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opened up ravelry to look at patterns and the very first thing i saw was
The Garment by Robert Cole
For @creatingblackcharacters Melanin Beam Challenge, I did Kira Nerys and Jadzia Dax from Star Trek Deep Space Nine!
There should have been a Black woman on the main cast of DS9 and I will die on that hill.
Im dryin up faster than lake mead just thinking about it
Futures
Made of
Ethical romantasy
I tried to find the list and they nuked it lmaooooo
Ohoho you wanna hear about MY favorite naruto character?
Be me, just discovering manga for the first time as a extremely sheltered baptist 14 year old. I was obsessed. Naruto scratched an itch in me as a young repressed gay that veggie tales and 321 Penguins just couldn't reach. I would check out my highschool's book limit in naruto volumes, tear through them in one night, bring them back the next day, check out the next 6 volumes, rinse and repeat. Nothing would come in between me reading through these books as fast as humanly possible.
So when I was dragged out of my room to go to my new stepdad's company sponsored picnic, i was less than thrilled. But, oh well, a ninja should always be adaptable, so i grabbed my current volume and we headed off to the park.
Now I don't know if you've ever had the displeasure of experiencing the Corporate Sponsored Family Picnic, but let me tell you, even as a child it was a sorry affair. Small groups of pale middle aged men in khaki shorts and polos stood in circles clutching their solo cups full of sprite while their equally haggard looking wives wrestled wood chips out of the mouths of their redfaced toddlers.
I was more concerned about finding a quiet corner of the pavilion to read out of the reach of sticky fingered middleschoolers and curious siblings alike.
Staying quiet and undetected was the way of the ninja.
Well, wouldn't you know it, the company hired a clown to come and paint the faces of their employee's children. I loved facepaint but unfortunately being 14 meant that i was far too mature for the butterfly masks and spiderman faces of yore, so I kept reading.
That is... until i saw him.
The first time i saw Orochimaru I had two thoughts. One was gay panic, the other was complete and total assurance that this was the coolest looking character that had ever been made in the history of man. Looking back now I could probably have sited this as being the moment my egg cracked for me but u can't tell therapists that so moving on.
Right then I knew that I had to be him. Embody every bit of intimidation and power that came with his killer eyeliner. Smugly, I strode past all the unicorns and batman faces, knowing that I was about to become the ultimate ninja.
I slapped the open book onto this poor 40 something year old woman's table and just pointed.
"Are you sure?" she asked me, pleaded me, eyes squinting at the picture of a man vomiting a smaller version of himself up.
I nodded solemnly.
I stood completely still for the whole process, brimming with excitement and undiagnosed autism. When she was finished and showed me the result, I was so blinded with euphoria it didn't matter that several dads had begun to stare or that my very christian mother was already wetting paper towels as I hopped down off the stool.
For those brief few moments I was the most powerful sannin at that picnic
thank u
nattou, this is the best fucjing thing ive ever read.
i have nothing to add. its perfection.
allow me to explain:

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CALLING ALL GRITS ENJOYERS
Should grits be savory or sweet?
Savory
Sweet
Bonus points if you include instructions on your preferred grits preparation methods in the tags.
A common theme in science fiction is that if you're in space, don't trust a corporation. And Earth is in space
the whole "insulting someone based on their appearance is bad because it could indirectly hurt people you like who share that feature" is a good start for unlearning body shaming but i do think we need to go further and remind people that even if there was some physical trait that was magically 10000% exclusive to conservatives and creeps and nobody else ever had it, we still shouldnt be insulting them based on that. because the problem with them is not their appearance its their ideology and actions. by insulting their appearance you arent just indirectly insulting others who look like that, youre literally not making the correct point. stay on topic ya know.
girls night girls night
I realised today that frog feet are kind of ideal for wearing heels and well then I accidentally

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plz understand, if u haven't played tales of berseria & you look it up & you go ". SIGH? OKAY??" at the img results: I'm you. but wise friend and fellow hater @liesonthefloordramatically endorsed this game to me so heavily that I said "well okay let's give it a shot" anyway and I discovered that they have rarely been more correct about anything. which is saying a LOT; TRUST ME
oh I'm so glad you listened 'cause it's one of my favorite tales games aaaaa!
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was doing a first aid course and it kept talking about how when applying first aid to a child you have to ask the PARENT for consent and how the child's consent is not enough unless you cannot reach the parent. and then immediately after there was a unit on shaken baby syndrome, and then mentioned abuse as a common source of children getting injured. and they didn't see the irony there. i later asked the instructor what to do about parental consent if the medical emergency was from the parent abusing the child and she was like "you still need to obtain parental consent. you can report the abuse though" not even acknowledging how fucked the whole system is. i hate it here. youth rights now
if a 17 year old walks into my emergency room and says rheir dad broke their arm, by law i have to contact the parent for consent, thereby telling the parent where they are. The best i can do then is call the police to come get the parent when they show up to drag the kid out (and no guarantees the police will do that! They may say the kid is lying and send them on their way! Not even mentioning the rest of the problems with police!) There are ways around it in larger, better-funded cities who can appoint someone through the courts if that happens, but im in bumfuck nowhere.
the only exception is pregnancy care if they're 14 or over. Even then the parent has access to the medical records and can easily find out.
We need to protect the rights of minors.
Report from Northern Colorado Community Mutual Aid and Defense on suggestions for ways to build community and support around mutual aid programs.
An important part of building sustainable mutual aid projects, especially those survival programs that seek to redistribute expensive gear that cannot be easily appropriated, is a consistent effort to reach out to new people who may have excess supplies and are willing to give them but have not given them away yet.
In light of this, members of our mutual aid committee and close comrades developed what we believe to be a novel system of soliciting materials for mutual aid drives that delivers large quantities of survival goods on a short time frame with minimal cost and time commitment. Â This method, based on a project many Scout troops engage in, resulted in the collection and redistribution of hundreds of pounds of food, clothing, toiletries, and survival gear for unhoused people in our communities, and can be replicated by any mutual aid group.
The project itself can have its work divided into three types and we found each to take roughly the same amount of time, with the final steps taking the longest. The timetable for the project was a few days longer than a week, including the wrangling of friends to participate in distribution and securing a place to store the goods after we learned how much was donated.
First, we collected brown grocery bags from a local “woke” store. Calling ahead and explaining the project yielded a few hundred bags we were able to pick up within an hour. To these bags, we attached a single sheet of paper explaining the project, our organization, and the purpose of mutual aid, with our contact info bookending.
After determining the neighborhoods we deemed most likely to have and share survival gear, teams of two or three spread through a local city. Leaving the bags, with their attached notes, on door handles and in door-jams, teams were able to cover between 50 and 100 houses per hour. Most of this work was done in one go the Saturday before collection, though a significant amount was done on Tuesday and Wednesday of that week.
Copy of our outreach flyer.
On the day of collection, groups of two and three drove around the neighborhoods where bags were left and collected the donated items. This step took many trips, as the goods collected surprised us in terms of quantity and we had to frequently unload our full cars to fit more supplies. We took what was gathered, sorted them into food (canned and otherwise), clothing, survival gear, and toiletries, then stored them.
In total, about twenty hours of work – with many opportunities to streamline the process – yielded monumental results. We intend to repeat the process in the communities we serve and are keeping a map of whatever neighborhood we visit so as to not repeatedly hit any one place.
Some tips and ideas for improvement:
Leave thank you notes when picking up bags. This will give you a clear number of places that donated and will build good will with your neighbors. Remind them why their help matters, they may choose to become more involved in mutual aid because of your labor.
Experiment in the sorts of neighborhoods you leave bags in. We found success in neighborhoods with mid priced rentals and cheaper homes, as well as in older neighborhoods. We did not find as much success in student neighborhoods. These are local conditions, though, and hitting a variety of communities can give you a better idea of where your labor is best spent.
There are plenty of easy ways to compartmentalize tasks in this, which may be useful in guaranteeing safety of participants while also bringing newer/less known people in. Distribution of bags comes to mind first.
Turn around time should be quick, but not too fast. Anecdotally, it seems like neighborhoods we hit on Tuesday and Wednesday donated at higher rates, but not enough data was collected to test this. Collecting goods any more than a week after leaving bags seems like it would lead to worse results, as may collection within a day or two of distribution.
Incorporating local events or referencing the season may be a good way to increase donations. A supply drive around Christmas may be more bountiful than one in mid-January, for example. In cities where anti-homeless persecution is well known, this information can be used to drive home the need for those extra goods a household may have.
Be aware of the weather. We distributed during a windstorm and this blew away a number of bags, decreasing donations in that neighborhood.
A project like this is easily to replicate and has shown results. With some small changes, it can provide a covid-safe, easily expandable and labor saving method to mass gear collection. Let us know how things go, if you try this method: [email protected].

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Lili Chin- The Play Way
In January 2020, I attended Dr. Amy Cook's PLAY WAY seminar at Pasadena Humane Society. The seminar was about "social play" as a tool for rehabilitating reactive/stressed/fearful dogs.
"Social Play" has been defined as something different from playing with toys (tug, fetch, etc.) It is literally "goofing around" with your dog in a way that they like, that makes them happy. Body language responsiveness, movement and timing is everything.
Not only did we get to see some inspiring and entertaining video footage of Amy Cook playing with her dogs, some attendees had also brought their own dogs to play with, while Amy offered coaching.
We saw the Play Way live!
It was an amazing and delightful experience and I couldn't wait to get home to play with my 15 year old Boogie (now passed on) who hadn't been interested in Tug or Fetch in over a year due to his vision loss. The Play Way class was like learning a new language, a new vocabulary to play with my dog.
This infographic cannot possibly do justice to all the material covered in the Play Way seminar, which also focused on play as "therapy". For now, I hope this is enough to pique everyone's interest in the subject and how to be mindful and respectful of our dog's body language and of our own body language in conversations with our dog.
Also read: Whole Dog Journal article on The Play Way
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An incomplete list of things that employers commonly threaten that are 100% illegal in the United States
"We'll fire you if you tell others how much you're making" The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 specifically protects employees who discuss their own wages with each other (you can't reveal someone else's wages if you were given that information in the course of work, but you can always discuss your own or any that were revealed to you outside of work duties)
"If we can't fire you for [discussing wages/seeking reasonable accommodation/filing a discrimination complaint/etc], we'll just fire you for something else the next day." This is called pretextual termination, and it offers your employer almost no protection; if you are terminated shortly after taking a protected action such as wage discussion, complaints to regulatory agencies, or seeking a reasonable accommodation, you can force the burden onto your employer to prove that the termination wasn't retaliatory.
"Disparaging the company on social media is grounds for termination" Your right to discuss workplace conditions, compensation, and collective action carries over to online spaces, even public ones. If your employer says you aren't allowed to disparage the company online or discuss it at all, their social media policy is illegal. However, they can forbid releasing information that they're obligated to keep confidential such as personnel records, business plans, and customer information, so exercise care.
"If you unionize, we'll just shut this branch down and lay everyone off" Threatening to take action against a group that unionizes is illegal, full stop. If a company were to actually shut down a branch for unionizing, they would be fined very heavily by the NLRB and be opening themselves up to a class-action lawsuit by the former employees.
"We can have any rule we want, it's only illegal if we actually enforce it" Any workplace policy or rule that has a "chilling effect" on employees' willingness to exercise their rights is illegal, even if the employer never follows through on any of their threats.
"If you [protected action], we'll make sure you never work in this industry/city/etc again." Blacklisting of any kind is illegal in half the states in the US, and deliberately sabotaging someone's job search in retaliation for a protected action is illegal everywhere in the US.
"Step out of line and you can kiss your retirement fund/last paycheck goodbye." Your employer can never refuse to give you your paycheck, even if you've been fired. Nor can they keep money that you invested in a retirement savings account, and they can only claw back the money they invested in the retirement account under very specific circumstances.
"We'll deny that you ever worked here" not actually possible unless they haven't been paying their share of employment taxes or forwarding your withheld tax to the government (in which case they're guilty of far more serious crimes, and you might stand to gain something by turning them in to the IRS.) The records of your employment exist in state and federal tax data, and short of a heist that would put Oceans 11 to shame, there's nothing they can do about that.