horse with traffic cones on its ears the horse does not seem pleased with this development and instead appears either upset or embarrassed or both it is ashamed such a beautiful creatures reputation and self confidence is potentially shattered by this image but the horseimagebarn ethics committee allowed this image to continue into the barn due to the silliness of the image and the fact that the horse should not be embarrassed and is encouraged if it is reading this to embrace all that is whimsical and joyful and to not worry about what others think
obsessed with the fact humans successfully made computers to do math so now we are making computers worse at math
You will look at the cardboard snails and you will look at the cardboard snails
Poor children are much more vulnerable to sexual abuse, since they could be financially dependent on their abusers.
So if you want the government to do something to protect children from sexual abuse, you should be demanding that the government provide basic necessities to everyone, not demanding that the government ban drag shows.
Yeah right, leftists will feel 100 out of concern for just 1. Democrats will conspire with Republicans to implement market “solutions” and means testing for access to basic needs because they want to seem like they care, but fundamentally support the system creating the hungry people.
Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
horse drinking mountain dew consuming green liquid via bottle
nationalize publicly accessible restrooms. absolutely no reason why every mcdonald’s, starbucks, etc. bathroom shouldn’t be open to the public
a little more information regarding the maui wildfires:
- medical workers on the ground are describing finding hundreds of bodies. the current death toll in the media is, unfortunately, only a fraction of the reality
- hospital workers are describing injuries and trauma as if survivors had come out of a warzone
- thousands are still missing
- an apartment complex for the elderly was lost. not everyone could get out. people were saying goodbye to loved ones over the phone
- people who did get out of lahaina were leaving with ashes covering their faces and nothing but the clothes on their backs. people are losing everything.
hotels are still operating. hotels are still operating. they are not the ones offering shelters or housing or food. even bowling alleys are offering shelter, but hotels have the audacity to build on burial sites but not open their doors to local families who have lost everything.
donate to maui united way, the maui food bank, mutual aid, and maui humane society
Hey if you work for a major company that you fucking hate, but they also have a Diversity, Inclusion, Culture Department… check if they offer donation matching.
Your $10 donation can turn into $20
Your $50 donation can turn into $100
I completely forgot until an org put it at the bottom.
If Taylor Swift used her power for good she would be such a great stochastic terrorist. She would post on Instagram "Hey guys, Tay here. Just wanted to say that whoever delivers me the head of Ron DeSantis on a platter will get free Eras Tour tickets. #ShadeNeverMadeAnybodyLessGay." It would be at her doorstep in two hours.
From my experience what these people actually want is confirmation that their experiences were normal and correct and that it's the world that has gone wrong. That's why confronting them with the fact that actually how they were treated was literally abuse makes them so upset, they don't want to acknowledge that they were (and often still are) victims of people and systems outside their control. They were raised with the mindset that to admit something hurt you was a weakness. They were raised to believe that suffering through hardship silently is a sign of good character and strength. They want to be praised for being so strong, not sympathised with for being so hurt, they just don't know what to do with that massive shift in perspective
OH GOD I’ve done this a lot over the years…I can’t help it. An acquaintance or friends of friends bring up casual child abuse stories as proof or some rhetorical device and I know I changed at least one of their entire world views in the process bc he told me like a year later. Just meet everyone who shares this stuff with empathy (which sometimes THEY view as pity, that’s on them.) It’s wildly effective although I’ve been told that it can be a “downer” but when that came up I was like “you think him talking about getting hit with a belt in the first place wasn’t the downer??”
Honestly, if you went back in time about ten years and told me my dad was abusive, I would have been so angry with you. How dare you suggest my dad was an evil person? It was only after I finally accepted that good people trying their best can still be abusive that I could actually process my trauma, and THAT only came after I opened up to a therapist who had the exact above reaction.
Yup, same, except make that 20+ years ago for me. A straightforward approach wouldn’t have worked. Lots of folks aren’t ready to hear “you were abused” hence “wow you didn’t deserve to be treated like that” can be so helpful!
hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard to get rid of it!
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3
Where do I copy-paste these to? "My filters"? "My Rules"?
'my filters'! if you look closely you'll notice the format is different between the two pages. the (website)(##)(additional text) format goes in filters
When I'm in charge of the planet, it will be illegal to make a job posting unless you are actively searching for a candidate.
Lean staffing will also be illegal. If you need three people to do a job, you're hiring four.
You are also either earning an amount or you are not earning that amount. 'Earn up to 21.50/hr' no. Either you're paying 21.50 or you are not paying 21.50. Tell the truth or jail for employer for 1000 years.
If someone asks for 2 years experience for an entry level job paying just above minimum wage, you should be legally permitted to launch them into the fucking sun.
Yesterday at work these two 12yo boys came through my line and i’m instantly like. oh Boy. Because solo children at a grocery store are always forces of chaos, good or bad
But thankfully these ones were totally pleasant, and when i asked if they wanted a receipt one of them pulled out a random fuckin receipt from his bag and asked “Do YOU???” and y’all, i lost my shit… What a power move. When will i ever be this funny
idk why we’re all laura posting but this is my contribution.
[image description: two tweets by laura jane grace. the first reads. “If a fascist dystopian nightmare scenario were to ever actually play out where Trans people were rounded up for some kind of imprisonment or extermination, I guarantee there would be a handful of trans people that would put names on a list.” The second continues, “you can for sure sniff some of the boot lickers by now.” /end ID]
i feel like tags like these (& there are several ppl in the notes talking abt conservative trans ppl specifically) are missing the point. while this sentiment definitely applies to prolific conservative/fash trans people it's not much of a statement to say an open fascist would support fascism. these people (at least blair and caitlyn, idrk buck angel's deal) are fascists first and trans second and would be running under the assumption of getting an exemption as reward for selling themselves out. this is more about trans people who maybe consider themselves liberal or leftist, who think their politics & identity puts them at odds with authority and fascism but who willingly engage in online witch hunts of other trans people, who view it as rooting out the Secret Monsters in their own community, who share cancellation posts of trans women uncritically, who view themselves as ontologically incapable of violence. there are already lists made of the allegedly problematic, predatory, capital-E Evil trans people (who deserve nothing but scorn, alienation, erasure and/or death) shared widely on social media and the trans people who make and share these would gladly hand over such info to the authorities if they could justify in their own minds that these people would be Getting What They Deserve. Even if the accusations are justified (which they are often not, and very often just stem from anti-kink/conformist respectability politics rather than any actual harm done) we need to be able to recognize this cop behavior for what it is and how it incredibly easily plays into the hands of those who want us all in the ground. In the eyes of transphobes we are ALL perverts, we are ALL groomers, we are ALL degenerate and differentiating oneself from the "real" Monsters will not matter one bit in the end.
