Snoop Dogg watching the Skateboarding finals with an unidentified man

IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E

I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

ok who the fuck got this on my dash it’s still june

get spooky

how does this appear every june

T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

it’s june

T I M E T O G E T S P O O K I N G Y’ A L L

LEE IT’S JUNE

GAY HALLOWEEN TIME

y’all know what fuckin month it is 😎

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and all endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

it's almost like... if you play a movie in 10 cinemas worldwide, it doesn't do as well as it could 🤯🤯

It's per theater numbers are great.

they set sapphic movies up to flop and then prop it up as evidence that movies about gay girls don’t matter

It's not just flawed, it's flawed in UnitedHealthcare's favor.

That's not a flaw... that's fraud.

I work in healthcare, and let me tell you, NO ONE denies care as much, as often or as blatantly badly as UHC. Not a one. It's known in the industry to be one of the worst insurance carriers around. DO NOT sign up for UHC this or any other open enrollment period. (I work in rehab and the things they deny are basic and hugely important to quality of life)

I'm reblogging this again because I realized that I didn't include something important. If you have a plan with UHC (or any carrier, honestly) and you are denied something that you and your care team believe you need, ask your doctor to ask for a "peer to peer" review. This is a process in which the doctor speaks to another doctor in the company. It cannot be handled by AI and cannot be just denied without review by an actual doctor. Peer to peer!

My new job put me in the ER and has crossed every boundary I've set. Yesterday, I was told I'm no longer employed by one person, and then that I am by someone else. I have no idea if I have a job, but I also cannot work here.

So emergency commissions are open! I also have zines, prints, charms, and more!

Please consider checking out my shop and commissions or joining my Patreon!

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for Disability pride month, Reddit is screwing over its blind users

They made it impossible for r/blind to be moderated by blind people by blocking the use of 3rd party apps like screen readers from being used on the site

Currently, blind people cannot moderate or use the site

I haven’t seen it discussed here so I’m making a post about it

Things are going great in redditland. :(

Can someone please explain to me why Gillian Anderson is transphobic? I’ve seen a couple replies on posts saying that people need to stop idolizing/ worshipping her because of it, but I haven’t seen any actual posts detailing what she said/did that makes her transphobic.

She made a twitter post comparing herself to an intersexist and transmisogynistic trope of a character called Old Gregg, just “fortunately no mixed up downstairs” (which is pretty cissexist and harmful to say about intersex and/or trans people’s genitals).

At a panel at New York Comic Con, she made a cissexist/transphobic remark about genitalia, referring to a character’s genitals as a ‘mangina’.

And then there’s her appearing in not one, but two blatantly transmisogynistic episodes of X-Files (the most recent in the reboot), when she absolutely had enough leverage to make some small fixes. Not like they could do a reboot without her, so she could have flexed muscle. instead, it was immensely transmisogynistic/transphobic/cissexist/etc. hard to look past that when she claims to be a supporter of women’s rights, and wrote a book called “WE: A Manifesto for Modern Women”. Guess trans women don’t count. Some sisterhood.

As for her anti-sex work stuff, it’s in large part her white feminist approach to sex trafficking that is based on and promotes a lot of SWERFy ideology. There’s been a lot of talk among sex workers about how bad her approach to sex work is. One example here

GOOSE THE CAT Captain Marvel (2019)

IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E

I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

ok who the fuck got this on my dash it’s still june

get spooky

how does this appear every june

T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

it’s june

T I M E T O G E T S P O O K I N G Y’ A L L

LEE IT’S JUNE

GAY HALLOWEEN TIME

y’all know what fuckin month it is 😎

people wanting men to wear crop tops and then being grossed out at happy trails. you fool thats the point of men wearing crop tops

it is also the point of women wearing crop tops

I feel like the only person not tempted to use ChatGPT like it doesn't even occur to me as an option

Anyway shoutout to the person next to me who just got GPT to do their whole essay. I know you're in the trenches.

HELLO ??????