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My little Gobi! She’s a bold jumping spider, and a delight to keep! (Pssst. For your own jumping spider pet, check out my website: https://wafflespoods.square.site/ )
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I found an article written by a woman who pretended to be 11 year old girl online for 7 days, and it has a lot of descriptions of online sexual abuse of minors, but with the right point of view; minors cannot consent and have no agency in being sexually abused online, and it’s on adults to protect them from ever being put in the danger of becoming a target of predator. I’m going to post a link because I want all my underage followers to know how predators online talk, what they will say and demand of you, and to recognize on spot when someone is trying to sexually abuse you. If anyone has ever talked to you in this way online, if you recognize any of that behavior in someone you chat with, you should know that what they’re doing is illegal and a crime against you. You are more than allowed to shut that conversation down and block the predators, and if you can, report them. Nothing that happened in those conversations is remotely your fault, and just the fact that you were exposed to something like that means this world has failed you. Here’s the article.
what liberals mean when they say they’ll keep families together
For those who noticed this was 2019, here is stuff from march 2021.
And the same facility one month later in april 2021:
It is important to note that this isn’t because there are less people. In fact, the dems in charge fully admit that they had just as many people in late april as in early march, but the Biden administration took emergency measures to solve the problem and massively expanded the facilities to ensure that there was enough space.
What’s more, they got the average processing time down a huge amount, and didn’t just settle for the mandated maximum. For minors, the average wait time went down from 133 hours to 28 hours, with the federally mandated maximum being 72 hours. Immigration cases are being processed in record time and numbers with a strong focus on humane treatment and ease of immigration. Plenty of moderate democrats are genuinely angry about it, claiming that the Biden administration is letting thousands in with a rubber stamp approval process. “It isn’t how it is supposed to be!” complain moderate democrats over Biden’s far left approach to immigration reform.
Now, these were just temporary emergency measures throw together in roughly three weeks to deal with a massive, record breaking influx of migrants. It could easily be suspected that the administration was just acting good as long as the nation was paying attention, except the Biden administration continued working on immigration reform even when the news cycle moved on, steadily making major changes for immigration reform and continuing to do so even now.
DACA was re-opened to new applicants.
Temporary Protected Status has been reinstated and expanded
DACA-like status for domestic violence victims and other crime victims, allowing victims of crime a green card and a work license during the years long waiting period.
People can wait in the US for court hearings, allowing families to reunite and waiting to happen under humane and safe conditions.
There are a ton of things the Biden administration has massively improved over the last 4 months or so, and I am not going to list them all out. And they are still making changes in a positive direction. Here is an article that lays out some of these things written by an immigration lawyer. It was written two days ago, and there is no sign that the Biden administration is going to stop chipping away at immigration reform within their capacity to do so.
Remember, as long as it is the law Biden has to enforce it, and all law making is on deadlock as republicans refuse to cooperate. He literally cannot change these laws without every single democrat senator signing on and at least 10 republicans jumping the fence. He is not a king. If you want to be angry at someone focus on the one or two democrat senators that refuse to get rid of the filibuster, specifically Joe Manchin.
What Biden can do on his own is restructure and reform the DHS and ICE to be much more humane organizations through rule changes, executive orders, administrative policies, and putting pro immigration reform people in charge of the whole process. And that is exactly what he has done and continues to do.
If immigration reform is an important issue to you, and it should be, consider where we were a year ago and where we are now. Many leftists will have you believing that virtually nothing has changed, that people have moved on due to their bias that democrats are better than republicans. They are wrong.
This is why “both sides are bad” political opinions are so dangerous. In six months we have gotten better immigration reform from Biden than we have in 30 years and he doesn’t even have the power to make laws about it. All that effort we made to get democrats (and better democrats) in is paying off.
Please don’t get discouraged now, we are actually making serious progress for the first time in years! Don’t let your preconceived notions of a “moderate democrat” president cloud your judgement!
If this is what we can achieve with a moderate in charge and a deadlocked senate, imagine what we can do with a real leftist at the top and a couple more senators to break the deadlock. Real change is within our grasp but we have to keep on pushing for it.
Cat likes potatoes. (via)
The comedic timing of that lick tho 👌🏼
#WHO IS HILLARY KITTEN???
She’s a cat from an old cat lover’s group I used to be a member of. Really liked potatoes.
Potato = really lazy kitten?
Link for full article below.
Shawna Dias’s sewing machine is tucked away at her work table behind racks of fur. Hot pink, bright yellow, baby blue, they hang like a fluf
*pretends to be shocked but also maybe this will make people realize that Indigenous People Know What The Hell They’re Doing and Deserve Respect*
3 other fun/cool facts about the Inuit:
1. They also invented kayaks and dog booties.
Dog booties are actually really important for working sled dogs in winter to protect their paw pads from iceburn and keep ice from getting in between their toes and burning them that way.
2. The traditional Inuit diet is one of the healthiest in the world, and the most balanced for the ratio of Omega 3 to Omega 6 consumption
Most modern diets consume way too much Omega 6 and not enough Omega 3.
3. Inuit is a plural noun. When speaking about a single person the correct word is Inuk (always capitalized)
For example, “This Inuk woman is wearing traditional Inuit tattoos”.
And she is wonderful
Never a bad time to remember that indigenous people are wonderful and deserve to have a good day.
Native Americans are being disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus.
A conversation about the challenges facing—and the resilience of—the largest reservation in the country, which has become a COVID-19 hotspot
The Navajo Nation now has a total of 1,637 cases of COVID-19 with 59 confirmed deaths.
this is the official navajo covid relief fund, please donate, it’ll go towards desperately needed medical supplies, as well as daily necessities for the community like canned food, drinkable water, disinfectants, and baby formula
http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html
Spectators in the stands.
I love how the one in the middle is slowly losing it
my heart
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on this day one year ago someone sewed a fried egg to a tshirt
this is your only day to reblog this for a year
i missed my chance last year so this has been in my queue for 364 days
Perfect Zucchini Lasagna
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Is this how you roll?
shoutout to all high school dropouts, students who didn’t get accepted into college, students who used to be on honor roll but became overwhelmed, students who study for hours but still fail tests, or student who don’t study at all due to depression/anxiety, you are all stars and I’m wishing y'all the best luck possible to get back on your feet
Something important to point out- I'm assuming this man is from Canada since he mentions SIU Ontario. This is not a US only problem. We need to defund police everywhere. I've seen similar stories from other people. This is not an isolated problem
Update cause I found this thread on twitter:
Read this whole thing
The whole system is crooked everywhere
THE BEST MEAT SAUCE
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Is this how you roll?
Ugh that post has gotten me thinking about fat acceptance in a way I haven’t in years. I’ve read more studies about weight and health than probably any other topic I’ve ever researched. And every time I see someone wail about health I am just like
Did you know that in post-mortem examinations there is zero correlation between weight and levels of arteriosclerosis and related diseases found?
Did you know that people with an overweight BMI have the longest life expectancy, that those with an “ideal” and an “obese” have about the same life expectancy, and that being “underweight” raises mortality rates more than being “morbidly obese”?
Did you know that losing weight and then gaining it back is worse for your heart than remaining at the weight you started consistently?
Did you know that 95% of people who lose weight do gain it back, and there has never been a single documented weight loss program that has been demonstrated to keep the weight off for five years or more in the majority or even a significant minority of people? Like, telling people to lose weight isn’t much use if we don’t know HOW to make that happen.
Like I have read The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos and Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata and Big Fat Lies by Glenn A Gaesser (Ph.D!) And Fat!So? and several other books that I don’t own and so don’t remember all of their names I spent like four years reading every single study coming out and looking at the methodology and noting which ones had huge holes or terrible methods and which didn’t (the holes were almost always in the pro-weight-loss studies) and like
Big Fat Lies has 27 pages of bibliography. 27 pages worth of scientific citation. The book content itself is only 197 pages. That’s a page of references for every 7 pages of book. Reading the book is just reference after reference and study after study. Most of these doctors (like Linda Bacon, author of Health at Every Size) started out the same way. They wanted to use the scientific method to find a real weight loss program or health solution that worked and could be proven to work, and so studied everything they could about weight and fitness only to find out that we didn’t need weight loss in the first place. That all the studies calling for it were lacking or nonexistent. That weight and underlying metabolic health have very little relation. That the history of our relationship with health and obesity has little basis in fact and a LOT of basis in capitalism, politics, and fashion. No, really, the association between weight and health was first proposed by insurance companies looking for ways to charge people more by claiming risk. They also charged tall and short people more. And people with different skin colors. When they got in trouble for charging people for things they had no control over and had no bearing on their health, they set out to prove that weight was controllable and that fat was unhealthy to make money.
These are also a lot of the same people who went on to invent the President’s fitness program, so if you went to public school you probably already hate them.
Anyway, if you want a place to start reading about the issue, this article is a pretty good launching pad.
This casual rant is like a primer on weight science. Amazing. I second their book recommendations, and would add to the list Body Respect by Drs Bacon & Aphramor, Body of Truth by journalist Harriet Brown, and What’s Wrong with Fat? by UCLA professor of sociology Abigail Saguy.
man I remember that time I reblogged an anti-fatphobia post and lost a follower and reader who took the time to come into my DMs and rant about how betrayed he felt that I, who he had trusted and respected, would dare to signal boost content that made people feel like it was okay to be fat. how dare I
anyway the weightloss industry is a scam
I was diagnosed with ADD today which explains positively everything since I was a baby and now in a couple months I try a medication.
I literally thought all the symptoms were the default way a brain works, so you’re telling me some of you can “choose” what to pay attention to? Like, if you know you absolutely have to listen to and remember something you just “can” even if you don’t like it?
And if you’re at a restaurant and three other tables are having conversations you don’t just automatically absorb everything they’re saying?
And if you know you have to do something within the next hour it won’t just remind you of a different subject entirely which reminds you of another different subject entirely and you don’t just take you three days to remember the original thing you were doing????
Oh yeah and I was never once fucking told in my entire life until TODAY that ADD is an UNDER-active brain. It feels to you and looks to others like your brain is “over” active because the brain is desperately seeking stimulation but deficient in its ability to maintain it. You’re not distracted by every little thing because it’s all actually interesting or your brain goes “too fast” but because no single thing is ever exciting enough to satisfy your reward processes.
AND THE FUCKING THING ABOUT -THAT- WHICH I NEVER HEARD ABOUT BEFORE is that ADD symptoms can resemble or be misdiagnosed as pure anxiety or depression because negative stimulation is stimulation all the same so an ADD brain looooooves to contemplate the mortality of your loved ones and everything wrong with you and wrong with the world and hypothetical future disasters and what people “really” think of you and even that one embarrassing thing you said to a cashier twelve years ago.
Some other things I hadn’t necessarily thought of as ADD-related and I have all day, every day include severe procrastination, executive dysfunction, fearfulness or self-consciousness in social situations, being “smart” in some ways but seemingly “stupid” in other areas, and even hyperfocus on a narrow set of subjects, which of course can all also be symptoms of autism, another thing that may sometimes be misdiagnosed ADD or just kind of the bonus prize you got with it. Some things I DON’T personally suffer from, but maybe you do, and was even more shocked to learn are often ADD symptoms include a disregard for your own safety, harsher standards for yourself than you hold anyone else to, poor impulse control, risk-taking, thrill-seeking, sabotaging yourself and even sabotaging interpersonal relationships or “dropping” them too easily (”that last conversation rubbed me the wrong way…I better just cut ties with them before it gets worse”) All of these things can be either the ADD brain trying to get its next “fix,” bad habits unfortunately instilled in you from how ADD strained everything else in your life, or a mix of both.
Not sure how much this overlaps adhd symptoms, but I still think I gotta reblog it.
ADD is actually now classified as a subset of of ADHD! what is sometimes still referred to as ADD is now called inattentive ADHD
