if you are dealing with extreme heat or even just. moderate heat in your area right now. 80f/26c is when it starts getting toasty for a lot of people. if you are in a heat wave and you have not done yourself the favor of googling fucking "heat exhaustion symptoms" i am shaking you violently right now. look it up. burn the symptoms into your brain. heatstroke is no joke and it can and WILL sneak up on you before you're aware it's even an issue. ohh my god

if you are outside and it is hot and sunny and you are sweating thru your clothes or feeling tired or starting to get irrationally agitated or upset in another way or feeling nauseous or your heart is pounding etc etc if you are feeling Weird and Bad for no apparent reason while you are in a warm/hot area then i have news for you! you need to cool down! right now! oh my god.

and there's a very good chance that you're gonna think "it's not heat exhaustion, i don't feel any warmer than i have all day" when you consider it as a reason why you are suddenly feeling weirdbad for no apparent reason during a record-breaking heatwave and i would like to say. there is no harm in sitting in the shade and drinking some water even if heat exhaustion isn't the cause of whatever ailment is inflicting itself upon u. once i swore up and down to my bf that i was just kinda tired and headachy and got bitchy about the possibility of being overheated and needing to drink water. because heat exhaustion tends to make you bitchy. but i did as he asked and drank some cold water and my condition immediately improved. because it was heat exhaustion and heat exhaustion is evil and a liar. sit down. drink water

So I was scrolling and saw this image in an article about the European heat wave,

And was like, uh, are you missing something there, buddy? Like all that red in northern Africa? Because that's a lot of red.

And I was going to give them the benefit of doubt, since I don't know much about the climate in Northern Africa, aside from Morroco and Egypt, which seem like really hot places, so you know, maybe it's normal there?

But nope, that's not the case:

Some selections from the article:

"The region has been experiencing some of the most intense heat waves in recent years, but in many cases they’ve been under-reported due to misconceptions about Africans’ ability to withstand them.

“Africa is seen as a sunny and hot continent,” said Amadou Thierno Gaye, a research scientist and professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. “People think we are used to heat, but we are having high temperatures for a longer duration. Nobody is used to this.”

"The Sahel, for instance, has been heating at a faster pace than the global average despite being hot already. Burkina Faso and Mali, both in West Africa’s Sahel, are among countries that are set to become almost uninhabitable by 2080, if the world continues on its current trajectory, a UK university study found. Its people are especially vulnerable due to shrinking resources, such as water, and poor amenities, and a dearth of trees and parks means there are few options for places to cool off."

Funny how a mass arrest goes completely under the radar when it's mostly teens, right?

To be clear there was no explosive; "hill bomb" is just what the event is called.

Holy SHIT. I just finished reading a related article, and y’all, this was so corrupt OTHER SFPD COPS ARE STANDING WITH THE KIDS.

Like basically their take is “yeah, some kids were being unruly. Y’all handled it ENTIRELY the wrong way and there is zero reason this should have happened.” There was an official meeting (I think like a monthly town hall kind of thing? I forgot to take note when I read it) and the cop who’s in charge of internal conduct investigation was there and he. Was. PISSED. And inviting parents and teens involved to give their testimony on the specifics of the rights violations they experienced so he could follow up and make full reports.

Like you KNOW shit’s fucked when even other police are looking at the police chief and saying “what the fuck is wrong with you?”

this is… insane. SF is the arguably the epicenter of the US skate scene

oh this is evil

What is that?

discord is adding parental surveillance. as nerdskii's tags pointed out its a ridiculous measure that doesnt help anyone because apps like Signal exist for actual illegal/sketchy activity and this just hurts lgbt teens looking for somewhere to be themselves and have resources especially with conservative parents

I use android. this is my secure folder, which was built into my phone. it has a customize option, so I've made it look like some bland fitness app. when you open it, it asks you to enter a password or unlock it in any other way you've set it to unlock before it lets you in

inside of this folder is like a 2nd phone almost, I can hide apps in here or have different accounts on apps I've already installed. I have a separate discord and tumblr inside of my secure folder (which I moved this blog to recently)

there are similar third party apps, usually disguised as a calculator that you set a certain number or calculation as the password to unlock. that's a lot more inconspicuous if opened, but also more well known, and parents might be looking out for any suspicious calculator apps

also, be careful what 3rd party apps you download, especially when it's concerning things like your accounts and data! make sure you're downloading something safe and secure

this isn't foolproof, depending on how far your parents are going to track you. if they've installed anything or had you install anything on your phone or computer, or had the chance while you weren't there, be careful for spyware. some apps report how long you look at each app, or can record sound from your phone on demand

also important: a good VPN can secure what you're looking at from the router, which parents may be able to access information from, but this also isn't guaranteed to work if the parental controls are set to block VPNs

another one, if your parents are tracking your location but not your app usage: download a GPS spoofer. you don't necessarily need to root your phone for this, as long as it's supported in developer settings. a lot of them are branded as tools for pokemon go, which can be helpful for plausible deniability

parents reading this: these are things I've learned from constantly having my shit taken and looked through as a teen. you aren't protecting your kids, you're ruining any chance of them trusting you with anything. if something goes wrong, you're going to be the last person they tell, because someone who goes to these lengths to see any little thing isn't going to be chill when something actually bad happens if this is how you act when literally nothing is happening

but no yeah lets have the conversation:

"the CEO doesnt want to run that kind of website" Excuse, shouldnt have bought the 'go nuts show nuts whatever' website if thats the case. APPEAL DENIED

"we have to follow the TOS of the appstores we're hosted on" Excuse item one, no you dont, item two, you have since those days implimented infrastructure that would allow pornography and sex work on this platform Without violating TOS of any applicable app store. APPEAL DENIED

"we own the site we get to make the rules" Incorrect, this site has only ever made profit when the users willed it. we collectively own the site as a hive mind and no legal change in ownership will change that. APPEAL DENIED

"we have to keep this website safe for the children who use it" Argument based on fallacy banning pornography and sex workers does not prevent pornography and sex work from occuring on the site, it only forces aforementioned users to hide and avoid labling their content appropriately, which REDUCES the safety for children and sex workers alike instead of increasing it, this has been shown to the point that making this argument at all is tantamount to admiting fascist intent APPEAL DENIED

Reblog it. I want this to be on Tumblr radar by end of the week, i want my notes to be useless from the discourse, i want every single person on Tumblr to have seen this post at some point

Tumblr reblog chains are in danger.

It seems that the staff is actually going to go forward with their decision to remove reblog chains, where reblogs will basically work like regular comments on other websites.

This doesn't just make the site completely unusable, it removes the soul of the community that has managed to build up here over the years, and that I'm so happy to have recently joined.

It makes impossible the creation of great posts where many people build up a single thing, until it is a gem of expressed human creativity.

There will be no more world heritage posts, no more messing around with your mutuals, no posts worth remembering.

There will be no more Tumblr, and the Tikblr or TumbTube or whatever monstrosity is born from its corpse will soon die, as is probably the best. And then there will never be another place like this on the internet, no place anymore to run to, no more fun, no more community.

I recommend a simple course of action. When these changes get imposed upon us, stop using Tumblr. Get your mutuals' discords, your favourite artists' websites, and leave. If the Tumblr we have once known returns, we well too. If not, better let it die quickly than suffer a long and painful decline.

I beg you to reblog this, for the more people see it, the higher chanses are for this to work.

And add something, so we can show them what Tumblr is really for.

All of the funny or legendary posts you see reposted on other sites are almost always reblog chains. Seeing those posts on Pinterest is what brought me here to begin with!!! I understand wanting to stay competitive and keep the site afloat, but the best way to do that is to keep things the way they are!!! We like it this way!!! And if you do want to implement changes, take into account the things PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY ASKING FOR!!!! @staff fixing the search function is one I see all the time. Like, I just feel you’re making it way harder on yourself than you have too and I’m just really wondering what the thought process is here.

can we get some help with groceries and necessities until mom gets her paycheck in two weeks? we are rlly struggling ;;

p*ypal.me/daveles

nothing yet ;;

not to freak the fuck out. but its fucking dire and we need help. pls.

It's legit. Section 11.G "Opt out" explains how.

Y'all do know scott cawthon is making money off of the fnaf movie AND he donates to republican politicians who have been supporting the anti trans legislation going on?? Right.. righ???

WhaaaAAAaat

(is this misinformation i can't tell)

This absolutely is not misinfo. He still owns the franchise itself, so any product that comes out under the brand name needs his approval. His "retirement" was only from making content.

As for his political donations;

It's not hard to see from the list of recipients that anti-LGBT policies are front and foremost to him politically.

normalize men having fat fucking tits!!!

[ID: a tweet by @rockontoro that reads "not all trans man have like fucking A cups and can bind easy peasy and i wish we would normalize trans men not having completely flat chests cus neither do cis men lol" /end ID]

I remember seeing the youtuber macdoesit (who is an overweight cis guy) shirtless on camera for the first time and I was like damn. He's shaped kinda like I am under there. I mean my boobs are obviously much bigger because I went through estrogen puberty the first time but he had some little man boobs. And that led me to looking at more pics of shirtless obese cis men and some of them looked like me but like with smaller boobs. Obviously most of them didn't because contrary to popular belief there's many types of fat bodies but some of them were kinda shaped like me. I was previously comparing myself to this idea of the skinny easily passing trans man with small boobs and I weirdly feel better comparing myself to fat cis men now. There's this idea of how transmasc people are supposed to look that I've just never fit into. I'm fat, I don't bind most days because of my health issues, even when I do bind I'm still not flat. But after seeing other fat men I realized that the way I look, although ugly in the eyes of society and sometimes the queer community too, is... normal. And even if I don't like the way I look for myself at least now I know that I'm not like a freak of nature like I used to think when comparing myself to the trans men I saw on the internet.

I have the body build of a skinny gangly teenage boy but a much much larger chest. Like, comically imbalanced. So no matter how much I bind, I still look like... well, I look like I have boobs. My body doesn’t suit the “built chest muscles” vibe because my arms are pretty scrawny. All throughout teenhood I felt really gross about it. I wanted to be flat SO BAD and when I realized binding wouldn’t fix it all the way, I probably almost cried with misery and frustration.

I never really found a cis man that had my shape. But the moment that assisted in changing my perspective on my body was when I noticed that a kid names James in my university class had... kinda my shape. Skinny, with a weirdly un-skinny chest. And a more ‘feminine’ face. I gathered that James was a trans guy [or something on that spectrum, I never asked] — I had a feeling, naturally, but then I SAW his binder under his button-up shirt. And my brain went, “hey look— a boy, like you. With a shape like you.” James being my shape turned that shape into an acceptable and valid boy shape in my head, because James was an acceptable and valid boy. Of course he was.

official boob post

I am once again explaining that in order for walkable cities and public transit to work for disabled people, there also need to be more public bathrooms available in and around those areas. Not just places to sit down or rest. Bathrooms. We need accessible, clean bathrooms. With sharps bins. With multiple wheelchair accessible stalls. With an area to set down supplies needed to maintain one’s body. Even if it’s not being used to get rid of bodily waste, bathrooms are one of the few spaces disabled people have to maintain some sort of privacy when they’re in the middle of a flare up or they need to take medication or what have you. Designing a public space? Include bathrooms.

next specialist to refuse testing or blame my maladies on my anxiety or weight despite me asking (begging, at this point) for further testing/a differential diagnosis is getting hit with the "document your refusal in my chart." no i am not "taking it one step at a time" no i am not accepting "you're just anxious" or "you're just overweight" as an answer. you are going to be a FUCKING DOCTOR and treat me. fuck you.

this is ok to reblog btw, i Encourage people in similar situations to express their anger. you deserve better we all fucking deserve better. no more being afraid of making them upset or angry. THEY make us suffer and want to die with their negligence. whatever discomfort we bring them by demanding documentation doesnt mean SHIT compared to what we go through.

rise up my disabled siblings, we have nothing to lose but a shitty fucking doctor.

I’m sure this will hit the news soon but just in case it’s not out yet — the Governor of Maryland just signed an executive order tonight declaring Maryland a sanctuary state for trans people seeking gender-affirming care, and for all people who provide such care or help trans people access such care. This executive order includes an explicit refusal to cooperate with law enforcement/prosecutors in any other state where accessing, providing, or helping people access such care is now or will soon be criminalized.

Yes it is absolutely a privilege to be able to travel or to think about moving but if someone can access the resources to move or visit to get what they need to survive and be less likely to be actively targeted for LITERAL EUGENICS AND GENOCIDE, then they should and we should support them.

Please spread the word.

Minnesota is also a sanctuary state, welcome trans people!

It hasn't hit the news much* yet but you can find the order here!

*(correction some very minor coverage but not the level i was expecting for a decision this necessary)

Hello everyone, I was attacked unprovoked on the Subway yesterday. I believe I was targeted because I was wearing my pride shirt work uniform I am also a bisexual woman with a very public presence on the internet and in the city as I am a performer at Ellen’s Stardust Diner in Times Square. I was beaten badly and taken to hospital by ambulance. It took two phone calls to 911 and an hour wait for police to arrive, so clearly my assailant got away. The cops also victim blamed me for the attack as if sitting quietly with your AirPods on is somehow not being vigilant enough at 3 o’clock in the afternoon on a busy subway car. But what else do we expect from the NYPD at this point. I have large bruises and giant swellings on the right side of my head, and it’s caused my vision to blur, my hearing is gone because my eardrum is filled with fluid and I am dizzy and nauseas all the time. Laying down is painful because of the contusions but sitting up is miserable too. Until my visions improves, my hearing returns and my bruises and swelling fade I don’t know when I’ll be able to return to work not even considering the fear of taking the subway now. More of what happened is explained in my fundraiser I’m linking. But I could use the help of the good folks on the internet. If you could donate and share or if you can’t donate please share. My husband is the organizer and can also answer any questions you have. Please boost my signal, I really need the help right now.

In light of increasing anti-trans and anti-abortion laws in the United States, I am once again humbly requesting you inform yourself about jury nullification, your ability as a juror to vote against convicting people being prosecuted under unjust laws. Nullification was instrumental in legalizing abortion in Canada - it informed jurors can use it to help protect healthcare workers and protesters in the US, too.

Watch out for this stuff.

...And have nothing to do with it. If you were trying to build a scam that would both harm the people it was supposed to be helping, and also leave you in possession of personal data on them that could be sold to other bad actors even after you'd been caught and shut down... this would just perfectly fit the bill.

Don't get caught by this. Spread the word: either physically or in other real life consequences, this scam could be deadly.

More explicitly anti-intersex bills are coming in the US, this one from Kansas. A revised version of an anti-trans bathroom and sports bill has now decided that intersex people should be excluded from ‘female’ washrooms and should instead be classed as disabled people and should instead be forced to use facilities for disabled people. To be clear, disability is not a bad thing, I’m disabled, but that is a separate thing than being intersex. Most intersex variations aren’t inherently disabling, and trying to class our bodies as disabled is an attempt to try to segregate us from spaces both disabled and intersex people have every right to be in. This is not from genuine commitment to the rights of disabled people, this is them trying to use the laws surrounding disability as a tool to make it okay to exclude us from their bullshit, intersexist and transphobic ‘female only spaces’. Not to mention, if we’re being forced to use (often way to few) accessible spaces such as accessible bathrooms if we don’t need to this impacts the people who actually do.

To make things even more enraging, this is a literal comment a legislator made about people with Turners syndrome: “A person in that state, I don’t think, would want to undress in front of even fellow females”.

This comment makes it clear, I think, their goal. They don’t think that classing intersex people as disabled would help us. They see disabled and intersex bodies as something wrong, something to be hidden away from all the ‘normal’ people. They see our bodies as something shameful and something impossible to be happy in. They don’t see us or our bodies as worthy of existence in society.

Fuck that. Fuck them. I’m so so tired and furious.

It's worth saying that forcibly segregating disabled people into disabled bathrooms is NOT how disabled bathrooms work as it stands anyways. Segregating disabled people away wouldn't be a reasonable explanation for this regardless. It's just that segregation of disabled people is already enshrined into US law.

When I suggested this possibility in 2020, some of my friends called me alarmist. All of my "alarmist" concerns have been proven by science repeatedly in the ensuing years. Covid is not a cold, it's a crap-shoot for getting any number of expensive and painful disabilites and organ damage. It has the same biohazard rating as Anthrax and Tuberculosis, yet we're just supposed to go "back to normal"?

The disabled community has literally been screaming "the pandemic is a mass disabling event" to the masses for the last three years.

Long Covid is definitely a thing and covid itself should NOT be taken lightly. But for those who tend to panic, I did recently see another article that looked at some research data about this: 

https://slate.com/technology/2023/03/long-covid-symptoms-studies-research-variant.html

black african trans man needs help with a hidden lease fee and some food for the rest of the month

HELLO EVERYONE,

JUST MOVED INTO THE NEW PLACE (THANK U TO EVERYONE WHO SHARED AND GAVE).

THERE WAS A HIDDEN FEE FOR THE LEASE AGREEMENT. ITS $50 AND I DO NOT HAVE THAT OR ANY FOOD MONEY

TRYING TO RAISE $150 TO PAY IT OFF AND GET FOOD FOR THE REST OF THE MONTH.

ANYTHING HELPS, EVEN JUST A DOLLAR, PLS AND THANKS!

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