hey let's start spreading the reminder now that you cannot safely self-manage an abortion with herbal medicine or essential oils. natural abortifacients function by poisoning you; you wait for your body to realize you're dying and reject the pregnancy in order to conserve resources, and hope that happens before the rest of your organs shut down.

i think there will be an upsurge soon of unscrupulous and/or malicious actors preying on desperate pregnant people; do not help them kill people. don't spread recipes for herbal medicines or ingestible essential oil mixtures that purport to cause a pregnancy termination.

Traditional methods of self-managing abortion were safer than going through a fifteenth pregnancy before we knew what germs were. They were safer than getting shunned by your entire pre-industrial community and giving birth in a ditch. They were safer than giving birth as a teenager when a bad tear was basically a death sentence. They were safer than a pregnancy all but guaranteeing that you'd be forced to marry your rapist.

The calculus that had women choosing them over and over again before the advent of modern medicine and social mobility was very, very different.

Apropos of (almost) nothing: I'm the kind of pedant who dislikes calling tentacle porn "tentacle porn" not because I think it's aberrant but because, 98% of the time, what's being depicted are octoform arms or tendrils, not tentacles. Tentacles are defined by the clubbed ends, which are the only part that have suckers. If it's tapered and has suckers all the way down, it's an octoform arm; if it has no suckers at all, it's a tendril.

You're welcome.

This site has gotta be the weirdest way to learn things

new knowledge for me and all my fellow mobster fuckers dropped

Eh, boss. We nose you and Tony are ya know, badda boom, but I thinks ya made a typo dar.

Gawd damn it, Frankie. This is what I get for trying to type with these tentacle thumbs.

here's a random word generator--whatever word it gives you is now the thing you are the deity of

HOBBES vs. TIGGER cage match TO THE DEATH say goodbye to your childhood because ONE! WILL!! DIE!!!!

Picturing two tiger plushies just kind of sitting there facing each other in Thunderdome

i am picturing it

If that doesn't have potential for some fairytale nonsense, I don't know what does.

In the right wintry conditions, an ice bridge forms between the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait. Theoretically, this is the only place where you can walk from Russia to the United States (and vice versa), however travel between one Diomede to the other is strictly forbidden.

On the West side sits Russia’s Big Diomede with a population of 0. The smaller Little Diomede to the East has a small population of 82 (as of 2021).

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A bridge between Today and Yesterday, you say? Only there at the right time of year, with a certain amount of luck?

That absolutely has the makings of a quest destination.

The reason Big Diomede (Imaqłiq) has a population of zero today is because the USSR forcefully relocated the native Iñupiat population to the mainland during the Cold War. People had traditionally travelled back and forth between the islands, families were broken apart and given no way to communicate post relocation. Efforts to reconnect families were made in the 1990s and 2010s, but most people on both sides have lost their Native language through forced assimilation under both Soviet and American education systems.

IF YOU LIVE IN THE US AND WOULD RATHER NOT DIE FROM BEING HIT BY A CAR

please submit a comment on the NHTSA proposal to implement pedestrian safety test requirements for cars and trucks!!

It would finally make manufacturers design vehicles that are safer for pedestrians and cyclists, instead of the massive wall-of-steel front ends that are excessively deadly for no reason. Europe already has rules like this, but unless we comment in approval, they're not going to do anything to halt the increasing pedestrian deaths in our country.

And please share, even if you don't live in the US!

The deadline to comment on this is November 18, 2024, by the way!

I am not taking a risk

Not risking it pals

U know what I want potato of luck

Damn right I’m reblogging. See previous post re wrath of whatever from high atop the thing.

sorry for being indecisive, I haven’t had any prophetic dreams to guide me in a while

satisfying

"how am i supposed to learn from my mistakes?"

well you seem to be learning a lot right now aren't you?

Only tangentally related but if anyone's unaware, the guy who originally started the 'your body my choice' thing (nick fuentez) pepper sprayed a woman who showed up to confront him about it (and stole her phone) and is very likely getting jailtime because she was streaming and caught all of it on video; he literally just opens the door and blasts her without a word, and as a result he's summoned the gestalt force of halloween as the entirety of facebook in his area shows up to egg and tp his house. Last I saw he was melting down exactly like in the reply text.

I love both of these things.

Lest those who supported him think that the horse coming back to the hospital means they have carte blanche to trample anyone they want, let it be shown that this country is its people, not its government, and the people will not put up with this shit.

I wonder why a significant portion of people really into porn that is supposed to turn men into women feel transgender. Real mystery here

Why is this in the "Our Use Of Cookies" page

never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It

signs at stores? émail? menu ?? instruction ? post online ? caption with andswer to question ? group hand outs ??? street sign ??? no. The Written Word Is The Enemy

We put a great big sign that said “ID REQUIRED” directly at head level on the door of the bar. You literally cannot open the door without seeing the sign. And you wouldn’t believe the percentage of people who were shocked shocked I say that all of a sudden an ID? was required? When did that start??

The people who police your gender will police your gender even if you're cis.

Eat them.

"OH those body builder women with pancake breasts arent-" eat them.

"This woman has a beard, thats not-" eat them.

"That man has a baby face, that's not" - eat them with barbecue sauce.

Eat them. You will never be gender enough for their definition of gender. Eat them.

"Eddie, we have to go to Texas. We have to eat the TERF's. We have to Eddie, we're heroes Eddie"

Venom wouldn’t eat terfs because he doesn’t eat trash; he would, however, trap them in a jigsaw bathroom and let them figure out the rest.

Energy company has got some sass

Duke Energy Fined $102 million for Polluting Rivers with Coal Ash

This is the best summary of the corporate deflection of blame for environmental destruction onto the consumer to save face I’ve ever seen

If you're having a bad day, just remember that it's going to be winter soon and imagine what will happen to all the Cybertrucks ❤️

Salt-rusted unprotected steel panels... Meltwater getting into poorly constructed and poorly isolated electronics... Stuck in snowdrifts that a real truck would have been able to deal with... Oh, those are indeed happy images. Yes indeed...

It's winter in the US is anything happening to all the cybertrucks

No snow here yet. Lots of Cybertrucks in my area, so I’ll keep an eye out.

Keep us updated I am so curious to see how they handle Normal Weather

There should be Cybertruck Winter, like Fat Bear Week. Where we see which cybertrucks fall first and which ones make it to the end in usable condition.

Dispatch from the far northern hemisphere and have witnessed a Cybertruck in the winter wilds.

We're early enough into the snow season in that the damage isn't obvious. My guess is that exposure to road salts are really going to destroy these ambulatory dumpsters, but we won't start to see that until spring. Road salt is difficult to impossible to get off in a regular car wash, and we know that Cybertruck can't handle even that.

On the one I saw, any metallic shine that the Cybertruck had was completely lost in a combination of cold winter temps, light street grunge, and lower ambient sunlight. It was the same color as my friend's early 2000s silver pickup truck. One of the big draws, imo, is that stainless steel panelling and to see it turn into the same shade of grey as one of the most popular truck colors twenty years ago would be disappointing to me. It's not special anymore.

Local Cybertruck enthusiasts who are salty dogs at winter driving have started vinyl wrapping their automotive basket cases. The trend seems to be to go from the door windows down, which gives them a beach cooler vibe that is similarly underwhelming.

They’re already having issues! The head lights are sunken in for some reason. This means there is a shelf to hold snow in front of the lights and block them.

Now, every car has to have the snow cleared off the headlights before you drive, but this is way worse. That shelf collects snow as you drive. People have to pull over and clear the snow off mid-drive because they lose their headlights.

WHY ARE THEY BUILT THAT WAY