew tired of her shouts and eventually left, shaking their heads.
“One woman turned around during their prayer to shake her head at me, to which I responded: ‘OMG do you have a yeast infection? I know who can help you!’ She covered her kid’s ears,” she said.
Mary said although one man drove past and called her a “
whore” from his car, many others were “really supportive”.Does Mary have any plans for other similar protests? “Fuck. Yes. I. Do,” she replied. (source)
I can’t even tell you how happy this makes me. Thank you @buzzfeed lol. We definitely need to do this EVERYWHERE bc it’s time to make those shithead anti-choicers uncomfortable hahah
What do you think @prochoice-or-gtfo, @prochoiceamerica, @prochoicecanadian, @proudly-pro-choice, @prochoiceisprogress, @prochoiceisprolife, @oh-snap-pro-choice, @plannedparenthood, & @prochoicehumor?
I think this is pretty brilliant. Anti-abortion protesters don’t seem to care about all the necessary services that Planned Parenthood provides. I think it’s amazing that this woman had the courage and spirit to shut down a whole group of protesters.
It’s also rather telling that the mention of medical care for vaginas made these people so uncomfortable. They want to get all up in there when it comes to pregnancy, but the moment someone mentions that these are actual people’s body parts that can get infected and require medical help, that’s an occasion for shushing and dirty looks? Figures. I say confront these tightasses over and over again with the reality that their precious baby incubators are attached to real people, and that medical care does not begin or end with pregnancy.
My friends and I have had good success getting anti-choice protestors to leave by approaching them with print-outs of adoptable children from local adoption agencies and asking them “which of these lives will you care for?”
Also “yeasty cries” oh my god