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Crunchyroll buying out and shutting down Funimaton, deleting everyone’s purchased copies, and then hiking up their prices by 200% is just another example of why you should buy physical media. If you want to buy things you actually own, don’t look to streaming.
And remember: if buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing! 👍
This is the same site that charges you to watch anime they themselves got from pirate sites with low quality and fansubs.
“The disciplining of children’s voices is gendered. I found that girls were told to be quiet or to repeat a request in a quieter, ‘nicer’ voice about three times more often than were boys (see Table 3). This finding is particularly interesting because boys’ play was frequently much noisier. However, when boys were noisy, they were also often doing other behaviors the teacher did not allow, and perhaps the teachers focused less on voice because they were more concerned with stopping behaviors like throwing or running. Additionally, when boys were told to ‘quiet down’ they were told in large groups, rarely as individuals. […] Girls as individuals and in groups were frequently told to lower their voices… The girls learn that their bodies are supposed to be quiet, small, and physically constrained.”
— Karin A Martin, from Becoming a Gendered Body (1998)
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This is a series of 10 tweets posted on August 20th 2022 by user "Housing 4 All is Hot" (Twitter Handle @ahouse4all)
That thread asking people how they would get out of homelessness if they only had $20 is literally people saying "I would simply just'" and then saying something that is literally impossible, unavailable, or has been made illegal by local city governments.
"I'd find a minimum wage job and save up money while I stayed at a shelter!" Who is hiring you when you don't have an address, your ID, or a car? Shelter is full. Also you have to leave the shelter at 6am and show up at 1pm to get a bed. You also have to pay to stay there.
I would panhandle and save!" Panhandling does not pay. Most people don't have cash anymore + are hostile to unhoused ppl. It's illegal in a lot of places = huge citation or in jail. You also have to buy food and supplies daily. They get stolen or thrown out by the cops.
All while this is happening your mental health deteriorates. People don't respond to you when you speak to them and you're kicked out of shops and restaurants constantly. Your stuff is constantly getting stolen. Assaults are common. You have to stay awake at night to stay safe.
There are more people falling into homelessness every day than can be lifted out because of skyrocketing rents, low wages, lack of healthcare, mass incarceration, domestic violence, etc. There is no "just" getting out of it when you're in it.
Also to all these scenarios add more layers of oppression: Being disabled, woman, elderly, LGBTQ+, a person of color, and the more difficult it is. It's not a coincidence that even though Black people only make up 8% of the population they're 40% of unhoused people - it's racism.
LA has made it illegal to sit, stand, lie, sleep in 20% of the city. If you don't know all those areas by memory you could get arrested or fined at any moment if a cop comes by. Sweeps are constant so you have to memorize that schedule or all your stuff gets thrown out.
How do you go to any appointments for benefits if places don't let you come inside with your tent/backpack/belongings that will get stolen the second you leave them unattended? What do you do when you don't have the $35 for your ID that's been thrown away every time you get one?
Also you're unhoused in this scenario which means your credit and rental history is probably bad. Even if you miraculously saved up the $5,000 you need to move into an apartment- a landlord is never going to rent you one with bad credit/eviction history.
I could go on and on but it's terrifying how uninformed people are about how little help there is for unhoused people when the vast majority of people are just a couple paychecks away from being unhoused themselves.
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This is such an important post. I was homeless. I know homeless people. There are a hundred more reasons why "I would just" doesn't work. And the people who think they know are two things. First, incredibly arrogant and assuming and have no idea how hard it is. And second, the biggest victims when the end up on the street. The predators smell their blood from a mile away and attack. I cannot stress this enough. The people who talk online about how they know just what people should do are the weakest of the weak on the skids. They know everything and think they have it all sorted out. These are the people that end up destroyed by the streets. Because out there...The world doesn't give a shit about how you think things should work. Nobody gets off the streets without help, from friends, social agencies, grass roots charities and sometimes family. But family is usually the least likely help. And the big charities with CEOs and boards of trustees and infrastructure help no one. They may try to convince you they help. But there is no one who can say "Oh yeah I was helped by Homeless Co.". Don't donate to them. Give to the people who work in store front charities and little offices in the shit. If they have a nice boardroom in a shiny tower, that's where your money is going. We need to reach out and help each other. I cannot help financially, but I can tell my story and advocate and offer the real story. And not the edited 3 minute blurb on the 6 o'clock news.
Reblogging again for Jeff’s valuable insights.
Knowing a few people who work for those big agencies in shiny towers myself, I can tell you that very little actual assistance makes it to the people who need it.
The lower and mid-level employees working for these agencies might be very well-meaning - the people I personally know who do that kind of work do genuinely want to help, but the whole structure of the orgs they a part of works against their efforts. And that is by design, because the higher-ups are not in it to help.
The system is fundamentally broken. If you think you as an individual could help yourself via some “I would simply just” thing, you are wrong. And you are closer to being on the streets than the folks who are trying to convince you that homeless folks are there because they are somehow “lesser” human beings. We all need to be fighting this heartless, broken system.
Adult Swim making an unholy amount of sense.
Truer now than in 2013.
it’s kind of deeply depressing that there exists this entire vast subculture of progressive-learning 15-19 year olds online who are legitimately filled with anxiety over their media consumption diet and closely monitor themselves and others to make sure nothing they consume is Problematic™ lest they be ousted from their social circles. at the exact age where it’s actually good to have a varied media diet and be able to critically engage with harmful elements, too
straight up if you are high school or early university aged and you’re spending time feeling significant guilt and anxiety about what you choose to read or watch because of your online peers and shaping your media diet based on fear, you do not have to be around those peers anymore. there is a vast world outside this kind of person
"why do people conflate top/bottom and Dom/sub" because we haven't socially destigmatized kink. that's literally it.
if you say you're topping your boyfriend when you push him around in the bedroom you're being cool and quirky and using slang to describe your antics. if you do the same thing and say you're domming him you must be a seriously freaky person. that's why people use top to mean Dom and bottom to mean sub. they know even if we allow the nice clean gays with their fun bedroom terms into our society, we should never ever be like Those People who spend significant amounts of time and energy learning how to have the kind of sex so many of us clumsily imitate in our bedrooms.
"researching kink is forbidden. talking about kink is forbidden. slapping your partner and choking them is normal because I saw it in porn and my buddies say they do it. don't go to seminars on how to manage the risk of those activities or you're a sex-obsessed freak. I'm the normal one, the one whose partner chokes me with their belt and doesn't know what aftercare is. I'm a bottom."
the problem is that kink activities are socially acceptable and even expected, but having any awareness of the terminology or safe ways to play surrounding them is heavily stigmatized. kink anti-intellectualism is rampant among people of every political orientation because of how badly our society has poisoned us. so we can't even say Dom or sub to refer to ourselves. it's a symptom of that problem.
F*g is a slur and no amount of quirky posts is gonna make you cool for using it
You have rights because faggots and dykes fought for them. Respect that you cunt
You have rights because
faggots and dykes fought for them.
Respect that you cunt
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
oh haiku bot. i thought i couldn’t love you more
Big Media’s lobbyists have been running a smear campaign trying to paint the Internet Archive as a greedy big tech operation bent on stealing books—which is totally absurd. If you’ve ever used the WayBack Machine, listened to their wonderful archives of live music, or checked out one of their 37 million texts, it’s time to speak up. On March 20, everyone is showing their support for the Internet Archive during oral arguments.
Here's how you can help:
Don’t let libraries die. As the future goes digital, major publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ defense of digital books from censorsh
The Internet Archive is our library, a massive collection of knowledge and culture accessible to anyone with an internet connection. Don't let greedy publishers burn down the next Library of Alexandria!
And if you're absolutely certain you don't use or need the Internet Archive, take a look at their projects first, you might be surprised. Those are all at risk too.
“Oh? So what’s your criticism?”
“That Ao3 needs more censorship.”
"queer spaces are for everyone but cis men! safe spaces include everyone but cis men!"
okay
that will require stealth trans men to out themselves in order to receive help
that will require closeted trans women to out themselves in order to receive help
that will require nonbinary people who don't ""look nonbinary"" because they look too masculine to out themselves in order to receive help
it will also alienate transfems & trans people who were AMAB who haven't realized they're trans yet from spaces that could provide them a safe place to explore gender & sexuality and be introduced to the idea of being trans
trans people are eventually going to get uncomfortable with your hatred for cis men, because people who were AMAB are gonna wonder if you secretly hate them for being "actually men" and trans mascs are gonna wonder if you hate them for being men at all
people attracted to cis men are going to feel uncomfortable when they try and bring up their love for men including cis men or bring their cis boyfriends/partners/friends to your spaces
there are cis queer men & queer men who blur the lines between cis and trans and they have just as much a right to queer spaces as you do
^ intersex men also exist including intersex cis men
there is never going to be a group of people who it is alright to blindly hate just because of circumstances of their birth or identity and every time you try you are going to end up hurting people. embrace compassion and nuance
This!!!!!
The whole excluding all cis men bothers me.
It shuts people like me down. Who look male but are nonbinary or in my case even trans idk.
But saying not safe for cis men makes it so they can't explore or try to understand.
If they don't understand they hate more they are more toxic.
I feel hated and I'm treated poorly because I was born male...
It makes me feel that even if I got on hrt I'd never be accepted in the community just like now I'm not accepted as non binary.
Trust me if I could have chosen I would have been born female I don't need more hate for it when I already hate myself for it.
Another thing some cis men have never had the chance to explore because of the families they grew up around.
I was beat for dying my hair pink when I was 10.
So you can't judge an entire gender when you don't know their story everyone is different all of our experiences are valid.
Also, this is the definition of sexism just because its targeting males doesn't mean it isn't.
my ancestors seeing me shrug off a diarrhea session
People in the notes confused because they're so accustomed to running water they don't know how close diarrhea might have otherwise come to killing them if they've had it even once lol it's killed more humans than just about anything in history
We’re the granddaughters of the bowels you couldn’t irritate
Mine would be baffled that I've gone 5+ years with bloody diarrhea. Inflammatory Bowel Disease has probably always existed, but they didn't have treatment.
I do want to specifically shout out Dr Thomas Latta, who is the person who gave us IV hydration, and pretty much magically cured cholera with it in his first attempt. From his diary:
I attempted to restore the blood to its natural state, by injecting copiously into the larger intestines warm water.. trusting that the power of absorption might not be altogether lost, but by these means I produced, in no case, any permanent benefit.. I at length resolved to throw the fluid immediately into the circulation. In this, having no precedent to direct me, I proceeded with much caution. The first subject of experiment was an aged female. She had apparently reached the last moments of her earthly existence, and now nothing could injure her – indeed, so entirely was she reduced, that I feared I should be unable to get my apparatus ready ere she expired. Having inserted a tube into the basilic vein, cautiously – anxiously, I watched the effects; ounce after ounce was injected, but no visible change was produced. Still persevering, I though she began to breathe less laboriously, soon the sharpened features, and sunken eye, and fallen jaw, pale and cold, bearing the manifest impress of death's signet, began to glow with returning animation; the pulse, which had long ceased, returned to the wrist; at first small and quick, by degrees it became more and more distinct ... and in the short space of half and hour, when six pints had been injected, she expressed in a firm voice that she was free from all uneasiness, actually became jocular, and fancied all she needed was a little sleep.
Diarrhea can very easily be death by dehydration, especially when you can't consume oral fluids (Cholera causes extreme vomiting as well). Not only did we solve part of the problem with clean water, the other half was learning how to put clean water into our bodies (with salt).
Also fun fact, Thomas Latta was active in England at the same time as John Snow, the father of epidemiology, also in response to the Cholera epidemics at the time.
Throughout history, so many people have worked so hard to alleviate human suffering, misery, and death. You will never know the names of all the people who have spent their life’s passion to take care of you, someone divided from them by decades, even centuries, someone whose existence they’d never know, whose name they’d never hear. But they did it, all the same.
I think this is an important thing to keep in mind.
Top 10 Non-problematic Villains for Socially Responsible Media Consumers
I think a big reason why "children are an oppressed group" gets (wrongly!) read as a "pedophile talking point" is that everyone treats children so terribly that actual child molesters can speedrun winning a kid's trust by like, actually respecting their needs and perspective, at least at first. Which means that the only way out of this mess is for all of us adults to treat children with respect, so that abusers can't use the rareness of that respect as a weapon.
Yeah I've been thinking a lot about how cults will prey on marginalized people and how it's so much easier to push an "us versus them" mentality on a person who already (legitimately, accurately) perceives the world as hostile to them
🙋🏻♀️ I was groomed by a predator this way and I also got dragged into cults this way. More than one.
Realizing that the validation was fake and that they didn't respect me any more than the other people in my life was more painful than the abuse I went through in some ways. So, like, maybe don't make people vulnerable to the whole situation. Treat kids like people.
When I was thirteen, my English teacher(???) had us do reports on various groups throughout American history. Don’t ask me why, I have no idea what made her think this was on-topic. ANYWAY, I was assigned the KKK. My mother had just finished college a couple years before and something she’d hammered into me while she was writing essays was that you should always present both sides of an argument.
If you think this is ending with “Nina did you actually try to interview the KKK,” you are…wrong.
It is ending with “Nina DID interview the KKK.” It’s ending with “some KKK secretary or whatever saw an earnest, gullible teenager say ‘my mom says I should present both sides so I thought I’d ask if I can talk to someone’ AND HAD THE GRAND FUCKING DRAGON ANSWER ME.”
It is ending with “when I was thirteen I came dangerously, BLISTERINGLY close to being recruited by the KKK.” Because let me tell you about this Grand Dragon. He was nice. He was kind, and patient. He answered all of my questions about his chapter’s history and what various KKK symbols meant. He sent me supplemental links on various bits of Klan history (Google didn’t exist yet, so this was both a treasure trove and, you can imagine, a way to tip the scales in the KKK’s favor). He encouraged me to let him know how my presentation went and praised me for doing in-depth research. Most of the adults in my life thought my research rabbitholes were weird or even dangerous, so “good job looking for your own answers instead of stopping at your first three sources” was a really big deal. “I’m so glad you reached out, what questions do you have?” was a really big deal.
What stopped me from falling all the way down that rabbit hole?
I was deeply Christian at the time and uncomfortable with the idea of burning (or, as they call it, “lighting”) crosses.
That’s it. That’s all that stood between me and “yes, I would like to talk to a local leader, I had no idea how much I knew about the Klan was wrong.”
That should scare the shit out of you. It scares the shit out of me, and I know the story turns out okay. How many of our young alt-righters do you think got caught EXACTLY THIS WAY?
People are community-focused beings FIRST and rational beings SECOND. If you won't respect them as members of your community, somebody else will.
And contrary to popular belief, children are people.
I want the Government to reverse their decision to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, as this legislation contains importa
hey if you're a UK resident can you sign this petition and if not please rb to spread the word
this is an official UK government petition that they have to respond to if it reaches 10,000 signatures
So, this one is actually a lot more important than reporting and blocking spam bots. That post has 20,000 notes rn, so it would mean a lot to me if you could give the same treatment to this as you gave to that (@neil-gaiman if you're listening).
If the petition gets 100,000 signatures they have to consider it for debate in parliament.
It's a crime that Gender Recognition Reform was blocked in England, but Scottish MPs voted it into law and that the UK Parliament overturned that is in direct contravention of democracy as a whole.
It's a pretty serious big deal. Please sign, or, if you're not a UK citizen, please boost.
