this is the anti-defamation league’s hate symbol database. it’s massive and includes details about what symbols mean and where you might see them.
i’m a tattoo artist and use this all the time when i see a symbol i don’t recognize—better safe than sorry. it’s saved me from working with white supremacists a few times.
Since I saw it being asked in the notes, for anyone wondering, skull and crossbones in general aren’t a nazi symbol (to my knowledge)
these are fine, this next one however:
this is a totenkopf, a symbol that was used by a division of the ss. very much a nazi symbol, don’t trust anything that uses it.
thehistorywizard on tiktok covers a lot of symbols and dogwhistles to look out for if you want to learn more
Just gonna go off topic and mention how many times I, a cisgender woman, shave my upper lip because facial hair feels out of sync with my gender identity. I don’t understand why cis people fail to see all the little ways we affirm our gender every day and fail to extrapolate how much more intense it is for trans people.
I mean … how’s it going trying to be a billionaire over here?
Not that it’s a thing anyone should want … but … kinda equally unlikely, y'know?
All the twitter stans simping for billionaires revelling in the hypothetical possibility that they can be one themselves someday are just stooges. Stool pigeons. Useful idiots.
Permanently embarrassed nonbillionaires, who are also embarrassing.
everytime I remember that lesbian couple that have a marble statue of the two of them embracing and sleeping on a bed together over where their graves will be because the artists didn’t believe they would be able to be married before they died, so what they couldn’t have in life they could have in death, I fucking breakdown
memorial to a marriage; patricia cronin
“on july 24th, 2011- the first day that same sex marriage was legal in new york state, particia cronin and deborah kass got married. that same year the marble ‘memorial to a marriage’ was replaced with a bronze version. rainwater pools in the space between their two sculpted bodies, and falling leaves catch on the metal in the autumn. the two women sleep peacefully through snow and ice, and the scorching days of summer. over time the hands of cemetery visitors will wear down the bronze, burnishing it into a smooth shine. one day this will mark the final resting place of the two women. and someday people will have to remember that there was a time, long ago, when this was a memorial to a marriage that two women never thought they’d have.”
- Caitlin Doughty, on the Death in the Afternoon podcast
For those curious:
Here’s the real-life couple in 2019 💖
happy 20th anniversary (nov 3, 2002) to patricia cronin’s marble sculpture that furthered art, advocacy, and lesbian breakdowns everywhere
If you tell the average person “Yeah, back in the 80s the CIA was funneling cocaine into the US and helping spread crack into Black neighborhoods in order to raise money for fascist militias in South America, and then a journalist broke the story & he ‘committed suicide’ by shooting himself twice in the back of the head,” they’re gonna look at you like you’re rambling about chemtrails and space aliens, but that’s just like…a thing that happened. They made a movie & everything.
I…tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.
I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as “ecological deserts.”
