in the last couple months, to save money, I/we

currently we are

I haven’t heard back from the last place I interviewed with, or anyone else.

trying to get my phone situation taken care of first, then other fucking expenses I guess

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My hometown flooded Monday night.

Vermont has flooded.

My family and home are fine because the 7.8 inches of rain that fell in a day didn’t cause our house to slide of the ridge it sits on, but less than a thousand feet away roads have been washed out and homes are being condemned. Yesterday, our congressional delegation, the governor, and a FEMA representative, toured the town - focusing on the non-profit cat cafe turned hazardous waste site thanks to a basement full of red diesel fuel and the neighborhood that includes a ten story, low income, senior and disabled apartment building where the blacktop of the road lifted and peeled away in huge sheets. There is still only one route out of town to the interstate due to landslides and flooding. In every direction I can point to there are towns going through similar things. Our capitol, Montpelier, flooded causing most of the state government to shut down and move essential operations to a nearby airport. Many farms were in the path of flood waters and lost most of their crops. Vermont has the second largest population of unhoused people per capita, second to California, with many of them camping in the woods along our rivers. They have lost everything.

In short, we need help.

I gathered some resources if you need an updated news source or are able to donate.

It’s raining again.

I’ve also collected some photos of the flooding and it’s aftermath

It’s started raining again. We may get another two inches.

Please donate if you are able and share this post to help our brave little state.

i've never asked for donations in my life. but my family is really struggling.

the RSF militia (yes the same guys from the Darfur genocide) looted our home in Sudan and took everything. including our life savings.

my elderly parents are stranded in a strange country relying on relatives. they need meds. they need a place to stay.

we could really use your help until my siblings and i are able to afford it.

anything you can donate will go a long way. and please do share. ❤️

I'll be brief, I don't mean to pity you

My doctor urgently recommends that I resume my chemotherapy since the cancer is advancing aggressively

This can compromise more organs and I just want to live a little longer

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God bless you today, tomorrow and always! ❤️

I am absolutely thrilled to share some incredible news with all of you. 🌻 🏠🌻Thanks to your unwavering support and the opportunities that came my way, I am delighted to announce that I am no longer homeless! I have successfully secured a home 🙏 that is conveniently located within walking distance of my part-time job at the restaurant. However, I have used all of my earnings from my job, as well as the donations I received, to acquire housing. As a result, I am in urgent need of help to renew my medication, Latuda. It is a critical component of my mental health treatment, and its absence could potentially impede my progress. With a hopeful heart, I am humbly reaching out to you once again to kindly ask for your support. Your financial assistance, no matter how small, will make an immense difference in ensuring I can continue taking my medication and maintain my well-being. (Goal $242.00/$0 As of Monday July 24)

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Words cannot adequately express the profound impact your kindness, compassion, and unwavering support have had on my life. Your belief in me has given me strength, and I promise 🙏 to dedicate myself fully to rebuilding my life and seizing this opportunity. From the depths of my heart, I extend my heartfelt thanks for being the guiding light that has led me to a place of hope and stability. Your continued support is invaluable, and I will forever be grateful for everything you have done.

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so intrigued by this goalie reading between whistles

Altered book art by Isobelle Ouzman

Loki, promo shot for Thor 1

10 Ways the Loki show Disappointed Me

part two

6) The trailer was misleading advertising. Marvel’s done it in the past with little to no backlash:

In the case of Loki, the trailer presented the plot as Loki making time-traveling shenanigans and being captured for breaking the timeline. They included the D.B Cooper clip, and the scenes of Loki in New York and as king in Asgard. These clips never show up in season 1. The D.B Cooper scene was a off-the-cuff moment, and the highly-anticipated (imo) President Loki was around for five minutes.

The trailer shows the storyline being about Loki breaking the timeline, with Mobius saying in a voiceover, “You picked up the tesseract, breaking reality. I want you to help us fix it.”

Marvel’s publicity team knew what story we would want to see from the character. And that’s not what we got: it was a mix of Loki tagging along with Sylvie to take down the Timekeepers, and detective-esque  scenes of trying to overthrow the TimeKeepers. 

It was never about Loki having an adventure, breaking the timeline, and having to fix it.

There’s a difference between having scenes that don’t make it into the final product, between not revealing enough of the story to spoil plot twists…and deliberately choosing certain scenes and quotes  to present a false version of the story.

I guess Marvel was worried that no one would watch it if they showed us the real product.

7)    Loki’s powers were wildly inconsistent, especially compared to what we’ve seen before.

In the past, we’ve seen Loki do illusions, duplication casting and in Thor 2, some very light telekinesis. After hearing of his mother’s death, he throws several pieces of furniture in into the cell walls with his mind. This is after losing the person who probably mattered most to him at the time, and feeling responsible for her death–it’s a powerful move showing his magical capabilities.

In the show, in Episode 3 we see him pull a Roomba towards himself in order to use it as a shield during a fight–pretty in-line with what we saw in the Dark World.

One episode later, an entire flipping tower is falling towards them, and he reverses it with his mind alone.

It was in the face of death, you say. Of course he was going to pull some cool new magical move.

Sure. In the face of death, I could see him jumping from throwing chairs to something heavier, like maybe a crumbling wall or a fruit stand.

BUT A TOWER?

WHY?

HOW??

He’s never done anything on that scale magically. In episode 2, he got tossed around by a (human) Alabama man. Why would he not use that move to bring the roof crumbling down if he was fighting for his life then?

So he’s got massive telepathic power when a building is falling but can’t use it in a fight against regular people…. okay?

Honestly, due to the fact that they’ve weakened him so much, and when Loki said, “I think we’re stronger than we realize”, I’m betting Season 2 will include Loki discovering the extent of his magical powers. 

 I don’t like this idea because again, it contradicts the previous canon. In Thor 1, Hogun literally calls Loki a “master of magic”. He went toe-to-toe with Thor and the Avengers and now can’t beat regular humans. A thousand+ year old being unaware of his own untapped potential doesn’t seem correct (yeah, they did that with Thor in Ragnarok, I know).

This Loki’s power levels jump up and down according to the plot, trying to make us believe that due to his spoiled past, Loki needs to apply himself to learn more about his powers.

8)  Loki was out of character.

While it doesn’t excuse his actions in Thor and Avengers, it’s pretty clear that his family, particularly his father, have let him down.

So to make him experience character development and understand why he does what he does…the writers took him back to Asgard, and had Sif beat him up repeatedly until he admits he does terrible things because he’s a…narcissist.

It was pretty hard to watch that scene, especially because I related to Loki as someone who felt overshadowed and overlooked. He tried too hard to be what his family wanted, to show that he was “the worthy son”.

But here in the fantastic year of 2021, this show decided to throw away all of that emotional nuance away.

9) The costumes were bad.

10) The season finale really did showcase this show in the best way– ig hype followed by disappointment.

For five episodes, we rushed towards the ultimate villain, the mastermind behind it all. Episode 6 was like…being handed a pack of bubble wrap, swinging your hand hard, expecting that satisfying pop! only to have it slowly putter out with a sad little sound.

First, Kang looked like he got his costume from Party City. The purple cape isn’t doing him any favors. Then, the man sat there and monologued for forty minutes, making jokes, telling us how he set the plot up, and how the multiverse worked.

 I know Marvel gets flack for there always being an CGI climactic action scene, but…they had 6 episodes leading up to the Big Bad, and for it to end that anticlimactically with a man in a Party City purple cape was a letdown. The finale had no menace, no teeth. In the words of Mobius, it was just…talkie-talkie.

All in all, this show really suffered from ignoring Loki’s past, where he would realistically be emotionally-wise, and a lack of focus on its title character’s development. Settings and costumes being better/unique would be also be nice, especially given its popularity. At the end of the day, I don’t see the character I empathized so strongly with in this show.

This!

SO hard!

I personalyl didn’t need an action piece

For me the problem was tha the talking was toothless

It was just hot air

To me the end fell flat becasue it insisted on arteficially forcing a conflict between Loki and Sylvie (misunderstanding distrust … boring!) out of nowhere wenn there was a perfectly good conflict alreay there

The end should have been a discussion about the aleged safety of order (fashism) against the aleged danger of chaos (freedom)

With HWR of cours ein favour of order

Sylvie of course in favour of chaos and freedom (now you can bring up her growing up in apocalyses and genocides, because she will have learned to spot fashims … )

And Loki as a theoreticall agent of chaos beeing pulled in two directions

support the status quo, don’t rock the boat (as of lately that was rather unhelaty for him … )

-> Sylvie has basically made this desicion a long time ago … she had a long time to think this through … to come to the conclusion that you can’t make an omlett without breaking some eggs …

-> Loki is still chewing on the beautifull new bagadge the last years brought and propably suffers from a bad case of desicion fatigue … don’t ask him to breake reality … he is not there yet …

Or

Break the status quo … live with the blood on his hands that will inevedably spill … revolution wil always always spill blood … the question is just … what will kill more people … the status quo … or the upheaval …

-> I mean always remeber that “12 angry men” is just talkie talkie … -> but the words have teeth .. there is something at stake …

Buuut that discussion (chaos vs order / freedom vs control) is propably to close for comfort … so Disney would rather it it’s own face then do that …

So we get a half hearted “can we just fix the police insteda of abolishing it?” Before teh whole thing deteriorates in to a physical fight about wether or not you can trust Loki

Great points, just a little bit more time and thought could have made for an overall better plot. Something that annoys me to no end is the fact Sylvie is doing this out of purely revenge and fans acting as if she’s a revolutionary. That is not something in the text and further interviews with creators and actress confirms that yeah, it was about revenge. That’s what so obnoxious about the final it is the most forced and false ticking clock. All Loki wants to do is consider the consequences, just actually think about it for a minute. But he can’t have that because the show wants to end in a fight. They have to do it now or Kang will become immune to being stabbed, I guess? Again, no real reason why love the can’t stop and consider what the course of action are just have the third act break up so there can be a season 2

Thank you <3

This!

Especially since there was no reason for that ... spin ... on her motivation

Great literature has been written under the premise of:

Imagine someone was wronged and took THE most elaborate revenge

-> I just really love the Count of Monte Christo XD

There is nothing wrong about taking revenge on people that are objectively bad ...

Extra points if you can hoist them with their own petard XD

So, I am all here for getting revenge ...

But I guess she has to be not just the superiour Loki ... *sigh* ... but also the morally pure Loki ... and being out for revenge is not morally pure ...

Because:

“Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

*shrug*

I mean ... they have to wake the audinece somehow XD

And the thing is ... they COULD have had an organic ticking clock

San Dimas Time*

All they had to do was to have Loki bring up that there is no reason not to talk this through, since they have all the time in the universe since they are literally AUTSIDE of time

And then Sylvie could have pointed out that while yes THEY have all teh time in teh wolrd, the people in the sacred timeline don't

They still get pruned, because time is still running outside ... because San Dimas Time *handwavehandwave*

But in order to do that we would need

A) Sylvie to give a shit about anyone but herself which she doesn't (s.o.) ...

B) the characters would have to have an actuall conversation where they actually listen to each other and then react to the things the other person ACTUALLY said ... instead of having another conversation that is just place holder conversation to bridge the gap to the next set piece ...

Oh well ...

*San Dimas Time is a device that allows a writer to add some against-the-clock tension in a Time Travel story — in spite of how little sense that makes when you have time travel at your disposal.

@thebibliosphere

What a fantastic helper.

First of all, this is an amazing invention. 

Second of all, I’d like to remind everyone that Jell-o counts as a fluid. 

That is, many doctors prescript Jell-o, and Gelatin treats to children and adults who, for whatever reason, have trouble keeping hydrated. Maybe they have jaw issues. Maybe dementia, or they are on a fluid-only diet and drinking broth for weeks is mind-boggling boring. 

Jell-o brand in particular has a lot of sugar added to the packets, however it’s quite straightforward to buy plain gelatin and make low-sugar jelly blobs to snack on for that sweet fruit-pop of hydration.

Soo~ Here we goooo~ 

2 cups juice – Orange juice, grape juice, whatever you want. Fuck, you could even use your favorite blend of tea, or coffee (though coffee, in my experience, needs a little more gelatin to set properly)

Low heat until juice is hot, but before it starts to boil – once you see a bit of bubbles rising, add 2 tablespoons gelatin, and stir gelatin into hot juice until totally dissolved.

Turn off heat

Add another cup and a half of juice (or whatever), stir for another minute or so, then pour into a mold.

You could pour it into ice cube trays, a Tupperware container, or any sort of silicone candy mold.

Cover it, stick in the fridge overnight, and viola~

Bite-sized taste snacks, full of water.

Gelatin is broken down very easily and put to use once in your gut, so it’s fine to eat loads of it, and otherwise you’re just taking mouthfuls of juice… or tea or whatever.

If you want it a bit more sweet, feel free to add sugar or honey to your hot juice… or hot…whatever…

I was pondering about the guy’s electrolytes worked and now I’m paralyzed with the idea of turning Gatorade into jell-o.

Don’t use pineapple juice for this!!! The enzymes break down the gelatin and you’ll be left with soup.

Right on, forgot about that! Kiwi, Pineapple, Figs, Ginger, Guava, and Papaya have an enzyme that flips the bird to gelatin. 

Apple, Grape, Strawberries, Orange, Cherries, Blueberries, Blackberries, Lemons, Peaches, Raspberries, and Cranberries all make great gelatin snacks, though. 

i firmly believe that information like this needs to be shared, especially in any situation where the future is brought into question. as someone who’s grandfather had advanced dementia, i know first hand how difficult and devastating this can be.

seeing inventions like this come into existence is uplifting!

~ mod abalone ~

reblogging for both this amazing inventor’s story, and for the DIY alternative that anyone who struggles with hydration needs can utilize.

🚨🚨CONGRESS SECRETLY TRYING TO SNEAK IN EARN IT ACT COPYCAT INTO MUST PASS SPENDING BILL (PLEASE READ EXTREMELY IMPORTANT)

July 20, 2023 Congress is right now determining what is included in a must pass spending bill the NDAA. Often congress will sneakily add as amendments their bills that they can't pass in a normal setting.

If you remember, I made a previous post about EARN IT being reintroduced here.

Following it's initial introduction earlier this year was massive opposition from human rights, LGBT, tech, political groups, and grassroots groups. Bc of this, the senators decided to remake the bill but give it a new name, so they can still pass Earn It without actually passing Earn It. Those bills are the Stop CSAM Act (yes really, they actually named it that), and the Cooper-Davis act.

The entire point of these bills is to mass surveil and censor everyone and I don't know why more people or senators speak out against it. There is a direct timeline from when the Attorney General Barr (under Trump) said he wanted to do this to it's initial introduction in 2019, and how the senators explicitly knew they couldn't actually say that so they lied and said it was about "stopping CSAM" or "stopping drugs" for Cooper-Davis Act.

These bills essentially do the following:

We have until the end of the month to stop this, but this can be added literally any moment until then. It's literally code red. If this is added it goes into effect immediately. The BEST way to stop this is to drive calls and emails to the senate. https://www.badinternetbills.com/ connects you directly to your members of congress & gives you a call script.

It is ESSENTIAL to call the Senate leaders who can stop this. Here's a more precise call script you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1huD5Ldd1lPTECYTEb9Gg2ZzrqW6Y9tryHT-MdjOl8kY/edit

All these people expressed concern over Earn It, so we need to press them hard to not allow it's copycats Cooper-Davis or Stop CSAM into the NDAA. This is URGENT and needs all hands on deck. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (202) 224-6542 Maria Cantwell (D-WA) (202) 224-3441 Jon Ossof (D-GA) (202)-224-3521 Alex Padilla (D-CA) (202) 224-3553 Cory Booker (D-NJ) (202) 224-3224 Mike Lee (R-UT) (202) 224-5444

Please please please spread this message and blow up their phones.

TLDR; The Senate is trying to quietly push the Earn It Act's copycat bills into the must pass NDAA, which will lead to mass censorship and surveillance online by gutting Section 230 which is the entire reason you can even be on tumblr and why the internet exists, killing encryption which put everyone's lives in danger, and appointing far-right people to a supreme court-esque commission that the president has direct control over. They could be added in ANY DAY and we need to push hard to stop it before it gets to that point. CALL YOUR SENATORS **NOW** BY USING https://www.badinternetbills.com/ AND CALL THE SENATE LEADERSHIP AND SPREAD THE WORD!!!!

July 23 2023 - This is how the Metropolitan Police treat a mother accused of a £1.75 ($2) alleged fare evasion.

It turns out she'd actually paid the fare.

Can you imagine the police doing this to a wealthy white woman?