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We're seeing, on a massive scale, news websites release articles saying "Israel bombs hospital in Gaza" and revising it to "Israel, Hamas trade blame for hospital bombing in Gaza". Every single news site is doing the same thing.

New York Times, original headline:

New York Times, new headline:

Business Insider, original headline: Hamas says Israeli forces bombed a hospital and killed hundreds of people. The UN has documented dozens of other attacks on healthcare in Gaza." New headline:

Reuters, original headline:

Reuters, new headline:

Politico, original headline:

Politico, new headline:

Boston Globe, original headline:

Boston Globe, new headline:

Financial Times, original headline:

Financial Times, new headline:

Daily Beast, old headline:

Daily Beast, new headline:

Every single news site is changing their headlines, but instead of admitting the correction as is done in every single other instance of this updating, they are acting as if this was always their headline. Note the repeated use of "Hamas and Israel trade blame" in the new headlines. This is the power the Israeli military has over the news, the control the US government exerts over every outlet, and the proof there is no unbiased reporting on Israel/Palestine. Our only accurate source is the civilian journalists being killed in Gaza and having their access to the outside world cut off.

THE IRS website will let you fill out and file your return THERE ON THE IRS SITE.  You pay like $12 for the actual electronic filing process, and THAT’s IT!

Unless you have tremendous amounts of Schedule D stock shit, TurboTax is NOTHING BUT A RIPOFF!!!

The IRS website is EXCELLENT.  They allow you to look up your past returns, and have every bit of information you MIGHT POSSIBLY NEED!

FUCK TURBOTAX!

Have at it kiddos:

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American trucks are bred for long hauls on largely straight roads. They can go for hours without a break. A European truck needs more breaks and a lighter load, and they would indeed take great internal damage if they tried to keep up with the Longsnout.

The European Shortsnout is not bred for looks, but for agility! They navigate the windy roads of Europe in a way that would be way too risky for the powerful, but more clumsy American truck. It is true that the European overheats faster at high speeds, that is the very reason that breaks every 4,5 hours are mandatory for both the truck and the handler and a day of driving can never be longer then 9 hours.

I would also like to point out that the tags have got it backwards. The wild trucks (which I’m pretty sure are extinct in the wild now) that all modern breeds stemmed from were shortnose trucks. We had known about automobiles and domesticated several species, but the truck species was not discovered until close to the start of the 1900’s, in Germany, which I BELIEVE was the first country to breed them in captivity, although England was the first country to really start using them for work. I managed to find a photo of taxidermied specimen

As you can see, it resembles both long and short nosed breeds, as well as the far more common house truck used by individuals instead of for commercial work.

Pics for reference:

The classic long-nose schoolbus

While these vehicles can sometimes be bred by accident (after all, who hasn’t accidentally left the gate open when your school bus is in season), they are usually bred for specific purposes.

These hybrids are bred for both their cargo capacity and their gentle temperments. Especially in a farm setting, there’s a need for many different kinds of vehicles, some of which sometimes don’t get along. Having a vehicle with both the strength and capacity of a large work truck with the amiable nature of a school bus can be a real benefit.

It’s a little unfortunate that these hybrids tend to be sterile, though, since it would be easier if they’d breed true. Also, something to keep in mind… bus trucks are bred from a bus.

Truck buses are bred from a truck and… tend to not be quite as useful as bus trucks, although some people do like keeping truck buses for companionship and as show vehicles.

It was first domesticated in Germany but there have been reported sightings in over 160 countries.

Like the bus trucks they’re usually bred for specific purposes.

-mammals are older than flowers

-fungi are more closely related to animals than plants

-the t-rex existed in a closer period of time to humans than it did to stegosaurus.

-hyenas are closer in relation to cats than dogs

-the mitochondria in a human cell was originally a kind of bacteria that later evolved into the organelle we all know and love

-Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Iphone's debut than to the construction of the pyramids

-Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire, and the modern English language (which i'm including Middle English in, as well, just for the record.)

-if you laid the blood vessels in a single human body end to end, it would be over 60,000 miles long, or, long enough to wrap around the earth twice.

Oh maybe He tells him something like: Happy Birthday, master :)

We don’t know, but we can guess 😌😌😌

Reminder that a native guy should be allowed to wear his hair in long braids without people calling it gender nonconformity or saying he’s breaking gender norms, because hair length has nothing to do with his gender norms.

Reminder that a queer native woman should be allowed to wear her hair long without being automatically read as femme presenting, that she can be butch with long hair, because long hair is not associated with femininity in her culture.

Reminder that many native folks cut their hair for solemn reasons, usually mourning, and remarking on it as a reflection of personal style or gender presentation can be deeply disrespectful. No, she didn’t just get a fierce butch haircut - she cut her hair because someone died. No, he didn’t cave to a gender conforming haircut - he cut his hair because someone died.

We deeply struggle to understand the natural diversity of bodies because we only see naked bodies in a sexual context. We are taught that seeing nudity is somehow inherently harmful, especially to children. We struggle to differentiate between sexually suggestive and sexually explicit material.

It fucks up the way people think about and talk about sex ed. It fucks up the way people think about and talk about breast feeding. It fucks up the way people think about and talk about queer folks. It feeds into fatphobia and ableism and is all rooted in this deeply harmful puritanism.

This post is about breast feeding. It's about nude beaches. It's about clothing optional saunas and onsens. It's about the changing room at the gym. Settings in which some *non-sexual* nudity can and do exist.

In countries that have them, children can go to saunas. Children can go to onsens. Children can use the changing room at public pools and gyms. Most nude beaches around the world don't have any kind of age requirement. Because in these places, there is an understanding that these are not sexual settings, and trying to have sex in those places would be seen as deeply, deeply inappropriate.

Do you mean- physically touching a child's face with *their ass cheeks*? Because no, that's not ok.

Oh so i can but my bare ass directly in the face of a child?????

Dude, you're the problem. Healthy growth involves knowing what growth looks like. Being able to look at a regular human body in any state of dress and going "oh so that's what I'll look like" is very very good for development.

You're doing the equivalent of weirdos sexualizing shoulders.

You know if they don't get that out in reality where they're actually going to get it? Porn.

I've never seen it, and have only seen antis accuse others of fetishising mlm, but I'm probably biased since I spend most of my time in and around slash content and basically never look at femslash www

Oh, and if it's not too much I'd also be curious to know what exactly they were calling fetishising!

I’m sure there has been but it’s not nearly as common

Update on October 12, 2023: An additional lot of Darwin’s pet food has tested positive for Salmonella. FDA tested this product after receiving a consumer complaint. 

To date, the firm has not recalled any of the affected product lots of product manufactured in 2023.

The affected food appears to be the chicken based recipes:

Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Chicken Recipe with Organic Vegetables for Dogs, Lot 9774, manufactured on Jun 13, 2023.

Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Chicken Recipe for Cats, Lot 9795, manufactured on Jun 28, 2023.

Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Chicken Recipe for Cats, Lot 9830, manufactured on Jul 19, 2023.

Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Antibiotic & Grain-Free Chicken Recipe for Cats, Lot 9802, manufactured on Jul 7, 2023.

The products are in white and clear plastic packages. The dog food has blue labeling, and the cat food has blue and green labeling. Each package weighs two pounds and consists of four separate units. The lot codes are printed on the front of the lower left unit of the package.

Elementary school children do not need books with graphic pornographic depictions of anal sex, pedophilia, oral sex, and other perverse things

I thought “why does this sound like something antis would say?” and if you rephrase this comment to

children/minors do not need fiction with graphic pornographic depictions of pedophilia and other perverse things

Then it sounds exactly like something antis would say

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But feel free to correct me if I'm wrong! I'm all ears, and these are just my messy, tired thoughts. Also, I know people can have internalised biases but I also believe that statement can co-exist with the fact that fandom shouldn't assume all cishet fujos are evil by default.

1. Seeing a fictional character in a sexual light is not inherently degrading, unless 2. You strip them of their humanity, or objectify them, or treat them as play dolls that exist for your gaze alone.

They are a character. They are literally less real than a doll. There's no humanity to strip. If I'm writing it, that version might as well exist for my gaze alone. So fucking what? Go make your own doll and don't call me names. Asshole.

So, like. Unless you go out of your way as a cishet women to ignore male character depth (which is odd and takes away half the joy of fan creation anyway) then it's really hard to actively fetishize and dehumanise gay men unless you're being an inconsiderate jerk.

I find any discussion of ignoring character depth in fanfic hilarious. We are talking about amateur, frequently young, often ESL writers doing make-believe for their own entertainment. Character depth is on the one hand a subjective thing and on the other something that pro writers often fail at, and you are gonna judge the fanfic crowd based on how well they succeed at it? Lol.

Also. Again. You are taking about characters. Not men, gay or otherwise.

looking back at it it’s kinda funny when I see an anti say stuff like “all proshippers like incest ships!”

Antis: