The number one cause of death in pregnant women is murder. Think About That.
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I cannot say I’m surprised ðat Republicans vote selfishly and unwisely, I’m not even surprised by ðe fact ðat ðeir actions and our inactions kill millions of people.
when i see people express sentiments like this, my thought is pretty much “who exactly are you trying to prove a point to?” the democrats? if trump gets elected, they’re going to be completely sidelined if not worse and will be entirely focused on trying to get back in power and i can tell you they will NOT be moving further left. netanyahu? it’s a BETTER outcome for him if trump wins since trump is SIGNIFICANTLY more pro-israel than biden has ever been. the people in gaza? they need a ceasefire which has been rejected by both the israel and the hamas sides multiple times and a trump win WILL NOT make that a stronger possibility.
While this tweet feels suspiciously like psyops, this kind of perspective is growing more and more common. It comes from the belief that it is more important to punish sinners for their crimes than it is to care for the innocent.
It is there in the voices who want Israel to burn more than they want Palestinians to have their freedom. Who want to attack public figures for using politically incorrect words more than they want to help people that those words describe. Who want Biden to lose the presidency more than they want safety and freedom for Americans (or Palestinians).
It is not, ultimately, an effective perspective. Punishments are far less of a deterrent than people think they are. Protesters know they may be arrested, maybe even beaten or shot, but they protest anyway. Criminals are well aware of the justice system, and yet crime persists. If someone genuinely believes that they must do something, then the threat of punishment does very little.
But more importantly,punishment is not justice. Sometimes punishment can help to bring about justice, but that does not make them the same thing.
Voting out Biden will not create justice. At its absolute best, it would punish Biden. But it would also punish millions of other people who are vulnerable and in need of our assistance.
Rather than taking the action that best punishes the perpetrators, we must try to find the paths that best support the victims. Sometimes, if we’re lucky, the same action will do both.
This is not one of those times.
In the 2000 election, a bunch of people wanted to send a message. They wanted to send the message that the environment was important and climate change was real and the US needed to do something about it.
So they voted third party for Ralph Nader and the Green Party.
They cost the Democrats the election. So instead of noted environmentalist and climate change activist Al Gore, we got George W. Bush.
But they sent a message right? They made a stand for their cause right? Surely it helped their cause, right?
It ENDED the Green party single-handedly as well as Ralph Nadar’s career, because they were blamed for splitting the vote and getting a moron nepo-baby oilman into power.
Bush was able to stall for eight years on even admitting climate change existed, while making tons of money for his friends in the oil industry. AND he started two decades of wars that are still ongoing to this day. Literally millions died.
Next time it might be birth control rights. It might be nuclear war.
The genocide? Will escalate. More will happen in other parts of the world. Maybe here, who fucking knows.
I voted for Nader in 2000. It was my first Presidential election vote. It was my friends who went into warzones at the order of the man who took office as a result.
Your elders are SCREAMING at you to please learn from history.
I’ve been told that the “Nader split the Democratic vote” narrative is overstated, but I was there and I remember. It absolutely happened.
when i see people express sentiments like this, my thought is pretty much “who exactly are you trying to prove a point to?” the democrats? if trump gets elected, they’re going to be completely sidelined if not worse and will be entirely focused on trying to get back in power and i can tell you they will NOT be moving further left. netanyahu? it’s a BETTER outcome for him if trump wins since trump is SIGNIFICANTLY more pro-israel than biden has ever been. the people in gaza? they need a ceasefire which has been rejected by both the israel and the hamas sides multiple times and a trump win WILL NOT make that a stronger possibility.
While this tweet feels suspiciously like psyops, this kind of perspective is growing more and more common. It comes from the belief that it is more important to punish sinners for their crimes than it is to care for the innocent.
It is there in the voices who want Israel to burn more than they want Palestinians to have their freedom. Who want to attack public figures for using politically incorrect words more than they want to help people that those words describe. Who want Biden to lose the presidency more than they want safety and freedom for Americans (or Palestinians).
It is not, ultimately, an effective perspective. Punishments are far less of a deterrent than people think they are. Protesters know they may be arrested, maybe even beaten or shot, but they protest anyway. Criminals are well aware of the justice system, and yet crime persists. If someone genuinely believes that they must do something, then the threat of punishment does very little.
But more importantly,punishment is not justice. Sometimes punishment can help to bring about justice, but that does not make them the same thing.
Voting out Biden will not create justice. At its absolute best, it would punish Biden. But it would also punish millions of other people who are vulnerable and in need of our assistance.
Rather than taking the action that best punishes the perpetrators, we must try to find the paths that best support the victims. Sometimes, if we’re lucky, the same action will do both.
This is not one of those times.
In the 2000 election, a bunch of people wanted to send a message. They wanted to send the message that the environment was important and climate change was real and the US needed to do something about it.
So they voted third party for Ralph Nader and the Green Party.
They cost the Democrats the election. So instead of noted environmentalist and climate change activist Al Gore, we got George W. Bush.
But they sent a message right? They made a stand for their cause right? Surely it helped their cause, right?
It ENDED the Green party single-handedly as well as Ralph Nadar’s career, because they were blamed for splitting the vote and getting a moron nepo-baby oilman into power.
Bush was able to stall for eight years on even admitting climate change existed, while making tons of money for his friends in the oil industry. AND he started two decades of wars that are still ongoing to this day. Literally millions died.
Next time it might be birth control rights. It might be nuclear war.
The genocide? Will escalate. More will happen in other parts of the world. Maybe here, who fucking knows.
I voted for Nader in 2000. It was my first Presidential election vote. It was my friends who went into warzones at the order of the man who took office as a result.
Your elders are SCREAMING at you to please learn from history.
I’ve been told that the “Nader split the Democratic vote” narrative is overstated, but I was there and I remember. It absolutely happened.
getting horror movie vibes from the trip your friends were planning, you decided to simply stay home.
It had been a joke, mostly, when you said you were getting horror movie vibes to your friends. They laughed, you laughed, but you still had a point. A little cabin, in the middle of the woods? During summer? That was practically screaming “We’re in a horror movie!”
You had wanted to go, honest, but really, if you had to deal with bugs, no AC access during the middle of summer, and spotty at best cell service? You would’ve laid prone on the ground and wait for the earth to reclaim you.
Your friends go off with promises of awesome pictures and cool looking rocks, and you stay behind, with promises to check up on their places, make sure any pets are alright and no break-ins have occurred.
Their first night there, they all get on a call with you and tell you about the car ride to the cabin, all the stupid songs and weird snacks and silly stories they shared with each other. You laugh along with them, and tell them in excruciating detail about the delicious pizza you are eating that very moment, as they whine and complain halfheartedly.
Their second night there, they complain about the bugs, and tell you about the lake that’s just a 15 minutes walk away from the cabin, how beautiful it is. You all joke about catching fish with bare hands, and a couple of your friends seem to genuinely consider it.
Their third night there, they tell you about the strange sounds at night, the tracks that don’t seem to be made by wild animals, how the woods will fall eerily silent at times. You think about your horror movie comment a few days prior, and you worry.
Their fourth night there, they tell you about these strange rectangular pits they found not far from the cabin, several feet deep and seemingly freshly dug. There are six holes, they tell you, and you think about how there are five of them there, and how you almost went with them.
Their fifth night there, they don’t call, and they don’t pick up. You don’t sleep well.
Their sixth night, only one friend calls, panicked and crying, and tells you that the holes are graves, that something, someone, killed the others. They’re the only one left. You have to help them, they beg of you. But you’re too far away, too powerless, and the call ends soon after.
You call the authorities, leave them an anonymous tip that there’s a group of people out in the woods, dead. You don’t sleep that night.
The seventh day you spend worried, for your last remaining friend, for yourself.
The seventh night you spend paranoid, because there were six graves, and you’re the only one left.
By the eighth night, there is something in your house, and even as you call the police, you know they will be too late.
You lock yourself in your bathroom and cry as the footsteps get closer to your door, as it gets smashed open, wood splintering under the blade of a bloodstained axe.
“I don’t understand,” you manage between your sobs. “I did everything right.”
The killer tilts their head at you, almost pityingly.
It’s really important when you’re at work to go out there and really give it your 60%. Maybe 35%.
One time my boss told a whole story about how if a person who made parachutes didn’t give their job 100%, people would die.
I made the point that
There’s probably a whole quality and compliance process for parachute assembly and it’s not just one bloke in a factory making and distributing them.
We get a 30 minute lunch break and no company benefits.
We don’t make parachutes.
I had a disciplinary meeting and then went back to giving them as much as they gave me.
No one died.
There’s something all us old heads tell to new hires: Hard work is rewarded with more work.
Don’t kill yourself for a company that’ll gladly replace you by week’s end
As a newbie in an office environment, I noticed the laser printer was flashing a Low Toner warning message and reported it to my supervisor.
“Oh, we’ll call IT when it fails completely,” I was told.
Thinking that was stupid and knowing where the replacement toner cartridges were stored (in a stack next to the printer) I showed some initiative and did it right then.
Guess what happened next?
I was forever after “toner cartridge guy” and my job duties expanded to replacing the toner when it died.
“your honor, this hard working phd student was simply resting her head after a long day at work. the evidence presented by the prosecution was already present when she arrived at the table. it’s an anime convention, people lose and forget things all the time. there is no connection between her and the yaoi paddle”
cisformation: make a bunch of super saiyan sounds and walk away
cisubstantiation: by the power of god this bread has remained bread
idk its just neat
cisformers: they’re just cars
ciscontinental railroad: one of those little track rides they have at the seaside where there’s a little western-style train that goes around in a loop
“If you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we
are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means
necessary. I ain’t giving up. I swear.”
Spotted in Clackamas, Oregon
I can’t stop thinking about this message, so I spent a while trying to isolate just the writing and make it transparent. I might order a shirt with it
Whoever in Clackamas wrote this message on their bus stop, I love you
had a dream last night where I took a uquiz called “what do you serve?” and at first the questions were standard but as the quiz progressed they became more and more highly specific to me personally and the answers became more and more similar and I realised the quiz Knew me and was forcing me into being honest by giving me no other option so I tried to click out but it just went to the next question which was “are you the spider? or are you the web?” and it had an option for each but I didn’t click either so it then turned to a text box and I typed “I think I’m the fly” and the quiz paused for a while and then took me to a results page that said “you serve truth” and the description just read “what you know will kill you but you will die laughing” so like. good morning everyone I guess :/
OP I think the devil visited you in your sleep
“What you know will kill you but you will die laughing” needs to be added to that list of profound statements from unlikely sources.
the spider one too while we’re at it what the fuck
In Serbian, Croatian and Montenegrin you have to say “non-binary person” every single time to avoid assigning them masculine, feminine or “neither” gender and you might think, why not just use the “neither”? Because it’s basically always used to describe babies or children when used on living beings.
It’s too bad we don’t have a singular they that doesn’t have pre-existing cultural significance.
When we’re new to adulthood, it doesn’t immediately occur to all of us that you’re almost always allowed to leave a situation, because growing up we’re forced to stay in situations until someone dismisses us and/or takes us home, or if we do leave on our own accord there’s someone waiting at home to say “we don’t quit in this family!” Boring party? You can leave. You don’t like the lecture? You can walk out. New doctor not working out? You can end the appointment, you don’t need to wait for them to dismiss you. Bad date? You can just go home. Leaving a situation prematurely might have consequences, but unless you’re under arrest or serving prison time, it’s pretty much always allowed.
A while back, I called for a Lyft ride home from the airport. The lyft pulled up, he called my name, and I opened the door and climbed in. While I was climbing in he was getting out, which I didn’t realize until he opened the back door on the other side.
Him: I’ll put your bag in the trunk. Me: Oh, there’s no need. Him: I’ll just put it back there. Me: I prefer to keep my bag with me.
I was also still holding onto it so he couldn’t just grab it, and when I said “I prefer to keep it with me” this cloud of rage crossed his face.
Him: Then get out. Me: Excuse me? Him: Get out, I don’t want your bag fucking up my upholstery.
Now, this was a weekender – essentially an upscale duffle bag. Small, almost brand new, easily fitting on the middle-seat beside me. I don’t know if he was just really intense about his upholstery or if he was running some kind of scam, but either way I now DEFINITELY was not going to let him separate me from my bag.
So I said “Okay,” and I picked up my bag and got out, took out my phone, and cancelled him as my driver.
He looked at me like I’d grown a second head. There was this moment of total disconnect in his face, and then he started ranting about how someone had damaged his upholstery and they needed to put their bags in the back and he wasn’t going to have me getting his upholstery dirty.
I said, “I’m out of your car. Drive on, I’ll get another,” and held up my phone.
This had clearly never happened before – it looked like plenty of people had thought “This guy is crazy” but went the “so I’d better let him do what he wants” route instead of “so I’m getting out of his car”. Which is totally normal! We’re socialized to prioritize “not making a scene” over personal safety. But when you do call that bluff, when you defy the social convention that the other person is counting on to make you do what they want you to do, they don’t know how to react, which gives you time for a clean getaway. And maybe he thought I was a dickhead but what do I care what an asshole thinks of me?
Anyway the moral of the story is yes, you should know that you can almost always leave a situation and often it’s in your best interest to do so.
(Right after I called for another car he picked up a fare using Quick Match or whatever it’s called, peeled out of the Lyft lane, and hit another car well nigh immediately.)
[ID: The Benefits of walking away. (Illustration of the back of a person walking away. ) 1. Makes bad things disappear quickly. 2. Gives everyone optimal view of your back. 3. Answers question, “I wonder what would happen if I just walked away”]
Weird question here but what would happen if Biden won in November and like, a year into the presidency just died of old age? I don't live in a country with a president so I'm just confused on what exactly happens here. Do you guys just, hold a new election? (After the whole funeral and whatever legal things would need to happen first)
The presidency would just fall on the next in the line of succession immediately, in this scenario Vice President Kamala Harris. She would be president until the end of what would have been Joe Biden’s term.
If somehow we lost both the president AND the VP at the same time, the Speaker of the House of Representatives would become president. If we lost all three in some kind of unholy event, the members of that president’s Cabinet are up next, starting with the Secretary of State (our equivalent of a Minister of Foreign Affairs).
And, god forbid (?), if the entire Executive Branch were somehow eliminated all at once, we have something called the Designated Survivor. This is a member of the president’s Cabinet (ministry? I think) that is selected at random to be placed in a secure location during events where the entire government comes together in one place, such as the annual State of the Union address or during inauguration. If the government gets an unhappy surprise during such an event, the DS becomes president and has the extremely unhappy task of reforming the executive branch, with the help of Congress. Assuming Congress survived, themselves.
While it has never happened irl, the above paragraph is actually a scenario that plays out in the show Designated Survivor. If you must subject yourself to an imperial drama, I’d start there. We do love our damned imperial dramas….
a.k.a., I promise things will change (a.k.a, I sobbed on the bus home twice because of my team at work)
I work in New Zealand for a large (for us) corporate company, in a department with a team of 15. As far as I’m aware, I’m the third out person working in the office, and the first in that team specifically.
This year, our wider business formed a team for a national fundraiser that’s held every year for global Pride month in June, which supports about five local rainbow services, including support for rainbow youth and school outreach.
I, naturally, decided to get hypercompetitive and see if I could raise the most funds out of everyone in our company.
a.k.a., I promise things will change (a.k.a, I sobbed on the bus home twice because of my team at work)
I work in New Zealand for a large (for us) corporate company, in a department with a team of 15. As far as I’m aware, I’m the third out person working in the office, and the first in that team specifically.
This year, our wider business formed a team for a national fundraiser that’s held every year for global Pride month in June, which supports about five local rainbow services, including support for rainbow youth and school outreach.
I, naturally, decided to get hypercompetitive and see if I could raise the most funds out of everyone in our company.
My reaction to romance is a lot like my reaction to moths. I can admire it from afar and say ‘hey, that looks cool!’ but if it tries to come near me I start screaming and flapping my arms.
String identified: act t ac a t act t t. ca a t aa a a ‘, tat c!’ t t t t c a tat cag a ag a.
Closest match: GET SCARED GET SCARED GET SCARED GET SCARED
Hello everyone. After seeing many fundraisers shared here on tumblr struggle to get funds, I’ve decided to do something to help them raise money.
> From July 11th to August 11th, if you donate at least $5 to any verified fundraisers, I will write one of my WIPs (works in progress) of your choice. If this gets a lot of support, and I find the time to do so, I’ll change the deadline or just do this again.
> For every $5 donated, I’ll write 100 words (same amount for whatever currency the fundraiser is in).If I finish any of the WIPs here, you won’t be able to sponsor it anymore. I’ll try to add new ones as we go.
> I’ll try to write as soon as possible after I get the donation receipt, and I’ll post updates here on this blog.
❗️How To Join:
1) Donate to a verified fundraiser or a trustworthy organization, highlights below
2) Save the receipt and send it to me via (non-anon) ask or DM
- Make sure that the following information is visible on the receipt: the amount donated, the date, and your first name (optional but preffered)
3) Send me, with the recepit, the WIP you’d like sponsored
- You can send the title, number or fandom of the WIP, whatever.
✏️ WIPs:
1) (Untitled). Fandom: Sherlock Holmes. Wordcount: 293 words.
- Holmes and Watson ride horses in the countryside to help with Holmes’ stress due to lack of cases.
2) Herdólia. Original work. Wordcount: 224 words.
- A group of kids grow up together while their country spirals into fascism. Based on the real dictatorships of Latin America.
3) SUMMER. Fandom: Fantasy high. Wordcount: 0 words.
- Character and relationship study of The Bad Kids centered around body image issues and summertime.
4) Loyal Dog. Fandom: Lupin III. Wordcount: 0 words (rewriting). Chapter: Prologue.
- A multi-chapter fanfic in which Jigen is a werewolf. After a terrible accident with the gang, he has to learn to forgive himself and heal from his past.
Well there can be! This is not naturally occurring, it is literally manufactured and funded.
There can be an end to Israel’s crimes. You’re just choosing the route that allows you to go back to your “normal” as soon as possible by throwing in the towel and exclaiming “Israel will be Israel!”
There will come a day when Israel’s crimes will cease and on that day you will be faced with the ugly reality that you allowed those crimes to go on for as long as they did because you could not conceive of a reality other than the one that was handed to you.
It’s always kind of funny when the Powerpuff Girls, in fanart, are drawn with fingers and noses and toes and stuff and it’s like…they legit don’t have those in canon. It’s not just a style choice, they actually don’t have fingers and noses.
I mean, apparently Buttercup just sticks her hand to things to pick them up (S03E29 Criss Cross Crisis)
And in Oops, I Did it Again (s06E04B) the girls, when made without Chemical X, come out “normal” and do have fingers, feet, noses, and normal faces.
So like…when everyone in the show calls them “bug-eyed freaks,” “pumpkin heads,” etc, they legit mean the girls have big round heads, giant eyeballs, and stump limbs.
I think it’s safe to say that the Powerpuff Girls are objectively horrifying. I want to see fanart of that.
SWEET JESUS
alright i realise im a little late to the party here but going back to how the girls are able to grip things despite not having fingers
at first i thought maybe they could have tiny hooks at the end of the stumps that would snag onto surfaces, similar to cats tongues ( and yeah alright spiderman ) but the issue is that they probably wouldnt be effective for smoother surfaces
they could also have wrinkled pads like geckos feet that could cling to smoother things no problem, but then the problem is maintaining enough suction to actually lift and carry an object
Vitriolic response to hyperbolic position that you in no way proposed
You’re both completely problematic and ur getting cancelled
Goalpost Move that shifts burden of proof onto parties not present
Use of a meme to derail the thread for humor value
SPN Destiel Meme to boost awareness for Cause
Pearl-clutching, self-righteous anger, and blinkered demand for nonspecific “action” implying that inaction towards Cause makes you Evil
Casual dismissal of any political action that isn’t The Glorious Revolution
homemade ms paint diagram and links to poorly reviewed sources from a magazine that show why you’re wrong and i’m Right™️
Screenshot of Link locked behind paywall
Accusations of Classism justified by willful misinterpretations of the philosophy of Carl Marx
*Karl
No, his brother
horny post about Carl Marx
No, his brother
My favorite part of this whole post is that it’s getting all my Beloved Mutuals to interact like yess little dinner party on my Post go mingle get some social enrichment my kreechers
This is what’s known as a “first fursona storage area”. It’s where they store all the dozens of wolf fursonas people make before they switch to a different species
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