Next time transphobes call trans healthcare "experimental" you can show them this
penicillin was first discovered in 1928; vaginoplasty is less experimental
ibuprofen was first discovered in 1961; phalloplasty and HRT are less experimental
Adderall was first applied as an ADHD treatment in 1994; puberty blockers are less experimental
would also like to note that every single one of these procedures and treatments has been through rigorous testing usually both on animal models and humans in order to be approved as safe and effective by the FDA and not a single one is considered experimental. just in case anyone tries to be like "well HPV vaccines and Adderall are also bad"
theres a pink blue and white flower at rhe grocery store i have to make. a joke
call that a transplant
Blue’s Feathers and Wings Compendium: Standard Wing Shapes
Wings Part 1 [Standard ]| Wings Part 2 [Atypical] | Feather Markings | Tail Feathers [Part 1] | Tail Feathers [Part2]
I have expanded the traditional 4 types; Highspeed, Elliptical, Low Aspect and High Aspect ratio, because they were very narrow and vague categories for the most part, adding High Energy, Thermal Soaring, Night Glider, and Passerine wings. I feel that these extra types make it easier to understand and visualize the differences and similarities between wing shapes.
I’ve renamed Low Aspect to Powered Soaring, and High Aspect to Dynamic Soaring for the purposes of the fact that names made it hard to understand purpose and were easily confusable.
A lot of these wing types are also affected by tailfeather shape and size, and that will change their agility and energy expenditure as the tail also generates lift.
Disclaimer: This is in no way intended to be an academic dissertation or proposal, do not treat it as such. It is purely for art and writing references for others, to aid description and inspiration.
Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.
Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.
This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.
Flash floods are definitely gonna kill people, so here’s your regularly scheduled PSA:
Desert soil does not absorb a significant amount of water. It reaches maximum saturation very very quickly, and all the rest of the water rushes downhill. Even if you can’t tell that the ground is not perfectly flat, the water can. And it will move. Quickly. No, faster than that. Nope, still faster. If you try to cross moving floodwater, you will get swept downstream and probably die.
Do not try to wade in/cross flood water that is any deeper than the thickness of the sole of an average athletic shoe, no I am not kidding, the water will get deeper literally while you’re standing in it.
This goes for cars, too. I’ve seen entire vehicles getting swept downstream in flash floods because the driver thought they could cross the “puddle” and Found Out.
Stay safe, y’all.
Well. Fuck.
Ok, yeah, obviously I'm posting this up to ask for help because holy fuck we need it, and the partials we'd been doing for previous months are not adding up enough.
So yeah, now would be a great time if you need to buy leatherworks for like late fall or gift season. Here's that link, to help out and get stuff at the same time: http://tormentedartifacts.com
Or if you're willing to just donate and help out, and keep a trans woman artist and her family housed, which would be even better, here's a donation link: http://paypal.me/tormentedartifacts
Okay, y'all, please rally and help Dee. Please let's make this happen.
Let's do our thing. That thing where we support each other.
Signal boost!
Current update- just a touch over 3k gathered in so far, and thank you everyone for the help.
...just 7k still to go. Yeek. Again, please, boost or share if you can.
Ok, current as of this morning, 4.2k out of 10k. So, six grand to go, and obviously, anything helps. Including just sharingnand reblooping.
Also thank you to everyone who helped and contributed thus far.
Ok, roughly we're on day 5? 6? (I'm trying tonnot bump this daily, just so I'm not blasting everyone with it constantly)
Current total: just a touch over 6k, with 4k to go. Thank you so much to everyone. Omg we're close? Anyways, please keep boosting this sucker around as much as you can.
Current tally, as of 8/19: 5.4k out of 10. Thanks a frigging heap, automated bill pay. So yeah, still desperately trying to get the rest in, and anything you can do helps.
If y'all can help out again please do!
Source: paypal.me
A beefy-ish update for patrons; sharing thoughts on my currently reading pile, what I've been working on, and some of the plans for next week!
maui is already facing a housing crisis, how do you think we will fair in the midst of a disaster that left an estimated 4,500 people needing shelter?
hold untouched and fully operational hotels in the wailea area accountable. demand that they open their doors to displaced residents.
andaz, grand wailea, four seasons, and fairmont are all hotels that are still operating. call them. email them. leave reviews. urge them to ACT and step up as temporary shelters.
yet again i am forced to beg for help against my will
hi i’m disabled and deeply mentally ill, and can’t work! i have $1200 worth of bills to pay and zero consistent income.
whether you boost or donate, my love for you knows no bounds i would [redacted] for you
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In case you’re wondering how my day is going, I’m in danger of my car being repossessed if I don’t come up with $771.45 just to become current – the September bill will still be due on the 12th, which makes the actual amount more like 1,171.45 + the 227.12 for the car insurance due on 8/23.
So I functionally need 1,400.
For context, my car is the only transportation my household of four disabled queers has. Most importantly, it’s how @natalieironside gets to her night job to pay the rest of our bills like rent and electricity.
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LMAO TWITTER IS REALLY TURNING PVP IM LAUGHINGGGG
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It's actually more sinister than that, sadly.
(Sorry, I'm not alt-texting this shit. If someone else wants to, that would be great.)
Prominent asshole, Proud Boys boot-swabber, and mobile milkshake platform Andy Ngô told a shitton of lies about trans journalist Alejandra Caraballo. She covers things he'd rather not see talked about, like the tweet he quoted, and these:
So Andy decided to complain to Elon, who of course has never met an alt-right bully he didn't want to suckle the toes of, and so he immediately went about trying to make the site deliberately more dangerous for marginalized people reporting on the shitty things that bullies do:
Of course...
I mean, he CAN, but his app will become unable to be downloaded from both app stores and will probably just straight-up stop working on iPhones if he does.
I've been rolling something around in my head.
If everyone receives Minimum Basic Income, what happens to all the relationships where one of the individuals no longer has to depend on the other(s) to survive?
Just let that marinate for a moment.
Not just the economic landscape but the social landscape could be transformed.
Not for nothing, but this is literally part of the entire point of Universal Basic Income.
When abused people can just literally walk away, knowing they can still have enough money to live, the world will be a lot less sheltering of abusers and that is a massive fucking benefit.
It gets better than that, if we go with my ideal UBI scenario, in which we peg UBI to "enough to live in any major metropolitan city in the country" and do NOT adjust it for cost of living.
Suddenly, the poverty and scrabbling for survival of rural areas? Gone. That UBI will go a whole long fucking way out there. Suddenly, people who had to move to the cities to get jobs that paid enough? Can afford to move back. Heck, they can afford to get decent fucking broadband out there and continue working, just, not in the city. Suddenly, people who live in rural areas but want to move to the cities with like-minded people? That's affordable, too. Suddenly, people who want to have a bigger house, but are stuck in a tiny apartment in a city? They can afford to move out to where there are bigger houses.
Universal Basic Income would realign our whole damn society, and I think it would long-term be for the better.
[ ID: tweet by athelind: "Basic Income is not a 'solution' to the 'problem' of automation. It is the FULLFILLMENT of the PROMISE of automation." /ID ]
UBI would not only give abused people the freedom to leave bad situations and end hunger and homelessness, it would force corporations to pay reasonable wages to attract people to work crap jobs, which the corpos could then deduct from their (higher, to pay for UBI) taxes, creating a positive feedback loop that encourages better pay
many would use UBI to quit abusive jobs and find better jobs even if they pay less, because their costs of living are paid for
many would start small businesses, do crafts and handiwork, create art and media, increase their education and health (physical and mental), dive into science and research, and so forth. we'd see a boom in innovation and invention, and the world would become a better place for most folks
so, to appease conservatives: the economic argument is that the economy would grow a great deal. some tests that show it works in the real world:
heck, Ireland is already testing UBI for artists, and wants to implement it widely:
lots more info on Wikipedia:
the only argument against UBI comes from those who'd pay greater taxes - big corporations and the ultra-rich - but they'd do fine, because now there'd be more consumers of their products and services. and if they're not providing anything to society that would benefit from others doing better, well, they don't deserve to benefit from society
there's literally no reason to not implement UBI
CALL TO ACTION to support WGA/SAG-AFTRA: Submit a comment about the corporate monopoly crisis.
August 18, 2023: You can personalize the template message included in the above link, or simply just add your name & email. Seems like it's US only; please boost if you can't sign yourself.
"More than 100 days into our strike, as we continue to fight for the sustainability of our profession, events in Washington, D.C. provide an opportunity for writers to shine a light on one of the root causes of the strike: media consolidation. For decades, the WGA has advocated for stronger antitrust oversight, bringing attention to the ways that mergers and vertical integration in our industry – from AT&T-Time Warner to Warner Bros.-Discovery to Amazon-MGM to Disney-Fox – have consolidated the power of our employers and harmed writers as well as the diversity of content. In numerous reports and policy filings – including a new report called The New Gatekeepers: How Disney, Amazon and Netflix Will Take Over Media, released yesterday – the WGA has documented the threat to our industry from past and future consolidation and called for more aggressive antitrust enforcement. Our current strike highlights the urgency of the issue; studios gained power through anti-competitive consolidation and vertical integration and then used that power to push down wages and impose more precarious working conditions for writers while profiting off of their work, and currently – together – refuse to bargain a fair contract for writers to mitigate those harms. Last month, the FTC and DOJ jointly released proposed revisions to their Merger Guidelines, a policy document designed to guide law enforcement around consolidation. These new Draft Guidelines are part of an effort by these agencies to reinvigorate antitrust enforcement. Compared with prior versions of Merger Guidelines, they give significantly more weight to the ways that mergers can be harmful and, for the first time, explicitly direct agencies and courts to consider how mergers can hurt workers. The Draft Guidelines have been released for public comment, and the FTC and DOJ want to hear from people who have been affected by consolidation – people like you.”
The FTC and DOJ are accepting comments on their revisions of the Merger Guidelines until September 18.
HEY CALIFORNIA PEOPLE!
HURRICANE ADVICE FROM A FLORIDIAN!
Make sure you've got shelf-stable food and water for everyone in the house, including pets. The rule of thumb is a gallon per person per day. Freeze water bottles if you want cold water.
Make sure you have enough meds!
Make sure you have batteries, candles, flashlights, and a manual can opener.
Make sure your electronics, including backup batteries, are charged. Unplug things you don't want fried in case of a power surge.
Don't tape your windows, it doesn't help and you'll just be stuck scrubbing goo off of them later.
Put a mug of frozen water in it in your freezer with a quarter on top of it. If your freezer defrosts, the ice will melt and the quarter will sink and tell you you need to throw things out.
Get everything that's not nailed to a foundation out of your yard. That dead branch hanging on by a thread? Time to get it down (it was probably time to do that three days ago, but now’s better than never).
Park away from powerlines and trees if you can. Rain makes the ground soft and then trees fall over.
Have an evacuation plan to a shelter. Evacuate if they’re telling you to.
If you start to flood, don't go in your attic. You'll get trapped if the water rises too high and you can't hack through your roof. This happened to a lot of people in Texas and Louisiana. Get ON the roof.
Be safe, be well <3
What the fuck?
???? WHAT???
Ngl, "tropical storm in death valley" was not on my 2023 bingo card.
Drainage on our roads is shitty in SoCal, don't attempt to drive through water deep enough to touch your bumpers and don't attempt to walk across moving water, water only as deep as your ankles can knock you down and sweep you away.
Predicted wind speeds are similar to strong Santa Anas, so lock things down like you would for that, though keep in mind that yeah the combination of heavy rain and wind leads to more felled trees than just wind.
Take photos of the inside of your home now; flood insurance fucking sucks here and if you're in a possible flood zone you want as much documentation of your home and belongings as possible in case you need to make a claim.
Freezing water bottles also means you've got a lot of ice in your freezer if power goes out, and safe potable water once it thaws, so freeze bottles of water to have something to keep your fridge and freezer cool and store more water regardless of if you want cold water.
fill your bathtub/ large containers/ buckets with water so you can flush the toilet if the power goes out. you can check the water level by popping the top off the tank
don’t walk through any standing/flood waters afterwards. they’re nasty and can hide downed power lines
unless there is an emergency do not drive through floodwaters. your car will stall
Did you guys know the “Sickos” artist made a Sicko thats a WGA screenwriter on strike (said comic artist is a The Onion satirist comic artist and his name is Stan Kelly)
And honestly? What a mood. Haha YES indeed.
Major disservice to the community by not posting the full comic
people on this webbed site love weird unconventional queer people until they use older labels or are pan/omni/polysexual or multigender or unlabeled or asexual or aromantic or polyamorous or use xenogenders or neopronouns or microlabels or are aroallo or abrosexual or nonbinary or gnc or loveless or
legit its like this
