ya see it, right?

i'm emily; on Oʻahu. hapa/Native Hawaiian; white passing. scorpio. ✨ let's talk decolonization ✨

[covid-safer-hotties]

[covid-safer-hotties]

The point I hope y'all are getting tbh

[bobdylanyaoi]

2025 stats:

0 dubai chocolate ingested

0 labubus bought

0 episodes of stranger things watched

[torturequeen]

[opalescentfeather]

hey just a heads up, oreo is doing this as a distraction so you won't notice the boycott on oreos and their parent company, mondelez. along with Nestle, and proctor & gamble

they're being boycotted because the harvesting of palm oil and sugar cane for their products, like oreos, kit kats, smarties, ritz, herbal essences, pantene (products being boycotted) is all harming the indigenous Melanesian communities of West Papua New Guinea. the way that these products are being harvested is straight up ecocide. the communities' rivers are poisoned. their forests are being cleared with nothing left

we NEED to care, boost the power of the Melanesian communities, speak up about it, and save their communities and this earth.

you can make oreos at home y'all

more info below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

KitKat, Oreo, Pantene and the silent death of a nation - greenMe

KitKat, Oreo and Pantene: I'll explain why the indigenous people of Indonesia are calling for a boycott of these products that you buy every

West Papua Calls for Boycott of Major Brands Over Palm Oil Ecocide and Human Rights Violations - Archynewsy

Unveiling the Crisis: Understanding the West Papua Boycott and the Call for Ecological and Human Rights Justice In the lush rainforests of W

[shamebats]

[asingularcanadian]

You are not safe from this. You, the person reading this, are not safe from this. No matter how educated or open minded you think you are, you are not safe from this. The moment you think you are safe from it is the moment you become the most susceptible.

Its similar to why you cannot put bad people in a class of their own. The moment you do that you stop being able to see the bad things that the people closest to you do a la "my best friend couldn't have said that racist thing, they're not evil."

The moment you think you are immune from this type of backslide into right wing nonsense is the moment you stop questioning yourself enough to keep yourself from backsliding into right wing nonsense a la "I mean im not antiscience, im vaccinated, I just think that fluoride in our water supply is imparting children's ability to learn as fast as they otherwise could without it."

Remember, being progressive means progressing, its about always moving forward. The moment you rest on your laurels and stop putting in effort to keep the progression is the moment you start becoming left behind.

[neechees]

“Settlers are not immigrants. Immigrants are beholden to the Indigenous laws and epistemologies of the lands they migrate to. Settlers become the law, supplanting Indigenous laws and epistemologies. Therefore, settler nations are not immigrant nations.”

— Decolonization is not a metaphor (pg. 6-7)

[infectiouspiss]

borders between countries aren't real btw we just made them up. there's no such thing as an "immigrant" we're all just people moving around on the same planet that we've always moved around on

[infectiouspiss]

all borders are imaginary and should be abolished even the physical borders of the sea don't count all you need is a boat this is OUR planet and nobody is illegal anywhere no movement should never be restricted nobody owns any land nobody can stop you from existing on the planet you live on landlords should be shot in the streets

[obsessedcicada]

So quickly we've forgotten covid was a thing.

In all the lectures I've had today, you could hear coughing constantly. There were no gaps. Which tells me that a significant portion of that room decided to come in sick. No masks were worn.

ALL THE LECTURES ARE RECORDED! WATCH FROM YOUR BED OMG

I expected better from uni students.

[fluorescentbrains]

seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors

[insomniac-arrest]

I work at a bookstore and hearing one of my male coworkers call smutty romantasy "the downfall of society" because it's "literally just porn" radicalized me

Men have an entire industry. Entire industries dedicated to their sexualities. Let women have fantasy sex. there's not even a camera crew involved.

[furiousfurious]

Left this in the notes

[insomniac-arrest]

😂

[goodattellinglies]

[gunsandfireandshit]

[fremulron]

some life and death brigade shit

[remembertheplunge]

Banned by the Washington post. Political cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit the Washington Post, as did 200,000 of it's subscribers, when editors of the paper banned the above cartoon. Per AP "The cartoon was intended to criticize "billionaire tech and media chief executives who have ben doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Donald Trump." Telnaes said such a move is dangerous for a free press.

[forfuckssakejim]

Yeah quiet quitting is great and all but have you tried chaotic working?

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.

Anyways. Be chaotic. It’s more fun that way.

[bshmatthews]

[systlin]

Had a doc appt (just my yearly checkup) a couple days ago and I asked her about checking to see if my measles vaccine from when I was a kid was still good, since I’d heard it could lose effectiveness over time. She nodded and had a lab done and turned out I was NOT still immune to measles, so got my booster today.

Get your vaccines, folks!

[systlin]

“I have a question about a vaccine,” I say, and the look of ‘god fuckin dammnit not again’ that flashed across this poor doctor’s face, followed by abject relief when I said “I’ve heard that the measles vaccine can lose effectiveness over time and I’d like to make sure mine is still good.” says everything really. 

“Oh thank god,” she literally said. “Yes of course. That’s true, and we can do a blood test and see. If you don’t still have antibodies we can get you a booster scheduled.” 

“That question goes poorly a lot, doesn’t it,” I say. 

“You have no idea.”

[jhscdood]

Note: In some cases, you may not even need to do the blood test in order to get the measles booster. I walked into my local CVS pharmacy and said, “I was born in [YEAR] and I have no idea whether I got the single-shot or two-shot series. My coworkers keep having babies, tho. Can I have the measles booster?”

And the pharmacist said, “YES YOU MAY, THAT WILL BE ZERO DOLLARS AND THANK YOU”

More info here: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.html

“If you’re unsure whether you’re immune to measles, you should first try to find your vaccination records or documentation of measles immunity. If you do not have written documentation of measles immunity, you should get vaccinated with measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. There is no harm in getting another dose of MMR vaccine if you may already be immune to measles (or mumps or rubella).“

(p.s. Please also get your tetanus booster every 10 years, it also contains the whooping cough vaccine so if you are ever in the vicinity of babies, please make sure your Tdap is up to date)

(p.s.s. I’m sorry, I’m a public health professional, I can’t help it)

[cactusspatz]

When my doctor sister was pregnant, she was like “Ya’ll have to get your MMR and Tdap boosters before hanging out with my baby, non-negotiable” and I couldn’t agree more. Get a tiny needle stick, and prevent some babies from getting seriously ill or dead, ffs.

[this-is-neery]

Even if you’ve been getting your booster shots, take a moment to make sure it was the TDAP and not just tetanus! For a while there, people were getting tetanus boosters with no pertussis (whooping cough). My hometown’s had several outbreaks of whooping cough in the past six months.

[creativityobsessed]

Not just the babies - get it for those of us who are allergic to the shot! I can have tetanus but getting the pertussis vaccine made my leg swell up like a sausage the one time I had it, and I haven’t had a vaccine for it since. 

[chronicpaingirlie]

hey if something about your environment or body is bothering you right now & if you’re able to, please take a moment to adjust that thing. turn off the lights if theyre hurting your eyes, grab a pair of socks if you’re cold, move into a better position if you’re in an uncomfortable one.

it’s easy to get stuck in a “this isn’t good but I’ll survive” mindset, especially with executive dysfunction, but you deserve to feel more okay in the spaces & body you’re in.

[waterhobbit]

Hey so fun new scam just dropped! I got a call earlier today from someone spoofing the local police department's desk number, asking me if there was a reason I'd missed my jury summons this morning.

Friends, I had not received a jury summons for this month. Which I told him, at which point his previously clear diction suddenly turned into a rapid mumble, only becoming clear for scary words like 'federal' and then asking to confirm my address, at which point I hung up and decided to call the police department later.

When I called the police department the desk officer sounded so tired y'all. All I had to say was "Hey I got a call earlier saying I missed jury duty this morning?" and she immediately sighed and told me that yes it was a scam that was going around and thanked me for calling to confirm.

So this is your periodic reminder that law enforcement agencies will not call you to tell you that you're in trouble. If you need to pay a fine of some sort they will mail you a physical invoice. Anyone calling you saying they're from the police or any other law enforcement organization (up to the CIA and yes I have heard of scammers attempting to impersonate CIA agents over the phone) who then tries to get financial information from you over the phone is a scammer.

I know I actually bang on about this a weird amount, but it is my fervent hope that the information will stick in peoples' brains if they get randomly selected for the adrenaline spike lottery. Scammers use scary words to get you to panic in order to shut down your critical thinking, and if even one person's brain spits out "Tumblr user waterhobbit said the cops/CIA/federal marshalls don't call about this shit" before their bank account routing number is in the hands of assholes I will consider it a job well done.

[weaselle]

The person in this post follows my rule of thumb that protects me from 99.9% of all phone scams, and i'd like to highlight it here

For ANY "important" call you actually think might be real, get the name of the agency or institution involved, (and here is the important part:) look up the phone number to that agency or institution on your own, and call back about it.

If you never use a phone number they give you and always look up the number on your own, they can never scam you. Here's how it looks.

"hi, i'm from your bank and your account has just been charged, just, so much money, we're worried it might be fraud."

"Thank you for letting me know, I'll call back later, goodbye"

Then i look up my bank's phone number, and call that number, and tell them i received a call about suspicious activity on my account.

If it's real, they'll help me with it, and if it's not they'll confirm it's not true. Either way, i know i'm talking to the actual bank and not a scammer.

This works for ALL phone scammers, no matter how scary or time sensitive they try to tell you it is. If it's real, something like "i'm driving right now but i'll call back in a few minutes, no thank you i already have the contact information for your agency/business" is ALWAYS an acceptable answer, at most they will want to give you some kind of a case number before you hang up. The more they resist you calling them back from a number you look up, the more likely they are to be a scam.

[canadianwheatpirates]

It's important that YOU call the number of the agency/business. Don't let them "call you back from the main number", it's possible to spoof caller IDs including government numbers.

[geardrops]

and don't use google search results, go to the actual agency website

[figuring-421]

Don’t let anyone silence your voice or steal your power, which is your vote.

Your vote is private. Your vote is your own.

Vote accordingly.

[lastvalyrian]

Another example of how Republicans are the ones doing the election fraud

[lynati]

A huge number of people are already getting fucked over when it comes to being allowed to cast a vote in the upcoming elections. Let’s try to minimize what that number COULD be as much as possible. It might also be useful to have the number for the ACLU written down (or already in your phone) so you can CALL THEM while still at the polling place and get whatever information is needed in order to see about having the ACLU sue them. Write down names. Get witnesses. Take photos. MAKE IT VERY CLEAR TO THE POLLSTERS THAT YOU ARE GOING TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE. (Unless you have reason to believe they’re going to be assholes and try to have you arrested for doing so, in which case, be as subtle as possible.)

[clucku]

Some more info on this, state by state.

[witches-ofcolor]

^^ Really look at the state by state info so just in case this happens you’ll know what to do!

[kamikaze-kumquat]

^^^^^^^^^^^^

[lynayru]

In case any of you here also use X/Twitter.

[whatacartouchebag]

Hey so seems like right now would be a really good time for any and all artists and writers still on this site to get the hell out.

It sucks to migrate sites if you’ve been in one place for years - I know; I’ve done it a couple times now when places went down over the years. But this is really scummy.

[speremint]

I'll probably be deactivating my twitter once this is live...