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me: “sorry ): can’t come!! got so much to do at home”
me as soon as im home:
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Perfection.
Description: A tweet from user kzzrttt on twitter. It's a retweet of a gorgeous image of a Miku figurine; she looks like a goddess
text: when the human race is gone and all that’s left of us is our possessions the aliens are gonna think miku was some world renowned goddess of song like some sort of lost greek god or something and they’d be 100% correct
via kzzrttt on twitter
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“make yourselves impossible to ignore. 10,000 signatures on twitter is a lot but 10 unique personal emails is enough to derail an entire council session.”
I was in a city council meeting last week about defunding the police and one of the council members mentioned multiple times that she’d been inundated with calls and emails all that day saying to defund the police.
[ID: Two screenshots of a twitter thread by alex flanigan, anti-fascist @Coff33Detective from June 12, 2020 beginning at 11:25 AM that reads: hi! i work in local government and community management, and i’m here to tell you a secret: it is like, really, really easy to overwhelm the people who work in your local government. especially right now. especially on things they can actionably do or impact.
you may not know this, but i bet your city or town or municipality has a website. i bet that website has some contact forms or email addresses on it. i bet you can use them to put together a message in about 5 minutes! i bet it’s almost as easy as signing a national petition.
which is to say: i’m noticing, like most other people, that the national level discussion on really important and long overdue issues is flagging. but the internet and news cycle is not the only battleground, and you will be pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to—
—fight those battles at home, on your own turf, with much more immediate impact, and they are so, so important.
I am begging you: make my job, and the jobs of people like me, difficult right now. flood us with demands. make yourselves impossible to ignore. 10,000 signatures on twitter is a lot but 10 unique personal emails is enough to derail an entire council session. End ID]
I’ve been a city council observer with the League of Women Voters for nearly a year, and I have witnessed the following:
- A few guys voicing their anxiety about speeding on a street where their children play and suggesting a radar speed sign. Despite catching all of two meetings where this was mentioned, I walked back home one day and–yep–there was a radar speed sign up.
- A persistent force of 3-5ish loud residents coming to zoning and council meetings because they did not want a drive through style restaurant moving into a particular area where there were already major issues with traffic congestion and safety. This eventually resulted in a Chik-fil-a having its planning proposal shot down by council such that the lot is now likely to house an Aldi. I am getting low cost groceries instead of bigotry chicken in my neighborhood because of a D&D party’s worth of regular speakers.
- A turnout of residents shouting down an attempt to reduce the amount of funding for the community Juneteenth celebration until Council backed down. One meeting. Roughly a dozen people + their kids speaking about the significance of the holiday. The celebration ended up having its full funding restored.
In my experience, it is incredibly easy to bully local politicians and get some sort of results, especially in small municipalities. If you have something that you want to see happen at the local level, seriously try to contact your local officials and see what you can make happen.
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So we all agree that aizawa is part cat…which means he probably sleeps in some really absurd positions
Artist : @geedraws
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The holy trinity of outsiders finding out stuff about TMA
[ID: Three screenshots of tumblr posts. The first is by dyke-crossing, and says “one day i’ll extinguish the sun. then you won’t see. none of you will fucking see.” with a reblog by OP that says “stop tagging this as manuela dominguez i don’t know who that is”.
The second is a post by m3n4c3v35537 that says “Ooh girl. Hit me with a steel pipe. Baby girl. Kill me with that fuckin pipe.” A reblog by OP says “What the fuck is the magnus archives”. Another reblog by OP says “Who the fuck is jurgen leitner” in italics.
The third is a post by starry-sloth that says “i don’t listen to magnus archives but based on y’all’s art this jon guy needs some lotion, maybe a dermatologist”. A reblog by OP says “who is nikola”. Another reblog by OP says “based on y’all’s information he needs a therapist actually”. End ID]
[ID: A screenshot of a tumblr post by hatingongodot that says "Found another idiotic accounting mistake from my predecessor that I have to fix and I was like (all caps) 'Will the specter of that man's incompetence ever cease to haunt me' and my coworker was like 'Why do you talk like that'". A reblog by OP says "Who the fuck is Jon Sims"]
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"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????
"the world isnt kind" skill issue. I am
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Net for the super au is Tadashi! Here known as the hero Tenshi!
This design belongs to Sae from @doodlesonly! I saw this design years ago on deviantart, and I never forgot it. Its perfect! Now that im making these versions, I couldn’t bring myself not to draw Tadashi like this.
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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."
Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]
HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?
I've been looking for such archives, thanks
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I debated posting this publicly but we need trans joy more now than ever. I play a young Warlock named Florian in my weekly DND session and he’s been maturing and growing right alongside me.
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my other grounding technique is remembering that the earliest abolitionists & the earliest suffragists had no proof that the world would ever make possible what they fought for and indeed many of them did not live to see it come to pass. and yet they did not succumb to despair so it would be disrespectful to their memory to let it overtake me
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Lion dancers practicing out of costume
There is not a single person on this earth that I trust enough to do that with even if I was capable
I am BEGGING people to look up competitive lion dancing. It is one of the most playful and intense forms of dancing I’ve ever seen in my life.
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A NYC grad student working on food stamps for her thesis has released a free cookbook for those living on $4/day.
SIG NAL BOO OO OO OOOST
hello
oooooh this is so nice!
I believe it’s important to eat well, even when you’re strapped for cash. It’s good for your health and energy! This cookbook is full of delicious and healthy recipes, the ingredients of which are fairly inexpensive.
I ACKNOWLEDGE THIS WOMAN AS A FELLOW WARRIOR AND A FANTASTIC HUMAN BEING.
fleetfootfox
Boost so hard. Feeding yourself well is a challenge when you”ve got little income
I HAVE BEEN USING THIS COOKBOOK FOR MONTHS AND IT’S AMAZING 100/10 RECOMMENDING EVERYWHERE
(just to give you an idea, my food budget is 30 euro/week at most [about $38] and I have to maintain a healthy diet due to weird medication side-effects and yeah, basically this book is a lifesaver if you’re broke but need to watch what you’re eating)
Reblog to save a life. Because it’s easy to find food for $4/day, but most of it tends to be garden variety junkfood
(The pdf is free, I repeat, the pdf is free)
The link above takes you through a couple of redirects and requires you subscribe to a newsletter. The direct download link is here:
