long-term long-distance low-commitment casual gf

K, 36, she/her. wheelchair user, astronomer & astrophysics student. don't follow if you're under 18 https://www.ko-fi.com/carolxdanvers

[carolxdanvers]

For Americans who wish they could do more:

Here is a link to a PDF where you can find rapid response network hotlines all over the united states to report ICE activity https://publicdefenders.us/resources/rapid-response-network-hotlines-across-the-us/ and ICE in my area has an ICE activity tracker (I have not personally used this one yet)

A link to a petition calling for the cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment: https://www.commoncause.org/actions/remove-trump-from-office-now-2/ (I know signing a petition does not feel like doing much, but do it anyway. It takes ten seconds and nobody said it's all you have to do. LOTS of people ignore petitions because they think they're useless, but it costs you very little time and if it can make any impact, it's worth it.) And while you're there, look into local Common Cause groups near you.

Contact your representatives demanding action to stop Trump's actions in Iran (This is MOST effective if you call or write an email yourself. I realize that's not likely to get many people on board, so for a method that also takes very little time, this site (democracy.io) finds your representatives and sends them whatever email you write. Resist.bot is another that automates the process. Indivisible has a form that allows you to automatically send an email to your representatives demanding an end to the aggression against Iran.

If you have the means, donate to legal funds like NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Democracy Forward and Southern Poverty law Center and Transgender Law Center.

Find a local organization (you can literally just google your area and 'grassroots organizations against trump') but here's a few (not in alphabetical order by state, sorry I'm just putting the ones I'm already aware of):

Texas Organizing Project (Texas)

Texas Freedom Network (Texas)

Indivisible (all 50 states)

Elevated Access (for people who need abortions or gender affirming care) (nationwide)

Scholars At Risk (international)

NorCal Resist (California)

New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice (New Jersey)

Again, this is not comprehensive, and I encourage other people to add links to organizations they're familiar with as well.

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for context:

[dragonquestv]

[an-actual-lion-deactivated20200]

“Beep Beep Bitch, You’re Gay!”

[leolikesaccountability]

Updated the lesbian flag and added nonbinary, pan, ace, and aro for all your tacky LBGTQ+ barcode needs.

[non-binary-ary]

Hope yall  like my abomination

[thegrimmlovely]

That last one is fucking moving istg

[silverjirachi]

at last. the gaydar

[cargopantsman]

[anathemaegg]

[effeminate-wastrel-deactivated2]

The only pride flag I care about anymore

[hbbisenieks]

normal people in SF are fucking sick of every billboard being for AI slop

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

takes a real artist to go "i have to deface this billboard promoting an evil corporation's evil product. but crucially☝️the typeface and kerning must match or else it's cringe"

[ignescent]

If you make it look official, people will leave it up. I knew someone who replaced all the motivational posters at work with 'demotivation' versions and corp didnt notice for like 2 years.

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[setulose]

Trace amounts of Monica in my life

[setulose]

A statistically insignificant level of Monica in my life

[setulose]

My life manufactured in a facility that also processes Monica

[bluberimufim]

I love that opera sits in this limbo where it's extremely well-known but not really beyond a surface level recognition, so you get commercials for makeup or whatever to the tune of the I Hate Women So Much It's Unreal aria

[forthegothicheroine]

#in the first bridgerton book daphne describes her crush feelings as if her heart is playing the queen of the night aria from the magic flute#which i can totally see if you have never found out what the words mean. very high and fluttery.#but the lyrics are along the lines of THE VENGEANCE OF HELL BOILS IN MY HEART. IF YOU DON'T MURDER THAT MAN I WILL DISOWN YOU.#and i laughed so hard i had to put the book down

via @tophatandboots

[jackironsides]

oh my god??

@lymeandcoconut

#lmaooooo #my fave is that episode of white collar where neil is doing a theft #and the music they play over it is leporello's 'here's the list of all the hundreds of women my boss has fucked' aria from don giovanni #it's supposed to just sound grand and sophisticated but the guy is singing about how DG fucks tall women short women #fat women skinny women princesses and peasants he fucks them all! #and here's the numbers broken down by nationality! #he's fucked over 1000 women in spain you know!

#oh and he's singing all this to a former conquest who tracked DG down because he promised to marry her then ditched her #anyway it's a lot

[notformywings]

[bubbloquacious]

My students are pranking me :(

[carolxdanvers]

Immediately reminded of my physical optics professor handwriting a bunch of notes on the board about flux (Φ with serifs) and using φ/ϕ for angles, rather than θ or α or anything reasonable.

Same man who assumed we had all taken classes that were not prerequisites, and so we had all read Griffiths' electrodynamics text, and so he didn't need to explain himself when he did this shit

Absolutely infuriating. Easily one of my favorite professors, god damn him.

[anremithrl]

Gotta go through the math fonts, you know?

ℒ, L, 𝔏, 𝕃, 𝓁, l, 𝔩, 𝕝 for example.

[carolxdanvers]

Laplacian, momentum, Laplace transform, lorentz, length...

[iamafule]

Felt this in my bones

[mariacallous]

[mariacallous]

[bumblebeebats]

Why is it that every time I google something like "Are olives poisonous to cats" the top results are always like "Fun fact: Cats are carnivores! This means that they eat meat. There is no reason to include olives in a cat's diet. You should feed your cat cat food, which is dry or wet food especially designed for cats. You can purchase this at a store." like is there a single person alive on the planet who's googled "Are blueberry muffins safe for cats" because they're planning on switching their cat to a muffin-only diet??? No, I'm asking because the little bastard somehow popped open the packet while I was putting away the groceries and dragged one under the couch before I could react and now I need to know if I should call the after-hours vet. "Cats should not eat spaghetti." NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!! "Try to keep human food away from cats." i live in a studio apartment with a completely silent and permanently hungry apex predator who has the intelligence of a toddler and the desperate Machiavellian cunning of a creature who spent his formative months on the streets. He can already open doors and he is this 👌 close to learning how to open the microwave. He is stronger than me and covered in knives. So im gonna do my best but for the moment i just need you to tell me whether this yoghurt is going to kill my son y/n

[spectralhauntings]

I've been using the pet poison hotline's poison list cause it has a search function. It also tells you whether something is mildly, moderately, or severely toxic which can be very handy! It doesn't contain like everything but it might be a good place to start, it also includes plants for fellow houseplant lovers <3

Explore Pet Poison Helpline®s vast knowledge on poisons by reviewing our pet poison list. Explore our top 10 poison and holiday poison lists

[littlemousling]

For plants specifically, there’s also a wildly detailed set of posts and listings about toxicity on the old, wonderful, Plants Are the Strangest People blog

[weirdplutoprince]

Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of someone else's actions that I am directly impacted and severely affected by

[duncehat]

[achesspiece]

finally, regular porn is back

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the doctor down the street who gives me my T shots in a clinic so small that it's just two rooms was excited for me when she said my voice had dropped yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the receptionist who could see that I was a man didn't bat an eyelash when I asked to see the gynecologist and called me sir when he asked how I wanted to pay yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the barber cuts my hair exactly how I want it and never gave me strange looks for being in a men's salon not even back when I didn't pass as one

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my friends have always gendered me correctly and stick to it even when it confuses other people and my friend's little sibling calls me older brother in Kannada yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my dog learned my new name quicker than the humans and she runs to give me a kiss when she's told to without being confused about who's being referred to

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I can feel the Adam's apple growing in my throat and my muscles getting stronger, and my smile more real and I'm growing a beard, and I talk more freely

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I'm here, and I'm alive, and so are you and there are good people, people who care and don't let them make you forget that-- you are not alone.

[excitementshewrote]

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

If you're comfortable accusing anyone of faking disability, you're not a real ally to disabled people

[teaboot]

One time when I was a kid a group of girls and I had to treat another student for hypothermia by ourselves because she had so many invisible health issues that the adults we asked for help didn't believe us. The student in question was actively hallucinating. When I finally ran for help the people I grabbed were slow as shit to respond, casually joking about how "dramatic" the person in question was.

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

Sincerely, truly, from the bottom of my heart- as someone who isn't physically disabled but hears this shit all the time- fuck off

[princeescaluswords]

Fighting With One Hand Tied Behind Her Back

Of all the misogyny directed at Allison Argent, one of the most frustratingly annoying manifestations to me is the idea that the sole reason that she was vulnerable to Gerard's manipulations and fought on his side in the climactic battle in Master Plan (2x12) -- until he betrayed her, that is -- was the suicide of her mother.

Yes, Allison's arc in Season 2 is about the corrupting nature of retributive violence and the danger of letting emotional trauma serve as motivation for violence. Allison acted wrongly. At the end of the season, she acknowledges her own mistakes and takes steps to reclaim herself.

And yet, fandom dismisses this growth as inconsequential, mostly by performing elaborate editing in order to pretend that Victoria's death, though tragic, was ultimately the Argent family's own doing and Allison reaction to it -- hunting down Erica and Boyd and attacking Isaac, Derek, and Scott in the warehouse -- were actions beyond rational thought. (If they're not blaming Scott for not telling Allison about what they see as justification for her mother's death). Fandom often feels -- and does not hesitate to state -- that losing her mother, losing her aunt, being manipulated by her grandfather, losing her relationship with Scott isn't enough for her to seek retributive violence. Indeed, the idea that she has the nerve to start a relationship with Isaac in Season 3A is incomprehensible to them! She was his oppressor!

As a story I read this morning put it, Allison apologizes for treating Isaac that way because "You aren't my enemy."

Yes, he was. Yes. He. Was. (Note, I really like Isaac's character as much as I like Allison's, but if we want to condemn her for her late Season 2 actions -- and ignore her early Season 2 actions -- then we can't really pretend he was an innocent angel baby, either.)

Of the 22 people who died (though several of them didn't stick) in the previous 23 episodes of the series, 19 of them were killed by werewolves or by creatures who were supposed to be werewolves and were bitten by werewolves. The Hale Pack acted exactly as the Argents described them -- violent creatures who kill people. Let's do a count.

Season 1

Laura

Garrison Myers

Videos 2C Store Clerk

The Janitor

Riddick

Unger

Nurse Jennifer

Kate Argent

Peter Hale

Season 2

Homeless Omega

Coach Lahey

Bennett

Tucker Cornish

Sean

Jessica

Kara

Victoria Argent

4 deputies

Jackson Whittemore

This isn't even including physical assaults against her and her friends. She spent an entire episode trying to stop Isaac (and others) from executing Lydia on a hunch. Yet, Allison hunting down the werewolves who tried to kill people, the kanima who tried to kill people, the werewolf alpha who turned them and trained them to kill people somehow makes her worse than them.

The production recognized that she was no better and no worse than the Hales. Which is why she got to stand up to Derek in Chaos Rising (3x02). Which is why she didn't bother to offer an apology to Isaac in Unleashed (3x04). Because they didn't have to offer any to her. They just had to be better.

Fandom has a significant problem with this because they keep looking at the Hale vs. Argent fight and coming to the conclusion that the Hales were right and the Argents were wrong, when they were both wrong. It's ridiculous that fandom can justify Isaac and Erica chasing and attacking Stiles and Allison in Scott's house because they were trying to stop a murderous kanima and then turn around and complain that after spending half-a-season trying to stop werewolves from killing people, Allison had no justification tracking down Boyd and Erica. (The production said neither had justification). It's ridiculous that they think Allison shouldn't have stabbed Isaac, an 'innocent' teenager, in the warehouse and thus has to make amends but Serial-Killer Petey had every reason to gut Jackson, an 'innocent' teenager, during the same fight.

Teen Wolf's mistake was making the Hales white men and the Argent's mostly women (and an old guy). I guarantee that Alan Argent wouldn't have been expected to make it up to Isabella Lahey; it would have just been the consequences of a fight.

[princeescaluswords]

Bringing this back because someone on Reddit called Allison Argent the "most insufferable character" because she went on a course of vengeance in Season 2 and is bland and boring because she was 'so easily influenced' by her dad and Gerard.

Think about that. Being easily influenced is what makes her bland and boring. I love that, especially since she challenged every single one of her family members in Season 2 -- her father, her mother, and her grandfather. She didn't just push back, but she literally attacked her own family's retainers to keep them from killing Isaac. But I guess they don't care about those scenes. They certainly didn't care that she didn't become influenced by her grandfather until her mother committed suicide on Allison's bed.

Yet, there is not a single peep about Derek repeatedly getting influenced by Serial Killer Petey in Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, and Season 4. There's not a single peep of Stiles attacking a half-dead Scott in Season 5 because his father got hurt, because Scott didn't protect a grown adult police officer with a gun when the Sheriff went off to investigate a crime scene by himself.

The misogyny in this fandom (all fandoms, really) is enough to choke a horse.

[princeescaluswords]

The way this fandom will pretend that the Hale Pack were innocent children whom Allison savagely attacked for no reason will never sit well with me.