ah just another thursday I see
Concept: a mermaid who collects human artifacts, but, like, exclusively objects that humans have dramatically cast into the sea in moments of high emotion, catharsis, or personal revelation. Each item is carefully mounted above a little index card that outlines the circumstances of its hurling in terse, clinical prose.
How many outdated cellphones does she have from businessmen who realize that Family is more important?
Fewer than you’d think. For a variety of fascinating demographic and cultural reasons, importance-of-family cell phones are considerably more likely to be hurled into lakes than oceans. She’s co-authored a paper on the subject that’s due to be published next month.
Anonymous asked:
"Anarchist" but gets triggered when people voluntarily don't wear bicycle helmets.
katelyn-danger answered:
Me when I know what anarchy is
Gravity legally cannot hurt you if you scream "NO GODS NO MASTERS" immediately before impact
I'm so fucking tired of this bicycle helmet discourse. Bike helmets aren't going to do shit to protect you if you get hit by a car
Most of the time... Bike accidents.... Involve things.... Other than cars...... like the ground....also it's safety gear..... Wearing it is non negotiable.... You are one accident away from being permanently disabled..... You need to protect your brain
Not towards OP
Is OSHA and other safety regulations also cop behavior?
*sigh* The belief that OSHA and other safety regulations are cop behavior are common opinions that people have, anarchist or not. Wearing PPE is annoying and often uncomfortable, sweaty, and cumbersome. People also generally hate being told to be careful, because they believe that "be careful" is synonymous with "hey, you're too stupid to do that without hurting yourself".
But all it takes is one time for you to slip up and suddenly the grinder disk that would have gotten stuck in your safety glasses is in your eye, or you're getting treated for lung cancer because you didn't want to wear your respirator while you welded. These are decisions that you were free to make, but might seriously regret later on.
People will scream until they're blue in the face about how oppressive it is to have to wear a safety vest and hard hat on a construction site, but do you really think that the hammer that slipped out of your buddy's hand is going to take that into consideration when it collides with your skull?
No political theory will save you from an accident. You can either wear your PPE, or can die, unexpectedly, painfully, and slowly. The choice is yours. Go argue with a lathe if you feel so strongly about it.
I don’t think you can fully understand transmisogyny without understanding how it’s weaponized against cis Black women.
When you find a transmisogynist you’ve found a racist who will use their ideals of the “normative female body” to demean and denigrate Black women. For years it was a popular right wing rumor/conspiracy/dick move to refer to Michelle Obama as a “tranny” and more recently sports organizations have repeatedly excluded cis Black women for not having “normative” hormone levels. Transmisogyny and antiblackness go hand in hand.
#LITERALLY #pls take note that for every successful black woman there is a rumor that she's 'actually a man' #megan thee stallion. beyonce. michelle obama. serena williams. ciara. kamala harris. nicki minaj--the list goes on #a cis black woman was recently murdered because a white guy thought she was trans #it all goes back to white supremacy guys and it sucks
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Some shady gentrifier firm paid the back taxes on a guy's house and the city of Pittsburgh decided that meant the company owned it, not the guy who literally grew up there and had raised his kids there. So yesterday, after five months of disputes with this company, they called the police. While "serving his eviction" the cops decided to break down his door, at which point witnesses report that the firing started. What followed was a six hour fire fight in a residential area with automatic weapons. The cops didn't even bother to evacuate the block until four hours in. The FBI was called. All because a grandfather whose name is on the fucking deed was not willing to be made homeless by some unhanded, bureaucratic dealings.
Evictions are VIOLENCE. This was a fucking execution. ACAB.
BTW that's actually not uncommon. If you get backed up on land taxes, literally anyone can come in and pay the back taxes. The US is fucked up in so many ways
funniest language thing in modern greek is that the word for baby/infant is “moro” which literally means “idiot.” like someone looked at a baby 1000 years ago and was like “this guy doesnt know shit.”
just to be clear it meant idiot BEFORE it meant baby so like, this wasnt an insult born out of comparing people to babies, it really was people looking at babies and thinking “i dont think theres a better word to describe these things than “moron”” (which “moro” is the root word for)
i just remembered this post. i think i should add onto it:
“moro mou” (my baby) is an affectionate nickname for a partner in greek, the same way “baby/babe” is in english. however this does mean that you are ostensibly calling your partner “my moron <3”
the uncommon allergy haver to anticapitalist pipeline
in January 2023, companies became required to label sesame on all products it was present in, and undergo rigorous cleaning procedures to prevent sesame contamination, after it was declared the 9th "major" food allergen in the United States.
so, instead of considering this a mandate to give a single shit about people with sesame allergies, almost all American companies decided to just add sesame flour to all their relevant products. because apparently that was cheaper.
it's almost impossible for me to find hot dog and hamburger buns without sesame now. and I am one of the lucky ones. I'm someone who just so happened to notice the label updates, not get caught unawares and have a severe allergic reaction. I'm someone lucky enough to be surrounded by multiple choices of supermarkets, and someone with the incredible privilege to have parents who'll help me search the shelves, and cover those costs that my allergies rack up. not everyone with allergies/other intolerances has all or any of those privileges to begin with.
most food allergies will never be prevalent enough that under capitalism, it will be profitable to give them the level of accommodation that they deserve. I speak from experience with a wide portfolio of hypersensitivity quirks when I say that the rarer the food allergy, the worse it gets.
and here's the thing: I can live without hamburger buns, with only superficial decreases in my quality of life. but sesame isn't my only rare allergy, and ever since this legislation hit, I've been lying awake at night, afraid of what I might lose access to next.
I've been lying awake at night wondering what I'll have to do to live, to obtain enough safe food to survive, if any of my other allergies get this same treatment. and I reiterate. I am one of the privlidged ones.
what these companies have done is completely legal. what these companies did has also cut off up to over a million people from what were previously safe, affordable staples of their diets. a system that has any incentive not to accommodate the dietary needs of any population is not a system that can be allowed to exist. this is the uncommon allergy haver to angry, fuming anticapitalist pipeline.
[Image description: two screenshots of tumblr tags, reading:
"also pea protein. mcdicks just added pea protein without any proper warning so if you got a legume allergy, don't eat their buns."
"did you know pea protein and pea flour is a thing. i didn't. but i sure found out quick after i ate frozen nuggets and when i got gravy from a restaurant. now i have to check fucking everything because i've also found pea protein in ice cream of all things." End description.]
thank you @butchwelddone and @insidejupiter respectively for these psas. signal boosting here for all my fellow legume-allergic folks, stay safe (and stay away from McDonalds buns)
My dad has a cow milk allergy, my sibling has a coconut allergy, one of our close friends is allergic to most spices, wheat, and soy. If we’re lucky, we can find a product that any two of them can eat. Almost anything that calls itself “allergy free” is loaded with coconut.
Also! Fifteen years or so ago, all the whipped toppings went from being dairy free to advertising how they were “made with real cream!” Not to mention various other foods that followed the trend, and really screwed everyone over for having cow’s milk and whatever original milk alternative they used to cut costs both in everything.
So, yeah. For-profit food my belothed.
USAmerican corn-allergy-haver here l love you all and I think we should burn it all down.
By the way the practical [miserable] advice is to cook most things from scratch for yourself and to eat out rarely and only at restaurants you've completely vetted.
The advice that fucking nobody ever tells you about and that is why I literally went back to school to get a degree in nutrition is
If you suffer from a food allergy that cuts you off from bread and cereal products in the US you probably need to supplement your diet with vitamins because the primary source of folate in the American diet is fortified cereals and a severe folate deficiency is basically a form of anemia.
You can supplement this with vitamins but :) if you have :) grain allergies :) make sure :) that your allergens :) aren't used :) as fillers in :) the vitamins :) :) :) :)
Either you can take folate/folic acid on its own or you can take half a daily prenatal vitamin to meet the RDA for folate.
I have wheat, corn, and sesame allergies. I eat out about once a month and have to bring my own food to weddings, conferences, and anything else that will take me away from my own kitchen. I don't go to theme parks because there's nothing I can eat there. Backpacking and camping are difficult because pre-made camping foods contain my allergens and it's hard to carry foods that I know I can eat. If I go out to eat with friends no I don't I go out to have a cup of coffee - oh, is artificial creamer all you've got? nah it's got cornstarch in it, that's fine, I'll just drink it black that's okay oh wait all you've got is decaf that's fine I'll just have water OH you are using eco-friendly corn plastic cups well that's okay I am at least here being with people I'll eat when I get home. I am not on at least three medications my doctor recommended because corn is part of the product and I can't afford to have the meds made at a compounding pharmacy. Corn is in all of these things because it is RIDICULOUSLY cheap which is at least partially as a result of subsidies and is also at least partially as a result of the scaling economics of monocrops for agribusiness.
It is ten dollars cheaper to get 21 ounces more mac and cheese *shipped from canada* than it is to buy one of the pre-made foods that I can actually eat.
You may say "oh, well that's because that's the weenie organic brand that uses artisinal cheddar, of course it's more expensive than kraft" and I would have to say:
THE WEENIE ORGANIC BRAND ALSO DOESN'T PUT FUCKING CORN IN EVERYTHING.
Anyway. This has done extremely normal things to my ability to feed myself, maintain my health, and socialize as well as my desire to do arson.
shoutout to the trader joe's cashier who asked me if i was lactose intolerant and then called someone to get me a different shredded cheese because the almond milk one i'd picked inexplicably also has cow milk in it. who the fuck is this product even for
i have an allergy to aloe vera and i'm like 10x more likely to get allergic reactions from skincare products labelled "hypoallergenic" than i am to other things. because apparently to companies "hypoallergenic" = "~natural~" and "natural" = "let's just throw some aloe in there for no god damned reason"
and it's luckily not a life threatening allergy but i once got an itchy mouth because i didn't think to check the label of my god damned mouthwash for aloe. because who the fuck would think to put aloe in mouthwash
there’s a lot of misinformation about autism that gets spread on the internet, so here’s a friendly reminder that the main symptoms of autism are as follows:
- insomnia
- an adverse reaction when exposed to direct sunlight
- highly selective eating habits
- skin which is cold to the touch
- an inability to enter churches
- long, unusually sharp canines
- a thirst for blood
if you experience several of these symptoms, you could be autistic! i recommend doing further research on your own, as i am not a doctor and cannot diagnose you, but i hope that someone finds this clarification helpful.
still one of my favorite bits i ever got to commit was pretending not to know who jesus is when a street preacher was evangelizing to me. he was like "do you know who jesus is?" and i had so much time before my next bus and i wanted to know what would happen so i said no. and you know what. he had clearly never been told no to that question before because if i hadn't actually known who jesus was, his baffled and fumbling attempt sure wouldn't have told me. literally reversed the roles. now you get to stand here feeling very uncomfortable and wishing you could be somewhere else because guess what buddy, this is my bus stop, im early (and can catch like five other buses from this exact stop), and im now thoroughly invested in hearing about this mysterious jesus figure. you're locked in here with me. im eating the key as we speak. i will kill us both before i let you out of here.
very highly recommend this bit if you can pull it off and if you have time to kill
i feel so bad for op because it is sort of off-putting when you start playing and then you're immediately called slurs and stuff because of your race, especially as a black person. people are harassing her because she pointed it out and i hate it. like it didn't have to be in the game, but it's there and it's valid to criticize it IMO ;;; someone added a community note saying it's not tied to real racism which i think is very funny since media cannot be consumed in a vacuum even high fantasy games. esp when some of the originators of the high fantasy were racists themselves but that's another story for another day lol i remember when dnd came out with the monkey slave race so... :")
didn't include op's username in this because they went private because people went crazy and i don't like that when it's a valid critique. it's always when poc say something and then it's immediately don't like don't play...
[ID Text: The racism in Baldur’s Gate is genuinely so fucking hard on me. Playing a Tiefling as a Black person is brutal. Your party members antagonize you, the game antagonizes you, and the plot positions you as the bad guy if you don’t help the druids calling you slurs. Tieflings, orcs, goblins, and drow are heavily steeped in racist, bioessentialist lore. Attaching intrinsic morality to race is not creative. I don't blame Larian for that, it's not their lore. But there are far more interesting conflicts that have nothing to do with race. like y'all really don't see the problem with "a devil did something evil and so all its descendants for the rest of time are evil"? You don't see the problem with categorizing a large swath of people as evil and calling them pejoratives based on their appearance/heritage...? if the tiefling/druid conflict in the grove was really about the tieflings being refugees and not their race, the druids at the gate wouldn't have yelled slurs, the druid missing a locket inside wouldn't have threatened to beat a tiefling child for stealing from him, etc. and "don't play a tiefling/drow" isnt a solution. I challenge y'all to be brave enough to critique the media you consume. Critiquing something isn't the same as condemning it. I know I've pointed out something specific and right here, because overwhelmingly BIPOC are speaking up.]
I know mail carriers are infamous for delivering mail through even the 'toughest weather' but maybe they should not do that. IDC if I have to wait an extra week for my package. 116°/ 46°C real feel outside should not be considered 'non-dangerous weather' it does not matter if they have AC in their car, they shouldn't be forced to deliver non-essential packages at all. "but what about medical equipment/medicine" deliver it early in the morning at in the evening after the sun has set. They should get paid for these days too. I am so tired of seeing videos of mail deliveries collapsing on someone's ring door camera.
Same for construction workers, roof workers, window cleaners, road workers, tree cutters and any other job that puts you outside for a long period of time. It is TOO HOT for people's safe health and if that pushes back a project or delays it then so be it, if it's a job that can be delayed then fucking delay it until it's safe outside.
And if it's a job that can't be delayed like utilities and transportation ect ect then I hope they get paid $100000% more and has all the AC and cold drinks and popcicles.
all the 9 to 5ers scrolling through tumblr at 7am like we're reading the morning paper. raising our coffee cups in greeting by reblogging each others posts.
