[spoonie-living]

[Image: Tweet by Emily Mullin (@EmilyLMullin) and tweet by Isobelle Winter (@IsobelleWinter), both about the dangers of Facebook’s new preventative health screening tool. Images have been modified for visual ease but information has not been changed.]

Something to know about Facebook’s new “screening tool,” and advice/info that can most certainly be used outside of this specific situation.

For spoonies, the biggest deal is how this data, if leaked, could affect you in professional and insurance spheres.

Here’s Emily’s full thread, which discusses the details of the tool, and here’s Isobelle’s full thread, which extrapolates on specific dangers.

In the end? It’s another data grab. Data is worth money; don’t give yours away, especially not to Facebook.

[tiffanarchy]

Don’t give Facebook shit

[politicalsci]

[justsomeantifas]

I’ve been stressing real bad about these medical bills. We fell behind these last couple months because of everything that’s happened.

First I need to catch up on our actual bills. I’ve been behind on almost all of them the last couple months. We’ve sold everything worth a shit in our house. I know it’s obscene but $1000 would catch us up on our mortgage and I could pay off the rest of the bill debt my next paycheck. I can’t even think about tackling the medical bills until this shit is caught up on and right now I literally have no way of making up this difference. 

Anything at all will help, and I’m really sorry but we’re so fucked that I don’t have access to internet or a phone and can’t update this until tomorrow when I’m back at work. - Mod H

paypal // venmo

[justsomeantifas]

Thanks for the reblogs and donations. I really can’t update much - I don’t have a phone rn and can only update on an office computer at work. I got $80 so far so thanks a ton. 

[morguelefey]

i know we’ve been here but sometimes it really does hit you. like it cuts through

[gothic-punk]

Get ready to be flagged as a completely different person and possibly spend the rest of your life in jail.

[perigeeprincess]

whoop whoop i fucking guess

[toxicmutantslimefreaks]

Well boys, it’s finally time

[replanting]

I am a completely different woman than I was this time last year. And I’ll be a completely new woman by this time next year. I can’t wait to learn who I’ll be. I can’t wait to see who I am tomorrow.

[cuddlycharizard]

Therapist: The mice from Cats aren’t real they can’t hurt you

The mice from Cats:

[sarcastic-nonfictionalist]

Yo, consider donating to Wikipedia, reasons for why they mainly point out for themselves, but they really aren’t asking for much. With so few good companies left that honestly want to help their people and spread knowledge instead of selling us to advertisers, lets try to keep them afloat! I don’t care if you use them to remember something about a character from your favorite series, or for learning about actors, or getting a more comprehensible summary for whatever your teacher was talking about in class. Please help keep this sorce of information available for everyone!

[sarcastic-nonfictionalist]

Reminder to donate!!! I got mine today and for the first time in my life I used my card online because this is extremely important to keep this place running. Please donate as much as you can!!!

https://donate.wikimedia.org/?utm_campaign=C1920_RMLEmail1&utm_medium=email&appeal=Appeal-JimmyQuote&utm_source=RML1920USen_e2Badge_1_1&hpc=0.00&uselang=en&link_id=3

Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation

[chicks2010]

[kibumsfreakk]

Hey. LIVING COSTS MONEY! How about giving more money to the companies that employ me and MAYBE I MIGHT BE OK

[nyangibun]

This is such a funny thing to me because in Thai culture, it’s completely normal to live with your parents when you’re an adult. In fact, most people live in their family home until they’re married ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[thenutofroyalty]

Saaaame in Pakistan dude and being abroad for grad school is really fucking me up I am not built to be even slightly independent 😂

[beatrice-otter]

In Western culture (including America!) it was completely normal for people to live with their parents in adulthood–sometimes until they married, sometimes longer.  In America, that changed (for men) in the 1940s and 50s, when it was really really easy for an 18 year old to get a good job that paid more than enough to live a comfortable life on, or to afford college which would then practically guarantee you an even better-paying job.  Women joined the trend of moving out at 18 in the 1960s and 70s.

And now those jobs don’t exist, or are few and far between, and guess what!  People are living with their parents again.  But that 70-year span was just long enough that it fell out of common memory, and now people are seen as “failures” because the economics have changed.

[bogleech]

A very great deal of Western culture, ESPECIALLY America, is actually still based on a memory of the 40′s and 50′s as the baseline of normalcy despite them being a total fluke at the time. World War II and McCarthyism created a massive shift towards rabid patriotism, Christian fundamentalism and the ideal of the “nuclear family” that resembled nothing before it and we’re still recovering from as the majority of our most powerful politicians are old enough that this period of sudden fanaticism is their “nostalgic good old days” and the way they think things are “supposed to be.”

[heaven-nor-hell]

I love when these posts randomly become tiny history lessons, it soothes me

[violetattack101]

tbh being able to freely admit when you’re wrong without getting defensive or angry is a skill we should all be working on more as a species

[twitblr]

Dormant Predators

[cypresscapers]

[loueejii]

This is why I have this. Even if they can get the lock opened they can’t push the door open. Got it at Lowes for $20.

[ocean-again]

reblog for that last bit to save a life

[smiling-grouch-deactivated20241]

If you’re like me and have a large gap under your front door (someone could take a stick and just poke the leaning stick style door jam out), I recommend the Addalock. It’s small, perfect for traveling, and this lock is CRAZY. It’s so simple but the door does not move.

You can’t see it from the other side, either. It also cost about $20, and I can’t recommend it enough. Easy to travel with, too! Great for Air BnBs!

[deminat-20]

That’s why I have these on my doors. They get drilled into the side and once its flipped over the door nothing is getting it open. Not the door being unlocked nothing, I’ve unlocked the door and pulled and pushed as hard as I could and it didn’t budge. When I go on a trip this is what I use and when I’m home I leave it on too. No one is getting in here.

[letsgetoutofspace]

Okay I know that it is necessary for many but what do you do if you need medical attention and you’re not able to open the door from the inside? Can the fire department get through these at least?  

[morgrimmoon]

Yes. The fire department can and will break down your door if necessary, it’s one of the reasons they have axes; it’s entirely possible for door frames to melt/expand/seize or otherwise become unopenable during a house fire but the door itself can be hacked down. Or the window. In rare cases, the wall. Firefighters don’t fuck around with collateral damage when lives are at stake.

[trini-lover]

Sharing for all the safety items!!

[justsomeantifas]

how many people are depressed because our socio-economic infrastructure makes their lives hell and not because their brains were just pre-wired to be depressed

[justsomeantifas]

how many people developed anxiety or other mental health problems because they were constantly worried about whether or not they’d have housing or be able to eat or have running water and would actually be fine if they had stable living conditions they weren’t afraid of losing

[liberal-memes]

[flanneldragon]

who enchanted this tweet

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

reblog to cast

[browsedankmemes]

every dollar counts

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

i think one of the most common dangers I run into in the edible and medicinal plant scene is the problem of “can you eat it” vs. “should you eat it”

a lot of websites and books these days will be like “ten wild plants you can use to make tea” without then listing the actual use for those teas because all they care about is the novelty of making your own tea from things you picked in the woods.

They tell you stuff like “A wonderfully cleansing medicine, it supports the liver, stimulates the flow of urine and the removal of waste by the kidneys.”

And people are so into the idea of cleansing their bodies of supposed toxins, that sounds great!

But what I know is that what they really mean is, this plant is a diuretic, meaning if you use it for tea, you’re going to peeing All. Day. Long. Every. Ten. Minutes.

Which isn’t fun if you’re on a hike or about to get back in your car and drive an hour home.

Some popular plants recommended for teas are used as contraceptives and morning after treatments. So here you are, trying to get pregnant, drinking your natural to rid your kidneys of impurities, being healthy as can be, and all along you’re taking birth control!

And if you’re already taking birth control and trying to not get pregnant, the plant can mess you up too.

There are plants that mess with antidepressants, and with blood pressure medicine, that make you sick to your stomach, that messes with your blood, and on and on.

And all of these sources will just list them as something you can eat, because hey, you won’t die if if you do!

Which is true, you’ll live, but at what cost!!!

Please remember herbal remedies and edible plants have always been consumed and applied with a PURPOSE, and unless you know what that purpose is, don’t consume them just because you can. It’s a bad idea.

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

there’s a startup that designed toilets that are unbearable to sit on and companies already want them so employees will spend less time in the bathroom. i’m not making this up. capitalism reaches new heights every day with innovation

[jadey-baby-xx-deactivated202011]

Btw of a girl says “no” to your sexual advances she doesn’t have to give a reason as to “why.” “No” is a valid answer.

[silversarcasm]

As always I wish a lot more feminists recognised that reproductive rights is not only about the right to not have children, but also the right to have children

Access to abortion is important, but so is fighting forced sterilisation, which almost always targets marginalised groups, especially disabled women, trans women, poor women and women of colour (and lets not pretend that doesn’t factor into why the issue is looked over by more privileged feminists)

They are both issues of reproductive rights and bodily autonomy and you can not have one without the other