syabm:

supreme-leader-stoat:

rogha:

politijohn:

Source

Source

in defense of the panera founder who said this. he was trying to say the idea that employers are motivated by this. is dumb as shit.

What a shock. Politijohn trying to get other leftists mad at headlines without looking up the actual context.

headspace-hotel:

biracy:

biracy:

Don’t tell me any of u guys actually think autism is a “destigmatized disorder”

The entire anti-vax movement is built around the unfounded idea that vaccines cause autism. There are people and organizations dedicated to “finding the cure” for autism. Autistic people, including children, are seen as “creepy” or dangerous. You cannot, in good faith, claim that autism is “destigmatized like anxiety and depression” just because it’s kind of trendy between a bunch of autistic bloggers on this stupid website to make jokes about “my autism beam” or whatever

Also anxiety and depression aren’t destigmatized either

rotting-brains:

autism-adhd-information-blog-de:

autism-adhd-information-blog-de:

Link to Post

Autism

Reblogging for Autism Awareness Month

No.

The rainbow infinity symbol is and has always been the autism symbol.

It was always exclusive to AUTISM. Stop with this bullshit. You’ve been spitting this bullshit on twitter too and refuse to listen to ACTUALLY AUTISTIC people who are correcting you.

The rainbow infinity symbol is the symbol for autism, not neurodiversity. I don’t fucking care if a random google search tells you otherwise.

f3mboyfucker:

styx-doesnt-do-art:

ghost—heart:

Kindred…

Hmmm

If tbh goes YIPEEEE and btw goes eEeEeEeEeEe

What does wtf say?

oughhh

elfwreck:

sailorsun546:

trappedinavelociraptor:

ghminerals:

Amethyst stalactite 28 cm. Complete all around. Artigas, Uruguay. Inquire for details

#don’t

cryptotheism:

dovewithscales:

picsthatmakeyougohmm:

@cryptotheism what do you do if you’re contemplating your orb and it gives you the blue screen of death?

Ah that’s pretty bad. You gotta bring that to the Installation Wizard.

lilyunderthetree:

sevaryaa:

the world needs transsexuals more than it needs god

even though transsexual is an outdated term, i agree -your local transfem lesbian

thelordofshrimp:

the baby powder thing explained (SPOILERS under the cut)

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radiofreederry:

The UAW in particular is a union that’s been a pretty popular punching bag in the American public consciousness in my lifetime, so it’s hard not to see stuff like this and think there’s just been a fundamental shift in how the general populace views unions and strikes in the past half-decade

liberalsarecool:

Shareholder economics is starving workers and exploiting labor.

werechicken-deactivated20241121:

bisquid:

ralfmaximus:

shi1498912:

theelectricfrog:

kunosoura:

birdblogwhichisforbirds:

friendshapedgun:

nandomando:

Story is wild

Little girl was part of a county fair agro-educational program where they raise an animal for a few months and at the end it’s slaughtered. Supposed to teach them about the economics of farming and stuff.

But the little girl loved her goat so much she was crying on the day her goat was supposed to be taken away, so her mom sent the county fair people an email saying “I’ll pay for the goat and any expenses. We’ve had several deaths in the family in the past year, I don’t wanna take away one more thing my little girl loves.” Technically the goat had already been sold at auction, so the mom was on the hook for about $1000, only about $70 of which would have been profit for the county fair.

The county fair people were irate and got law enforcement involved, over this “breach of contract”. They literally got a fucking judge to sign a search warrant, authorizing them to go to this little girl’s house and search every room and every cabinet or box “large enough to contain a small goat”. The sheriff’s deputies seized the goat, and whoever they gave it to immediately slaughtered it, though they were supposed to wait until some kind of agreement had been worked out.

In the county fair’s initial email correspondence with the girl’s mother, they made it clear that they were pissed off because the story of the little girl who loved her goat was circulating on social media making them look bad, and they felt the girl needed to be taught a lesson about keeping your promises or whatever. So they refused the mother’s offer to pay for it, and insisted they get the goat. Even if it meant sending the fucking cops into her house lmao.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-30/goat-slaughter-shasta-county-fair

the congressman who bought the goat didn’t have any objections to the family saving the goat from slaughter either! it’s fucking insane that the cops were so eager to play act their swat commando fantasies that they played stooge to the benefit of no one except some self important local organizers!

Alternate link, LAtimes locks their stuff behind paywalls sometimes

Don’t forget the part where the goat wasn’t where they had a warrant to search, so they drove 500 miles, leaving the area they have legal jurisdiction in, then searched a farm they didn’t have a warrant for ans seized the goat. The fair then had the goat slaughtered, even though a court had ordered them to keep it alive until ownership was resolved and despite the fact that both potential owners of the goat had decided to keep it alive.

They broke multiple laws in order to “teach” a little girl the “lesson” that “everybody has to follow the rules”.

I sure hope all of the complaints sent to Shasta District Fair CEO Melanie Silva, whose decisions these were and continues to defend her actions, are polite and don’t waste too much ink. I’m certain nobody would take advantage of the fact that the Sasha District Fair and Event Center’s contact page lists their phone and fax numbers, not to mention the email form below that.

Would be a shame if that information was to circulate far an wide, and ruin that despicable woman’s easter holidays

I found the lawsuit filing. It is a work of art, brief and to the point. If you read nothing else, check out page 2, the section headed Nature of the Action. Magnificent.

One of the things that bugs me in the notes is a bunch of people being like ‘it’s a livestock animal, it’s her fault for getting attached’ and.

My dudes, I cannot emphasize enough that the little girl’s emotional attachment to the goat is in fact the least of the issues with this story. The main issue in this story is the fact that a bunch of cops broke multiple laws, including the unlawful entry to the property the goat was being held, the unlawful seizure and destruction of said goat, and the unlawful use of a criminal search warrant in a civil dispute case, just to start with.

The little girl owned the goat. At no point in the proceedings - and indeed at no point in the proceedings in the course of the normal auction-purchase-slaughter of a livestock animal in this program - did the fair own the goat. At no point in the proceedings did the person who successfully bid on the goat actually own it - he had made the winning bid to purchase rights to the meat. He hadn’t even done that yet! The goat legally and incontrovertibly belonged to the little girl. The very worst that should have happened in this story is a brief property ownership dispute in a civil court.

The fair CEO decided to unlawfully force the auction of the goat, and, when the girl’s mother began to dispute her actions, to make a false claim of theft, with precisely ZERO legal basis, calling the cops on an already emotionally fragile child, and then had the temerity to be angry with the child’s mother because the story was making them look bad on social media.

Regardless of your opinion on the meat industry, livestock slaughter, or 4H, 'cops drive 500 miles, perform an illegal search, seizure and destruction of an American citizen’s property, on the word of a biased 3rd party with zero legal rights to the property in question’ should make you angry. Because it is a violation of civil rights, and also had no motive besides needless cruelty to an already grieving child.

Like, please read how unhinged this is. Cops literally went all vigilante with getting deputies to go break into someone’s home, 500 miles out of their jurisdiction, to kill a goddamn goat the fair didn’t own. Authoritarians are so eager to hurt people at all times. This is fucking terrifying.

queen-mihai:

feralratboye:

seymour-butz-stuff:

posttexasstressdisorder:

qsycomplainsalot:

so i noticed that graph is based on data collected in 2011, and i got curious. the most recent one they have now is 2016.

also the website is a wonderful resource i’ve been exploring. it breaks down the intimidating complexity of US politics to help busy folks who want to understand better but don’t know where to start. and as someone who is neurodivergent, the charts and graphs they use are so helpful for comprehension!

Home - Connect the Dots USA

“Getting arrested and thrown in prison” is the new, gentler version of “beheading”

Make no mistake

SBF

Liz Holmes

Half of trumps associates

Epstein

Weinstein

We need to keep turning these people in for their crimes.

We know all their names. You know what they’re doing. We can turn this around.

szgrey:

ruby-white-rabbit:

memecucker:

GOP lawmaker ‘very sad’ Utah parent used his law to request ‘sex-ridden’ Bible be removed from school

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the parent, who remains unidentified for privacy reasons, submitted their challenge on Dec. 11 along with an eight-page list of passages from the Bible that they found to be offensive and worth reviewing.

“Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,” the parent wrote in their request. “You’ll no doubt find that the Bible, under Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227, has ‘no serious values for minors’ because it’s pornographic by our new definition.”

In their request, the parent goes on to say: “I thank the Utah Legislature and Utah Parents United for making this bad faith process so much easier and way more efficient. Now we can all ban books and you don’t even need to read them or be accurate about it. Heck, you don’t even need to see the book!”

id like to nominate Unidentified Utah Parent for president of their local school board and also Congress

the-haiku-bot:

scrumptiousangst:

rejectingrepublicans:

republicansaretheproblem:

Begin …

Incels everywhere will be saving their pennies to buy sexbots from their GOP oligarch overlords. Ted Cruz will have one for everyday of the week.

Umcannny valley alert! This makes Elon Musk almost look human.

Umcannny valley

alert! This makes Elon Musk

almost look human.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

folly-of-alexandria:

vague-humanoid:

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Megan Hunt doesn’t want to be your Democratic hero. She just wants to protect her trans son. | Semafor

The problem with the Democratic party is that they have no spine, and when someone like Hunt actually makes a stand they won’t back her. But now that she’s made headlines they want to claim her for publicity’s sake.

She’s fighting for her kid’s life and all the DNC can think about is how they can use her in ads instead of doing anything to stop this wave of bigoted laws.

No wonder she told them to get fucked.

mellow-elbow:

hoshihime98:

idkwhattonameitlol-deactivated2:

hoshihime98:

This Week on: Sonic The Hedgehog

Is no one gonna elaborate?

Short explanation: if Sonic’s clone is a girl it means that sonic could be afab

Long explanation:

In Sonic The Hedgehog 2 there was a glitch were Sonic’s palette would turn green and black, the fans named it evil sonic/ Ashura the hedgehog

Archie’s artist Ken Penders turned this concept into a character named Scourge The Hedgehog, aka anti-sonic; a sonic from a parallele universe, bizzarro style

He was a fan favorite but Penders wasnt really the best (Google Ken Penders lawsuits to check) and gived a lot of problems to Sega and in the end the Archie comics had to stop because of him, and now IDW pubblish sonic comics, and due how messy Archie sonic was, now Sonic Team has put a lot of rules of what the writers can or can not put in the comic.

Since they cant use Scourge anymore; IDW made a new character based on the green sonic glitch:

Surge the Tenrec; a clone of sonic made by Dr Starline! And since she is a clone and a girl; accidentally implies that sonic may be afab

Trans Sonic is real. Unleash the memes.

sonic-wildfire:

ascel-vibes:

sonic-wildfire:

sonic-wildfire:

Oh, so the Sonic Superstars announcement was a distraction from the fact Sega is actively union-busting.

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AGES is asking for people to spread awareness by retweeting the above tweet and signing the petition to Sega management, which can be found here.

Please note that they also say “Continue playing the Sega games we all love.” THIS MEANS TO NOT BOYCOTT SEGA OR ITS PRODUCTS.

[plain text: “Oh, so the Sonic Superstars announcement was a distraction from the fact Sega is actively union-busting.” /End plain text]

[ID: Screenshot of a tweet by @/takesAEGIS that reads;
“We are disappointed that Sega management has decided to interfere in our democratic right to organize leading up to the NLRB mailing out our ballots on June 16.”
Below it is an image of a white gloved fist inside a circle, with all caps text on its outline that reads; “Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega”, “CWA Local 9510”. /End ID]

[plain text: “AGES is asking for people to spread awareness by retweeting the above tweet and signing the petition to Sega management, which can be found here.” /End plain text]
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/supportsegaworkers/

[plain text: “Please note that they also say "Continue playing the Sega games we all love.” This means to not boycott Sega or its products.“ /End plain text]

Thank you for the plaintext!

l0rd-0f-c0ws:

for some reason in class i just couldnt do anything but make weird isopod memes. heres all of them

Bonus horseshoe crab :)

a-sentient-cup:

eddieintheocean:

hug him!!!

I am not immune

I must gife the little flopppyy a huhgg

Andssd maabye a litylew kissys

[i collapse from being envenomed]

eddieintheocean:

tomfrommanagment:

Cephalopod Spectrum of Friendliness

I think I’ve improved your graph

ketrinadrawsalot:

Octo-ber #3: The Flapjack Octopus is often found at depths of 350 meters, though it’s possible that some live at 1500 meters! As a cirrate octopus, it lacks an ink sac.

a-sentient-cup:

jellyfishmakeoutparty:

a post for all of my fellow jelly enthusiasts

confirmation

Seeing how strong their venom is, I’m not too surprised they would have more agency over how it’s used, even if that just means swimming towards things specifically, just so they don’t waste the energy in making it (although there’s a good chance it’s a common trait including less potent species but)

craftingcreatures:

Today I want to talk about the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus (Octopus paxarbolis).

Keep reading

scaryorganmusic:

it’s been said but geoguessr really created a legion of people with one of the sickest niche skills ever

a-sentient-cup:

bogleech:

Ant and bee queens hog so much attention away from termite queens that in video games sometimes they give the termite queen’s iconic giant wormy abdomen to ants or bees. Only termite moms have the humongous giant ass a hundred times bigger than their body!!

And unlike ants or bees who mate just once the termite queen has a little king who stays with her for life (decades!) to just keep mating.

Also I say this a lot but new people are awed every time so ants and bees are just variants on wasps but termites are a type of cockroach.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

;-;

I can’t believe this ridiculous comic made me break down sobbing at an ending which involves someone talking to bees

Give the people who you love all the love you can while you can <3

slavicafire:

slavicafire:

sobbing into my plate after overhearing a conversation between a mom and her tiny daughter in this shopping centre food court

this one buffet type restaurant is away from the main food court, on the upper floor of the shopping centre - nearly no one goes there, so even in the wild rush of pre-christmas shopping, it’s fairly quiet.

it’s a mother with a daughter, kindergarten age. they sit at the table next to me, each with their own plate, having a quiet conversation. the daughter eats very quickly, stuffing her mouth, you know how kids sometimes do. the mother tells her, very softly:

“remember what we talked about? you and your tummy are a team and you have to be a team player! let’s make sure you chew your food well so it has an easier job later, and has enough time to tell you once you’re full”

the child nods, very serious and focused, because she has a very Important Mission now after all. she begins eating slower, chewing well, and additionally taking some time to Ponder the food on the fork before chomping a bit of the many different dishes she picked small portions of.

“what is your favourite thing from your plate?” the mom asks, and the child points to something on the plate. “why? what’s the flavour?” the mom continues, and the daughter replies, taking the time to describe the flavour and the texture, even though she “doesn’t know what it is at all but it’s yummy” and the mother smiles and explains to her what that food is. I think it was mozzarella, in the form of those small balls that work well for salads and appetizers.

once the daughter’s plate is empty, she looks at it a bit puzzled.

“are you still hungry?” asks the mom and as the child nods, she says “let’s give it a moment so your tummy can catch up as well.” - a moment passes - “still hungry?”

the child nods enthusiastically. “alright, let’s walk over to the buffet and we’ll pick something more”

“can you bring?” the child asks and the mom just says, smiling:

“no, because you should choose what looks like it will make you not hungry anymore. also, walking a bit will help your tummy understand how much more food you two need to feel full so you’re no longer hungry but you’re also not too full so that you feel uncomfortable or nauseous” and they went to get more food.

it might not sound impressive or interesting, but she was so kind and patient, and the child was clearly happy and curious and receptive to the information she was learning about her own body and how food works. none of “you have to eat the whole plate” under the threat of some punishment, none of “that’s enough, you’ve had enough, you’re not hungry anymore” none of “you’ll eat what I picked out for you and that’s it, no discussion.” I don’t know. I hope they had a nice rest of the day

evil-scientist:

drama in the mad scientist and wizard communities

feral-cactus:

Sparkle on! It’s almost christmas! Don’t forget to drown yourself in guilt over a murder you didn’t commit!

ultimatebottom69:

blackberryshawty:

Lana: in the land of gods and monsters I was an angel looking to get fucked hard

Me:

Screwed up Scared did everything that i needed-

poisoned-sugar11:

memories:

My cat, #birds, is petitioning for a name change with the local government.

yeah thats fair actually

operationslipperypuppet:

i love emily truly so much

cheeselegstheblog:

kaijuno:

patrik-star:

When you carry all the grocery bags in one trip

when the,. when,, then the pu, the pus, when - when you- the

puppygirl-hornyposting2:

fellas I’m bored of ai and cryptocurrency can we create a new bleeding edge technology that’s supposed to disrupt the global economy or something. I think bitcoin was a pretty funny joke but now I’d like some new content

billyname:

CW // very hungry caterpillar

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im shakingg bro he fuckifnf ate everythi ng even my fuckign choco.late cake im gonna sta;rve

only-cat-memes:

bodhimcbodeface:

I really think they need to start teaching kids in schools that most blind people can see a little bit, most deaf people can hear a little bit, and most wheelchair users can walk a little bit. And they are still disabled.