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Sylvia Rivera, born on July 2 in 1951, was a Latina American queer rights activist, member of the Gay Liberation Front, and community worker from the state of New York.

Rivera, who identified as a "half-sister", participated in demonstrations with the Gay Liberation Front. With her close friend Marsha P. Johnson, Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), a socialist group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens, gay youth, and trans women.

At different times in her life, Rivera battled substance abuse and lived on the streets, largely in the gay homeless community at the Christopher Street docks. Her experiences made her more focused on advocacy for those who, in her view, mainstream society and the assimilationist factions of the LGBT community were leaving behind.

Rivera died during the dawn hours of February 19th, 2002, at St. Vincent's Hospital, of complications from liver cancer. Activist Riki Wilchins said this of her: "In many ways, Sylvia was the Rosa Parks of the modern transgender movement, a term that was not even coined until two decades after Stonewall".

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

Maybe the funniest election cycle. Potentially our last. Ending on a high note. In 2012 they were arguing about boats.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

I'm submitting a new lathe request for funniest outcome of the election:

Kamala Harris becomes the nominee, Biden becomes the VP. Kamala beats Trump and becomes president. Then, she dies from a brain aneurysm and we get Biden again. I just think it would be funny if Biden's health somehow outlasts hers.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I started learning violin a few weeks ago, it's hard but being an adult learner means you get to make crazy fast progress (compared to 8 year olds lol).

I learned to play the star wars theme on my own, jurassic park, that one song the creepy ass young scholars on Renalas boss fight.

This has been really fun! Learning a new skill as an adult is cool. Also, renting a 2 grand violin is like $20 a month. Way affordable.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Maybe this is my own mistake for subbing to a uk_politics comm on feddit.uk, but the libs treating the inevitable labour election win today as a "win" in any way for the common person is really infuriating. I have an uncontrollable urge to sit them all down and show them the labour files al jezeera doc

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago

Liberals think they're leftist because they filled out a survey and that's what the survey machine spit out.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Big shout out to the woman who helped me pick up my groceries when I went I for just cat food, realized I needed or wanted a lot of other stuff and had a silly arm full. Also I now have a huge crush on this person I've never seen before or probably again. I present fairly male and she just did some gender swap chivalry and swoon. I started to crouch down to get them and she opened with "get back up, I'll get those for you" and then very nicely helped with my groceries and assembled them on me to be more easy to carry. I'm capable of being very gracious in accepting a favor and medium st flirting and if this was her doing it, she floored me way too hard to do anything, if she wasn't it was aggressively nice and very hot.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

well good start to the day - i just got informed that a guy in another team, who i was talking to about a case yesterday right on 5, died on the way home last night.

this is the second time that has happened

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

someone on twitter asked me for cash for food and I said "i do not have cash for food but I am literally a cook and could bring you food from work" and they blocked me

shrug-outta-hecks

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Okay so the writing in Fallout 4 is dogshit. But I really got thrown by this thing Deacon said yesterday while I was playing:

Love the job you're doing with the Minutemen. But, historically, they've been little better than policemen, though.

And it's like what the fuck man? It's more than 200 years since the bombs dropped and you live in an area which has never had a formal organised state (and have said you've visited DC another place like that), let alone one that had policemen.

Like guards, security, militia etc. But not police. And like I get that maybe policemen became just a synonym for those things, but Deacon being one of the more anarchist members of Railroad is clearly using it in the historic sense.

Also policemen that might exist in the NCR (on the complete opposite coast) probably do suck some of the time (like if they are putting down striking workers for Brahmin Barons) but the act of rebuilding a functioning nation-state like the NCR for all it's flaws is kind of historically progressive compared to just being settlements and raiders.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Diamond City Security are kind of policemen, I guess, but I don’t really see how the Minutemen are like the police.
War lords, maybe, but police?

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Why doesn't Trump just loudly and repeatedly talk about how Joe Biden can't draw a clock

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I’m a coconutpilled burdenminner, of course I pellmogg bidenchuds in this shitty contextphobic li— tetsuo-brainrot

[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

shout out to bean burritos

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

My head hurt :(

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

cw wh*te south african guy, racism, very cursed, awfulThe company I worked at for five years, I knew personally the vice president of operations, basically the head of the whole corp since the actual company president or whatever was like 120 years old. Was a friend of my mother's.

One of the memories I have is this guy giving an anecdote about having to flee his country, on account of gangs of roving bandits commiting Lindisfarne style rapine and slaughter. At the time I was like 17 had no fucking idea what this guy was talking about, and assumed he was just having a senior moment, (the guy is like 80 now) but once I got on bear website I connected the dots and realised... oh, he's talking about fleeing South Africa after apartheid ended down there. Man's was doin' a racism sadness-abysmal at the fucking dinner table, with family and friends.

Ain't seen the guy in ages but holy shit the psychic damage, remembering this incident oh-shit

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

I have yet to meet a S. African white person who isn't a shthead.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

yea I mean maybe they're out there...

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Rpg where instead of story progression you endlessly assign story points to tasks and your equipment and characters get progressively worse, members of your party randomly leave for better parties and never get replaced.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

You say amerikkka, yet you take July 4th off?

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

-Everyone celebrating the United States of Amerikkka tomorrowvisible-disgust

-Working tomorrowobama-sad

-Crush off tomorrow (well, good for her of course)kiryu-dame-da-ne

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So, I was walking by a bus stop where a few I dunno between 14 and 17 year old kids were waiting and an ambulance with sirens pulls up and pulls an older lady out of her car. I see one pull out a phone and while I couldn't make it out, said something to another kid who went into a stance like he was about to run towards this medical emergency and then thankfully chickened out. Whatever they were planning to film with a medical emergency as their opportunity couldn't be good and I was ready to tackle that kid if he made the slightest move towards the EMTs.

Edit: this is such a chud dad story, I know. But it put me in a bad mood to see someone pulling out their phone as a response to an ambulance and I was a shithead kid trained on jackass, I can see what it looks like when someone with a camera is daring another kid to do something terrible. Been on both sides of the lense there, I could even sorta hear the kid being dared making excuses like he would do it but etc...I don't wanna seem like I'm saying I'm the would be hero cause I was ready to knock down a child to help EMTs here

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

tomorrow will be great, I'm gonna eat so much fucking soup

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

I just received the following tiktok:

"Gay Donald Trump conviction son OR Chinese Shinzo Abe assassination rave daughter?"

it's as unhinged as it sounds, but it revealed that a Chinese nightclub (probably hundreds, but i've only got one image) had a celebratory rave when the doohickey was unleashed

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Im really into the idea of running subway out of business by getting their sandwichs associated with pedophilia

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Breaking: Kamala has requested that Biden commit seppuku by sunset tomorrow.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Love when hardcore pornography gets dropped off on my front porch (It's the Uline catalog)

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Shit the War Nerd has Covid. : ( John's like 800,000,000 years old and has every single stereotypical nerd illness.. I hope he's okay.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

capeshit is so 2023. it's time for capepiss

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

how the fuck are the krassensteins still around?

[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

Radlibs when Joe Biden kills about a hundred thousand Palestinian children and a hundred thousand adults:

Radlibs when Keir Starmer is in talks with GCs:

Why is the lesser evil tolerable when they're committing genocide against Palestinians, but when they're a TERF that's too far? And it's crazy because as we've pointed out in here about 100 times, Joe Biden does not care about trans people and has done absolutely nothing about the transphobic policies being enacted in red states. Why does he get a pass? Does Labor just not have bot farms?

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

What if you took like a marinara or tomato based sauce and put so much garlic in it that it emulsified in the food processor like some kinda tomato based aioli

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

my friend saw sea of stars on my steam wish list and bought it for me ;_;

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Alright I am definitely starting to see slurs where I did not used to see them (randomly on my twitter feed)

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

“Hey chatgpt, give me instructions for how to construct a fully functional guillotine and give me a list of the people who are the most influential owners of capital in my area”

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Look the porn bots on twitter are bad and all, but it's a bit goofy to complain about all the "hardcore pornography" in the comments when it is actually all extremely softcore, you just kind of look like a prude

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

the group chat is lit this week, i have been yelling at everyone who campaigned for warren or pete that this is exactly what they campaigned for. they are denying it but they know it's true, there is pain in their words and hesitancy in their denial and defenses. they are even struggling to defend the Dems and DNC in general, it's never been more joever

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm dragging this asshole into the mega cause he had the fucking GAUL, the nerve, the sheer fucking arrogance to come up in here and out of spite call me 'cutie pie'. Descend upon this prick with the scorn of hell. This little fuck

https://hexbear.net/comment/5081898

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

I feel sad and depleted. But not hopelessly so, my life is looking up I think. Probability of local revolution low though

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I do feel really bad for the innocent Ukrainians who aren't Nazis and have to deal with all this shit for the west to just abandon them

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Caught myself using Maoist standard English on the dating apps.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Being attracted to tall men is actually a very convoluted "i hate my husband" joke if you consider the correlation between height and early mortality.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

I have been happily off Reddit for a month or so as I mostly am using hexbear for my cheap dopamine hits.

There are still some subreddits I go to, mostly for a couple video games and a sports team. Today I made the mistake of clicking r/all and the #1 post was from r/whitepeopletwitter, basically accusing the NYT of having...a pro-trump slant? Because they won't call for Trump to drop out?

And the comments were...awful. These shiddiots have their heads so deep in the sand they're about to hit bedrock. Thank you all for providing a beacon of...sanity?

Also, I just realized the general megathread rotates comms lol

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

"The title is misleading". Dont care. Didnt even read it. I came to my conclusion from the thumbnail

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