if you donate one single us dollar to the unrwa, you will have donated more money than you would have by clicking that stupid arab.orb link every day for four and a half years. yes, they do actually donate money to the unrwa, but even with tens of thousands of clicks, most of that money is the baseline $90 they send every quarter. from 2023 quarter 4, half a million clicks turned into $380.57. maths out to six hundreths of one cent per click. just donate to unrwa.
Screaming and swearing and crying and yelling and casting curses because I’ve been having terrible headaches every single day for WEEKS and today I took some salt pills to self medicate for my heart problem (POTS) that’s been acting up a little bit and I feel like 80% better and a brain fog I didn’t even realize I was in has lifted. Thoughts are crisp and minty fresh. Thinking in HD. “That’s great,” you say, “why are we upset about this?” Because I have had that bottle of salt pills since at least September.
I had the solution to my problem the ENTIRE time. If I had remembered, at ANY point, that POTS can cause headaches, I could have solved this mystery weeks ago. And yeah, my head still kinda hurts, but I’m hoping the sobakawa (buckwheat hull) pillow I’m waiting for will help fix my neck issues and then I won’t have tension headaches anymore either.
I highly recommend occasionally looking up The Disorders that afflict you, especially if you have shit memory (due to The Disorders) because sometimes they discover new things but even if they don’t, I now know that POTS is probably the reason I get nauseous and migrainy if my immediate surroundings are hotter than 75°F/24°C
This video is from Dragonwood Wildlife Conservancy, and they are yearling (last year’s babies) Cuban crocodiles. Good news for you, this isn’t actually a distress call! According to @kaijutegu (and her giant bookshelf full of reptile resources), the laser sounds are an affiliative social call that young Cuban crocodiles use to communicate with their parents. They normally stop making the noise at around two years old, which is approximately when they start dispersing from the family group.
See, Cuban crocodiles are a super social species - and one of the few where the fathers stick around and provide paternal care for the babies! In the wild, babies would regularly interact with both parents, including when they provide food. This call is basically the type of vocalization that the babies use to communicated with their parents.
These crocodiles are being hand-raised as part of a private-sector breeding and reintroduction program (because the parents are so protective of their offspring that if you left them the babies to raise, you’d never be able to safely get close to them), and so they’re responding to the guy in the video the same way because he’s constant known safe individual and also the provider of food. He’s not a threat - his presence is a good thing, and he’s worth interacting with because it normally means food. You can also tell from their behavior and body language that they’re not stressed: some of the crocodiles are actively climbing on him and interaction of their own volition, but the ones that aren’t don’t show any indicators of hyper-vigilance. If that were a distress call, every crocodile that heard it would be alert and on edge looking for the threat. Distress calls tend to only happen once or twice, because in the wild continuing to make noise makes a baby more vulnerable: so these crocodiles wouldn’t be continually vocalizing if they felt threatened. There’s no snapping or gaping or freezing, all of which would be behavioral indicators of distress or discomfort. (Here’s a video of a baby nile crocodile being harassed by photographers which will give you a visual reference for both freezing and gaping.)
So, hey, this is certifiably cute - and good for conservation!
A massive pet peeve of mine is when US progressives say shit like “evangelical christians are terrible but so are hardcore atheists”. Like. even if every single atheist was the most insufferable debate bro imaginable, you get how… one of these groups has structural power that they’ve used for more than a century to prop up and direct state violence domestically and imperially. And the other is like. A random subset of normal people that also includes some redditors. These are not equally harmful communities.
I was trying to keep the scope of this limited to traceable institutions currently active in politics, but yeah, as many people have said in the notes, “more than a century” is a pretty big understatement
Someone tried to get one of my posts to breach containment almost a week ago now and it’s still only got like 50 notes.
This fact has filled me with hubris.
My containment is unbreachable. I have four blogs and never gotten more than 100 notes on a post. The majority of this site Cannot Percive me. I can post whatever I want and nobody except for some of my beloved mutuals and followers will see it.
I am invisible. I am free.
@jusiri I have blazed posts twice now, my friend, and they have recieved 200 and 100 notes respectively. Enough to make my notifications interesting for 24 hours, but not enough to make them unuseable.
From this I can only conclude that I am immune from the fires of Tumblr blaze. No scorch marks can ravage my notifications, and I can post freely knowing that they can never be rendered unusable.
Still, I’m glad you don’t have that free blaze. Fate, I feel, would have found that too funny a chance to pass up.
Reblog to punish OP for hubris in a way fitting of an ancient Greek tragedy.
Then schedule a reblog of your reblog one week into the future.
Someone tried to get one of my posts to breach containment almost a week ago now and it’s still only got like 50 notes.
This fact has filled me with hubris.
My containment is unbreachable. I have four blogs and never gotten more than 100 notes on a post. The majority of this site Cannot Percive me. I can post whatever I want and nobody except for some of my beloved mutuals and followers will see it.
I am invisible. I am free.
@jusiri I have blazed posts twice now, my friend, and they have recieved 200 and 100 notes respectively. Enough to make my notifications interesting for 24 hours, but not enough to make them unuseable.
From this I can only conclude that I am immune from the fires of Tumblr blaze. No scorch marks can ravage my notifications, and I can post freely knowing that they can never be rendered unusable.
Still, I’m glad you don’t have that free blaze. Fate, I feel, would have found that too funny a chance to pass up.
Reblog to punish OP for hubris in a way fitting of an ancient Greek tragedy.
Then schedule a reblog of your reblog one week into the future.
If sexual activity between same-gender people became illegal, the police would be the ones enforcing those laws.
That’s why police are not welcome at Pride. Pride is for unconditional supporters, not for those who would become enemies as soon as they’re ordered to.
I feel it’s important to amend this with “if sexual activity between same-gender people became illegal AGAIN, the police would be the ones enforcing those laws AGAIN.”
They did it before and they’ll do it again. Gay sex was only made legal in Texas in 2003. I was at a sleepover at my best friend’s house when it happened. We could hear the celebrations from the bar district down the block. We were 14 and both knew we were queer.
So yes, they’re not welcome at pride because they’ll turn on us in an instant. But also because cops who have been cops for a while full-onwere against us only NINETEEN years ago.
And yes I know that’s just in Texas and other states have different histories but I’m not even that old and I remember when being gay was illegal. When any relationship I dreamed of having was illegal. And THAT is my bigger reason that cops aren’t welcome at pride. Yes they will turn on us, but they already were against us and not-so-secretly still are.
A lot of those cops are still probably on the force and now brag about how long they’ve been there.
But it isn’t like they’ve been spending all that time learning queer theory and trying to be less homophobic either.
Those same exact people will go right back to arresting us the moment that they are able to.
Cops are not and have never been our allies, they never will be.
Cops are not and have
never been our allies,
they never will be.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
If you wanna protect AO3 or character ai. Or Wattpad. Or Tumblr. Or discord. Or even the right for undocumented people and minors to use the fucking Internet reblog this I swear to God. Reblog this and reblog as many KOSA posts as you can go on their website and contact your Representatives. Do it. Do it. Do it.
Oh so NOW it’s not okay to be stealing images. Interesting. Care to tell us where you draw the line there, champ?
Awww did they steal your work without asking??? All that hard work and time you put into making and refining your stuff??? Damnnn, that must suck to have it all stolen by an AI company that uses your hard work to make their product with no credit, just to spit out an image that isn’t even that good.
It’s been months since I wanted to draw them, but I couldn’t figure out how. I tried different styles, but some of them were too similar to my fav cotl artists, so I wasn’t happy with the results. The lil drawings I did here are the closest I came up with something that feels more “me”
Narinder was the one that gave me more trouble, and still does.
damn me, and the day I decided it wasn’t necessary to learn how to draw animals 😭
It’s always important to ask kids “what do you mean?” before potentially getting offended. Like the time a kid told me, dramatically, that he was homophobic. When asked what he meant, he told me he couldn’t breathe in crowded places.
Oh bless he tried real hard with words there
Reminds me of the time a little girl (about 4/5) playing pretend at the zoo flipped me off while telling me that “her finger got bit by an African honey badger”
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