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Sacha - they/them - 23

[erotomanicpixiedreamgirl]

how to be gentle with yourself when you have the curse

[cleaningouttherooms]

if you are interested in prison abolition, eric a. stanley and nat smith's captive genders: trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex is a great resource. it goes to great lengths to cover a wide variety of topics and articles from incarcerated trans people, researchers, prison abolitionists and long-time community activists.

one of the most interesting parts for me concerned the prison industrial complex extending outside of the prison, with articles about juvenile court for queer and trans youth, detainment for queer immigrants, and HIV in confinement.

you can actually find a pdf here for free :)

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird

[4waystreet]

tone it down with the rpf will ya

simon and garfunkel fucked irl

[robotslenderman]

I’m sorry my lovelies but the reason you hate yourself is because you treat you like shit. If you came up to me and then told me I was a fuck up who could never do anything right I'd fucking hate you too.

[robotslenderman]

if you didn't let me go to bed until after midnight because you'd rather watch Netflix than let me rest, and then got mad at me for not being productive the next day I'd be PISSED

[robotslenderman]

You keep calling me a fatass but you tell other overweight people they’re beautiful? Why do you keep shitting on MY weight, then?

Oh? It’s different if it’s me? Wow fuck you too

[robotslenderman]

Love is a verb! Self love isn’t a warm fuzzy feeling, it is compassion and action in support of yourself!

And yes, this includes having compassion for the bully in your head. Unfortunately that part is also you and deserves as much of your understanding as the rest of you.

[robotslenderman]

via @corazondebeskar

This is the real reason why you need to be kind to the bully in your brain too, because that motherfucker is really good at doing a switcheroo when you're not paying attention.

[apunkofskunk]

sharpen!

[tzikeh]

Maryland to Become First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing That Charges More After Mining Personal Data

Maryland will become the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in retail stores, after passing Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Jesus fucking christ that this exists in the first place

[boyslit]

I WAS FUCKING WONDERING WHAT THOSE DIGITAL PRICE TAGS WERE ABOUT SUDDENLY i had hoped they were so the workers didn't have to finagle those little papers into the slider part anymore 😭

[eclipticasolaris]

Hi, yes, that is the OFFICIAL excuse made to me by the guy replacing the paper tags with digital ones at my local Walmart, but the end goal is to remove the numbers off the shelf entirely, replacing them with QR codes that you have to scan with the app…. Which requires your login information….. and also stores your card information so even if you didn’t use your Walmart account at the physical checkout, if you used a card they recognize, they assign that purchase to your Walmart account purchase history.

I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.

Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:

Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.

No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.

So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:

Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:

Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.

Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.

POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.

When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)

If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.

In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.

Yes, call your reps. Yes, push for more legislation like this in more places. But also take an extra minute out of your shopping trip to MAKE IT HURT for companies to pull this shit.

[antisocialxconstruct]

I've seen some people in the notes express (very fair) concern that this is only going to inconvenience already under-paid laborers, and not have any impact on corporate. While I can't speak for every company or every store, I do work in a grocery store and I can tell you this is precisely the kind of thing that would have an impact, especially if people are doing it en masse. Stores absolutely track their shrink numbers, and they do draw distinctions between what gets stolen, damaged, or wasted for other reasons. If people are making it clear that the reason they're bringing things to the cashier is that the prices are not adequately represented on the displays, and rather than improving business it's wasting product, slowing down transactions, and causing confusion and mistrust in customers, that is a language that shareholders speak.

[windowz97]

girl who sat next to me at the coffee shop had that Tortured By Computer Work look in her eye so i turned to her and was like Are u doing research? and it turns out she (white) just started working as an indigenous liaison for an ecological wellness surveying company (hired bc she worked with the local nation for a year) so i was like OMG can i share resources with you. and whipped out my 1 million notes and academic papers on ethical Indigenous-settler relations/research and Indigenous perspectives on ecological restoration. she was like omg are u sure this is basically a whole course for free and i wanted to tear my shirt off liek YES!!!! I WANT TO PROMOTE LOW BARRIER EDUCATION TO ADVANCE DECOLONIZATION AND RECONCILIATION!!!!!!!!!!! STEP IN2 MY GOOGLE DOC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[windowz97]

here's a googoodrive folder containing learnings on Experiential Learning in Ecological Restoration annnddd Research Practice in Indigenous Contexts. each course folder contains a "![Course number] Notes" document as well as PDFs of all the text-based readings that the notes draw from :-)

i plan 2 make accessible the learnings from my other classes too but i think ill only have time to do all that anonymizing & reformatting once i graduate in a few months lol

[rylandgraces]

[the most low energy you have ever seen me] we’re about to go crazy mode

[sevenfromelevenisfour]

I crocheted a series of hyperbolic planes and strung them up into a garland. Each module is one more round than the one before, and each round has twice the stitches as the round before.

I made eight iterations; the largest one took an entire skein of cotton yarn. I really liked how this shows the change in curvature as cross section of the plane expands.

[eddieintheocean]

Do people know there's fungi in the oceans. Is this a common knowledge fact or will I be inflicting damage onto people when they read this

[eddieintheocean]

Apparently it wasn’t common knowledge yippee wahooo.

Source: my lectures, but its mostly ascomycota, basidiomycota and Chytridiomycota fuckin around in there.

Marine fungi are often overlooked because barely any of them make the fruiting body part (the bit of the mushroom on land -- toadstool style). A lot of them are parasitic on fish, coral, algae, and phytoplankton (Gladfelter, James and Amend, 2019). some coral fungi has already been mentioned in da comments. Chytrids are particularly important parasites that facilitate zooplankton feeding through phytoplankton death -- chytrid loop (Kagami, Miki and Takimoto, 2014). They’re very important for degrading organic matter, and also have been seen degrading plastics (Russell et al., 2011). (some microbes in general looveee oil and hydrocarbons (King et al., 2015))

I also gotta briefly mention planctomycetes which are NOT fungi but they were thought to be because they do a lot of weird eukaryote stuff despite being bacteria (Wiegand, Jogler and Jogler, 2018). They’re also the only thing (as far as I know) that can do Anammox, which is ammonium to N2 gas (strange and weird) (Op den Camp, Jetten and Strous, 2007).

creatures ^ (x)

here is but asmall. section considering how much there is about them now. enjoy. my creatures also its like 8am when im writing this i woke up to write the fungi post

bibliography #myreferences. tried to find free access for the papers for people without academic access, but my extension doesnt work for all of them so just message me if theres one you want to look at and i will find a way.

Gladfelter, A. S., James, T. Y. and Amend, A. S. (2019) 'Marine fungi', Current Biology, 29(6), pp. R191–R195. free access: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(19)30148-4.pdf

Kagami, M., Miki, T. and Takimoto, G. (2014) 'Mycoloop: chytrids in aquatic food webs', Frontiers in Microbiology, Volume 5 - 2014. free access: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00166/pdf

King, G. M., Kostka, J. E., Hazen, T. C. and Sobecky, P. A. (2015) 'Microbial Responses to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: From Coastal Wetlands to the Deep Sea', Annual Review of Marine Science, 7(Volume 7, 2015), pp. 377–401. (no free access, dm if you want to read)

Op den Camp, H. J. M., Jetten, M. S. M. and Strous, M. (2007) 'Chapter 16 - Anammox', in Bothe, H., Ferguson, S.J. and Newton, W.E. (eds.) Biology of the Nitrogen Cycle. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 245–262. (again, dm me)

Russell, J. R., Huang, J., Anand, P., Kucera, K., Sandoval, A. G., Dantzler, K. W., Hickman, D., Jee, J., Kimovec, F. M., Koppstein, D., Marks, D. H., Mittermiller, P. A., Núñez, S. J., Santiago, M., Townes, M. A., Vishnevetsky, M., Williams, N. E., Vargas, M. P. N., Boulanger, L.-A., Bascom-Slack, C. and Strobel, S. A. (2011) 'Biodegradation of Polyester Polyurethane by Endophytic Fungi', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77(17), pp. 6076–6084. (free access: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3165411/)

Wiegand, S., Jogler, M. and Jogler, C. (2018) 'On the maverick Planctomycetes', FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 42(6), pp. 739–760. (this ones a free article already read the pdf here!)

^ if you have firefox i highly recommend looking into this!

[giveherswords]

BY YOUR RESPONSE TO DANGER IT IS EASY TO TELL HOW YOU HAVE LIVED AND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO YOU. YOU SHOW WHETHER YOU WANT TO STAY ALIVE, WHETHER YOU THINK YOU DESERVE TO, AND WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT'S ANY GOOD TO ACT.

The Living Series, Jenny Holzer, 1989

[magneatio]

came across this image on pinterest and straight up almost burst into tears…. vibes for JUNE

[innerchildabortionclinic]

your cat was an honor to see in the window

[steveyockey]

affirmations they will not kill me at work today. it is not in my job description to get killed. if they did kill me at work that would be weird and probably not worth it for them

[spankerella]

@ perfectunion

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[fireleaptfromhousetohouse]