The Fade didn't want her.
10 pounds may not be something important to you, but it may save the lives of entire families somewhere. Do not hesitate to help, even if it is a little!!
to my moots/lovely lurkers: raghad has been vetted! she appears as #221 on el-shab-hussein/nabulsi's google sheet
please do not hesitate to give her account a follow! donate if you can- her campaign has been active since march and has yet to earn 10% of its intended goal. share regardless🖤
They have raised £2,237 of the £55,000 goal, but they still need £52,763 more, so please don’t hesitate to donate and/or reblog! Anything you can do will help!
UK people, after you vote, do this -- you have until the 11th of July, 2024 -- i.e a week from today, the day of the general election! It's a consultation on new guidelines for schools on sexuaility and gender and they are bigoted as fuck. Also just weird and stupid. We absolutely must try to stop 12-year-olds dying by suicide! Fuck under-12-year-olds, though, they're on their own.
Mainly, though, it's about forcing teachers to misgender students and making it optional to admit same-sex couples exist.
Yes, this was dreamed up by the Tories, but Starmer's Labour is too transphobic that we can trust they won't go through with this. Let the new government know you won't tolerate a new Section 28. There's advice on how to respond here, but be sure to use your own words!
why do people think victorian orphans were like. the peak of sheltered pure innocence
"imagine feeding mountain dew to a victorian orphan" they'd probably appreciate the pick-me-up before their shift as junior osha violator at the accident factory
"imagine showing a victorian orphan vtubers" they'd say "this is boring i wanna watch public executions"
best photo to come out of this election
@rhyperographer Yeah those are indeed the candidates. Count Binface stands in opposition in whichever constituency is the incumbent Prime Minister's. The guy next to him is the Monster Raving Loony Party, who do something similar but don't limit themselves to the PM.
Believe it or not, this is actually a great and noble tradition of UK politics, and I invite everyone to look up Count Binface's manifesto.
Here it is:
BINFACE MANIFESTO 2024
BLOODY LOYAL TO WHEREVER I’M STANDING FOR ELECTION
1 all Water bosses to take a dip in british rivers, to see how they like it
2 national service to be introduced for all former prime ministers
3 wifi on trains that works
4 trains that work
5 the reintroduction of ceefax
6 children in need to finally get round to fixing pudsey’s eye
7 traffic on northallerton high street to be fixed by a new space bridge, bypassing both level crossings
8 european countries to be invited to join the uk, creating a new ‘union of europe’, if you will
9 wallace and gromit to be knighted, for services to wensleydale
10 I pledge to build at least one affordable house
11 croissants to be price-capped at £1.10, and 99 flakes to cost 99p
12 national yorkshire pudding day to be a bank holiday (except for banks)
13 loud snacks to be banned from cinemas and theatres
14 pensions to be double-locked, but with a little extra chain on the side
15 claudia winkleman’s fringe to be grade 1-listed
16 new series of gladiators to feature ’90s gladiators against age-appropriate contenders
17 minsters’ pay to be tied to that of nurses for the next 100 years
18 shops that play christmas music before december to be closed down and turned into public libraries
19 to combat the uk’s increasingly wet climate, all british citizens to be offered stilts
20 a ban on speakerphones on public transport. offenders to be forced to live with matt hancock for a year
21 the mini golf course at richmond swimming pool to host the open championship
22 mps to live in the area they wish to serve for 4 years before election, to improve local representation
23 the hand dryer in the gents’ urinals at the crown & treaty, uxbridge to be moved to a more sensible position.
24 count binface to represent the uk at eurovision
minos was such a pussy. if my wife gave birth to an epic minotaur baby i wouldn't have locked him in a labyrinth. i would have taken him to the mcdonalds play place (athens) every day and let him eat as many stray mcnuggets (athenians) off the floor as he wanted. i love you hungry son
(pulling a painted vase out of my wallet) and this is my youngest at his first nose ring fitting. isn't he handsome
ALTwelp.
Guess we'll be removing the Gilbert Baker 1977 Pride Flag from our site, along with the links to the Gilbert Baker Foundation.
Heads up to other queer artists: if you use the original 1977 flag in anything, definitely don't make any reference to who created it in your listings or you might get threatened by the Gilbert Baker Foundation! :)
Happy End Of Pride Month From CMG /s
I'm just here going "... so, to be clear, you are issuing legal threats to a small Jewish-owned company in the name of Gilbert Baker... because we used his name in identifying the colorway associated with his flag?"
My wife just looked it up -- we've made less than $500 in the last 5 years on any items in that colorway. It is not popular. We spend a lot of time educating young queer people what that flag even is and why it's important.
Well, spent. Because we're not doing that anymore.
Good job spreading awareness of Gilbert Baker's work, guys!
Unreal. What would Gilbert Baker think?
~ Gilbert Baker
Apparently in 2019, after Baker had passed away, the Foundation partnered with an LGBTQ business student group called Pride Corp. and became litigious about the use of the flag?
Nice work guys, honoring Gilbert Baker by shitting on independent queer creators (who are doing your job for you) sure is one way to do it.
It's specifically about the name. We can use the flag, but giving credit to Gilbert Baker as its creator by calling it the 'Gilbert Baker flag' is the issue, because we are 'using the name for promotion.'
It's ridiculous on any number of levels, especially that WE HAVE TO TELL PEOPLE WHO HE WAS. They don't KNOW. Gilbert Baker's name is not a draw for our customers. It's a history lesson.
[Image description: White text against a darkened background of the red, orange, yellow, and green stripes of a pride flag, saying, "A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that's why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people." The quote is from Gilbert Baker. End description.]
Update:
They're asking us for nearly 2x what we've made from anything using that color scheme because we referred to it using the name of the original artist.
Fellow artists, I would advise you that if you have anything using the colors of the 8-stripe flag and calling it by or in any way referencing the name of the original artist that you either a) take it down or b) rename the flag, lest they ask you for twice what you've ever made.
This may have the unfortunate effect of keeping us from ever talking about that particular Jewish artist of blessed memory, and that does seem like a strange tactic for the Gilbert Baker Foundation to take, but...
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ALTTo be very very clear:
This isn't about us using the flag per se. It is because when we used the flag's color scheme, we referred to it as "the Gilbert Baker flag," which is what it's normally called, and the Gilbert Baker Foundation trademarked his name 2 years after our company was founded.
So if you do use that color scheme, find something else to call it.
Don't use his name. Seriously. They'll come after you for using it for "promotional purposes."
HEADCANON: Bousset had all the boys at the barricade kiss his bald head to bring them good luck before the national guards came to attack.
But of course, Bousset is not the lucky kind of guy.
