neither! barreleye fish actually can rotate their eyeballs A FULL 90 DEGREES forward when they want to see things in front of them, so it would. look like this
can we please appreciate their t-shirt though holy
[ID: A photo of Mayor Owen Hurcum, a person with bright green hair. They are smiling and holding up a white mug with a rainbow symbol on it. They are in a black t-shirt that reads, in white letters, THEY/THEM/THE MAYOR]
official anti terf post
Holy mother of all things dark and spooky, I feel inspired. The green hair, the shirt that says “the mayor,” the freedom of self-expression… Owen’s an icon.
I found my old pokemon book- i dont know who i relate to the most
giovanni wrote this
Pokemon Heritage Post
Image id: a picture of a page from a pokemon book. It has a picture of the anime members of Team Rocket, with each of them labeled with a description. The descriptions read “James: Would be clever if he were not stupendously dim-witted. Jesse: Has a great potential for evil, but is too self-absorbed to use it. Meowth: This Pokémon has the amazing ability to speak. Unfortunately, nothing it says is worth listening to.” End id.
I was honestly incapable of even conceiving of anything as evil as Unity is pulling today. Like holy shit. Will we let these fuckheads take our hands and arms when we give them a finger!?
Game developer unionisation is more imperative than ever fucking before now.
I’m very worried about my close friends using the engine. Some of them say they likely won’t be affected, but can you really know? With the wordy, shoddy and vague FAQ they posted, they have all the room and us developers none. Fucking barf
Just googled it and damn wtf
After a couple years of futzing around with Unity without much progress, I switched to GMS in 2022 when they canned their internal gamedev team and started focusing on partnerships with shady transaction processing services instead. I figured that the writing was on the wall as far as their priorities were concerned, and the user experience would only continue to get worse and not better
It is also extremely difficult to read. I don’t know if I need to point this out, but the document itself is obviously full of bigotry so please take care of yourself if you choose to read it. Antisemitic phrases like “cultural marxism” and “global elites” appear before the document even really gets rolling, and are mixed in with transphobia, racism, and more.
If you want a taste of how this document starts in the first main section about “The Family”, here is a taste:
“This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.”
It is all bad. ALL of this document is bad, and dangerous, and threatens the lives and the safety of everyone living in this country.
can someone provide the document upload bc the twitter one broke
I can. I’ve uploaded it to my Dropbox, hopefully this link will work:
Knowing your enemy, and their plans, is a critical component for defeating them.
I’ve made it through about 2/3 before my phone crashed and highlights include:
Removing any wording from any legislation that includes the words: gender identity, sexual orientation, and a bunch of synonyms
Wants to rename a Women and Gender government org to the “Family, Women, and Children” org
Give government funding to US faith based aid groups that do work overseas.
Give government funding to faith based adoption groups that refuse to adopt out children to same-gender couples
“We’re joining the war on fossil fuels on the side of fossil fuels”
Get rid of free lunches for K-12 students and make it more difficult for students to qualify for free lunches. The reasoning here is “entitlement”
Make it more difficult to get SNAP and WIC. This includes adding a work requirement to receive these benefits
Get rid of the federal department of education
Cut funding to public universities because they’re liberal hotspots.
Cut funding to NPR and PBS because the majority of listeners to those stations are liberal.
Throughout the document the writers seemed incapable of not tacking on the word “woke” in front of left, progressive, or liberal
Consistently argued that having to respect transgender people’s identities interfered with their first amendment rights.
Argued that people should receive vouchers to send their kids to private schools. Also argued that private schools should not have to be regulated. Do you see the problem here.
Replace pro-choice public health officials with pro-life ones, including a lot of positions that are not typically replaced after a presidential term.
Make it illegal under FERPA to keep a child preferring to go by a different name and pronouns at school a secret from their parents.
Stop the woke left from stripping churches and other nonprofits from their tax-exempt status for making political comments.
TL:DR
This document advocates that the next president should make DEI illegal, make it illegal to transition, get rid of free school lunches, deregulate what is taught in K-12 education in the name of “parent’s rights,” support fossil fuels, make it harder to get SNAP, WIC, and a bunch of other government support programs, and a whole bunch of other awful stuff.
This document is written like an insane fascist rant, because it is one.
Also it’s super hypocritical, they claim we should defend the right to free speech yet in the same paragraph recommends restricting free speech of people they don’t like as the way to protect that right. They claim that we should have a small government yet they say we need a lot of government action to enforce their ideology.
Their supposed goals don’t make much sense really.
It is also extremely difficult to read. I don’t know if I need to point this out, but the document itself is obviously full of bigotry so please take care of yourself if you choose to read it. Antisemitic phrases like “cultural marxism” and “global elites” appear before the document even really gets rolling, and are mixed in with transphobia, racism, and more.
If you want a taste of how this document starts in the first main section about “The Family”, here is a taste:
“This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.”
It is all bad. ALL of this document is bad, and dangerous, and threatens the lives and the safety of everyone living in this country.
can someone provide the document upload bc the twitter one broke
I can. I’ve uploaded it to my Dropbox, hopefully this link will work:
Knowing your enemy, and their plans, is a critical component for defeating them.
I’ve made it through about 2/3 before my phone crashed and highlights include:
Removing any wording from any legislation that includes the words: gender identity, sexual orientation, and a bunch of synonyms
Wants to rename a Women and Gender government org to the “Family, Women, and Children” org
Give government funding to US faith based aid groups that do work overseas.
Give government funding to faith based adoption groups that refuse to adopt out children to same-gender couples
“We’re joining the war on fossil fuels on the side of fossil fuels”
Get rid of free lunches for K-12 students and make it more difficult for students to qualify for free lunches. The reasoning here is “entitlement”
Make it more difficult to get SNAP and WIC. This includes adding a work requirement to receive these benefits
Get rid of the federal department of education
Cut funding to public universities because they’re liberal hotspots.
Cut funding to NPR and PBS because the majority of listeners to those stations are liberal.
Throughout the document the writers seemed incapable of not tacking on the word “woke” in front of left, progressive, or liberal
Consistently argued that having to respect transgender people’s identities interfered with their first amendment rights.
Argued that people should receive vouchers to send their kids to private schools. Also argued that private schools should not have to be regulated. Do you see the problem here.
Replace pro-choice public health officials with pro-life ones, including a lot of positions that are not typically replaced after a presidential term.
Make it illegal under FERPA to keep a child preferring to go by a different name and pronouns at school a secret from their parents.
Stop the woke left from stripping churches and other nonprofits from their tax-exempt status for making political comments.
TL:DR
This document advocates that the next president should make DEI illegal, make it illegal to transition, get rid of free school lunches, deregulate what is taught in K-12 education in the name of “parent’s rights,” support fossil fuels, make it harder to get SNAP, WIC, and a bunch of other government support programs, and a whole bunch of other awful stuff.
Slow the fuck down is also the way to avoid scams, social engineering, phishing, etc.
“Oh, no the CEO of my employer is having an emergency and I need to click this link right now!!!”
Slow down…
“Why would the CEO be emailing ME of all people? Maybe this email is a phishing attack that would get my employer hacked and me fired for allowing it.” (It probably is a phishing email.)
In general, “Slow the fuck down” is an extremely powerful information literacy skill.
Genuinely thinking about showing this to my freshmen instead of the CRAAP test
4. If the car pulls up to you run in the opposite direction.
5. Walk with your keys in your hands and keep a key between each finger
6. If they put you in the trunk kick out the headlights
7. If you get lost find a woman with a child. Never ask a man for help (this one was drilled)
That scream fire piece of advice is literally life saving
8. Watch your shadows and reflections, especially if someone is walking behind you. A split second notice is better than none and will help you.
Yes this last one really saves lives y'all I do it all the time
girls have to learn to view the world like international intelligence agents just to be safe walking down the street. smh.
guys pls pls pls reblog and girls pls pls pls be safe out there. terrifying and so sad that we have to worry about this on a daily basis
(I’m an enby, but, frankly, this is helpful for anyone.)
- always tell someone where youre at and an approx time when youll be back
Add text replacement words in your phone if possible. Something short and memorable that you can send quickly to people in moments of emergencies.
E.g.
I f ing hate that we need to reblog this, people suck, but this will save lives.
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Being female fucking sucks but yes this shit is important for everyone
Also, do not walk close to walls. It will be easier for someone so walk past you and push you against it or corner you.
If your gut is telling you to cross the street or change your path, do it. Don’t risk it. Your body knows.
If you can, buy a large umbrella and walk holding it. Studies say that predators are less likely to attempt an attack on someone that could fight back. Keys around your knuckles is fine but you’ll need to get very close to do damage. Umbrellas are more precise.
Avoid wearing headphones if you are alone on an empty street. Look aware.
Again: Stay. Away. From. Walls.
Entering an uber alone? Call your father (or anyone you trust) and say “hey dad! Yep, I’m almost there, I’m sending you the route.” outloud. Then proceed to send them the route so they can follow the uber drive. This will most likely intimidate the predator.
If you see someone in an uncomfortable or possibly dangerous situation, walk up to them and say “Betty, oh my god, I haven’t seen you in so long!”. If she gets slightly confused, you can whisper and let her know you’re trying to help and that she should follow along. Walk together to another station or away from where you are. The man will most likely not follow. I have done this one 2 times and can be very helpful.
If you are unsure she needs help, you can pass her a note saying something like “hey, I noticed this man beside you is making you uncomfortable. If you’d like help, fake a sneeze right now and I will come up to you and pretend we are friends.” This is a long note, but its an example. Be discrete. If she follows along, proceed with the previous tip. This is helpful when you’re in a crowded train and you notice harassment.
Help your sisters. Trust them. Trust yourself. Be safe.
If you ever feel unsafe or need help, anyone is welcome to run upto me and ask me for help! I’ll go all mama bear and keep you safe!!!
I made this google doc covering 14 different self defense tips and tricks. it was made on January 15th, 2020 so it was before I decided I’d come back to tumblr jhjshdbjfh.
EVERY TIME I SEE THIS I REBLOG BECAUSE THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT!!!!!
i fucking hate this world. anyways R E B L O G
Just saw a video explaining why putting a key between each finger is more likely to hurt you than them (the keys will just get pushed back into your knuckles). A better way to hold them is to get your longest key and just clench your hand around it, like you’re making a fist. That’ll give you a lot more force and means you can use them in more scenarios (if someone grabs you from behind, you can use the key this way)
Not only for girls and women but also for boys and men.
i feel obligated to reblog this.
I hate that we need these things, but this is so so so important, it can literally save someone’s life
How to tell if your drink has been spiked:
1. The colour of it has changed
2. It’s become cloudy-looking
3. There more bubbles in it than should be
4. The ice in it sinks
If you are being followed, go to somewhere with high security like a jewellery store or a bar, if you can, and say what’s happening (the jewellery store and bar are best shots because they’re the most likely ones to believe you, the bar for obvious reasons and the jewellery store because there’s not likely to be a huge presence of toxic masculinity so you’ll be believed)
I hate it so much that i have to reblog this and that we still need this, but it’s so important!! Please everyone (yes also boys/men/enbys/genderfluids/everyone) stay safe out there!!
but I was never taught these things.
The first time I was groped, I was 10 years old. Do you feel sick yet? 10 years. What kind of fucker gropes a 10 y/o?
All I have learnt is to use my elbow or knee or fist or just duck and avoid contact. This post helped a lot, thanks.
It was the english teacher at my old school tho I did broke his nose and stabbed his stomach with a pen so
Also carry pointie / sharp or that which has a edge, it helps a lot, yk, just stab
-if you’re walking alone w/ headphones in, either have one earbud out at all times or have the music/podcast/audiobook/whatever you’re listening to on low and always listen for footsteps or other noises coming from behind you
-If there is a strange looking man in front of your building who doesn’t live there, walk around the block until he leaves so he can’t figure out that you live there and so he can’t kidnap you
-if a man is groping you against your will, go for the balls. always go for the balls. It’ll 1) hurt like hell, and 2) shock him to the point where you can probably run away and get help.
- carry pepper spray or some other type of weapon
As this site is full of readers,
1: if you’re reading a book with a large number of pages, you know, those BIG ONES, or with the hard cover, don’t leave it at home and never bring outside. I’m not saying to bring it everywhere, but if you are going to any possible dangerous places alone, bring them, in a purse or even by hand (to show it to everyone). Believe me, if you hit someone with it, it will hurt them!!
2: hairspray works just like pepper spray
3: if your being attacked, and you don’t have any pointed objects, neither training, put your fingers on the predators eyes and press it. With all your strength, it will leave them blind or disabled. Use it only if your life is in risk!
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5: the iPhones have a great setting that if you press it will call police, send them photos of your back and front cameras and send a message to the contacts you select saying your in danger; press 5times the “turn off” button and it will appear -sometimes you have to activate it before-
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I’m so happy to share these tips.
Don’t ignore pls it might save your of someone else’s life
truthfully, it’s a shame that this is a problem in the first place.
thank you to everyone who gave tips, and please reblog! it may help someone in the long run, and maybe even save their life.
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I was thinking about this post again and how people say we need to teach our boys and men to be better. So if you, like me, are a guy who’s horrified by everything you’ve just read, heres some things i was taught to make the women (and everyone else!) around you feel safer
1. If you’re on a dark and quiet street, stay out of other peoples personal space. If you have to pass someone, ideally cross the road to do so but if you can’t, give them a wide berth. (think keeping 6 feet apart from COVID regulations) If you’re coming up behind someone, make some kind of noise so you don’t accidentally sneak up on them. Cough or talk on the phone.
2. Don’t accidentally follow people. If you’ve noticed you’ve made the same few turns as someone, they probably have as well. Take a detour or cross the road. If you come out of somewhere like a bus stop with a few other people, walk quickly so you get in front of them.
3. Where possible, don’t approach random women for help. This is a known kidnapping technique. Approach a friendly looking man or call someone you know/emergency services.
4. Get Consent. There is no situation where you are entitled to someone else’s body. To elaborate on this, you need Enthusiasticconsent. If she says yes but shes drunk, or you had to guilt her into it, or she said it reluctantly, or her body language says no, then that’s not consent. This concept applies to plenty of nonsexual situations as well.
5. Look after your female friends. Offer to walk them home. You may not think you can do a lot but another person being there could be enough to put off a would be attacker (I’m a massive softie but im sure my 6'2" silhouette would make someone think before messing with my 5'7" friend) Get in the habit of asking them to text you when they get home safe and other similar measures like location sharing if they are comfortable with that.
6. Be patient and understanding of the things women have to do to stay safe. Don’t be offended if your date has to send a photo of you/your license plates to her friend. Don’t complain that your friend always wants you to walk her home. An inconvenience to you could mean life or death to her. Take your friends’ concerns seriously. If they tell you they feel unsafe they probably are and you should do what you can to get them out of that situration
7. Finally, read all the self defence tips above and take them seriously. Your maleness does not make you immune to these kind of attacks, even if they are mainly targetted at women. It never hurts to have a plan to keep yourself and those around you safe.
I hope this was helpful, and keep in mind these tips could apply to all genders and orientations, even though i’ve aimed it at straight men.
Ty for this addition it’s really refreshing and takes the weight off of our shoulders a lil.
Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.
Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.
They were CHILDREN.
They were murdered in cold blood.
I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.
Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture
People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.
Reblog this or just stop following me
I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.
I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.
This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.
They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.
So I went to read the Kids Online Safety Act, thinking that it couldn’t possibly be as bad as what people are making it out to be, I mean I’m a lawyer and expert in statutory interpretation, it can’t be that bad, right?
Oh no. KOSA IS that bad. It will literally eradicate queer people online.
The bill says that a “covered platform” - broadly defined as “anything on the internet a minor might use” which is literally the entire fucking internet- has a “duty” to protect minors from anything that might harm them, including “sexual exploitation” and other undefined terms
It also gives state attorneys general the ability to sue to enforce it.
So here’s exactly what’s gonna happen:
Wacko republicans, as they’ve been doing with increasing force this year and last, are going to sue any and every website in existence, saying that the mere existence of LGBT people online constitutes sexual abuse of minors. And websites are gonna be so afraid of not doing the most that they’ll just axe all LGBT everything.
This bill is BAD bad. I’m appalled that democrats are lining up behind what is clearly a republican Trojan horse to eradicate LGBT people from the entire internet.
this is a list of senators who have cosponsored KOSA; under ‘Give Feedback on This Bill’ there’s a link that lets you get the contact of your senators and representatives pretty easily. if your senator’s a cosponsor, tell them to cut that shit out. if your senator’s not a cosponsor, tell them to keep not being a cosponsor.
The thing is that I don’t want to be employed but I also don’t want to be unemployed. I actually want our entire economic system to explode but that’s not really a feasible option right now
i love being sober and talking to drunk people at parties cause i asked a guy “if you were a wizard what kind of spells would you cast” and i know he wasnt lying when he said “summon creatures”
Years on the internet and somehow i still click on comments sections with the insanely optimistic idea that I’ll learn something new instead of being subjected to the dumbest motherfuckers online typing like their sole purpose in life is to make me want to end mine
“Wow, what an interesting post! I want to see what sort of fascinating discourse is being generated by the idea posited by the original poster” <- Me, operating under levels of delusion yet unexplained by modern science
The more I get back into liking, loving and lusting on people, the more I’m reminded what a sanitized, segregated lie queers have been built into.
I’ve met the sweetest, prettiest queens who tell me “Well, I’m a transsexual. Sometimes I call myself a transman because both my trans self and my manhood are me.”
New friends tell me about the sexcapades their closed polycule gets up to that they just watch because they’re a kinky ace.
There’s staunch lesbians who helped the love of their life transition as a transmasc, gay men begging to be topped by trans men with the fattest tits.
Older queers don’t hesitate to shout “oh, like Prince!” when I tell them I’m androgyne. Vanilla questioning men will text me day after day before shyly confessing I’m their dream guy. Closeted trans women ask to kiss me because I’m their dream girl. Doms and subs who melt when they realize I’m both and neither, and they didn’t know somebody like me existed.
There’s vanilla lesbians on Grindr and acearos who have shown me love deeper than I thought possible and guydykes kissing girlfags and MtFtMtX elders and throuples that have so much affection that they just collectively parent babygays who got disowned.
Everybody is so beautiful! There is so much love! It is no wonder a cruel world has a vested interest in suppressing queerness when humanity is so expansive to us.
I also want to make it explicit that not only are these real people, but like. This is explicitly about people I know across the spectrum of race, ability, and more. Including me, a fat cripple!
Queerness is not the exclusive domain of the thin, the white, and the ablebodied. If you are any of those things and can only picture queer people like you? You need to ask yourself why.
That’s why I’m making this addition. It is on me as a white person to make the room for queer BIPOC that is vehemently, violently denied. And I did not make that room in the original post.
Intersectional and lateral aggression kills. There’s no “community” without U and I.
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