Nettie's Happy Stuffle

[wilwheaton]

saw this in r/tumblr and was like OH HOLY SHIT IT’S ME.

[staff]

🚨This is a Red Alert for net neutrality 🚨

Last December, the FCC voted to to kill net neutrality. If we do not take action, this will kill the free and open internet as we know it. The internet needs you—all of you—to make sure your voices are heard NOW.

We need all hands on deck for this one. It may be our last chance. If you’re feeling under-informed and overwhelmed about why net neutrality is so incredibly important, we have this handy guide just for you.

Here’s what you can do to save the internet:

In mid-May, the Senate will vote on a resolution to overrule the FCC using the Congressional Review Act (CRA). We only need one more vote in the Senate to win. Write or call your Senators or Representatives. You can also text BATTLE to 384-387 to get more information on how to write to your reps. You can do this, Tumblr.

Join us and dozens of your other favorite companies like Etsy, Vimeo, Reddit, and GitHub to raise awareness with the Red Alert campaign being run by Battle for the Net. Just add this small widget to your Tumblr to let your followers know how they can contact their reps. It’s as easy as copying and pasting the small line of code right into the customize theme page on the web.

This is important. This matters. It’s up to you to help. 

[sandandglass]

The Creative Act of Listening to a Talking Frog

Kermit the Frog gives a talk on creativity and creative risk-taking

[fallfeatherspony]

did a puppet just fucking give some of the best advice ever.

[wilwheaton]

I hope you heard this in Kermit’s voice, just like I did.

[learning-to-let-myself-live]

I was at work today for Labour Day and on TV was Good Morning America. The theme was celebrating the American worker and their accomplishments. I’ll tell you how it went down.

Kelly put on her glasses, smile wide, and pulled out a piece of paper which she read from. The paper was from an article (which I have issues with, but I will leave alone for now) by ABC news. Kelly proceeded only to read the opening of it, which reads: ‘Americans work more than anyone in the industrialized world. More than the English, more than the French, way more than the Germans or Norwegians. Even, recently, more than the Japanese. And Americans take less vacation, work longer days, and retire later, too.’

And everyone cheered.

And they kept cheering when Kelly put her paper down and smiled at everyone. (not continuing with the rest of the article which suggests that this may in fact be a problem).

And I just couldn’t BELIEVE that anyone was cheering. America. AMERICA you work more than the French, who are entitled by law to have 5 weeks off a year for vacation and can not work more than 35 hours per week. You work more than Norway, who average 33 hours per week and 44,000 dollars a year. Germany, where AGAIN, we see a shorter work week and better pay! And all of these countries have health care and better pay and free/affordable education!

WHY ARE YOU CHEERING?

I have a different interpretation of this information: the American worker is the most taken advantage of worker in the industrialized world. It’s plain and simple. You work long hours and get horrible pay. You take multiple jobs and work and work and work just to get by. Unions are disappearing, jobs are always looking for part timers and all you are doing is giving up your time for less money, less vacation, less safety and stability and less education than anyone else on the list.

Celebrate Labour day. Celebrate the accomplishments of the common worker, but don’t let these people trick you into thinking you should celebrate the theft of your time and energy, or the fruits of your labour.

They are using you. Stop cheering.

[hid-dle-ston-deactivated2018030]

reblog if you're gay, not gay, slightly gay, or if you just want to launch donald trump into a dying star

[mythicalmodernity-blog]

Like guys, it’s the MAYORS of towns getting shit done with these confederate statues. It’s the mayors who can attempt to put shit in place or keep nazis from getting a marching permit in your town to begin with.

It’s the governors who can flip off the president and decide to not honor certain things in their state, to decide to quietly just… drag their heels on implementing certain things.

If you have learned anything from the last… god not even a year. Learn how it’s the local politicians who are often getting stuff done and are in the news.

Get out and fucking vote.

I really don’t want Gillespie “we have black reparations, it’s called welfare” to become governor of Virginia.

[harriet-spy]

It’s the state attorney generals who are suing the Trump administration over almost everything, from the Big Rights Flashpoints like the Muslim travel ban (where they are lending their respectability and prestige to much broader coalitions) to much less glamorous but extremely vital cases involving the administrative and regulatory state, where the states may be one of only a few entities entitled to bring a case, e.g.:

18 States Sue Betsy DeVos Over Student Loan Protections

A.G. Schneiderman Files Lawsuit Against Trump EPA For Stalling Action On Clean Air

Basically, for decades now, Republicans have tried to devolve power to the states as a way of weakening federal civil rights and business regulation.  (”Sanctuary cities” are only possible because of “anti-commandeering” court decisions the right won back in the day.)  Now the left is exploiting that structural shift to resist Trump.

Support your local activist AG! 

[wilwheaton]

One of the profound and lasting failures of the Democratic Party in my lifetime has been its inability to organize and support candidates to contest local elections. These elections are not expensive, relative to national or statewide elections, and they are where the progressive, activist base of the party can make an enormous impact. Smart people who are committed to progressive ideals, especially women and people of color and scientists and artists are desperately needed to run for local office, everywhere. The GOP and its regressive, racist, misogynist base did not take over local politics in a single election, and it will take us a long time to wrest control away from them, but it’s possible, and if we hope to save our liberal democracy, we have to get started RIGHT NOW.

[politicalprof]

Ta-Nehisi Coates being smart.

[wilwheaton]

White people: please pay attention to this and understand it.

[npr]

An all-girls science club from San Fernando Senior High School near Los Angeles has designed a solar-powered tent meant to help homeless and displaced people around the world.

The tent — designed by a group of 12 high schoolers with the help of an organization called DIYgirls — uses solar power to charge electronic devices, provide light and sanitize itself via a system of antibacterial UV lights. And it folds into a backpack for easy travel.

The electronics cost about $40. The tent itself is made out of highly durable and water-resistant material. The idea for the tent came after some members of the team saw increased homelessness in their neighborhood.

“These girls saw a problem in their community,” Evelyn Gomez, an engineer and the executive director of DIYgirls, tells NPR’s Morning Edition. The group aims to get young girls from under-resourced areas interested in the fields of science, technology, engineering, art and math.

All-Girls Teen Engineering Team Creates A Solar-Powered Tent For Homeless People

Photo: Courtesy of DIYgirls

[gogomrbrown]

Someone give this man a megaphone.

[bdell1]

Reblog the hell out of this - please. Even those of you who are not in the US. You have Us followers and this is obscene.

[verycleverboy]

Important numbers: 

H.R. 1628 (the laughably-titled ”Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017″)

[phone]. The US Capitol Switchboard. Find out who your Senator is and let them know how you feel.

Senator Casey is still finding awful things in the bill and posting them to Twitter, so pick a few and let the Hill know how you feel.

[politicalprof]

Well, there you are.

[mae-martin]

[softwhorecore-deactivated201812]

THIS IS ACTUALLY FACTUAL AND NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED MORE

[opaliris]

http://www.usms.org/articles/articledisplay.php?aid=294

[soulfulmags]

“Knowing that they were losing “valuable product” due to their slaves’ propensity to swim, slave owners began taking drastic steps to protect their property. One of these steps was to instill a fear of the water by dunking disobedient slaves in water until they nearly drowned and by creating fear through stories of creatures living in the water. Thus it didn’t take long to excise or destroy the West African swimming tradition from African- American culture. The Jim Crow laws that were enacted after The Civil War prohibited blacks from the popular seaside resorts in places like Atlantic City, N.J. and Revere Beach, Mass. And by the 20th Century, as the swimming pool began to gain in popularity in the United States, the color line prohibited blacks from enjoying this pleasant recreational skill.

In addition, self-segregation also played a role in limiting those of African ancestry from getting in the water. I remember my Aunt saying to stay away from the pool because, “black folk don’t swim.””

[odinsblog]

Such a long and consistent history of anti-Blackness and swimming. Long before police openly assaulted little black girls in McKinney, GoodWhitePeople™ were enforcing White Supremacy and segregating swimming pools.

Motel manager, James “Jimmy” Brock, pouring acid into a swimming pool to drive black people away from a “Swim In” protest, in St. Augustine, Florida on June 18, 1964.

Next time you hear someone ask questions like, “Why don’t black people swim?” Or “Why are so many black people afraid of dogs?” And, “Why are there do so many black people live in poverty?”…..let ‘em know that those aren’t coincidences. These things didn’t just happen naturally, all on their own. There’s a reason for it, and you don’t have to be an historian to know they’re all interconnected through slavery, endemic racism and persistently racist cultural norms.

[alwaysbewoke]

always reblog…

[micdotcom]

Alison Chandra never expected to go viral for tweeting about her son’s medical bills — in fact, she never expected to be the mother of a child who needed so much medical care in the first place. But, with one viral tweetstorm she made it clear just how important the Affordable Care Act is to so many families. Read more (6/26/17)

[hotlatinospacerebel]

I work at a kindergarten and this is a collection of cute Wonder Woman related things that happened within a week of the movie being released. 

On Monday, a boy who was obsessed with Iron Man, told me he had asked his parents for a new Wonder Woman lunchbox. 

A little girl said “When I grow up I want to speak hundreds of languages like Diana”

This girl had her parents revamp her Beauty and the Beast birthday party in THREE DAYS because she simply had to have a Wonder Woman party. 

Seven girls playing together during recess on Tuesday, saying that since they all wanted to be Wonder Woman they had agreed to be Amazons and not fight but work together to defeat evil. 

There is this one girl that refuses to listen to you unless you address her as Wonder Woman. 

Another girl very seriously asked the teacher if she could ditch her uniform for the Wonder Woman armor bc she “wanted to be ready if she needed to save the world”. The teacher laughed and said it was okay, and the next day the girl came dressed as Wonder Woman and not a single kid batted an eye.

They are making a wrap-up dance show, and they asked the teacher if they could come as superheroes, they are going to sing a song about bunnies. 

This kid got angry and threw a plastic car over his head and a girl gasped “LIKE IN THE MOVIE”

A boy threw his candy wrapping in the floor and a 5-year-old girl screamed “DON’T POLLUTE YOU IDIOT, THAT IS WHY THERE ARE NO MEN IN TEMYSCIRA”

On Wednesday, a girl came with a printed list of every single female superhero and her powers, to avoid any trouble when deciding roles at recess. 

I was talking to one of the girls that hadn’t seen the movie, and the next day she came and very seriously told me “you were right, Wonder Woman was way better than Frozen.”

Consider this your friendly reminder that if this movie completely changed the way these girls and boys thought about themselves and the world in a week, imagine what the next generation will achieve if we give them more movies like Wonder Woman.  

[peterfromtexas-deactivated20250]

Reenactor throws a spear at a drone

[supapoopa]

What a time to be alive.

[tenthcorner]

“The medieval warrior, realizing the consequences of his impulsive act, immediately approached the owner of the drone and offered to pay for the damage.

The owner of the drone was so impressed by the brilliant attack that he suggested organizing a competition for bringing down “dragons” with short spears next year.

Drone owners have another year to develop a unique “dragon-like” design for their flying machines.” (x)

[kineticpenguin]

I am 100% cooler with this knowing that the spear-thrower realized “oops maybe I shouldn’t have done that” and tried to make it right, and that the guy who the drone belonged to was cool with it

[brunhiddensmusings]

just so everyone knows, this has already been memorialized in a runestone

[stephendann]

Everything about this post blesses those involved with a +4 on their next Today is Good Day roll

[wilwheaton]

From my friend, a woman, who lives in a red state.

[farewelltoliz]

Trevor Project 866-488-7386 Trans Lifeline 877-565-8860 National Suicide Prevention Hotline [phone] #ProtectTransKids #ProtectTransYouth Help them stay safe, brave, and make them feel like the beautiful beings they are.

[staff]

We support trans youth and are dedicated to maintaining a place for you to exist safely and with confidence—especially when some are dedicated to making it as difficult as possible.

You are valid, your identity is valid, your rights are not anyone’s to take away. You deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. We’re proud of you and will always fight for you.

[micdotcom]

[mattbraunger]

WHOA. This times a thousand. 

[mamrie]

Mothafuckin PREACH.

[skygenders]

have you ever tried to write an essay and be like “I don’t want to bullshit this” but then you stare at your screen and the harsh truth sweeps over you and you’re like “I won’t be able to finish this if i don’t bullshit it”