why are americans obsessed with the word grief everyday i feel like i am closer to reading something like “no one talks about the unborrowed grief of never going to parties”
This Black History Month, reflect for a moment on the fact that George Washington Carver, famously “the inventor of peanut butter and more than 100 industrial uses for peanuts” wasn’t, like, Doc Brown fucking around in his garage because he really liked peanuts but was specifically trying to introduce larger use of a nitrogen fixing legume into crop rotations against cotton monoculture which was destroying yields, livelihoods and the biosphere, and how most agribusiness farming now just destroys that topsoil on purpose and continues to grow a cotton monoculture (or soy or corn or whichever local monoculture is profitable) using petrochemical derived fertilizer, which is one element driving climate change
Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart surgery. He also founded the first nonsegregated hospital in America because he was keenly aware of disparate health outcomes by race which is still a problem today.
WEB Dubois was a part of the delegations for the birth of the UN. His proposal to include in the charter that “the colonial system of government … is undemocratic, socially dangerous and a main cause of wars” was not adapted for the final draft. We might see inaction against colonial violence to this day as part of the failure of others to heed his warnings there.
I feel like so often when we look at Black History Month so much of it is driven by factoids but when taken as history in context its about a direct line from decades and centuries to what is happening right now.
taking away his arms and feets was allegedly a punishment but now several thousand years after the fact everyone agrees that tubelike is among the most badass shapes an animal can be. perhaps a sign of the times but perhaps it is also correct
Fuck “masks encouraged” from the bottom of my heart. Fascism is here. Stop being polite. Require masks at events! Stop doing the oppressors work for them! Stop obeying in advance! Covid kills, and disables LGBTQ+ and neurodivergant people disproportionately, especially non white people. Let’s get it together please. Sure it might be socially awkward to wear a mask. You know what else is socially awkward? Not being able to concentrate through a simple conversation because you have brain fog (brain damage) from the stacked covid infections you’ve had. The CDC is a joke, they do not care if you live or die. Rebel by staying alive and as healthy as you can. I understand not everyone can mask too!! We don’t need everyone to mask. We need *more* people to mask. We need people to mask whenever they can. I want you all to be alive and well to watch this empire crumble.
President Donald Trump’s “government efficiency” cheerleader Elon Musk proposed simply ignoring all federal regulations during a public call shortly after midnight Monday morning.
Musk, whose newly formed “Department of Government Efficiency” team has in recent days executed a dramatic power grab at several government agencies, called for “wholesale removal of regulations.”
“Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” Musk said. “Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.”
“These regulations are added willy-nilly all the time. So we’ve just got to do a wholesale, spring cleaning of regulation and get the government off the backs of everyday Americans so people can get things done,” Musk said, adding later: “If the government has millions of regulations holding everyone back, well, it’s not freedom. We’ve got to restore freedom.”
Musk replied, “If it’s not possible now, it’ll never be possible. This is our shot. This is the best hand of cards we’re ever going to have. And if we don’t take advantage of this best hand of cards, it’s never going to happen, so we’re going to do it.”
As the GTS has reached 100 million Pokémon traded, the Vivillon pattern distribution has been announced. This pattern will run from tomorrow, July 8th, to July 31st 2014 over the Nintendo Network. This Vivillon is exclusive to this download and comes with the special move, Hold Hands, that no other Pokémon can have.
What if you poked me in the chest and your finger broke through like you were cracking into a rotted plank of wood and dust came out and I just crumpled into nothing and my spores got into your nose
I would not hang out with you again that’s for sure!
i think i’m going to be straight now can a girl come on this post so i can practice i want to try to be straight today
i need a girl to come on to this post i need to try something
ok. im come over.
heyyyy lol 😛 sooooooo *leans against the wall in a way that’s way way way way too close and you can smell my deer attractant and axe body spray combo* ummmm *blushes* *goes red*
ok. whatever. *looks away from you, hornily*
*i panic and rip your face off*
ummm…. ok… kind of weird… you are such a weird guy lol…. kind of funny tho… lol… can we kiss now. *i am unperturbed and my face is growing back slowly because i am immortal*
OOC: Godmodding. This is why i never RP with women
OOC: Typical misogyny. And of course the mod team does nothing. This is why rpworld.zetaforums.net is failing. I’ll be taking me - and my FOURTY-SEVEN active RP threads - to roleplaydream.invisionfree.com. Thanks for nothing.
OOC: Have fun getting anyone to play with your shitty mary sue. Go back to fanfic
What the fuck did I just read? As a role player and a non-straight woman… I think I need a drink after reading this. You are BOTH terrible role players, and neither of you are worthy of a good plot.
*crawls towards you on all fours submissively hoping you don’t hurt me*
this post is crazy now cause i do legitimately have a girlfriend now, and maybe i wouldn’t have been able to do this without this practice simulation. like, say what you will, it worked.
I don’t know a single TMNT turtle’s name I just realized. Leonardo that’s easy. Be cause of the Vinky guy. But the other three are what. I wanna say one’s named Capricola. Or Pensacola. Picasso? I don’t fuckin know, don’t come back without a warrant
You all have to understand that until this moment I forgot they were even color coded. I’m not sure why the turtz lore did not absorb into my psyche as a child. I am worse with power rangers though.
The power rangers have names???
Yeah but literally the only one I know is Jesse and she’s the blue ranger. Neither of these facts are guaranteed to be true however. I know they form Voltron that bigass robot but literally nothing else. Oh unless you count that recent movie with the guy from Stranger Things that looks like a cross between Zack Effron and a cigarette butt. That movie was neat
my maybe controversial opinion is that if there are even slightly competing alternatives, reliable and frequent public transport beats fast public transport
if one train is fast but gets frequently cancelled and loud and the alternative train is reliable, departs every half hour and is relatively quiet but takes twice the time to reach my destination i will take the reliable train over the fast train in 9/10 times. even if the fast train takes 30mins and the reliable takes over an hour
i will go out of my way to take trains where i know I won’t get stressed
reducing travel time will barely improve the quality of the service but having reliable and semi-frequent service and quiet rolling stock with air conditioning is very important for the service quality
that’s also why i despise buses, they are not reliable since traffic can easily cause delays, the ride quality is shit and they are loud
also seat quality is not important on regional services with <1h of travel time
once again the reliability is more important. the one time where the train gets cancelled makes the entire experience way more uncomfortable than having harder seats on a 20min route
even having to interchange between two reliable trains is more comfortable than using an unreliable but direct train
are you a “filters tags from my mutual’s new obsession” Tumblr user or are you a “learns about their new obsession (semi-forcefully) by osmosis” Tumblr user
you see people trying to make a living online and some of them are natural self-promoters and some of them are terrible at it but still conscientiously try to Push Their Brand and others don’t even realise that marketing is a thing, let alone a necessary thing, and just howl into the abyss waiting for an echo.
Fun thing about football right now is that there’s a move called the “brotherly shove” that the Eagles do when they’re very close to scoring, where the whole team puts their hands on the ass of the guy with the ball and physically propels him over the line into the endzone for the touchdown, and all the other teams’ fans hate it because it’s got such a ridiculously high rate of success for the Eagles and doesn’t really seem to work for any other team. People are straight-up calling for this move to be banned, claiming it’s “unstoppable” and gives an “unfair advantage” but it really and truly is a skill issue. The whole league hates this move because it only makes the Eagles win more often and nobody else can figure out how to do it right
I think it’s hilarious that hands down the worst way to learn magic is the actual rulebook. Please do not read that. It’s just there for reference when something weird happens
posts that i know are about magic the gathering but i have to check to make sure op isn’t just living in a way doper world than me
OK Tumblr Geriatric Ward, let’s talk about your posture-
there are things you should be doing now to prevent yourself from starting to look like 🥀
Why does it matter? Future you would like to avoid the pain, limited motion, and fall risk that goes along with worsening posture.
What’s the focus?
1. Keep the flexibility in your spine
2. Stretch the muscles in the front
3. Strengthen the muscle in the back
Here are some simple things you can do daily while sitting and when you get up to go into the bathroom or the kitchen
Keep the flexibility by doing these repeated movements: 10 repetitions several times a day
The goal is to give yourself a double or triple chin. Keep your nose pointing forward, don’t let it tip up or down
Thoracic extension- use a chair with a seat back that comes up to the level of your shoulder blades. Try to bend back over the top of the chair without arching away from the seat back and without extending your neck. If the pressure from the top of the chair is uncomfortable you can place a towel there
Stretch the muscles in the front by using a door frame. This one will feel good afterwards
If this isn’t enough of a stretch you can do one side at a time. If you have the right arm up step forward with the right foot and turn slightly to the left. Then do it on the other side.
Strengthen the muscles in the back by squeezing your shoulder blades together for a count of 10 and then repeating 10 times. You can do this several times a day Hint: Don’t lift your shoulder blades up
There are lots more exercises for strengthening your back muscles but this is a good starting point and easy to do. I like doing it while driving
Tips:
Do the best you can
If it hurts stop
Envision future you saying thank you each time you do one of the exercises
NOTE: I can do most of these with the cerebral palsy. In fact, a lot of these little exercises are automatically part of my physical therapy. My problem is I already have hyperlordosis, spine arthritis, and cervicogenic headache. These have helped me at least try to have a posture.
it’s really such an experience to go from “oh this is really cool wow” to “aw man i like this so much i need to eat glass about it” i cant even pinpoint when it happened
hey can we talk about the fact that during our last battle that strange wizard we let join the party shouted “evil blast!” and then black lightning bursted from their fingertips?
wait. do terfs not know that feminizing hrt causes breast tissue to grow. do they think that every single trans woman with any sort of chest got implants. do they not realize that literally anyone with breast tissue can induce lactation. what. huh
well the thing about terfs is that they don’t know anything, so jot that down
I’m learning that it is in fact news to many people that taking estrogen can cause breasts to grow and I really have to wonder… besties What is your understanding of hrt what do you think it does
truly the most american thing is Big Drink. more than late stage capitalism, more than an unparalleled cultural focus on individualism, more than 9/11 jokes
what binds all americans together culturally is Big Drink
and you might be saying “is this fat shaming” or “but mayor bloomberg outlawed Big Drink in nyc” or “gays are so annoying about their iced coffee” or some other dumb comment but no open your minds, Big Drink isn’t just sugary or caffeinated beverages
every day i see one of you hydration bitches (affectionate) on the train with a water bottle so big a toddler could drown in it. that too is Big Drink.
we literally invented a bigger beer can (tall boy) in wisconsin in the 60s in the service of Big Drink
anyway i never feel more american then when i have Big Drink in my hands
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