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day barely even started and I already had to hear "thank you for being our wives, sisters, aunts" and "keep being women and giving birth and being delicate unlike us men" as compliments for international women's day
here's to women being transgender childless dykes forever and ever and ever
And in case you might be inclined to feel bad for the small-business-owning dealer, don’t. Tesla owns all of its dealerships.
A series of events:
1. I put in an Annual Leave request form almost 3 weeks ago and my boss has not approved it yet
2. I went into my office today and replaced every single writing utensil with crayons in preparation for April Fools Day on Monday
3. Whilst searching for pens to remove, I found my unsigned Annual Leave form in my boss’s drawer
4. I placed my unsigned Annual Leave form in a photo frame and put it on his desk
5. The frame I used was from a photo of his kids that I deemed less important than my Leave form
6. My boss sometimes goes into the office on Saturdays to work
7.
Happy 2 year anniversary to the post that my old boss allegedly now has framed in his office, next to the recovered photo of his children.
elon musk did a nazi salute twice at the inauguration, and republicans are defending him.
trump revoked executive order 11246, which prohibited discrimination.
trump put all dei employees on leave to be fired.
trump banned all lgbtq+ flags from being hung in government buildings.
trump rolled back biden’s executive order to lower prescription drug costs for people using medicare and medicaid.
trump rescinded the $35 cap on insulin, and prices are expected to rise to $1500 a month.
trump ordered the national institutes of health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.
trump ended the guidelines to prevent ai misuse. the guidelines prevent many things, but notably it prevents production of ai child pornography.
when sean hannity asked trump about the economy, he said “i don’t care”, after campaigning with the economy as his main talking point.
trump has withdrawn the us from the world health organization.
trump is ordering health agencies to stop reporting on bird flu and halt publications of scientific reports.
trump has pardoned over 1500 people who stormed the capitol on january 6th.
trump changed mount denali back to mount mckinley.
trump signed an executive order to rename the gulf of mexico to gulf of america.
trump shut down cbp one, an app which granted legal entry to 1 million+ immigrants.
trump is allowing ice raids at churches and elementary schools.
trump announced plans to declare a national emergency at the us-mexico border.
trump signed an executive order to expand the use of the death penalty.
trump disbanded the school safety board that works to prevent school shootings. it was comprised of survivors, educators, and gun violence prevention advocates and formed after the school shooting in parkland.
trump withdrew from the paris climate act.
trump revoked all protections for transgender troops in the us military.
trump rescinded executive orders made by biden that benefited and protected women, lgbtq+ people, black americans, hispanic americans, asian americans, native hawaiians, and pacific islanders.
trump is attempting to make it legal to refuse to hire or fire pregnant women.
multiple state legislators are drafting bills to allow the punishment for abortion to be the death penalty.
trump pardoned 23 individuals convicted under the freedom of access to clinic entrances (FACE) act for their anti-abortion activism, including oftentimes violent protests at abortion clinics.
trump signed an executive order allowing deportation of foreign students who they believe express support for hamas or hezbollah.
trump announced that the us government will from here on out only recognize male and female as sexes. intersex is not legally recognized anymore.
trump refused to swear on the bible during his inauguration. (i’ve gotten some comments about this specific point. i didn’t include it because i’m christian, because i’m not. i’m agnostic. i included it because he’s the first president in history to refuse to swear on ANYTHING, bible or not. in the bible it teaches that the only person who cannot touch the bible is the antichrist, yet that on TOP of everything else will never convince his followers that he’s unfit.)
andy ogles drafted a constitutional amendment to allow trump to be president for a third term.
georgia republican congressman mike collins called for the deportation of new jersey born mariann budde, the bishop who urged trump to “have mercy” on the lgbtq+ community and immigrants during a service at the national cathedral.
six states (arizona, idaho, iowa, kansas, mississippi, and north dakota) are planning on challenging obergefell v. hodges, which would end same-sex marriage nationwide. about a dozen more states have representatives who are also considering filing similar resolutions.
amazon revoked protections for lgbtq+ and black employees.
every single republican told us we were overreacting. trump swore he had nothing to do with project 2025 yet continues implementing details outlined in it. not a single person has the right to tell us we’re being dramatic anymore.
hope “cheaper eggs and gas” was worth it.
energy policy would be much better if we still had a tradition of animal sacrifice I think. people would be way more chill about nuclear energy if they could see a large and proud bull being ritually sacrificed every month or so at the base of the cooling towers to keep the plant safe
i love this guy so much hes asking the real questions
Any Austin's YouTube channel: X
Passport Photo Series London-based visual artist Max Siedentopf recruited a cast of friends and strangers to sit for passport photos. Above the shoulders the participants are straight-faced and rigid, yet below they are balancing full wine glasses along their arms, taped to a wall, or even on fire.
the photographer hero we didn’t know we needed
This is the funniest thing ever
This kills me every time because the description is always “Look how impassive their faces are” and like… are you somehow not seeing the fear in the eyes of the man with the fire
Glass bridge with a cracking effect
as silly as it looks it's reassuring that absolutely everyone responds by getting low and flat! that's exactly what you should do.
i would also respond by shitting myself.
Also shout-out to the Swedes for just borrowing the French "adieu" into their vocabulary and just spelling it "adjö"
German has borrowed the italian "Ciau", spelling it "Tschau" and only using it as a goodby instead of also a greeting.
I had completely forgotten about this, this is fantastic.
If you enjoyed "ciao" becoming "tschau", you'll definitely want to hear where "tschüss" (German, also meaning "goodbye") comes from!
Borrowed from German Low German tschüß from earlier adjüs, from Dutch adjuus, back-formation from adjuusjes, from French adieu.
We can't let the French keep getting away with this
I mean the french very much aren't getting away with it. Everyone else is taking their language and running off with it cackling with glee. We're all getting away with fucking up french words on purpose
#English loves french so much it steals the same fucking word a few centuries apart so it gets two words that have the same meaning#But different spellings -#Like guarantee/warranty#(aside: There was a w/g shift so you can see if the word showed up with the normans or got nicked later#Which is why for e.g. the english call it wales and the french call it pays de galls)#Catch/chase#Gender/genre
official linguistics post
The other day my French stepdad said "toute à l'heure" for goodbye/see you later, and the way it sounded like "toodle-oo!" hit me like a brick
Not to make a serious post too much but remember how angry everyone rightly was about bread companies adding sesame because it's cheaper to poison people than clean your machinery?
Yeah well it's happening in other foods. I already posted about Kellogg's doing it to cereal bars and Austin Snack Crackers but now it's in greens CVS granola bars and Jenny Fucking Craig cheesecake which btw record level they added EVERY allergen to that shit.
Anyway if you have allergies be fucking careful because we're expendable and if you don't please get fucking angry for us. They're already making your food worse to save money but they're also going to kill someone this way.
It is! But this is a legal loophole being exploited by the companies.
From my understanding, companies are required to thoroughly clean equipment of major allergens between products. That takes time and money and it's a lot cheaper and easier to say something has an allergen than to clean it.
But the FDA won't let you add anything to the ingredients that's not actually an ingredient. I can't just say there's coconut in my oat milk before i used the blender before to make coconut milk.
So they add a small amount, more than a trace but not enough to cost any significant amount or mess with the end result too much and oh look, now it's part of the recipe. No cleaning needed, it just uses peanut flour, how convenient!
In short, it's not cross contamination when it's an ingredient.
Allergic Living finds adding sesame to bread products a growing practice to skirt new U.S. allergen law. Nonprofits are upset, concerned.
As a result, many manufacturers are labeling foods and cleaning up production practices to prevent foods from becoming contaminated with ses
Large food manufacturers are implementing fundamental changes in anticipation of FSMA directives. Is that a good thing?
Adding another clarification reblog - this is not just about sesame, sesame was the major inciting incident in January. The granola bars add peanut butter so they don't have to maintain a higher cleaning standard due to shared equipment.
The cheesecake adds every nut oil on this very Earth for the same reason.
Kellogg's has been doing this since 2016 btw
This is just pretty awesome actually thank you
[ID: First photo shows a granola bar box labeled “Gold Emblem” followed by “Chewy Dipped Chocolate Chip Granola Bars.” White writing on a red background with images of a chocolate covered granola bar and a small bowl of chocolate on the left. /End ID]
[ID: Second photo shows the nutrition label for the granola bars, and under allergy information it lists “almond, coconut, milk, peanut, soy, wheat.” It also reads “may contain other tree nuts not listed” a few lines down and separate from allergen information. /End ID]
[ID: Third photo shows a package labeled “chocolate truffle cheesecake” on a dark pink background with a chocolate cheesecake pictured on the left side. /End ID]
[ID: Fourth and final photo shows the allergen label for the chocolate truffle cheesecake and lists allergens as “almond, cashew, coconut, egg, milk, peanut, pecan, soy, walnut, wheat.” /End ID.]
[ID: A series of tags has been screenshotted and added with the tag poster’s username not visible. It reads in all lowercase “#honest to god tho im not expert but i feel like a legal case can be made against this. #fdas supposed to make them prevent cross contamination or at least i thought #and idk if the ada is applicable here but it covers allergies.” /End ID]
[ID: a screenshot reads “mudpuddlenl reblogged your post” followed by the tags “#gonna recommend people here the app soosee #it allows you to input dietary restrictions and allergies and then let you scan a product label #and it’ll highlight stuff that is you input #i.e. if you input peanuts as an allergy it’ll flag all peanut ingredients (including peanut oil) #of course companies shouldn’t do this in the first place but if you’re worried about not overlooking something on the packaging #just. check it out idk #it comes in several languages too!” /End ID]
oh is THAT why shake & bake barbeque powder added wheat a while back
I wonder if this increased exposure will affect rates of allergies against sesame, soy, or peanuts in the long run. Sucks if you're already allergic of course.
yes, peanut allergies became dramatically more common when people were "avoiding peanuts until the child is older".
Learn the signs and symptoms of peanut allergy. Discover treatment options and avoidance tips through ACAAI.
basically, we had a thing where because peanut allergies existed, we started avoiding exposing children to peanuts... which drastically increased the number of children who had peanut allergies. oops.
THINGS I NEED TO FUCKING KNOW: Why every fuckin trans man or nb person I know who binds is like “oh binders are the worst, you can’t breathe in them, I know someone who broke a rib once”,
And meanwhile over in historical costuming, we are fucking eating, sleeping, swordfighting, riding horses, and feeling great like this:
(credit: Jenny La Flamme, The Tudor Tailor, Verdaera)
Like is there NO overlap between people who want to bind and people who care about accurate 16th century clothing reconstruction techniques?
(I, okay, maybe it is kind of a niche interest, but…. REALLY? Anyone who’s made a boned binder, PLS SPEAK TO ME)
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Omigods yes that’s what I used to make my trial binding corset for under a 1830′s gentleman’s costume! I adapted the Elizabethan Pattern Generator Corset to look more like the gentleman’s corset of the time as portrayed in satirical cartoons.
This was only the second pair of stays I made, but it already made me practically flat and was quite comfortable. I didn’t even full bone it and it looked like this:
(don’t judge me for the awful way the boning sticks out at the top, I am by no means a corsetry expert)
People who are actually good at stays will be able to make things like these with no trouble, because if something made from old sheets and recycled boning can do this, imagine what you can do with proper materials.
Just for fun, here’s me in my gentleman’s outfit:
It basically eliminates my boobs, but leaves the hips alone because at that time the hourglass silhouette was fashionable for men as well. I’m not exactly flat-chested, so I’d say for a first attempt this one is very succesful.
…okay, was anyone going to tell me that gentlemen’s corsets were A Thing or did I just have to learn that in a random reblog myself
they absolutely make corsets for men and they turn me a bit ravenous every time
(in the mid-late 19th century, at least, they were more often called “health belts” and marketed much like weight belts are today. in practice, though, the number of satirical cartoons depicting dandies lacing down suggests that they were publically perceived as vanity tools more than aids for heavy lifting. where the truth of their most common purpose lies is a mystery; I would guess somewhere in the middle)
@star-anise genuine answer to the question:
it is because everyone says binders hurt and compress and break your ribs. when you’re first seeing information about binding, it’s all about how binding is unsafe and will physically hurt. I don’t mean to lecture you, just to give a real answer to the question
and the answer is that by the time someone works up the courage to start binding, they have–at minimum–seen multiple sources of information claim that binding is unsafe and physically hurts, as absolute medical fact. most likely, they haven’t seen ANY information refuting this. at all.
so step one is deciding you need to bind badly enough that you will endure physical pain and potential medical complications
and then you buy a binder that’s most likely shit quality, made from materials meant to compress, barely one step above ace bandages. there are tons of these “binders” out there, sold for very cheap by scammy companies
and remember, you think is is Absolute Medical Fact that this is just how it is. so you’re probably not doing much searching for “better” materials or a “better” company because there is no better. you have absolutely NO conception whatsoever that it could be better
then, even if you do get a quality binder made with good materials, binder sizes are genuinely out of touch with actual reality. I weighed maybe 115 lbs and the binder that fit me comfortably was a size LARGE. I had never in my life been anything less than a small. I started by ordering a medium because I have just-barely-C cups and knew I would start putting on weight with the testosterone and–
I could barely get it on. it was SO tight. any other piece of clothing in the entire universe and I would have immediately recognized “oh hey this isn’t my size”
except binding is unsafe and physically hurts
so even with a quality binder from a good company, because I accidentally ordered a size too small, I still almost ended up binding in a way that was unsafe and physically hurts because that’s what I expected! it was working AS INTENDED!!
it was working as intended
for anyone still reading along, that is the POINT of a lot of information out there about binding. for the same reason conservatives tell you if you’re gay, you’ll die of AIDs, then point to the statistics of all the people who died of AIDs, and fight so so SO hard to make sure there’s no proper sex education to tell you about condoms or PrEP (taken to prevent getting HIV) or treatment afterwards or how your viral load can be suppressed or that it actually can be managed now and isn’t a quick death sentence
I ordered one size up (the large size), and that gave me a binder that fit like a tank top. It has a stiff cotton panel in the front that is just tight enough to press down on my chest, but mostly it just redistributes how the fat sits to make a more even, flat across shape. you can see in the first pictures how the front panel forms almost like a cone, that may not be completely FLAT (it still pushes out a little) but there aren’t any curves or noticeable “breast shape”
my binder doesn’t leave red marks or dig into my skin. the shoulder straps are wide and, again, distribute the weight more evenly than a lot of bra straps I’ve worn before, which did dig in and leave red marks. I think a lot of people also approach binding from a background of wearing ill-fitting bras, bc no one really teaches us about or helps us size those either, so we’re already used to “chest undergarment that hurts me”
the binder I have is safe to exercise and swim in while wearing, it pulls on and off over my head like a tank top, and I can take full and deep breaths while wearing it. I have never been short of breath or struggled to breath from wearing it
binding does not have to be unsafe and should NOT physically hurt. if it does: the materials are wrong (compression) or the size is simply too small
Let’s talk some more about sizing.
The standard advice re: measuring for a mass-produced binder is to measure your circumference just under your armpits, then just below your bust, and use the largest.
The problem is, that region of your ribcage is very sturdy, but the lower part of your ribcage is much more flexible and vulnerable.
It is very important for your long-term health to avoid compressing those lower ribs.
Poke yourself with your fingers to find the place where your sternum/breastbone ends. Measure two or three finger-widths down from there, to find the point where your ribs move the most while breathing. Take in a very deep, full breath, and hold it while you measure your circumference at this point.
Your binder or corset needs to accommodate this measurement.
this is the opposite of helpful for me, since I’m going the other way, but someone who needs to know it might see it. so to anyone binding: stay safe.
MAMMA MIA! (2008) + tags about Colin Firth
does anyone have that gif set handy where an interviewer asks Colin Firth “so when you meet the Creator at the pearly gates when you die - what do you hope he’ll say?” and Colin Firth replies: “I thought you were quite good in Mamma Mia.”
Colin Firth understood the assignment.
this is how it feels to talk to my parents about my mental health
