disgruntled-foreign-patriarch

oh come on that's funny

irish-bella

murdershegoat

obiwan

irish-bella

rainbow-femme

Growing up in the US where everything is so Christian-centric I love hearing my Israeli coworker talk to our marketing admin who is vaguely Methodist

My favorite two interactions are

“Oh Methodist, is that one of the ones that does Christmas?”

And

“I went to a Catholic guys house and he had a lot of pictures of… Who’s the one, not Jesus but the woman?”

“Mary?”

“Yeah!”

rainbow-femme

Oh I forgot “Christmas seems like a lot of fun but it also seems like so much work for one day. Passover is a lot of work but it feels worth it because it’s 8 days, if I had to do all of that and it was just over in one day I’d be mad.”

irish-bella

storiesofsvu

pechebeche

this is so nostalgic. tumblr rolls out something terrible. everyone complains. it breaks several people's dashboards. for some reason it only rolls out to a few people at a time with seemingly no warning. the community collectively and immediately searches for a browser extension that undoes the change. i know we've all gotten burnt out on all social media sucking but this is genuinely The tumblr experience. everyone who hasn't gotten it already gets an achievement. welcome to the club

i'm not a river song apologist. river song apologism doesn't exist. she has nothing to apologize for

god forbid women do anything

doctorwhoheritageposts

doctor who heritage post

irish-bella

kimpossibooty

victorvampir

i don't think people take me too serious when i say i'm legally blind. Like, guys I am legally never allowed to drive, I need assistance with a lot of stuff because I can't see. People both irl and online tend to be like "oh but you're not THAT BAD OFF" it's not a thing of whether my eyes are "that bad off" it doesn't matter, they're still blind. i still use magnifying and screen readers. i'm learning braille because my eyes are getting progressively worse and I'd like to be able to still read.

I may not be totally blind, but that's the thing, a lot of blind people AREN'T Totally blind. Blindness is a spectrum. and i don't think a lot of people realize that. And I'm just as valid in my blindness as someone on the spectrum with better eyesight than me, or someone with worse.

(This is OK to reblog. I hope that sighted people who might read this really get it into their heads that blindness is a spectrum...)

irish-bella

kimpossibooty

normalbirb

Fantastic feature guys!

spacebingus

Fix this by turning "show upload progress" off in Account Settings 👍

kawaii-pigeon

Gotta love the tumblr time honored tradition of telling each other how to turn off fucking annoying updates 🤝🏽✨

irish-bella

imptricks

geek-ramblings

Billionaire Mark Cuban Opens Online Pharmacy To Provide Affordable Generic Drugs

The company was launched out of stealth last year.

www.forbes.com|Lisa Kim

The fact that Mark Cuban can do this is just further proof of how much capatalism is f*cking people over.

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban launched an online pharmacy Thursday that offers more than 100 generic drugs at an affordable price with a goal of being “radically transparent” in its price negotiations with drug companies.

For example, the leukemia drug imatinib is priced at $47 a month on MCCPDC compared to the $9,657 retail price.

The online pharmacy’s prices for generics factor in a 15% margin on top of actual manufacturer prices and a $3 pharmacist fee, the statement said.

r-dankmemes

PLEASE SPREAD THIS INFO

yes this is pretty unbelievable right now—but just look at the replies and reblogs of this post—look at all these people on twitter talking about their own experiences with it now too—this is actually real

and yes everyone is waiting for a catch, but remember it is a PRIVILEGE to think about not sharing this information out of spite for billionaires rather than needing this opportunity regardless of how long it lasts or if mark cuban is doing this for his own gain

so please share. thanks

irish-bella

expiredcheese

socialjusticeinamerica

theconcealedweapon

Ruby Bridges is 68. This is not ancient history. Not even close.

neil-gaiman

I know Ruby. She's a really nice person. The idea that they would try and write what she did as a girl out of history is shocking to me on so many levels, the simplest of which is just, but don't they know how lovely she is?

unrelatedwaffle

i just wanna talk briefly about the painting in the header image. it's a famous Norman Rockwell called "The Problem We All Live With." It was painted four years after the real live event and used a local model instead of Bridges herself, but is obviously a direct reference.

Before this period, Rockwell was known for these kind of "wholesome" Americana type images (which explicitly depicted a white, Christian America) that appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, but a year before the time of this painting, he got fed up with the Post's bullshit about not letting him get political with his art and left. He got tons of hate mail for this painting. In 2011, Obama had the original installed in the White House for several months and invited Ruby Bridges to view it with him.

irish-bella

theroguefeminist

prolibytherium

I will say I get the vibe that a lot of peoples interest and support for strikers is a bit too much for a vicarious ‘burn it down’ thrill, rather than for the actual goals of a strike.

Like UPS has agreed to come back to the table and it is very possible they will concede to Union demands and avert a strike. And if that happens (so long as the union does not make concessions on its key demands) it’s a good thing. It’s a victory for the laborers. It is the same ultimate conclusion that a strike would intend to produce except without the workers having to go on (not so great) strike pay for a week or two.

theroguefeminist

Getting what you want without having to strike is sort of like getting someone you're suing to settle. It allows you to get what you want with a lot less pain and financial sacrifice. The other party also benefits for the same reasons (not to mention saving face), but that in no way diminishes your victory. Sometimes the threat of fighting back is enough to get the powers that be to back down--thats a good thing

irish-bella

narwhalsarefalling

lliyin

fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

spaghetti-trek

As a european i sometimes forget furefkied are actually real and not american folklore/cryptids. Like you’ve got friendly little bugs that glow in the dark….. b r uh

irish-bella

katelyn-danger

Anonymous asked:

"Anarchist" but gets triggered when people voluntarily don't wear bicycle helmets.

katelyn-danger answered:

Me when I know what anarchy is

katelyn-danger

Gravity legally cannot hurt you if you scream "NO GODS NO MASTERS" immediately before impact

completelybitch

I'm so fucking tired of this bicycle helmet discourse. Bike helmets aren't going to do shit to protect you if you get hit by a car

katelyn-danger

Most of the time... Bike accidents.... Involve things.... Other than cars...... like the ground....also it's safety gear..... Wearing it is non negotiable.... You are one accident away from being permanently disabled..... You need to protect your brain

starlite-sin

Not towards OP

Is OSHA and other safety regulations also cop behavior?

katelyn-danger

*sigh* The belief that OSHA and other safety regulations are cop behavior are common opinions that people have, anarchist or not. Wearing PPE is annoying and often uncomfortable, sweaty, and cumbersome. People also generally hate being told to be careful, because they believe that "be careful" is synonymous with "hey, you're too stupid to do that without hurting yourself".

But all it takes is one time for you to slip up and suddenly the grinder disk that would have gotten stuck in your safety glasses is in your eye, or you're getting treated for lung cancer because you didn't want to wear your respirator while you welded. These are decisions that you were free to make, but might seriously regret later on.

People will scream until they're blue in the face about how oppressive it is to have to wear a safety vest and hard hat on a construction site, but do you really think that the hammer that slipped out of your buddy's hand is going to take that into consideration when it collides with your skull?

No political theory will save you from an accident. You can either wear your PPE, or can die, unexpectedly, painfully, and slowly. The choice is yours. Go argue with a lathe if you feel so strongly about it.

irish-bella

hxuse-xf-black

how’s everyone doin tonight i just broke tumblr

the-universe-at-large

high-saffron

the-universe-at-large

dangergays

actualchiotdelphine

i tried to reblog this and the stupid app just crashed

what

kiwi-draws

wh

w-

LEMME BREAK IT

WH

miascomeback

Me next!!!

Break muthafucka breakkkk

?

SKSK

official-graveyard-posts

Official graveyard post. +Bonus!

something charmingly twentieth century about this

cryptotheism

This counts as a spell

Come on Tumblr, don’t be fucking cowards

Alternatively - come on nameless intern #102, you have a chance to be the fucking funniest person on staff.

bitternest

cowards

northwest-cryptid

Time for manual blazing, tumblr can be a coward but they can't stop us.

tyrantisterror

irish-bella

thatdiabolicalfeminist

kelpforestdwellers

'fun' fact: you can starve to death and be fat the entire time. this piece of information saved my life, so i'd like to share it as widely as possible.

there's a common misconception that starvation will necessarily make you emaciated, and that if someone is fat they must be getting enough to eat, or an excessive amount.

this just isn't true. fat is an organ, not an inert storage of 'excess' calories. the old idea that gaining weight is caused by taking in more calories than your body needs, and its corollary that reducing caloric intake will automatically result in weight loss, is simply not true. the human metabolism is just way more complex than that.

one thing that can commonly happen is that, faced with repeated or long term caloric deficit, the body chooses to prioritize fat accumulation over other things in hopes of assuring survival. this can occur due to food insecurity, eating disorders, illness, dieting, or other factors.

caloric deficit can sometimes cause weight loss, certainly. but not in everyone, and not in the long term. 95% of dieters, for example, regain the lost weight and often more in addition. the science overwhelmingly supports this, including studies created by people who were trying to find long term weight loss methods. intentional weight loss is impossible in the long term in most cases, and the methods people use to attempt it are harmful to their health.

so yeah. whether due to anorexia, food insecurity, illness, or anything else - a person can be starving and still fat. or become fat(ter) due to repeated or ongoing caloric deficit, or both.

you can be fat and need a feeding tube, though medical fatphobia often makes medical professionals insist otherwise, to fat people's detriment or death. people can starve to death while fat.

sewickedthread

Someone doesn't have to be emaciated to be anorexic. It's behavior, not physique, that makes it a disorder.

kelpforestdwellers

your comment is correct but one of your tags is not.

"#fat stores mean you can survive the next famine"

the entire point of my post, indeed the first sentence, is that you can starve to death and remain fat. having body fat very much does not mean that you can survive famine. because, as i also said in the post, fat is an organ, not a 'store' you can draw on as needed.

when starving, the body begins to consume itself. it does not start with the fat preferentially. you also begin to digest muscles, which includes your heart, and organs. fat is an organ and having a larger fat organ will not in itself save you.

i am not trying to tell you off here, but make an important correction for others who may see this. if my tone comes across as harsh, please excuse me. i'm very tired and lack the energy to modulate the tone of this. it's not personal.

this is a very relatable meme but i cannot stress enough that if you haven’t watched the good place you’re going to be very surprised to learn what words are being replaced here