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Please please please don't click those phishing texts
Addition: the IRS will NEVER call you if you owe, they will send letters. Unless you have an active ongoing case with them and a known IRS agent they assign via mail, it is a scammer.
swiping these from OP on the other reblog chain:
I saw this PSA on the Wikipedia
OP: so this is the ‘intense regional downpour’ on the weather forecast
I love when the weather says 'fuck you, get soaked,' to a single mile-wide or square-mile piece of land.
normalize calling viagra and menopausal hormone treatments gender affirming care
the absolute terror people have about transgender hrt is diminished when you point out that actually, my mom does the same thing and so does yours probably 🤷♀️ pretty banal in reality
Posts like these are the leftist equivalent of Ben Shapiro tweets. Just so misinformed, ignorant, and based solely in personal opinion or emotion, that you can't even begin to properly address it without teaching a college course.
Gender affirming therapies are good, but these things are clearly not GATs. I don't know why you would say this, but it's annoying. I am tired of people sprinkling the right dressing onto their word salad and getting huge traction from an unthinking, uninformed userbase.
Hi, I'm Kay. I was a pharmacy technician for fifteen years, ten of which were at an independently owned pharmacy. I read pharmacological studies and assisted in compounding medications as requested by the doctors in my area.
Erectile dysfunction medications absolutely are gender affirming therapy. Their primary function is to allow cisgender men to maintain an erection. They are outright referred to as "male enhancement" medications. A significant portion of cis men who are unable to maintain a erection feel like less of a man. Medications like Viagra and Cialis allow them to feel like a man again. If that's not affirming one's gender, I don't know what is.
Similarly, menopausal hormone treatments are used when someone's body begins to stop creating estrogens and progestins as cisgender women age. What happens when a body used to those hormones suddenly doesn't have them anymore? Well, the latent testosterone levels in a cis woman's body is enough to cause darker and thicker body hair, acne, a change in sex drive, and even thinning hair or balding. Cis women going through menopause don't feel like women because their hormones have shifted. Again, gender affirming therapy.
The term "gender affirming therapy" doesn't refer to specifically transgender people's medications. The medical term therapy refers not only to medication, but also medical procedures and surgeries. If a medical therapy affirms one's gender (no matter the gender), it's gender affirming therapy.
ok guys am i stupid for feeling like folding chairs were a modern thing? i saw this folding chair from the 16th century in the ming dynasty and it's blowing my mind
not that they'd be difficult to manufacture im sure they could've made one a thousand years ago, thinking about it now. it's just like, in my dumb lizard brain you'd never invent the folding chair without first inventing the enormous auditorium conference hall for mediocre businessmen yk
this meeting could've been a bamboo scroll
Not just in China, either! Here are two x-frame, or scissor chairs, from Europe. Both are from the mid sixteenth century, and made in Italy:
(Both of these are from the V&A’s collection.)
The V&A says this about x-frame chairs:
'X-frame' chairs were originally folding campaign stools, used by Roman Generals. They were adopted by emperors and potentates, although, by 1550, they had become less symbolic of power and authority than they had been in earlier centuries.
Which makes sense; anywhere you have armies going on campaign, you're likely to see some form of portable chair.
The thing that really messed me up about furniture being older than you expect is trestle tables. All those big banquets in castles in the Medieval period? On trestle tables.
I nicked this photo from the St Thomas Guild blog, and they say this is 15th century. If you go over to the blog you can see lots more images, including the hand holds for moving the top.
Also with the Medieval guild system, they also had meetings of mediocre businessmen then too. They were just more likely happening in guilds than in massive corporate headquarters. 🤷♂️
(This meeting could have been a messenger. Or a piece of parchment.)
One of my favourite aspects of the three lies Garak tells in The Wire is that each one gets just a little closer to the truth, and yet some of it isn’t even fully realised until season five.
The first one Garak tells that he was a (random) Gul. The second one, he is the protégée of Enabran Tain. The third, he and Elim were called the sons of Tain.
The first he tells Julian that he is an unremorseful killer, willing to do whatever it takes to finish a job. In the second, he paints himself a weak hearted fool, blinded by pity. In the third, he says Elim destroyed him and he betrayed Elim in kind. Betrayed Elim and in doing so, deserved his exile.
Each one is a piece of a much larger puzzle, and each one builds, slipping just a little more of the truth in amongst the lies. Each one reveals just a little more of what lurks beneath his mask of amicability.
Now consider: a man in a dress. Not in drag or all dressed up or anything. No accessories, no makeup or styling, just wearing the dress, some ratty boxers and muddy sneakers. No socks or stockings, hairy legs in the open air, just raw dogging those nasty shoes. Hair mildly damp. Visibly sleep-deprived. Bruises on shoulders, elbows and knees, left palm bleeding. Sitting on a curb on the street, shivering, looking wretched, and absolutely miserable.
I forgot where I was going with this.
done. next challenge
A dog wearing a motorcycle helmet, sitting on a skateboard and knitting.
I made him an Italian greyhound, hope that's OK
Now, everyone picture the dog offering the man a little knitted greyhound.
fascinating.
thinking about the time a psychology masters thesis candidate explained his thesis to me and it took me one conversation to completely deconstruct everything he was saying and prove it wrong - he stopped talking to me after that
him: i think a gay gene evolved in order to compensate for overpopulation---
me, unpacking a set of brass knuckles: oh you stupid motherfucker
jesus christ i'm so stressed for him
oh my god. hold on a second. he is going to find his mate through a song of true love
love wins, like it actually does win 😭 i will cry for one million years thank you gay penguins i love you i hope your marriage is happy and you find lots of little orphan eggs to care for
@sneefsnorf he's gay and trying to find his husband 😓 and he DID find him like a true gay king 🙌
EVERYONE IN THE NOTES STOP HETEROSEXUALISING MY BOY
You heard them, the penguins are gay!
just a suggestion but if you're writing about "the ancient world" please don't include societies that existed from like 1300 to 1521
AZTECS AND INCAS WERE NOT ANCIENT I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL
The Americas have genuinely ancient histories also!!!! Tell me why you talk about Rome and Greece and Sumer and the Qin Dynasty and Middle Kingdom Egypt but you've never heard of the Moche or Chavín, the Olmec or the Classical Maya city-states, or even Poverty Point or the Hopewell Interaction Network, or maybe the ancient Tsimshian city of Temlaxam????
okay this is gaining notes so I just want to clarifying:
I'm not saying that the Aztec and Inca societies are not fascinating and super important. They are!!!! Please learn about them!!!! And I'm DEFINITELY not saying this to say they are inferior to Eurasian societies--I want people to learn about the societies BEFORE the Aztecs and Incas.
However, when they are lumped in with the category of "ancient" alongside Rome/Greece/Mesopotamia/Egypt etc societies from before AD 500, it has the effect of flattening Indigenous American history. This is why people are constantly losing their mind over the fact that "Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire" like okay sure. But Teotihuacan is older than Oxford, it's not like there were no societies in the Americas before the year 1300.
Basically no one seems to have a sense of the true length of Indigenous American presence and history in our own continents. That's why this bothers me.
If you don't refer to The Tudors in England as "The ancient Tudors" or The Renaissance as "The Ancient Renaissance" then it's also inaccurate to say "The Ancient Aztecs/Inca". It's really just so common for people to think that Native American history begins and ends with being colonized (thus, why they see a few decades preceding 1492 as being "ancient" for us)
THANK YOU exactlyyyyyyy this
You can tell a lot about the health of a civilization by their warning signs. Places with a lot of dumb folks will have very broad, very dumb warnings in public. "No feeding the birds." "Stop swimming in this drainage pond." That kind of thing.
Advanced civilizations have very precise signs. They've covered the bases of their regular, run-of-the-mill idiots, and now they're working hard to cover that other end of the bell curve: the talented idiot. When I was in Germany last time, there was a big warning sign that consisted of a 76-letter-long word that means "stop bothering this particular goose, Sven." I don't know who Sven was, but the goose looked pretty calm. It worked.
Now, I have a secret to tell you. You can just make your own signs. There's no law against it, except perhaps "littering," and the municipal sign factory doesn't have very good security. If you show up there past close and put in the door code that you shoulder-surfed off one of the employees returning from lunch a week prior, you have all night to fuck around with their sign-printing machine, making the most official-looking placards you can think of.
Is this wrong? I don't think so. It's a public space, and being able to put up an aluminum sign that says wacky crank shit is your right. For instance, just last week, I banned pickup trucks from parking by the playground. The cops figured out something was going on, because they didn't get any calls for toddlers getting backed over for a couple of days and sent a patrol truck to investigate. Took my sign right down.
What I discovered after that is that nobody keeps records of what signs are supposed to be there. Why would anyone put up a sign for no reason? They cost money, after all. The city is now suing the shit out of that officer for stealing the "no trucks" sign, thanks to an anonymous tipster who called in the theft. Guy wearing a reflective vest came by and put like four more of them up after the lawsuit made the news, just out of spite. I'm not entirely sure if he's actually a city worker; we ran into each other at 3am at the sign factory and just grunted. He was working on some really crazy signs about not feeding a particular swan. Probably German.
“kids spend too much time on their devices” well what else are they supposed to do? there’s no corner shops with pinball machines in them on every corner anymore. there’s no malls or stores in small towns for teens to hang out in without being suspected of shoplifting or kicked out for loitering. sidewalks are too broken for them to ride their bikes and there’s no bike lane in the street to make it safe for them. i just don’t understand where they expect these kids to go when they keep taking places away from them. and yes having no safe public places for them is what leads a lot of teens into addiction if they end up at a place where people aren’t truly looking out for them.
