"I'm starting my skincare routine because I want to look 19 forever!"

Take it from someone who frequently gets mistaken for being between 17 and 19 years old despite actually being in their 30's: No you do fucking not

Whatever benefits supposedly exists from looking like a teenager as a full grown 30+ year old adult does not outweigh the damages caused by everyone — including people in the same age range as you — assuming you're an an actual child and treating you as such

Btw for any teenagers reading this: The skincare industry is fucking lying to you. Absolutely no amount of botox, retinol, niacinamide, vitamin c serums, hyaluronic acid, or even sunscreen is going to make you look "19 forever" or prevent you from having wrinkles at 50. (Please do wear sunscreen of spf 30 to 50 on a daily basis though. You do not want skin cancer)

Yes some people appear to not age at all. Some of them are millionaires who can afford expensive surgeries and treatments. (And even then please tell me when was the last time you saw a celebrity older than 45 who did not have any wrinkles whatsoever). But for your everyday folks, it's mostly just luck of the genetic lottery

Also adding that yes, it is true that lifestyle plays a role in aging. But even a healthy lifestyle isn't going to make you look 45 at 60 if you didn't win the genetic lottery (or again have the money for expensive treatments)

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Don't just spread it around. Take action. If you are affected by this, challenge it. Get your ballot resubmitted. If you aren't, take action on their behalf. Help them find who to call, the steps to take, the paperwork to file. Exposure isn't going to stop this problem - action is.

the original recount petition got taken down BUT HERES THE NEW ONE!!!

This was the best scene in the whole series

Scenes like this are great, because they go into religious horror without making the entire faith evil. Having a demon plainly state that the bishop is an arsehole and deserves hell is always a good plot, especially when the demon IS correct.

a demon telling you god is not real or god doesent care about humanity is easy to shrug off as demons lieing

but a demon telling you god is real, god is good and god hates your guts quite literally puts the fear of god in you, especially when your about to find out if hes right in about 20 seconds

(From Netflix’s Castlevania, which is excellent.)

I love this show and this scene but also it just makes me think of this

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I see some people in the notes thinking that this is the Death card, but it's not. It's much funnier. It's the Five of Cups, upright, which symbolizes like. Loss. Disappointment. Emotional Suffering. You thought you were going to get something and then you didn't. Even more hilarious than Fox News bringing in a tarot card reader for Trump in 2024 is that same tarot reader immediately flipping over a card that says LOSER.

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Maybe I DO believe in tarot...

January.

Just to emphasize: Mike Johnson is an antivaxxer, an anti-abortion forced bither, he believes the job of poor women is to give birth to an infinite supply of low wage jobseekers, he is a climate change denier, he wants to cut Social Security + Medicare + Medicaid, and he’s a “Trump won!” Republican. And House Republicans just unanimously voted for him as Speaker of the House.

Please take note: there are no “moderates” in the Republican Party.

“Don’t Work with Death!”

“Don’t work with death, because then you invite it into your house.”

Death is already in my house. Death is everywhere. Death is what decays the plant matter that feeds my garden. Death is what feeds the herbs I use in my spells, for each grows from what died before it.

Death is what feeds my family - death of plants, the death of animals. I would not disrespect the spirits of that which feeds us by ignoring their sacrifice. 

Death is the veil between my ancestors and myself, keeping them at rest and then acting as the gate for them to step into their next life.

When I do hospice work and sit with someone who is accepting their approaching death, I don’t tell them death is something to fear or avoid. I tell them death is the friend that walked beside them, every step of their life, maintaining the balance of the world, and waiting for them with open arms, to escort them to rebirth. 

“Don’t work with death!” 

I would not ignore life’s partner, not for arrogance or fear or ignorance. When I go to my own, I want to greet death with respect, acceptance, and gratitude. 

i don't think most people realize how bad things in rafah have truly gotten. we all already know israel has desecrated its own vow that rafah would be the "safe zone" in every way imaginable, but i can't describe how gut-wrenching it is to read about 12 iof soldiers infiltrating the rafah crossing under the guise of an aid truck just a day or so ago. again--they entered rafah with the pretense that they would be supplying starved, displaced people food

this is just now breaking, but i can't fathom how many palestinians got lured out w the promise of feeding their families--only to massacred then and there, never to be heard from again. likely their bodies won't ever be returned to the families. how can anyone read this and not be absolutely horrified

i am constantly thinking about maryam and her family whenever i read up on the news in rafah, so guys please please continue donating maryam's fundraiser. maryam and her toddler children are living in the heart of rafah; in the heart of the destruction and uncertainty and starvation. there is quite literally nowhere else for them to go, unless they raise the necessary funds to meet egypt's exorbitant prices and evacuate. i cannot stress enough how dire and time sensitive this campaign is. maryam's fundraiser has been getting little to no traction, and she truly could use all the help she could get

there's been barely any donations in the past 16 hours. Maryam's husband who's been hit multiple times in the head and neck by iof missile shrapnel is fading fast. Maryam has been starving herself so the orphans in her care and her husband could get the food and treatment they need.

please help Maryam get to 6k and beyond ASAP. the campaign has been stagnant every other hour, it's really horrifying to see despite how dangerous and expensive it is just to survive. Currently at €5,621 / €6,000 short term goal. That's €379 needed immediately.

#i feel like maryam and i have been talking ourselves hoarse repeating her trauma over and over again just so people would #give a damn and help her. this is so bleak. she is so young and they killed her brother and father under pretenses like this #all of her family members are gone now. just her and her husband who's at high risk of infection and her orphans.

This is truly historic.

The United Nations Assembly was almost completely empty as Netanyahu took the stage to deliver his speech.

The world recognises Israel’s genocidal and apartheid regime. Israel is finished. It has become Nazi Germany and the world sees it.

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I'm Algonquin/Ojibwe and this is a spirit that comes from our teachings.

As a young child, the elders taught me to never even SPEAK its name, to not even sing its songs. When we sang a song about it during drumming group one year, we all got in trouble.

You do not spell the word or speak the word.

It's NOT a "cryptid" or a "spooky story" for white people to appropriate.

Its bearly spoken about in our own communities, and even then, only very carefully.

Again, not because its "creepy" but because its respected and something in our traditions that is not played around with; so its certainly not for non-ojibwe/algonquin people to speak about whatsoever. Period.

Okay but this is serious, I work in retail and I had a lady come up and ask for 2 $500 Google play gift cards. We have been trained to look for these scams and to warn the customers NEVER give the card numbers over the phone unless you have met this person face to face. I told the lady this and she started crying, saying they were the IRS and that if she hung up they would call the police and have her arrested. They wanted to keep her on the phone so she couldn't call her husband, who was more aware of how the IRS works. I was able to convince her to hang up and call the police on *them* instead, and saved her $500.

Scams are serious, people lose a lot of money and older people are targeted the worst because they're easy targets.

First of all, the IRS will *never* call you and ask for money, and they definitely won't call the cops on you. They'll get your money if they really want it through taxes.

But now they're trying to target our generation using crypto, which is super hard to trace if the money gets lost. So they're getting smarter, and they'll use whatever they can to get you to give them money.

What you really need to know or take away from this is: NEVER, and I mean EVER, buy a gift card and give the barcode number on the back to someone over the phone. It is ALWAYS, 100%, a scam!

Please be safe and hang up on these fuckers the second they ask you to buy a gift card.

these people have also started scamming people through job listings. they will pretend to be an actual person that works for an actual company, create a fake job listing using this person's identity. you will be emailed about scheduling an interview through skype or similar.

usually the interview ends up being through text-only (cuz they're not the actual person they're pretending to be) and then wow! you've got the job! is what they'll tell you the next day.

then they will start your onboarding process where they will send you a digital check for "office supplies" and they will ask you to digitally send this money via zelle (or similar platform) to their "vendor."

usually the idea is that you'll think you're depositing a real check, only to find out a few days later that the check has bounced, but by that point, you've already forwarded the money through zelle.

and the bank rarely reimburses you if you fall for this.

another hallmark of the grift is that they will be very very fast at getting you onboarded. they'll want you to log back onto skype at a certain time the next day, with little-to-no flexibility. and they will want to rush you through the entire process.

there are tons of these listings on LI, indeed, etc. so remember: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably it.

Younger people are often vulnerable to this because they haven't learned the rules of how these kinds of scams and the legit services and institutions they're imitating work

Older people are often vulnerable to this because they know from life experience that damned near every rule has its exception and they've seen a lot of protocols change

Regardless of your age, stay vigilant and look out for others in your community as well!

I ran into a FB marketplace scam the other day: the account was from 2009, so even though I couldn't see any of his info, I assumed it was probably a real person.

He contacted me about a table I had listed for sale, asked how long I'd had it, then told me he was out of town for business but his brother would pick it up later that day, and what was my address? I said I'd send it when I knew when he was on his way, and gave him my approx location instead. That didn't bother him; all seemed well.

Then he said he would pay me online (still makes sense: most FB marketplace sales are cash lately, but if someone else is picking it up for him, this tracks) and asked for my Zell or Paypal (options: also feels legit). I gave him my phone number for Zelle. He said Zelle wanted my email to confirm, since this was his first time sending money to me.

This is weird. To my knowledge, Zelle won't ask for confirmation of someone's identity via email: you can have your phone number and email registered to two separate accounts. I thought this was kinda weird, but not enough that it fazed me, and I went with it.

I got an email "from Zelle" saying he'd tried to send me the amount I requested for the table, but my account limit was too low because it wasn't a business account. I need to get the guy to send me another $400 "to verify".

Weird. Guy says he got a similar error message, and he's had this problem before because his Zelle is a business account. If I call the support number in the email, they can resolve it.

I call. They say yeah, no problem, we just need him to send you $400 so we can verify and raise the limit on your account for this transaction. We know that sounds kinda sketchy to some people, so we're going to call him and explain it to him as well.

While this is happening I'm googling the "Zelle support" phone number from the email, and can't get anything (because all of the phone number verification services at the top of the search results are all paywalled scams themselves). "Zelle support" says they have him on the phone, and the guy DMs me to say he's sending the $400. I get another email "from Zelle".

Finally I google the "Zelle support" email, which is, very suspiciously, an @gmail.com address. This is super weird; why wouldn't Zelle have their own domain name? Finally I get a bunch of results saying yes, this is a scam, and outlining basically this exact scenario and how it works. I hang up, tell the guy that I know it's a scam (and if it isn't, somehow, he can call Zelle support himself- and/or his bank- and get the money sent back), report him to FB, and block him before he can send me anything else.

I share all of this because I'm usually pretty privvy to scams, but this one got super far with me before I finally clocked it. There's a lot of shit people can do to get around common knowledge about how to identify scams, but imo, the best and most reliable way to identify a scam is the one I should have done way before calling that number: googling phone numbers and email addresses.

It doesn't take a lot of time, it's easy to remember to do it for just about any new contact you make with a number or address, and there aren't a lot of ways to fuck it up. We can't learn every single scam that exists, but contact info for real, actual businesses and organizations is a lot harder to fake.

Since it was mentioned upthread: I'm finding a lot of especially younger people don't know this, but there is no such thing as a 'digital cheque' that someone can email you an image of. Payments processing companies that say they offer 'digital cheques' even say themselves that it's an AFT (automated funds transfer) - a credit or debit sent directly over the cheque clearing network, with no cheque image involved.

If someone emails you an image of a cheque and tells you to take a picture of it to deposit it, it is fake. Always. Every single time.

It's exactly the same as if they emailed you an image of a hundred-dollar bill and told you to print it off and take it to your bank to deposit it. You must have the actual, physical cheque in your possession to be able to deposit it, even if you're just taking a picture of it.

(Also, while we often hear about particular scams targeting certain demographics of people? Literally everyone is one bad day and one lucky scammer away from falling for one. There is, somewhere out there, the pitch that would push exactly your buttons if it found you at exactly the right time. Be aware of how these things work, be sympathetic to people who do end up becoming victims to scams, and never, ever assume you're immune.)