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I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.
dude.
$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.
Have people lost their minds completely???
Imagine choosing “we should stop caring about poor people” as the hill you’re willing to die on. IN FRONT OF THE POPE.
I get leaving the church because you're mad it doesn't help the poor, but imagine leaving the church because you think it should STOP helping the poor and still think you're religious.
This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…
Listen, this is serious.
Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!
It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.
Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.
So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?
Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.
Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.
Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid
WAIT WAIT WAIT I'VE JUST REALIZED SOMETHING oh my god i gotta draw this wait wait hold on this is for all my fellow dune and foundation enthusiasts HOLD ON
i can't believe i've never noticed this there's definitely a pattern i wish i could go back in time and tell my 16 year old self she's gonna be obsessed with the same people over and over again but in different fonts
Dune 🤝 Robots/Foundation
this is crazy even the way i draw Jessica and Daneel is similar i've always imagined them like this??? Now i doubt any of you followed me back in 2017/18 when i started my very first blog on tumblr but i used to post so much Robots and Foundation art there and i was down bad for Elijah and Daneel AND
spoilers for Dune, Children of Dune AND the Robots saga by Isaac Asimov in case you want to read it
the reason why sun tzu is culturally significant isn’t because he wrote a book about war, it’s cause his philosophy applies to things outside of war too, to peoples’ everyday lives and ways of conduct, and is why the art of war is still relevant and read today by all kinds of people, and why it’s been studied a lot. it’s not just about war, it’s about perspective to handling the issues of everyday life
for example, a lot of people on tumblr could learn to not pick needless and unwinnable battles by engaging in bad faith discourse on social media
OP is applying the principle of “appear weak when you are strong” by rolling up to the topic with good opinions but also having the username “yandere clown”
can we please ignore what grimes does for at least a year and see what happens? I am tired about hearing what she is doing against my will. thanks
Some children are told they are loved by Sesame Street characters more than they are told by their own parents
What if Disney’s Pixar made 20th Century Fox’s Alien? fan art (2018)
Art by: Monica Ion
Happy APAHM and here’s a poem comic about my experiences being trans and Chinese I did in three days for my English class!
Hey everyone!! I just wanted to say thank you so much for 17k+ notes. This is the farthest my art has ever reached, and out of all my pieces, I’m so glad it could have been this one. It’s been so so so nice to read the tags and find it connecting with so many other people, and it’s been so so so nice to see other trans Chinese people finding the comic? It’s so comforting to see other people having similar experiences to mine and it’s just such a good feeling to know we’re not alone in this :) So thank you all!!!!
Oh and- Bodhisattva Guanshiyin is transfem but to clarify, she is traditionally nonbinary!!
MORE CHINESE TRANS CONTENT BLEASE
TL;DR: Nestle argued they could not be sued for funding, overseeing, and profiting from a system of child slavery in Africa because the conduct did not occur in the U.S. The Supreme Court ruled in Nestle’s favor.
reminder that these are nestlé owned brands or brands they profit from, in case you want to avoid buying them.
transcript Nestle-owned brands to avoid:
Coffee-mate Delissio Dreyr’s Drumstick Hot Pockets Movenpick Nescafe Nespresso Nestea Parlour Perrier Poland Spring PureLife S. Pellegrino Stouffer’s Taster’s Choice Vittel
Wonka Aero After Eight BottleCaps Butterfinger Cailler Coffee Crisp Crunch Gobstopper Goobers KitKat Laffy Taffy Mack Nerds OhHenry! Smarties Sweet Tarts Turtles
Alpo Benefut Carnation Chefmate Dog Chow Fancy Feast Felix Friskies Gerber Nesquik PowerBar Purina
L'Oreal Diesel Giorgio Armani Ralph Lauren Stella McCartney Yves SaintLauren
Biotherm Garnier Kiehl’s Maybelline Ombrelle The Body Shop Vichy
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The fact that grimes commented lmfaooooo
She's actually "correct" in a nefarious way by asking you to Google it yourself because, yeah, OP is wrong. He doesn't use child slavery to source lithium...
He uses child slavery to source cobalt to make lithium batteries
So by asking you to do your own research on the lithium sources, she's derailing in his favor.
This is the same tactic the United States Atomic Energy Comission (now just the Department of Energy) intentionally misinformed uranium miners, mine owners, mill employees, and the general public during the uranium boom in the 40s-60s.
The AEC would put together "informational" seminars, videos, and presentations as propaganda for mine staff, miners, downwinders, the public, anyone involved. Their main tactic was the insistence that "Uranium is so weakly radioactive, it presented no hazard in uranium mines " and while that is *technically* correct, Uranium isnt what kills you, its the Radium and Radon that Uranium decomposes into... the VERY carefully selected words by people headong organisation are always insidious. Dont expect them to mean anything but exactly what they say.
The worst part is this tactic WORKS and we need to be pointing out the other part of the story not being told by these people whos only agenda is to grow their bank account while sacrificing human lives.
Chik-fil-le sandwich
INGREDIENTS:
4 hamburger buns, split
1 head green leaf lettuce, leaves separated
1 beefsteak tomato, sliced
20 dill pickle slices
FOR THE CHICKEN
2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 cup dill pickle juice
1 ½ cups milk, divided
1 cup peanut oil
1 large egg
½ cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
DIRECTIONS:
Place a chicken breast on a cutting board. With your hand flat on top of it, carefully slice the chicken in half horizontally. Trim excess fat as needed.
In a large shallow baking dish, combine chicken, pickle juice and ½ cup milk; marinate for at least 30 minutes. Drain well.
Heat peanut oil in a large skillet over medium high heat.
In another large shallow baking dish, whisk together remaining 1 cup milk and egg. Stir in chicken to coat and drain excess milk mixture.
In a gallon size Ziploc bag or large bowl, combine chicken, flour and confectioners’ sugar; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
Working in batches, add chicken to the skillet and cook until evenly golden and crispy, about 4-5 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate.
Serve chicken immediately on burger buns with green leaf lettuce, tomato and pickles.
Also if y’all are interested, I have the copycat recipes for the Frosted Lemonade and the Chicken Nuggets
internet-sentences
Werner herzog
when I first saw this quote I was like 'that's either david lynch or hideo kojima' and then read the source and realised it's the third and last of their species
here's some other great bits from the interview
If your default mental photo of Marilyn Monroe is an over-saturated glamour shot of her with her mouth open, please take a moment to replace it with this one of her giving zero f***s about some bears eating garbage.
The qualities that divide good children’s literature from bad children’s literature:
1) The dragons are real.
2) The adults don’t believe you.
will elaborate
what I’m getting at here is that being a child is an experience defined by marginalization—by powerlessness, not being taken seriously, not being believed.
when you are a child you are aware of the terrible things in the world and terrified by them, and you feel everything so intensely. Before you learn to manage your emotions, they are consuming, incandescent experiences that are almost impossible to access again as an adult. You are small but your emotions and experiences are as large and as vivid as anyone else’s, but they are not taken as seriously as everyone else’s. You recognize that adults condescend to you and dismiss you.
As a child, you know that the world ought to be fair, that people ought to be helped, and you ask “Why?” And you ask “What is the point?” And as you become an adult you learn to repress those things. The answer to every question you ask as a child is “Because you have to” or “Because that’s the way it is,” and these are bullshit answers and we all know it, but defending an authoritarian relationship to someone weaker is easier than defending things about our world that are indefensible if we look at them honestly.
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, when Lucy first enters Narnia, she is not believed. Narnia has so much about it that makes it THE quintessential children’s book series, the archetype for children’s book series, and it all centers around how Narnia cannot be understood by adults.
Imitators have reduced this down to something about the Wonder of Childhood, something about how children are innocent and special that means only they can see magic because only they are able to believe in it. This is Not Correct. Books that do this are saccharine and awful because this is fake and we all know deep down that it’s fake.
Here’s the truth. Children do not live in an idyllic fantasy land where bad things aren’t real, adults do. For kids who have dealt with grief, abuse, trauma of all kinds—and let’s be real, that’s most of us—it’s condescending and idiotic to treat children as if they’re innocent about the evils in the world. Almost every child experiences evil early and is unable to communicate that experience to adults, whether this is in the form of a relatively innocent childhood fear or deeply damaging abuse.
There is much that has been said about how the Narnia books are about the trauma of World War 1, but most of that can also be said about how Narnia is about childhood in general—the traumatic nature of the return to the Real World is left unstated, because it is understood by the audience. Children have a vivid inner world that they do not have the vocabulary to explain to adults, and this is what Narnia is about.
There’s a reason why Neil Gaiman’s children’s books are so memorable, and it’s the same reason that they scared the living shit out of adults. There’s a reason why Where the Wild Things Are and Shel Silverstein’s poetry have had such a long cultural shelf life. These are not cozy, comfy stories that affirm adult perceptions of the childhood world as flat and innocent; they are troubling and ambiguous.
There’s also a reason why the children’s books that are so important often piss adults off. The best example I can think of is the Captain Underpants series. I never read any of them and yet I remember the extraordinary disdain people had for those books; they were the poster child for What Terrible Thing Has Become Of Literature.
And sure, maybe to an uncritical adult eye the adventures of misbehaving kids thwarting the rules of the world with poop jokes has no value, but I would argue the opposite—the poop jokes are, in fact, fundamental to the anti-authoritarian message. Adult attempts to suppress the scatological sense of humor children have hold a very important message about power.
Because here’s the thing: poop and farts are funny because they’re taboo, and especially so to children because we are constantly telling children what they Can and Can’t say. It’s not about poop, it’s about how adults betray themselves every time they get in a tizzy about a seven year old saying “turd,” because the fact that “turd” gets such a reaction means that uptight adults don’t have the power over kids that they want kids to think they have.
Scatological subjects embarrass adults, and the more uptight and controlling those adults are, the more devastating the embarrassment is. Kids are super conscious of the power dynamics in all their dealings with adults—how could they not be? And the explosion of raucous laughter that results from an elementary school teacher saying something that sounds sort of like “doody” wouldn’t happen if elementary school teachers weren’t constantly trying to reassert and solidify their position of power.
They, too, can be mortified and laid low by a humble “doody,” and if it did not have the power to do so, they wouldn’t try so hard to stop the kids from saying it.
I'd argue that where that all stands for Captain Underpants, part of it is also that it's a comic book series for kids that features two kids who constantly disobey their teachers and principal. Dav Pilkey, the author of Captain Underpants, has ADHD and dyslexia and has been open about the fact that he was punished very often for both of these things. The reason why many adults find Captain Underpants distasteful is not only because of fart and poop jokes, though that is certainly a factor, it's that the series is for those kids who can't focus, who struggle in school academically because the author himself was a kid like that, and as a result Captain Underpants has some pretty strong anti-authority messages. For example:
Dab Pilkey genuinely has the best ‘about the author’ I’ve ever read and I think it’s a crime that it hasn’t been included yet
Dav Pilkey is not even in the vicinity of fucking around, is he.
Trent Reznor and Shinya Tsukamoto collaborate on a commercial for MTV Japan
