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Jessenia. 23. 🇭🇳💕🇵🇷. I ain't love anything as much as I love kpop.

[plushmayhem]

Etsy is somehow being even worse, do not click etsy ads

Etsy is now forcing shop owners to be part of their ads. We can not opt out.

To anyone who buys from etsy: DO NOT EVER CLICK THEIR ADS

They are rolling out a program where if you get a sale from an ad they put out, they’re taking 12-15% of the profit(probably on top of the like, 5%ish+ they already take). Even worse, if you have clicked an Etsy ad in the last 30 days ANYONE YOU BUY FROM ON ETSY IN THAT PERIOD WILL BE BILLED THAT FEE. 

So please, if you see an ad for something you like off etsy, do not click it. Just go on etsy and search for it.

This is somehow worse than what storenvy used to pull. 

Please go directly through an artist or see if they have their own storefront (I use bigcartel) instead of purchasing off etsy. And if you must, just please, please, never click an etsy ad.

[three--rings]

Hey I opened my etsy shop back up after years to destash some stuff and make a little extra money and so I ran smack into this myself.  DO NOT CLICK ETSY ADS to buy something.  It charges the seller a huge fee that that did not expect or agree to.  In my case it was pretty much large enough to eat all my profit.  The only way to fight against this is to increase all your prices a lot in case anyone buys your stuff after clicking on an ad, therefore driving all prices up. 

And it’s not 12-15% of the profit, it’s 12-15% of the PRICE.  There’s no way Etsy knows the cost of the actual item before profit.  So if you price your wares with 15% profit for yourself, congrats you’ve lost money on the transaction. 

Just a reminder for holiday season and in general.

[avicecaro]

when will we start casting tall, bulky women to play our strong female leads? sure, they tell us she’s strong, but the actress is 5’2" and emaciated and gets one brief fight scene with a snappy line at the end. but no, they say, she’s not physically strong, she has powers that make her strong. then why aren’t all the men whose strength comes from powers played by tiny anorexic actors? we’re forced to compensate by minimizing ourselves even for implied strength

[la-laborista-republiko]

[cryptiboy]

what if public libraries were open late every night so that:

- children and teens who cant get home until a later time have a safe, warm, well lit, populated area to socialize, charge devices, rest, etc

- children and teens have a safe place to go to stay away from danger

- people who have jobs that take up most of the day would still have time ANY DAY OF THE WEEK to go use the libraries facilities (printing, computers, etc)

[raptorkin]

This is exactly what public libraries are trying to achieve - public libraries as a third place is a whole thing - it’s just that the funding isn’t there (yet).

[captaindibbzy]

Libraries need and deserve so much funding

[entamewitchlulu]

I’m going to apologize if this post comes off as sounding very aggressive, but having just been through one of the most stressful experiences of my entire career in libraries: 

if you want this, you need to be at your local community government meetings. you need to be talking to your representatives.  you need to be out there Lobbying.

Just a few weeks ago, my library, me, my coworkers, we had to write letters, send emails, make phone calls, speak at council meetings, just to beg our aldermen to give us our usual funding. Which they didn’t even give to us last year.  Losing last year’s funding forced us to cut staff, hours, and all of our databases.  If we’d lost this year’s funding? two positions would have been gone and we would have likely had to close on Saturdays.  On Saturdays.  The day of the week most of y’all working M-F jobs actually have time to go to the fucking library.

And do you want to know how much money we were asking? We were asking for an increase of approximately 13 cents a person.

13.

Fucking.

Cents.

ACROSS AN ENTIRE YEAR.

No one seems to understand how libraries are funded.  It’s not just Free Stuff.  It’s your tax dollars being paid back into your community.  It’s crowdfunding.  The highest cost anyone in my community pays for the library a year is approximately $250.  Divide that up.  That’s just $4 a week.  That’s less than a coffee.  It’s the equivalent of purchasing about 10 hardcover books a year.  For that price, you could have access to every book that has ever been written, a place to go that’s not a bar, programs for kids, teens, and adults, educated staff that can help you find the answers to your questions, and so much more.

You want these late-night libraries?  You want all this stuff?  Start fighting for it.  Start showing up.  Start making phone calls.  It’s not going to come out of thin air.  Start fighting to erase the idea that taxes = evil.  Start fighting to spread the understanding that taxes are what help us build a better society.

Make sure the people who represent you know that you want this.  That this is where you want your tax dollars to go.  That this is what you want them to support.  That you are willing to see your tax bill go up a few more dollars for this.

Because otherwise?  None of this is going to happen.  Libraries are going to keep cutting their opening hours.  Keep cutting staff.  Keep cutting programs and databases and collections.

We NEED your support, and we need more than just a post on Tumblr.  We need to see people show up and speak out. 

[cikero]

we do not stop at insulin being cheap we have to demand that insulin and ALL life saving AND quality of life improving drugs and apparatus (including pumps, alcohol pads, syringes etc) be FREE

[sarahmascarah]

Japan's Indigenous Ainu community don't want a theme park – they want their rights

The brightly lit signs on the Hokkaido motorway in northern Japan do not inform the driver about the traffic. They are, rather, advertising

An anime manga theme park aimed at getting white weeaboos to come spend money in Japan that displaces and desecrates indigenous Ainu territory...

Y’all blog about Japanese people and culture all day please boost this.

[supernini235]

This is worth the read. It's not just about the theme park, that's just the latest in the long list if anti-indigenous practices against the Ainu, like having the graves of their grandparents ransacked and their bodies seen as commodities, being forced to marry Japanese people and work Japanese farms, having their language almost completely eradicated, having their spiritual practices treat as illegal by the police etc

[pollytipsy]

[redmachasacorns-deactivated2018]

Not a single lie in sight……

[shanlad]

Hello, college grad that actually wrote an award winning paper on this topic! Here’s some knowledge I’d like to share: There’s actually been studies as to why it’s usually white kids, a large conclusion amongst the criminology community is that those that often have more privileged lives (white kids in our society’s case) are less adept to dealing with stress and denial. Whereas minorities and others are more likely to cope and function normally despite stressors because of the constant stressors that come from systematic racism and/or other platforms of more limited priviledge.

TL;DR: It’s usually a white kid because their privilege incacipated their ability to learn how to handle stress/ denial/ whatever without acting out. The less privileged are done used to the bs and thus typically dont turn to extreme measures as coping mechanisms.

EDIT: I had reblogged this and added a link to the paper (which I should’ve done to begin with,) but it’s probably best I just edit my original reblog and add the link (which I also should’ve just done already.)

Anyway, it can be found fully sourced here.

[5slicesofpepperonipizza]

👀👀👀👀 I like tea spilled with sources and data.

[thejegsu12]

Ah yes, my favorite flavor

data

[whitepeopletwitter]

[dumpling-enthusiast]

@chunkita Don’t mean to expose your tags but this was spot on

[nijadiva]

[goldenlust]

Who made this goddess? I love her! The eyes,nose,lips and that haiiirr

[talesofthestarshipregeneration]

anyone know the artist?

[christel-thoughts]

looks like Mark Newman. 

http://marknewman.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=/

^^ this one is called “Grandpa’s Favorite”. 

^^ this one is called “Iris in Bloom”.

he’s awesome. 

[trigger-incoming-deactivated201]

This website is like a suicide hotline but with text chat instead.  I would appreciate it if you guys helped spread the word.

[bunnyewest]

I’ve used this before and the person I was chatting with was very kind and helpful. I really could have hurt myself seriously if I hadn’t seen a tumblr post about the site… Phone calls and I don’t do so well together

[phdna]

This is very important, especially the way the world is being recently, so I’m reblogging it

[stimman4000]

worst trend of 2020 is instagram influencers with a large audience starting an onlyfans for bikini pics or whatever, making 10-20k their first week, and then posting about how easy it is to an audience that includes tens of thousands of young girls, who are going to start one at 18, end up having to do much more hardcore stuff to make any money, still not make nearly as much as those people do because they aren’t famous to begin with, and then be stuck with nudes of them online for the rest of their lives. i’m not anti sex work but people talking about it like it’s a quick and easy way to make money with no negative impact on you at all is... deeply irresponsible

[stimman4000]

like i know several people, both online and irl, who’ve done this and quit because they had their pictures sent to parents/friends, felt pressured to do things they were uncomfortable with, found themselves in bad situations with other models/ “photographers”, or were worn out and emotionally exhausted by being seen as a sex object/product instead of a person-all for 300-400 dollars overall. if it’s something you’re considering please be aware it’s not how these people portray it

[rneadowsoprano-deactivated20211]

With this specific topic I think it’s so important to remember that onlyfans has a recruitment system that operates very similarly to a multi level marketing scheme, and all these women with large followings on Twitter encouraging their followers to make onlyfans are getting a chunk of all the money they earn. The top earners on OF are not just making money off their subscribers, they’re making a killing off the recruitment bonuses from everyone in their downline’s earnings. That’s why they try so hard to sell it as the best job ever.

[90smovieolderbrother]

also in trans news that should be talked about. laverne cox has stated that on saturday her and a friend were assulted in a park and it’s not really getting the same attention as elliot. we can still be proud of him without ingnoring what happened to laverne and her friend.

if you claim ally ship to the trans community then you can’t ignore the bad things that happen to especially trans woc. and if you’re a white trans person you can’t just talk about other white trans people. it just shows that you only care about trans people if they are white and that shouldn’t be the case.

if your gonna talk about elliot please also talk about laverne. she deserves better and we should all do better to raise up the voices of black trans women.

[guerrillatech]

[la-laborista-republiko]

[tlaloc]

i love that it’s pikachu saying this bc pikachu attained freedom by electrocuting the fuck out of ash and outright refusing to get into the fucking pokeball

[whitepeopletwitter]

[doyouknowhoyouare]

!!!

[whitepeopletwitter]

[im-extremely-scottish]

^^^this is what the start of the ad looks like

if anyone could rb with a photo ID thatd be great