Some Holier-Than-Thou Fuck: "Dont shoplift, it inconveniences minimum wage workers and could get them fired :(((("

Me, a grocery store employee that literally watched a guy stuff 10 steaks into a stolen reusable bag at the checkout counter and watched him leave without paying, and without anybody being fired or getting into trouble at all: "You sure?"

I once lost my entire paycheck to Loss Prevention when some clothes were stolen from a shop where I worked. I couldn't pay rent, I was in a huge situation over it, almost lost my fucking apartment / became homeless for a second time. Fuck all of you who think this way.

thats incredibly illegal you probably should have fought that

Absolutely hilarious that you think "fought that" doesn't directly translate to "get myself fired and then lose my paycheck anyway." Cute of you to still have that level pollyanna entitlement.

Friend, I say this as someone who has worked in hellscapes like that - it is 100% illegal for them to dock your pay, and unlike say, being fired for racial discrimination or sexism, you can prove it happened. There is a paper trail. And the wrongful dismissal case for them firing you over demanding your pay back would give you such an incredible case that you could make THOUSANDS through litigation. In my state, I know at least 10 firms that would do that pro bono. I know this shit is hard and employers are trash, but you absolutely DID and DO have recourse. Getting salty at fellow workers for pointing this out to you does not help anyone, including you. It's not "pollyanna entitlement" to tell you you have the right to fight for your wages. It is the store's job to account for and prevent shrinkage. Not the employees.

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.

A Story of Two Chest X-Rays

One patient with a vaccine and one patient without. Version 2—for the crowd that wants specifics without violating patient privacy (these are published cases).

The top picture is of a 47-year-old man who received the Pfizer vaccine and developed COVID19 2 weeks after. He was overweight (BMI = 29), but without any known comorbidities. He had a runny nose, mild body aches, mild cough. His chest X-ray is relatively normal.

The bottom picture is a 50-year-old active female patient without obesity and not on medications. Her chest X-ray shows diffuse opacities, consolidations in both lungs with lung damage (all the fluffy white), and a pattern that looks like the worst feared complication of COVID19—acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). She needed intubation, mechanical ventilation, and ECMO (extra-corporal membrane oxygenation) – the most life support we can offer.

The mRNA vaccines are effective at preventing severe disease and death— even with the Delta variant. ICUs are starting to fill up with COVID19 patients again. This post was to emphasize that the vaccines are ~95% effective at preventing case 2 from happening. Of course, there are also mild cases of COVID in unvaccinated individuals.

Black lung tissue on the X-Ray is where the oxygen you breathe in gets into the blood. All the fluffy white is where the oxygen cannot get into your blood because of infection/inflammation, that’s essentially what ARDS is and the goal of mechanical ventilation/ECMO is to protect that damaged lung tissue and get the oxygen into your bloodstream and to your brain, heart and other organs.

Source: Jesse O’Shea M.D. Follow here: jesseosheamd.

You. Cannot. Tell.

Just to be clear. The message here is not, “All men are scum.” It’s not even, “Most men are scum.” This is not what it’s about, and fuck every TERFy shitwaffle who tries to co-opt this. We don’t need that kind of rhetoric spreading the belief that “men are naturally evil” and that “men can't help being that way.” That’s just complete bullshit.

The message is, “A few men are murdering, raping bastards, but they are very good at pretending to be perfectly good, normal men, and we have no way of telling who they are so we have to be super cautious because society and law-enforcement can't be counted on to have our backs.”

support nefeli ! (30/6/2021)

being queer and seeing historical queer love is like a punch to the gut in a good way every time

crying and sobbing crying and sobbing etc

some more vintage photographs that make me weep and wail, now including trans people!

smth i'm struggling to understand w tumblr's new post+ is that it seems to at least in some form be directed at like. fandom content creators? bc that's such a big part of content creation on tumblr is fandom

but isn't it like. illegal to monetise fan content? is tumblr telling us to put like. fanfic and art and shit behind a paywall despite copyright? how many people are going to use post+ for that and get so completely fucked by it lmao

SURELY THIS IS STRAIGHT UP ILLEGAL

tumblr staff rolling out a feature that no one wants or likes and violates basically every copyright law in existence

Tumblr TOS states that *you*, the poster of shit on your blog, are responsible for the shit you post on your blog. This is in line with Section 230 of the US Communications Decency Act stating that websites themselves are not libel for content their users post.

"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider"

What they *are* doing with their marketing, is encouraging users to monetize content in a murky Intellectual Property area (since it can sometimes be transformative), one which historically/conventionally has been considered “off limits” for monetization, but if the IP holder decides to sue you, the poster, then tumblr isn’t going to do shit to help you.

Thank you for clarifying! I admit i dont know as much as i should about the legal side of this, but it somehow feels worse! Like once IP violations were pointed out as an aspect i thought “theres no way they could have overlooked this” and i guess they didnt, because they knew they wouldnt be taking the legal fall for it. Makes the whole situation feel less like a stupid idea and more borderline predatory, like yes we will be making money off your content but have no legal responsibility if you face consequences for breaking the laws we kind of encouraged you to.

Really fucking weird how the internet has made it a thing to make others feel bad for having a good relationship with their parents. Y’all need therapy and I mean that genuinely

A random person on social media posting about how much they love their mom or dad is not responsible for how your mom or dad treated you. The comment section on their posts is not your personal trauma dumping ground. I’m sorry all that happened to you but talk to a professional

one of my favourite things about tumblr is how it's all lovingly handpicked. there's no algorithm forcing things onto your feed, but instead long chains of mutuals and followers passing posts around simply because they liked it and ooh, maybe you might like it too. the entire website runs on people's sheer love of other people's posts and it's probably the best thing about this website. at least it's definitely the reason that this place feels more like a community than any other social media.

Uhh, well, sort of?...

Tumblr does have algorithms. But if you’re old school, you turned them off when they showed up. Unfortunately, over time, new people might not know about them. I’m not certain which is the case with this post?

Regardless, if you go into Settings > Dashboard Preferences you can turn off the algorithms. The main algorithm is your basic non-linear “what tumblr thinks you should see” feed. Yes, it’s of people you follow? But it still leaves the ability to throttle certain posts Tumblr might hope you don’t see to the bottom of your non-linear feed.

The second and third are more harmless, randomly inserting posts from tags you track into your feed, but clearly labeled as such. So it’s something you might enjoy or not.

Really we need to share this info more regularly, so as time goes by, new people know that they’re in a non-linear algorithm feed of the people they follow, like Instagram or Twitters “home” mode.

stfu stfu literally nobody has an ugly smile or an ugly laugh its just not a thing. your smiles and laughter are the literal manifestations of your joy theyre gorgeous no matter what they look like or how they sound

In light of the recent PostPlus nonsense tumblr is trying to pull, here's a reminder that monetization of fanfiction can lead you to legal trouble. On Ao3 it's against the TOS to even mention any money-sending site at all because of the conditonal protection they offer.

Putting your entire fanfiction blog behind a paywall is like pointing a neon sign saying "please sue me". I bring this up specifically because tumblr mentioned fanfiction in the post that they made and that is going to leave a lot of people misinformed.

Remember: Do NOT paywall your fanworks.

And rest assured, my blog will never be pay-to-read, even if this weren't a fanfiction blog. I think the whole thing is ridiculous.

I just left my husband alone with our two children for sixteen days. I was not worried about anything regarding the house, their food, or their wellbeing. I put all the appointments in the family calendar and my husband checked it and kept them. I literally did not worry about them. I missed them, and I was sad that they missed me, but I didn’t worry about them AT ALL. I need to impress upon you all that I missed their company, but was not worried for their welfare.

I also did no meal prep. I don’t even think I went shopping right before I left.

This is not about apples and oranges. This isn’t even about my husband. This is about the fact that this is apparently WEIRD.

Another mum at my daughter’s school is leaving for ten days. She’s taking her youngest (who is a very small baby) and leaving her husband with their two girls. She has been cooking for days preparing freezer meals. She’s panicking and deputizing her six year old to remind him how to make school lunches. AND I AM APPALLED.

A) He is definitely not helpless. (He’s a doctor or something.) What gendered bullshit. B) THAT LITTLE GIRL IS NOT OLD ENOUGH TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HER AND HER SISTER’S WELLBEING. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. C) Why is she married to this person and creating children with him if he’s this big of an idiot?

While she was laughingly recounting this, the other mums were nodding and smiling sympathetically, like oh yes, I too have my caveman at home!! Such managing required! I was the only one who was like “Dude, he’ll be fine. Literally. He will be fine.” I said it a lot. She was not convinced. She kept bringing up her older daughter. She’ll be like a little mum!

NO.

NO NO NO NO.

NO.

Straight women, don’t do this shit. It’s gross. Don’t infantilize your husbands and then expect your daughters to pick up the slack. So fucking gross. So. So. GROSS.

The fact that so many adults think a six year old girl is more capable of learning and performing basic domestic tasks than a grown-ass man says it all, really. 

This stuff is so toxic and awful. I told a car full of women one time that I refused to be in another relationship until I met a man who was capable of making his own doctors’ appointments and washing the dishes. They told me I was going to die alone.

Fuck this shit. Don’t enable men’s incompetence and label it cute.

SMDH

Abled Person: Hey man, can you hold this wad of $2,000 and this one penny for me while I open my wallet?

Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL!

The United States Government:

(Watch how many people don’t get this.)

#raises hand #i dont understand #please explain? 

In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.

It doesn’t matter what it’s for.

You’re saving up for a new wheelchair?

For college?

To put a downpayment on a house?

Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?

Your benefits immediately get cut off if you’re a cent over $2,000.

And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.

So say you get $400. If they find out you’re twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.

“What if I spend the money that day?”

Doesn’t matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.

And yes, this system literally kills people.

Remember when “Guardians of the Galaxy” came out? one of Rocket Racoon’s creators, Bill Mantlo, suffered an accident in 1992 and has irreparable brain damage.

before the movie came out, Marvel gave him an exclusive preview screening. SOme people were upset because they felt if Marvel was really wanted to thank mantlo, they should have donated money to Mantlo’s family.

Bill Mantlo’s brother had to come out and explain: If Marvel gave them monetary aid, Bill Mantlo would lose his financial assistance.

That’s so utterly depressing.

disgusting

I have friends on welfare who won’t pick up a penny in the street because they’d risk the welfare they struggled to get for 10 years.

oh look another fucked up thing in this world. let’s just add it to the list. number 63858b

My brother has been on California State SSI for autism for the last 10 years, and he absolutely has to (no joke, HAS TO) spend all 720 bucks of his SSI every month, because if he puts it in the bank he risks losing his SSI altogether.

Sometimes, at the end of the month, he has no idea what to do with his money because the whole month went by and he still has 400-ish bucks in his account, and he fucking panics because he doesn’t want to get anywhere near 2,000.

And here’s the funnest part of the story!

One day he did a huge commission on Second Life and wound up earning 1500 bucks off of it, and he told the guy to donate it 500 bucks at a time over 3 months. The guy didn’t want to, and just donated all 1500, which put my brother at 2,036 bucks.

The state IMMEDIATELY (I’m talking less than an hour) called him up to tell him over the phone that they were canceling his SSI, because they noticed he had gone over the 2,000 buck threshold. He had to tell them that someone had made a charitable donation to him and that this was not a common occurrence in any way shape or form, and upon not believing him, my mother had to call to talk to them as his legal caretaker and say basically the same thing until they called off the cancellation of his SSI money.

He also had to cancel his renter’s assistance because it put him to 1,062 a month, so if he went 30 days without spending any money they’d cancel his SSI altogether. Like, none of us in the family have any fucking clue why that regulation is in place and it’s the stupidest shit in human history.

Please, legal side of Tumblr, tell me what positive reasoning this law has?

Happy 4th of July everyone! This is what the “nation of opportunity” looks like.

There’s something called an ABLE account that can help. If you are on SSI and were diagnosed as disabled before the age of 26 you can apply for an ABLE account that will allow you to save up to $99,000. More people need to know about this!

thank you so much for this information. i’m applying for an abled account right now

THERES A WHAT

OH GOD BLESS THE SHIT OUTTA YOU YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FREAKED OUT OVER THIS I WAS

I’ve been looking into SSI; I had no idea about this!

Read till the end for the important info

Reblog to literally save a disabled person’s life

According to wiki, 39 states + DC have ABLE accounts, so check with your state

This is so important.

Receptionist in question

not to get political but im begging you guys to stop coming to hawaii. in maui theyre asking to put a ‘pause’ on flights bc we literally do not have enough room or staff to service you. the roads are so full that its causing a major backup when ppl need to get to work.

on top of this, i heard that by September? theyre expecting to get rid of the mask rule (if 70% of ppl are vaccinated/all goes well) but ill be honest w/ you, i know many locals arent getting the vaccine and i know plenty of tourist arent gonna take the necessary precautions.

homeless hawaiians aren’t even allowed to sit or lay on sidewalks to keep up the “paradise” image for tourists

PLEASE stop vacationing in / moving to the occupied Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. You are actively participating in violent settler colonialism when you do, even if you aren’t white. Never in my whole life have I seen our airport THIS packed!!! Our islands cannot support this many people – especially during our dry season and in the middle of a PANDEMIC!

Tourism makes it impossible to keep up with the rising cost of living. It brings in revenue and with that, becomes the fake state’s priority. Tourism pushes native Hawaiians from their land and homes, puts locals at risk for covid19, directly harms the delicate environment and native species here, houseless folk (many whom are native Hawaiian) are being illegally swept to make room for tourists at beaches, and locals are being restricted and fined for using water on east Maui, all while hotels can use up all the resources no problem and our government approves a million dollar home construction for new part-time residents (when locals who have been here for generations are being thrown into poverty, barely staying afloat, losing businesses and even their homes). “Hawai’i has become the Blood Diamond of the Pacific. We are mined for our splendor, and our residents live the every day, complex consequences.” 

It’s absolutely VILE what is happening here. I hope yall know that Hawaiʻi was overthrown and occupied by the US military, and isn’t even legally a state! Hawaiʻi is not your vacation spot, so you better tell your family and friends to stay at home.

Here is a linktree by my friend with petitions to protect sacred, native Hawaiian land on Kauaʻi and Molokaʻi. Sign them.

Here are a few Kānaka Maoli (native Hawaiian) folk in need you can donate to (if you know more please add to my thread!)

see also “credit belongs to the artist”. Stop that. Reblog the original posts from the original artists.

Reblogging just for the little cute reblog friends

This is also very helpful for posting fic on Tumblr, fyi! I’ve found formatting almost always gets fucked up if you don’t post directly from mobile and this helps.

I’ve reblogged this before, but this is honestly been one of my biggest lifesavers over the past few months. I don’t feel like I’m wasting time having to go back and change formatting anymore.

You can even use it to post fics onto Tumblr if you don’t want to have to go back and redo all your italics and bold lettering. All you need to do is switch it from rich text to HTML when making a text post. Then you just paste your story into the box. I then switch it back to rich text and add all the extra stuff when I’m done.

My fics look better. They’re spaced out properly. I swear by this. I have a copy saved in my fanfiction Google Doc folder, and I just make another copy when I’m ready to run the script.

So…REBLOGGING TO SAVE A FELLOW WRITER.

what liberals mean when they say they’ll keep families together

For those who noticed this was 2019, here is stuff from march 2021.

And the same facility one month later in april 2021:

It is important to note that this isn’t because there are less people. In fact, the dems in charge fully admit that they had just as many people in late april as in early march, but the Biden administration took emergency measures to solve the problem and massively expanded the facilities to ensure that there was enough space.

What’s more, they got the average processing time down a huge amount, and didn’t just settle for the mandated maximum. For minors, the average wait time went down from 133 hours to 28 hours, with the federally mandated maximum being 72 hours. Immigration cases are being processed in record time and numbers with a strong focus on humane treatment and ease of immigration. Plenty of moderate democrats are genuinely angry about it, claiming that the Biden administration is letting thousands in with a rubber stamp approval process. “It isn’t how it is supposed to be!” complain moderate democrats over Biden’s far left approach to immigration reform.

Now, these were just temporary emergency measures throw together in roughly three weeks to deal with a massive, record breaking influx of migrants. It could easily be suspected that the administration was just acting good as long as the nation was paying attention, except the Biden administration continued working on immigration reform even when the news cycle moved on, steadily making major changes for immigration reform and continuing to do so even now.

There are a ton of things the Biden administration has massively improved over the last 4 months or so, and I am not going to list them all out. And they are still making changes in a positive direction. Here is an article that lays out some of these things written by an immigration lawyer. It was written two days ago, and there is no sign that the Biden administration is going to stop chipping away at immigration reform within their capacity to do so.

Remember, as long as it is the law Biden has to enforce it, and all law making is on deadlock as republicans refuse to cooperate. He literally cannot change these laws without every single democrat senator signing on and at least 10 republicans jumping the fence. He is not a king. If you want to be angry at someone focus on the one or two democrat senators that refuse to get rid of the filibuster, specifically Joe Manchin.

What Biden can do on his own is restructure and reform the DHS and ICE to be much more humane organizations through rule changes, executive orders, administrative policies, and putting pro immigration reform people in charge of the whole process. And that is exactly what he has done and continues to do.

If immigration reform is an important issue to you, and it should be, consider where we were a year ago and where we are now. Many leftists will have you believing that virtually nothing has changed, that people have moved on due to their bias that democrats are better than republicans. They are wrong.

This is why “both sides are bad” political opinions are so dangerous. In six months we have gotten better immigration reform from Biden than we have in 30 years and he doesn’t even have the power to make laws about it. All that effort we made to get democrats (and better democrats) in is paying off.

Please don’t get discouraged now, we are actually making serious progress for the first time in years! Don’t let your preconceived notions of a “moderate democrat” president cloud your judgement!

If this is what we can achieve with a moderate in charge and a deadlocked senate, imagine what we can do with a real leftist at the top and a couple more senators to break the deadlock. Real change is within our grasp but we have to keep on pushing for it.

is the world really such a terrible place? yesterday i asked if oat milk was extra and the barista said yes so i said ok just regular milk then and when she gave me my chai latte she whispered “i used oat milk ;)” doesnt that make u want to live another day?

here is my life philosophy: next week there might be someone ahead of you in line at the store who’s short a quarter and you have a quarter and you can give it to them. if you weren’t there, they’d have to put something back. the week after that you could be getting lunch and the waiter might ask if you want some pancakes someone else ordered and never picked up. you could find someone’s lost cat. you could watch someone’s bag while they go to the restroom. there are so many ways you are going to touch other people’s lives and they are going to touch yours and there’s no way to know when it’s going to happen. so you have to keep living!!! i wouldn’t want to die knowing that tomorrow the barista will give me free oat milk just to be nice. 

wacky idea here but maybe we should be focusing our efforts on securing accessible healthcare and a decent standard of living for disabled people and everyone else instead of micromanaging people's vocab

if i don't receive a $600 injection (which costs $15 to manufacture) every month my immune system will overload, immobilize, and likely kill me but heaven forbid someone online tell me to touch grass

Listen my skull is literally squishing my brain and it makes me spacey and my memory fucky, if my wife and I don't get to call my dumbass stupid when I bluescreen then you owe me $1,000 for a proper wheelchair for when I inevitably lose mobility because y'all are too fuckin focused and what word may hurt my feewings and not enough on making sure my doctors spend more than 5 minutes seeing me

The amount of people in the notes who are saying "why not do both" ie unironically ignoring the words of disabled people and the fact that we've said that people explicitly use language policing as an excuse to not do any further activism that would make a much bigger difference to our lives than if one person on the internet didn't call another stupid is WILD.

Just like, keep patting yourselves on the back for being woke and not do fuck all else, why don't you? Disabled people aren't your prop.

Language policing is also how narcissists and sociopaths repeatedly infiltrate social justice circles and use the moral micromanaging of every minute action to break down the wills and self-confidence of their victims to better control them.

If you feel like you have to watch every word you say in front of a friend because they won’t take any impure language on good faith, leave that friend. Your life will get better instantly.