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Don’t scroll past this. Kylie Armstrong was diagnosed with breast cancer and these small dimples were the only signs. She posted the image on Facebook so everyone knows that “that breast cancer is not always a detectable lump.” Here’s how Kylie is doing today.
(If you’re not sure how to do a self breast exam, instructions can be found at BreastCancer.org.)
official boob post
[ID: At the top, text reads “Finding out you’re ace like”. Below is a two panel meme. In the first panel, a person asks “Okay, was anybody going to tell me that the average age adults report first experiencing sexual attraction is 10,”. In the second panel, they finish their question, saying “or was I just supposed to read that in a scientific paper myself?”. End ID]
Andrew Garfield on consent and privacy
magneto is the best villain of all time. any media. magneto is the villain you write papers about, the one you dissect over and over. he is the pinnacle of a sympathetic villain because he isn’t a villain. to mutants, to those ostracized, he is the hero, not the villain. he is made of the same violent revolution the haitian revolution, the american revolution, the french revolution all exemplify. he is an allegory for change, villified but sympathetic, and magneto is one of, if not the best, fictional characters ever created
I love Magneto because he is one of the only examples we have of a very particular type of Jewish representation, which is Jewish rage. I’ve met a lot of Holocaust survivors in my life and they’ve come to a place where they can tell their stories and have joy for their lives, which is obviously the healthiest route in the aftermath of that trauma, but it ends up really glossing over a whole range of emotions that were very real and very impactful.
Most Jewish representation we get in media is along three lines: 1) really shitty antisemitic stereotypes ranging from subtle to obnoxious, 2) white people with a quirk, and 3) black-and-white victims in Holocaust movies who are very often the object to be saved by a Good Goy™. The Holocaust happens to us in movies, but often if a WWII-era film isn’t explicitly about that, then it just glosses over us completely. We’re either victims, or we’re nothing. Furthermore, I think a lot of American attitudes towards Jews comes from knowing us as the assimilated, very often white-passing folks we are now, and they don’t realize that we’re still shaking from the generational trauma of losing an entire way of life. There were once whole villages in Europe where basically everyone was Jewish; Fiddler on the Roof is based in reality. That’s the type of background I come from. And between the pogroms of the 19th and early 20th centuries and the Holocaust, those towns were wiped out completely. 6 million is a number that gets thrown around, but to give it some context, it’s estimated that that was one-third to one-half of all Jews on the planet. Gone.
In the collective memory that is pop culture, there’s this gap between us suffering as victim objects in WWII and us being white-passing minorities who navigate the waters of American society. But that’s not how it happened, and this cultural portrayal of Jews harms us because it dismisses the very real fallout from the trauma of the Holocaust, and it erases the fact that our assimilation was a survival tactic, and that we have never, ever regained what we lost, nor will we be able to. It makes people very hostile to us when we point out injustices or feel angry. It imbues WWII with this slimy sense of American exceptionalism, where the Good Goyim came in and saved us because we were passive cattle to the slaughter, and we should be thankful.
Erik is a Holocaust survivor, and he’s not okay. He is angry, he is traumatized, he is overwhelmed with grief. He buried his memories so deep because he lost everything. He is one of the few Holocaust survivors on screen whose reaction feels real and honest and true.
I never stop thinking about this scene from First Class, because it shows a Jew who is traumatized but not a victim. He is struggling to reconcile who he was with who he is. He still has a good memory but it’s trapped beneath layers of anguish, and when he allows himself to remember, he finds a sense of strength. And even though he’s often the bad guy, his motivations partly stem from the fact that he survived the fucking Holocaust. And now, again, the oppressive majority group wants to fuck with him just because of who he is. Wouldn’t you be enraged? Wouldn’t you dismiss the notion of mercy, having seen exactly what evil men are capable of? Wouldn’t you want to rise up and take back your power with your own two hands? I fucking would.
That’s why I love Magneto.
What I love about First Class that it is also very European, and given where Erik is from in that film (Düsseldorf) and who his father was in some comics (Iron Cross decorated WW 1 vet, a brutal trench war the Americans only fought the last few months of, and that was well rested and well supplied, not as part of the exhausted Kaiser’s Army fighting on two fronts) - they were assimilated. They were deeply assimilated bourgeois German-first Jews. Erik was not from a shtetl. He may not have been taught Yiddish as a boy. There was a very strong effort to found a Jewish Bürgertum, more than a century of assimilation into Austrian and German intellectual upper middle class values, and young Erik is a paragon of that -
And it ended in Auschwitz.
For all Charles’ efforts, all the renewed Jewish American assimilation, he’d have a point if he’d said: been there, done that, bought the whole wardrobe and even ate the pork sausage as not to offend and I am telling you, it is worth nothing. There is no protection to be had in assimilation, or my people would not have been rounded up and annihilated. You have never been targeted and it blinds you, my friend.
feeling emotionally vulnerable so ill be walking around with a sword for the rest of the day
It's late September and that means #ITPE sign-ups are OPEN 🎉🎉🎉 Links will be at the end, so please read through the post as we have a lot of new information/procedures this year!
Im not autistic about cars or makes or models but I AM autistic about crumple points and field of vision and blindspots and conflict points. do you understand. urban design, anti car dependency/anti car centric infrastructure, and so cars themselves are part of that interest. because car design is urban design. cybertrucks SUCK as cars and also dont function well in infrastructure thats designed to care about people. there are good cars and vehicles that are designed good and fit well with good urban design
THIS is how im autistic about cars
the funniest thing about new american trucks is that i was driving last week and saw someone with a dirt bike in the back and they had to have the tail gate propped open becuase the truck bed wasn’t long enough. the dirt bike was not that big. it was funny. you bought that car justifying to yourself that it’s a work horse, a ute. it doesn’t fit a 250cc bike brother
chiming in to point out that forward visibility in full-size american pickups is uh. not great.
I have PERSONALLY had to move/haul heavy shit a lot and the vans with the short noses beat the hell out of the pickups, except for when you’re off-roading/in mud and in that case it’s a matter of low center of gravity + 4wd that really keeps you moving (which a lot of older trucks, being smaller & lower, do a HELL of a lot better.) I have had to GET OUT OF MY CAR and peer around these behemoth trucks parked on streets so that I can see enough to pull out of a driveway. Pedestrian deaths in the US are going UP, and as a person too short to be seen over the hood of one of these fucking things, they need to NOT be a “consumer ‘car’ of choice”.
lee know & chappell roan heard what you said about lesbians. not cool.
If you don't love me at my worst (a crusty rock you found at the sea, covered in sea salt, dull and without color or whimsy) then you don't love me at my best (the same rock, but wet. My colors showing, the sea salt on me washed away and a glittery shiny sense on me making me pretty to the eye)
wishing spiders a successful strike, may they get everything they want
I mean like the game devs from the company Spiders who are on strike right now. Not the. Not the leggy fellers. I don't think they're on strike
half the reblogs are people saying "the leggy fellers should strike too!" and I can't tell if it's because they hate spiders or love strikes. but I'll never figure that out because I still can't move past the implication that the spiders are employed
How many reblogs are just people saying "web developers" now
like 200
People never seem to want to hang out at animal habitats. If they can’t see something immediately, they just leave. If you’re patient enough to stay, sometimes incredibly magical experiences happen. Like this one.
Those are California condors. Biggest wingspan in North America, incredibly endangered, and the only species with approval from USDA for emergency use of the poultry avian flu vaccine.
Towards the end of the day, once things got quiet, I sat down near where one was foraging and just hung out. Then… they noticed me.
I can only upload one video so I’m going with the one where I was showing them my glasses, since they kept trying to peck at my shoelaces and fingers and I wondered what else they'd be interested in.
They stayed there with me for at least five minutes, given the duration of video I took. Just chilling, watching me, interacting a little. It was just us - nobody else approached. Until eventually they chose to go do their own thing, and I sat there in awe for a while.
It’s worth it to wait, when you can.
I would LOVE to wait patiently, but most of the time there is zero seating at the actual enclosure and only on the paths between enclosures. As a disabled chronically ill person, I cannot just sit there patiently waiting. If I stand at that enclosure, I will not see the rest of the zoo. I would love to, I really would.
(This also isn't a gripe directed at the op, just something I felt deserved more visibility to put as a comment than as tags.)
Yup, as another chronically ill and disabled person, this is a huge barrier at many facilities. I’m able to sit on the hard concrete if I need to, but I know not everyone is (and I often have to ask people for a hand up if my knees misbehave). More accessibility at zoos for mobility limited people is a real crusade of mine.
Legitimate question, if standing for a long time is already a problem for you then shouldn't you just have a wheelchair? Zoos tend to be quite large by their very nature so there's going to be a lot of walking.
The thing is that zoos are… kind of uniquely hard to traverse with any type of mobility aids, and different mobility issues require different types of accommodations.
Because I think you’re asking in good faith, I’ll give you my mobility issues as an example. I’m hypermobile, which means my disability is really variable. Sometimes I can hike a whole hilly zoo all day and be totally fine. Sometimes I can walk the zoo, but standing on concrete really hurts, so I can’t stay anywhere that doesn’t have a bench to observe the animal. Sometimes I can compensate for that by sitting on the ground (which gets in the way of other people and gets you odd looks as an adult) or squatting but if I’m having a bad knees day, I get stuck and need help or end up injured. And sometimes, I can’t do the walking or the standing, and I use an electric scooter that I rent from the zoo.
But none of these are perfect solutions. Let me walk you through the way electric scooters (ECVs), for example, can be hard to use at a zoo. Assume for the purpose of this someone is visiting alone and needs to mostly stay in the ECV.
These are all issues you encounter in a powered vehicle - manual wheelchairs tend to struggle more with a lot of the terrain issues, because long winding slopes without flat spots are a common design feature.
So while you’d think that if “you need to rest more / can’t walk a ton” the solution is just “use a wheelchair,” I have found it can actually be even more exhausting and painful to use a mobility device than just hoof it on foot and plan my day around the hills and places I know have benches I can rest on. I’ve done a lot of facilities both ways and there’s some pretty major tradeoffs.
A solution to this would be zoo design with more accessibility in mind, but truly, just having more benches and putting them in places where people want to linger - like where they can see animals - goes a long way. So many exhibit viewing areas are just a glass wall over a concrete pad for guests to stand on, and nothing else! Creating viewing areas that have inherent accommodations solves a lot of that problem without putting the onus on disabled folk to own/rent/have access to mobility aids they might not need regularly outside of a zoo visit.
Also, if the zoo is particularly crowded, people don't move for wheelchairs or scooters the way they often do for kids. As both kinds of devices make you much less agile and make it hard to push on flight distances in a way that gets people to subconsciously move, it's really hard to see things if there's any competition from other people at the observation site.
Even for an able-bodied person, standing still for a long time can be hard on your body. As an able-bodied person, if I were going to be spending significant time at any particular enclosure, I'd want to bring a collapsible stool--one of the folding metal ones that packs up into basically something umbrella sized for easy carrying.
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For anybody who doesn't understand, THIS IS A FIRE HAZARD.
Basically the dryer has a filter for lint and you should clean it regularly. It's not actually that bad! The lint sticks to itself so it's easy to pull out, and while it looks dirty since it's from clean clothes it's not actually filthy. You can absolutely wear gloves if you don't want to directly touch it.
(In my experience it tends to be very soft and fuzzy, actually a pleasing texture but, again, if you don't want to directly touch it you don't have to.)
Not cleaning it out results in a buildup of the lint and this is a major cause of driers catching on fire.
For anybody
who doesn’t understand, THIS
IS A FIRE HAZARD.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Good bot.
Reminder that lint is so good at catching fire when exposed to heat that it can be used as a fire starter when camping.
I think something people don't talk about is the negligence many parents show in raising their kids.
When you're seeing these young (or older) adults demonstrate a lack of life skills, it's not cute or funny.
When you're seeing people suffering because domestic work wasn't taught to them because they were a boy, you're seeing a result of sexism.
When you're seeing people suffering because tech maintenance work wasn't taught to them because they were a girl, you're seeing a result of sexism.
Teach your children all the core skills no matter what gender you think they are.
When you see people suffering because life skills weren't taught to them and gender fuckery doesn't seem to be relevant to it (girl who doesn't know how to domestic, boy who doesn't know tech maintenance, etc), you're seeing a result of what might be neglect.
Here's the thing about Jareth from Labyrinth right?
He's made up.
That's not necessarily the same thing as not REAL. But he, just like all her friends who show up in her room before her adventure as toys and figurines, exist in relation to her, in response to what she wanted and needed. She told the story and there he was, there he always had been. But she's a teenage girl who doesn't know what she wants yet, and Jareth kind of pays the price.
"but the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl, and had given her certain powers." He's an archetypal oxymoron. He's both the dastardly baby stealing villain and the royal love interest trying to relieve the heroine's suffering, Cinderella style. He's fucked either way by being both. She doesn't know if SHE wants to be the villain or the heroine until he shows up and then she decides on the heroine, so he has to sneer and menace and challenge but it's too late for him!! it's too late, The King Of The Goblins Had Fallen In Love With the Girl, he's Cinderella's prince too and he has to try, he gives her a poofy dress and takes her to fucking goblin prom, sweeps her around the room like a music box with perfect posture and room for Jesus.
But it doesn't work buddy, it can't work. You're just a story for a teen girl to grow up in, and as the villain you have to be defeated. He's so complex because his tropes contradict themselves, and he doesn't understand why he has to lose when he was only doing the job he was given. In his last scene he is pale as death with shadows under his eyes, backing away and begging for his happy ending with nonsense mishmash promises that belong to both halves of him.
"I am exhausted from living up to your expectations of me." I'm sure you are, Jareth. No wonder.
But of course! That's what his song is about!
Actually, I see a nice paralell here with The Neverending Story's AURYN. You remember what's written on it's back?
"Do What You Wish"
And no, it doesn't mean you should fool around and just wish away whatever you have on your mind. As the Ruler of the Desert of Colors, Gograman explains it to Bastian, it is about following your True Wish.
Bastian thinks he knows what his true wish is. You see? Same as for Sarah. She thinks she knows what she wants. As Jareth points it out to her, "everything I've done, I've done for you" - he kidnapped Toby just as she wished. He gave her a chance to get him back.
"I move the stars for no-one"
This. This is where he becomes threatening. FOR REAL. He is warning her.
Sarah : Give me the child.
Jareth : Sarah, beware. I have been generous up 'til now. I can be cruel.
Sarah : Generous? What have you done that's generous?
Jareth : *Everything*! Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me, I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for *you*! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations. Isn't that generous?
What Sarah and Bastian both have in common; they don't realize that wishes have CONSEQUENCES.
How you turn my world
You precious thing
You starve and near exhaust me
Everything I've done
I've done for you
I move the stars for no one
You've run so long
You've run so far
Your eyes can be so cruel
Just as I can be so cruel
Oh I do believe in you
Yes I do
Live without your sunlight
Love without your heartbeat
I, I can't live within you
I can't live within you
I, I can't live within you.
#the line you expect#the line he should sing#because it’s a love song right?#it’s almost a love song#the line you want to hear is ‘i can’t live without you’#but instead it’s ‘i can’t live within you’ because he’s a concept stretched too thin#he’s fantasy and sexuality and girlhood and hero and villain and freedom and entrapment and salvation and destruction#goblin and king#and she’ll grow up and change#But he never will#because she needed him THEN#jareth is literally the character of all time he makes me insane indane insane (tags via @lestatslestits)
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a hysterectomy??? but you’re so young!! why remove a perfectly healthy body part?? what if you meet a nice guy and he wants babies?? you have such a lovely temperament you’d be a great mother!! just take a few years to reconsider and i’m sure you’ll change your mind :) anyway i noticed you’re a big huge fatso, have you considered this irreversible elective procedure with a ton of complications where we remove 80% of your stomach so you can never eat normally again? :)
