happy halloween! here is a ghost duet

Report ICE activity you observe in the mid-Atlantic US to CASA - 1-855-678-CASA

ICE agents conducting enforcement sweeps this weekend will have specific people to look for, but as usual they will be taking the opportunity to arrest any Latino people that they think might be undocumented. Please remember:

–DO NOT open the door or let agents in your house. They will usually only have warrants to arrest issued by ICE, but they can’t enter your property without a warrant signed by a judge. They will try to trick or intimidate you to get in. Read more on the difference between warrants here.

–DO NOT answer questions or sign anything. It will be used by ICE to help deport you.

–DO NOT physically fight, as you will probably get hurt.

–DO say “I want to talk to a lawyer,” “I want to remain silent” and “I do not consent to a search.”

–DO have an emergency plan in case you are arrested.

–DO carry a rights card to help you remember

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/immigrants-rights/

If you are a citizen but work or live with any people who are immigrants, remember not to let the agents in unless they have a warrant from a judge, and do not answer questions about who is in the building or their immigration status.

Forgot to add: legal resources if you are in Baltimore.

The brain is just 8 lbs of meat that sits in complete darkness and plays a video game of what it thinks is the most realistic thing ever.

it’s 3lbs, not 8. also it’s not really meat, it’s mostly fat with some water and salt. You have a wad of soggy bacon inside your skull. And this blob of gross unprocessed jello somehow manages to run a complex biomechanical suit using less electricity than it takes to work a lightbulb. And people wonder why humans are so fucking weird and have odd experiences that aren’t actually real. I mean, if a bowl of tapioca pudding managed to hallucinate so vividly it invented calculus, it also going “dude, i heard a weird noise and i’m 100% sure it was the ghost of the neighbor’s cat which hasn’t actually died yet” would be just as expected as anything else.

Omfg dying

LISTEN UP AGAIN KIDS STOP REBLOGGING THIS FUCKING GARBAGE POST. IT IS 100% FUCKING BULLSHIT AND CAN AND MOST DEFINITELY WILL LITERALLY KILL. DO YOU NOT SEE WARNING LABELS THAT SAY “DO NOT INDUCE VOMITING”? THEY AREN’T FUCKING AROUND. YOU CAN FUCKING BURN THEIR ESOPHAGUS BY CAUSING VOMITING, CAUSE CHOKING, DROWNING, OR MAKE IT WORSE! AGAIN DO NOT FORCE ANYTHING DOWN ANYONE’S THROAT. THEY. CAN. DROWN. IF SOMEONE IS LOSING CONCIOUSNESS ALL THE CHIT CHAT IN THE WORLD WILL NOT PREVENT IT AT THAT POINT THEY ARE IN SERIOUS DANGER. “Buuut i don’t wanna take them to the hospital!!!” WELL SUNSHINE GLAD YOU’D RATHER HAVE A DEAD FRIEND THAN A LIVING ONE BUT YOU’RE IN LUCK CALL FUCKING POISON CONTROL. THEY ARE NOT THE COPS. THEY WILL HELP YOU. AND IF THEY SAY GO TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL YOU GO TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL. NO EXCUSES. 0. NONE. I have seen this shit cross my dash SO MANY TIMES so PLEASE fucking reblog this and prevent some well meaning idiot from accidentally killing someone they love!

For the love of god PLEASE REBLOG THIS

I see this stupid fucking post one a goddamn week and someone is going to literally fucking die from it

@oneshoeshort

IF YOU WONT LISTEN TO OP, LISTEN TO THE RETIRED PARAMEDIC WHO HAS SEEN PEOPLE DIE FROM THIS SHIT.

This isn’t 1985, you FOR SURE have a cell phone in your pocket (or else your friend does), so why would you NOT call poison control and ask them what to do?  This is like you find someone who fell down the stairs and instead of calling 911 you’re like “one time I read on the internet how to splint broken bones I can totally help with this.”  It’s 2019, fuckstick, pick up the phone and call someone who knows what they’re doing.

LOUDER.

Adding to this with this excelpent thread:

The comments on this poet are filled with white nerds being misogynistic lmao, surprise

I know. So many angry white nerds in my inbox after posting this, its hilarious. So here’s some more excellent commentary since the Hardwick story broke:

EVEN HITLER HAD A WIFE.

This is for the mentally ill people who stay mentally ill. The ones that medication doesn’t work for, or who medication only alleviates some of their symptoms, or medication makes your symptoms more managable but only just so, just enough that everything is still hard, that you can see the difference between what you can do and what other people can

this is for the people whose doctor said “this is as good as it’s going to get”

who diligently take their meds every day knowing that this is as healthy as they will ever be and get up and face the world anyway

i am so so proud of you

the idea that “technological advancement” should strive for the elimination of mentally ill, autistic or physically disabled people, instead of easier and better accommodations that allow us to live healthy and fulfilling lives, is ableist 

I don’t understand what this post is saying…medicine should stop striving for cures because it’s discriminatory towards sufferers of mental and physical illness or disability?…um

Hi, sorry to butt in again but I’ve been working in disability for two and a half years as well as being disabled myself, so perhaps I can clear something up. There are two models of looking at disability. There’s the old model, the medical model, which sees disability as something inherent in the person - a person who uses a wheelchair is disabled because their limbs don’t function in the same way as other people’s, for example. Then there’s the new model, the social model, which sees disability as a symptom of society, so a person who uses a wheelchair is disabled because society does not fully cater for people in that position (think, for example, about how many buildings, transport systems etc. don’t have step free access).

You’re thinking about disability in terms of the medical model. The issue with this is that many disabled people don’t. For example, for many autistic people, their autism is an inherent part of who they are - it shapes their behaviour, mentality and personality to an extent that without it, they would lose all sense of their identity. Suggesting that they should be cured suggests that there is something inherently faulty about them - that who they are is bad and wrong and they need to be turned into a new person, instead of wider society being educated about autism and there being less pressure to behave and process information in a certain way.

Now, some disabled people do want a cure. I suffer from joint hypermobility syndrome, a chronic pain condition which makes everyday living very unpleasant a lot of the time, and I would love for that to be cured, but that is because only the medical model can apply to me. There is nothing that could be changed about society that could make my condition easier to live with, the only way my life could be improved is if my joints stopped hurting. Also, my condition doesn’t affect who I am other than hindering me due to the constant pain - without it, I would still be me, just more comfortable.

Please listen to disabled people. We all have different perspectives on and understandings of disability. When someone says that they don’t want to be cured (or that they do), please listen to them and try to understand why. It’s only a cure if it’s genuinely going to help the people it’s intended for, and the people it’s intended for know whether or not it will better than anybody else.

This is one of the very best breakdowns of the different models I’ve ever seen. Thank you! :)

Resources for Male Victims of Abuse

How to Recognize Abuse

**Emotional Abuse of Men

**Sexual Assault of Men and Boys

**Men Can Be Victims of Abuse, Too

**Domestic Violence Against Men - Know the Signs

**Information for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse

**Help for Battered Men

**Battered Men, Battered Husbands

**For Male Survivors of Rape and Sexual Abuse

**Male Survivors of Incest and Sexual Child Abuse

**Help for Men Who Are Being Abused

Help Lines (Phone and Text Chat)

National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 (or 1-800-787-3224 for TTY)

National Dating Abuse Hotline: 1-866-331-9474

National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673

National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-237-8255

Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men: 1-888-743-5754 (US and Canada)

Hopeline Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-784-2433

National Hotline for Victims of Crimes: 1-855-484-2846

National Human Trafficking Hotline: 1-888-373-7888

Polaris Human Trafficking Text Line: Text “BEFREE” to 233733

**1in6/RAINN Chat for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Support Groups

**1in6 Support Groups

Male Survivor Support Groups

Pandora’s Aquarium - Chat (includes chats specifically for men)

Pandora’s Aquarium - Forums (includes forums specifically for men)

How to Find a Shelter

Domestic Shelters Search (shelter locator with filters to find shelters specifically for male survivors)

SAFE (located in Austin, TX, but states they can help people find resources/shelters in their area)

How to Find a Therapist

**Male Survivor Therapist Directory

Mental Health Services Locator

Resources for and About the Abuse of Kids/Teens

Love is Respect Hotline: 1-866-331-9474 (Hotline for teens)

Darkness to Light Helpline (Sexual Abuse): 1-866-367-5444

Darkness to Light Text Line: Text “LIGHT” to 741741

ChildHelp USA National Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-422-4453

Children of the Night Hotline (Children in Prostitution): 1-800-551-1300

National Runaway Safeline: 1-800-786-2929

Covenant House Nineline (Homeless Youth): 1-800-999-9999

Stop it Now Hotline: 1-888-773-2362 (for adults concerned about the welfare of a child)

Jennifer Ann’s Group (for teens experiencing dating violence)

Other Resource Lists 

(While I tried to include the most helpful resources I could here (i.e., resources that lend themselves to one-on-one communication, individual reading, etc.), there are plenty of other great resources, including regional resources, listed in these links. Some of the resources are specific to men and others aren’t, but they are all helpful for male survivors.)

**Male Survivor (regional, international, and online resources)

**Husband Battering: Men and Domestic Violence

**Help for Battered Men: Online Resources

**Help for Battered Men: National and International Resources

**Help for Guys: Help for Victims (some resources for men, many general resources)

This is so important. 

@boy-positive @malepositive @positivemessagesforboys

There’s a list on the CCMF website for Canadian resources. :V

https://menandfamilies.org/Canada-programs/

To be real though I know “being a furry” is really controversial Still (???) but I wish everyone would relax.

IDK if you all remember but one time I made a post defending fursonas and someone made a disgusting post claiming I’m into bestiality based on that alone. It was really graphically worded and described sex acts with animals. It was extremely upsetting. People are Wild.

When I was younger everyone I knew on the internet had a fursona, in every community I joined. Whether we were designing ourselves as Neopets or Dragons or Wolves, it was just a thing kids did. And as we got older and better at art, it was fun to reimagine those designs!!

It’s STILL fun to say “this is me if I lived in the woods. I’m an otter who wears striped sweaters.”

Like I’m sorry if that bothers you or if you’ve been made to immediately assume there’s something sexual about that.

There’s not for me. I think fursonas are cute, and I think the work that goes into fur suits are impressive, and unless they’re actually individually harming another person, I think there’s nothing wrong with furries, but the same goes for every subculture.

There are bad people in any large community. They need to be stomped out, but unless the community is branding themselves at large using those bad people, you can’t exactly judge the whole community for it.

Last time I made a post like this, people anonymously sent me detailed descriptions of certain traumas they suffered by people into the furry community. The kind of people who ask for TW tags but who apparently don’t see me as a person and feel they can send me graphic content at will.

And let’s not forget when there was a gas attack at that furry convention, an attempt to kill people, and the SAME people who dress up and go to anime conventions and comic cons were reblogging the headline like it was a joke.

IDK. I figure I’ll be attacked similarly for this again, but I think it’s just sorta tired and weird how immediately and negatively people react to furries still in 2019?

Especially when they’re all also fans of stuff they’ve been bullied for. It’s sad and boring. Get a hobby other than being mean to randos on the internet who genuinely do not deserve your ire.

Reblogging for this line: “The kind of people who ask for TW tags but who apparently don’t see me as a person and feel they can send me graphic content at will.”

I get that some aspects of furry culture are weird to non-furries, but I have never understood the visceral disgust and anger so many people have towards them. 

I can never understand how Snape apologetics can stand up for him when he CANONICALLY does this shit.

I can maybe, maybe, understand those who haven’t read the books standing up for him, because honestly the movies don’t cover all the horrible stuff he does. But those who have read the books and still stick up for him baffle me.

I mean, you don’t see anyone sticking up for the Dursley’s or Umbridge, when they do the same stuff to Harry as Snape. How is Snape any different?

Well it doesn’t help that JKR is the original Snape apologist.  She sees Snape’s actions as loyal and heroic, even though he only became a double agent in the first place because he got mad at Voldemort for killing Lily- and because he felt guilty because his revealing of the prophecy to Voldemort led directly to Lily’s death.  After the war, he immediately goes back to being a supremacist asshole who bullies children for not being purebloods (and Harry because he is the living evidence that Lily chose his rival to fuck and not him).  He never actually changed his beliefs at all- so apparently it’s ok to be a nazi as long as Hitler isn’t around?  

The final book reveals this supposed “redemptive” story arc for Snape, but what it actually shows is that Snape is a supremacist who only ever made an exception in his hatred of mudbloods or performed any “good” deeds because of his lifelong, creepy obsession with a woman who rejected him.  If Lily hadn’t died, Snape would have still been a Death Eater and she would probably have like six restraining orders because Snape wouldn’t stop stalking her.  

Yet JKR believes the fact that he acted as a double agent in the second war makes him a hero, and that everyone, especially the boy he bullied for six solid years, should honor and revere him.  Personally I think the fact that Harry named his younger son Albus Severus just demonstrates the extent to which he was mentally and emotionally damaged by the way the adults around him manipulated and used him for his entire life while telling him it was for his own good and he should be grateful.

please unmute this

So if I’m understanding it right, this is basically the equivalent of stopping by a coworker’s house to pick up something and next they disappear and their toddler comes out of some room with a sticky toy phone and hands it to you and you’re just left there like an idiot like UHHHM THAT’S NICE and THANK YOU? and also ANYWAY IS YOUR DAD AWAKE YET? HELLO? ANYONE? and walking into a door as you try to get away.

Also the whole thing is super interesting?

I need roughly 200 episodes of this as a Saturday morning cartoon. 

So, Chris Hemsworth is in Ghostbusters, and Thor wasn’t in Civil War.

The character played by Chris Hemsworth in Ghostbusters:

I’m just sayin’, man.

Kevin’s superhuman abilities weren’t a result of being posessed by a human ghost, it was the result of a ghost taking control of an Asgardian O.O

HEADCANON: Someone showed Thor the Christopher Reeve Superman movies and he decided he needed a secret identity. Kevin is the result.

He SO knew what was happening in CW but he was like “eh let them work it out.”

MY FAVOURITE HEADCANON IS HERE

“I could help Steve and Tony work out their weird little yelling match or help these very important scientists with their ghost research”

“Look, I get that they’re having a fight, but me and my brother fight all the time too! There’ll be some stabbing, someone will pretend to be dead, take the place of a loved one, someone will try summoning monsters to kill the other, they’ll work it out just fine. We always do!”  Then he goes back to trying to help the nice Midgardian science women do science.

Everyone who says “it’s not in the interest of corporations to harm workers and customers” hasn’t heard of history or cost benefit analysis. Mass industrial slaughter (companies letting workers die because it’s more expensive to enforce safety standards) has killed thousands. The collapse of the Rana Plaza is an example, and Grenfell tower.

triangle shirtwaist factory as well

Anyone who says that is a fucking moron.   Corporations are not people, they do not have morals or ethics; their entire purpose is to earn the most money possible for the benefit of shareholders and directors.  That is literally it.  Technically the people run a corporation just have what’s called a duty of care to do what they think is best for the company; but in the world of unfettered wealth accumulation, that means “make all the money.”  If shareholders think a company officer’s actions have harmed the company or the stock price, they can and will sue. 

Corporations are only concerned with the welfare of their workers and customers insofar as it effects their public image (and consequently, their ability to make money).  That’s why public awareness campaigns and boycotts can be effective- if you make enough noise to threaten the flow of money, they will look for the cheapest and easiest way to shut you up.  (In places and times with less rule of law, it may mean murdering the chief complainers as a show of force.  Not to pick on Colombia- the state-approved beating and murder of unionists was the corporate world’s chief tactic in early 20th century America.  Read some labor history, it’s the right time of year for it anyway.)

The value of human life to a corporation is not a moral calculation, it is a monetary one based on their likelihood of being held legally responsible for hurting someone and therefore having to pony up.  Not only will companies refrain from taking costly action that would protect customers and workers, they will actively hide the fact that the danger exists.  Look at Ford, look at GM.  Look at the tobacco industry, for fuck’s sake!  They knew their product was actively killing people and they just didn’t care, as long as the risk didn’t make them stop using the product.  There are always more customers; there are always more workers.

Trusting corporations to do the right thing is like trusting your dog to do the right thing.  Would you leave a delicious ham sitting in the middle of your living room floor and expect your dog to refrain from eating it, since it would end badly for you, the ham, and possibly the dog?  No!  Because you know your dog has no moral values and no thought for anything except how awesome that ham is going to taste while they eat it!  The dog doesn’t care that they’ve ruined your family’s Easter, or that they’re probably going to vomit semi-digested hunks of ham all over the house for the rest of the day.  So no, you protect your ham by putting it in the fridge or a sealed container, and when you’re preparing and serving it you either put the dog in the other room or keep a close watch and say “NO” a lot, because you know the dog will only be deterred from stealing and devouring your ham by the threat of imminent negative consequences. 

As OP points out, this isn’t even speculation, this is history.  Someone on another post about supposedly excessive government regulation said “those regulations are written in blood” which absolutely true.  Every regulation and rule we have related to the safety of workers and consumers is because people fucking died and we wanted to stop it from happening again.  We have the FDA because companies sold poison claiming it was medicine, and you had shit like milk so poisoned it killed babies, and rats being ground up into sausage.  We have regulations that require revolving doors to fold flat or be stood next to regular doors because 492 people were killed in a nightclub fire, nearly half of them jammed in and around the main entrance, a single revolving door that had jammed shut in the press of bodies (not a corporation, but an example of a business less concerned with its patrons than its money- the building was at twice capacity and most exits were hidden or closed to prevent running out on the check).  And so on and so on.