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HOW TO DONATE TO BLM WHEN YOU HAVE NO MONEY

a black woman named zoe amira posted a video on youtube. this video is an hour long and filled with art and music from black creators. it has a ton of ads, and in result will rack up a ton of revenue. 100% of the ad revenue from the video will be dispersed between various blm organizations, including bail-out funds for protesters. it will be split between the following, dependent on necessity

brooklyn bail fund

minnesota freedom fund

atlanta action network

columbus freedom fund

louisville community bail fund

chicago bond

black visions collective

richmond community bail fund

the bail project inc

nw com bail fund

philadelphia bail fund

the korchhinski-parquet family gofundme

george floyd’s family gofundme

blacklivesmatter.com

reclaim the block

aclu

turn off your adblocker and put the video on repeat. do not skip ads. let it play on loop whether you’re listening or not. mute the tab if you need to focus elsewhere. but let. it. play.

youtube will donate to blm for you.

please, please reblog. for people who don’t have money to spare, this is incredibly important information to have.

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fandomsandfeminism

Screaming “is a sign they are reckless with your feelings” !!!

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Click HERE for more facts!

drtanner

This isn’t exclusive to chickens, by the way! There are heaps of human people who can’t hear themselves when they open their fucking mouths, too!

beachdeath

#1 rule of freelancing is that you have to be dead fuckin serious about getting paid. do not assume everything is going fine and they will pay you eventually. follow up as many times as you have to until the money is in your bank account. if you catch yourself thinking, “oh, i don’t want to bother them…” kill that thought and b o t h e r them. send uber-polite, grandma-is-watching e-mails along the lines of, “Hi! Hope this note finds you well. Just wanted to check in re: the status of my payment. Do you know when the funds will be available?” every few days until you get your money.

also if you’re freelancing for a client based in new york city they’re legally required to pay you within thirty days of receiving your invoice so put a note on your invoice that says, “Per the Freelance Isn’t Free Act, payment is due within thirty days of completion.” if they go over that deadline or they just don’t pay you at all, you can file a complaint with the city’s department of consumer affairs and have your lost wages recovered. go w/ christ brah.

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Also in general, if you’re like… legit freelancing and drawing up a contract, familiarize yourself with a “Net 30″ or “Net 15″ clause and agree on what the timeframe for payment is before you’ve even started the work. It’s awesome that NYC has legislation about that, but you can definitely hold your client accountable to pay you regardless of where you live!

sterekvalentineweek

Sterek Valentine Week 2020 is here!

Sterek Valentine Week is an annual week long event that celebrates the Sterek ship in Valentine’s Day fashion. It begins February 8th and concludes on February 14th (valentines day). Each day of the week has a specific theme assigned to it:

(Saturday) February 8th - Cupid (Sunday) February 9th - Breakfast in bed (Monday) February 10th - Charmed  (Tuesday) February 11th - Sugar  (Wednesday) February 12th - Poem  (Thursday) February 13th - Sexy (Friday) February 14th - First kiss

How to participate: all you have to do is examine the theme list, and create a work/s that corresponds with your chosen theme.

Note: each theme is assigned to a specific day. So post your work on the day your theme is assigned. NOT BEFORE. If the date has passed, that’s ok, feel free to post on any other day after.

Acceptable works include, but are not limited to: fics, art, edits, playlists, vids, podfics etc. Express yourself however you wish. If it’s Sterek related, we wanna see it!

That means there’s no limit to where Sterek can go or what that ship can do. All crossovers, AUs, kinks, timelines, plots etc, are all on the table.  And your works can feature any other characters, from any other fandom, and their relationships, as long as Sterek is the star.

You can submit your work to this blog, post your work to your own tumblr which I will then reblog, or post your work to our collection on Ao3.

How to submit: You can submit a text post, a URL link, a picture, gif set, edits etc to the Sterek Valentine Week tumblr by finding and clicking on the "Submit" link or by clicking on this URL (Sterekvalentineweek.tumblr.com/submit)

Reblog: If you choose to post your work to your own blog, please tag it with: sterekvalentineweek2020. I’ll be following that tag and will reblog all works and posts to the Sterek Valentine Week blog (HERE).  Please note: if the tag “sterekvalentineweek2020” is not one of the first 5 tags you list in your post, then I cannot track it. I don’t know why. But apparently, it’s a thing.

Archive of Our Own: I’ve set up a collection on Ao3. Just sign in to your account and search for: “Sterek_Valentine_Week”, or find the link (HERE). It is open and not moderated. If you’re posting your work on Ao3, make sure you use TRIGGER WARNINGS if your peice contains any triggers and that you tag for mature content.

So let your imagination guide you, and let’s enjoy Valentine’s day together! If you don’t want to participate, you can always follow along:

Tumblr blog: Sterek Valentine Week (HERE)

Tag: sterekvalentineweek2020

Ao3 collection: Sterek_Valentine_Week (HERE)

Final note: Feel free to ask questions. You can contact me via tumblr ask box or message me.

Please share the love and reblog/share this post so no one misses out. Thanks!

everythingfox

“My cat is afraid of tangerines, so i created a force field to protect the Christmas tree…”

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thespectacularspider-girl

You can feel the anger radiating off this image

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ms-hells-bells

that is exactly my point of view. if all people were given universal basic income, we could have tens of thousands of boring, tedious, dangerous, and long term harmful jobs done by robots, while humans are free to explore their passions without fear of poverty and homelessness.

in a good society, automation means a boom in the arts. language, painting, music, dance, writing, philosophy, architecture, etc. these are the sectors that advance tremendously during periods of human health and flourishing

bellfry

Back in the 1960s, we were told that automation and rising productivity would mean shorter work weeks with higher pay. Instead we have multibillionaires, growing poverty, and crumbling infrastructure. The money is all there, it’s just being hoarded.

biomic

this bit from hbomberguy’s new video on climate denial is the funniest thing i’ve ever seen

cloudblack

Children who feel they cannot engage their parents emotionally often try to strengthen their connection by playing whatever roles they believe their parents want them to. Although this may win them some fleeting approval, it doesn’t yield genuine emotional closeness. Emotionally disconnected parents don’t suddenly develop a capacity for empathy just because a child does something to please them.

People who lacked emotional engagement in childhood, men and women alike, often can’t believe that someone would want to have a relationship with them just because of who they are. They believe that if they want closeness, they must play a role that always puts the other person first.

— Lindsay C. Gibbon, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (2015)

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florianbenson

Nobody,nobody,nobody,nobody,nobody,no-nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody. NOBODy

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tnerdbean

Know what I’m salty about?

In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.

Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.

I’m 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.

tldr: Art Teachers: teach your students what different tools do. PLEASE.

spookyscaryscouticus

WAIT INDIA INK JS WATERPROOF ONCE IT DRIES????? THE ENTIRE REASON IVE AVOIDED MARKERS MY ENTIRE LIFE IS BECAUSE JNK BLEEDS AND YOURE TELLING ME INDIA INK IS

F U C K I N G W A T E R P R O O F

cinderteethe

oh man your teachers did not do there jobs!

-Yo painters, use pencil if u must underdraw beneath an oil painting, the lead is archival but ideally you should be doing underdrawings in a muted earth tones (siennas, umbers, ochres or earth green) with some titanium white added to it. (The white nearly matches the canvas and earth tones naturally blend with all colors on top unless u do super thin glaze washes).

-Trying to make a natural looking warm black? Don’t use black straight from tube, Mix alizarin crimson and viridan. add raw umber to adjust for light depth.

-If your into mixed media ALWAYS use acrylic first and oil on top (the gesso on primed canvas is acrylic based and oil sits on top of it great). NEVER put acrylic paint on top of oil, the acrylic will crackle/decompose and fall apart/off the canvas.

-India ink is permanent and if your using ink from a jar it should say it’s permanence. professional art grade pens usually have there permanace listed either on the pen or the companies website.

-Red cinnabar is poisonous, DO NOT EAT IT, no matter how much like fruit loops it smells.

-Translucent and transparent are NOT the same. translucent is *shiny* and a cloudier color, ideal for mixing usually ordor making vibrant colors like for eyes, cars, etc. Transparent is matte and usually a 50% transparency from an opaque color.

-ALWAYS DO A TEST SWATCH OF ANY NEW MATERIAL.

-any paint made with “true alizarin crimson” “red lake” and “chrome yellow” pigment is a fugitive paint. Fugitive means the pigment fades dramatically and disappears over time, (usually 5 to 15 years) lots of van goghs paintings have this problem. be very careful with these pigments. Alizarin crimson especially smells extremely sweet and like fruit loops or fruit loops, don’t eat it.

-gauche is a mix of watercolor and ink, proceed with caution as this material can be an asshole.

-Watercolor can be made darker/thicker by letting it dry slightly in cake form or in liquid form and can be dry brushed if u get the timing down.

-Paint liquid rubber or lay down thin pieces of painters tape on edges in watercolor paintings to Prevent bleeding between lines if u need super sharp edges.

-always tape down the entire paper edges when u paint with watercolor to a board to prevent the paper from curling as it dries.

-add salt directly into wet watercolor paintings to absorb pigment and make shit look like space.

-Always paint in well ventilated areas and avoid getting lots of paint on your hands. lots of paint is made with heavy metals and can cause cancer.

-natural materials aren’t always safe, especially

-Ones u collect yourself, do your research before grinding, burning, sanding these things especially indoors.

-use NATURAL bristles on your brushes with oil paint and SYNTHETIC bristles on your brushes for acrylic and watercolor. synthetic bristles literally break off into oil paint and stick into your painting, and natural bristles can’t handle the weight of acrylic paint and rip into 15 directions. Use hard boar bristle for the underdrawing/underpainting of an oil painting as it will force the paint into the canvas pours more effectively cause it’s stronger, use softer bristles for outer layers of oil painting and blending, boar will pierce outer layers and is to hard for anything but the first layer. can’t tell what u have? clean it up and brush it on your face, softer it is the better it is as doing outer layers of color.

teratocybernetics

-if you have a decent painters’ tape, you can prewet your watercolor paper, tape it to a surface & weight it down with some books to press it flat while it’s wet and help keep it from buckling later once dry, this is especially useful because for some reason, watercolor block is half again as expensive or more than a comparable sized pad or large sheets to cut down, even by the same brand

-natural sable is good for watercolor if you can afford it, i have two smaller brushes i shelled out for to try it, and while i probably didn’t treat the finer point one right, the other one is a miracle i’ve had for nearly 20 years.

-chinese calligraphy brush sets are fantastic for large work and washes and way, way cheaper most times than standard brushes, and it doesn’t seem to matter how cheap they are, either. they may shed a little, but they do a really good job holding and distributing water.

feliosfarkus

Rb for any art students

bigmammallama5

A trick i learned in art school, if your paper still warps/curls and your piece is finished/mostly finished: dampen the BACK and then press it flat again til dry. This works well with thicker papers! I have not had much success with thinner material. Test it out to get the hang of it before trying on your art!

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benaya-trash

Poor stiles, and yes it is The Cones of Dunshire sue me im a sucker for Parks and Recs

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Based on this post by @celestialvoid-fanfiction

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rtrixie

In the good timeline, a ban on government and corporate use of facial recognition software would be a major election issue

rtrixie

Let’s be clear here, there is no legitimate use for mass scale facial recognition tools. None. In every case it will lead to a total erosion of what remains of your privacy.

Not the police, not tech companies, no one should be able to track and identify you in an instant wherever you go.

Right now we’re possibly at the last point in time where this technology can be banned across the board before it’s suddenly everywhere and the argument will be “but everyone is using it, so we can’t do anything about it”.

Facial recognition should absolutely be a major issue right now.

Saving money(generally at college)

These are just what I learned from living a college students life. I just want to look back at this tips so I don't forget, but most of them can be used by anyone.

-Coffee: It is best to not drink it, it can cost alot and in my case, cause anxiety. But when in need, it's better to make it at home. If you like to add stuff to your coffee, make just code at home then go to a Starbucks, they most likely have a bar with creams, sugar, syrup, and spices. Try to find a good reusable filter, paper filters can add up. Lastly, by a non-electrical/stove coffee maker, a coffee press is nice, but cold brews can save electricity or gas.

-take off your shoes before entering your home: I was raised in an asian-american household so this might just be normal for me, but a friend of mine told me how, since they started to do the same, they had to use less clean products. Aka floors and carpets don't get as dirty. If you don't like cold floors, get slippers or flipflops just for indoors.

Grow sprouts and microgreens: they are easy to grow at home, packed with nutrition, and can make a dish have more volume

College handouts: use your college's resources. My college has Monday commuter's free breakfast, sometimes they hand out free t-shirt, health center has free condoms and otc meds, etc. Look out for free stuff.

Dollar stores: not all dollar stores sells everything for a dollar and the stuff that should be cheap cost more then say like walmart so be aware of price comparison to other stores.

Foreign markets: I'm not sure about other ethnic stores but Asian supermarkets like hmart has some of the best prices for produce

Craigslist: hit or miss but does hurt to look once a day/week. Found nice furniture and free firewood.

I'll add more later when I think of stuff