I love the message and artstyle but did they have to give the cute lovable gator depression? T^T carry on lil buddy, this too shall pass
The gator is the whole point. It’s a stand-in for the author that has felt the need to suppress the aspects of themself that others find unappealing, their anger, their sadness, the things people find abrasive or just “weird” in order to make themself more digestible for the people around them because the alternative is to be alone. The gator is only “cute” and “lovable” because it was not allowed to be anything else.
I love the message and artstyle but did they have to give the cute lovable gator depression? T^T carry on lil buddy, this too shall pass
The gator is the whole point. It’s a stand-in for the author that has felt the need to suppress the aspects of themself that others find unappealing, their anger, their sadness, the things people find abrasive or just “weird” in order to make themself more digestible for the people around them because the alternative is to be alone. The gator is only “cute” and “lovable” because it was not allowed to be anything else.
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
This year’s tornado season prediction for the united states is looking quite grim, so I decided to make this lil tornado safety post.
Difference between Warning and Watch
First you need to know the different between a tornado warning and a tornado watch.
A tornado watch means there is a potential risk for tornadoes.
A tornado warning means that server weather as bean spotted.
The real one you know to get going for is the tornado emergency which means that there is truly something heading your way. However you should respond to all of these appropriately, and if one is issued keep watch for the weather.
What to look out for
The calm before the storm is a real thing. The wind may die down, and the air become still. Everything might fall silent for a moment
The sky is turning dark really fast, or green, or both.
A roar similar to that of a distant freight train. Tornado’s sound like freight trains.
Fast moving and rotating clouds, especially if they’re making a funnel shape
Obviously tornado watches escalating for tornado warnings
What to do
Let’s say the tornado warning is now issued, and eventually a tornado is coming your way. What do you do? Well the situation depends on how immediate the danger is, and what your circumstances are.
First let’s start with the “average” American advice. Go to the lowest level of your home, and hopefully a basement or storm shelter.
Now if that isn’t an available option, there’s no need to fear or panic. The lowest level of your home is advised. Try an small enclosed room, with low to minimum windows, such as a bathroom, closet, or center hallway.
If you are in a mobile home GET OUT OF THERE.
WHY DOES THE UNITED STATES HAVE THESE, WHEN THEY’RE OVERPRICED ANYWAY, DEATH TRAPS, AND ITS THE COUNTRY WITH THE HIGHEST TORNADO RATES.
Let’s say there’s nowhere to go.
Go to a safe available nearby building, especially if it has a basement. However if that is still not an option lie in the nearest ditch (I know it sounds crazy but it works) and shield your head/neck with your hands
If taking shelter in a home, make sure everyone is with you. That can include pets, but if you’re in a super emergency situation it is better to leave them and get to shelter as quick as possible.
If you can get low and shield head, or body with a mattress, blanket, etc.
Natural Disaster Safety
Doesn’t matter where you live, you should probably have an emergency kit, especially one attuned to the climate of your area. This doubles if you’re in a natural disaster prone area.
Many of those in the United States have learned lately what the consequences of not having the proper equipment on hand are.
So what should you have for a tornado?
Battery Powered Radio
Flashlight
Extra Batteries
First Aid Kit
Water & Canned Food
Emergency things tailored to people of household (medical problems, etc)
If you live in a cold region also have cold safety materials too
What NOT to do & Extra
Don’t disregard the watches, and especially the warnings. They are there for a reason, and you should really keep an eye out. You might even want to head to shelter anyway if the wind is crazy strong.
Don’t stand near windows, or be that classic midwesterner who is on their porch getting a good shot of that swirly cloud of death. I know its fun…but its not safe.
If the situation is an absolute emergency don’t take time to grab your valuable. Its devastating to lose them, I’ve been there, but you can replace most tiny things and not a life.
Make sure any invalid family members have their own viable tornado plan. My grandma lives in a tornado prone area, and the plan has completely changed since she’s been confined to a walker. Make sure your family members like that have a plan.
Being in a car during a tornado is not safe at all. Drive to nearest shelter, or get out and hop in that ditch.
If the tornado looks like its standing still, it’s not. That shit is heading towards you.
Always be sure to remember to cover your head, or help shield your children.
Myth Busting
Overpasses are not safe shelter for when you’re in a car. It’s a myth, take that ditch instead if need be, or drive to a shelter.
Hiding under your car is dangerous. Tornados can drop on your car, either crushing you or sucking you up into the air along with your vehicle
Cars cannot outrun tornados
Don’t open your windows. It’s not going to stop the tornado from blowing your house over, instead it may even help it. It will allow for debris to enter your home easier, and cause the wind to be able to tear your house apart from the inside out.
Aftermath
It’s hit now, maybe your house was safe or not. Keep track of watches still, tornados can return, or could be apart of a tornado outbreak, meaning a second or even third tornado can hit the area.
Assume all downed lines are active and dangerous, try not to use the gas, electricity, and water til you’re sure its safe.
If you’re not home return home once it’s deemed safe
Keep aware of damaged buildings, glass, debris, etc.
If you want to and have the chance help your fellow man, lost animal, and etc. Checking on people is a kind and lifesaving thing to do, as well as securing people’s pets.
All of this from a person who lived in a tornado prone area growing up, to you.
The car advice is slightly dated, cars absolutely *can* outrun most tornadoes. More recent advice per NOAA is to get the fuck outta there as long as the tornado is far enough away and it’s safe to do so. Ditches are an absolute last last last resort.
this is a great post, but the descriptions for warnings & watches is irking me. There are a few variants of Tornado Warnings which can provide you more context on the situation at a glance. Remember though that every Tornado Warning is serious, and you should always act to protect your life even if you believe you are safe.
I’ll go through some variants so you know what they all mean.
RADAR INDICATED: 80% of warnings are of this variant. This simply means that the storm has enough rotation to drop a tornado at any second, if it hasn’t already. DO NOT IGNORE THESE! Brief spin up tornadoes can spawn from any warned storm and can spawn, cause loss of life or property, and disappear within 20 seconds.
OBSERVED: Sometimes Tornadic supercells are observed with funnel clouds by law enforcement or trained spotters. This is more common with long-track tornadoes, but a tornadic storm can have the “observed” tag without actively having a tornado on the ground.
PDS WARNING: PDS stands for “Particularly Dangerous Situation”, and is typically issued when there is a violent tornadic storm traveling through populated areas, or after dark.
If you are on the road or at home and a Tornado Warning is issued at night, FIND SHELTER. You will not be able to see a tornado coming at night, and while trying to escape you may unknowingly enter its path or become stranded by road conditions.
TORNADO EMERGENCY: Since being coined during the May 3, 1999 outbreak, Tornado Emergencies have been issued only a handful of times in the last 20 years. The NWS Issues these in events of expected catastrophic losses to life and property in highly populated areas. You never want to hear this issued for your city, but if you do, GET BELOW GROUND, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY. Interior rooms or closet will not save you, you must be below ground. If you think the roads won’t be congested and you can flee, take it. Tornadoes associated with these warnings can grow to over a Mile Wide, so only consider fleeing by car if it’s over 10 minutes away from you.
How to Obtain Information In a Tornado Warning
OUTDOOR WARNING SIRENS ARE NOT ALWAYS RELIABLE AND SOME MUNICIPALITIES DO NOT HAVE THEM. DO NOT RELY SOLELY ON OUTDOOR WARNING SIRENS TO TELL IF YOU ARE IN A TORNADO WARNING.
One of the best things you can have in your arsenal to prepare for severe weather season is a fast and reliable way to access information.
-If you have Cable, that could mean knowing which channel your local news is on, or if you don’t have cable knowing if they stream on their website in severe weather situations.
-Following your local NWS on twitter to see warning polygons that indicate the impacted area.
-Having a reliable Radar Application on your phone like RadarOmega can allow you to see the storm, the warning polygon, and your exact location relative to the storm. RadarOmega in particular is extremely powerful and puts a lot of information at your fingertips, so if you buy it spend some time getting to know the ins-and-outs of how it works.
Finally, everyone in Tornado/Dixie alley should own a SAME compatible radio, like a Midland WR-120. This specific radio gives you warnings specific to your area as soon as they are issued, and is loud enough to wake you even if it’s in another room.
Too real, I see this all the time. Joking about how certain people in prison should be taken care of or molested. Two wrongs doesn’t make a right
this is not argue with you just adding opnions /gen
i wholehearted agree with you except for crimes against children then by all means let them rot not death but rotting in prison, death is too good for them
@fall-ofachilles, this post is about you. If crimes against children receive extra-special punishment, then the State is directly incentivized to find an angle by which to define the people it doesn’t like as having committed crimes against children.
Y'know, such as defining Existing While Queer as a sex-crime against children. For an extremely non-hypothetical, entirely real world example.
i was more referring to convicted child predators i.e pedophiles
You’re not listening to me. If “Pedophiles” are uniquely punished under the law, guess what will immediately happen to the definition of the word “Pedophile?” It will be broadened and broadened until it contains everyone the State does not like.
This is in no way hypothetical; there are a great many american states which are actively pushing legislation to define “being trans” as a form of pedophilia.
Florida is a state that is already doing this. They are already defining trans people existing around children as a sex crime against children.
Too real, I see this all the time. Joking about how certain people in prison should be taken care of or molested. Two wrongs doesn’t make a right
this is not argue with you just adding opnions /gen
i wholehearted agree with you except for crimes against children then by all means let them rot not death but rotting in prison, death is too good for them
@fall-ofachilles, this post is about you. If crimes against children receive extra-special punishment, then the State is directly incentivized to find an angle by which to define the people it doesn’t like as having committed crimes against children.
Y'know, such as defining Existing While Queer as a sex-crime against children. For an extremely non-hypothetical, entirely real world example.
i was more referring to convicted child predators i.e pedophiles
You’re not listening to me. If “Pedophiles” are uniquely punished under the law, guess what will immediately happen to the definition of the word “Pedophile?” It will be broadened and broadened until it contains everyone the State does not like.
This is in no way hypothetical; there are a great many american states which are actively pushing legislation to define “being trans” as a form of pedophilia.
Florida is a state that is already doing this. They are already defining trans people existing around children as a sex crime against children.
Too real, I see this all the time. Joking about how certain people in prison should be taken care of or molested. Two wrongs doesn’t make a right
this is not argue with you just adding opnions /gen
i wholehearted agree with you except for crimes against children then by all means let them rot not death but rotting in prison, death is too good for them
@fall-ofachilles, this post is about you. If crimes against children receive extra-special punishment, then the State is directly incentivized to find an angle by which to define the people it doesn’t like as having committed crimes against children.
Y'know, such as defining Existing While Queer as a sex-crime against children. For an extremely non-hypothetical, entirely real world example.
i was more referring to convicted child predators i.e pedophiles
You’re not listening to me. If “Pedophiles” are uniquely punished under the law, guess what will immediately happen to the definition of the word “Pedophile?” It will be broadened and broadened until it contains everyone the State does not like.
This is in no way hypothetical; there are a great many american states which are actively pushing legislation to define “being trans” as a form of pedophilia.
Florida is a state that is already doing this. They are already defining trans people existing around children as a sex crime against children.
Too real, I see this all the time. Joking about how certain people in prison should be taken care of or molested. Two wrongs doesn’t make a right
this is not argue with you just adding opnions /gen
i wholehearted agree with you except for crimes against children then by all means let them rot not death but rotting in prison, death is too good for them
@fall-ofachilles, this post is about you. If crimes against children receive extra-special punishment, then the State is directly incentivized to find an angle by which to define the people it doesn’t like as having committed crimes against children.
Y'know, such as defining Existing While Queer as a sex-crime against children. For an extremely non-hypothetical, entirely real world example.
i was more referring to convicted child predators i.e pedophiles
You’re not listening to me. If “Pedophiles” are uniquely punished under the law, guess what will immediately happen to the definition of the word “Pedophile?” It will be broadened and broadened until it contains everyone the State does not like.
This is in no way hypothetical; there are a great many american states which are actively pushing legislation to define “being trans” as a form of pedophilia.
Florida is a state that is already doing this. They are already defining trans people existing around children as a sex crime against children.
This is the kind of thing that magic spells are made from. A golden string of fire, plucked from the sea at dawn.
And it makes me think of how difficult these must be to gather; you’d have to plan and wait and hope the conditions are just right. What if there’s too much fog? You’ll have to come back another day, and who knows if the spell can wait that long?
But what if the invention of photography changed all that?
Just imagine some witch wasting flower after flower on a spell without being able to get it right, with each one withering to uselessness after a single try. She finally runs out of flowers. Then she looks at the newfangled Polaroid that her nonmagical family gave her, and she wonders.
Five minutes later she has a photo of a rose from her neighbor’s garden. Six minutes later she has a functioning spell. Seven minutes later she realizes the photo has crumpled, but the rose outside hasn’t.
This is the beginning of a new era of magic use. Just imagine the possibilities.
#omg #what would video footage do then #what if you had a recording of a surgery #and you needed bloodshed for your dark magic #would that work #blood is shed #there is definitely ritual in surgery #specialized tools and stuff #could you sacrifice a dvd with a training recording of surgery on it to summon a demon
Only one way to find out! I’ll bet that demon arrives very confused.
oh shit he ate the whole thing . he just like me frfr
spiderman just left the pizza box on the roof but then came back a minute later and clearly felt bad for littering so now hes swinging through downtown holding an empty pizza box
hes hit a street light
he’s swinging away now clearly very embarrassed and he thinks nobody saw it. i saw you spiderman
oh shit he ate the whole thing . he just like me frfr
spiderman just left the pizza box on the roof but then came back a minute later and clearly felt bad for littering so now hes swinging through downtown holding an empty pizza box
hes hit a street light
he’s swinging away now clearly very embarrassed and he thinks nobody saw it. i saw you spiderman
I am begging everybody, fucking begging them, to slow the fuck down and fucking look things up. Right now, there are a lot of people who are making money off of creating headlines that are meant to make you mad, and it’s going to get worse as we get closer to the election.
If someone tells you that there’s a secret conspiracy to [do a thing you don’t like] and that it’s unique to Biden, you better fucking look that thing up, because chances are you’re going to find that it’s been happening under every administration for the last 50 years. Is that good? No! Should you want to change it? Probably! Is it a unique crime to Biden? Nope!
“Biden said [bad thing] [X] years ago.” Well, this bad thing he said happens to be true, but it looks like it was 45 years ago, and he changed his stance 40 years ago. “Biden said [other bad thing] [Y] years ago.” What’s the source on that? So there’s one person who says he said it? And nobody else who was there has corroborated that account? Who posted the story?
These are all random examples of things I’ve seen over the last couple of weeks, with the details slightly changed from the Tumblr posts and news articles I’ve seen, because the point isn’t the details of the particular story, so I don’t want to get bogged down in particulars that don’t matter to the point I’m making.
The point of this post isn’t the specific things I’m referencing but the fact that in each of these cases, the reality was not what was initially presented. Either the reality was wildly different, or this story can’t be corroborated and was told by someone with a clear and very well-known agenda of their own, which means that at the very least, the story should be treated with extreme suspicion.
And on that note, please don’t believe that because you’re a leftist that you can’t be radicalized in the same way that right-wingers are. You aren’t immune to propaganda either. I’m not saying you have to like, or should like, any particular politician or political entity. I am saying, however, that you should view a lot of the news with a gimlet eye, and that goes double for anything that makes you real fucking mad.
You need - need - to stop and read the whole article and ask yourself if you can verify the claims and who benefits from this making you mad.
Please. For the sake of the people around you who have to patiently explain to you that you’ve gotten fucking bamboozled again by propaganda if for no other reason. We’re all very tired of you thinking that leftists can’t be propagandized.
As an example for that last point: a former beloved mutual of mine who was very active in trans spaces here (and probably followed or was followed by a lot of the people who will see this post from my blog!) began posting a lot of anti-public education a while back. The last I saw of them was a post reblogged from an extremely obvious & blatantly right-wing conservative blog railing against the “inherently abusive nature of schools”, with multiple mentions of how CRT specifically was to blame.
I’m sure they weren’t aware that CRT is short for Critical Race Theory, i.e., the idea that racism exists. But they didn’t even look up this acronym that was cited at least three or four separate times as the titular reason schools are so evil; the post said a bunch of stuff they thought they agreed with, so they reblogged it.
I unfollowed them, I have no idea where they are now, but I think about this literally constantly. Your leftism does not protect you from radicalization. Mine doesn’t, either. We have got to be fucking diligent.
Yeah.
And the other thing I need to be clear about is that there is shitty “leftist” propaganda and right wing propaganda, and you can be radicalized out of sense along any axis of political thought.
Leftists tend to think they’re “too smart” to fall prey to cult-like thinking or radicalization. That is absolutely not true & there is plenty of weird fringe left, unfuckingfortunately. Thinking you couldn’t possibly be radicalized makes you more vulnerable.
Stay incredulous. Stay suspicious. Check sources.
It is in fact statistically more likely you would be vulnerable to cult or cult-like ideology the “smarter” you are—evidence for many decades suggest the more educated people are often the ones that fall the hardest for cults, to be clear. No human is infallible no matter how more or less educated you are and feeling righteous does not mean you are acting righteous. People need to remember that “question everything” means most importantly questioning even YOURSELF.
Yes, thank you! That’s the point I was trying to make, but I was not clear enough. I appreciate your words.
There’s an documented thing called Nobel disease, it’s where winners of Nobel prizes fall prey to the concept that because they are experts in their own fields, they are experts in every field. This is, of course, wrong.
Everyone is fallible to propaganda and being fooled by bad actors, thinking you are immune only makes you more vulnerable.
This is an adorable young hognose snake exhibiting natural behavior. They’re not the smartest snakes in the world, and they’ll happily spend all day exploring the same place over and over if you let them. Mine loves to weave between my fingers like this.
This is an adorable young hognose snake exhibiting natural behavior. They’re not the smartest snakes in the world, and they’ll happily spend all day exploring the same place over and over if you let them. Mine loves to weave between my fingers like this.
This is an adorable young hognose snake exhibiting natural behavior. They’re not the smartest snakes in the world, and they’ll happily spend all day exploring the same place over and over if you let them. Mine loves to weave between my fingers like this.
Most parents I think worry or wonder when their kid might finally start repeating swear words they hear. The tale of my initiation into the world of cursing was the subject of family lore however.
First, to set the scene, my nana spent a lot of time with me when I was young. She lived with us briefly and I firmly cemented my place as number one favorite grandchild by climbing up into her attic room to cuddle on the regular.
She’d take me on errands and watch me when my parents were at work. She even once lured me away when she ran into my dad watching me as a store. She didn’t think he was keeping a close enough eye and called me over to her a few aisles away.
I happily complied since I loved and recognized her then we watched my dad for several minutes before he finally looked down, saw me missing, and panicked. “That’ll teach you to keep a better eye on her!” My nana scolded him, convinced that every babynapper was slavering for her precious redheaded grandbaby.
So one day my mom had me in the car. We were driving along and from my back seat I chirped, “Can we play pretend?”
My mom smiled, imagining I’d start narrating some silly adventure or something. “Sure.”
“Shit shit SHITSHITSHIT!!!” I yelled at the top of my lungs.
My mom sat stunned in the front seat, baffled momentarily by the stream of cursing.
After careful questioning it was pretty obvious what had happened. My nana had sworn up a storm in front of me but didn’t want to come clean about it to my parents when I started repeating it. She’d instead invented a fun game and the rules were that I could only curse when we were playing a special game.
My mom was furious, and my nana got a sound dressing down both for the cursing but more importantly for the lying.
My favorite time telling this story though was to a girl in high school. She listened with wide eyes then asked, “Did your mom fire her?”
“What?”
“Your nana? Did she get fired?”
“My…. Grandmother? Did my mom fire my grandmother??”
I could fix him. I could make him worse. Good for you. I could gently take the weapon out of his shaking, blood-soaked hand and hold him until he finally believes that he doesn’t have to be defined by all the ways the world has hurt him. Then we could ruin the lives of everyone who has ever treated him like he’s a monster who doesn’t deserve love.
no, actually, trying to position your disgust/annoyance with “stereotypical” trans women as political righteousness doesnt make me want to abandon them it makes me suspicious of you
i love harsh noise girls i love blahaj girls i love video game dev girls i love trans girls and i refuse to tear them down
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