#represent — Public Fediverse posts

Now Playing on SHMUFM:
"No Signs Of A Struggle" by The Mighty Human Generator
"Its You" by Nautilus
#Represent #LocalMusic #Aberdeen
https://www.shmu.org.uk/fm

Now Playing on SHMUFM:
"No Signs Of A Struggle" by The Mighty Human Generator
"Its You" by Nautilus
#Represent #LocalMusic #Aberdeen
https://www.shmu.org.uk/fm

Now Playing on SHMUFM:
"Options" by NK ft Gluco
"River Pool" by Oxbow Lake Group
#Represent #LocalMusic #Aberdeen
https://shmu.org.uk/fm

Now Playing on SHMUFM:
"Options" by NK ft Gluco
"River Pool" by Oxbow Lake Group
#Represent #LocalMusic #Aberdeen
https://shmu.org.uk/fm

#represent : to act or speak on behalf of

- French: représenter

- German: vertreten

- Portuguese: representar

- Spanish: representa

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Fill in missing or incorrect translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations

Now Playing on SHMUFM:
"swan lake(rebirth ritual)" by Neptunus Esquire
"dirt" by Lazlo
#Represent #LocalMusic #Aberdeen
https://www.shmu.org.uk/fm

Now Playing on SHMUFM:
"swan lake(rebirth ritual)" by Neptunus Esquire
"dirt" by Lazlo
#Represent #LocalMusic #Aberdeen
https://www.shmu.org.uk/fm

https://www.europesays.com/people/48765/ Who does Junts represent? #does #junts #PedroSánchez #represent #who

The Area Code Comes Home

When Scott Frost took over at Nebraska in 2018, he brought with him from UCF a small equipment decision that ran directly against what the phone system had been doing for fifteen years. Frost let Husker players wear their three-digit home area code on the helmet bumper above the face mask. A Peyton Newell on the defensive line, a Mike Williams at wide receiver, an Andre Hunt lining up outside, each wore the digits of where they came from in black on red. The helmet bumper is a small piece of real estate, two inches by four, just large enough to carry three numbers. Frost had started the practice at UCF in late 2016 before the USF rivalry game, and he said at Nebraska that the guys took a lot of pride in it. Where you come from, he said, still counts.

The helmet bumper was a reversal of what every other part of American life had been doing to the area code. Local Number Portability for wireless went into effect in 2003, and from that point forward the area code on your phone no longer reliably told anyone where you lived. A 402 in 2018 could be a Lincoln native living in Lincoln, or a Lincoln native living in Denver, or a Denver native who bought the number because they thought the digits looked nice. The phone number had become geographic fiction. The helmet bumper made the area code geographically honest again. A 402 on a Nebraska player’s helmet meant that player was from somewhere the 402 had originally covered. The area code on the helmet was a birth certificate, not a billing address.

Frost’s quote on it was clean. “You play first and foremost for the name on the front of your jersey, your team, and guys take pride in playing for the name on the back of their jersey, their family. But a lot of young men have a lot of pride in where they come from too.” Jersey front: institutional belonging. Jersey back: family belonging. Helmet bumper: geographic belonging. Three layers of identity stacked on a single uniform, each pointing to a different kind of home. The area code on the bumper sat at the top of the face mask, above the eyes, the first thing a television camera caught on a tackle.

The timing was the interesting part. Nebraska football had been built for most of a century on the walk-on program, which was a Tom Osborne invention as much as anything else, and which asked Nebraska kids from small towns to pay their own way to Lincoln and earn their scholarships on the field. By 2018 that program had weakened under the realities of modern recruiting, which had become a national and now international process, and Nebraska was competing for talent from Florida and California and Texas alongside everyone else. A roster that had once been mostly Nebraska kids was now mostly out-of-state kids with a Nebraska kid sprinkled here and there. The helmet bumper said: the roster looks different now, but where you come from still matters. The 402 stayed on the field through a proxy worn by someone from the 904 in Jacksonville or the 713 in Houston or the 602 in Phoenix.

The experiment did not save Frost’s tenure. He went 16-31 over four and a half seasons and was fired three games into the 2022 season after a home loss to Georgia Southern, and the reasons were not uniform-related. Husker fans watched a long streak of one-score losses, a statistical improbability that became routine. An offense that had worked at UCF did not work against Big Ten defenses, and the defensive staff turned over repeatedly, and the roster Frost inherited and the roster he built were both inadequate to the league he was coaching in. The helmet bumper survived the firing as a small curio. Nebraska moved on.

The Frost era left Nebraska with one small cultural artifact: the idea that where a player comes from is a piece of information worth displaying. Other programs picked up variations. Oregon had its uniform combinations, Oklahoma added state shapes, Michigan and Ohio State leaned into historical patches. The helmet bumper area code at Nebraska was a specific version of a broader insistence, which is that the player on the field is also a person from a place, and that the place deserves a line of text on the equipment.

The irony is that this insistence arrived at the moment the phone system had finished denying it. A 402 on a helmet bumper in 2018 was a claim on geography that the 402 on a phone could no longer make. Helmets were doing archival work the phones had refused to do. A 402 from central Nebraska or eastern Nebraska pointed at a specific state, a specific set of towns, a specific high school culture. 713 pointed at Houston. 904 pointed at Jacksonville. The bumper enforced the old rules the FCC had dismantled, with the geography now sitting on the body of the athlete.

My own 402 is from the Nebraska where local dialing was seven digits and the area code was something you wrote but rarely spoke. The 402 I grew up with covered most of a state and a half-century of phone calls I cannot remember making. When I first moved east, my new 212 replaced the 402, and for decades I wore 212 proudly the way the Husker players wore 402 proudly. The difference was that my 212 told the truth about where I lived at the time. A player’s 402 told the truth about where they were from and nothing else. That player might have been from Hastings and living in a Lincoln dorm and training at the South Stadium complex, and the 402 still worked, because the question the bumper was answering had nothing to do with where the player was now.

The Frost helmet bumper is a small piece of cultural evidence that the area code still does useful work as a marker of origin even after it has stopped doing useful work as a marker of location. Phone numbers lost one job and the helmet bumper quietly assigned them a different one. The sign survived the referent. The 402 on the bumper was the same 402 I grew up dialing for seven digits inside the state line, routed through the same numerical grammar, just pointed at a different kind of truth. Geography moved. The digits followed.

The Area Code Comes Home

When Scott Frost took over at Nebraska in 2018, he brought with him from UCF a small equipment decision that ran directly against what the phone system had been doing for fifteen years. Frost let Husker players wear their three-digit home area code on the helmet bumper above the face mask. A Peyton Newell on the defensive line, a Mike Williams at wide receiver, an Andre Hunt lining up outside, each wore the digits of where they came from in black on red. The helmet bumper is a small piece of real estate, two inches by four, just large enough to carry three numbers. Frost had started the practice at UCF in late 2016 before the USF rivalry game, and he said at Nebraska that the guys took a lot of pride in it. Where you come from, he said, still counts.

The helmet bumper was a reversal of what every other part of American life had been doing to the area code. Local Number Portability for wireless went into effect in 2003, and from that point forward the area code on your phone no longer reliably told anyone where you lived. A 402 in 2018 could be a Lincoln native living in Lincoln, or a Lincoln native living in Denver, or a Denver native who bought the number because they thought the digits looked nice. The phone number had become geographic fiction. The helmet bumper made the area code geographically honest again. A 402 on a Nebraska player’s helmet meant that player was from somewhere the 402 had originally covered. The area code on the helmet was a birth certificate, not a billing address.

Frost’s quote on it was clean. “You play first and foremost for the name on the front of your jersey, your team, and guys take pride in playing for the name on the back of their jersey, their family. But a lot of young men have a lot of pride in where they come from too.” Jersey front: institutional belonging. Jersey back: family belonging. Helmet bumper: geographic belonging. Three layers of identity stacked on a single uniform, each pointing to a different kind of home. The area code on the bumper sat at the top of the face mask, above the eyes, the first thing a television camera caught on a tackle.

The timing was the interesting part. Nebraska football had been built for most of a century on the walk-on program, which was a Tom Osborne invention as much as anything else, and which asked Nebraska kids from small towns to pay their own way to Lincoln and earn their scholarships on the field. By 2018 that program had weakened under the realities of modern recruiting, which had become a national and now international process, and Nebraska was competing for talent from Florida and California and Texas alongside everyone else. A roster that had once been mostly Nebraska kids was now mostly out-of-state kids with a Nebraska kid sprinkled here and there. The helmet bumper said: the roster looks different now, but where you come from still matters. The 402 stayed on the field through a proxy worn by someone from the 904 in Jacksonville or the 713 in Houston or the 602 in Phoenix.

The experiment did not save Frost’s tenure. He went 16-31 over four and a half seasons and was fired two games into 2022, and the reasons were not uniform-related. Husker fans watched a long streak of one-score losses, a statistical improbability that became routine. An offense that had worked at UCF did not work against Big Ten defenses, and the defensive staff turned over repeatedly, and the roster Frost inherited and the roster he built were both inadequate to the league he was coaching in. The helmet bumper survived the firing as a small curio. Nebraska moved on.

The Frost era left Nebraska with one small cultural artifact: the idea that where a player comes from is a piece of information worth displaying. Other programs picked up variations. Oregon had its uniform combinations, Oklahoma added state shapes, Michigan and Ohio State leaned into historical patches. The helmet bumper area code at Nebraska was a specific version of a broader insistence, which is that the player on the field is also a person from a place, and that the place deserves a line of text on the equipment.

The irony is that this insistence arrived at the moment the phone system had finished denying it. A 402 on a helmet bumper in 2018 was a claim on geography that the 402 on a phone could no longer make. Helmets were doing archival work the phones had refused to do. A 402 from central Nebraska or eastern Nebraska pointed at a specific state, a specific set of towns, a specific high school culture. 713 pointed at Houston. 904 pointed at Jacksonville. The bumper enforced the old rules the FCC had dismantled, with the geography now sitting on the body of the athlete.

My own 402 is from the Nebraska where local dialing was seven digits and the area code was something you wrote but rarely spoke. The 402 I grew up with covered most of a state and a half-century of phone calls I cannot remember making. When I first moved east, my new 212 replaced the 402, and for decades I wore 212 proudly the way the Husker players wore 402 proudly. The difference was that my 212 told the truth about where I lived at the time. A player’s 402 told the truth about where they were from and nothing else. That player might have been from Hastings and living in a Lincoln dorm and training at the South Stadium complex, and the 402 still worked, because the question the bumper was answering had nothing to do with where the player was now.

The Frost helmet bumper is a small piece of cultural evidence that the area code still does useful work as a marker of origin even after it has stopped doing useful work as a marker of location. Phone numbers lost one job and the helmet bumper quietly assigned them a different one. The sign survived the referent. The 402 on the bumper was the same 402 I grew up dialing for seven digits inside the state line, routed through the same numerical grammar, just pointed at a different kind of truth. Geography moved. The digits followed.

The Area Code Comes Home

When Scott Frost took over at Nebraska in 2018, he brought with him from UCF a small equipment decision that ran directly against what the phone system had been doing for fifteen years. Frost let Husker players wear their three-digit home area code on the helmet bumper above the face mask. A Peyton Newell on the defensive line, a Mike Williams at wide receiver, an Andre Hunt lining up outside, each wore the digits of where they came from in black on red. The helmet bumper is a small piece of real estate, two inches by four, just large enough to carry three numbers. Frost had started the practice at UCF in late 2016 before the USF rivalry game, and he said at Nebraska that the guys took a lot of pride in it. Where you come from, he said, still counts.

The helmet bumper was a reversal of what every other part of American life had been doing to the area code. Local Number Portability for wireless went into effect in 2003, and from that point forward the area code on your phone no longer reliably told anyone where you lived. A 402 in 2018 could be a Lincoln native living in Lincoln, or a Lincoln native living in Denver, or a Denver native who bought the number because they thought the digits looked nice. The phone number had become geographic fiction. The helmet bumper made the area code geographically honest again. A 402 on a Nebraska player’s helmet meant that player was from somewhere the 402 had originally covered. The area code on the helmet was a birth certificate, not a billing address.

Frost’s quote on it was clean. “You play first and foremost for the name on the front of your jersey, your team, and guys take pride in playing for the name on the back of their jersey, their family. But a lot of young men have a lot of pride in where they come from too.” Jersey front: institutional belonging. Jersey back: family belonging. Helmet bumper: geographic belonging. Three layers of identity stacked on a single uniform, each pointing to a different kind of home. The area code on the bumper sat at the top of the face mask, above the eyes, the first thing a television camera caught on a tackle.

The timing was the interesting part. Nebraska football had been built for most of a century on the walk-on program, which was a Tom Osborne invention as much as anything else, and which asked Nebraska kids from small towns to pay their own way to Lincoln and earn their scholarships on the field. By 2018 that program had weakened under the realities of modern recruiting, which had become a national and now international process, and Nebraska was competing for talent from Florida and California and Texas alongside everyone else. A roster that had once been mostly Nebraska kids was now mostly out-of-state kids with a Nebraska kid sprinkled here and there. The helmet bumper said: the roster looks different now, but where you come from still matters. The 402 stayed on the field through a proxy worn by someone from the 904 in Jacksonville or the 713 in Houston or the 602 in Phoenix.

The experiment did not save Frost’s tenure. He went 16-31 over four and a half seasons and was fired two games into 2022, and the reasons were not uniform-related. Husker fans watched a long streak of one-score losses, a statistical improbability that became routine. An offense that had worked at UCF did not work against Big Ten defenses, and the defensive staff turned over repeatedly, and the roster Frost inherited and the roster he built were both inadequate to the league he was coaching in. The helmet bumper survived the firing as a small curio. Nebraska moved on.

The Frost era left Nebraska with one small cultural artifact: the idea that where a player comes from is a piece of information worth displaying. Other programs picked up variations. Oregon had its uniform combinations, Oklahoma added state shapes, Michigan and Ohio State leaned into historical patches. The helmet bumper area code at Nebraska was a specific version of a broader insistence, which is that the player on the field is also a person from a place, and that the place deserves a line of text on the equipment.

The irony is that this insistence arrived at the moment the phone system had finished denying it. A 402 on a helmet bumper in 2018 was a claim on geography that the 402 on a phone could no longer make. Helmets were doing archival work the phones had refused to do. A 402 from central Nebraska or eastern Nebraska pointed at a specific state, a specific set of towns, a specific high school culture. 713 pointed at Houston. 904 pointed at Jacksonville. The bumper enforced the old rules the FCC had dismantled, with the geography now sitting on the body of the athlete.

My own 402 is from the Nebraska where local dialing was seven digits and the area code was something you wrote but rarely spoke. The 402 I grew up with covered most of a state and a half-century of phone calls I cannot remember making. When I first moved east, my new 212 replaced the 402, and for decades I wore 212 proudly the way the Husker players wore 402 proudly. The difference was that my 212 told the truth about where I lived at the time. A player’s 402 told the truth about where they were from and nothing else. That player might have been from Hastings and living in a Lincoln dorm and training at the South Stadium complex, and the 402 still worked, because the question the bumper was answering had nothing to do with where the player was now.

The Frost helmet bumper is a small piece of cultural evidence that the area code still does useful work as a marker of origin even after it has stopped doing useful work as a marker of location. Phone numbers lost one job and the helmet bumper quietly assigned them a different one. The sign survived the referent. The 402 on the bumper was the same 402 I grew up dialing for seven digits inside the state line, routed through the same numerical grammar, just pointed at a different kind of truth. Geography moved. The digits followed.

The Area Code Comes Home

When Scott Frost took over at Nebraska in 2018, he brought with him from UCF a small equipment decision that ran directly against what the phone system had been doing for fifteen years. Frost let Husker players wear their three-digit home area code on the helmet bumper above the face mask. A Peyton Newell on the defensive line, a Mike Williams at wide receiver, an Andre Hunt lining up outside, each wore the digits of where they came from in black on red. The helmet bumper is a small piece of real estate, two inches by four, just large enough to carry three numbers. Frost had started the practice at UCF in late 2016 before the USF rivalry game, and he said at Nebraska that the guys took a lot of pride in it. Where you come from, he said, still counts.

The helmet bumper was a reversal of what every other part of American life had been doing to the area code. Local Number Portability for wireless went into effect in 2003, and from that point forward the area code on your phone no longer reliably told anyone where you lived. A 402 in 2018 could be a Lincoln native living in Lincoln, or a Lincoln native living in Denver, or a Denver native who bought the number because they thought the digits looked nice. The phone number had become geographic fiction. The helmet bumper made the area code geographically honest again. A 402 on a Nebraska player’s helmet meant that player was from somewhere the 402 had originally covered. The area code on the helmet was a birth certificate, not a billing address.

Frost’s quote on it was clean. “You play first and foremost for the name on the front of your jersey, your team, and guys take pride in playing for the name on the back of their jersey, their family. But a lot of young men have a lot of pride in where they come from too.” Jersey front: institutional belonging. Jersey back: family belonging. Helmet bumper: geographic belonging. Three layers of identity stacked on a single uniform, each pointing to a different kind of home. The area code on the bumper sat at the top of the face mask, above the eyes, the first thing a television camera caught on a tackle.

The timing was the interesting part. Nebraska football had been built for most of a century on the walk-on program, which was a Tom Osborne invention as much as anything else, and which asked Nebraska kids from small towns to pay their own way to Lincoln and earn their scholarships on the field. By 2018 that program had weakened under the realities of modern recruiting, which had become a national and now international process, and Nebraska was competing for talent from Florida and California and Texas alongside everyone else. A roster that had once been mostly Nebraska kids was now mostly out-of-state kids with a Nebraska kid sprinkled here and there. The helmet bumper said: the roster looks different now, but where you come from still matters. The 402 stayed on the field through a proxy worn by someone from the 904 in Jacksonville or the 713 in Houston or the 602 in Phoenix.

The experiment did not save Frost’s tenure. He went 16-31 over four and a half seasons and was fired three games into the 2022 season after a home loss to Georgia Southern, and the reasons were not uniform-related. Husker fans watched a long streak of one-score losses, a statistical improbability that became routine. An offense that had worked at UCF did not work against Big Ten defenses, and the defensive staff turned over repeatedly, and the roster Frost inherited and the roster he built were both inadequate to the league he was coaching in. The helmet bumper survived the firing as a small curio. Nebraska moved on.

The Frost era left Nebraska with one small cultural artifact: the idea that where a player comes from is a piece of information worth displaying. Other programs picked up variations. Oregon had its uniform combinations, Oklahoma added state shapes, Michigan and Ohio State leaned into historical patches. The helmet bumper area code at Nebraska was a specific version of a broader insistence, which is that the player on the field is also a person from a place, and that the place deserves a line of text on the equipment.

The irony is that this insistence arrived at the moment the phone system had finished denying it. A 402 on a helmet bumper in 2018 was a claim on geography that the 402 on a phone could no longer make. Helmets were doing archival work the phones had refused to do. A 402 from central Nebraska or eastern Nebraska pointed at a specific state, a specific set of towns, a specific high school culture. 713 pointed at Houston. 904 pointed at Jacksonville. The bumper enforced the old rules the FCC had dismantled, with the geography now sitting on the body of the athlete.

My own 402 is from the Nebraska where local dialing was seven digits and the area code was something you wrote but rarely spoke. The 402 I grew up with covered most of a state and a half-century of phone calls I cannot remember making. When I first moved east, my new 212 replaced the 402, and for decades I wore 212 proudly the way the Husker players wore 402 proudly. The difference was that my 212 told the truth about where I lived at the time. A player’s 402 told the truth about where they were from and nothing else. That player might have been from Hastings and living in a Lincoln dorm and training at the South Stadium complex, and the 402 still worked, because the question the bumper was answering had nothing to do with where the player was now.

The Frost helmet bumper is a small piece of cultural evidence that the area code still does useful work as a marker of origin even after it has stopped doing useful work as a marker of location. Phone numbers lost one job and the helmet bumper quietly assigned them a different one. The sign survived the referent. The 402 on the bumper was the same 402 I grew up dialing for seven digits inside the state line, routed through the same numerical grammar, just pointed at a different kind of truth. Geography moved. The digits followed.

The #choices
they #represent #life
#Each #archway
a #bent #sky
The #falling #rain that #nurtures
#when the #dark #clouds #cry

#Molten #core
#beating in the #heart
#Energy
#Eternal
#Gateways to #multiple #worlds
#combined in the #soul

https://geethaprodhom.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/molten-core/

#represent : to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of

- French: représenter

- German: vertreten

- Portuguese: representar

- Spanish: representa

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Fill in missing or incorrect translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations

I heard the words "intermodal freight transfer" on Michael McIntyre's "The Wheel" for the first and probably the last time. #represent

Whatever job we do, we need to do it as if we're doing it for the Lord.
(Discussing Genesis 47:1-11, Romans 12:10-11, Ephesians 6:5, Colossians 3:23)

#Genesis #Romans #Ephesians #Colossians #menandwomenofactivity #represent #God #Jesus #Bible #Christian #christianity #gospel #preacher #preaching #preach #Joseph #Pharaoh #praise #worship #employee #employer #work #boss #job #feverant #business #responsible #Christ #obedient

#Trump will meet with #Putin to discuss the war in #Ukraine, according to #Russia

#NOT #IN #MY #NAME

#Krasnov is a #Russian asset.
He has publicly and repeatedly humiliated #Ukraine and his leader. He wants #Ukraine to totally surrender to #Putin

He is not #neutral, and #DOES #NOT #REPRESENT #EUROPE.

#UE must be in, at the table.
We are no less than you.
Nobody decides for #Europe, in the name of #Europe, without #Europe

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5494335/putin-witkoff-trump-envoy-russia-ukraine-war

We're not supposed to just hang out in this world. We represent the Lord with our actions, so we need to be men and women of activity. (Genesis 47:1-11) Feel welcomed to join us in person or watch us live on Facebook!

#Genesis #menofactivity #womenofactivity #menandwomenofactivity #represent #God #Lord #Jesus #Bible #Christian #christianity #gospel #preacher #preaching #preach #NSBC #NewSalem #Baptist #SouthernBaptist #NewSalemBaptistChurch #Joseph #pharaoh #praise #worship #Christ #represent

#represent : to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of

- French: représenter

- German: vertreten

- Portuguese: representar

- Spanish: representa

------------

See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past

Unexpected chippy tea in the bagging area!

#ukChippyTeaScene #hardcoreYouKnowTheScore
#chippyTeaOrDeath
#represent

I saw an opportunity and did a thing. ... Huh. Or maybe it's the "everything else" green triangle: centred but unspecified?

#flag #flags #vexillology #QueerVexillology #identity #represent #representation #visual #VisualAccessibility #difference #accept #queer #intersex #Criticism #CritiqueWelcome #access #accessibility #EaseOfAccess #OpenDesign #InclusiveDesign

The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is PRIDE/REPRESENT #wotd #pride #represent #PrideMonth #Pride2025 #pridemonth2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#represent : to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of

- French: représenter

- German: vertreten

- Portuguese: representar

- Spanish: representa

------------

See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past

scene in Germany. all out against fascists.

#Germany #AFD #Protests #AntiFascists #Represent

#represent : to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of

- French: représenter

- German: vertreten

- Portuguese: representar

- Spanish: representa

------------

See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past

#Republican #NancyMace – who led #CapitolHill #toilet #ban push – uses #vile #slur to attack #trans #people.

— #Republicans conveniently forget that they are #elected to #represent #everyone in their #states including #trans and #LGBTQ #people.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/12/09/nancy-mace-trans-slurs-us/

#DanielCraig doesn’t think it’s his ‘#place’ to #represent the #LGBTQ+ #community in #Queer.

Craig said that the #role is “#universal” and that it deals with “#love, #loss, the #pain of love… all the things all of us have experienced in our life”.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Movies #Representation #Culture

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/10/08/daniel-craig-doesnt-think-its-his-place-to-represent-the-lgbtq-community-in-queer/

#Turkish #Politician #claims #Olympic #volleyball #team with #LGBTQ #players doesn’t #represent his #nation.

With at least one #out #LGBTQ #athlete, this #country had its best #Olympic #volleyball #finish ever. Yet somehow it's a problem for this #homophobic #dude.

https://www.outsports.com/2024/8/11/24100124/turkey-olympics-politician-lgbtq-national-team-paris-ibrahim-melih-gokcek/

‘You #represent us’: What it’s like to #lobby for #abortionrights from a #redstate.

#Personal #stories have taken center stage in #reproductiverights #advocacy. The 19th shadowed three women who took their #stories to the #Hill — and hoped their #Republican #lawmakers would actually #listen.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Misogyny #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://19thnews.org/2024/06/abortion-republican-states-lobbying-congress/

The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is PRIDE/REPRESENT #wotd #pride #represent #HappyPride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#Represent 🏴🏴

#represent : to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of

- French: représenter

- German: vertreten

- Portuguese: representar

- Spanish: representa

------------

See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past

#represent

My kind of #sunday

Going to call these ones #NeuroFabulous
:rainbowL:​:rainbowR:​

I've had the plywood pieces for these for over a year now, but getting mica-powder and mixing that with varnish was a thing I had to figure out first. This turned out to be a good way of achieving the rainbow on the wood with an easy to do and relatively smooth colour transition.

#crafts #craft #hobby #diy #NeuroDiversity #represent

[Video] The other side of #socialmedia: #Transgender #visibility #online.

#ABCNews’ #ElizabethSchulze speaks with #prominent #transgender #contentcreators and #socialmedia #influencers about how they use their #platforms to #represent the #community #online.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #SocialMedia #Society #Representation #Culture
https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/video/side-social-media-transgender-visibility-online-101192339

“#Gay to the #highestlevel #please!”

#Fans #react to #OllyAlexander being #selected to #represent the #UK at #Eurovision2024

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Entertainment #TV #Music #Representation #Culture

https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/this-is-so-exciting-fans-react-to-olly-alexander-representing-the-uk-at-eurovision-2024/

Elephant Rumblings: Gage Jump, Tommy White to represent A’s at Future’s Game https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/147948/ #a #at #Athletics #Baseball #elephant #FrontPage #future #gage #game #jump #MLB #MLBAthletics #nation #represent #rumblings #s #to #Tommy #White

Are you registered to vote in the United States? Please VOTE today. VOTE! V O T E ! V-O-T-E-!-!-! While I would like to say, 'oh just vote, I don't care who you vote for' - I actually DO care. Voting a Dem slate will help with a whole lot of #rebalancing. #vote #voting #VotingRights #YourVoteMatters #voice #represent #representation #RepresentationMatters #democrat #democratic #dem #midterm #midterms #MidtermElection #election

Letra da música “Represent” de Orishas
#Orishas #Represent
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#Maybe if we can get people out from the #trap of left-vs-right, which #eliminates whole #swathes of #thinking from the #political #landscape, and amplifies #insignificant differences between our current parties into us-vs-them thinking, they can start thinking about real #differences, and real #similarities, between political views.

Maybe we can start #discussing them without #hating each other.

Maybe we can make some #progress, and the #majority end up with a party to #represent them.

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#Maybe if we can get people out from the #trap of left-vs-right, which #eliminates whole #swathes of #thinking from the #political #landscape, and amplifies #insignificant differences between our current parties into us-vs-them thinking, they can start thinking about real #differences, and real #similarities, between political views.

Maybe we can start #discussing them without #hating each other.

Maybe we can make some #progress, and the #majority end up with a party to #represent them.

15/15

"What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control." — Denzel Washington — — — #DenzelWashington #quote #quotes #forgiveness #actions #issues #mercy #represent #attitude #demeanor

"What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control." — Denzel Washington — — — #DenzelWashington #quote #quotes #forgiveness #actions #issues #mercy #represent #attitude #demeanor

"What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control." — Denzel Washington — — — #DenzelWashington #quote #quotes #forgiveness #actions #issues #mercy #represent #attitude #demeanor

"What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control." — Denzel Washington — — — #DenzelWashington #quote #quotes #forgiveness #actions #issues #mercy #represent #attitude #demeanor