TODAY IN LGBTQ+ HISTORY: On February 16, 1990, artist Keith Haring dies of AIDS at the age of 31. Known for designing the National Coming Out Day logo, below is his less known "Unfinished Painting," which he intended to serve as a reminder of his own life being cut short by AIDS.

It's pathetic the CDC is justifying weakening their guidance because "no one is following them." How many times have we heard "but the CDC guidance says it's fine" used as an excuse? Weak guidance doesn't lead to better public health. It endorses anti-public health behavior.

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If a pregnancy is wanted, its a fetus. If a pregnancy is unwanted, its a fetus. Fetus is the correct terminology. You can call it a baby if you want, thats your choice. The only reason you get upset that we say fetus is because “baby” is an emotional abusive term for you to use

It’s so charming that in Anglo-Saxon England, instead of ‘dude’ or ‘man’, the most popular term of address was Ġefœ̄ra! (“Companion!”), which literally meant someone you ‘share a journey with’.

Hey btw everyone should be panicking about this. This bill would require *everyone* to upload your government ID in order to use most sites on the internet. You can forget about your silly lil stan/fandom accounts if this passes

Mike Johnson is the only thing, the ONLY thing, preventing Ukraine from getting the aid they need to end the treat of Putin forever. There's no "debate" in Congress over funding Ukraine. The votes are more than there in both Senate and House. Johnson won't bring it to a vote.

CW for transphobia in what's being retweeted, but yes, 100% this. The goal has never been to force trans people to interact with society according to the gender they were assigned at birth (as bad enough as that is). It's to prevent them from interacting with society AT ALL.

“The moon is risen and the Pleiades” (Sappho)

do we have to rt the a/i slop to dunk on it and give the people vomiting it up attention every single time do we have to

Tinu’s situation—a perfect storm of a lack of COVID mitigations and the disaster we call a healthcare system—in this country is getting worse. Please help if you can. ❤️

If more folks accepted that a happy platonic (incl queer platonic) relationship was a valid end in itself, I think there might be fewer divorces.