FEMA is doing an emergency alert test on all TVs, radios, and cell phones on October 4, 2023, at approximately 2:20pm ET.

If you live in the US and you have a phone you need to keep secret for any reason, make sure that it is turned off at this time.

Yes, I'm doing this months in advance, and yes, my blog has very little reach, but I figure better to post about it more than less.

Please reblog and add better tags than mine, I'm bad at tags.

Also, when you finally turn your phone back on, make sure you are alone or can otherwise midigate the sound. Because it WILL go off the second you turn your phone back on.

Please be safe 💜

I dont know if this will go as badly as the UK test did, but the advice for at risk people DID NOT WORK for us, many people had their phones go off despite turning off the relevant settings and turning off their phones despite assurances that turning off your phone would be enough to prevent the alert.

I would highly suggest that you do not leave room for technical errors and that you store secret phones in a safe location where it cannot be heard, maybe with a friend or loved one that you can trust. Or perhaps go out with your phone to a public place.

~~OCTOBER 4TH APPROACHES~~

If you haven't figured out a safe place to go or to stash your phone before now, you have less than 2 days left.

This is honestly better advice than “if at first you don’t succeed, try try again.”

By all means try again. But do that after you figure out WHY you failed!

Guys 2014 is in two months

Its crazy how jack blacks kid just looks like if jack black had a son

everyone's doomed by the narrative bitch let's get you some fruit

i love the french, i love the way they pronounce Rs like they're disgusted with them

the english meanwhile seem to have developed some sort of phobia about them

When we were discussing the surgery I'd need for my sleep apnea, the surgeon told me I'd never be able to speak French properly because the French R is a uvular sound and I'd no longer have a uvula.

... that's okay? I'm not French? I don't speak French? I've always thought it was the weirdest thing for him to say!

Huh. Didn't know you could have French surgically removed.

sorry i just cannot get this out of my head. Like, "oh you speak french? i hear there's an operation for that"

Noooooo they retconned Star Wars Jizz

peak character design

the doctor emotionally monologuing at the daleks and then it cutting to shots like this is one of my favorite parts of dw

loving this new tiktok trend of 14 year olds thinking 1998 was actually the 1800s

Obsessed with this style of fantasy history and cannot emphasize enough that one of the most memorable candies of 1999 was this abomination of a movie tie-in

i haven’t been able to forget this guy’s look from school of rock ever since i first saw that movie i was only 9 but i knew he was serving

Demitri Martin once said,

“I saw a guy at a party wearing a leather jacket and I thought, “That is cool.” But then I saw another guy wearing a leather vest and I thought, “That is not cool.” Then I figured it out: ‘Cool’ is all about leather sleeves.””

and you know what? spot on.

Let us not forget he went on to become a district attorney for Texas.

Deadbeat fathers don’t deserve roadkill deer

I read the thread and what isn’t clear from one tweet that this 9yr old was reffing an adult women’s league, not a children’s league. And that woman who argued with said child ref was a player not a mom.