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Hate when I type in the first letter of my email and the text box immediately goes ❌🚫INCORRECT! FILL IN A COMPLETE EMAIL ADRESS!🚫❌ I’m still working on it!! Chill out!!
why is it sooo hard to conclude essays. I said all that because fuck you thats why
Time again for this comic, which i wrote in 2017 and cant reblog properly because of reasons.
Merry Crisis, everyone!
Lets be real. Thats true bestie energy. Gandalf knew Bilbao would love it 😆
I feel like all the "they broke weird al" "weird al got serious we're so cooked" comments about the killing in the name cover are missing the point. that is not a broken man. comedy is politics. comedy has always been politics. weird al has been satirizing politics for a long time because he knows the court jester can say to the king what other people can't. by doing a serious cover of an explicitly anti-establishment song that his gen x and millennial audience knows by heart when he's built his career on parody, he's saying this can't be satirized anymore and he's saying it in a very deliberate way that his audience will understand. those aren't the actions of a broken man, they're the actions of a man who is trying to tell you something. are we going to listen?
I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything
When I criticize jk Rowling do not assume I always hated Harry Potter. I knitted hogwarts house scarves. I got my first binder to dress as Draco Malfoy for Halloween. I reread the books multiple times. I read probably every pottermore article there was at the time.
I’m not here to validate your smug feelings about not liking a children’s book series 20 years ago. I’m here to discourage others from spending money on it and to give myself and others words and space to work through some feelings. I’m a trans person that made Harry Potter one of my cornerstone interests. One of my favorite things. I’m not some cis person doing cope.
Harry Potter was a big thing. Like. Big in a way that’s difficult to fully understand. It still is. If you were caught up in it during your formative years it’s normal to need to process all of the horrid things now associated with it.
Having to burn down the house you grew up in is going to be hard even if it turns out that the house was always rotten from the inside out. Even if it turns out that the foundation was made of straw. But the destruction and deconstruction must happen if one hopes to move on and move forward. That’s why I talk about it at all.
“What if poor people abuse the system?”
The system intrinsically abuses poor people.
Hope this helps.
The possible issues that could be caused by poor people abusing the system, whether through human error or deliberate fraud, in order to get what they need to survive is statistically infinitesimal when compared to the harm that has already been, and continues to be, caused by the abuse of the system by the super-wealthy, who have never needed survival-level financial help and never will.
I have volunteered at a couple of different food pantries, and I have to tell you: fraud prevention measures raise the percentage of scam and abuse. "Fraud prevention" doesn't eliminate fraud, it raises the percentage of fraudsters who get help. Let me explain.
I used to volunteer at a food pantry that got some of its funding from a government program that required means-testing. That means, we were required to get paperwork from every person we served that they were genuinely poor enough to need help and qualify for it.
So when they came into the building, the first stop was a large room with 8-12 volunteers (depending on the week), who had files and files full of paperwork that they were required to update every time someone came in. The first time someone came to us, they had to have a bunch of documents--and despite a lot of outreach and publicizing, we would inevitably have people who came with some of the documents missing or the wrong documents. A lot of people simply didn't have the documents, because people on the margins of society often have problems like being thrown out of their housing for one reason or another (fight with partner, evicted by landlord, etc). Once you had the paperwork on file with us, you still had to check in with the paper-pushers every time you came to the food pantry, and then every so often (I think yearly?) you had to update your paperwork to prove you were still poor enough to "qualify" for help.
It was a lot of work to check all that paperwork and check people in and all that stuff. Even with 8-12 people working in that room, and even with most people already on our books and thus having a file already, so they only needed a few minutes to check in, there was always a long line of people waiting.
Once the paperwork was (finally) done, they'd come down the hall to the room with the actual food in it. There were usually 3-4 volunteers working in that room, and the clients would come to the door, hand one of them a slip of paper with the number of people in their household, and get handed a bag of food.
The paperwork took 2-3 times the number of volunteers, and at least ten times the time, as the actual distribution of food did.
And we regularly had people come looking for help and walk out defeated by the paperwork. Maybe they couldn't get the papers. Maybe they didn't have time to wait--they had a job to get to, or kids needing them, or their ride had a job to get to. Or they just got frustrated or humiliated and decided that it was better to go hungry than put up with that shit. Sometimes they left in tears. All that paperwork, all that effort to root out fraud and abuse, it regularly turned away people in genuine need.
You know who had all the time in the world to fight their way through the bureaucracy?
The fraudsters. The grifters. (And we did, very very rarely, get one.) They would take whatever time it took to get what they wanted.
Means-testing didn't prevent them from getting help. It did prevent genuinely needy people from getting help. And, bonus, it required 2-3 times the number of volunteers, and also required more paid government bureaucracy to handle and process the reports.
Any measures you take to prevent people from abusing the system will inevitably increase the percentage of fraud (by driving away people in genuine need), and also make things vastly less efficient and more expensive by requiring lots of people to handle the bureaucracy.
another fun thing that happens is that you up your fraud prevention and then you cut your budgets to the bone in the name of "saving money" and THEN when overworked people trying to do fraud prevention make mistakes you penalize them for it in ways that make the programs even more expensive to operate and meanwhile. the fraudsters -- and there aren't many of them -- are still happily frauding along, and government employees are stressed out, underpaid, and overworked, and food bank volunteers are stressed out and overworked, and people who need food aren't getting food.
just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees
They existed *before beetles*
Why is this sad? Why am I sad?
https://xkcd.com/1259/
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This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees' range has shrunk by 90%.
(my own photos)
Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.
Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would've penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you've observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.
You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:
Trees that once depended on animals like the wooly mammoth for survival have managed to adapt and survive in the modern world.

First quote from the linked article. Found it poetic.
there's Seagull Mischief afoot....
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I love environmental storytelling
Its fucking hieroglyphs with you people