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I just read that Donald Trump and his circus took down a website called reproductiverights.gov
This was a website to help women learn about their reproductive rights in the US and to find health care.
This is absolutely disgusting so I’ll share in this post some resources in case you need them:
Links to websites of groups that study or provide information about contraception and birth control.
Browse resources for accessing abortion care: find providers, get information and advice, access abortion funds, legal advocacy and more.
Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill op
The National Abortion Federation (NAF) is the professional association of abortion providers in North America. We believe that women should
Call our legal Helpline if you or someone you know has been arrested or is being investigated for an abortion or pregnancy loss.
Resources Archives - Center for Reproductive Rights
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn
Feelings tonight
we usually think of mood as a scale from 1-5, but there's actually a negative scale too, where the frown turns back into a smile, but just a little insane !

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Had a few folks interested in how I made the patches I posted for Solarpunk Aesthetic Week, so I thought I'd give y'all my step-by-step process for making hand-embroidered patches!
First, choose your fabric and draw on your design. You can use basically any fabric for this - for this project I'm using some felt I've had lying around in my stash for ages.
Next, choose your embroidery floss. For my patches I split my embroidery floss into two threads with 3 strands each, as pictured. You can use as many strands in your thread as you prefer, but for the main body of my patches I prefer 3 strands.
Next you're going to start filling your design using a back stitch.
First, put in a single stitch where you want your row to start.
Poke your needle up through the fabric 1 stitch-length away from your first stitch.
Poke your needle back down the same hole your last stitch went into so they line up end-to-end.
Repeat until you have a row of your desired length (usually the length of that colour section from one end to the other). Once you have your first row, you're going to do your next row slightly offset from your first row so that your stitches lay together in a brick pattern like this:
Make sure your rows of stitches are tight together, or you'll get gaps where the fabric shows through.
Rinse and repeat with rows of back stitch to fill in your patch design.
When you're almost to the end of your thread, poke your needle through to the back of the fabric and pull the thread under the back part of the stitching to tuck in the end. Don't worry if it looks messy - no one's gonna see the back anyway.
This next step is fully optional, but I think it makes the patch design really pop. Once your patch is filled in, you can use black embroidery floss to outline your design (or whatever colour you want to outline with - it's your patch, do what you want). I use the full thread (6 strands, not split) of embroidery floss to make a thicker outline.
I use the same back stitch I used to fill the piece to make an outline that adds some separation and detail. You could use most any 'outlining' stitch for this, but I just use back stitch because it's just easier for me to do.
Once you're finished embroidering your patch, it's time to cut it out!
Make sure to leave a little border around the edge to use for sewing your patch on your jacket/bag/blanket/whatever, and be careful not to accidentally cut through the stitches on the back of the patch.
If you have a sturdy enough fabric that isn't going to fray, you can just leave it like this. If not, I recommend using a whip stitch/satin stitch to seal in the exposed edges (I find that splitting your embroidery floss into 3-strand threads works best for this).
And then you're done! At this point you can put on iron-on backing if you want, or just sew it on whatever you wanna put it on. Making patches this way does take a long time, but I feel that the results are worth it.
Thanks for reading this tutorial! I hope it was helpful. If anyone makes patches using this method, I'd love to see them! 😁
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If you are writing a book/story that takes place in another world, I have provided for you the complete world building checklist to ensure that you know your world inside out.
Economy A. Currency B. Poverty rate/line
Government A. Crime & Legal System B. Foreign Relations C. Politics D. War
The Land A. Physical & Historical Features B. Climate C. Geography D. Natural Resources E. Population
Society & Culture A. Arts, Entertainment, & Recreation B. Architecture C. Calendar D. Daily Life. E. Diet F. Ethics & Values G. fashion & Dress H. History I. Dining Customs J. Education K. Language L. Gestures M. Manners N. Meeting & Greeting O. Religion & Philosophy P. Social organization
Magic A. Magicians B. Magic and science C. Magic & Technology D. Rules of Magic
Technology C. Technology D. Medicine D. Transportation & Communication you're welcome <3
Fell free to reblog and fill it out if you want. I am curious to see the worlds in my fellow writers heads.
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Maybe I am stupid. Probably I am stupid. Most definitely with only a little shadow of doubt I am stupid. But where do i read Parahumans or Worm by Wildbow or John McCrae please I have seen so many people talking about it but I can't find ANYTHING. Yall came through with the dungeon meshi manga I beg yall
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL
“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”
My mom learned it because she figured she’ll go deaf when she gets old
My family went holiday SCUBA diving once, and a couple of Deaf guys were in the group. I was really little and I spent most of the briefing overcome with the realization that while the rest of us were going to have regulators in our mouths and be underwater fairly soon, they were going to be able to do all the same stuff and keep talking.
The only reason some form of sign language is not a standard skill is ableism, as far as I can tell.
For anyone interested in learning, Bill Vicars has full lessons of ASL on youtube that were used in my college level classes.
https://www.youtube.com/user/billvicars
and here’s the link to the website he puts in his videos:
https://www.lifeprint.com/
Update: you guys this is an amazing resource for learning asl. Bill Vicars is an incredible teacher. His videos are of him teaching a student in a classroom, using the learned vocabulary to have conversations.
Not only is the conversation format immersive and helpful for learning the grammar, but the students make common mistakes which he corrects, mistakes I wouldn’t have otherwise know I was making.
He also emphasizes learning ASL in the way it’s actually used by the Deaf community and not the rigid structure that some ASL teachers impose in their classrooms
His lesson plans include learning about the Deaf community, which is an important aspect of learning ASL. Knowing how to communicate in ASL without the knowledge of the culture behind it leaves out a lot of nuances and explanations for the way ASL is.
Lastly, his lessons are just a lot of fun to watch. He is patient, entertaining, and funny. This good natured enthusiasm is contagious and learning feels like a privilege and not a chore
And it’s all FREE. Seriously. If you’ve ever wanted to learn ASL
I genuinely can’t wait to watch these. I have wanted to learn ASL for a long time, but I always wind up giving up.
I was wondering if anyone out there could give me any suggestions for a particular stumbling block I have, which is that I get extremely overwhelmed trying to read finger spelling.
I am an excellent reader on paper, but between my ADHD and difficulty with spatial visualization, it’s a serious struggle for me to get the hang of reading finger spelling, which is a crucial skill obviously. That’s why I gave up the last time.
I have people to practice signing with on a daily basis, but trust me I need some alone practice in this particular area as well lmao. If there are any series of videos of people just finger spelling to get practice or something, I need it. I’ve tried googling in the past but couldn’t find anything.
Firstly: everyone struggles with receptive fingerspelling. You may well be struggling more than average, but it’s important to know that *everyone* is struggling. My college offers a class just on fingerspelling, the requisite for which is ASL 4. I have also just invited you to an ASL learners community on here where fingerspelling is one of the most frequent topics. It’s 100% fine to find yourself frequently asking for fingerspelling to be repeated.
That said, some fingerspelling practice sites:
^^ I like this one because it’s a real person spelling real words
ASL receptive fingerspelling practice. Free for Deaf and hearing students of American Sign Language.
^^ haven’t really used this myself, but have seen it recommended. 3D model of a hand so probably helpful with some stuff but not others
Free American Sign Language (ASL) Fingerspelling Practice Site
^^ Again, pros and cons since it’s just using pictures instead of the letters flowing together like they would irl, but I have used this a bit
If you have people to practice with, I’ve heard recommended:
have them put a sock on their hand and fingerspell to you so you can focus more on the shapes than the individual letters (haven’t tried this myself lol)
And suggestion from here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtRCE9HafHQ around 2:08: use Taboo cards. Have one person fingerspell all the words on the card, one at a time, and have the other person guess them. This way, you’re getting context and might be able to guess the words even if you miss some letters. I have actually used this and I think it helped + it’s fun!
I was told in plain english by my spanish teacher in high school that taking ASL was a "waste of my time" because I chose to learn ASL instead of taking spanish with her. While both incredibly important languages for living in the US, and while I still fully intend on learning spanish, ASL has helped me communicate with people who sometimes have NO ONE ELSE. When nobody learns sign language, people who know sign language have no one to talk to. I worked in a care setting where sometimes, for one reason or another, people used sign language, and I was the ONLY ONE that knew it. The company didn't provide it in the training, didn't list it in the job description, and only briefly mentioned it in the interview. Learning ASL, which again, was viewed as a waste of time and waste of a class, led me to a job where I was helping a room of caregivers learn what the sign for 'pain' was.
You don't need to be deaf to learn sign! It's not any lesser than any other language! But if society doesn't treat a skill as important, people are less likely to learn a skill that I use literally every day, even just to tell my friend something across the room!
To think of it as less of a language is to rob the world of a language.

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i love how when they see the camera they like, unanimously run away. they know what they did
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As someone who struggles with disordered eating thoughts a lot I will forever appreciate Dungeon Meshi for giving me the scene where Laios kicks Toshiro's ass before saying outloud that the reason he won is because he's been eating(and resting) and Toshiro hasn't.
In a world that is so fatphobic it absolutely demonizes needing to eat to the point we have whole entire adult humans who think being hungry is a sign you're addicted to food it means everything to me to have a show say "cooking and eating is not only fun, rewarding, and a way to bond and share/preserve our cultures, it is a necessary part of life that makes your body stronger, you cannot save yourself or others if you're starving, you gain nothing from denying yourself food" like...Dunmeshi is such a breath of fresh air. No fat jokes, no "oh tee hee I gotta watch my weight" comments, no fucking moralizing any type of food as bad or unhealthy, fatty meats and fried foods and carbs being shown as just as nutritious and valuable and necessary as vegetables and salads, the show even having a part talking about how eating isn't just about being full and you can still enjoy food even if you aren't doing it for nutrition or to sate hunger, and Laios literally proving that there is nothing noble in starvation and denial of our base needs....goddamn. I love this story so fucking much.
Also I really do appreciate the "eating AND resting" part because in stories and irl we always see like, driving yourself to the brink of exhaustion running on barely any sleep as almost...noble? Or aspirational, I guess? It's SO normalized to give everything all the time and never rest until your goals are achived, to run yourself ragged helping others, to put your needs dead last...but Dungeon Meshi just says "you need to put your oxygen mask on before you can help anyone else with theirs" and spends the majority of the narrative proving it true. Toshiro could not have saved Falin for a lot of reasons but the primary one was that he's the type to kill himself trying to save someone else. He isn't eating or sleeping, he's weak and exhausted and not thinking straight, he can't stand a chance against Laois in a fight, he's ignoring the people begging him to just take a break for a second, that is not sustainable and it makes him more of a liability than an asset.
And like I'm not Japanese but I do know about how bad Japanese Work Culture is and I don't think Toshiro was picked to be the one made an example of in this way by chance, Ryoko Kui's work does seem to be coming from a perspective that is very informed by her background and she's clearly not afraid of putting social commentary and critique into her stories. But even aside from that I know as an American we also get that "kill yourself for your job I'll sleep when I'm dead hustle culture" shit poured into our brains from day one, so legit having a story be like "hey bro actually you refusing to take care of yourself in the pursuit of this goal is kneecapping your ability to actually reach it and you need to take a nap and eat some bread" is also pretty fantastic.
Plus, in a lot of activist circles these days I see a lot of people convinced that you must always be on all the time regardless of how badly it's hurting you, which is so toxic because again, if you are traumatizing and exhausting yourself you CAN'T HELP PEOPLE. Exposing yourself to hell 24/7 so you're a good ally is making you a worse one. You cannot help people with their oxygen masks until you put on your own, you need to rest and take care of yourself so you can help others.
Also like, as a disabled person it's also nice to see rest being treated as necessary. Disabled people get so much flack for being "lazy" and it's very easy to internalize the idea that you must be productive to be worthy of life, but Dungeon Meshi is very pro "you can't do anything if you aren't giving yourself breaks and rest when you need it" and it's really validating!
All around the focus put in rest and nourishment being necessary not just for life but for being a force of positive action in the world is something I think a lot of us could use to hear from media. I love a good "you're beaten and bloody and exhausted but you're gonna keep fighting even if it kills you" dramatic moment as much as the next person but there is still so much to explore in a story that tells you to calm the fuck down and eat something so you can actually do the work that needs doing. It's compassionate and reassuring but also a bit of a wake up call.
Dungeon Meshi wants you to help others by helping yourself, and that's honestly fantastic.
It's so refreshing to see a piece of media say 'taking care of yourself is not a selfish act' in such clear words, but it's also sad we needed to look for one in the first place

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Stan's eyes going in opposite directions really add to the whole experience of viewing this
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