Cold today in #stl , likely to be equally as cold #tomorrow , so I decided to cancle my shift, frankly I've made enough for the week. Well, more or less, goal is $700, with a min of $500. Last week we made a bit over $200, that's it because I took off because of the weather, so making $6xx this week is a bit of a shortage, but not bad, and I don't _have_ to work as hard as I do. #today #stlouis #work
U.S. prosecutors have told the Supreme Court that they want to give up their fight to preserve the convictions of a former Fox executive and a South American sports media company in a corruption case related to the TV rights for international soccer β¦
After two months of pressure and violent threats, Republican state senators voted against Trump's effort to eliminate two House seats held by Democrats.
@paul_kelly Oh that isn't me, just an artist I follow, and I don't think that's a ukulele, but something very similar, but you'd have to check his page.
@paul_kelly Could be a guiatarlele (didn't make it up, but might've spelled it wrong) which is basically a cross between a guitar and a ukelele, and there's also a banjolele, which is a cross between a banjo and a ukelele, but that looks much different.
President Donald Trump says the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President NicolΓ‘s Maduro.
If you were born after 1994 in South Africa, itβs easy to forget that being gay used to be a crime. π³οΈβππ« While the racism of #apartheid is well-documented, the regime's extreme homophobia is often overlooked.
Under the National Party, it wasn't just "frowned upon", it was illegal and severely punished. Police raided homes, meeting others were unsafe, and the military treated homosexuality as a sickness to be "cured" through torture.
The Horror of the "Aversion Project"
This is the darkest chapter of gay history in South Africa. Since all white males were conscripted into the military or South African Defense Force (SADF), gay men could not escape the state's grip. The SADF viewed homosexuality as a "sickness" that weakened the army.
Gay conscripts were often sent to Ward 22 at 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria. "Curing" homosexuality under the direction of psychiatrists like Dr. Aubrey Levin, gay soldiers were subjected to electric shock therapy. They were shown homoerotic images and shocked until they associated same-sex attraction with pain.
When shock therapy failed, some men were chemically castrated.
And then there was forced sex changes: Perhaps most shockingly, it is estimated that up to 900 gay men (mostly young conscripts aged 16β24) were coerced into gender reassignment surgery to "turn" them into women, because the regimeβs logic was that it was better to be a woman than a gay man. They were often then discharged with no support.
From Darkness to Light
While the old regime was using science and violence to try and erase queer identity, a fight for their existence was beginning in the most unlikely place: a prison cell.
The reason South Africa have one of the most progressive Constitutions in the world today isn't an accident. Itβs because of a man named Simon Nkoli.
When arrested for treason against the apartheid state, he refused to hide who he was. He famously did the unthinkable, he came out and told his fellow activists in prison:
"I am black and I am gay. I cannot separate the two parts of me... So when I fight for my freedom I must fight against both oppressors."
His bravery forced the liberation movements to recognise that you cannot fight for freedom while discriminating against your own. Because of him, South Africa became the first country in the world to write #lgbtq rights into its Constitution. πΏπ¦π
This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels, all showing the sidewalk and part of the street in front of a store called βThe Furniture KING.β¦
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So you know how the Wilhelm Scream is in a ton of films as a soundtrack in-joke? It was popularized by Ben Burtt, who was a sound editor on a ton of ton of Lucasβ¦
@Khurram Wadee Indeed, but this post accuses him of popularizing it, plus him being in it and doing a live reenactment of it, I'm just too lazy to verify any of that.
Back in 2008, Chattanooga, Tennessee decided to build its own city-owned fiber broadband network on the back of its existing electrical utility, EPB. In the years since, the network has become one β¦
Well, you know they take from the rent seeking companies who might be able to compete with it. Let them try, nothing stopping them, except consumer choice.
In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola.
Countdown to failure? Chrysler or whatever they're calling it is just proving once again they're clueless, I mean this'll sell a few, but not nearly enough to make it work. Kei trucks and vans are popular for practicallity, and the rest of the kei vehicles that people want are usually unique (and sometimes weird) unique things, not bog standard city vehicles.#autos
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