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Last Week Tonight, March 16, 2022

Trans women are under attack by this site

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Reblog if you remember this motherfucker:

When a “funny” dude likes you and anytime he sees you anywhere he will be like “yoooo wassup it’s Jelissa!” (Or whatever) like “omg Miranda is here whaaaat” for literally no reason why do they do that

STOP HAVING WHITE VOICE ACTORS PLAYING NON-WHITE ROLES

Come here, baby gays, and let me tell you the story about how James Somerton made me so fucking angry with a single line that I had to make this post.

As I now know, most of his audience is young queers and there are things we NEED you to know.

The fight for marriage equality was a massive fucking deal and I will tell you why with a very personal story.

My mom was a nurse during the AIDS crisis. And I mean she started working as a nurse out of school in 85. My mom was on the front lines. She worked with so many AIDS patients that it genuinely altered her brain chemistry. My mother was a homophobe before her nursing career. She was a massive supporter of gay rights until she died in July because of what she saw during her career.

And what did she see?

She saw people who had been abandoned by their families dying with their partners at their side.

And then suddenly…the family would materialize, ban the partner from the room, kick them out of their homes they had lived in with their dying partners for decades, and then watched them ban their partners from even attending the funerals or visiting the graves. Imagine being denied your right to grieve.

And why was this possible? Oh simple. They weren’t married. They weren’t legally bound, the partners weren’t considered next of kin because they weren’t fucking married.

I watched my mom pass. It was horrible and painful and traumatic and terrifying. But it was closure. And I wouldn’t have it any other way because I know…that who my mom wanted by her when she passed was my dad. Because she was scared, she wanted her partner by her side and she was terrified she was going to die. My dad couldn’t be there. He had to work, which sounds cold but understand he had been off work for a month by that point and he was the only one who had health insurance. He wanted to be there, we had made plans to take her off the life support when he came back (we were 4 hours from him) but there was a freak accident and she passed the night after he left to return to work.

Why am I telling you this? Because I need you to understand how important this is to some people. So you can understand how big a slap to the face it is to have people say “marriage equality isn’t that important”. You can understand why someone like James Somerton rolling his eyes at marriage equality and implying we weren’t focused on job equality and discrimination (information that is WHOLEY untrue) would make me see red.

It’s not trivial. It’s not meaningless. It wasn’t about “assimilating” or “appearing normal” (we’re already normal).

It’s about people who had their children taken from them because they weren’t the biological parent. It’s about people who never got to comfort their loved ones in their final days. It’s about people who weren’t able to comforted by their partners in their final days.

So the next time you think “why waste your time on something as trivial as marriage?” Remember my mother. Look up testimony from victims of the AIDS crisis. Remember the people who advocated for marriage equality were the survivors who were torn from the love of their life.

Remember that we advocated so damn hard to give you the right to grieve.

Google will begin deleting inactive Gmail and Google accounts one week from today, on December 1st, 2023.

Google accounts that have not been used in two or more years will begin getting deleted starting next week, along with content (photos, docs, contacts, emails, etc) associated with the account.

you will NOT be able to re-register deleted email addresses after they get deleted.

Forbes

Google Will Mass Delete Old Gmail And Photos Content Next Week

Google will start mass deleting inactive Photos and Gmail accounts on December 1st.

Google

Updating our inactive account policies

Starting later this year, we are updating our inactivity policy for Google Accounts to 2 years across our products.

“...if a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least 2 years, we may delete the account and its contents – including content within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar) and Google Photos.”

“A Google Account is considered active even if it has not been used within a 2-year period if one or more of these applies:

Your Google Account was used to make a purchase of a Google product, app, service, or subscription that is current or ongoing.

Your Google Account contains a gift card with a monetary balance.

Your Google Account owns a published application or game with ongoing, active subscriptions or active financial transactions associated with them. This might be a Google Account that owns an App on the Google Play store.

Your Google Account manages an active minor account with Family Link.

Your Google Account has been used to purchase a digital item, for example, a book or movie.”

if you want to keep old accounts, make sure you sign in ASAP. activity to avoid deletion includes:

signing in

doing a Google search

reading or sending an email

watching a YouTube video

downloading an app on the play store

using sign in with Google on a third party service

deletion of inactive accounts will be staggered, starting with accounts that were never used after creation. the earliest a Google account might be deleted is December 1st, 2023. a week from today.

“We will take a phased approach, starting with accounts that were created and never used again.”

check the links for more details.