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I was going to give him a rose(but that belongs to Ciri iykyk), i ended up using thorns, hellebore aand dahlia instead. Felt more fitting for his….romantic tendencies.
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[I'm doing this for you, Ryder, by the way. Juturna laments her helplessness, and finally leaves the battlefield. Brown sugar.]
wish ppl understood the power nowadays in not giving something attention. things today are so focused on attention and reaction and #memes that the best way to shut literally anything down is simply not give it exactly what it wants. like you arent going to own that bigot on twitter youre going to boost their original message whether thats your intent or not and you arent just playing with ai for shits and giggles you are giving it free learning and data. just stop engaging with things that dont deserve it
as we say in the entertainment and specifically the clown biz, "a knock is a plug". The best way to keep a rival down is to simply not mention them at all, because any publicity is good publicity.
#i feel as though a lot of people on the internet are like those puppies who DEMAND to meet every single dog they see#as though interaction is their god-given right#when really a well-trained and socialized dog will often ignore others#stop wriggling on your leashes barking madly y'all#just keep walking (via @watchful-heart)
An old gem from the pre social media era was "don't feed the trolls."
does anyone know if being kept in a state of constant anxiety and insecurity for 25 years is bad for you??
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The regime just announced that they're going to refuse new Medicaid and Medicare claims for medical equipment for the next six months--meaning, among other things, they plan to let people who need ventilators, oxygen tanks, insulin pumps, etc., simply die.
In Buffalo, NY, government goons beat and tasered an elderly blind refugee (in the US legally, as if that matters) who got lost, for not understanding English--then dumped him bruised, battered, and traumatized, miles from his home in sub-freezing weather, without notifying his family. He died.
In Minnesota, ICE has resorted to "Starlight tours." As in, dropping detainees in the middle of the forest with no coats in subzero weather in the middle of the night to freeze them to death. Fortunately, there are citizen groups monitoring the woods for exactly that sort of thing, who rescued them.
In my home state of Kansas, all trans people have just had their drivers licenses revoked, and were told if they're caught driving (like, to work, etc.), they'll be arrested.
The regime's own announcement on Medicaid and Medicare.
Nearly Blind Refugee found dead in Buffalo, NY (Reuters News)
(The only links I can find specifically on Minnesota "Starlight Tours" are on Facebook and Substack)
Kansas revokes driver's licenses and birth certificates for trans citizens (Associated Press)
Starlight Tours are a tactic used to murder Indigenous people up here in so called Canada. It's disgusting that those same colonial techniques are being used to harm our relatives in the south.
I just wanted to add a quick note about Starlight Tours, it's important that we remember where this phrase comes from, and who is targeted by this specific violence.
Here's a Wikipedia article on the topic:
Free the people! Land Back! FUCK ICE!!!
a picture of my beanie baby dragon in her party hat, taken on my dsi :]
i wish everyone following me made enough money to not feel like they were being boiled alive and had the time and energy to clean their room at their own leisure
directly asking merch makers in their preorder fundraising posts who makes their products & where & if equitable pay can be guaranteed to the ppl actually sewing their shit together .. perhaps a new trend this year
You can absolutely do this!
Very few factories are actually accredited by any 3rd party organizations, but if you look hard enough, you can find some.
You can (and should) also ask for specific documents pertaining to their most recent audits, which you can read through and see if the workers themselves are getting basic shit.
You can get documents that answer questions like…
- Are workers being provided with proper PPE?
- When do workers get breaks?
- Is the factory building structurally sound?
- Does management have a track record of fixing problems when they arise?
- Are there any underage employees?
As well as the results of anonymized private interviews
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like to be clear i enjoy many things that are bad. but if they were bad and big, that would be a problem. a bad show/film/book is inoffensive to me. a bad show/film/book that is being given endless accolades makes me feel like there's women in my yellow wallpaper
I just outsmoked a wild boar and it dropped two gold and 12 exp as it greened out
I have been thinking a lot about what a cancer diagnosis used to mean. How in the ‘80s and ‘90s, when someone was diagnosed, my parents would gently prepare me for their death. That chemo and radiation and surgery just bought time, and over the age of fifty people would sometimes just. Skip it. For cost reasons, and for quality of life reasons. My grandmother was diagnosed in her early seventies and went directly into hospice for just under a year — palliative care only. And often, after diagnosis people and their families would go away — they’d cash out retirement or sell the house and go live on a beach for six months. Or they’d pay a charlatan all their savings to buy hope. People would get diagnosed, get very sick, leave, and then we’d hear that they died.
And then, at some point, the people who left started coming back.
It was the children first. The March of Dimes and Saint Jude set up programs and my town would do spaghetti fundraisers and raffles and meal trains to support the family and send the child and one parent to a hospital in the city — and the children came home. Their hair grew back. They went back to school. We were all trained to think of them as the angelic lost and they were turning into asshole teens right in front of our eyes. What a miracle, what a gift, how lucky we are that the odds for several children are in our favor!
Adults started leaving for a specific program to treat their specific cancer at a specific hospital or a specific research group. They’d stay in that city for 6-12 months and then they’d come home. We fully expected that they were still dying — or they’d gotten one of the good cancers. What a gift this year is for them, we’d think. How lucky they are to be strong enough to ski and swim and run. And then they didn’t stop — two decades later they haven’t stopped. Not all of them, but most of them.
We bought those extra hours and months and years. We paid for time with our taxes. Scientists found ways for treatment to be less terrible, less poisonous, and a thousand times more effective.
And now, when a friend was diagnosed, the five year survival odds were 95%. My friend is alive, nearly five years later. Those kids who miraculously survived are alive. The adults who beat the odds are still alive. I grew up in a place small enough that you can see the losses. And now, the hospital in my tiny hometown can effectively treat many cancers. Most people don’t have to go away for treatment. They said we could never cure cancer, as it were, but we can cure a lot of cancers. We can diagnose a lot of cancers early enough to treat them with minor interventions. We can prevent a lot of cancers.
We could keep doing that. We could continue to fund research into other heartbreaks — into Long Covid and MCAS and psych meds with fewer side effects and dementia treatments. We could buy months and years, alleviate the suffering of our neighbors. That is what funding health research buys: time and ease.
Anyway, I’m preaching to the choir here. But it is a quiet miracle what’s happened in my lifetime.
Cystic fibrosis used to be a "disease of childhood" because people who had it rarely lived to be adults. Now it's considered a chronic illness.
I know I'm saying this as someone who's career largely depends on this, but: please, this is why we need basic science research. If you ever see a headline or snippet about something "ridiculous" that scientists are doing, you are being propagandized. You are being lied to. And it's in a way that aims to stop this progress.
If you're writing 18th century dialogue, this website lets you search words and phrases to double-check whether they were in use & meant what you intend. It doesn't include every period-accurate use of a word/phrase, but it certainly helped me separate genuine 18th century grammar from the vague tangle of 💬old-fashioned fancy-speak💬 I've internalized from TV and video games.
Other websites that let you do this:
Johnson's Dictionary Online (thanks @yellowbelliedtoad!) – 1755 and 1773
Green's Dictionary of Slang – 1300s to today
A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – 1788
Feraud's Dictionaire critique de la langue française – 1778
A dictionary of the English and Italian languages by Giuseppe Baretti is a bilingual dictionary from 1790!
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it’s actually wild how terrified of the general public most usamericans are. like you don’t realize it if you’re someone who mostly walks and takes transit and spends a lot of time in populous public spaces but then you talk to one of the thousands of people that seemingly never set foot in any public space besides a parking garage or a starbucks and you suddenly understand why it’s so easy for fascist rhetoric about the dangerous alien to take root. this country’s median voter pretty much never interacts with strangers who aren’t their coworkers or people they met on dating apps
saw a post on instagram that was literally someone citing statistics saying public transit is one of the safest travel options out there and the comments were literally just “ummmmm op this is so ableist and misogynistic of you :) don’t you know the average public transit user is a dangerous violent criminal who wants to set you on fire :)))”
it must be so terrifying and sad to go through life convinced if you set foot outside your car in public or interact with people outside your nuclear family you’ll instantly be raped and robbed by the Evil Poors no wonder so many of these people are reactionary tar pits
Eternally relevant read is True Crime is Rotting Our Brains by Emma Berquist, a woman who actually experienced a (rare!) stranger-attack while just walking outside, and thinks that people who panic about this shit need to chill the fuck ouuuuuutt and also recognize how much they're using it to launder their bigotries
Edit: I've attempted to add this link at least three times and Tumblr is being stubborn, so let me try posting it on its own:
Emma Berquist
i worked at a park with a famous cliff people do indeed keep falling off and one day someone said, "why don't you just close off the trail?" and i said, "we can't make people make good decisions. we also can't close the Outside."
it's worth noting that to get to the cliff's edge to fall off in the first place, you have to climb over a fence with a sign on it that says "DANGER: IF YOU FALL OFF THE CLIFF, YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE!" and then (i'm not making this up) hike past a 6-foot tall marble monument dedicated to someone else who fell off the cliff.
and for the record i genuinely still do very much think it's a tragedy any time someone falls off the cliff, regardless of the several very deliberate choices they have to make to get to the cliff. because people make mistakes and poor choices and that's not a moral failing punishable by death. it sucks. but likewise I'm so serious when I say we can't close the Outside. because what would we do? put up another fence???
