The original video, for anyone who hasn’t seen it:
And the relevant album cover:
Sessler was a teenager when “We’re Not Gonna Take It” it was on the charts. Probably had MTV so he saw the video.
No fuckin’ idea how he thought it was in support of “traditional American values.”
Never not reblog. Dee Snider is iconic and queer as fuck for a cishet man.
-fae
No one disrespects my man Dee in this house.
Never forget when he sat in front of a congressional hearing about Lewd Music Corrupting the Youth and completely shut that shit down in the most professional manner that no member of that committee expected from a hair metal musician. They thought they’d get easy points off of a dumb metalhead and this man not only knew exactly what the fuck he was talking about, he tore their arguments apart.
DUDE THE VIDEOOO
For those unfamiliar with this ICON
This is why my working definition of queer is “queerness is that which accepts queerness.”
It encompasses a radical welcome and celebration of things that deviate from “the norm” and a fierce willingness to defend them from people who think mere deviance is worthy of vicious and violent bullying.
Dee Snider is the embodiment of “Queer as in fuck you.”
poster for your poster needs (grossly oversimplified but i’m going for broad strokes not intensive academic rigor)
free to use, repost & reproduce, no credit necessary
Prev already talked about this in the tags but it’s important that folks see it in general
It’s not just because of dirty or crowded conditions. When it comes to avian influenza, if one bird in a flock tests positive for it, every bird in the flock MUST be terminally culled (euthanized) by law [and these culled birds – even the ones that may not have been positive for the disease – cannot be used for consumption, so the carcasses must be destroyed]. The entire facility must then be thoroughly deep cleaned and continuously tested for at least 21 days before any new birds can be brought in.
So it’s not just that all of the birds on a farm are contracting the disease because they’re dirty or crowded, it’s that even if other birds in the flock are still healthy, they MUST be euthanized because of just how dangerous and deadly the disease can be. This may sound excessive, but it’s an extremely important step to limiting the spread of the disease (on top of various other extremely strict biosecurity protocols that must be followed for commercial farms).
As prev said, entire farms are being eliminated overnight due to avian flu and the (very important) strict regulations surrounding the disease. This is especially devastating for egg farms.
It takes only 6-8 weeks for a commercial meat chicken (the kind you buy at your grocery store) to reach slaughter weight. If a meat chicken flock tests positive, it’ll take roughly two and a half to three months to have a new flock ready for slaughter.
For eggs, though, it takes commercial layer hens 18-22 weeks to start producing eggs. That’s somewhere between 4 to 5 months just to get a flock producing eggs in the first place – assuming that replacement flock doesn’t test positive for avian flu while they’re still growing. Add the quarantine time onto that, and you end up needing to wait up to half a year just to have a flock producing eggs again.
Add on to that the fact that all of our conventional grocery store eggs are only coming from a comparatively small number of very large farms, so when multiple of these large farms are being hit by this disease, you end up with a massive portion of the supply chain being potentially unable to produce for up to half a year.
Yes, there are problems with conventional/commercial farms – this, in my opinion, is one of them. When so much of our food production is consolidated into a relatively small number of highly compact farms, the moment even just a few of them are affected by an outbreak like this, the more unstable our entire food system becomes. That is why we’re seeing the soaring egg prices right now.
Sanitization is happening already*. Immunization is thankfully on its way. Regulation already exists**, but even if we regulated even more for better conditions on massive farms, this problem wouldn’t be resolved.
This isn’t about conditions on ‘factory farms.’ This is about the fact that we are so reliant on ‘factory farms’ in the first place.
We need more local farms. We need community agriculture. Most importantly, we need the products of our local farms to be affordable for the average consumer while still ensuring the farmers themselves can earn enough of a living.
*Sanitization is currently happening. We’ll see if this current administration continues to require that.
**As with the above, we’ll see if this administration continues to allow for literally any kind of regulation. Regardless, the point still stands. It needs to be made so clear that this is NOT just an issue of conditions on commercial/conventional farms, this is an issue of the supply chain itself.
Elon Musk isn’t a sociopath Trump isn’t a narcissist Jeff Bezos isn’t a psycho they are terrible racist bigoted assholes but I’m begging y’all to fucking give a shit about people with personality disorders. PLEASE.
They are billionaires. That is what is wrong with them. That is why they are like that. Having the amount of money and power that they have has made them the way that they are; they don’t view other human beings as people because other human beings are only numbers on a chart or a means to an end, and if those human beings present an obstacle to their acquiring more wealth, they have to die.
All billionaires are like this. The influence they’re accustomed to enjoying due to their wealth makes them uniquely selfish, entitled and deeply, deeply wicked. It’s just that these ones in particular are stupid enough to do it loudly and in public.
I use Kobo, which uses a slightly different method. Some publishers already don’t use DRM. Great! You’re good to go. Most others will be listed as using Adobe DRM. For that, you’ll need Adobe Digital Editions.
Download the DRM file. This will be an ASCM file (Adobe Content Server Message) called ‘URLLink.ascm’. This isn’t an ebook, it’s basically just a link.
Open in Adobe Digital Editions. It should automatically download the ebook.
Locate the actual file location. By default, this is Documents > My Digital Editions. This will give you the epub file, with DRM.
Follow the above instructions to install DeDRM in Calibre.
Drag the epub file into Calibre. If you’ve installed DeDRM correctly, there’ll be a button up the top labelled ‘Convert books’.
Up the top of the window, there’ll be ‘Input format’ on the left, and ‘Output format’ on the right. Input will default to EPUB, select whatever you like (including EPUB again) for output. Select ‘OK’ (bottom right).
Locate your Calibre file. For me, this was Documents > Calibre. By default, books are listed in subfolders by author, then title. Open the folder for the book you converted, and you should have four files – a cover, an OPF file with metadata, your new EPUB file, and an old version with the file extension of .original_epub.
Not necessary, but I prefer to do this for organisation – you can now place the DRM-free EPUB file wherever you like. I have folders for my own library that I can back up as I wish.
You may want an ereader not tied to a particular platform. I use one for my phone called Moon+ Reader. It has a free option with unobtrusive ads (which only show when you close a book). Otherwise, using Calibre on my PC has its own epub reader.
Anyway. Not hyperbole. Microsoft closed its ebook platform in 2019 and people lost their entire libraries. Back your books up.
Amazon is ending the ability to download/transfer ebooks from Kindle devices via USB connection on February 26 2025!
You should still be able to use the PC and mobile apps, and in browser reading, but your device will be entirely reliant on WiFi (which isn’t always available or reliable!). Here’s 1 article on it.
I’ve been using Epubor Ultimate to remove DRM from all of my ebooks so I can convert and save them, able to read them either in Kobo or Kindle, or in Calibre. I can save them as Epubs, PDFs, or what have you.
Also keep in mind Bookshop.org, an online store that interacts with independent booksellers, now has an ebook app and options from those indie stores. You can even set it specifically to your own favorite local bookstores if you want.
I get a lot of ebooks due to space issues, being a rental/apartment dweller. So the cracked and converted books are saved to my PC and external backup drives. I bought them. They’re mine. I ought to be able to read them, and not worry about them being “updated” or removed on some whim*.
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(*I noticed that Jim Butcher’s The Aeronaut’s Windlass has a different cover than when I first downloaded it, not sure what else has changed yet. Good Omens also went from the classic black cover to the TV show tie in cover.)
Libgen allows you to download ebooks for free. It moves the site regularly, last time I knew it was https://libgen.rs/ but it is now:
Is that link now dead? Go to your search engine and enter LibGen. You’ll find where it resides now. Go there and download books. Save them to a backup. Burn a disk with them on it. Whatever you have to do to keep knowledge accessible to you and others.
In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury books were band but people assigned themselves a book and memorized it. Then shared the knowledge. We aren’t there nor will we be because in Bradbury’s time there wasn’t the ability to download and save ebooks.
SO DOWNLOAD AND SAVE EBOOKS PLEASE.
Libgen helps you do that. So does Calibre, which is an ebook creator AND an ebook reverser. You can take an epub and turn it into a PDF or a .docx.
Please do this if you fear knowledge will be lost. Or even if you don’t. Just…save save save what you can because Amazon and all the other multi-nationals do not care nor will they care if things go away.
I think if you’re still imagining Harris would have been worse than Trump then you might be smoking meth.
How much of the world’s aid is just gone because Trump and Musk are pitching a hissy fit.
Yeah, two of my friends are potentially going to lose their jobs and careers.
One is literally a week away from having her first child, and her student loans are tied into her working for the government.
The other is openly transgender.
They are going through so much incredibly uncertainty right now, because of Trump and Musk.
My coworker, a supervisor that works long hours and ALSO volunteers as a fire fighter, is facing her hemophiliac son losing his Medicaid because her very generous State Employee health insurance doesn’t come close to covering her son’s life-saving infusions.
My mother finally retired after working as a Trauma Nurse since 1975, and may be facing brutal cuts to her Social Security and Medicare. I don’t know what we will do, if she loses those because she sure as hell cannot go back to work. It would flat-out kill her.
My state, Virginia, heavily depends on Federal employment for our economy. The loss of 100s of thousands of jobs could destroy our economy. Our current governor is a MAGA shithead, and his Lt. Governor is running to replace him with similar YAY LET’S FIRE A HUGE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE IN OUR STATE.
We’re also losing all our allies around the world. European leaders were so shaken by meetings with Hegseth and Vance, that they are having meetings to prepare to shore up their defenses against a combination of Russian and American aggression.
People that depended on US aid to avoid starvation or death from disease are now quite literally dying, having been cut off rather suddenly. The aid workers are likewise being stranded in dangerous regions.
The Palestinian people are facing not only Netanyahu’s tyranny, but also now have Trump gleefully talking about a US invasion so he can turn their land into a luxury resort for foreigners.
Ukraine is being divided up by Trump and Putin, who are holding “peace talks” that exclude them.
America is rapidly sliding into a authoritarian state, with the GOP-controlled Congress basically letting it happen.
Elon Musk has installed his hacker teams into more and more government agencies, doing god knows what. He now has access to our social security numbers, our bank records, and our personal information.
A deranged anti-vaxxer is in charge of our nation’s healthcare, while multiple diseases are running rampant around the country. (Bird Flu, Measles, and TB.) He’s musing on sending people with mental health issues, ESPECIALLY black kids, to “Wellness Camps” to be “re-parented” and get off their medications. With no ability to communicate with the outside world and “growing their own food”.
We have fucking concentration camps starting up, with Gitmo being turned into a camp for immigrants. We have ICE being given quotas and harassing anyone they assume is Latino, which has led to American citizens being detained including Native Americans and Puerto Ricans.
But sure, “Harris would have been worse because mutual aid something something”.
Are we supposed to expect people that wouldn’t even fucking vote to be willing to take to the streets and face being shot by the government?
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