another one <3

Shout out to this guy (link)

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“The store, which was parked next to a police van, had bright yellow sandwich boards featuring a price list for all the drugs, which ranged from $10 for a point (one-tenth of a gram) of meth to $250 for 2.5 grams of crack. Martin, who wore a stab-proof vest as he sold drugs from behind a plexiglas window inside the shop, said he wanted to stay close to street prices.

Martin told VICE News Wednesday that his plan was to get arrested eventually. He said he wants to launch a constitutional challenge arguing that prohibition has created a toxic drug supply that’s killing Canadians.

“He would allege that laws that prevent a safe supply and result in death by poisoning contravene section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and must be struck down,” his lawyer, Paul Lewin, wrote in a letter to Martin’s potential business partners.

Martin already has a cannabis trafficking conviction.

Martin said he was partially inspired to open the store by his stepbrother Gord Rennie, who died of a drug overdose last year. Rennie was interviewed in the VICE News Tonight documentary, Beyond Fentanyl, about his addiction to benzo dope.”

These "expert" pediatricians were paid by a far-right legal group to come up with evidence to attack the WPATH transgender standards of care

What this is: Leaked documents show the anti-LGBT legal group Alliance Defending Freedom paying manufactured experts to attack WPATH’s transgender standards of care, asking them to find evidence for harmful anti-trans myths that they knew were baseless and unsubstantiated. This is an original finding and report by Zinnia Jones (she/her), a transgender Florida resident of 11 years whose access to HRT is now jeopardized by the enactment of state law and policy based on work from these same experts.

Detailed summary: From 2019 onward, states across the US have been faced with an intensely active wave of reused anti-trans experts, recurring characters who keep repeating the same spurious arguments against gender-affirming care in court cases, legislatures, and other policy bodies. Where did they come from, and why did this start happening?

group chats and servers scare me so much i will drop in there once every 3 months to show a picture of my cat or a screenshot of a game im playing and then ill disappear from the face of the earth forever

Sorry if i joined your server and then left or stopped talking after 24 hours passed. I scared

when we talk about killing Cringe Culture that includes harmless Weird Fetishes too. if you rag on people who are into like feet or vore or inflation or whatever and make a whole big thing of yelling about how cursed it is thats super lame of you and i wish you the courage to Grow Up

FAQ for people who will choose to misinterpret this post:

the other day on reddit people were going OH MY GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE about someone's post history so naturally I looked despite all the dire warnings

it was fantasies about swinging/cuckolding. that's it. that's all. and sure they were kind of hokey but mainly because of the "imagine X" format. hardly even explicit. and I'm like did he delete something? this is barely kink. this shit is described in the old testament. calm the actual hell down.

This is terrible but today when I was playing volleyball outside with some friends one of their children (18 months) was sort of ambling around on his stumpy little toddler legs and so we were all trying to be careful and like not spike the ball onto the baby but then he wandered over to his father, who picked him up bc dad reflexes, and then the ball got passed over to the dad and he sort of had a no thoughts moment and instinctively used his child to smack the volleyball over to the next person. Like he just swung the kid and used his legs like a baseball bat. I'm never going to forget his face of premature regret mid baby-manuever right when he realized what he was doing AND the instant he realized his wife saw it happen. Anyway the baby was fine he didn't make contact with the ball all that hard and he was just mad his dad wouldn't use him as a club again but I had to sit down because I laughed so hard I cried.

If ever there was a paragraph that described Canadian-Brand Racist Jackassetry, THIS IS VERY IT.

‘When you believe niceness disproves the presence of racism, it’s easy to start believing bigotry is rare, and that the label racist should be applied only to mean-spirited, intentional acts of discrimination. The problem with this framework–besides being a gross misunderstanding of how racism operates in systems and structures enabled by nice people–is that it obligates me to be nice in return, rather than truthful. I am expected to come closer to racists. Be nicer to them. Coddle them.’

It’s so good to see this articulated!

They may be Nice and they may be Polite but they are not good and they are not kind.

Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.

So let me get this straight ,vegans should stop eating the food of the Mexcian long-nosed bats, because the bats need it, and instead vegans should instead eat honey, the food of bees, that their larvae need, even though the bee populations are facing ecological issues as it stands.  10/10 post, dude.

Did you forget the whole part where only excess is taken and all their needs are met and then some orrrr?

Like, did you read it orrrrr?

Anyway, BUY HONEY SAVE BEES

It is a 10/10 post. Because OP is right.

Bees do not suffer when beekeepers take their honey, because experienced beekeepers do not take all of their honey, in fact, they leave plenty of honey left for the bees to consume over the winter. If we do not collect their honey, 1 of two things will happen.

1. they will leave for a bigger home. Which at first seems fine until you remember that bees are dying very quickly out in the wild.

or

2. They will start using the areas that they reserve for their young as a place to make more honey. This is bad because if no more young are being produced, then the hive will start to die out because no new workers are coming into the world, and the average live only 150 days, so it would also mean the loss of more bees.

So yeah, eating honey isn’t inhumane at all. In fact, you’re helping the bees by eating what they produce and giving money to the bee keepers who are the ones making sure that the hive will keep being healthy.

LOUDER FOR THE VEGANS IN THE BACK: use honey, not agave! Bees need your support and other animals need agave! Using honey means more bees!!

Other animal products that are absolutely fine to use because they produce it in excess:

- Wool. Sheep need to be sheared or their wool will get excessively large, matted and gross. Its legit just a haircut. Calm down and use wool instead of whatever fake acrylic microplastic shit they have in stores now. Wool is super warm, insulating, and guess what! It grows back! Its a renewable resource and all the sheep want in return is some good pasture and protection from predators.

- Eggs. I’m not talking about storebought eggs. Go to your local farmer’s market. Find someone around with chickens/ducks. These birds produce eggs literally every day and will not stop unless they are molting, brooding, or kept in the dark for most of the day. Like I am not joking when I say you can very easily find someone with poultry and they will beg you to take some eggs. Theres so many. Please. Take some duck eggs. I dont want them. I had 8 laying ducks last year. Thats 8 eggs every day. Thats 2 dozen eggs every THREE DAYS. Thats SO MANY EGGS PLEASE TAKE SOME EGGS

Reducing animal cruelty does not mean abolish the use of animal products. Go eat honey. Go use wool. Go find a friend with birds and eat eggs, or get your own. Just because it comes from an animal does not make it cruel.

More people should keep dairy goats.

For clarification, though, honey bees are not the ones threatened with extinction (although they face similar threats to other bees); it’s other bees like bumble bees, mason bees, mining bees, etc. that are in trouble.

The best things you can do for bee conservation

This bee is called the Perplexing Bumble Bee. Its scientific name is Bombus perplexus. You’re welcome.

@brycevstheworld At the place I work as a farm hand once a week the goats got out while we were fixing their pen. They wandered around for like an hour before they wanted back into the pen. because it’s their house. with soft warm bedding, food and things to climb on.

On the other hand, one of my neighbor’s chickens insisted on laying eggs in our front flower bed last summer, and I think they had to make the chickens a pen so they didn’t get run over by cars.

Fun fact: putting livestock in a fence has surprisingly little to do with restricting their freedom and surprisingly much to do with stopping them from getting hit by trains and so on (happened to my great-great-grandpa’s cow and i only know about it cuz of mom’s ancestry research).

Farmers used to free-roam pigs in the southeastern USA. It’s why we have feral hogs everywhere now.

The decline of bees is a lot to to do with insecticide use (on PLANT crops, as well as residential gardens and lawns etc). And don’t come for me about how plant crops are fed to animals, because 1) this is not the majority of insecticide use and 2) I was reading scientific papers on this 4 days ago, and corn (the main animal feed crop) is barely even visited by bees, meanwhile canola oil production has a much more direct impact upon bees. To give one example. I’m not sure what your intended point was here.

A lot of colony collapse disorder of bees specifically traces to their use as rentable pollinators e.g. for almond orchards, that is, not as a direct result of the honey industry. Bees are brought into orchards in springtime because there are not enough local pollinators to support the massive density of tree flowers. This process of moving hives - which are normally stationary in nature - spreads diseases like varroa mites and foulbrood. one infected colony can infect dozens of others that may have been trucked clear across state lines. it’s like a superspreader event for bees. and those diseases aren’t picky about species - they will easily spread to native pollinators as well.

and again, I will emphasize, this process is vital for the production of almonds. you know your favorite milk substitute? the one made of fucking almonds? that one. in addition to exacerbating droughts, it also kills bees. MUCH more than a dedicated honey farm would. almonds pollinated with rented bees - that is, most of them - are not marked or sold differently from others. they are still organic, they are still “vegan.”

Your big ag isn’t better than non-vegan big ag.

This is hilarious. So back in 2018, Captain Disillusion did a video debunking the Virgin Mary version of this video, showing that the original video was a trash bin. But as part of the joke, he edited a buddha statue over it, to show off how you’d do the visual effects correctly and better. 

This is that edit. This is literally a fake video, from someone who specializes in identifying fake videos. Amazing.

i bring a skip to my lou energy to the funeral that the pallbearers don't really like

i love it when drinks are weird colors this is because i was meant to be a machine and drinking delicious blue cooling fluid and such

I hateee the "Mandela effect" no dude alternative universes ain't shit its just humans have piss porn memory get over it

"forgetting Pikachu's tail color is proof the universes are crossing over 😳" do you think aliens built the pyramids too

Hey uh I think your phone auto corrected poor to uh

You know how it is

op came from the piss porn universe

He only ever texts me when he’s horny

“and the fans are throwing celebratory rats on the ice” god I love hockey

the beautiful game!!!!!!

Truly, the perfect successor to Leno

I don't see how the host has any control over this. Wouldn't that be a network decision?

Seth Meyers on the same network is keeping his staff paid

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, how the fuck would you even enforce that?

"Oh want to use the bathroom? I'll just need you to produce an egg real quick".

Reddit thread

Chicken only bathrooms. Not the animal rights move we wanted-

POV: you (human) (not a fetus) have illegally entered a public women's bathroom in Kansas

It's impossible to define woman in a way that excludes all trans women and doesn't exclude any cis women, but defining women in a way that excludes all human women trans or cis is a pretty amazing fuckup.

I pointed this out in a Discord server I'm in and thought Id share here:

Bob Iger announced that Disney is going to absorb Hulu, and Hulu will no longer exist next year. All shows will move to the Disney+ app.

Disney also announced they were going to remove shows and movies periodically from their streaming services.

I believe both of these moves are because of the Writers Strike.

Disney knows its going to lose the strike. There is too much public support. Specifically, the WGA is going to win writers getting more residuals from streaming.

So if Disney takes shows off of streaming, they dont have to pay the writers the residuals.

They are going to use excuses like "not enough funding for the server capacity" or "not enough views to warrent keeping the show". These are BULLSHIT. Its all greed. Its only GREED.

Pay attention to what happens in the following weeks.

And keep supporting the writers' strike.

This is similar to what happened with HBO - new owners merged two streaming services, and all of a sudden there wasn't enough server capacity for all the shows somehow. A total lie.

Time to start downloading EVERY Hulu show. Hoist the colors high.

And yell at your congresscritters about antitrust laws.

Download everything that isn't a major franchise. If its name isn't Marvel, Star Wars or The Simpsons, assume it's getting canned and get a copy in as high quality as you can store. Eventually your copy could be the only one.

This.

This is especially true for the weird stuff you’ve never heard anyone else mention. Lost media is a tragedy regardless of what it is.

But don't take a random tumblr's word for it, here's a verified source

Beginning now, if you love that show or that movie, piracy should be your first resort, not your last. 

working in a library, i encounter a lot of people who are in the process of filling out important forms, sending important faxes, and copying important documents. and the more important these things are, the more stressful, meaning i end up assisting a lot of really stressed people with a lot of really stressful paperwork, and have thus developed the ultimate line to immediately validate and empathize with their situation

“they don’t make it easy, do they?”

i nearly always use this line at some point in the conversation & it works without fail, because there is ALWAYS a they and they are ALWAYS not making it easy. you don’t have to specify who “they” are. you don’t even need to have an approximate idea of their role in this process.

job application? disability paperwork? insurance documents? financial aid paperwork? in any situation, the person visibly relaxes & enthusiastically agrees, because someone understands their plight: they are out there & they are NOT making it easy

So, y’all. Some of you may remember a webcomic called NIMONA. It actually started on tumblr! Then it became a full webcomic. And then it got published as a graphic novel.

It’s done by ND Stevenson, who was behind tumblr-favorite She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Also notable for the lady lumberjack story, Lumberjanes.

NIMONA was the first big one. Delightfully queer and vitally anti authoritarian and very tumblr through and through. (There is a character literally named Ambrosious Goldenloin, pictured on the left there.)

Many years ago Netflix announced that it would be making a NIMONA film. Then it went silent. Then the mass cancellations happened.

Then, today, they announced the film is coming out on June 30th.

Will it be a retelling if the original? Will it be a prequel? A new derivative story? No idea. But it’s important to me. And it’s made by queerfolk, openly, aggressively queerfolk, who have never hesitated to tell queer stories.

So I wanted to get info out on this. Get people hyped. Because marketing engines certainly won’t. We need to remind corporations that we are a statistically significant “consumer demographic” and that queer stories can and do sell, and shouldn’t be shuttered away.

So. Yeah. Consider buying and reading the original, consider watching the film.

The comic is relatively short, so jumping right in and giving it a shot is your best bet. But the tldr is, a an extremely tighly-moraled, long-code-of-honor Supervillain and a chaotic, not so honorable shapeshifter end up teaming up up to fight against the “good guys.”

Y’all on tumblr love the short stories on the writing prompts about “what happens when the supervillain realizes [thing is bad?] and ends up being a dad figure who might be willing the burn the world down a bit? The NIMONA comic is very much that.

No idea what the film will be like, but hey!