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porn is bad because [christian talking point] and [alt-right study] and [misunderstood neurochemistry] and of course [feature of capitalism]

princncess

thank you SO MUCH for reminding me about [feature of patriarchy] and [problem caused by lack of kids' sex ed] random tumblr user in the notes! louder for those in the back!

fantaboy91

The adult content warning on this post is really just the icing on the cake

natalieironside

Due to my weird childhood and my weird brain, I have this very unhelpful compulsion to conceal Everything I do from Everyone. I Cannot be observed performing any action, no matter how mundane. My nervous system is convinced I'm gonna, like, Get In Trouble for eating food at dinnertime or sleeping in my bed at bedtime.

I've taken to asking myself, "Okay does this task actually require subterfuge or am I stealing a balloon on Free Balloon Day"

natalieironside

I see from the notes that we're all havin a normal one 👍

#autism #me #personal #therapy

sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog

After ten years of dreaming, eight years of government support, six years of fundraising (we needed $50,000,000!), and five years of construction, the Paul Farmer Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital finally saw its first patients on February 14th.

13 babies were born at the MCOE that day. Several were admitted to the NICU, the first in Sierra Leone's history. The MCOE is already radically transforming the kind of maternal and infant care available in eastern Sierra Leone.

Five thousand babies will be born at the MCOE this year. 5,000 more will be born there next year, and the year after that, and the year after that--hopefully for decades. The healthcare workforce of the entire nation will grow stronger because the MCOE is a teaching hospital training the next generation of Sierra Leonean nurses, midwives, and doctors.

The heroes of this story are those caregivers along with the Ministry of Health, PIH, and the hundreds of skilled laborers who worked together for years to build the hospital despite so many challenges. But if you're supporting this project directly or indirectly (by buying good store socks or soap), thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

#vlogbrother #nerdfighteria #fuck yeah!!!

sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog

The 19th annual Project for Awesome has raised $4.1 million so far, by far the most successful p4a of all time, which has me thinking about the paradox of large communities.

Our little corner of the Internet used to be much bigger--today the average vlogbrothers video gets 150,000 views, whereas in 2015 it got 500,000 views. Nobody's making sketches on SNL about my history of tuberculosis the way they did about The Fault in Our Stars.

And yet, although our community and fanbase are smaller than they were 10 years ago, they're also much more powerful. This is true in terms of fundraising; it's also true in terms of, like, successfully bullying large corporations to lower the price of tuberculosis tests. As a social movement, nerdfighteria is at its peak, even if it's well past its peak as a pop culture phenomenon.

I won't lie: I found being near the center of U.S pop culture very unpleasant. But not only that, it wasn't very effective as a fandom or social movement, precisely because it was so broad. What it's become now--an online community with strong values and a deep, 19-year understanding of itself--is so much cooler and more valuable than when the phenomenon of Hank&John were at their "peak."

The really interesting fandoms and affinity groups are not the biggest ones. In fact, you can be stronger when you're smaller. So find those small online communities. Contribute to them. Make stuff together, and in the process, you can ease the work of being here for yourself and others. I know nerdfighteria has done that for me these last few years.

#nerdfighteria #vlogbrothers #love yall xx

cparti-mkiki

"goddess" "matriarchy" "female wisdom" girl your civic rights

tauindi

“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

yeetus-6942069

visionsofgideontheninth

Jo in Little Women: "I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country."

hotvampireadjacent

On Tuesday, January 13, University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate student Graham Granger was detained after he had been found “ripping ar

fireache

rabnerd28

redarmyscreaming

Cannot consumption of AI be considered an art expression?

#art #fuck ai

rott1ingbonep1le

This is how my posts look

#me

pansyfemme

“never kill yourself” is such a funny phrase to me that i think it’s accidently started working. its like an affrimation. say ‘never kill yourself’ enough times as a joke and maybe you won’t try to kill yourself over minor inconviences anymore

landmineblogging

#never kill yourself

guerrillatech

Black panther poster. Just as relevant today

jingerpi

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME. POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE IS WORK TO BE DONE. ASK YOURSELF, WHAT KINDS OF A WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS? IT'S A WORLD WERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, A WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SAT- ISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS.

THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR G6OVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PR0FITS, THE WORK WON'T GET DONE.

#politics

girls4losers

i gotta remember this

#me #reminder

lieve-muis

You still have time. Time to change your wardrobe. Time to get divorced and married again. Time to change majors. Time to learn a trade from scratch. Time to pay off debts. Time to travel. Time to love and be loved. You still have your whole life ahead. Whether you're 19 or 66. You still have so much time. But you have to take it.

#me #reminder

podcastwizard

if you're in the throes of cosmic despair i cannot recommend museums enough. art or science or history it doesn't matter. oh we're all connected, all of us and everything, throughout all time and space, and no one, no one, no one is alone? awesome. that's what i thought i just wanted to make sure.

#art