Spacey witch

If you have ever been tempted by a Paleozoic Pal, like a a stuffed trilobite or a full size eurypterid body pillow, now's the time to buy one, before they and a really lovely little museum are gone for good 😭😭😭

As stated in the article, they hold around 7 million artifacts- many of which are orphaned fossils, with the museum taking in collections that otherwise would have been trashed.

Please consider buying a Paleozoic Pal, but I'll also leave a direct donation link as well.

I JUST WENT INTO A FUGUE STATE AND BOUGHT ME A 16 INCH CUDDLE BUDDY WITH PLATED TEETH!! DUNKIE, MY BELOVED!!

HE’S HERE! MY BIG BOY IS HERE!! (And yes he is my BIG boy despite only being 16 inches, you shush!)

He took nearly a month to get here, but that’s because of ALL THE ORDERS THEY’VE BEEN GETTING! OVER 1800 ORDERS! This is why I love the online community!!

For anyone curious what's happening with the PRI they're digging themselves out! An anonymous donor gave them $1 mn which they used to secure a stay on the forclosure for the rest of the year and they're approximately a third of the way to buying their way out of the mortgage.

Referred to as “the Dusseldorf patient” to protect his privacy, researchers said he is the fifth confirmed case of an HIV cure. Although the details of his successful treatment were first announced at a conference in 2019, researchers could not confirm he had been officially cured at that time.

it is easy to scroll past mutual aid posts – i don’t make many of these so please take a second to read and share.

a friend of mine is asking for financial help for food + housing, if anyone has disposable income please consider donating to help tari find a stable living situation. they are having to choose between having a safe, warm, clean place to sleep (other than a public bench) and work and being able to eat – and often are not able to achieve either of these things.

instagram hasn’t yielded them any donations so far, and they are not on tumblr so i am sharing this. i have a decent number of followers on here so you have the opportunity to make a change. please contribute if you have a few dollars to spare or SHARE if you cannot, anything helps, even a reblog to spread the message.

(avoiding full names so tumblr doesn’t hide this):

csh app: $TaniaHuey

vnmo: @geeeztari

The United States has been found guilty of 5 cases of genocide by the UN as of October 23rd.

The UN International Tribunal of Human Rights Abuses Against Black, brown, and Indigenous Peoples had a 2 day hearing and found the United States guilty of 5 counts of genocide for Police Killings, Mass Incarceration, Prisoners of War, Environmental Racism, and Public Health Inequities.

After having heard the testimony of numerous victims of Police Racism, Mass Incarceration, Environmental Racism, Public Health Inequities and of Political Prisoners/Prisoners of War, together with the expert testimonies and graphic presentations, as well as the copious documentation submitted and admitted in the record, the Panel of Jurists find the U.S. and its subdivisions GUILTY of all five counts. We find grounds that Acts of Genocide have been committed.

Give acts of genocide against Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples.

My friend, I think you might be overestimating how often archaeologists encounter something that we believe to be a phallus or phallic symbol. However, the most uncomfortable thing I've ever unearthed was an old mercury thermometer that was broken in half. I sure hope that there wasn't too much mercury in that soil...

I have indeed licked a bone, but again I think that you might be overestimating how thrilling this is. Take a dry twig without the bark on it, rub it around in some dirt, and then lick it. That's what it tastes like. When we lick something we're generally not trying to taste it, but rather to see if it sticks to the moisture of your tongue. Bone is porous and will stick, rocks (although some fossils might be an exception) will not.

I wish that I had more glamorous answers for you, but the truth is that a lot of archaeology isn't nearly as exciting as movies would have you believe.

We don’t lick stuff in the lab, because we know that 99% of the stuff in the box is definitely human bone, but we do tap things on the bench when we have rocks that look like bone, bone fragments that look like rock, or dirt clumps that look like either bone or rock.

Same thing happened when I got into fighting. I got even stronger, and I got *fast*, man, and nimble, like a cat. Still chubby.

Body-building culture is a bunch of crap, my dude. Functional muscle is not necessarily toned or lean. You can be swole as hell and still be heavy. And that’s cool.

And every damn one of those huge shredded motherfuckers has the endurance of a fucking newborn puppy. Fifteen minutes into warmups and they’re panting for air like like they’re about to die. I’ve sparred them and every one of them telegraphs their moves about two weeks in advance, and are slower than my dead grandpa because their huge useless muscles get in the damn way. 

Now. I also work with a couple of guys who are not weightlifters. They do, however, do very physical jobs and are Big Dudes. Picture this sort of build. 

No abs to speak of, a bit of a tummy, and those motherfuckers can pick up one of the weightlifters and throw them. 

And they’re fast. Like, unfair fast. 

Any person who has worked on a set for more than a few years has at least one person they know who died.  

Not usually on set, but afterwards.  Because we don’t have anyone shutting down production for unsafe practices when “unsafe” means 16 hour days.  Or more.  For weeks.  Finishing a day before hour 12 (not including lunch) is considered an early leave.

I had teachers tell us not to, unless we absolutely had to, take music video gigs because they’ll work you for 24 hours and send you to drive home.  And if we had to work that, pull over and nap in our car because multiple people per year fall asleep at the wheel and go over the canyons around LA.

I know you mean acting but please.  Don’t forget the crew.  We have a shockingly high rate of suicide because these working schedules leave us with no sleep, no time outside of work, and it destroys lives, relationships, and families.  Burnout is high.  Chronic illness and broken bodies are common.  Cocaine use in order to get through a 20 hour day is rampant.  Every single one of your reality shows is fueled by cocaine.

The number of days that are scheduled to shoot a feature has shrunk dramatically in the past two decades.  Which means longer days.

Netflix shows are notorious for being poorly organized, understaffed, and long days.

After an accident that has left me with a hairline fracture in my vertebrae, I am now in desperate need of additional funds in order to get an increasingly critical surgery to prevent paralysis or death. This is in addition to the already established itinerary of surgeries needed to remove the multiple growths in my spine that are expanding and growing everyday. I am terrified of what feels inevitable, and I am in so much pain. I truly need help. I am sorry to continue bombarding your dashboards with my pleas for help, but I wouldn't be doing it if this were not a life or death situation. Please share this, and if you are able, I sincerely need donations. All of my expenses are piling up on me all at once, and I can't number the amount of panic attacks this catastrophe has caused me to have. I am so terrified, and I honestly feel so much shame in having to ask for help to keep me alive, but if there is anyone that can spare anything out of the kindness of their hearts, I cannot tell you how much it would mean to me. You would quite literally be saving my life.

I only have so long before irreparable damage is done to my spine, so I humbly plead with you all to share this and donate, if possible. I love you all, and wish the best for you. I sincerely hope that this is one of the last posts of this kind that I will ever have to make.

here's any easy way to avoid alienating those with mobility issues: rent an accessible venue. it eliminates problems for you to fix, because they're already handled. obviously that might not be the most easy option, but it makes it easier on you.

maybe hand out earplugs if youre gonna have loud music. because. wow it is loud. or make a clarification that the music will be loud so people can bring their own.

for the love of god turn off the fog machines. leave them at home. my friend had to leave pride early bcuz of an asthma attack from both fog machines and people smoking. if you HAVE to have fog machines, keep it to a specific area where nobody would miss anything by not going there.

^ same with smoking. again with the friend with asthma. and the me with asthma. have a specific area where people can smoke, dont just let them do it anywhere and everywhere. i get it sounds ridiculous to limit smoking but god. there was smoke everywhere and it killed me.

PUT SEATS AT REGULAR INTERVALS AROUND THE EVENT DEAR LORD.

this isn't even an accessibility thing really but more pride events should hand out free water. thats important. people dehydrate easily and sometimes you forget to bring water or run out. it'd be nice.

sign. language. interpreters. puh-lease. if you're gonna have public speaking or some music sets, hire some interpreters.