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I know I’ve given you protest instructions and advice before.

This is absolutely one of those times to listen.

If you’re new, uninitiated, or considering going out for your First, be advised that you need to be careful.

And I’ve said this before:

LISTEN TO YOUR PROTEST LEADERS. 

I cannot overemphasize that. The last protest I was at, a man pulled out a gun, an actual gun, and while I don’t think we were ever in any danger, the leader gave everyone an earful about antagonizing and escalation once we’d marched a safe distance down the street. At the end, they told us sternly that they knew how long it would take for someone to actually get to the point of shooting people, and that they could judge that because of their life experience. Odds are that your local protest leaders will have similar experience and awareness, and when it comes to that, it can literally mean the difference between life and death. 

So if you do choose to protest or march this week, you. Listen. To. Your. Leaders. You move as a unit. You stay safe. You take care of yourself and then you take care of the person next to you. 

Pack water. Pack illumination. Pack light. And study up on basic first aid, too.

I had to give a ten minute presentation on gender and a) how it’s different from sex, and b) whether or not there’s such thing as a “male” and “female” brain.

I found COUNTLESS studies supporting the idea that the brain itself is unisex- there is very little, if any, difference between “male” and “female” brains, with one exception. I’m by no means a neuroscientist but this is what I understood from this particular article: there’s this tiny part of the hypothalamus (a small part of the brain) that has neutrons in it, and the number of neutrons varies. HOWEVER, when the brains of cis men and women and trans men and women (who had not taken hormones for years prior to the time of death) were studied, it was found that the cis men and trans men had almost identical average neutron counts, and the cis women and trans women had almost identical average neutron counts. So if you’re DMAB but realize at some point that you’re a trans woman, as far as your brain is concerned, you ARE a woman! The same goes for DFAB trans men (intersex/nonbinary individuals weren’t studied, unfortunately).

Bianca [drinking it]: thanks, what’s this for?

Adore [innocently]: Courm says you get thirsty around me.

Yesterday, I drew Crowley as one of @savethewailes 's snakes. Today, I drew Crowley as another one of their snakes.

He's in his Time Out Tank.

Aziraphale put him in.

He did a bad thing.

I won't tell you what he did.

tumblr is set up as what is scientifically referred to as a “factual state” - meaning, in short, that our brains perceive the majority of what we read on it as factual. (source) this is why there are so little colour schemes on it and why dark mode/low colour mode took so long to be implemented, as tumblr didn’t want to mess this up. here’s a list of colours which help to enhance that mindset and manipulate people into thinking that what they are reading is true - you’ll see that almost all of the previous shades of blue used on tumblr are there.

but why is this a thing? studies have actually shown that tumblr aims to push information on us that will, actually, assist governments.

yeah. it’s scary. that’s also why tumblr was sold for such a low amount - because if it fit these specifications, it would have to be listed here; a site, for those of you that don’t want to click the link, that lists all well known social medias that cannot legally be used to spread propaganda. which is also why facebook is up in arms about that whole political advertising shitstorm.

tumblr is generally advertised as the “shitty blogging website with bad staff” because they want to cover this with incompetence, or an impression of it - studies show that our brains are not able to link sinister means with a feeling of utter uselessness.

tumblr’s users are often also struggling with mental health issues - it is thought that up to 68% of users may be depressed and therefore, easier to target with this information.

tl;dr is that you absolutely should not trust half the shit you see on tumblr, because unfortunately, up to 13% of blogs are only created to spread false information for a larger purpose.

additional sources:

a list of blogs confirmed to be spreading false and possibly harmful information

a list of topics that are usually filled with false information in posts

extra information on what governments are the worse for this and why

From left to right: (top) In Control Clothing, Nnnasty Gem, (bottom) Sinister Sisters, Gothic Lamb

From left to right (top) Glam Goth Beauty, Vicki be Wicked, (bottom) Black Widow Beauty, Three of Swords

From left to right: (top) Dark Jasmine Fashion, Bad Dahlia, (bottom) Funky Punk NYC, BlkGrlsWurld

From Left to right: (top) Wickedland Jewelry, Voodou Fairy, (bottom) Pretty Boy Gothic, Spookie Kidz

From left to right: (top) Tears of my Enemies, Von Kreep Art, (bottom) Afro Punk, Sweet Bitz

"The protests are beginning to change the world."