A Biden campaign rally focused on abortion rights was interrupted 13 times Tuesday by anti-war protesters criticizing the president’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war.
During President Joe Biden’s speech, one protester shouted “Genocide Joe,” while another called for a “ceasefire now.” A separate demonstrator held a sign that read “let Gaza women live,” and yet another waved a Palestinian flag.[…]
When reached for comment, a Biden campaign official said that the event was a great speech by the president.
The interruptions came just one day after protesters used a similar tactic to disrupt a rally for former President Donald Trump in New Hampshire on the eve of the state’s primary.
One advantage of not really having a strong sense of gender identity is that you’re very [shrug emoji] about how people gender you. Sometimes people call me by she/her pronouns and sometimes they go with he/him pronouns and on the internet people often default to they/them, and neither option is entirely right but also, fuck if I know what would be right, and I don’t particularly care. Therefore I’m perfectly happy to outsource my gender identity to the people around me who actually need to figure out which box to put me in. I don’t need to talk about myself in third person, so really my pronouns sound like a you problem.
My pronouns are I/me and the rest is for someone else to deal with because I have better things to do.
Very fond of macrolabels, like “queer”, that provide zero extra information. Is it genderqueer? Is it romantic/sexual orientation queer? Is it queer as in “none of your fucking business what’s in my pants and what I do with it and with whom”?
This is actually probably the first time I’ve ever read something that accurately describes my relationship with gender–ie, ‘my gender is me and my pronouns are a you problem’–so thank you for that!
nothing pisses me off more than when i see a fic on ao3 talking about reach. “this ship isn’t here but i added them for reach” “this fandom tag isn’t necessary but i’m adding it for reach” “reposting for reach” STOP IT!!!! this is not tiktok this is not twitter this is an ARCHIVE this is not how it works!!!
i will not deal!!!! that is not how any of this works!!!!
if you see people doing this shit, report it. its against the terms of service.
genuinely. copy the link to the fic or series, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page:
click on policy questions & abuse reports which takes you to this page:
if you scroll down, youll be able to report the fic right there but you can also check for yourself that its against ToS
all you need to do is explain that theyre deliberately mistagging things which is just not a thing on ao3 because its an archive.
by posting your fic there, ao3, has the right to manually recategorise tags. its in the ToS:
you cant deliberately mistag stuff on ao3; it is an archive. you cant tag for reach, and this is likely gonna get pat tag wranglers because they deal mostly with form not content of tags and if theyre tagging for reach, its gonna be the more popular tags.
so report the fuck out of them for it. mostlikely, their fic will just have tags adjusted and their account will be fine.
and if they keep doing it and get suspended for it, its their own damn fault.
also thats not even getting into the fact that mistagging fics is kinda antithetical to their goal of reaching more people because youre not reaching the people who want to read your fic?
If your process for getting noodles out of your throat involves swallowing them until they’re at the very back of your throat, using a special vertebra to crack open the noodle’s shell, straightening your neck and squeezing your muscles to swallow the delicious and nutritious noodle yolk, and then regurgitating the noodle shell, then yeah, it’s very similar.
I visited the palestinian children’s relief fund (PCRF) website today to make a donation, and they’ve got a secondary donation pool being sent specifically to target humanitarian aid and support for long-term recovery in gaza. If you have the funds and want to donate, the PCRF is one of the recommended charities to donate to if you want to help.
other people could word things better than I did here, but I just wanted to make sure word gets out about the ability to directly financially support the people trying to help gaza right now.
In case you’re worried about where your donation money is going, charity navigator gives PCRF a 97% reliability rating (link to the page here).
(Tangent, but while pulling up that page I found a warning about a scammer claiming to be the PCRF, keep an eye out for any potential emails like the one on this page (linked here) prompting you to donate to a bitcoin wallet)
Also, in case anyone’s still on the edge about if your donations will reach Gaza, reporters like Bisan and Plestia have talked about the PCRF before. They have been working on relief efforts all this time. Your donations will be in good hands.