Fuck this
*clips my chair through your table*
Hey this is a perfect example of how taking something out of context is some fuckery
McConnell attached two poison pill amendments to the $2000 checks that caused Democrats to vote against them: 1) setting up a “commission” to investigate “election fraud” (which is a bunch of bullshit) and 2) repealing Section 230 which prevents social media companies from being liable for what users post (which would in turn cause the companies to censor their users like crazy)
It was not a “clean” bill for $2000 checks
So why is the OP of the tweet and OP of this post deliberately obfuscating the reason why Democrats voted against $2000 checks? What is their motive?
Is it to turn people against Democrats, who have actually been arguing for more direct payments since May? And actually passed numerous bills in the House?
Don’t trust like that. Read shit yourself. This post is bullshit.
Sketch Commissions!!
Hey everyone, letting you all know that I have my commissions open this time with a goal in mind! I want to reach a goal of $120 or more to buy me and my sister binders as well as to pay off some expenses. I would be really appreciative for you all to commission me :)
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Here’s a Lewis I forgot to post
Expect to see a bunch of art from 2020 that I didn’t post because I was lazy haha
This is awesome. Go LEGO!
this is all screenshots
discussing something designed to help blind and visually impaired kids learn braille
and yes it’s “for everyone” but maybe be considerate of your target audience?
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A series of five screenshots from a Design-milk article titled “LEGO Launches Braille Bricks for Children to Learn Braille” By Keshia Badalge. The article was published on 05/15/19.
Image 1/5 contains text and a photo of four LEGO bricks. The bricks are labeled “P” “L” “A1” and “Y”. Each brick has raised bumps to correspond with the Braille character on its label.
The text reads, “At the Sustainable Brands conference in Paris last month, the LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group announced their new project to help blind and visually impaired children learn braille through custom LEGO Braille Bricks.
The idea, first proposed by the Danish Association of the Blind in 2011, was brought up again in 2017 by Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind in Brazil, and later developed in collaboration with blind associations in Denmark, Brazil, the UK, and Norway.”
Image 2/5 contains text and two photos. Both photos are of a young boy playing with the Braille LEGO bricks. In the first photo the boy is holding up a LEGO board with several LEGO Braille bricks stuck onto it, he is running his fingers over the bricks. In the second photo, the boy has layed the LEGO board down onto a table, he is still running his fingers over the bricks.
The text reads, “Why now? Philippe Chazal, Treasurer of the European Blind Union, cites the rise of audio books and computer programs. As a result, he claims “fewer kids are learning to read braille.”
Image 3/5 is all text.
It reads, “We strongly believe LEGO Braille Bricks can help boost the level of interest in learning braille,” he continued. In the United States, only 10% of blind children are learning to read braille, even though according to Chazal,
“Braille users often are more independent, have a higher level of education, and better employment opportunities.”
WHO estimates that 19 million children around the world are vision impaired and 1.4 million of these children have irreversible blindness.
The statistics when they grow up look discouraging: In Europe, around three quarters of adults with vision disability are unemployed, compared to 53% with general disabilities.
The LEGO Braille Bricks will be fully compatible with the LEGO System in Play and use the same number of studs for individual letters and numbers in the braille alphabet.”
Image 4/5 contains text and two photos. The photos are of a young boy using the Braille LEGO bricks. In both photos he is running his fingers over the raised surfaces of the LEGO bricks.
The text reads, “The bricks aren’t just meant for braille learners. For teachers and sighted children, these bricks also feature a printed letter or character, so everyone can join in the fun.
The set contains about 250 Braille Bricks covering the full alphabet, numbers 0-9, and math symbols.”
Image 5/5 contains text and a photo of two children playing with a pile of the LEGO Braille bricks.
The text reads, “The product is currently being tested in various languages too: Danish, Norwegian, English, and Portuguese, with German, Spanish, and French testing to begin in the third quarter of this year.
The final LEGO Braille Bricks kit is expected to launch in 2020 and will be distributed free of charge to institutions in LEGO’s partner networks.”
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Reblog with the transcript
The official Yogtober 2020 prompt list is here!
It’s almost time!!
IT’S TIME!!!
trLet’s start a tagging game with it!
Aww this is cute!! ❤️❤️
Tagging the usual suspects! Only need to do it if you want 😊
@kingsglaivus @horrorblob @proxbombs @cass-burger @tee-racer no pressure on actually doing this just thought it was cute
proxbombs
@little-kiwis @melonthep00p @zenkaiankoku @iseenasnail and anyone else of course
Medieval time bois!!! @the-rainbow-witch @thedarkknightgoose uhhhhh idk who else to tag lol, so anyone else who sees this can come along
TURNING OFF YOUR CAMERA SHOULD ALSO MAKE ANY ACTIONS AFTERWARDS COUNT AS PREMEDITATION,
FIRST DEGREE ASSULTS
FIRST DEGREE MURDERS
Also, since I’ve seen some of this floating around on tumblr recently, I’d like to address a really common misconception: that being intersex makes transitioning easier.
That kind of generalization is extremely false. Sure, maybe for a Few intersex people it might make it easier, but for the vast majority of us-we have to deal with forced medical treatment, whether surgical or through hormonol treatment, and oftentimes end up in a situation where we have to “detransition” of sorts.
As someone who went through nonconsensual HRT, it hurts me when people say “oh you’re intersex and trans? lucky for you!”
As a trans masc person, getting forced on to estrogen was traumatic, not lucky. And to act like I should be grateful for that is fucked up on so many levels.
Time and time again, I see trans perisex people struggle to understand why it’s not acceptable to say “oh I wish I was intersex, that would make my life so much easier.
When the truth is-we face extreme amounts of medical abuse. Most of our community is traumatized. We face more barriers to transition, and intersexism combines with transphobia to make us feel like we’re wrong no matter what we do.
Please be mindful that these words really can hurt, and as a community that struggles to even be visible and have our experiences told, understand that perpetuating these types of myths is actively detrimental.
me: *milks a minecraft bee and gets a bucket of honey*
me: *milks a squid and gets a bucket of ink*
me: *milks a player and gets a bucket of-
bucket of steve :)
fireworksgate is fucking real yall i was walking by some residential street earlier today and a car driving by threw a bigass firecracker out their window at a house with three kids playing in the front yard and their mom. cops pulled up SUSPICIOUSLY fast (like literally 10 seconds later fast), rolled down their window, listened to the mom, basically said “wow that sucks, good luck”, and drove off without getting out
i think cops nationwide are setting off random fireworks to keep people awake + on edge + accustomed to sudden explosions tbh. here’s a pretty good article on it (specific to NYC)
this shit is 230% real, ive heard so many stories of it and weird shit with fireworks suddenly appearing that I really can only see it as some kind of retaliation motivated psyop. pro pyrotechnics companies had all these events cancelled because of COVID, are not asking many questions when they can get rid of everything and cut losses, and meanwhile you have the NYPD whose budget makes $20,000 of fireworks a night nothing at all in practical terms.
They’re setting up a “special task force” for these illegal firework demonstrations, yet people in these communities say they’ve seen the fireworks coming from right behind the police stations with no police doing anything about it, have taken videos of police literally driving around with their sirens on while the fireworks blast at 3am, and were told by kids that they were just given the fireworks, and now this? all of this is extremely sus and at the end of the day shows they have no actual regard for the communities they “serve”
la-laborista-republiko
what if public libraries were open late every night so that:
- children and teens who cant get home until a later time have a safe, warm, well lit, populated area to socialize, charge devices, rest, etc
- children and teens have a safe place to go to stay away from danger
- people who have jobs that take up most of the day would still have time ANY DAY OF THE WEEK to go use the libraries facilities (printing, computers, etc)
This is exactly what public libraries are trying to achieve - public libraries as a third place is a whole thing - it’s just that the funding isn’t there (yet).
Libraries need and deserve so much funding
I’m going to apologize if this post comes off as sounding very aggressive, but having just been through one of the most stressful experiences of my entire career in libraries:
if you want this, you need to be at your local community government meetings. you need to be talking to your representatives. you need to be out there Lobbying.
Just a few weeks ago, my library, me, my coworkers, we had to write letters, send emails, make phone calls, speak at council meetings, just to beg our aldermen to give us our usual funding. Which they didn’t even give to us last year. Losing last year’s funding forced us to cut staff, hours, and all of our databases. If we’d lost this year’s funding? two positions would have been gone and we would have likely had to close on Saturdays. On Saturdays. The day of the week most of y’all working M-F jobs actually have time to go to the fucking library.
And do you want to know how much money we were asking? We were asking for an increase of approximately 13 cents a person.
13.
Fucking.
Cents.
ACROSS AN ENTIRE YEAR.
No one seems to understand how libraries are funded. It’s not just Free Stuff. It’s your tax dollars being paid back into your community. It’s crowdfunding. The highest cost anyone in my community pays for the library a year is approximately $250. Divide that up. That’s just $4 a week. That’s less than a coffee. It’s the equivalent of purchasing about 10 hardcover books a year. For that price, you could have access to every book that has ever been written, a place to go that’s not a bar, programs for kids, teens, and adults, educated staff that can help you find the answers to your questions, and so much more.
You want these late-night libraries? You want all this stuff? Start fighting for it. Start showing up. Start making phone calls. It’s not going to come out of thin air. Start fighting to erase the idea that taxes = evil. Start fighting to spread the understanding that taxes are what help us build a better society.
Make sure the people who represent you know that you want this. That this is where you want your tax dollars to go. That this is what you want them to support. That you are willing to see your tax bill go up a few more dollars for this.
Because otherwise? None of this is going to happen. Libraries are going to keep cutting their opening hours. Keep cutting staff. Keep cutting programs and databases and collections.
We NEED your support, and we need more than just a post on Tumblr. We need to see people show up and speak out.
