Not everyone knows this so im gonna tell you. Countries that speak the same spoken language will not necessarily use the same sign language.
For example, American Sign Language and French Sign Language are related and I’ve known ASL users who have said they could stumble through communication with people who use LSF.
British sign language is completely unrelated to ASL however. The two languages have almost nothing in common. BSL is related to Australian sign language but Auslan and BSL still aren’t the same language.
Mexico from what I gather has at least three completely unrelated sign languages, though LSM is the most widely used. Mainland China and Taiwan use completely different unrelated sign languages despite both countries using Mandarin. Portuguese sign language is influenced by Swedish sign language while Brazilian sign language is influenced by LSF. In most of Canada they use ASL but in Quebec they have their own unique sign language that’s still related to ASL and LSF. Nicaraguan sign language is a unique language naturally developed by children in a school for the deaf and is completely unrelated to the sign languages around it in other Spanish speaking countries.
I could go on and on and on. There’s hundreds of sign languages out there and they don’t follow the same geographic lines that spoken ones do. Keep that in mind.
On April 16th 2025 the US federal government has proposed to change the interpretation of the endangered species act so that it no longer protects habitat.
You can go to any frat party and find this couple as long as your group meets the ratio requirements
what the fuck are they even wearing, her outfit is like if leather fetishists liked jeans instead and he looks like his clothes don’t fit properly and he got dipped in coffee by a frost giant
You just made these outfits sound way more awesome than they are
Look, I know Tumblr is the website of chronically online introverts, but this is also the only website where I have any reach. And I live in America so this is relevant to me. So I’ll go ahead and put this here.
Every year there’s hundreds of positions that go completely unchallenged. Some of them for areas that you, the general American Tumblrite, probably care about.
I’m being so, so, so completely serious right now.
Run for something, and if you promise to never ban a book, the linked website and@fated-mates can get you in touch with volunteers for phone banking (aka letting voters know you exist, what you stand for, and convincing people to vote for you). Depending on your situation, they’ll fund you, too.
Women especially need to hear the message 7 times, according to some studies, to be convinced that yes, this is something they can do.
You can run for something! Run for something small. School boards. Municipal government. Run for something as a side hustle. Run for something because you’re an empty nester and your book club stinks. Run for something so you can personally push things leftward, even if it’s just one foot, that’s one foot further towards your leftist goals no matter what they might be.
Run for school board because look at the fucking idiots currently running it. You know you’re smarter than them. Fucking, if you’ve ever completed a school project you’re probably smarter than them.
Run for something because Elon Musk is pissing you off. Run for something because you’re trying to fight off despair. Run for something because you hate the idea that you can’t do anything. You can do something! You can run for something.
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Look at me. Look me in the eyes. Two neighborhood people who were involved in being community support for my union decided to run for library board and not only did they both win, they beat out my least favorite board member who is now no longer my problem. These two new pro-union board members will now be on the board the next time we have to negotiate a contract. This makes my life, personally, demonstrably better and easier. Just because two people decided library board was something they cared about.
I’m not saying running for something is easy and being an elected official involves a good bit of work and responsibility, but damn it can really be worth it. I ran for my local library board and I can see the tangible results in my community based on decisions I have made there. Take that nihilism and helplessness!
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