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I am joining in asking the OTW to give regular updates on their June 2020 commitments.

@transformativeworks you do a lot of great work for fandom, and you are an organization that inspires me in many ways. But as a member, I am disappointed that we haven't gotten more updates on the commitments you made three years ago to combat discrimination and harassment by giving users and admins better tools and reviewing/updating policies & TOS.

I know that sometimes commitments like these take longer than desired to follow through on. Sometimes challenges arise -- like unexpected complexities, disagreements about how best to implement changes, competing urgent priorities, etc -- and maybe some of that is relevant here. But that's just basically me out here making up my own headcanons for what might be happening behind the scenes, because I don't actually know. As a member, I am asking for more transparency about the progress so far on all the efforts, the nature of any challenges that have arisen, and the current priorities and timelines.

@transformativeworks please update us on the efforts you committed to in 2020, and give regular updates going forward. If there are challenges, please also share if there's anything that members might be able to do to help!

Can you do something for me, please?

I want you to reblog this if you believe that two people can be very close and physically affectionate with one another, but still have a completely nonsexual, non-romantic relationship. 

Even if the two people in question are capable of being sexually or romantically attracted to one another. 

Because the friendship I share with someone I consider family in a way that transcends blood has been typecast as a romantic relationship ENTIRELY too many times, and I’m beginning to get sick of it. 

HHmm.. Let's say I open a chocolate shop.

I create a lot of chocolates, all with different tastes and ingredients, and then I sell them in my chocolate shop.

And in these chocolates, some are made with ingredients some people may not like at all, or even are allergic to. Some are even made with liquors and other alcohols, these chocolates that I keep in an alley of my shop forbidden to children.

Well guess what? My only duty here is to explicitly state which chocolate are made with which ingredients. Nothing more.

If you pick a chocolate with mint in it when you hate mint, then that's on you. Because I explicitly stated there was mint in it.

If you pick a chocolate with peanuts in it when you're allergic to peanuts, then that's on you. Because I explicitly stated there were peanuts in it.

It means that in this situation, you cannot in any way hold me accountable for your allergic reaction, because you should have been the one to either read the signs or to not be left alone in my chocolate shop if you weren't able to read them yourself.

And it's the same with liquor chocolates. If you as a minor, or your unsupervised child, enter the alley you weren't supposed to and end up swallowing alcohol, you don't have a right to go complain to me.

You weren't allowed to go there, and the best I can do is call your parents so they don't leave you alone in a chocolate shop again.

"But children love chocolates! Chocolates are for children! You shouldn't be making alcoholic chocolates in the first place!"

Stops right here, a lot of adults still love chocolates. A majority in fact, and there is no age to stop loving chocolate. And some love liquor too, which is perfectly normal, and I sell these chocolates to them.

You are allowed to not like a shop selling liquor chocolates, or any chocolates with an ingredient you can't eat, but it won't stop the fact that it's perfectly legal for me to sell them here. And the best you can do is to start learning to ignore them, teaching your children to do so while keeping an eye them, or find another chocolate shop and hoping they don't sell these chocolates as well.

That's all.

SNOOP DOGG goes off-script in a conversation with Larry Jackson, formerly of Apple Music and current Co-Founder and CEO of Gamma, moderated by Shirley Halperin, Executive Editor of Variety Magazine at The Milken Institute. (May 3, 2023)

Aliko Dangote, the richest man in Africa, has been tormented by a Brazilian man named Osvaldo for the last several years.

Aliko is not taking it well

I, too, do not take it well when posts supporting my community are taken over by people mocking my community. These interactions do not read like someone mocking a billionaire for being an idiot. They read like someone mocking a Black man based on racist stereotypes of stupidity.

For all my beloved mutuals who might need it

This Pride, don’t forget about us

ID: “This Pride remember to respect all trans people : Trans women who don’t shave with a drawing of a woman whit a yellow and pink beard, trans men who don’t bind, masculine trans women and feminine trans men with a drawing of a trans woman with short pink hair wearing a yellow baseball T-shirt holding hands with a trans man with a yellow crop top and short curly blue hair, fat trans people with the drawing of a fat trans woman with short white hair, dark skin and a pink cropped top, disabled trans people with a drawing of a wheelchair and a walking cane in the color of the trans flag, neurodivergent trans people with the symbol of the autistic community, trans people who are sex worker with a drawing of blue bra and pink underwear, poor trans people who can’t afford transition, trans people who aren’t out yet with a drawing of a closed door, trans people who don’t plan on transitioning, black trans people with a black fist holding a trans flag, and any trans people who isn’t white with multiple hands of different skin tones, muslim trans people with a drawing of someone wearing a hijab in the color of the trans flag, jewish trans people with a drawing of someone wearing a white shirt and a kippah in the color of the trans flag, non binary people even those who don’t identify as trans with the non binary flag, those whose identity you might not understand with the genderfluid flag, the agender flag, the demi gender flag and the genderqueer flag, trans people who don’t pass and don’t want to with a drawing of a trans woman with a beard and dark skin raising her fist, every pronouns with dialog box in which are different sets of pronouns, trans people of every identity with the gay flag, the lesbian flag, the ace flag, the bi flag, the pan flag and the aro flag, every trans person is beautiful and deserving of so much love so don’t forget the T.” End ID

P.S. : can someone tell me if I did the image description right cuz I have no idea

i guess the best way to get people into 19th century literature was to serialized it like it was a tv series and let people make memes of it

No joke it’s genius in a lot of ways:

- Literature can be dense. Dense reading isn’t for everyone, but when it comes in bite-sized pieces, it’s so much easier to follow. I know if I were reading Dracula on my own, I would have struggled getting through some parts, like Van Helsing’s lengthier dialogues.

- You get to react to things along the way! Oh, how I’d LOVE to do this with any kind of book! I’m a slow reader, and I love getting attached to minor characters or picking up on tiny details that flesh out the characters we know. Because of this, I’m usually woefully behind everyone and rambling about things no one cares about. But with the spread-out updates, that’s the highlight!

- If an entry is difficult to parse, there are others breaking it down and giving a dozen perspectives and interpretations in thoroughly accessible language. I barely absorbed half of the complexity of the first couple Jekyll & Hyde chapters; reading other people’s posts poured gasoline on the fire of my interest. And I’m used to reading Dickens and Austen, so it’s not a matter of being used to the language!

- Engaging the material looking for fun and humor and personality is a perfect antidote to the pressure and stress that assigned reading and analysis can be to these works. Sure, it can flatten the content—looking at you, “Jonathan is oblivious to red flags” broken records—but how many times has a joke post been expanded upon with some genuinely insightful commentary?

It shifts reading from “I should do that someday” to a regular habit with lots of engagement.

au where my stomach doesn't hurt

what you have to understand about kink at pride discourse and the reason people discuss it alongside discussions of transmisogyny and things like drag queen bans is that trans women are seen as sexually perverse, deviant, and engaging in fetish simply by existing as a woman in public, and your arguments of "no kink at pride because of the children" is the exact reasoning given behind banning public displays of transfemininity

btw reblog this

Scientists Made An Artificial "Cloud" That Pulls Electricity From Air.

The secret is tiny holes.

Taking a hint from the magician’s playbook, scientists have devised a way to pull electricity from thin air. A new study out today suggests a method in which any material can offer a steady supply of electricity from the humidity in the air.

All that’s required? A pair of electrodes and a special material engineered to have teeny tiny holes that are less than 100 nanometers in diameter. That’s less than a thousandth of the width of a human hair.

Here’s how it works: The itty-bitty holes allow water molecules to pass through and generate electricity from the buildup of charge carried by the water molecules, according to a new paper published in the journal Advanced Materials.

The process essentially mimics how clouds make the electricity that they release in lightning bolts.

Because humidity lingers in the air perpetually, this electricity harvester could run at any time of day regardless of weather conditions — unlike somewhat unreliable renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar.

“The technology may lead to truly ‘ubiquitous powering’ to electronics,” senior study author Jun Yao, an electrical engineer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, tells Inverse.

Source bit.ly/43SmPds

any other autistics get aggressively confused why people phrase demands as questions? like. "can you take out the trash" and im like no im watching an ajr interview and then im in trouble cuz there wasnt actually an option it was actually "go take out the trash" and im told it sounds more polite but i find it incredibly rude because you give me fake options like more polite would be please go take out the trash so i know that i have to but it doesnt sound angry anyway this realllllly annoys me and idk if other people experience it like whatsoever

tl;dr: JUST TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT!!!

Would "do you want to take out the trash now or after dinner?" work?

If I ever respond to you w just a heart emoji it’s not meant to be dismissive. I’m bumping my shoulder against yours bc I like you. I am blinking slowly at you like a cat.

reblog if you dont have a bra on

Okay, but I’m a guy…

Yeah, and?

Since, in true Celtic fashion, I’m gonna start saying “it’s too hot” today, here’s the perfect poll…

Reblog & put your answers in the tags because I’m curious and need to know I’m not suffering alone

another poll because I want to see just how much of an outlier I am:

+ pls only include burner free trial email addresses if you maintain access and/or use them repeatedly

keep seeing Temu ads on here so just to share cause idk if people are widely aware

They already lost me at “Uyghur slave labour” tbh