Avatar

Your daily (over)dose of stuff

@ludrii-alt

A literal mess - fanarts, memes, just a dose of everything

This was Ordered Reported on May 4th to the floor of the Senate, meaning it cleared committee.

It is unconscionable that at a time when women, girls, trans folks, and other marginalized communities are being persecuted in GOP-led states for exercising bodily autonomy and their right to seek information and travel for Congress to enact a law that threatens the right to privacy and which weakens people's ability to use encryption to protect that privacy.

Far from protecting vulnerable children, this law will make it easier for unscrupulous police departments to implement dragnet searches to punish women who seek information on contraception, and will make it much harder for teens especially to access reproductive care without fear of retaliation, and will further have a chilling effect that will cause more suffering and death of the kind we are already seeing in the post-Roe environment.

It will also make it easier for the GOP to continue their anti-trans witch hunt, as basic sexual education material is already being characterized as a criminal act in states like Florida and Tennessee, and the loss of privacy protections will make it easier to prosecute people for these things.

As annoying and banal as interacting with your reps' staff can be (and make no mistake, is often is both), it CAN make a difference if enough people call in about the same issue. They do track that sort of thing, if only for their re-election campaigns, and on a bill like this which is primarily being pushed for the optics of DOING SOMETHING TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN, making enough noise can scare some of the more skittish congresscritters away from voting yes on this.

This will be the only non-poll related post on this account, as this is a pressing global issue, and I have much more reach on this account than my main. Please, if you are in a position to help oppose this, do as much as you can.

If you cannot do anything directly, I ask that you spread this as far as you can, especially to those in the USA.

Anonymous asked:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/here-s-how-canadians-can-help-those-impacted-by-the-n-w-t-wildfires-1.6525417

Some links for supporting those affected by the fires in the north west territories.

Avatar

it's important for non Indigenous people to note that over 50%, yes OVER HALF of the population of the northwest territories are First Nations, Métis, and Inuit being displaced from their ancestral territory due to these fires. the climate crisis is inherently linked to colonialism, never forget this.

reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

this has almost 11 million notes what is this

I’ve never seen this post once in 10 years on this site

I’ve never even heard of this before tho??? Wtf??????????

oh my god, I didn’t think there were any surviving versions of this post left

For those who weren’t around in the Deep Lore times, this is one of the relics of the editable post era. This post has THE SINGLE HIGHEST NOTES of ANY post on this site, bar none, but with more than a dozen variations. Every single post you’ve ever seen with more than 3 million notes has been a different version of this one.

This is the “Dean’s Gym Shorts” post. This is the Flubber post. This is the original “Reblog if you support gay people” post. it was ALL of them. before half the site got nuked, it had even more notes than it has now - at one point, well over 15 million, and that was years ago.

This, with no exaggeration, is the ONE TRUE heritage post

World Heritage Post

Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.

Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.

This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.

Holy shit thank you OP. I lived on the east coast and moved to AZ 4 years ago… thought I was done with this stuff. Literally this is the first I heard about it so thank you for getting the word out.

Shit. I have a post I've been holding onto about hurricane preparation. One moment, I'll post it.

I’m sorry what

Did you know that leeches were once used to predict storms? Well, a tornado warning just dropped and my squad is climbing

My dad is a meteorologist and he has never once warned me about an incoming storm. My leeches, however......

https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/19/weatherwatch-forecasting-tempest-prognosticator-storm-leech

*urgently* Lads, the leechometre is at 12 bong, I repeat, 12 bong!

Avatar

"tempest prognosticator" absolutely sounds like some kind of arcane device a wizard would have lying around in his workshop

It would also probably have leeches in it.

the platonic solids? pfft. wake me up when mathematicians discover romantic solids

Avatar

I dunno, I'd take the dodecadodecahedron out for a nice dinner.

So I had my laces repeatedly undone by an oversized pigeon today.

While I was retying one shoe, they undid the other. And then proceeded to jump onto the bench to untie the ones I was retying.

Avatar

Victoria Crowned Pigeon! They are Large and do not fear visitors.