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i said wat i said
Also nudity is not inherently sexual OR evil, y’all really need to learn to unpack that Christianity shit that’s been so enmeshed in our (Western) culture.
I’m always really moved by sex-repulsed people who are still able to be allies to extrasexual people. I deeply appreciate yall.
We mourn. We remember. We stand with the LGBTQ community against hate and violence.
This won’t make your blog look ugly. How could you not reblog this? REBLOGGING THIS COULD SAVE A LIFE!!!
This goes for assholes, too, guys. I know a couple who went tubing once, and they had to re-air their tubes, but the guy thought it would be funny to stick the tip of the air compressor up to her bikini trunks, the air ruptured something inside her and she died within thirty minutes.
WHAT?
The thing about this? It’s in every pregnancy book I’ve read.
WHAT?????
Why is it in pregnancy books but not sex ed books?
Because the men in charge only care about the health and safety of women in so far as it enables them to have babies.
Reblogging with a link because I thought this was a legit joke. Never heard it before. Like I knew you could kill a person by inserting air into a vein but still.
WHAT THE FUCL I hate how I didn’t learn this in sex Ed AT ALL
This is very true lol
Yo what the f u c k
not the normal stuff i’d reblog but, uh, this is kinda??? heckin???? important?????
I feel like I first saw this in The Joy of Sex, but it’s definitely a thing.
What the fuck
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….thank you tumblr??
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I legit thought this was a shitpost until I saw the rest of the comments
I first saw this in The Joy of Sex, too.
Well I never
As a general rule of thumb, do not push air into any bodily orifice, regardless of gender. It never ends well. Air compressors and the human body do NOT mix.
Not even the mouth, shit can rupture a lung.
In case you are not from Mexico you should know that María Elena Rios is a survivor of a femicide attempt against her ( after breaking up with bussinessman and former politician Juan Vera Carrizal, he hired a man who threw acid to her face. Most of her face and parts of her body were burned and she had to spent 6 months recovering in the hospital)
After surviving this attack, she became an outspoken activist for violence against women. She even managed to modify the law so that an attack with acid against a woman would be considered not just attempted murder but also femicide ( which carries a larger sentence in the criminal system)
So the fact that she is making this accusation is very serious and something we should not dismiss just because Tenoch happens to be you favourite actor. In fact this is much larger than Tenoch.
Please, I urge you to read and educate yourself on the violence that women in Mexico have to face everyday. In average, eleven of us go missing everyday and there does not seem to be and end to it. It is because of women like Maria Elena and many other activists, who have bravely spoken out (even when their life and the lives of their families were threatened) that we have been able to see some changes in the judicial system here in Mexico, but there is still a long long way to go.
Elena already survived one attempt to silence her, and with this new accusation surely a lot of people will now try to silence her again
Let's not enable the abuse any further by participating in this and instead let's listen to what she and other victims have to say
A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when, just two years after getting it, she was forced to have it removed due to the company that made it going bankrupt.
Specifically, because she couldn't afford to buy the implant from the company. They basically took her implant back to recoup their losses. This is what happens when you privatize healthcare and health research. The group providing her with this implant should not have been able to go bankrupt in the first place, let alone repossess her implant to pay off their debts.
Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.
Pleasure affects our metabolic pathways; it’s a facet of the complex gut-brain connection. If you’re eating foods you don’t like because you think it’s healthy, it’s not actually doing your body much good (it’s also unsustainable, we’re pleasure-seeking creatures). Eat food you enjoy, it’s a win-win.
This was only 55 years ago. You can understand a lot of what’s wrong with the US if you realize that the average age of our elected senators is about 63. “Good old days” is a dogwhistle.
Our current Supreme Court might’ve ruled against the Lovings.
I'm serious when I say the United States is actively hostile to children. Constant school shootings our leaders refuse to do anything about. Child Protective Services that overwhelmingly do nothing of the sort. No healthcare. Our education system is abysmal. Very few areas in the public that are safe for children to be in. Large swaths of states making gender affirming care for trans kids a felony. Child marriages are legal in a lot of states. Treating kids like property parents have every right to do whatever they want to, to the point where the U.S. is one of the very few countries that refused to ratify the U.N.'s Convention On The Rights Of The Child explicitly on the basis that treating children like people erodes the rights of American parents. And now states are enacting laws that overturn child labor laws like it's the goddamn Victorian Age. And even before those laws were made, it turns out that migrant children have been working in factories for a lot of companies, including the supposedly socially-minded Ben and Jerry's.
As complicated as adult life is, I would never want to be a kid again, with no say or agency in my life and completely helpless to the whims of the adults around me.
to extrapolate on CPS, don't forget all the awful and fucked up shit that the foster care system does to kids and families of color, as well as poor kids and families, especially native kids and families!
Something amazing is happening right now.
I've been watching this website, where in real time, you can see volunteer mods shutting down one of the biggest and busiest websites on the internet as an act of collective protest.
I thought most would wait until Midnight EST but just in the 20 minutes I've been watching 1000 subreddits going black. This is CRAZY.
Most subreddits are planning on going dark for just 48 hours, but also a lot of older power users and mods are really fed up and thinking about finally quitting. It will be very interesting to see how this all plays out.
Reddit is in the same mess that tumblr and facebook and tiktok and all these other sites are in, a race to the bottom to extract as much wealth as possible from their communities.
I posted a rant about this on Twitter. Here's the transcription:
America needs regulations on vehicle size. I've seen full-size pickups get bigger and bigger over the last twenty years, and this has reached the point of sheer absurdity.
Nobody needs a truck this big unless they're doing commerical medium-duty loads. And then you're just better off getting a proper medium-duty truck like an Isuzu cabover or an International.
But the truth is that the auto industry actively caters to a small subset of insecure American men who want to buy such absurdly massive trucks to look tough, and they should be held accountable for this.
Pedestrian deaths are reaching an all-time high. The price of fuel is skyrocketing due to the war. And the planet is still heating up. Why do not need these giant death machines on our roads, and we never did.
I don't want giant pickup trucks taxed, as some propose. I want them to be legistlated out of existence.
(End of tweet transcription.)
I used to work at a place with a drive thru and without exception, every single time I saw one of these huge newer trucks it was being used to transport one person, the driver. Maybe a passenger as well as. And nothing else. The trucks that were obviously being used to do work: haul stuff, haul trailers, were always much smaller older model trucks, with a few exceptions for specialized vehicles like tow trucks. I'm sure that part of this is that the people who worked hauling stuff around with a pickup all day can't afford these stupid monstrosities. Ban them.
Not to mention most American suburbs and city streets were designed for much smaller cars, making massive trucks like this parked on the curb a pain in the ass at best and an active hazard that chokes up traffic and leads to more accidents and more likelihood for pedestrians crossing the street to be hit at worst. I live in a neighborhood where most of the houses, and the city planning, went up between the 30′s and 50′s--thus the streets, in theory, are supposed to allow two cars to drive in opposite directions. This is not fucking possible because apparently 60% of the men in my neighborhood have decided they need giant fucking trucks that haul around fuck-all. So this leads to playing goddamn vehicular “Operation” with everyone driving in the opposite direction of me on the road.
good articles with more info on pedestrian death factors including the increase in "small trucks" aka SUVs, pickups and vans. The second one is an older 2018 article that discusses the issue with the federal highway administration's approach at the time of essentially blaming pedestrians and giving them safety tips instead of addressing our infrastructure and other contributing issues.
Every time i see a truck this size they have a thin blue line sticker
Hey y’all, I need the fastest help! I need to pay for my doctor appointment tomorrow (6/12), but uuuh I not only don’t have the money but I’m in the negative.
So I need $35 to get out of the negative and pay for my appointment! Any help is appreciated!
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there’s almost 70,000 homeless people in nyc. around an estimated 4,000 of those live unsheltered in public spaces. homeless people are already at extreme risk of health complications. continued exposure to poor air quality damages one’s immune system, something that is deadly to those already predisposed to have health risks. the disproportionate impact of climate change and climate events on homeless communities is an important and needed discussion.
“I’m sorry your sky was orange but why are you complaining this much 🙄” my niece is 2 years old and has a lethal genetic condition that directly impacts her lung function. my sister spend the past three days in an unairconditioned home with every door frame and window stuffed with towels with my niece and my newborn nephew because exposing my niece to the poor quality air could cut down her already reduced lifespan and increase her likelihood of needing a lung transplant in the near future. poor air quality is a matter of life or death for many vulnerable groups and is an increasingly prevalent concern due to the impact of climate change.
In light of increasing anti-trans and anti-abortion laws in the United States, I am once again humbly requesting you inform yourself about jury nullification, your ability as a juror to vote against convicting people being prosecuted under unjust laws. Nullification was instrumental in legalizing abortion in Canada - it informed jurors can use it to help protect healthcare workers and protesters in the US, too.
This isn't really about parents that let you live with them so long as you're pursuing education or pitching in to the best of your abilities, there's a big difference between asking your capable adult child to help keep the roof over everyone's head and treating your grown kids as tenants especially if your wallet isn't hurting.
i swear to god i regret reblogging that estrolabs post because absolutely no one is focusing on the actual issue, which is that it's a phishing site very clearly run by malicious people and giving them any information on yourself could fuck you over big time
their ashwaganda "estrogen replacement" would be useless at best and extremely dangerous at worst, if it actually existed. however the products on that site almost certainly do not fucking exist and never have, and they have zero intention of actually producing them. the listings for the "supplements" aren't on the site anymore.
when scams like this pop up suddenly, they're not legitimate to even the slightest degree. there was never a real product, they were trying to get your money or your card and contact information either to doxx you, harass you, or literally steal from you. it's a PHISHING scheme, not a "making a shitty product to Literally Kill People" scheme. one of these things is far cheaper and far easier for a layperson to do.
while the information on the function of ashwaganda was definitely useful generally, it was/is not the most present danger of this estrolabs/queerquirk situation and people need to be aware of the actual threat these kinds of sites and situations pose.
as i was writing this estrolabs has been taken down, but queerquirk is still up and still advertising it's fake products and has a contact us page. do not give them your contact information, even to send hate. it is not worth getting phished to epicly own the dumbass behind this scheme. report the site and move on.
Confirming that the Queerquirk site is still up and running, but currently the Shopify store there has no content and is only displaying a “give us your email and we’ll let you know when we’re open” field. (Which you obviously SHOULD NOT USE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.)
…Reporting the store to Shopify would make sense, for anyone who’s got screenshots of the earlier contents.
i've been reading a bunch of stuff online about public opinions in the USA about climate change, and. We need to talk about this.
Widespread climate change denial in the USA is a myth.
A majority in every single state believes that climate change is real and supports taking action to stop it
I encourage y'all to play around with these maps because they have some super important insights in them
Social scientists have been sounding the alarm on this because even though most surveys and studies show that at least 70% or so of Americans across all states believe in climate change, Americans estimate that only a minority of other Americans believe this
This is BAD
Because the erroneous belief that climate change is controversial stops people from talking about it and emphasizing it in political and social movements, and fuels a sense of hopelessness that stops people from acting
IT'S NOT CONTROVERSIAL! AT ALL!
Talk to your family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers about Native Trees, Ecosystem Restoration, Community Gardens, Farmer's Markets, and Building Local Community Resilience
Talk to the people you encounter every day about the reality that we are part of an ecosystem and the responsibility of learning about and caring for each other and the life forms around us
Oh my god. I actually drew today 🤨 some doodles for patches and a tshirt!
