To people who are desperately asking for fundz/donations on tumblr.

USE THESE REDDIT SUBS INSTEAD PLEASE FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!!!!!!!

Hate Reddit if you want, but using these subs are your best chance. People gather in these subs because they have charity to spare:

/r/Assistance /r/legaladvice /r/RandomKindness /r/Charity /r/care /r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza /r/Food_Pantry https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomActsOfPetFood/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomActsOfChristmas/ https://www.reddit.com/r/almosthomeless/ https://www.reddit.com/r/homeless

/r/freelance  /r/povertyfinance /r/thrifty /r/borrow /r/gofundme

/r/depression /r/familysupport /r/transitions 

I never see anyone actually getting any significant donations on tumblr and to be honest, tumblr is the worst place to ask for assistance. Use it as your last resort, it frustrates me to no end seeing people begging for help, reblogging the same post over and over, the same types of posts over and over, to no avail, when people are waiting to help you on a different part of the web  GO TO WHERE THE HELP IS. IF YOU WANT DIRECT ACTION TO WORK STOP WITH TUMBLR AND USE REDDIT.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF SATAN REBLOG THIS SO WE CAN START REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF DONATION POSTS THAT GET STUCK FLOATING AROUND THIS WEBSITE

Hope this can help some people over here too

I know some of our community have been stuck in hard spots and this has a LOT of resources

I’ve been looking for this.

Please stop sending me Asks about needing help, my first reaction is that it’s SPAM. If you don’t want to be blocked and reported, don’t beg me for help, I cannot help anyone.

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UC or ER?

HONESTLY THOUGH

THIS IS BOTH ACCURATE AND EFFECTIVE

Urgent Care is for your "Oh no!" accidents.

Emergency Care is for your "Oh fuck!" accidents.

yeah okay ill reblog that!

If corals get stressed they die, so if I was coral I would be dead 

what do coral even get stressed about

Current events

I sea.

guys, i work at an aquarium and my coworkers and i have literally laughed at this for three days straight. everytime we pass each other we whisper “current events” and crack up. our customers think we are nuts.

Anytime you're interacting with your child, but especially when angry, say to yourself "how would I feel if their future partner treated them the way I am currently treating them?"

You are creating their 'normal'

People need to read the UN Conventions On The Rights Of The Child before becoming parents and regularly while parenting and I am so serious about this.

Everyone SHOULD read it, and it is often a distressing experience to do so. Back in 1929 it was internationally recognized that children in particular needed to have a codified set of rights, it has been improved on since - in many ways it is still not perfect but it needs to be understood that the rights contained within are the BARE MINIMUM.

If any of these are breached - whether on the home scale or on the cultural one, particularly for signatory countries - that is a fundamental issue.

I promise that learning what the established bare minimums are in universal human rights frameworks will enable you to cut through so much propaganda immediately.

Children and teens are full human beings and by becoming parents an immense responsibility is applied to treat them as such. They need open and clear communication, not to be talked down too, and to have their questions answered. They have the right to autonomy and life.

this callout couldve been a block button

this callout couldve been a private conversation

Omg , he enjoy it with all his heart 😭😍🐈

has someone done this yet

The second amendment right was originally proposed by James Madison to allow the creation of civilian forces that can act against a tyrannical federal government, its not just us having guns. It’s specifically us having guns and using them to protect ourselves from a tyrannical government.

We’re just finally using it for its intended purpose.

I think we should call out women's misogyny more often. My mom was the most misogynistic person I had ever encountered growing up. At herself, at other people. like she's better now, but woman left me some deep scars.

I feel like people forget that women are not immune to enforcing and upholding both male and female gender roles in society awfully often. There are some women who do it far worse and more frequently than some men.

Hell, I've seen men say, "It wasn't my dad who hit me and told me to man up and stop crying, it was my mom."

We live in a society, everyone is responsible for upholding the gender norms under the patriarchy, it wouldn't have lasted this long if it wasn't enforced by everyone.

Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

This is so well put I am stunned

When encountering someone stuck in an Apology Loop, I do not uselessly ask, or worse, demand that they “stop apologizing.”

Rather, I have found it much more useful to affect a theatrical tone and formally “absolve” them. “Like a Renaissance pope, I absolve you, my child.” Usually the combination of having the absurdity of the situation highlit, combined with a touch of physiological release if I can get a laugh, is enough to soothe their nerves a bit and get them to break the loop. And who knows maybe they feel absolved I dunno I have an authoritative bearing

This counts as a spell

Fun probability fact: If you press the button 100 times, there's roughly a 1/e chance you'll become a girl!

Fun gender fact: If you press the button 100 times, you were almost certainly a girl to begin with.

reblogging again with the addition because it was the first time someone had actually implied i was a girl, because despite how much i had related to trans memes and whatnot, the actual idea that i *was* a girl never had ever crossed my mind and had i not read this might not have ever realized. as a person who despite having literally gone onto egg_irl and grown up around queer people on the internet, i beg you. please make that joke about someone being a girl. you might save her life. if nobody ever directly told me "you *are* a girl", im not sure i ever would have known.

ive seen a variation of the button post blowing up lately and i wanted to point out this incredibly valuable add on that massively expands the idea

One of the posts that helped me went something like:

"If you wish you were trans, you are probably trans. Cis people do not wish they were trans."

If you all are going to jump every time that man says “We’re going to buy Greenland we’re going to call it the Gulf of America” this is going to be a long four years. Please figure out when to get worked up and when to roll your eyes.

Cheat sheet: when he says something bold and delusional, it's a distraction from a piece of news he'd rather you not see. If he says something bizarre and incoherent, it's a dog whistle about a policy decision he'd rather you not think about.

I would like for you to change this a bit. Rather than go, "This is a distraction," I want you to think, "Okay, he wants to do this because he thinks he can make money off of it for himself and his donors. How could he make money off of this and whom will it be for?"

Do this every time he makes an outlandish statement.

For example, he says he wants to own Greenland.

Okay.

Why Greenland? Do they have any natural resources he can exploit?

Oh, yes, looks like it potentially does. 31.4 billion barrels of oil, that is. Only they have stopped drilling and have banned the practice because the risk of damaging the environment was deemed too high.

And would you look at that, some of the highest donors to Trump's campaign during this past election were from the gas and oil industry.

And now you understand why he wants Greenland. He has no problem handing it over to the gas and oil industry to do what they want with it.

Trump is first and foremost a grifter. He'd sell his own mother if he thought he could make a nickel in the deal.

From now on, realize that every action he does, he does so with the goal of making money. Again, you just need to ask the questions, "How?" and "For whom?"

This is a great line of reasoning to remember. The screaming spray tan clot cannot be motivated to do anything that does not benefit him personally.

If it sounds like the composer is trying to blast you with the orchestra until you're as deaf as he is, it's Beethoven.

If it sounds like the composer might be a vampire, it's Bach.

If it sounds like the composer is trying to set the violins on fire, it's Vivaldi.

If it sounds like the composer is trying to shoot you, it's Tchaikovsky.

If it sounds like the composer is mansplaining to you, it's Wagner.

If it sounds like the composer is making fun of you, it's Mozart.

If it sounds like the composer is being a father figure to the music itself, it's Haydn

If it sounds like the composer is playing Star Wars 60 years early, it's Holst

If it sounds like the composer is trying to incite a riot, it's Stravinsky

every time I see some bigshot scientist revealed as a fraud my knee-jerk reaction is "hell yeah elisabeth bik got 'em good" AND IM RIGHT

SHE NEVER QUITS!!!!

ICONIC!!!!

> Elisabeth Bik is on patreon <

She is not directly paid for her work to vet papers, she has been hit with legal action & death threats by scientists who hate that she's exposing them and their financial fraud, and she keeps at it every single day, combing through thousands of papers to make science more fair. Please consider supporting her!

actually beautiful

Puritanism is getting worse around the globe and conservatives and fascists will absolutely be first going harder against porn, then use that against queer people. You HAVE to realise this and oppose anti porn measures and laws, be in solidarity with sex workers, and listen to them when they call this shit out. It's going to be vitally important.

Reminder that keeping porn legal means that pornstars have legal protections that they will lose if porn is made illegal. Reminder that keeping porn legal means there are legal standards that can be put in place and enforced which results in better safety for all who are involved in porn's creation.

Reminder that porn will never stop being a thing. It just won't. If it's made illegal, then it will continue to be created and distributed - its just that it will now be done under the table, and with no safety regulations or protections for anyone.

Yes, the hard-right's ultimate plan is to use porn as a gateway from which to attack queer people, but even if that wasn't their plan, you should want to protect the legality of porn anyway.

Keeping porn legal means that the chances of sexual assault on those who work in the industry are reduced, and means that victims of assault are able to pursue legal action against their attackers. Keeping porn legal means that human trafficking is decreased, and it gives victims of human trafficking a legally supported escape route that would be lost if porn were made illegal.

Keeping porn legal means that anyone who is involved in making it - regardless of whether theyre making it simply because they want to, or because they're financially desperate -- is granted a measure of protection that they otherwise would not be. People love to raise the "but porn is made by desperate people who sell their body to survive," but a) some people make porn because they like it, and b) someone who is desperate enough to sell their body will do so regardless of whether it's legal or not. But when it's legal, that desperate person has far more protections and is less likely to be taken advantage of than when it's illegal.

Keeping porn legal protects people. Making it illegal will harm people. It's that simple.

"But it's demeaning!"

That's a you problem. No, really - it's your opinion is that sex work is demeaning, but I've had some really demeaning jobs that were legal and "proper". Just because a job involves sex doesn't mean it has less value than being a salesperson, or an accountant.

To quote the great John Waters.

It should also be noted that, much like how miscarrisges get prosecuted under abortion laws, laws that criminalize being in porn will mean that instead of our current laws punishing people for *distributing* revenge porn, it will punish the people non-consensually *in* revenge porn.

THIS IS TOO MUCH 💀😂

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