Life has been kinda bleh recently, so share something positive. Good news you’ve heard, or something good that’s happened to you, or even just anything that made you happy recently
Let’s spread some good vibes and remind ourselves life isn’t as dark as it seemes
Thailand is now gay
The Thai king has signed same-sex marriage into law, the official Royal Gazette said Tuesday, making Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia to recognise marriage equality.
King Maha Vajiralongkorn gave royal assent to the new law, passed by parliament in June, which will take effect in 120 days – meaning the first weddings are expected to take place in January.
Activists hailed a “monumental step” as Thailand becomes only the third place in Asia where same-sex couples can tie the knot, after Taiwan and Nepal.
The law on marriage now uses gender-neutral terms in place of “men”, “women”, “husbands” and “wives”, and also grants adoption and inheritance rights to same-sex couples.
The king’s formal approval marks the culmination of years of campaigning and thwarted attempts to pass equal marriage laws.
“The law is a monumental step towards equal rights in Thailand,” Waaddao Chumaporn, an LGBTQ rights advocate, told AFP.
She plans to organise a mass wedding for more than a thousand LGBTQ couples in Bangkok on January 22, the first day the law takes effect.
Excellent news, I hope more countries follow suit
here’s a pretty cool thing i put in my last blog:
[Leslie Bryan of the California Faculty Association’s Disability Caucus] noted that the union framework provides an ideal avenue for ensuring that disabled people’s needs are heard. By design, unions uplift all workers by way of facilitating coordinated, collaborative actions. A collective union action pushing for better ventilation at work, for example, has a much higher impact than a single disabled worker asking for this accommodation. Solidarity between disabled and nondisabled members also makes it clear to bosses that workers are invested in inclusion for everyone—and as a marginalized community, disabled people are more vulnerable to discrimination at work that unions can help them fight. For the [California Faculty Association], that inclusion started with advertising accommodations and supports at meetings to make it clear that disabled workers would be both welcome and heard, increasing meeting turnout and interest in engaging with the union. She said, “If you put the accommodations out there and let people know they’re there, they will come.”
[Bryan] told me that she’s seen policy shifts at the CFA, including captioning and ASL at union meetings and improved on-site accessibility. Disability advocacy drove these changes, not only within the CFA but also in discussions with sibling unions, such as Murphy’s CSUEU, which collaborated on conversations about safe emergency evacuation for disabled students and staff.
I got married! Made a small photo thread here:
https://discourse.auldnoir.org/t/i-got-married-photos-thread/586/25
Also finally got to go to my taekwando class after a very long time away. Was nice.
had a story at work today genuinely make me tear up. older lady needed help finding something otc, and i go out to help her, and she tells me that as she was coming into the store, she ran into a guy and his young son (total strangers), and she asks how old the lil kid was (lil kid excitedly told her he was 4), and then she goes “oh today’s my birthday! guess how old i am : )” and i guess they talk for a bit or whatever and then the guy (again, total stranger) finds her in the store again and he had bought roses to give to her for her birthday!!! 
it was just such a sweet and random gesture, i could tell it really made her day
Congratulations!!
My fiancé got me a bunch of cute stickers recently and I think of her whenever I look at them :)
Aw, what kind of stickers are they?
That’s great news, and a good precedent to set
Oh wait those are sick, do you know where she got them?
Yea @burgerbuan actually told us about the place!
so pretty!!
went out today to get some ramen for lunch (and that hit the spot as I haven’t had ramen in a long ass time) and to try to hunt down some Chiikawa merch locally and found Kurimanju at a store. I love him so much
i think this website is what’s good! i like it a lot, thanks renkon for showing me and the folks who run it for running it. the software is also so nice? why aren’t more people using whatever it is??
okay, right?? like im genuinely excited to be checking in here and it doesn’t fill me with dread like those *other sites
Bumping this thread because there’ve been Developments in my family relationships re: transness. Soliciting more posts and also bonus points to queer & trans joy rn.
My gf has got me watching this anime with her (that I will not name until it’s finished because I’m not allowed to know spoilers) and after her favorite arcs, she’ll show me her collection and the JOY in her voice brings ME joy and I cannot believe that something so simple is this important and makes me fall more in love with her (how is this possible!!!)!!
[…]in the late 2010s, the Saulteau First Nations held meetings with members to ask the communities what they wanted to see on their homelands. One of the key objectives identified in the meetings was for the nations to start a reclamation company of their own.
In 2019, the B.C. Energy Regulator, then the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission, hired the First Nations to reclaim an orphan well pad east of Moberly Lake, between the Peace and Pine Rivers, about 750 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.
By consulting Elders and members, the Saulteau First Nations collected data on plants used for sustenance, medicine and more. The nations compiled information dating back at least 50 years, and created a database of trees, shrubs and grasses that are native to their homelands.
With this knowledge, the reclamation team identified what plants needed to be re-introduced to the site. They planted several native species, including black spruce trees and cottonwood. They reintroduced willow and red osier dogwood, which Aird says are important for moose.
Five years later, Aird said native animals have returned to the site, too. She leads tours of the site so Saulteau First Nations Elders can see how the land has changed. The bare well pad has been transformed into a thriving wetland.
