Uh... hi.

Anything SWTOR and Star Wars really....

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[stabbyflower]

To clarify: slavery as “punishment for a crime” is legal across the US. These 5 states are voting on making it ACTUALLY illegal, even in prisons.

These are NOT the 5 states I’d have expected to be on the forefront of “make slavery actually really truly illegal” and it’s a GOOD thing they’re trying to do.

So go vote if you can.

[mikkeneko]

tl;dr, Five states have measures on the midterm ballots to remove the “punishment of a crime” exception that keeps slavery legal in the US.

The 5 states affected:

Alabama. If you live in Alabama, register to vote by October 24th. Louisiana. If you live in Louisiana, register to vote by October 11th. Oregon.  If you live in Oregon, register to vote by October 18th. Tennessee. If you live in Tennessee, register to vote by October 11th. Vermont.  Vermont allows same-day voting registration so there is no registration deadline.

[bisexualbaker]

Not enough spoons to add a video description right now, sorry! But the important bits have been included in the reblogs above.

[bi-trans-alliance]

Register to vote and check your registration!

[headspace-hotel]

most damaging idea of the 21st century: the conviction of vast numbers of people that human history will end within our lifetimes

climate change represents world-altering tragedy if unchecked, but not even in the worst-case scenario does it mean “literally everyone dies”

yet so many people have jumped already to “it’s over, the world is going to end, we can do nothing about it” and are just paralyzingly cynical. How do I explain that the power to imagine a future is essential for creating it

[headspace-hotel]

you know the thing where trauma can cause you to just. not expect to live much longer so when you get to 30 you don’t know what to do because you thought you’d be dead by 25

That is happening to all of us right now on a society-wide scale

[headspace-hotel]

A lot of people are like. REALLY angry at me for suggesting that “be depressed and do nothing” isn’t necessarily the only response to climate change.

this, this, this, this, this, this, and like, 700 other sources will tell you that most of the effects of climate change will be reversible even if we pass the ‘threshold’ of a 1.5 degrees Celsius increase in global temperature

BUT. Even if the worst happens, it will be important to be doing things other than wallowing in misery???

I’m not trying to be callous but for people living today it’s wildly unlikely for the results to be “literally immediate death.”

People will get displaced from their homes by rising sea levels. We have like, years, probably decades, before that happens. It seems so fucked up to decide that we should do nothing, because we’ve already decided they’re going to die anyway????

If a bunch of us are going to die, why not die trying to help each other? Why not try to make sure fewer people die? Why not do something that might reduce someone’s suffering or give them food or clean water or a place to sleep?

I don’t know how to explain to you that people need socks during the apocalypse

[starship-goldfish]

Important.

[wyrm-town]

Literally even in the most severe, cynical, and immediate predictions made by scientists rapid climate change is far away from now. If it does happen it’ll take effect over the span of a decade or so, no a day.

And there’s still hope! Did you know the hole in the ozone layer is closing? It was actually caused by one specific chemical that’s been banned. A lot of endangered wildlife populations are growing because of so many efforts to protect them. Many mining companies are being prevented from mining in our remaining clean waters and forests. We have all the technology we need to reverse this crisis, it’s just a matter of implementing it.

It will be ok. Things are improving. People are getting on board. Don’t lose hope while we still have a chance to use it.

[headspace-hotel]

My mom was just reminding me earlier about Copper Hill, Tennessee, which I encourage y'all to look up

In the 1980’s, the area was absolutely devastated by copper mining, to the point that the land had a “Martian” appearance. It was utterly devoid of vegetation and wildlife. No trees, no grass, no frogs, nothing.

I own a historical fiction book, A Bird on Water Street, about how the area was restored. The astonishing thing about this place is that people were able to fix the damage.

In a lot of ways in the 80’s and 90’s, many species and environments were successfully saved from the brink of disaster.

Does anyone remember DDT? As the above poster said above, CFC’s contributing to the ozone hole? Do y'all remember how saturated the 1970’s were with lead and asbestos and all sorts of toxic shit? Getting specific chemicals banned or working to save specific species DOES HELP.

I’m begging everyone to research conservation projects going on near them, like, in or near their hometown. The state of Kentucky very successfully reintroduced elk to the mountains after they went extinct there. There are examples like this everywhere.

Things look bad and they’re scary but they would be a lot worse if the people before us hadn’t worked their asses off trying to preserve the world for us. People are out there working hard to save the world right now.

There is still time.

[headspace-hotel]

Conservation success stories of 2021. Last year, several species believed to be extinct were rediscovered, long-dead preserved specimens of endangered ferrets were cloned, and several species that nearly went extinct had population explosions.

[tlbodine]

How do I explain that the power to imagine a future is essential for creating it

[headspace-hotel]

most damaging idea of the 21st century: the conviction of vast numbers of people that human history will end within our lifetimes

climate change represents world-altering tragedy if unchecked, but not even in the worst-case scenario does it mean “literally everyone dies”

yet so many people have jumped already to “it’s over, the world is going to end, we can do nothing about it” and are just paralyzingly cynical. How do I explain that the power to imagine a future is essential for creating it

[headspace-hotel]

you know the thing where trauma can cause you to just. not expect to live much longer so when you get to 30 you don’t know what to do because you thought you’d be dead by 25

That is happening to all of us right now on a society-wide scale

[headspace-hotel]

A lot of people are like. REALLY angry at me for suggesting that “be depressed and do nothing” isn’t necessarily the only response to climate change.

this, this, this, this, this, this, and like, 700 other sources will tell you that most of the effects of climate change will be reversible even if we pass the ‘threshold’ of a 1.5 degrees Celsius increase in global temperature

BUT. Even if the worst happens, it will be important to be doing things other than wallowing in misery???

I’m not trying to be callous but for people living today it’s wildly unlikely for the results to be “literally immediate death.”

People will get displaced from their homes by rising sea levels. We have like, years, probably decades, before that happens. It seems so fucked up to decide that we should do nothing, because we’ve already decided they’re going to die anyway????

If a bunch of us are going to die, why not die trying to help each other? Why not try to make sure fewer people die? Why not do something that might reduce someone’s suffering or give them food or clean water or a place to sleep?

I don’t know how to explain to you that people need socks during the apocalypse

[starship-goldfish]

Important.

[wyrm-town]

Literally even in the most severe, cynical, and immediate predictions made by scientists rapid climate change is far away from now. If it does happen it’ll take effect over the span of a decade or so, no a day.

And there’s still hope! Did you know the hole in the ozone layer is closing? It was actually caused by one specific chemical that’s been banned. A lot of endangered wildlife populations are growing because of so many efforts to protect them. Many mining companies are being prevented from mining in our remaining clean waters and forests. We have all the technology we need to reverse this crisis, it’s just a matter of implementing it.

It will be ok. Things are improving. People are getting on board. Don’t lose hope while we still have a chance to use it.

[headspace-hotel]

My mom was just reminding me earlier about Copper Hill, Tennessee, which I encourage y'all to look up

In the 1980’s, the area was absolutely devastated by copper mining, to the point that the land had a “Martian” appearance. It was utterly devoid of vegetation and wildlife. No trees, no grass, no frogs, nothing.

I own a historical fiction book, A Bird on Water Street, about how the area was restored. The astonishing thing about this place is that people were able to fix the damage.

In a lot of ways in the 80’s and 90’s, many species and environments were successfully saved from the brink of disaster.

Does anyone remember DDT? As the above poster said above, CFC’s contributing to the ozone hole? Do y'all remember how saturated the 1970’s were with lead and asbestos and all sorts of toxic shit? Getting specific chemicals banned or working to save specific species DOES HELP.

I’m begging everyone to research conservation projects going on near them, like, in or near their hometown. The state of Kentucky very successfully reintroduced elk to the mountains after they went extinct there. There are examples like this everywhere.

Things look bad and they’re scary but they would be a lot worse if the people before us hadn’t worked their asses off trying to preserve the world for us. People are out there working hard to save the world right now.

There is still time.

[headspace-hotel]

Conservation success stories of 2021. Last year, several species believed to be extinct were rediscovered, long-dead preserved specimens of endangered ferrets were cloned, and several species that nearly went extinct had population explosions.

[tlbodine]

How do I explain that the power to imagine a future is essential for creating it

[ellielol]

just saw people on tiktok being like "if you have your likes hidden on here i assume you're a freak and a bad person :/" i am so tired of social media stop stop stop stop

[what-even-is-thiss]

Maybe you don't need to know exactly which chicken recipes I'm liking.

[castleoflions]

#if you do not submit to constant panopticon-esque surveillance from all your peers at all times what are you HIDING you FREAK (via dingdongyouarewrong)

[sgt-dignam]

Singin’ in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen

[jeaniefranklins]

#key moments in poly cinema

[captainlordauditor]

i, too, am bisexual and so delighted when shown affection that i throw my head into my hands and fall backwards off the couch

[official-lucifers-child]

this

is 

FANTASTIC

[revans]

[thementalistscandidate]

I have to laugh (or I’ll cry) when abled people are like “Wait, disability benefits are that low???? How does the government expect people to survive?” They don’t. They don’t expect us to survive. They want us to die. I am incredibly lucky and privileged enough that I can live with my parents without working. But if I couldn’t, I’d die. I cannot work full time and the application process for the pitiful amount of disability that I could get is incredibly difficult and humiliating. Abled people, if you want to be allies, please don’t chase after the whole “differently abled” or “abled in other ways” bullshit. We are disabled and the government wants us to die for it. Please focus your energy and activism there.

[radicalize-me-baby]

It took three years to get my disability money. I was rejected more times than I can count. You know why? They tried to shut my application down before I had the medical assessment. Because they wouldn't be able to argue with a doctor. Because my condition is chronic and the payment would be life long. It wasn't untill I moved in with my partner that I was able to afford fresh fruit and vegetables. I do not get enough money to pay my monthly or quarterly bills.

They don't want us to die. They just don't care.

In Australia, when the Centrelink (welfare) payments are raised, the disability sector is always left out. During the peak of COVID where the payments were raised above poverty line levels, the disability payments remained unchanged.

"So? Get a job." I've been looking for a job for 3+ years. I am able and willing to work part time, with a substitute to my wage. I have many qualifications (What else are you supposed to do while unemployed) The problem is: no one is willing to hire me.

But some can't work, and they deserve to live full lives too.

Representation and Awareness means nothing if it does not come with real societal change.

[veebs-says]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The low level people I've had to deal during the process were generally very helpful and friendly, but whoever's in charge of actually making decisions and setting policy definitely at best doesn't care if we live or die.

Since the middle of high school I haven't been able to handle work or school for more than a few months a year, and at this point I haven't worked in a long time and probably never will be able to again in any sort of capacity where I could support myself. As an idea of how well I'm currently doing, if I didn't have other people buying and preparing my food I'd probably just slowly starve to death.

I actually nearly did the final time I tried living on my own before accepting I couldn't and moved back in with my family. I lost 20 pounds even though I still had some food left in the house and a supermarket at the end of my street because I just didn't have the energy to deal with it a lot of the time.

And I was doing much better then than I am now. My mental health has actually improved, but my physical health has more than made up for it.

Despite that it took multiple years and a lawyer to get approved for disability after that. And you know what that gets me? Four hundred US dollars a month. $400. For an entire month. In a city where you're doing pretty well if your rent is only double that. And that's not even counting stuff like food.

"Just move somewhere cheaper!" No. Fuck off. I can't drive and need access to my doctors if I want any chance of getting my quality of life back up to something reasonable again. I can't do that in any part of the country that I could remotely hope to afford, and I'd have to give up my entire support system for that anyway. That's just telling me to go somewhere else and die there instead.

If I hadn't had family, partners, and friends over the years who've had the money, time, and other resources to do the things for me that I can't I would've been dead dozens of times over by now. Millions of people aren't that lucky, and even in my case where I have a robust network of support it's taken a lot out of a lot of people because they've had to do it themselves because the systems currently in place don't.

It shouldn't take as much luck and privilege as I've had to just not be dead yet.

[assiraphales]

disney took one look at luke skywalker and said ‘i can make him worse’

[assiraphales]

i just don’t get what’s so hard about it to understand. fans don’t want disillusioned “i’m about to make the same mistakes as the jedi before me” luke skywalker. they want “when given an ultimatum between being a proper jedi and saving my friends, i chose my friends” luke. they want “love brought my father back to the light side in the final moments of his life” skywalker. they want the man who was so successful not because he followed “the code” but because he followed his heart. like disney i am begging stop destroying the integrity of one of the most beloved characters in the franchise everytime u put him on screen

[ivfhnyfubpx]

this scene is so fucking funny the english dub of this show is so good

[laughconfetti]

loud warning

[notajerusalemcricketd-deactivat]

[nunnatheinsanegerbil]

[bluecadash]

[omghotmemes]

Every night there’s something going on

[dancibayo]

Omfg omfg ahhh

[usersukuna]

#for science

[crossilco]

[cobaltbeam]

Based on this post because I kept thinking about it and laughing like an idiot, so here we go

[sanakaan]

a personal observation

[dreamicus]

Hot take. People who say they can't draw certain features (that just so happen to be characteristic of people of color) because they "don't fit with their style" are the most ridiculous clowns. If you can't stylize something, your style is not complete. Stylization is literally the basis for the word style.

All features need to be able to translate into your style. If not, your style is racist. That's just it. Doesn't matter if your style is based on some anime, or your favorite manga or cartoonist or artist. Guess what. If curly hair, or braids, or big noses, or hooded eyes, even different skin colors or any features that you claim you can't draw, 'don't fit' that style, then you either have a lackluster understanding of the style you're inspired by, or that style is discriminatory.

If all your characters "just happen to be" white, then take time to think WHY. Think about WHY you never learned to draw people of color, or even any features that don't fit your eurocentric beauty standard. Think about why you don't want to draw people of color. It doesn't just happen to be that way. Think critically about yourself, your environment and your teachers for once. If your surroundings are racist, and you know they are, what the hell kind of excuse do you have to not do better?

Of course, you can do what you want with your art. Whatever. But art is a medium of communication, which means it shapes people's perceptions. If you can't take responsibility for the response your art creates, you shouldn't publicly post it. Shouldn't post it if you can't handle objective truths about what the art you create and the art you don't create mean, either. Fucking hell.

[punk-jaskier]

Like, don't get me wrong, I'm pissed that Apple does this shit, but tumblr is literally only doing that big long list of banning tags to stay on the apple store. The Google play store couldn't give two shits about if tumblr censors anything or not. The porn ban came from apple too. It's ALL from apple.

Yeah, tumblr staff are cowards and should just let themselves be deleted from the iOS store, Apple users could still access tumblr on internet, but they do all this shit at the behest of apple. Stop using apple products to access tumblr. Better yet, stop using them at all. 🤷

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

I personally do not have any dogs in the Apple vs Android fight, but I do think maybe it's time we stopped suckling off Apple's tit. The hype for their products just reinforces the idea that they can do whatever the hell they want and people will lap it up.

Ironically, because I used the word 'tit', Apple users can't see this post.