Hello folks I’m making a new post because we need help. We are out of cat/dog food and running low on human food as well. Getting around 100 would be very helpful but truly any amount would be helpful! Please reblog or donate if you can.
Hey folks we haven’t received much help and are still greatly in need of help of any kind. Eli might have a job soon though!
Thank you @anneemay for the notice
if u cant upkeep or afford or do the esim process, crips for esims is still going!!
hey tumblr i made a cow today for my game whiskey stones. his name is brandy look at him
here he is in the game. isnt he majestic
thank you @bovineblogger for giving me the inspiration to do this a few months back!!
The only thing that has ever improved my mental health in any measurable capacity is making more friends. That's literally it
The way isolation plays on your psyche, and the way that a solid support system can improve your life is insane. One of the worst things that we did as a society is removing most avenues to find this kind of thing, and the over reliance on the idea of getting better on your own
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anyway yeah DELETE YOUR FUCKING ADVERTISING IDS
Android:
Settings ➡️ Google ➡️ all services ➡️ Ads ➡️ Delete advertising ID
(may differ slightly depending on android version and manufacturer firmware. you can't just search settings for "advertising ID" of course 🔪)
iOS:
Settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ tracking ➡️ toggle "allow apps to request to track" to OFF
and ALSO settings ➡️ privacy ➡️ Apple advertising ➡️ toggle "personalized ads" to OFF
more details about the process here via the EFF
If you're doing something you don't want your government to know about, turn off you phone and leave it at home. Print out a paper map if you must.
Seriously, deleting an ad ID is insufficient. Your phone can even be tracked if it's off!
Simply do not bring the "see your location at all times" device to places where you could be persecuted for going. No even if you think you know how to turn that functionality off. I promise you don't know enough about how to actually turn off every possible avenue through which this could happen, because the advice of everybody who does is "hahaha, no just leave the phone at home".
With the summer heat rolling in I really wanted to take a moment and highlight a program I am a big fan of, A.N.E.
"Adopt-A-Native-Elder (A.N.E.) serves to help reduce extreme poverty and hardship facing traditional Elders living on the Navajo Reservation. A.N.E. is a trusted humanitarian organization focused on delivering food, medical supplies, firewood and other forms of Elder support. Respecting the tradition and dignity of Navajo Elders, we create relationships and honor and serve the Elders. The Program is organized in the Native American Spirit of the Giveaway Circle. The Giveaway Circle has a tradition of giving the best that we have. That may be a gift of time, talents or skills, or actual gifts of food and donations. When asked what the boxes of food meant to her, Ruth Benally explained that they were like "miracles from the sky." The miracle is the letters and gifts that arrive from people that they don't know and may never meet. For over 30 years, Adopt-A-Native-Elder has used an integrated approach to go beyond charity to assist indigent Elders on the Navajo Reservation in Utah and Arizona."
A.N.E also puts on an annual rug show & sale, you can read about last years here. Apart from their annual events they also host an online shop where you can buy jewelry, woven baskets, and elder made rugs. All proceeds go towards providing support for our elders be it food, medical assistance, firewood, weaving supplies and so much more.
Not in the market for beautifully made Indigenous crafts? Well they also accept general donations, buy specific items for elders in need, food certificate sponsors, rug show sponsors, and of course adopting an elder.
Them [the news website] having a lot of articles on top surgery and bottom growth but like no info on the affects of estrogen/progesterone on your genitals and bottom surgery is so...blatantly a bigotry issue.
good lord, the difference in register in this article on transfem HRT vs this article on bottom growth on transmasc HRT is just so gross?
like, the bylines:
"Bottom growth can be a fun, affirming, and sexy part of transition for many people."
"Feminizing HRT, or hormone replacement therapy, is a common treatment for gender dysphoria."
good lord.
the transfem HRT article is fucking full of half-truths and outright mis- and dis- information
Anti-androgen medication suppresses the body’s natural testosterone, which can cause:
Thinning of facial and body hair Decrease in muscle mass Changes to your libido Reduction of penis and testicle size A decrease in the number of erections you experience
jesus christ that's also an effect of estradiol! ESTRADIOL LITERALLY CAN DO ALL THAT ON ITS OWN.
Deciding whether or not to go on anti-androgen medications is a personal choice depending on how your medical transition is going.
Commonly, patients will begin by taking anti-androgen drugs to reduce testosterone levels before beginning to take estradiol orally, with regular testing to check hormone levels.
SHUT THE FUCK UP. SHUT THE FUCK UP.
"patients will begin by taking anti-androgen drugs to reduce T levels before beginning to take estradiol" WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.
THAT'S LITERALLY JUST BAD FUCKING PRACTICE YOU FUCKING ASS.
Medically transitioning is not a requirement to be trans, as there are no formal requirements.
Ducar added that not everyone needs to go on feminizing HRT, and that you should only do so if you feel medically transitioning is that important for your transition goals.
Ducar says that it is possible to cause an overdose on HRT, and that you could put yourself at risk for “breast cancer, stroke, blood clots, gallstones, and a range of heart issues” without being properly monitored.
there is no evidence for any of this being the case at a higher risk than just a given cis woman existing.
For some people, feminizing HRT can make their body feel more in line with their mind.
for who asshole. for who??
and you know what, i'll give them credit, at least the writer and the medical provider, Dallas Ducar, they got to do this crap are both transfeminine, but jesus christ. this article fucking sucks ass.
A more fair comparison is between their article on masculinising HRT and the one mentioned above.
bylines:
"Feminizing HRT, or hormone replacement therapy, is a common treatment for gender dysphoria"
and
"Testosterone HRT, or hormone replacement therapy, can leave people feeling more confident, alleviate gender dysphoria, and in many cases saves lives"
Make of that what you will
Following this both describe their HRT in broard strokes, in terms of physical effects both speak plainly. However their concluding sentences are phrased diffrently
"For some people, feminizing HRT can make their body feel more in line with their mind."
"People who take masculinizing HRT have reported feeling less psychological distress, experiencing more sexual satisfaction, and otherwise help them feel more comfortable in their body and mind."
Now one difference that will immediately jump out at you is the length difference, I don't know and won't guess why that is the case.
What I will say is that one of these articles seems much more interested in emphasising how few people benefit from it then the other and, that one of these seems less willing to elaborate on what the tangible benefits are.
But something I find quite interesting is on the preceding line in the mHRT article:
"Taking HRT has been shown to greatly improve the mental health of many trans people and in many cases save lives"
A plainly stated sentence that emphasises the life saving nature of HRT? I'm sure they had something like that in the fHRT article, I mean this sentence even talks about HRT generically so they could even just copy and paste it!
They don't say even once that feminising HRT saves lives. Not once. So that's an interesting decision.
Of course that isn't the only interesting thing. Both articles do state that one doesn't need to take HRT to be trans, however I, just for fun, decided to count how many instances of that sentiment were stated in each article:
the fHRT article states that you don't need to take HRT to be trans seven times. the mHRT article only says it once.
Now that on its own wouldn't be an issue if the fHRT article didn't seem to spend every other moment talking about how few people benefit from feminising HRT.
Now also for fun I decided to count how many times each article says that there is only a chance that HRT provides any benefits.
I'm starting to see a pattern.
humour me just one more time, how many times does each state HRT is life saving?
I hope this isn't to poorly written, I came into this trying to do my usual unfeeling disection of articles, but these articles managed to quite piss me off.
We should start making everyone take a literacy test before they're allowed to vote. Y'all are not helping my superiority complex.
"People who have been failed by the system should not have civil rights."
Are you sure about that?
@mazenmanal campaign has been going since June 4th, and It's heartbreaking how little progress has been made since then mazen is four years old and hasn't recovered from his left foot injury due to lack of medicines and the collapse of Gaza medical facilities there are no other way to help other than donating and support Almansi family.
Vetted by gaza-evacuation-funds #313
UPDATE €5,778\€6,000 (12 November)
€222 Away From Short-term Goal
came home drunk last night and got way too excited to see my cat
everyone look at these namaki drawings that my friend @lakefama drew i’m crying
Shocking to me how US people on this website are STILL acting like foreigners couldn't possibly understand how wildly varied and diverse their regional culture is because the USA is such a big country when in actuality the USA is like. Surprisingly culturally homogeneous for a country of its size.
I just saw someone say "what people from outside the states don't understand is that there is no unifying "US" culture like there is for most countries" like dude... There a countries a fraction of the size of the US where you travel to another city and people don't even speak the same language.
The "50 countries in a trenchcoat" joke and its consequences have been a disaster for discussions of american culture.
And btw before americans get any ideas. I didn't say the USA is 100% culturally homogeneous. I said it's surprisingly culturally homogeneous *for its size*. You don't have to explain to me how people from New Jersey shop at Wawa and people from New Jursey shop at Weewoo.
Pardon the shift in tone but it’s something about Anglicization being uniquely violent and radical in scope.
This is going to come even more out of left field but Genshin Impact is a game made by a Chinese company with a huge US player base. While I don’t expect the makers of a digital child casino to understand the finer points of “American” history, the fact that their American players didn’t immediately recognize the problem of including Polynesian-inspired characters in a region inspired by the indigenous cultures of the “Americas”* just because Hawai’i has the misfortune of being part of the United States of “America” is kind of galling.
Like in Europe it was bad enough that five Celtic nations nearly had their language and culture entirely erased by Modern-era Anglo policy but in the “Americas” the number of indigenous peoples who suffered objectively worse fates is two or three orders of magnitude greater. Contrary to the “no immunity” narrative, the concentration and displacement of indigenous populations from their native lands to render them vulnerable to epidemic was a deliberate method of extermination. In Mexico the majority of people are indigenous or mixed, while in “Canada” it is 5% and in the US it’s 1%. The economic refugees from Middle and South “America”** are majority mixed or indigenous, so this is all present, not historical. The vast majority of African “Americans” had their native language and culture policed into non-existence which in the perpetrating Anglo ideology was seen as the equivalent of wiping the hard drive of a used computer. Organization by non-Anglo Europeans was (and still is) villainized and policed to such an extent that the Anglicization of American Europeans is near-total among all but the most recent immigrants.
Like, the aggressive, often genocidal homogenization of the “melting pot” is belied by the mildest regionalisms because our awareness of our Modern history and present reality is fucking emaciated.
*(A term of convenience; the scope of the much-preferable Turtle Island or Nuna isn’t broad enough and “New World” is just dog-fuckingly offensive for a land inhabited since “time immemorial”)
**(Fleeing violent US opposition to “socialism” [read: indigenous organization or as often just any government that isn’t fascist] for the sake of exploiting their resources via the market, i.e. 21st century colonialism.)
This is important. Not only because he is a hero. But because this is proof that they were going after jews, not Israelis in general. Otherwise Israeli arabs would've been harmed.
It is also not lost on me that this is the second time in the past 13 months where an Israeli arab man has risked their life to save jews whilst the west either participates or cheers terrorists on
Young people have GOT to stop talking about conservatives like they're scary menacing monsters. Yes the policies they back are horrifically destructive but that's entirely because of how individually stupid, fearful, emotionally stunted, weak willed and catastrophically gullible they are. That all is what made them become right wing to begin with. Just the most easily manipulated zombie sheep on earth.
People I have encountered in the past month who voted for Tr*mp include:
- Homeless girl who asked for my pronouns immediately and used them correctly every time
- Hispanic woman with a large family who just got her citizenship and is still working on her English
Neither of these women understood what they were supporting, they mostly saw ads that he was going to reduce grocery prices and voted based on that. Neither of them have consistent access to information or any relevant political education, nor the time, money, or energy to seek it out because they are focused on surviving.
A vast amount of republican voters are exactly the same, and it's a direct result of the GOP strategically denying them resources. We cannot move forward if you throw people to the curb for not knowing any better.
I need to emphasize that these people are "stupid, fearful, emotionally stunted, weak willed and catastrophically gullible" because they have been forcefully kept in poverty without access to proper education, therapy, or community support and fed fearmongering propaganda their entire lives without anyone ever showing them life can be better. They are traumatized and exhausted and a lot of them are trapped in religious cults.
They are like this because the GOP has meticulously engineered huge swaths of the country to be that way. It is not an inherent personal failing and it is very likely you would be the same had you grown up in the same circumstances.
You do not have to shake hands with bigots, but you need to have compassion and understanding for people who have not yet been given the resources and political understanding you have.
I'm not done here actually. Dehumanization like "zombie sheep" is in direct opposition to the kinds of strategies we are going to need to survive after January 6th. Yes, these people voted for something horrific, but they are still people and as things get bad most of them are going to be negatively impacted– and when that happens we need to be there to support them because that is how we get them to join us and fight back. Everything that makes them susceptible to right-wing propaganda will work in our favor in the right circumstances.
We simply will not get anywhere if we are determined to not see people we hate as people. Humans can learn and grow, zombie sheep cannot.
ETA: Since people are misconstruing my meaning here, we punch fascists on sight. But if someone says "I didn't realize this would happen when I voted for the fascists" or there's even a single crack in their loyalty you scoop them up ASAP no matter how much you want to toss them off a cliff because with a bit of compassion you can get them to turn against the fascists, and that is how we win.
I know I've said this a hundred times but if you're worried about palestinian fundraisers being scams at least consider donating to MSF. It's a highly reputable organization which has broken its long-standing neutrality to denounce Israel in front of the UN. Here's all the aid MSF is providing to Gazans (documentation available in multiple languages).
Since I know no one's gonna click on that link, here's a quick overview of some of the various ways in which Medicins Sans-Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) is aiding Palestinians
- Since Oct 7 2023, MSF provided for 14000 hospital admissions and 7500 surgeries, on top of treating 27500 people for physical violence causes, treating 34000 people for diarrhoea (very common condition in Gaza currently due to the sanitary crisis) and holding 18000 mental health sessions.
-MSF is currently operating in two hospitals, eight healthcare facilities and fifteen mobile clinics, providing surgical support, wound care, physiotherapy, maternity and paediatric care, basic healthcare, vaccinations, and mental health services among other things (more info on the treatments provided by each facility on the link above). Additionally, they provide training for psychological, medical and paramedical volunteers, and donate first aid kits to various camps (info on the specific locations on the link above).
- Via their partnership with the Palestinian Agriculture and Development Association, they're building latrines for over 30000 people in six camps, distributing hygiene kits to 2400 families, and ensuring clean drinking water for 25000 people, on top of equipping a camp for 70 families with accessible sanitary facilities for disabled people.
- Since October 7, 2023, eight of their medics have died. Seven of them are remembered here, and their latest, Hasan Suboh, in this statement that denounces Israel's allies for disregarding the fact that the protection of humanitarian workers is not being guaranteed as they claim.
MSF does not only stand for Palestine in humanitarian terms, it also does so politically to an extent, holding Israel and its allies accountable for sabotaging ceasefire negotiation attempts.
MSF also provides aid to Sudan, the Democratic Republic Of Congo, Haiti, Ethiopia and 76 other countries.
To better maximize your donation to MSF, I advise keeping an eye out for donation doubling and tripling periods, which occur fairly often and can be checked on their website.
We all know what erectile dysfunction is but literally no one is ever taught what vaginismus is and it can cause people to feel extremely lost, broken, and cause people to take their own lives. Raise. Awareness.
For the uninformed, vaginismus is when the vagina painfully tightens and spasms when faced with pressure, usually from anything trying to insert into the vagina. It’s the reason I can’t wear tampons, and why many people can’t have vaginal sex without severe pain.
There’s not a lot of treatments, and there isn’t a single one that is for vaginismus exclusively - they’re all medications or treatments to treat symptoms, but not the causes. In fact, for a long time doctors waved off vaginismus as a purely psychological disorder in cis women.
Seriously, this is so unaddressed and uncared for in medical circles. Please spread awareness, even if all it’s for is to let those who have it but don’t have a name for it finally be able to understand what’s happening to their bodies.
Certified Sex Ed Post!
Hi hello! This post is almost 10 years old and there ARE treatments for this. Vaginismus is otherwise known as pelvic hypertonia and it is a MUSCULAR condition that can be caused by many different factors including endometriosis, trauma, chronic UTIs, and connective tissue disorders.
It’s incredibly common! And it can be treated by physiotherapy.
I know this because I’m currently undergoing physio and although it can take months to recover, I’m already seeing improvement. A lot of the pelvic floor exercises are available online, but if you have these symptoms please TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR and see if you can get a physio referral (or investigation for underlying causes like endometriosis).
Also, my additions to posts never get reblogged so a note to my followers: this is SUPER IMPORTANT ISSUE that affects many people and is rarely talked about. Please reblog, and please share this info with as many people as possible.
Pelvic hypertonia/vaginismus is incredibly debilitating and psychologically damaging but it CAN BE TREATED. Spread the word, and you never know who you’ll be throwing a lifeline to.
