DE pol, LGBTQIA, +
🇩🇪 BREAKING NEWS: In Germany, new Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reached a coalition deal.
Here's six big #LGBT+ takeaways 👇
1⃣ A new self-ID law for trans people
2⃣ Reinforced ban on intersex surgeries
3⃣ Total ban on conversion therapy
4⃣ No restrictions on blood donations by gay and bi men, and trans people
5⃣ Funding of gender reassignment surgeries through public-private insurance
6⃣ Compensation for trans people who have suffered harm due to former gender change requirements
Fun fact: Corgis are actually the remnants of an old space program. The unused leg length for each dog is conserved for the next generation.
The goal was to then crossbreed them with a manned wolf, releasing all the many generations of stored leg length at once to produce a dog that could simply stand up to reach the Moon.
#drawing tonight, undead centaur (suggestion thanks to a friend!) with spine spear inspired by the great Dogblud. Listening to Against Me! In a waaaay better mood than when I started… but I think I need to eat something soon.
Ace Community Survey! (open to anyone, ace or not) https://forms.gle/RGFqHQbk71f9WVuv5
(cw: some heavy questions, appropriately warned for in advance)
The longest lunar eclipse in centuries will happen this week.
The “nearly total” lunar eclipse is expected overnight Thursday, Nov. 18, to Friday, Nov. 19. The eclipse will last 3 hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds, making it the longest in centuries.
For U.S. East Coast observers, the partial eclipse begins a little after 2 a.m., reaching its maximum at 4 in the morning, for observers on the West Coast, that translates to beginning just after 11 p.m., with a maximum at 1 a.m.
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