it’s important to mock and belittle military and law enforcement to signal to others that these are not respectable professions, both to dissuade entry and to devalorize the institutions in the public eye
If you vote in North Carolina, you’re going to see this on your ballot. Looks pretty straightforward, right?
But it’s a trap placed by the GOP. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Voting “For” this referendum will remove the phrase “and every person who has been naturalized” from this section on voter eligibility in the NC constitution. This could place the future voting rights of about 400,000 naturalized US citizens in the state in jeopardy.
Just a reminder - it’s already illegal for non-citizens to vote! There’s no evidence that this happens in significant numbers anywhere in the country, and North Carolina has restrictions in place against it happening at all, like the voter ID law that’s now in effect.
(The voter ID law disproportionately affects POC, as well as transgender voters, both of whom are more likely to vote Democratic as well as lack the needed ID, but that’s another post.)
Voting “Against” on this measure will leave the state constitution unchanged.
I know not everyone is aware of MCAS as a medical condition, but it really grinds my gears when people come onto one of my posts and is like, “I don’t get it, just take iron supplements, it doesn’t need to be a big deal” (I already blocked them for being annoying so don’t go harassing them).
Meanwhile my medically complex ass has my two epi pens at the ready because depending on where the iron supplement manufacturer sourced their vitamin c addition, I might get to enjoy an expensive trip in the wee-woo wagon to the nearest emergency department.
Fwiw to my fellow masties, I seem to be doing okay with this OptiFerin-C blend from Pure Encapsulations.
The vitamin c is listed as “from calcium ascorbate blend” which didn’t tell me much but I tend to do really well with this brand (also Thorne) so I decided to just try it and see.
Normally my vit c reaction is pretty instant but it’s been a few hours now and aside from a bit of heart burn, which I get from iron supplements anyway, I’m non-reactive.
We’ll see how I am after a few days but yeah. Fingers crossed. 🤞
Update to the OptiFerin-C:
I am still not reacting to the vitamin C which is huge for me. This used to be one of my biggest anaphylactic allergies.
I am experiencing little to no stomach upset aside from a bit of heartburn which passes quickly.
Obviously, everyone is different but I wanted to pass this on in case it helps someone.
I don’t know how well I’m absorbing it yet–won’t know that until I get labs done–but I think it’s doing something.
I’m somehow more tired than I was before, but I think that’s my body going into sleep mode to do some vital maintenance it hasn’t had the energy to do for a while now. I’m slightly less pale too, according to the people around me.
I’m also noticing less tachycardia and less dizziness so that’s good.
Part of me wonders if it’s a placebo effect, but when your ferritin levels are in single digits, I have to imagine every little bit helps.
As a vet tech I can only theorize; I think that your body was subconsciously reacting to the hypoxia. Its very likely that your autonomous nervous system was constantly on the edge of panic as you got less oxygen.
Now that you are doing a bit better, your body is able to oxygenate and your nervous system allows you to fully use your parasympathetic nervous system. Proper oxygenation can cause better colouring in animals very quickly too (like if we give them blow by oxygen if they are in resp distress).
I kinda felt the same way when I started my B12, and also whenever I started something that made my hives stop. Anyway that is my theory and I have everything crossed for you
Yeah, I’m realizing now I was experiencing some of the symptoms of hypoxia which I had before when I had pernicious b12 anemia in 2019.
Not as severe (I was on the verge of multiple organ failure when that was finally discovered) but definitely present.
Unfortunately, this time around it was dismissed as my dysautonomia/POTS getting worse, which is what I thought it was too because my labs came back “fine” (didn’t know they weren’t testing my ferritin store), so I will need to be extra Extra vigilant about chasing my doctors up over labs in the future and make sure I’m not being dismissed based on existing complex diagnoses.
It’ll be interesting to see if hematology ops for infusions, whether my dysautonimia/POTS will improve if we can raise my ferritin to the recommended 100-ish range advocated for patients with chronic ailments.
Certainly can’t hurt to get my numbers out of single digits. 😵💫
Willem Arondéus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo. Arondéus was caught and executed soon after his arrest. Yad Vashem recognized Arondéus as Righteous Among the Nations.
Their attack, which took place on 27 March 1943, was partially successful, and they managed to destroy 800,000 identity cards, and retrieve 600 blank cards and 50,000 guilders. The building was blown up and no one was caught on the night of the attack. However, due to an unknown betrayer, Arondéus was arrested on 1 April 1943. Arondéus refused to give up the rest of his team.
Arondéus was openly gay before the war and defiantly asserted his sexuality before his execution. His final words were:
“Tell the people that homosexuals are not by definition weak.”
I keep meeting artists who complain that Tumblr Is Dead then when I check their blog they’ve made four posts in six months and all of them were self promo lmao. Influencers whining that “tumblr is useless for engagement” tells me every part of the problem, like sorry you can’t just show up and farm this userbase for clicks by waving buzzwords around the way you can on tiktok. This is the Excited About Stupid Things website reblog some shitty fanart or die
what do you MEAN people don’t want to hang out in your curated space and chat with you and look at your work when your space is uhhh entirely crossposting shop links from instagram. you look like a fucking bot lmao
Waaaay back in 2012 I was confused about how Tumblr worked - I had created a personal blog so I wanted to showcase personal stuff, like the silly little comics I was making at the time. So i posted my comics and followed a lot of people and scrolled through my dash and liked things but didn’t reblog stuff because I wanted my blog to be kind of a portfolio.
And it was really boring, and I didn’t get any attention for my drawings, and having a tumblr felt kind of useless, except now I could see all the memes I’d been laughing at on imgur in context.
But then there was a comic that was cute and funny and it was about Dune (because there are active dune fans on tumblr!) So I reblogged it because nobody was looking at my blog anyway and the floodgates opened. I started reblogging regularly and adding comments and occasionally adding little comics or sketches on the comments and suddenly tumblr made sense. It was “working,” because *yes* tumblr is a blogging platform, but more than that it is a social media site, and to get it to “work” you had to be social.
And that ended up getting me a job as a cartoonist. And it ended up letting me promote my band better than any other site (and thank you so much to the tumblr users who came to our shows!). And it let me build an audience of thousands of readers for my webcomic. And it is a place where I can share my art and get attention for it and promote stuff I’ve got on sale, and a place where i can link people to my website (because tumblr is still bad as a portfolio, even if it’s good as socal media). But that only works because tumblr isn’t just someplace I post, it’s someplace where i hang out and people know me and we have history and a shared language of memes and shitposts.
I’ve had people ask how i get tumblr to work for me and the answer is, unfortunately, it only works if you live here.
@cl0verfall hey remember when you didn’t reblog like anything
“you were born evil” is an insane thing to say to your daughter who once begged not only for her life but for the lives of her coven. who swore she couldn’t control what she was doing and wanted help. who once promised she could be good if only you taught her, mentored her, loved her, like a mother should.
The hardest part of being a substitute teacher is sometimes a twelve year old walks into your classroom wearing a ten-gallon cowboy hat for no reason and you cannot under any circumstances say “hell yeah”
You’d be the coolest substitute if you did tho
And this is why all the kids say I’m their favorite sub, because I do
today in college someone said “wasteful is…your pants” and I said “please, grammatically continue” and everyone at my table laughed. it is a good day to be a sfth fan
Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡
these are a mandatory part of every windows install for me. been using them for years and it’s such a lifesaver
Because this has mostly been talked about with Windows 11, heads-up that this installed itself on every Windows 10 computer in our house with this week’s update.
I don’t want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don’t want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don’t want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.
While I’m sure a lot of people would agree with this post, I didn’t mention any day of the week nor brought up color theory, so unless people take this reply as a challenge this is gonna be just another flop
I mean you could write a haiku. Those work sometimes. Haikus are hard though.
I mean you could write
a haiku. Those work sometimes.
Haikus are hard though.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I don’t want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don’t want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don’t want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.
While I’m sure a lot of people would agree with this post, I didn’t mention any day of the week nor brought up color theory, so unless people take this reply as a challenge this is gonna be just another flop
I mean you could write a haiku. Those work sometimes. Haikus are hard though.
I mean you could write
a haiku. Those work sometimes.
Haikus are hard though.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I don’t want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don’t want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don’t want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.
While I’m sure a lot of people would agree with this post, I didn’t mention any day of the week nor brought up color theory, so unless people take this reply as a challenge this is gonna be just another flop
I mean you could write a haiku. Those work sometimes. Haikus are hard though.
I mean you could write
a haiku. Those work sometimes.
Haikus are hard though.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I don’t want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don’t want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don’t want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.
While I’m sure a lot of people would agree with this post, I didn’t mention any day of the week nor brought up color theory, so unless people take this reply as a challenge this is gonna be just another flop
I mean you could write a haiku. Those work sometimes. Haikus are hard though.
I mean you could write
a haiku. Those work sometimes.
Haikus are hard though.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I don’t want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don’t want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don’t want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.
While I’m sure a lot of people would agree with this post, I didn’t mention any day of the week nor brought up color theory, so unless people take this reply as a challenge this is gonna be just another flop
I mean you could write a haiku. Those work sometimes. Haikus are hard though.
I mean you could write
a haiku. Those work sometimes.
Haikus are hard though.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
>random guy in shit tier iron armor shows up one day saying a dragon is burning down a city
>don’t know why the guards let him in
>figure I can throw another body at my court wizard so I shuffle him over
>Comes back with arrows sticking out of his body and holding the tablet out for my court wizard like its nothing
>Hear reports someone killed literally every bandit, rat, wolf, and rabbit between here and the spot he was sent
>I now need to get this pain immune lunatic murderer out of my city.
>Dragon shows up
>Ohthankthegods
>Send the guy out on a suicide mission to kill a dragon
>End of my worries
>He comes back, apparently having killed the dragon and eaten its soul
>According to reports just stood there and let the dragon burn him while chugging addictive and dangerous health potions he made himself.
>Now standing in front of me eating an entire bushel of apples, two loaves of bread, and an entire side of beef while everyone looks on in horror and disgust
>Need to get him away from my children as fast as possible
>Tell him he needs to climb the tallest mountain in Skyrim and stay with the Graybeards
>He leaves without a word
>Hopefully thats the last I’ll see of him.
I know this is a tiny part of the wider problems born of diet culture, fatphobia, classicism, and racism but like god the idea that “healthy” food must inherently taste bad has completely ruined us as a society.
Every time you feel bad for having coffee with cream and sugar or ranch on your salad or putting extra butter and salt on your veggies I want you to imagine the spirit of John Harvey Kellogg in front of you and then I want you to kill him with a real gun and eat your delicious food in peace.
I know there’s the funny ha ha of a capitalist’s worst nightmare of a product being too durable you don’t need to replace it, but the situation is actually quite interesting to look into
A lot of articles tend to point towards a lack of “relevance” but ultimately that’s not what is happening.
One of Tupperware’s biggest hurdles is availability, not demand. They previously relied on independent sellers, down to individual independent sellers, like the Tupperware Parties of yore (people, usually women seeking financial independence from the 50s onward, would hold events to sell Tupperware to other suburban women – similar to Avon). 2022 was the first year Tupperware could be found in places like Target. At All. Their exclusivity and middle(wo)men decreased their reach as the parties became less and less of a thing.
The next issue for Tupperware is in manufacturing. It only has a single US plant (which it now closed) and struggled post-(early)covid to pay for rising costs of plastic and transportation of materials.
THEN Tupperware got fucked by investors trying to make bank first on their success and then also on their failure as they got swept into “meme stock” betting, where inexperienced traders gamble on stock around jokes/irony.
So ultimately, Tupperware has failed to get with the times as it has always relied on suburban lady sales while countless imitation products hit shelves in places where working class people shop for cheaper and sometimes comparable products, the cost to make a good product went up and as Tupperware struggled, investors and gamblers who are addicted to Line Going Up cashed in on betting on their failure rather than success, and because Tupperware is so synonymous with plastic food storage, IP gremlins are more than delighted to crash and burn a company to get it on the cheap and turn it around to make the numbers go back up again.
Rather than a “oh the woe of durability” story, or lament that a product is not used anymore, this is an excellent microcosm of the vulturistic nature of capitalism.
How dare you read the article and add nuance to this headline upon which I may project my grossly uninformed postulations of Our Society and consumer behavior.
American public schools won’t teach you this, but the Spirit Halloween bone snail and the Beanie Baby snail are actually deeply devoted and sensual gay lovers.
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