[sailermoon]

this is how new yorkers @ mamdani

[sailermoon]

[excitedrainbow]

IT’S LITERALLY HAPPENING LMAOOOOO

[red-garden]

MAGA boomers SHOCKED by 20y/o commie speaking fluent hog

[red-garden]

Hog 201 for anyone interested in trying this:

Bodily autonomy (like abortion, anti draft, etc) -> “The government shouldn’t be able to force anything on my body I don’t want.”

Anti surveillance -> “I don’t trust big government/big tech (big brother if you’re feeling frisky) with the ability to spy on me and my family.”

Immigration -> “Next to all of us immigrated at some point, I don’t see why the elites get to decide who’s allowed to be where. What’s to stop them coming for me?”

Climate Change -> “Big oil shouldn’t get to determine whether or not I get to go places. I don’t want to be dependent on some big business to survive.”

State Violence -> “I don’t want the goddamn secret police breathing down my neck! I trust my community a whole hell of a lot more to help me than I do the state!”

The vast majority of conservatives think of themselves as underdogs being repressed by the government/the elite, and they value personal freedom (specifically their personal freedom, they don’t care about other people). The will almost always agree with leftist points if you can find a way to blame the problem on their vague enemies (useful, since rich people are the root of most problems), and tie it back to their ability to say fuck everyone else. NEVER appeal to science, theory, logic, or human goodness. Make it seem as if you are a paranoid lunatic who trusts no one. They love it.

[dinosaurjam]

#you need to tailor your arguments to people's existing values and priorities if you want to convince them #the flip side is that it's every bit as easy to tailor conservative arguments to convince a leftist audience #so don't get smug #you're not immune to this either <- prev extremely true

[tragediegh]

stay vigilant. there are still people out there who will try to convince you that eating fruit is somehow bad for your body

[strayklds]

HAPPY CHANGBIN DAY 🖤 AUGUST 11th, 1999

[kp-alice]

But I'm not even doing anything?

fake texts between sub!Chan and dom!reader

warnings: slight begging from Chan, allusions to free use Chan, quick mommy kink at the end because why not, public shenanigans, nothing too explicit

A/N: Hey, long time no see. I wanted to make something short and quick while working on my AO3 series, so I thought I'd give the new fake-texts-thing a try. Hope it's not too awful, enjoy.

okay that's it bye- (my requests are somewhat open again btw, send me something if you dare)

[idiotmaterial]

What a beautiful addition to the sub chan agenda hehehe

[papawolfchris]

Because I love these outfits and them throwing it back

[marcelime]

Food for thought:

Kataras relationship trope was to be turned into a loving wife all along

To me this seems like a classic case of "domesticating the radical woman." Katara starts the show as a fierce feminist, from the very first episode calling out Sokka's sexism to her duel with Pakku, where she openly refuses to obey traditional gender roles and demands to be treated as a warrior. But when the story pivots to framing her primarily as Aang's love interest, her raw sense of justice gets swallowed up by his emotional needs. She transitions from an uncompromising warrior to an idealized emotional anchor. The second she shows that raw confrontational passion like demanding vengeance against Yon Rha, Aang immediately judges her grief. Katara was never like Aang, that we know, she believed in direct justice and was never afraid of confrontation. Which to me fuels the belief of Katara being written to be "tamed"

​This isn't a dig at Aang as a character, i love aang. This is rather a critique of how Bryke planned out Katara. The way they talk about her in interviews, reducing her to Aang's "babysitter" and framing her as a reward for his journey completely bleeds into the actual text. By LOK, her life story is sitting back in the South Pole as an elder healer, mother, and widow while every other main character and even Zuko and Toph gets to run the world. Bryke built a radical, uncompromising woman only to domesticate her, stuffing her right back into the very healing huts she fought so hard to escape.

[azulapunchedozai]

so the zutara vs k*taang discourse is active again, I'm gonna post something that has been boggling my mind.

One of their takes against zutara is that, "Zuko and Katara getting together is unrealistic because it caters to female fantasy!"

If we're talking about realism here, when, I mean when have you actually seen, a teenage girl, who is an eldest daughter, who, has to take the role of a mother to her siblings, who, has matured earlier than she's supposed to, chase after a guy clearly less mature than her? And it's not even about the age, it's the maturity.

When did you ever see a strong, independent woman fantasize about a guy who can be considered a "manchild"?

There could be examples. And when there is, the mother-son dynamic is very evident and those relationships mostly don't last and if they do, well, they aren't the best example of a "healthy" relationship.

You know what's realistic though? The strong independent woman, if ever she's interested on finding a partner, often looks for someone who is atleast, on the same level of maturity as her.

You could literally determine which relationships are written by a man or a woman.

PS: Before any of you jump at me, I'm not exactly labeling A@ng as a manchild. In my opinion, his relationship with Katara could work if it was developed in the later years when both of them were atleast in the same maturity level.

[phoebester]

I love me a kissing zutara… hop on x and give artist love

[anglaised]

i lied i am just gonna block the next person to “erm actually” me about jesus when my point is the religion is used to oppress women and racial minorities over a made up fictional entity like yall know what i mean….and im finna ban u from anglaised town if u act confused

[anglaised]

having weed in texas is a felony charge with up to life in prison now meanwhile our literal president was in a child trafficking ring and hes still the president, weed is more illegal than sex trafficking

[fedoraspooky]

whoever's idea it was to have womens t-shirts have those tiny sleeves that go way up into the armpits must have done that maliciously

[great-and-small]

When I was in vet school I went to this one lecture that I will never forget. Various clubs would have different guest lecturers come in to talk about relevant topics and since I was in the Wildlife Disease Association club I naturally attended all the wildlife and conservation discussions. Well on this particular occasion, the speakers started off telling us they had been working on a project involving the conservation of lemurs in Madagascar. Lemurs exist only in Madagascar, and they are in real trouble; they’re considered the most endangered group of mammals on Earth. This team of veterinarians was initially assembled to address threats to lemur health and work on conservation solutions to try and save as many lemur species from extinction as possible. As they explored the most present dangers to lemurs they found that although habitat loss was the primary problem for these vulnerable animals, predation by humans was a significant cause of losses as well. The vets realized it was crucial for the hunting of lemurs by native people to stop, but of course this is not so simple a problem.

The local Malagasy people are dealing with extreme poverty and food insecurity, with nearly half of children under five years old suffering from chronic malnutrition. The local people have always subsisted on hunting wildlife for food, and as Madagascar’s wildlife population declines, the people who rely on so-called bushmeat to survive are struggling more and more. People are literally starving.

Our conservation team thought about this a lot. They had initially intended to focus efforts on education but came to understand that this is not an issue arising from a lack of knowledge. For these people it is a question of survival. It doesn’t matter how many times a foreigner tells you not to eat an animal you’ve hunted your entire life, if your child is starving you are going to do everything in your power to keep your family alive.

So the vets changed course. Rather than focus efforts on simply teaching people about lemurs, they decided to try and use veterinary medicine to reduce the underlying issue of food insecurity. They supposed that if a reliable protein source could be introduced for the people who needed it, the dependence on meat from wildlife would greatly decrease. So they got to work establishing new flocks of chickens in the most at-risk communities, and also initiated an aggressive vaccination program for Newcastle disease (an infectious illness of poultry that is of particular concern in this area). They worked with over 600 households to ensure appropriate husbandry and vaccination for every flock, and soon found these communities were being transformed by the introduction of a steady protein source. Families with a healthy flock of chickens were far less likely to hunt wild animals like lemurs, and fewer kids went hungry. Thats what we call a win-win situation.

This chicken vaccine program became just one small part of an amazing conservation outreach initiative in Madagascar that puts local people at the center of everything they do. Helping these vulnerable communities of people helps similarly vulnerable wildlife, always. If we go into a country guns-blazing with that fire for conservation in our hearts and a plan to save native animals, we simply cannot ignore the humans who live around them. Doing so is counterintuitive to creating an effective plan because whether we recognize it or not, humans and animals are inextricably linked in many ways. A true conservation success story is one that doesn’t leave needy humans in its wake, and that is why I think this particular story has stuck with me for so long.

(Source 1)

(Source 2- cool video exploring this initiative from some folks involved)

(Source 3)

[handforthstudy]

Unfortunately, I don’t have citations, but I have heard about the same phenomenon through Nat Geo Live presentations in the Amazon and Serengeti. Most individuals who are poachers or use slash-and-burn farming are doing this out of survival, not ignorance or greed. They have families to feed and children who will starve if they don’t find food or money. As OP said, fixing the human suffering fixes the conservation issue and is a win-win, while preaching conservation to starving people does nothing.

But on top of that, you know who the most ardent conservationists are once security has been achieved? The people who had once been forced to poach or slash-and-burn to survive. You know who’s great at tracking down gorilla poachers? Ex-poachers. Who’s good at understanding and advocating for people forced to do these things to survive? Ex-poachers. Who can convince others to take a chance on finding a better way to survive? Same answer.

It is win-win-win. As ecologists, conservationists, and environmentalists we must get out of our ivory towers of knowledge, stop carrying them into the field, and remember humans are part of the ecosystem too. And that sustainable change will never happen if human needs aren’t addressed.

[buttons-beads-lace]

I also love this story about the arapaima in Brazil. They increased the population of this endangered giant fish literally a hundred times over- from 3,000 to 300,000- by ending the total ban on arapaima fishing and instead creating legal fishing organizations. The fishing organization members get trained on how do population counts and determine how many fish they can take while still leaving enough for the population to grow.

The former illegal fishers are now sought-after experts, because they know how to spot the arapaima and tell juveniles apart from adults. They get to keep practicing the fishing skills that were passed down to them. The actual process of fishing is easier because they can work together and don't have to sneak around. The profits are higher because they can sell the fish openly to restaurants and to the public. The fishing organization members make sure that other people in their communities don't fish illegally. And the numbers of arapaima keep going up and up, so there's plenty to go around even as more people join the fishing organizations.

If you click all the way through to the report from the conservation org that started the fishing organizations project, there are quotes from fishing organization members:

"We built a second house and I'm putting my oldest two kids through college on the money we get from fishing."

"Nowadays you have young people walking around with pockets full of cash saying "I got 6,000 from fishing this year!" It used to be you wouldn't even get 50 reais of pocket money."

"At the first harvest after we started the fishing organization, I saw full-grown arapaima for the first time, really big ones like they're supposed to be. Before, I had only heard about how big they could get. That's when I knew that our work was paying off and we could keep moving forward."

[anglaised]

eating disorder culture being normalized will not win in this house if nothing else i need other ppl to know they need to fight this as much as possible yall cannot let this shit happen to you please dont fall for it

[namtan]

CHAN & I.N music core mini fanmeet — 260808

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think a lot of people were raised being told that things are bad with no explanation as to why they’re bad and I don’t think I know enough about psychology to make any big statements about that

but anyways I think a lot of people see cheating on your partner as bad because they were just told that sex outside of your partner is bad or something but really cheating on your partner is bad because you had an agreement based on trust with them and you broke that trust so like why should they trust you with anything else now

[anglaised]

so annoying like as someone who literally works with ppl who are permanently impacted by severe eating disorders on both sides of the spectrum u ppl have no idea what ur talking about like all of this is due to skinniness being seen as the only good state of being like. its the skinny obsession, it was always the skinny obsession