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The FB donation link breaks on my PC because it’s a mobile link, but here is the non-mobile link: https://www.facebook.com/donate/1123543824684874/

Reblogging for more condensed version, hopefully this spreads faster!

!!!!!PLS SPREAD ESPECIALLY IF YOU LIVE IN SAN DIEGO!!!!

My mom has been missing since monday, it’s saturday now and she was last seen wearing a black shirt and leggings before leaving to work in the downtown area. if you see her pls pls pls pls let me know asap on here or my twitter lovewishs. Her name is josefina zavala, she responds to josie too and her hair is dark brown like the last two photos and shes 4″11 and has an alcohol addiciton so she could be under the influence. All I want is her safety and I know her being drunk out in the streets is extremely concerning especially as a woman being alone. pls pls pls pls pls im begging you all to spread the word as much as u can and if you live in the area please keep an eye out if you see her and report her whereabouts to me or the police.

when dogs are scary smart

over the last several months, we have been implementing a protocol to eliminate karybelle the sheltie’s barking surrounding her mealtimes. we have accomplished this by initially introducing an alternate activity during prep time (stuffed kong) and religiously giving her a time out gated in the yard if she stops that activity to bark, thus delaying her dinner until she’s quiet. this has been extremely successful; she’s gone from barking literally 100+ times during meal prep to barking 0 times, and only occasionally slips up. the behavior she has chosen to replace her meal-prep-screaming (after all, that energy has to go somewhere) is frantically - but silently - running circles around the coffee table to finally slam into a perfect down-stay as her bowl is set down.

this evening as the food was coming out, karybelle seamlessly slipped into her silent circling routine. except after a couple of reps, she abruptly changed course, yeeted herself out the dog door, barked once, and immediately jumped back in to resume her circling.

if that isn’t a demonstration of crystal clear understanding of criteria, i...don’t know what is lmao

literally the canine version of this

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL

“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”

My mom learned it because she figured she’ll go deaf when she gets old

My family went holiday SCUBA diving once, and a couple of Deaf guys were in the group. I was really little and I spent most of the briefing overcome with the realization that while the rest of us were going to have regulators in our mouths and be underwater fairly soon, they were going to be able to do all the same stuff and keep talking.

The only reason some form of sign language is not a standard skill is ableism, as far as I can tell.

For anyone interested in learning, Bill Vicars has full lessons of ASL on youtube that were used in my college level classes. 

https://www.youtube.com/user/billvicars

and here’s the link to the website he puts in his videos:

https://www.lifeprint.com/

idk what shit-eating truscum needs to hear this, but your rhetoric directly harms people with culturally-specific genders. i’m native and two-spirit, that label describes my gender and my attraction. i use they/them pronouns and your “nonbinaries and cringey stargender trenders aren’t valid” bullshit is getting old. our languages were demonized and erased, our gender and attraction labels along with them. my experiences with dysphoria exist because of colonialist ideas of gender. we have been forced into arbitrary ‘male’ and ‘female’ categories by colonizers for centuries and truscum rhetoric perpetuates racist colonialist violence against natives.

your experiences are not universal, you’re not forwarding justice for trans people, and you’re definitely not an ally to natives or other people of color. you’re just a fucking colonizer. 

non-natives, reblog this post

I’m reblogging this again because the comments are absolutely disgusting and a perfect example of how little transmeds value non-Western cultures, communities, and traditions.

Someone in the notes says “no one is like this in real life and if they are it’s just a confused phase.”

Bullshit! I know Two Spirit Nêhiyaw and Métis elders in their seventies. 2S activism has been around my city for decades. Do some fucking research. If you don’t come from a place with an indigenous 2S tradition, accept that you’re ignorant, not that it “isn’t a real thing”

I’m Jewish.

Our book of holy commentary, the Talmud, lists six genders.

The Talmud is older than Jesus.

And I assure you, as old as that might sound, Native communities in the Americas make that number sound minuscule. 2500 years is nothing compared to ten thousand.

(Yes, Native cultures and communities predate the so-called “cradle of civilization.” BY FAR.)

We have always been here. You reading a single high-school textbook and deciding that was all you needed to know is the problem. NOT US.

correction: the talmud has FOUR genders. zachar is a cis man, ay'lonit is a trans man, nekevah is a cis woman, and saris is a trans woman. since cis man and trans man are both the same gender (man) and cis woman and trans woman are both the same gender (woman).

in addition, judaism has 2 cultural nonbinary genders. these are extremely overly simplified explanations for the sake of brevity, but tumtum is similar to agender and androgynos is similar to bigender. transgender and nonbinary people have been around for THOUSANDS of years!!

Portraits: Garden and Linen

I’d take health care and no children in cages if it meant, like, fewer kinds of apple juice to choose from, idk.

Because this version of the post doesn’t have it: HE IS IN A RESTAURANT SUPPLY STORE. It’s not even SUPPOSED to have a fucktillion name brands!

me, begging, tears in my eyes: please. please just tell me what the book is about. the plot. please

a book annotation on the cover, unfazed: A Subversive Masterpiece. A Deep And Touching Story. The New York Times Bestseller. Go Fuck Yourself

not to dictate your life but drop your shitty friends

So my landlord is kicking me and my dog out, and fast.

For the past couple of months I’ve been paying rent late, and I had a non written agreement with my landlord that I would pay half of $900 every two weeks, $500 the first two weeks and then $400 take next, but my job has been cutting most of my days at work and between that and my dogs very expensive seizure meds it’s not cutting.

Because this is subletting month to month half of my housing rights aren’t taken into consideration here. She wants me out in a week because I’ve practically only paid for the first half of the month...

I have no clue where I’m going I have a big dog with me and it seems like dogs are not welcomed anywhere in la.

The best I can do rn is go to a cheap motel but that’s at lease $70 a night..

I don’t talk with my family since I came out I have no safety net and I’m terrified.

I actually have less than a week, and I’m working for most of it

If anyone could spare anything, it would go towards me housing my dog and I!

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Update I moved as much stuff as I could, I had to leave so much sentimental stuff bcs I have no where to put it...I’m at a loss.

I found a cheap motel room it’s $650 a week... I’ve paid them 380 so far, I don’t get paid until next Friday, I have no clue what I’m going to do PLEASE HELP PLEASE SHARE

I really don’t want to be homeless in this heat with my dog

Handler: You don't need ChapStick, you're a bird!

[bird drops ChapStick]

Bird: AAH-

Y'all understand that it is literally not possible for gay couples to be heteronormative. A masculine gay man dating a feminine gay man isn’t heteronormative. A butch lesbian dating a femme lesbian isn’t heteronormative. They’re fucking gay. Telling gay people they’re somehow enforcing heteronormativity by being themselves and dating another gay person is nasty and ridiculous.

MOURN THE DEAD, FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING

Happy Trans Day of Remembrance and Resilience! A queue’d, quick sketch before I go away sans Wifi.

Even just since I came out, and even with the setbacks, things are getting easier for the people coming after me. I’m grateful for - and proud of - that every day.

[Description for screen readers: the phrase “Remember the dead, and fight like hell for the living” handwritten in black on a white circle. Within the white circle is a black circle, showing two hands holding onto each other, and one helping the other up. One hand wears a pink and blue bracelet with “TDORR” handwritten in white. Surrounding the hands are burning candles in trans pride colors: baby blue, pink, and white.]

If you do this, you’re a controlling, insecure jerk and need serious therapy.

Yeah, if anyone is in a situation like this at any time, get out. People like that are dangerous and that kind of behavior escalates. 

This is not ok.

Being in a mid-2000s High School Health class and they show you this on DVD

Didn’t that turn out to be a load of bullshit that no-one can replicate the results of to this day?

Yep! His results were faked, and the entire film was basically anti-McDonald’s scaremongering, “poor people are stupid” and “fat people don’t get any sex”. It’s also thanks to this asshat that McDonald’s can’t advertise fuckin’ Happy Meals anymore and had to get rid of all their characters and their super size option, particularly because he claimed without evidence that they have a kid-fattening agenda, don’t list their nutritional info anywhere and have a mission statement from their CEO to make people sick and unhealthy from eating there for every single meal. On top of this, he actually tried to claim in a bonus experiment that McDonald’s fries aren’t actually fries because they don’t rot when left in an airtight container for a long time but all the burgers do–which is thanks to the oil and salt they’re loaded with, not some big conspiracy where the fries, which are processed and supplied by McCain in Canada, aren’t actually goddamn chopped potatoes–and equated the containers to a human stomach. Yes, cause the human stomach is an airtight container that food sits in for months, right? Spurlock, did veganism turn your brain completely off or something? Hell, the fucker even tried to claim credit for McDonald’s having salads, falsely stating at one point they didn’t have any before he “exposed” their EVIL PLANS.

Yeah, that’s another thing to remember, he’s apparently a vegan. He didn’t let anyone know he’s one, of course, he only mentioned his girlfriend is one, because it would’ve made his vomiting after a single McDonald’s meal, something literally no one else on the planet has done, seem less ZOMG SCARY.

Want a good film of this nature? Try Tom Naughton’s Fat Head instead, a film where a guy actively proves Spurlock wrong by actually losing weight while eating nothing but fast food for a month. He accomplishes this by NOT fucking gorging himself on the unhealthiest food choices, eating more meals than he claims or cutting out his usual physical activity. While he’s at it, he also exposes exactly why Spurlock is a total fraud. In the process, he gets actual doctors and nutrition experts to help him explain why everything you know about healthy eating is probably wrong or half-true, inform us about good and bad cholesterol, expose the real reasons behind the so-called “obesity epidemic” and point out why fat =/= unhealthy by default. Yeah, Naughton encourages viewers to try the paleo diet in the end, but at least it comes off more as a suggestion and doesn’t demonize anyone in the process.

Wow, everything I know is now a lie.

Also, to elaborate on this, Spurlock claimed that he was eating 5,000 calories a day, and yet when a Swedish university tried this very experiment with several different students, no one (I repeat, no one) could even come close to replicating the results.

So yeah, Spurlock basically lied to prove a point, who would have guessed

he was also apparently vegan for years before doing this, so of course his body would have a bad reaction to all that red meat.

‘normal’

I have never seen such an accurate depiction of what it looks like without glasses.

19 PowerPoint Presentations That Should Be In Every School Curriculum Ever

He said white ppl are a plague 😹😹

White people in the notes so mad I’m living

i love how half of the white people in the comments are like “this is bullshit” and the other half is agreeing with the powerpoints

Yeah we (white people) fucked up the world, we have no right to be mad at these glorious people