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they/them | "laying on the floor helps my back pain" years old

[azuremaenad]

Art Credit

User Icon: Maddel Picrew

Background Photo: Me

[bitethebullets]

the loss of the audio jack is due to puritan culture hating on penetration

[azuremaenad]

The weather today is looking.... apocalyptic

[shoots-and-kills]

Wildfires Blaze Through Pacific Northwest Tribal Lands

Wildfires blaze through Pacific Northwest tribal lands - ICT

It’s hot and dry across the region, making for tinderbox conditions.

Firefighters, pilots and equipment operators are mobilized across much of Indian Country in Washington and Oregon, to rein in wildfires that have endangered many tribal communities.

Amidst the powwow season and canoe journey season festivities, multiple tribes are currently being impacted by wildfires, and homes, livestock, pets, and valuables are in danger of being lost.

Community Rallies for Wildfire Relief: How to Help - Underscore Native News

As wildfires burn through Native nations in Oregon and Washington, communities across both states have banded together to set up sites to do

Above is an article describing what tribes are currently impacted. There is also a lot of information for WA/OR locals on where to drop off physical donations contained within it. If you are unsure of the current status of drop-off locations, check the official website(s) or Facebook profile(s) of the tribe(s) you wish to donate to.

Official Websites

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation

Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation

Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

Financial Donations

Cedar Fund Wildfire Recovery Campaign

Yakama Nation Signal Peak and Ransier Fire Updates

Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Wildfire Recovery Fund

[pacificnorthwestcore]

(Source) August 2nd, 2026.

The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Wildfire Recovery Fund

[utenavhs]

did your parents *"pre-screen" the media you interacted with when you were a kid/before legal adult age where you are?

yes, always AND they did parental guidance talks about it

yes, always but there was no parental guidance involved

sometimes, with parental guidance talks

sometimes, no parental guidance talks

not usually, but occasionally (WITH parental guidance)

not usually, but occasionally (WITHOUT parental guidance)

they never pre-screened but there were other rules (elaborate?)

my parents fully didn't give a shit about what media i engaged with

see results

Voting ended onDec 16, 2025

*by "pre-screening", i typically mean any sort of behavior that exists on a spectrum of "actually watching/playing/reading the thing before you played it" to "doing any sort of research on it before letting you watch it".

feel free to share your experiences in the tags or replies or whatever!

[utenavhs]

admittedly, i am a little obsessed with like 65% of the tags on this post so far basically saying "my parents didn't pre-screen things but they [describes behavior that DEFINITELY qualifies as pre-screening]". i kinda hope maybe this post and others like it wake some people up to the fact that yes, even YOUR parents were controlling what perspectives and ideas you were and were not being allowed to access.

[cryptotheism]

There should be glory holes for knowledge and wisdom

[acidreign]

you mean libraries?

[cryptotheism]

you don't understand anything

[apollophanes]

"The gods, too, are fond of a joke."

— Plato, Cratylus

[azuremaenad]

John Barleycorn is dead!

[azuremaenad]

Not to brag or anything, but my optometrist told me I have exceptionally healthy eyes.

[azuremaenad]

Unfortunately today my gyno also told me that if my pap comes back abnormal again, I'll need a colposcomy.

[azuremaenad]

Not to brag or anything, but my optometrist told me I have exceptionally healthy eyes.

[afurioushawk]

[voltaspistol]

[userfish]

my ducks? in a row. the elephant? addressed. my goose? cooked. my eggs? in several baskets. the bigger fish? fried.

[no-sleep-for-the-dreamer]

i am forcibly removed from the zoo

[zatsy]

If you hate someone enough to start documenting everything they do online, then you need to log off. If you cannot open your social media without thinking about the person you hate, then you need to log off. If you feel compelled to insert yourself and your hatred in every mention of that person, no matter how brief, then you need to log off. If your entire online identity revolves around hating someone and sharing posts from other people about how much they hate them, then you need to log off.

"But it's totally justified! Look at what they're doing!" is the mindset of every single stalker. Your reasons don't matter. It's stalking, and it's wrong. This goes double for any marginalized person, especially trans people.

[capesandshapes]

As a former librarian I'm actually required to remind you that many libraries that subscribe to Libby are opted into a program that lets you subscribe and access magazines for free with no wait

And that this is actually a really fun, low cost way to not only access news and larger cultural magazines, but also to get free patterns for many different crafts that you can screenshot if need be and that lower the financial barriers to entry for trying new things

From my experience working in both academic and public libraries, many libraries are use it or lose it funding-- I have to say this because a lot of patrons feel guilty for how much they use the library and how often they're using it funny enough, but the worst thing you can do for libraries is not try out new features and not use what's already given to you as much as possible.

The numbers that come as a result of your patronage are how most libraries justify their continued existence in times of financial hardship, which sucks but, go check out some magazines on Libby!

[catchymemes]