sharks every time theres a cataclysmic extinction event: damn thats crazy. anyway
Good thing I’m so smooth
One Flesh, One End
Having queer friends just means every once in a while you accidentally admit to having feelings for them that are stronger than what could be considered strictly platonic
how many people could be working on actual problems in the world instead of being forced to do jobs that they are over-qualified for just because they dont want to go homeless and starve?
climate change is threatening to kill us and people with biology degrees are working at starbucks if they didn’t get lucky in the nepotism department.
capitalism is possibly the least efficient way to allocate work.
You love art–have spent your entire childhood developing a style people love and appreciate? you could possibly work to improve the lives of millions with your beautiful creations?
sorry you need to work 12 hours a day at a walmart that doesn’t need you while some billionaire who took a painting class once sells some ugly bullshit for 3.5 million.
Millions of people want to be doctors but can’t afford medical school, it is a well known fact we don’t have enough doctors for the demand. hmm wow real efficient capitalism.
something about rain in Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium you say?
A flooded street in Verviers, Belgium (photo: Belga)
Residents of Valkenburg, Netherlands, assessing the damage done to their houses (photo: Marcel van den Bergh)
A battered ship at the Maas river in Luik, Belgium (photo: AFP)
An army vehicle removes debris in Aachen, (North Rhine-Westphalia) Germany (photo: DPA)
Damage in Schuld, (Rhineland-Pfalz) Germany, where the Ahr river flooded (photo: EPA)
A woman swims through a flooded street in Luik, Belgium, where the Maas river flooded (photo: Reuters)
Two men in Bad Neuenahr, (Rhineland-Pfalz) Germany, attempt to rescue what they can (photo: AFP)
The running water stacked cars on a roundabout in Verviers, Belgium (photo: AFP)
An auto mechanic in Mechelen, Netherlands, watching the water run into his garage (photo: Marcel van den Bergh)
for who it wasnt clear yet: climate change is no longer something that’ll have catastrophic effects 9 years from now or only in “lesser” (bah) countries that arent as well prepared. the dutch are famous for our water ingenuity and infrastructure and look where we are. eat the rich
Before and after the major flooding in Erftstadt-Blessem, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Heartbreaking 💔
from African & Black History
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Next time some far-right talking head tries to say that "slavery wasn't so bad", we need to remind them of this; this is what slavery drove good human beings to do rather than submit to such absolute evil. _reply from @Sebastian2Blue
This is such a sad story. The choices so many Africans had to face rather than submit to indignity, slavery, inhumanity.... reply from @pinkykhoabane
there’s a twitter account where this guy thinks every tweet is directed at him and it’s great
this is how everyone on this website acts
no i dont
Ffff trying to learn more about secular witchcraft in an informed way is hard as hell bc ~60% of texts are just like "here are wiccan religious practices that we're going to present as if they have no connection to any religion whatsoever" and the rest is just blatant stealing from closed religions like hoodoo, judaism, and various native american religions
Another thing is that there are never? any sources?? listed in these books??? Like if I was reading a book about hellenic polytheism the author would cite their sources for every single claim that they made, so if something they said didn’t sound right I could follow up with the original source to fact-check them and if they didn’t provide sources I would know to take what they’re saying with a grain of salt. Books on secular witchcraft however? I have never seen a single one actually cite their sources. It seems like every author is trying to convince their readers that they’re the all-knowing primary source on whatever witchy matters they’re talking about so they make absolutely no distinction between actual established practice and unverified personal gnosis. This book I’m reading just told me to “always make sure you have anointed your sigils with a bodily fluid for superpower (menstrual blood, saliva, or sexual fluids).” Girl WHAT??? Who tf told you that?? Did you just make it up?? I can never find out now bc you don’t fucking list your sources
It's time we decolonize the Cascadian volcanoes
If we can say Denali instead of Mt. McKinley then we can say Lawetlat'la instead of Mt. St Helens. The mountain is named Tahoma, not Rainier. Naming a mountain after Jefferson doesn't erase its true name of Seekseekqua.
One name tells of the thousand years indigenous history and culture of the tribes who live there. The other name tells me nothing but colonialism.
Ffff trying to learn more about secular witchcraft in an informed way is hard as hell bc ~60% of texts are just like “here are wiccan religious practices that we’re going to present as if they have no connection to any religion whatsoever” and the rest is just blatant stealing from closed religions like hoodoo, judaism, and various native american religions
nooo-im-not-weird asked:
I recently just watched the music video for "Together" by Sia. I am neurotypical, and I would like to be more aware and educated about neirodivergent people. In the comments of this video, I saw alot of stuff saying it was mocking autistic people. What's your opinion?
justlgbtthings answered:
I think it was an uninformed, offensive and stereotyped production. I won’t be able to get into everything wrong with it because there’s just so much, but I’ll review the highlights.
Sia didn’t collaborate with or hire any actually autistic people, while she DID collaborate with the one group the autistic community has been very adamant about not using as a reliable source of information, Autism $peaks. this org supports and funds eugenics and does nothing to actually help autistic people. (here is a link with more information about why they suck.) the fact that sia continued to work with them and ignore us after we specifically said they were a hate org says a lot about how she views us as people.
also, she claimed that she couldn’t hire an autistic actor because they “wouldn’t be able to portray the ‘disability’ correctly” aka how she thinks we should act, so she went out of her way to exclude us while making money off of our very real lives and trauma we’ve endured because of people like her. she glorified the use of restraints which have historically proven deadly and cost autistic people their lives, and the exaggerated movements she had ziegler do are exactly what kids would do to make fun of us. it was triggering and ableist, and people like her are the reason why misinformation about autism is so omnipresent.
these are only a few things off the top of my head I can say about it. here is a link with more information about why the movie was so mockingly ableist.
thank you for asking an actually autistic person about our issues. it means a lot, and I’m glad you’re interested in actually being educated about and understanding our differences and plights.
it was obviously very obviously made for nt people, because of the flashing lights in the music videos, like I could barely watch it, so she was either aiming it towards neurotypicals in order to "iNsPiRe" them, or she didn't realise that flashing lights could trigger sensory overloads, which would be odd considering she claims to have done 2 years of research
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