lol nice outfit loser *puts phone up to ear* huh…? what? oh um- okay. anyway 1828 called. they said they found something really really scary in goya’s house
me when i cant comprehend that different continents have different animals
the rest of the paragraph that was cut out in that screenshot literally explains the reasons behind the easter bilby and bluntly theyre minimising the impact that wild rabbits have had as an introduced species in our ecosystem.
the easter bibly was an ingenious campaign that builds in social awareness and change to an ongoing annual tradition without detracting from what that tradition represents. the choice behind it was intentional
We still have easter bunny paraphernalia, mind you. Just walk into literally any Coles to find em. We didn’t replace the bunnies, the bilbies are just their cooler cousins.
Bilbies are just the better animal.
But yes, we do actually dislike rabbits in Australia. Elsewhere you may like rabbits, foxes and cats (not pets), here we want to kill them.
I was going to say Australia has some bad history with Rabbits.
the beatles are an infuriating band to me as a relentless contrarian. liking them is cliche, hating them is cliche, being indifferent towards them is cliche. it’s impossible to have an novel or interesting take on the beatles in current year. like how am i supposed to win here?
found these on twitter that might be helpful to all rpers who want to make sure their themes and carrds are accessible to all
consider this for themes as well
Many TUMBLR users need to learn this
PSA
if you are doing any kind of design meant to reach large numbers of people, download a colorblindness filter (i use CVSimulator, its pretty simple and free) and use it religiously
I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t acknowledged their capacity for evil.
“I’m just a smol bean uwu” No sir, what you are is someone who is so habituated to thinking of yourself as innocent that you will continue to do so even when you’re guilty.
Because it’s happened to us on a trek, if you see abandoned clothes, stop and search for anyone nearby. Late-stage hypotherima causes a thing called paradoxical undressing where the person feels too hot and starts taking their clothes off.
for a little bit of an order for this if it isn’t obvious: Take any wet clothes off (including sweaty clothes!! underlayers can become soaked with sweat while working in the cold and lead to hypothermia later) BEFORE you wrap the person in warm dry blankets/clothing.
Also I cannot stress the ‘do not rub’ thing enough. If you have a frozen steak, let it thaw a little bit and then give it a good rub. Take a peek at it via a hand lens. You’ll see tons of little cuts/gashes. That’s from the ice crystals cutting into the flesh. NEVER rub the skin of a hypothermia/extreme cold exposed person to warm them up unless you want the same damn thing happening to their flesh.
Don’t warm the extremities (hands/feet) too quickly. Not only would it be extremely painful, but the vessels in said extremities opening too quickly can lead to shock (part of the direct heat issue).
This deserves another reblog
For writers, AND real life, as places get VERY cold with limited heating being allowed to the people…
Stay DRY, stay warm.
Also, if you find a hypothermia victim who appears to be dead, IMMEDIATELY CALL AN AMBULANCE ANYWAYS. Yeah, they might have gone into cardiac arrest, but the wonder of severe hypothermia is that it also slows the rate of brain death, on account of being fucking frozen. There’s been cases of hypothermia victims having their hearts stop, only for them to be revived HOURS later in a hospital and (eventually) make a full recovery.
Hypothermia victims aren’t pronounced dead until they’re warmed up again; you’d be amazed what people can come back from.
last week i saw a comment on reddit that really annoyed me so i replied “touch grass” and then of course instantly forgot about it. except the next day i saw a notification that a different user had replied to my comment saying:
“All these fun expressions that have come with the Internet! Thanks for teaching me a new one. 😊”
i looked at their profile and they’re a self described “cis grandmother”. 7 days later still very much riding high on the euphoria of having introduced somebody’s cis grandmother to “touch grass”.
hey can I get $35 in case my urologist office sends me to the ER? my suprapubic catheter is blocked which is considered a medical emergency and I am waiting to find out if they can change it out in office in the morning or not 🥹
ppal vmo and cshapp is “asteronauts”. profile pic is a little bunny. ty 🫶🏽
i just woke up to my cat headbutting my laptop closed so hard it broke idk what to even do ill…idk
im going to get an estimate to see if it can be fixed and for how much or if i need a replacement plz uhm help if u can i just got a job and moved and theyre firing ppl where i work i need to move cuz of this weird emotional abuse shit and i need my laptop and i cant deal with this at all rn 🥲 genuinely at the end of my rope
so plz help if u can
ALT
okay so two ppl said it can cost between 270-350$ to fix it im gonna go in person saturday but as of rn the goal is
Elaine Chao was Transportation Secretary from 2017-2021 under the Trump Administration. One of the agencies under the DOT is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which oversees, among other things, federal motor vehicle safety standards.
By all accounts, the gear shift and reverse are controlled by a touch-screen as well, so their shoddy design is what caused her to reverse. And the doors also can’t be opened manually if the electronics fail, unless you know to remove a certain panel in the door to pull on a specific wire.
A lot of propaganda is not actually misinformation.
A lot of propaganda is not even half-truths.
A lot of propaganda actually is telling you the truth, but is feeding you a specific conclusion that the author wants you to draw from it.
This makes it a lot more robust, because if you go searching for sources to confirm the information, you’ll find them!
So an important thing in evaluating information is not just “Is this true?” but also:
“Wait, does this lead inevitably to the conclusion this person is presenting? What other conclusions could I draw here? What other reasons for this piece of info could there be? How does this information fit into what I already know?”
“What are the motivations of the person who wrote or created this? Why did they want me to draw that conclusion? Do they themselves believe the conclusion they’re drawing, or are they just trying to convince me? If they do believe it themself, why? If not, why are they trying to convince me? What’s going on for them here?”
“What other pieces of information might I be missing? What am I extrapolating without noticing? What did this person deliberately leave out, or want me to ignore or gloss over? What other contexts and comparisons are applicable here?”
“How does this information with in with not only the specific conclusion that is presented, but with the author’s overarching thesis? When I use it, how well does it fit into my thesis? When I take a step back, does this piece of information actually make any sense as supporting evidence for this person’s thesis?”
Hopefully this is helpful, and can help your skills at evaluating information and arguments become more robust!
Not only does propaganda not have to be false, but the most effective propaganda is true. You don’t even have to editorialize all that much. Simply choosing which stories to feature /promote and which to ignore can lead people down your chosen path
you know, some branches of mathematics are absolutely dogshit at naming things, but credit to the fellas over in higher-dimensional geometry, they’re knocking it out of the park
remember when elomusk asked one of his rocketship employees to give him sex favors in exchange for a horse
I think this tidbit should be more famous than his exploding cars. It’s all I’ll ever need to know. A real human man tried and failed to barter with a flight attendant for third base by offering to buy her a horse (that’s what girls like, right?)
remember when elomusk asked one of his rocketship employees to give him sex favors in exchange for a horse
I think this tidbit should be more famous than his exploding cars. It’s all I’ll ever need to know. A real human man tried and failed to barter with a flight attendant for third base by offering to buy her a horse (that’s what girls like, right?)
I NEED TO MAKE AT LEAST 500 DOLLARS IN 2 MONTHS OR I DONT KNOW HOW ILL SURVIVE MOVING OUT.
im delilah and im an openly queer plural tgirl living in a shitty homophobic place in texas, and im going to be kicked out on june 1, 2024.
that means if you see this post before june 1, 2024, there is still time to help me. please.
hey yall. this is probably gonna be one of the last posts about this, since im running out of time. because of @punkitt-is-here’s super awesome kind reblog, i managed to make about 500 dollars, bringing me up to 1500, but after that things have slowed down to nearly nothing again. thank you to everyone that has donated, i appreciate it more than you could know, and thank you to the handful of famous people who reblogged and gave me a shitload of exposure.
im not sure if making 500 dollars in the next 2 months is going to be like.. possible. and after all the research ive been doing, im honestly not completely confident that 2000 dollars is going to be enough. im hoping that ill be able to pay for a few months of rent at once, so that im more likely to be able to get a place without already having a job in abq. so right now, my goal is basically “crowdfund as much as i possibly can so i dont have to live on the streets”
im hoping for a miracle right now. maybe, under the right circumstances, that could be you. maybe you just got paid and you dont have anything to use the paycheck on, maybe you have a bunch of savings that you could spare a portion of, i dont know, but god, i could really use as much kindness as i can find right now.
thank you to all the people who have helped already, i appreciate it more than you could know, and im hoping it helps me survive.
hey yall. please dont ignore this one?this is like the worst time to do that please
car companies are sending hitmen after me because i figured out that if i fuck the exhaust pipe my car will give birth to a healthy litter of brand new baby cars. and i give them away for free
General tumblr reminder, since some people don’t know: If the person’s URL has “deactivated” plus a string of numbers (a date) after it, that means that they manually deleted their own blog. It doesn’t mean they were banned. Banned blogs don’t have “deactivated” after them and will just be the normal URL you can’t click on or interact with. They look very similar and function the same, but they were caused by two very different things.
