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HEY AMERICANS. "COCONUT" IS NOT A SLUR. It's an insult brown people use to call other brown people when they're acting like a white person. Any person of colour can use it, including Black people. It's free speech, not hate speech. Harris's supporters use it because of her anecdote that became a meme, which is fine because it isn't an insult in that context, and only amuses South Asians at worst. You can do whatever you want with it but stop saying it's a slur when fucking Rishi Sunak literally had a South Asian woman arrested for calling his band of merry brown Tory demons "coconuts". The only reason someone would call it a slur is extreme butthurt.

Also the lotus is a symbol of both India's ethnofascist BJP and Sri Lanka's SLPP parties. Please reject that as an alternative as well.

Stop spreading misinformation before you give white people the idea to turn it into a slur. Reblog this.

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

It wrinkles my brain that Jupiter’s moon Europa has oceans that are sixty miles deep, while Earth’s oceans only reach seven miles deep at most. I’m willing to bet good money that there’s life in Europa’s oceans. Like five bucks. You hear me, NASA? I bet you five bucks that there’s life on Europa… Now that there’s money and reputation on the line, I bet they send a mission there real quick.

Voters in both England and France just used tactical voting, and voted for candidates they didn’t necessarily love to ensure that the unacceptable candidate would lose. And kept the unacceptable party from taking power.

Like. In the last four days, both of those elections happened.

The left wing alliance in France saw LaPen’s party winning in the first round of voting and hated that so hard that 138 of their candidates who were in third place — and could have split the vote — dropped out, and told their voters to vote for the one that would stop the RN from taking control.

It worked.

People in the UK went aggressively tactical. The Labour Party has turned to be much much more centrist in the last five years. Got voted for anyway, because it got the Tories out.

It worked.

I don’t know if Biden will stay in. I don’t know it’s the right choice for him to stay or go. As interested as I am in politics, this is an incredibly complex thing and one of the most important decisions of the decade.

But y’all. Don’t care how that goes. We’re voting to prevent the fascists from winning.

Boygenius

photo credit: xboygeniusx on Instagram

All of these are by @mattxiv on Instagram.

Here's to all the shockingly single bachelor uncles or the two very close friends who just happened to be girls and are only living together until one of them finds a man (they lived together for forty two years).

I have a lot of obsessions. I switch very quickly from one to another, and when I'm obsessed, I'm OBSESSED. If I'm obsessed with a person, I will find their social media, read all the articles I can find about them, watch all the videos I have with them in it, reread all of our correspondence, mention them in every conversation, and think about them every single minute of my day. When I'm obsessed with a fandom or ship, I will spend all of my time on tumblr and the internet watching edits and gifs and reading people's opinions. If I'm obsessed with a phrase, I will find a way to fit it into any conversation. I don't know why my mind works like this, and I have no idea whether it is something that happens to other people or not, but I don't want to tell anyone because I'm worried it will freak people out. But on the other hand, I really want to talk to someone about it.