don't hide firefox propaganda in the tags!! brb installing this rn

(courtesy of gay-victorian-astronomer)

I need this in my life can’t wait to install

mobile firefox does this automatically for inactive tabs.

i rarely ever use mobile chrome anymore.

Senators are going to vote on whether or not we should continue to send aid to Israel on Wednesday, November 13th. Call them, bombard their phone lines with calls. Every fucking day. We have a chance of doing something about this.

yall

here is a tool to help you find your representative by zipcode

this is also a great resource

BOMBARD. HOUND. SHOUT IT OUT.

props for possibly my fav comment on AO3 ever

Fanfic reader's prayer: may my favorite author's hyperfixation on this fandom last longer than mine 🙏

Fanfic writer's prayer: may my hyperfixation last long enough for me to write all the fics in my head.

Banging on the walls chanting "OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR ACA THRU JAN 15" like some deranged town crier. Election results aside, you have options to access healthcare as a RIGHT through the ACA. NO one can dismantle the Affordable Care Act in less than 4 years, so SIGN UP! GET YOUR CARE! USE THE SYSTEM!

You have options RIGHT NOW that will be stable thru the next year, the one after that, and I'd be shocked to see them shrink even the year after that. That means RIGHT NOW you can get signed up for next year to gain 100% covered preventative care (your annual check ups, pap smears, dental cleaning, vision check). You have the option to get checked and screened as you need, do NOT be dissuaded from exploring ACA choices. They are SOLID, LEGISLATED, and WORK BEST WHEN PEOPLE USE THEM.

I can't change most things around me, BUT I CAN tell everyone I know that THEY CAN GET LIFE SAVING CARE. THEY CAN GET PRESCRIPTIONS. THEY CAN GET PREGNANCY CARE. THEY CAN GET CANCER CARE. AND THEY WILL GET THAT CARE!!!!!!

SIGN UP BY DECEMBER 15, 2024 FOR COVERAGE TO BEGIN ON JANUARY 1, 2025. ENROLLMENT AFTER 12/15/24 WILL HAVE COVERAGE BEGINNING FEBRUARY 1, 2025.

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everybody say happy birthday pumpkin

Here's a legal PSA:

If you've committed a crime and a detective gathers everyone involved in the room, especially if he's not actually a detective and is instead a novelist, puzzle-setter, psychic, fake psychic, dog, chess grandmaster, etc. ...

YOU SHOULD NOT CONFESS.

Every year, hundreds of people are put away by non-traditional "detectives" who have either inserted themselves into the case or are working with the police in a dubiously legal capacity as advisor. In 99% of these cases, the murderer gives a full confession even though the evidence against them is circumstantial at best and often requires a long just-so story which can only guess at motive.

If this happens to you, stay quiet, do not attempt to defend yourself or talk your way out of it, only say "I want a lawyer".

Now if you find yourself being investigated by a boy genius, magician's assistant, anthropologist, classics scholar, or philosopher, it's likely that refusing to talk to the police (or investigator with no legal authority) is merely the end of the second act, and by the end of the third act they will have you dead to rights.

YOU SHOULD STILL NOT CONFESS.

Make them take it to court. Force the eccentric detective and his straight-laced police partner to take the stand and explain their methods to a jury of your peers. Have your lawyer look at the chain of custody on the evidence, especially if you believe it to have been handled by someone who has only bumbled into detective work through their natural charm and/or unique set of skills and outsider perspective that come in handy more often than they should.

Know your rights. Don't let eccentric detectives put you away.

The only time I've seen this addressed was in, of all things, the Hardy Boys.

When they relaunched the books in the 2013, they start off with the scenario that Frank and Joe are "retired" from crime-solving whilst still at High School. As Frank outlines in the first chapter

See, our dad, Fenton Hardy, was once a world-famous detective. Growing up, Joe and I would help him on his cases. Then we began tackling mysteries on our own. We were proud of our successes. But after one too many close calls, things started to get a little out of hand, for reasons having to do with private investigators' licenses (we didn't have any), insurance (none of that, either), and the threat of being sued by every hoodlum we ever put under a citizen's arrest. Which is not how my brother and I wanted to spend the remainder of our teenage years, provided we're lucky enough to survive them. Some of us even have hopes of college one day… of a scholarship… of a normal life.

So with a few phone calls, including references from our principal and assurances to the police chief and state attorney general, we "retired." Officially, it stays that way for all the Hardys. Our dad writes books on the history of law enforcement. And Joe and I go to high school.

That cozy arrangement, a.k.a. "the Deal," lasted about a month before Joe and I started going crazy. Maybe being a detective is something in your blood. I don't know.

Since then we've started taking the occasional case for a good cause or to help a friend, but we try to keep it confidential. And we deny everything. We don't consider it lying, just being prudent. We haven't told our dad, which makes me feel a bit guilty, but I get the feeling he suspects.

And above all, if you find yourself in such a scenario, on no account should you use the Evil Voice.

Sadly, not always possible. If you're in an early 20th century period piece, or pretty much any of them set in village/manor house England, everyone already has the Evil Voice by default.

There's a lot said about the importance of aftercare but I don't think I've ever heard someone talk about why aftercare is important for your body not just your mind. So here's a quick rundown of why, even if you feel a scene didn't affect you emotionally, aftercard is still important for all participants.

Any injury you sustain during a scene needs to be healed, obviously. But maybe you didn't know that 'injury' includes hickeys/ other bruises, small scratches even just to the outermost layer of your skin, and even the muscle fibres that get shredded during use. (Pointing the finger specifically at tops who think they don't have any healing to do but just spent the best part of an hour swinging floggers around). Your body has to heal all of these things.

Healing takes energy and your body can only create a finite energy at any one time. This is why when you're in a high adrenaline moment your body shuts down functions like digestion, digestion takes energy and your body could be using that energy to fight tigers or whatever it is that's causing the stress. So post scene your body now has all this healing to do and will take energy from other systems to do so. You need to let it. By resting.

The energy also has to come from somewhere, your body will burn the energy from food you've recently eaten first and then move onto fat reserves and even muscle mass in an emergency. So you need to give it things to burn. By eating snacks.

And finally, much more obviously, you just did a bunch of activity which caused you to loose water through your skin. But further than that water is what your body uses for just about everything, it is the vehicle nutrients and chemicals take to reach the parts of your body that need healing. You need to replenish it. By drinking fluids.

Rest, eat snacks, drink fluids. Just as important to aftercare as cuddling and reassuring each other.

Certified Sex Ed Post!

ohhh hell I got certified? when did that happen!

two days ago

Just to be clear, Kamala conceded with grace and dignity but it is still well within everyone’s right to demand an investigation and even a recount with due cause despite a winner being declared. U.S.Americans have the right to demand free and fair elections (we don’t have a right to, say, start an insurrection like certain people did after the 2020 election).

Many, including major swing states, (Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and more) have already admitted to data and ballots not being recognized or lost and are recounting or calling for a recount. It usually takes days to count and record votes, a day after a bunch of election tampering is not enough.

If you used a mail-in ballot and haven’t yet, check if it was actually counted and “recognized.” A lot of mail-in voters from swing states found out that their ballots were uncounted today.

#i mean. bro #i hate to break this to you but #you are in fact good at the small amount of piano ur playing #it is not fake

Dude taught himself to compose and calls it fake

“Just string it together in any order, the more random it is the more complex it’ll sound" improvising music on the fly was one of Mozart’s party tricks

Not saying this guy is Mozart but he’s smart and clever and talented and way, way underappreciating himself

Bimbo qualities

babe wake up new flavor of imposter syndrome dropped