Daddy has a very special task for you today kitten, so he’s going to need alllll of your attention and submission ❤️😈 That’s a good girl. Now, first thing’s first, look at this parts diagram for a 2009 Toyota Prius. Do you see the part labeled “catalytic converter”?
I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money.
“A scam” people are fucking wild.
This happened to me, too. A woman had used WIC for the majority of her stuff (which I say from personal experience is such a long and embarrassing process) and to buy the remainder of her groceries, which included diapers and wipes, she used a card, and it got declined. I bought the other $30 of her groceries because hey, I’ve been there, and now I’m not. She was extremely emotional and began to cry and even hugged me. My mom called me on the drive home and could tell I had been crying myself, asked what was wrong, and when I told her what happened, she berated me for being “duped.” I couldn’t believe she could be so disappointed in one of her children for doing something- nice? Is that the hill you want to die on? Getting mad about people needing groceries?
I once paid for a woman’s bill at the vet…it wasn’t a big one, but she was trying to pay for some medication for her dog, and her card was declined. And her lip started trembling, and she says “I don’t get paid until Tuesday, would he be ok until then?”
So I just told them to add the $20 something onto my bill, and I thought she was going to break down crying right there.
And I don’t care if it was a scam or not. Just do nice things for people sometimes.
Do good recklessly.
I think “Do good recklessly” would be fantastic word art to hang on one’s wall. Artistic people, go!
So this has happened to me but from the other side. Several years ago when my oldest was around three or so, I had my debit card decline at Walmart. It wasn’t a scam or a mistake, I was genuinely broke. Out of money. I checked my bank and discovered I had something like 7 dollars left to my name and a hungry kid and nothing to eat at home. So I sat there trying to come up with the best way to stretch that tiny amount of money to feed my kid. Not even to feed me. I can live on popcorn or something if I have to but my kid was three and he had to eat. So there I am trying really hard not to cry while I slowly take things out of my basket to get it down to under 7 bucks, when a lady tapped me on the shoulder. I looked up and she smiled at me and started putting the things back in my cart. I opened my mouth to tell her that I didn’t have the money for them but she stopped me right away and said “Don’t worry about it. It’s gonna be fine.” Then she handed the cashier her credit card and said “Ring up all of it.” My kid got to eat because of her. I got to eat because of her. I had laundry soap and deodorant because of her. She could’ve just ignored me silently struggling in that line. She could’ve decided I was a scam and gone home feeling good about avoiding being duped. But instead she chose to help me and she saved us. So maybe the person struggling in front of you is trying to put one over on you or maybe they are just sad and broke and trying to figure out what to do. You get to decide which you want to believe and what you want to do. But I’ll tell y’all, no one has ever been more beautiful to me than that lady in that line who saved me and my baby. Be like her. Be beautiful.
Do good recklessly
DO BETTER. BE BETTER. STRIVE TO BE BETTER.
DO GOOD RECKLESSLY
One time, my dad and I were living the grocery store and there was a guy outside asking for money to buy some stuff to take home for his kids. It was around Christmas time. My dad asked him if he could give him groceries instead of money, and the guy immediately said yes, so my dad gave him one of everything we bought (meat, rice, some chocolates, milk, oil). At that time, my dad hadn’t gotten his paycheck because the company he worked for was going through a tough time, but he didn’t care, he saw an opportunity to help someone and he did.
Another time, my dad gave 50 bucks to a guy who said he needed to buy medicine for his kids. I told my dad he was probably going to spend the money on alcohol or something, but my dad said that “whether he was lying or not says something about HIS character, but hearing someone in need and choosing not to help when I have the means to says something about mine”.
I never forget that.
“whether he was lying or not says something about HIS character, but hearing someone in need and choosing not to help when I have the means to says something about mine”
louder, for the people in the back
Part of being a Warrior is doing good recklessly.
-FemaleWarrior, She/They
About a decade ago, I was trying to figure out how to put together a holiday meal for my little household, with only $7 to my name. We were joking around about it and stuff, because it’s better to laugh than cry, and this very nice older lady noticed us, and said it looked like we were having fun. I laughed, and told her what we were doing, and she insisted, then and there, on giving us $20 to help us out. We tried telling her we’d be fine, but she would not take no for an answer.
It’s not the first time a stranger’s kindness has helped me during a rough time, but every time it’s happened, it’s made such a huge difference.
If I refused to help out in turn when I can just because the person in need MIGHT be a scammer, it would feel like spitting on the kindness that was shown to me.
If you do this with my fics, or anyone’s fics, please know I HATE you. I hate you more than every troll comment, every “your writing sucks kys” comment, every “update soon” comment. I hate you. Other authors hate you. If you want my fic, you either WAIT for it or you pay me for it. And if you won’t do one of those things, you don’t deserve my fic or anyone else’s.
I want to try so many little hobbies. Candle making, soap making, basket weaving, wood carving, book binding, baking, weaving, I want to try them all.
I almost made a post about this the other day (unless i actually did and totally forgot) but there’s so many
I was going to make a list, but then i realized this is a good time to share this book
Making Stuff and Doing things is a whole collection of old punk DIY zines about making and doing just about anything, even things you probably never knew you wanted to do.
Book binding? In there.
Making bowls from old vinyl records? I made a whole ton for my brother’s grad party last year.
Basics of guitar? Making rubber stamps? Silk screening? Composting? Homemade beer, root beer, and wine? Soymilk?? Quill pens??? All in there.
Since it’s more punk, it doesn’t have a ton of the folksy, cottage vibes/hobbies, but it’s all about being resourceful and sustainable, which they both have in common.
If i ever need to do anything I’m not sure of, I double check this book to see if there’s anything in there. It’s one of the only books on diy I’ve ever needed.
thinking about this again and the product is just finely ground silica that you clap in your hands aerosolizing it. You know like how you get silicosis. Huge class action opportunity here if you get in on the ground floor.
This website has a clickable map where you can see suspected and confirmed sundown towns by state, as well as information about whether these attitudes are historical or current.
REBLOG IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT BLOG YOU ARE THIS IS GONNA SAVE SOMEONE
I am poc too and i am scared for my LIFE when i go to the south. please stay safe.
I am not poc but I know this could save someone’s life. Please reblog and spread the message.
My obligatory addition to this every time it crosses my dash, because I know the link is definitely missing ones in my own (northern) state and there are some in this thread not on the above link either - thread by LeVar Burton with a LOT of replies from people naming the sundown towns near them:
it fucking sucks being a disabled person who can’t work and having to see these fuckass posts where someone’s like “ahaha jobless people have no life and that’s why everyone shitty online has No Job” and everyone and their mother reblogs it joyfully onto my dash for me to see. yes unemployed and unemployable people are truly without exception dogshit people with no hobbies and no redeeming qualities. you’re so right. anyway if you’ll excuse me i have to start my shift at the I’ll Never Be Employed Because Of Permanent Disability And I Love Knowing How You Really See Me store
if ur able to work can u reblog this i am seriously SO sick of it.
btw this isn’t solely a disability rights issue or an issue about people who are entirely unable to work. you should also be thinking about the people who are regarded as unhireable. transfems are hugely discriminated against in this way, people of color are passed over for less qualified white people, anyone who has any difficulty playing the interview game is less hireable… frankly anyone who made the mistake of pursuing the things they love and now has a degree for a niche field. if you still joke about Jobless People it’s because you’ve fundamentally connected the worth of people to their labor, and specific labor, work that you see as valuable. and while i’m at it stop making fun of people who still live with their parents. asshole.
do not act on negative emotions until at least 2 days have elapsed
This counts before a period too because I’ll suddenly have a big sad out of nowhere before the thing starts even though I got out of chronic crippling depression a few years ago and I’ll start panicking every time “is it back???” but then a few days later the bleeding starts and then I’m like “oh”
yesterday I was literally crying the entire day for no reason whatsoever. I was crying while eating my beans and my entire family just went “okay we’re dealing with this now.” Several hours later, I get my period
i hate when you google a word and some fucking company comes up instead. Do you think you are more important than the english dictionary you piece of shit corporation
actually happy autism acceptance month to people who have quirks around food that other people get really weird about. like who cares if they only eat boiled vegetables and gravy or they won’t eat specific combinations of food. let us live
I’m not autistic (probably) but I relate to this heavily. I wouldn’t eat sandwiches for my entire life because all of the flavours were mashed together. There was always too much margarine and it felt slimy and gross. But I could eat it all separately :D
Has anyone realised that all of the new fandoms (as in, after 2020) are short lived? There are like a thousand fandoms that randomly blew up in popularity and then immediately died down. Has it always been like this or am I using like survivor bias?
Trans people of all stripes, when you write your insane discourse, why do you have a need to shorten phrases so much?
“It specifically refers to tendencies among tme trans people to use their agab as a shorthand for their precieved innocence mostly to the detriment of transfems and themselves, as the comic illustrates.”
Why couldn’t this be:
It specifically refers to tendencies among transmisogyny exempt trans people to use their assigned gender at birth as a shorthand for their precieved innocence mostly to the detriment of transfems and themselves, as the comic illustrates.
Tumblr character limits are fairly large, this isn’t Twitter, what the hell are you doing with all that time you’re saving anyway?
Not to mention the, frankly befuddling, trend of these acronyms getting completely detached from their actual meanings and being used nonsensically.
For example, I have on several occasions seen the acronym ‘TERF’ being used for random transphobia that has nothing to do with 'Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism’ which is what that acronym is supposed to mean.
I understand that writing a four word phrase every time can be annoying, but if it prevents nonsense takes, why not do it?
This is, I think, a problem with acronyms in general. I mean:
“poc artist”
Person of color artist? What?? Obviously we should just say 'artist of color’ yet the obsession with acronyms (like we’re sending SMS messages or something) seems to persist.
Also some people do not know what the hell the acronyms mean at all
Okay okay okay so I’m changing like every recognizable detail of this for privacy purposes but yall need to appreciate this
So I know how to retain CCTV footage, right? It doesn’t come up everywhere but I know my way around- and if someone gets jumped in a parking lot or whatever I can go backwards and see whodunnit
So I’m at this one place, right? And I get a call that an older woman in a wheelchair got hurt somehow and we need to see what happened.
Nobody remembers the exact time, because of course not, but they tell me she was wearing like a massive hot pink jacket and she’s in a wheelchair and she left with a medic round 09:45ish, so I figure I’ll start there.
So I find the incident itself no problem, but they need ALL footage for liability and insurance and stuff, so I have to keep going
And about ten minutes backwards, I lose her. She comes into view past a single shelf on one of the worse cameras and vanishes.
like. VANISHES. Hot pink jacket, big bulky black chair, gonzo. No idea where she came from.
So, I pull up entry cams. Zoom backwards till I see her come in… at like 06:15.
THREE AND A HALF HOURS EARLIER.
So first off, this is gonna take me like two hours minimum to write down, forget retention. And I’m kind of dying in my soul a bit but I start over there, watching her come in and meander and whatever.
At about 08:30ish she disappears.
Doesn’t leave. Doesn’t head to a bathroom. Doesn’t take her coat off. Her trail just stops.
Now, I’ve done this before. Typically, a location only has the mandatory minimum amount of room for a chair or walker to get around, so a person using one can only go forwards and it’s hard to 180. That limits options and makes it easier to follow, whereas a little unattended and fully mobile kid will zoom around in circles and shit and go who the hell knows where.
Then I see her again on the other ass end of the building, and I have to go back again to see how she GOT there.
My guys.
Her two and three-point turns are INCREDIBLE.
She’s popping on the wheels, flip, zoom, she’s out somewhere I didn’t think she could even GET to. I’ve been planning my search for places that fit a wheelchair or least-resistance fast-paths from A to B and she’s like… doing some Tokyo Drift shit.
I don’t know WHY. The whole place is basically completely accessible so long as you put up with having to reverse, but no. No, she goes where she wants.
I’ve been at this for half the day, and I still have no idea where she went for like an hour and a half.
We need socialism just don’t call it that. Call it “real american freedom” and let people believe that it’s just a cool new form of patriotism. If anyone calls it socialism just tell them “No it’s not, its true patriotism, and you just hate Americans!” And we’ll slowly drag this shithole country back into something that actually fucking works
We need a system that’s done nothing but fail and create dictatorships?
Baby bird season is incoming and I’d like to remind everyone that birds do not have a significant sense of smell. Bird parents will not reject birdlets because you have handled them.
If you see smol birbs with few or no feathers on the ground, you can safely put them back into their nest, bird parents will still care for them.
If you see smol birbs with some or most feathers on the ground, please leave them there, as bird parents are probably nearby watching and feeding.
nakey bird = accidentally fell out, is cold and scared, put back in nest! if you can’t reach the nest, try to put it on a wide branch or fork so predators can’t get at it as easily.
scruffy feather bird = starting to try the fly thing, not very good at it. only put in nest/branch if predators abound, i.e. you have four outdoor cats and they’re licking their chops.
fluffy feather bird = smol fly guy! do nothing. can probably get away from predators and will flip its shit if you pick it up.
Reblogging this because I’d always heard the ‘Don’t touch a distressed bird its mom will reject it’ thing treated as fact before now, I didn’t realise it wasn’t true…
Baby bird season is incoming and I’d like to remind everyone that birds do not have a significant sense of smell. Bird parents will not reject birdlets because you have handled them.
If you see smol birbs with few or no feathers on the ground, you can safely put them back into their nest, bird parents will still care for them.
If you see smol birbs with some or most feathers on the ground, please leave them there, as bird parents are probably nearby watching and feeding.
nakey bird = accidentally fell out, is cold and scared, put back in nest! if you can’t reach the nest, try to put it on a wide branch or fork so predators can’t get at it as easily.
scruffy feather bird = starting to try the fly thing, not very good at it. only put in nest/branch if predators abound, i.e. you have four outdoor cats and they’re licking their chops.
fluffy feather bird = smol fly guy! do nothing. can probably get away from predators and will flip its shit if you pick it up.
Reblogging this because I’d always heard the ‘Don’t touch a distressed bird its mom will reject it’ thing treated as fact before now, I didn’t realise it wasn’t true…
This is exactly how big cats take down larger prey animals - jump on the back and sever the spinal cord. Had it not been for their anti-cat armor, this child would have been lunch.
legitimately my first feminist awakening as a ten year old child was realizing that girls were expected to respect “boy stuff” but boys were never expected to respect “girl stuff”
my science fair project in fifth grade was basically i had this printout of a bunch of toys that were stereotypically boy toys and girl toys, and i would have my classmates study the sheet for some short period of time, idr if it was like 30 seconds or a minute or whatever, then put it away and had them recall to me as many toys as they could remember. my hypothesis was officially that boys would remember more boy toys and girls would remember more girl toys, but secretly in my head i knew that girls would probably remember boy toys and girl toys relatively equally but boys would still remember mostly boy toys. and that ended up being the case. and i still remember this 20 years later because it hasn’t fucking stopped. and you know what they didn’t even like my project. participation ribbon. i was a fifth grade feminist theorist and no one cared
well i was not expecting the notes on this to say the least so i just want to add that the reason i was thinking about this again is because it’s a perfect introduction to how transphobia that transmasculine people experience is different from transmisogyny. the idea of people who were assigned male at birth doing “girl stuff” ie transitioning and being women is a different level of abhorrent to people whose worldview depends on biologically essentialist gender roles. why the fear of trans people boils down for many bigots to the “men in dresses” stereotype. the wave of feminism that now allows even cishet women to commonly wear pants didn’t have a mirrored rise in cishet men wearing skirts for some reason. and it’s exactly this. and that’s why i need fellow transmascs to understand that like. transphobic discrimination or microaggressions that trans women face are often ones we don’t.
like going back to the example of children and their interests, no matter what people think of tomboys, which i’m in no way saying is always approving, there at the very least still exists a concept of the tomboy: a child assigned female at birth who is into stereotypically male stuff. there’s no word for a child assigned male at birth who is into stereotypically female stuff. there’s just slurs.
the other day one of my coworkers halfway referenced the spiders georg post but stopped before he actually reached the spiders georg part. like. I can’t be sure that that’s what he was doing but one coworker said “yknow. people swallow several spiders every year” and my other coworker said “well that’s just- it’s not true. it’s a- no, you’d wake up” and just. there was a look in his eyes. I just know
waging psychological warfare against one of my team leads starting tomorrow
I don’t relate to the shark in JAWS but I can still tell everyone in that movie is dumb and wrong for going back in the water over and over and over again.
The Federation is BAD because they send wave after wave of kids fresh out of high school to fight bugs on a rock for NO REASON!
“But the bugs sent a meteor!”
How? How did bugs throw a rock from space? Did the bugs actually throw a rock or did the government that won’t let people vote or have kids without a permit LIE ABOUT A ROCK?
… It only just occured to me that yeah, maybe they did lie about the rock.
Because it keeps the Warmachine going and nothing makes money like a good war.
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Now I know Tumblr likes morally ambiguous men, rats, and gardening so I think this book will tick a lot of people’s boxes.
Blurb:
Locked away. Left to die. He’ll master his powers to survive, then thrive.
Betrayed by his former gang and thrown into the Rendhold Underprison, Dante has spent the last five years scraping by. A bastard of human, orcish, and elvish blood, he’s lived on the periphery of the periphery, lying, cheating, and stealing to survive.
After a run of bad luck, he’s made a powerful enemy who seeks his head.
But that’s where his rise to power begins. Thanks to an unexpected alliance with a fanged friend, the druidic powers locked within him come to life. He has all the tools he needs to turn things around, he just need to master them.
Because you can never underestimate a Street Rat…
Don’t miss this progression fantasy series perfect for fans of Dishonored, The Blacktongue Thief, The Lies of Locke Lamora, and Baldur’s Gate!
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