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hey! im spacer. she/her. the only rule i have for my asks is dont be boring. i am over 18, for anyone who needs to know
there may be minor kink jokery going on in this blog. i will (probably) never reblog actual kink art or recount actual kink experiences here, though
Ao3 campaign filling up in a blink of an eye is a joke
At this point making fun of it feels bad. Idk who are donating. But you people have money for your fic website but have no money for human lives.
Could cry you know. I could cry and I do feel like crying but uh. What's the point? I am just speechless that people can donate and reach $75000 in a day on a scam but when requested to donate to a fundraiser, a huge portion of fandom bloggers will accuse the families of being scammers and bots.
Requesting people that if you are reblogging the post, consider sharing my friend's fundraiser. It has been five days since he has been able to buy food for his family of 24.
you know who you are
i expect to see every girlie saying oh the sleepy meepy by tomorrow at naptime is that clear
why is it that whenever theres a big long "heres some interesting writers from X demographic!" masterpost they cant go even one reblog without listing a couple of terfs. like come on now.
its really frustrating because like, the post this time was Black women authors and like i genuinely would love to read more books by Black women most people on tumblr probably need to be reading more books by Black women. but you dont need to be recommending terfs and David Icke supporters (Alice Walker was later down in the post)
and like. i know you know this because you're linking to their wikipedia pages!!! like come onnnnnnn i dont think we should be recommending ANY author with these values
Most tumblr users should be reading more books by Black women, but maybe we should also not be reading books by terfs ngl
Ahhh, there’s the obvious conclusion.
If we can de-extinct* species, surely there’s no point in worrying about endangered species anymore! We can bring them back anytime!
*depending on your definition of de-extinction.
Hey, my girlfriend just got cut off her food stamps. If anyone wants to help us eat this month, these are my links:
Hi, we need help
I've been sick these past few days (kissed too many pretty girls over spring break, age old story), but I'm recovering now
Plus over $100 owed to PayPal next month, and $391 owed to the federal government before April 15th… I'm just screwed, aren't I?
I get paid ~$1800/mo after taxes, of which $800 goes to rent, and I also owe $420 to my university's bursar office, due April 5th. I've already covered the $122.68 utility bill, and I spent a little under $100 on groceries today, but short of a fucking miracle, I'll be $300 in the hole by the end of April. Kaleigh's already overdrafted (not sure how much), which means she won't be able to contribute as much when her SSI hits.
Photos of me being pretty in case it helps:
yeah. i've got the wikipedia page for rat. on cassette.
y'all know that whole left-brained/right-brained thing is fake right? and the "brain fully develops at age 25" thing? and the "we only use 10% of our brains" thing? yeah they're all complete horseshit please yell at anyone who says them
okay people are doing nuance in the notes about the kernels of truth in neuroscience myths but I really really need you to understand that that is not important here. people don't believe there are "right-brained" and "left-brained" people because they've misunderstood lateralisation of the central nervous system, they believe it because that binary framework was deliberately pushed by people who wanted to define who was logical enough to lead, and surprise surprise, white adult heterosexual men are left-brained. people don't believe the brain "finishes developing at 25" because they've misunderstood life stage differences in neuroplasticity, they believe it because the idea that children, teens, and young adults have inferior brains is a convenient rationalisation for a society that marginalises them. people don't believe you "only use 10% of your brain" because they misread an fMRI study, they believe it because it's useful bullshit for everyone from hyperindividualist historical revisionists pushing the great genius concept of scientific progress to hucksters recruiting for cults that will teach you to unlock your latent telekinesis for just $5000 a month. that's why it's fucking important to know that many popular science ideas are false and to push back on them loudly and frequently, because they're not just mildly incorrect, they are often active components of systems of violence.
this is what i mean when i talk about the latent eugenic attitudes of modern liberal society. once you realize that even one of these deliberate misrepresentations of science is just phrenology by another name, you can't help but see it everywhere. throw IQ in the same bucket! pay attention to how rich tech guys use "high IQ" as evidence of their all-around genius. see how it plays into their delusion that being good at computer touching makes you an objective master of all forms of labor, because computers is numbers and numbers is science and science = smarter than everyone. now see how that attitude trickles down through culture, how we demean "entry level jobs" over prestigious STEM work, how we dismiss the poetry of being in favor of the mathematics of having-been. all this left-brain/right-brain shit, your cluster [X] personality types and your myers-briggs and yes even your clinical ADHD/bipolar/autism diagnosis, it's not objective scientific truth even in cases where results are reproducible because the instant data of any kind leaves the page and enters society it is then subjected to the moral and political vagaries of that society. nothing observed in nature means anything; we give it meaning. we decide what to do with it. and very often we decide that our observations just happen to reinforce our subjective extant biases about the world, even when much of the actual evidence suggests the contrary.
tl;dr it's astrology for STEM nerds and you look like a tool for using it
Maha @mahafamily1 is alone with her children in north Gaza after her husband @ahmed-family-1 accompanied his ill father on medical evacuation to Egypt prior to the re-invasion. The IOF has just ordered her area to evacuate, as they plan to invade soon.
Maha’s 7-year-old daughter is disabled, and foot travel for the family is all but impossible. Maha is still weak after nearly dying from sepsis following a tragic miscarriage. She has no way to move herself and her children, and no one around her can help.
The IOF is approaching very, very quickly! The functioning cars nearby are charging $1,500 to transport the family. This is a shockingly high price, but there is nothing to be done about it. Maha and the kids need to evacuate NOW! IF THEY DO NOT EVACUATE, THEY COULD BE KILLED BY THE IOF!!
Please PLEASE share this post and donate what you can! Share the family’s situation and GFM link across all your social media accounts!
Current: €26,259 EUR
New temporary goal: €27,628 EUR
Help my friend Mohammed. He's a young man in uni who has lost family,friends,housing,his beloved deaf cat,has narrowly survived being massacred & still remains kind & determined amidst the genocide inflicted upon Palestine by the occupation.
This is Mohammed's cousin Arkan, who is taking care of his immediate family & trying to get the funds to resume his med school studies. He's an incredibly kind man & a very close friend of Mohammed's.
This is the husband of Mohammed's sister who is trying to keep his own little ones alive amidst hell. Please help.
Can't even manage the energy to make a new post.
We have nothing.
No jobs, no jigs lined this week and soon no food or meds and lots of bills coming up.
We really need help with the mold in the house and the hole on our roof. It's over $2,500 for the repairs but at least the roof will take $600.
We have to pay our electric bill that is $45 usd by April 6 or we will be cut off, we need to keep the fridge functional or the insulin will spoil.
I understand it's hard for everyone but we really need help, we owe a big sum of money to the corner store and they won't let us add more to our tab until we pay.
Can't stress enough how urgent it is we get food.
I've had a constant headache from the heat and lack of proper rest.
Idk how to fix everything here.
Please, please please.
I'm reading this and it's so unorganized but I have a terrible headache and my abdomen is hurting so much idk why.
I'll tag for reach, thanks for the patience
Quick update
Please keep sharing.
CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!
We will be able to start getting materials to at least close the hole.
Just, can we get $120 to get my MiL both her belt/girdle and my meds please?
It's the new treatment the doctor gave on yesterday's appointment, my MiL wants to avoid the risky surgery at all costs.
Still, this is just the first step to fix our living situation but nevertheless extremely grateful!!!
NOTHING SO FAR!!!
I don't have other socials, my Tumblr blog has become key to our survival, PLEASE!!!
Thanks so much! We need the full amount to get the meds and my MiL's treatment! Please 🙏
it is weird that celiac stuff has become part of the 'culture war'. because it's literally just a medical thing.... I get super anemic unless I cut a certain protein out of my diet, because it bulldozes the villi in my intestines. but if I post about it, right-wingers send me gore images. I guess you can't expect shitty people to be logical, but I've even heard lefty people make fun of gluten stuff, and it's like why are you mad about this??? why are you pissed off that I'm eating bread that doesn't taste as good so that I can have blood in my body? it's so morally neutral.
I'm sorry, I know you weren't actually looking for an explanation but I always have a rant about this locked and loaded.
As far as I can tell the reasons that this happens are:
Anyway, in conclusion: it sucks, I'm sorry.
The fun flipside of this is that I've seen people who are more right wing become aggressively pro regulation and pro accommodation when they or their family members have to suddenly take on the individual burden of making up for a society that doesn't include them by default.
US specific:
Is your ham made with vinegar? Does your ham have the generic word "spices" on the ingredient list? Does your ham include "smoke flavoring"? Does your ham include caramel coloring?
Because malt vinegar has gluten in it. "Spices" may include wheat products in a mix. Smoke flavoring may be made with barley flour. Caramel coloring may be made with wheat or barley syrup.
If the label says "gluten free" that means that the "spices," caramel coloring, vinegar, and smoke flavor are certified to contain 20ppm or less of gluten.
If the ham is cured in any way, it may include gluten. If the ham was marinated, it probably includes gluten. If the ham was prepared in a facility that processes wheat in any way, it might be cross contaminated with gluten.
There's a company out there called "Gluten Free Water" that makes water in plastic bottles, poking fun at the idea that too many things have a gluten free label. I fucking hate that company. Because that company is functionally saying "lol, people are so sensitive and over the top about this, let's be a little silly and laugh about how crazy people can be with their 'gluten free' nonsense."
Did you know that there are sustainable food containers and straws that contain wheat? And that you don't have to label them? There are definitely people with celiac who have been sickened by biodegradable plastic straws in their "obviously water is gluten free there's no risk here" water.
"It's over-labeled so it looks trendy" just means you don't know how foods are made or what foods contain gluten. Gluten is ridiculously common in foods in general, and also in packaged meats.
Your ham has to say gluten free because it distinguishes it from the hams that do contain gluten, which is a fucking lot of them. And you're annoyed that your ham has to say gluten free and I'm annoyed that I'm standing in the grocery store calling a ham company to figure out where they source their caramel coloring so I can figure out if the damned ham is safe to eat.
"lol, oats don't have wheat in them, are people so stupid that they have to be told what is and isn't wheat? why does this oatmeal have a gluten free label?" Cross contamination; gluten free oats are not grown near wheat and are not processed in facilities that process wheat.
"lol, rice doesn't have wheat in it, why is this rice labeled gluten free, all rice is gluten free" Cross contamination; the rice isn't processed on equipment that processes wheat.
"lol why does this turkey breast say gluten free, it's just fucking turkey" read the ingredients on your "just" turkey, lots of packaged meat is packed in broth, some of which contains modified food starch, which may contain wheat.
"lol why are these strawberries labeled gluten free? they're fucking strawberries" WAX, BUDDY. SOME FRUITS ARE COATED IN PRESERVATIVE WAX FILMS BY THE MANUFACTURER AND SOME OF THOSE FUCKING FILMS CONTAIN GLUTEN.
I think that part of the reason that people are so irritated by g-free labels is because it exposes them to just how vast and alienating their food systems are.
"Ham should just be meat from a pig, maybe with sugar and salt; what on earth is happening that there might be wheat in that process? Nothing in that process should involve wheat." And then you might have to think about it for a second, might have to wonder what "sugar" and "salt" mean when someone is producing a million hams to be delivered thousands of miles away. It's not just sugar and salt; it's preservatives and nitrates and batch cooking and getting corn syrup instead of sugar and getting smoke flavoring instead of smoking the ham and turning your "whole food" into all the ingredients that make up the ingredients that make up the ingredients.
A "gluten free" label says "you can eat this" to somebody with celiac disease, who has already pounded their skull against the shittiness of the medical system and the food system.
But to someone who doesn't have to worry that their food is going to disable them, a "gluten free" sticker on ham takes a known quantity and turns their sandwich into a hyperobject that contains animal agriculture and industrial additive production and shipping pollution and the ongoing assault on regulation.
If it doesn't have the label, you can just eat your lunch. If it does have the label, you are haunted by the specter of RFK junior imploding the FDA.
Turns out that everyone in the US with celiac is already constantly haunted by the possible implosion of the FDA because food regulation is an up-close and personal part of our daily lives that most people would rather not think about.
I know this isn't the point at all but you can't trust those stickers though, you always have to read every ingredient. Also I've seen potatoes labeled as "gluten free" and as someone with celiac I can not think of any reasons potatoes would have gluten
probably crop rotation. Potato field used to be wheat field. Occasionally a leftover wheat pops up among the potatoes. When potatoes are harvested, they have a couple leftover wheat in with them
