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Celebrate Black history month by tuning in to some excellent fiction pods by Black creators!
Gotta get that good luck
Why not?
Cool
Pupper of good luck lol
I vote we stop calling it inflation at all. Seize the language. It's price gouging, not inflation. Inflation is a nebulous concept that invokes feeling of being too complex for the layman, a struggle as old as economy itself against a beast no one has ever truly slain.
Price gouging is the truth of it. And it makes it very clear who is to blame, and what must be done to end it.
Can confirm this works wonders. Australia is in a cost of living crisis rn and the two major supermarkets are a big part of it, as they pretty much have a duopoly on not just the grocery shopping market, but a bunch of others considered to be essential (things like fuel). They are trying to blame their price rises on inflation, but the media recently started reporting it as price gouging (which it is), and it got the average person pretty worked up, better than blaming inflation did.
It's price gouging, not inflation.
#and it's punitive #one of the reasons they fired this up was because people were TALKING about raising the minimum wage #and the sudden jump in prices let them say “see? we told you this would happen if you raised wages!” #even though wages only got raised in a couple of places
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First image is a tweet by New York Post @/nypost reading "$16 for a burger, fries and soda: McDonald's customers slam franchise, fume it's 'no longer affordable' trib.al/qfwOszT"; this was retweeted on 4 November 2023 by K @/IbaraEleven, who added "Weird I thought this was only supposed to happen if we raised the minimum wage"
Second image is a tweet by Robert Reich @/RBReich from 11/3/22 reading "Memo to the media: Please don't say inflation is at a 40-year high without also mentioning that corporate profits are at a 70-year high. Give the people the full picture."
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Has anyone figured out what’s so viscerally wrong with this woman yet
She’s so one dimensionally evil you guys 😭😭 how is she real
read this and remember it. read this and remember that she is going to use the profits of her fucking ego-stroking reboot to decimate trans rights. read this and remember that every time you pay into her IP, you are emboldening her to hurt us more.
our lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.
trans lives matter more than your fucking nostalgia.
good things will happen 🧿
things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿
THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.
hey does anyone wanna do the funniest thing ever
USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.
Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.
If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.
Are you with me?
Spread the word.
Organised by People’s Union, read more here:
When Donald Trump reentered office, one of his first calls to action was to end several DEI initiatives in the federal government.
There was a TikTok post about an advertisement for “blood-making pills for weak women” someone found in a newspaper from the 1890s and everybody seemed to think it was just an example of the weird misogyny of the day and age but no. Anemia was a massive public health concern. It always has been through history but part of the reason we have this idea of old timey women thought history being physical weak, chronically cold and pale and fainting is because they often they were. Anemia was also a massive problem for men in that day but even now it disproportionally affects people who menstruate. So tonics full of stimulants and “healthful vitamins” were marketed at young women in pages upon pages of advertisements in every newspaper. People generally felt like shit all the time back then.
I've seen old folk remedies for anemia, particularly cooking with cast iron and putting rusty nails in an apple, leaving them in overnight, then removing the nails and eating the rust-infused apple.
It was A Whole Thing.
What’s interesting is that that would have worked better than a lot of the ‘medicines’ being hawked during that time. To this day, adding a small chunk of iron to a cooking pot with a mild acid is being used to prevent iron deficient anemia.
Yep! Absolutely. It was a much more pervasive and deadly problem throughout history because of a lack of dietary variety and medical science not completely understanding the needs of the human body. Now it is less common because many foods are fortified with additional minerals and multivitamins are inexpensive and widely available.
people forget but before enriched flour people DIED like all the time of pellagra. a literal vitamin deficiency. people also died of tooth decay... until antibiotics and floriated water. people died and were paralyzed for life because they swam in the summer, or just drank water, or ate out at a restaurant of polio and cholera and typhoid until vaccines and effective health codes. it was expected that like a third of all kids born would die from things the MMR vaccine prevents.
learning about the history of public health is SO important to understanding why scary chemicals are WAY less scary than life without them.
this is also why vaccines are so important. 'well what did people do before then' I have heard a lot of that sort of sentiment from anti-vax folks and like... martha, they DIED. Babies DIED. In the thousands. Go to an old cemetery and look at the graves. Look at the ages. I have seen so many graves for children under the age of 3. For infants that hadn't been alive long enough to have a name.
Measles, mumps, rubella, and the seasonal--SEASONAL--plagues of water-bourne diseases (polio, cholera, dysentery) that diarrhea you to death killed thousands of children every year. Every fucking year. Vaccines can prevent the first three, can prevent chicken pox/shingles, can prevent, these days, even hepatitis. But there is no vaccine for dysentery, for typhoid, for a surprising number of the Old Plagues, because we eliminated them using a completely different method: Public Health and Sanitation, which kills them at the source.
In 1949, the government actually commissioned Warner Bros' animation department to put together a video explaining to people the importance of paying tax to fund the public health system--and it still explains the basics pretty well:
On the other side of the pond, there's a reason London celebrated Joseph Bazalgette's design and building of the first sanitary sewer. He saved lives.
Sometimes I think Present-Day America's utter squeamishness; and inability to talk seriously about things that have to do with bodies and bodily functions, is actually what is costing us critical health infrastructure. We already cannot get public toilets off the ground in this country bc the minute you mention 'toilet' people lose their fucking minds, and are so uncomfortable with the fact that Everyone Poops that they can't stop babbling jokes, and nothing can get done. But public toilets are a public health issue. People need to piss and shit, and if you don't give them enough places to do it in a safe sanitary way, they will still need to do it and will go and do it in an alley or on a building or what-have-you, and that's a public health issue!
Public Health is so often derided, indeed it's even dismantled because people don't like to acknowledge its worth or just plain never learn about it as anything but a joke. Oregon doesn't have fluoridated water anymore, did you know that? They literally rolled back a public health measure for not goddamn reason other than an acute breakout of hysterical ignorance. If you're out and about in just about any city in this country—and even in Canada and the UK as well—you're still on a Bladder Leash, because there are just about ZERO bathrooms accessible to the public. That's a public health issue!
If you live in NYC, you get the importance of sanitation workers shoved up your nose every time you go outside. They used to have metal trashcans, but that was rolled back and now the bags just pile up on the sidewalks. That's a public health issue!
My small town has inadequate waste collection, meaning trash that doesn't fit the exacting rules and tiny single trash bin piles up in our home. There is no government sanitation, it's outsourced to a private company based out of state. That's ludicrous, and I imagine we aren't the only small town with this public health issue!
Children and adults aren't required to be vaccinated before going to school and work, where they could spread or start epidemics. Children and adults aren't required to mask in public places anymore, even when showing signs of communicable disease. Children an adults aren't required to stay home if showing signs of illness. That's also a fucking public health issue!
Eating out, swimming in public pools, going to water parks, concerts, conventions, parties, theme/amusement parks, theatres, rallies, and parades are all possible to do safely because of public health departments and public health measures. The fact that so many have been dismantled, made voluntary rather than mandated, and generally gutted is genuinely worrying. We have the technology to live without diseases, and to eradicate new ones within months, and the Western world just doesn't, because we fed so many generations the lie that we aren't part of a larger community and have no responsibility to other people.
That's so, so incredibly wrong, and Miss Rona pointed that out sharply.
XO, KITTY 2.06 "Kiss and Make Up"
"Trust me, kid. You and I have our own thing".
Always And Forever, Lara Jean: page 116
Apropos of seeing a few people talk about how much they hate google AI overview (you/I should seriously switch to Firefox BUT), this is the extension I use to kill it dead. I haven't seen any google AI since I installed it.
Filter Google search results to hide AI overviews, ads, discussions or videos. You choose.
If you were born in the 17th Century, why would you have died?
Statistically, in childbirth
Due to untreated illnesses/conditions
Due to injury which could not have been treated then
In a conflict happening at the time
WITCHCRAFT (burnt)
Old Age >:)
Other (tags?)
It is likely I could not have been born (mixed, IVF baby, etc.
Results/I am simply immortal
This has been driving me insane.
I used to be *good* at search. It was a whole thing - I found people's "lost songs" or their unknown-source childhood stuffed toy or whatever from Google.
Now, you can't search for the exact brand/design name of something and get accurate answers. It drives me spare on Amazon - if I search for XYZ and you don't have any, or you only have 2, tell me that.
I wouldn't mind if it said "Here are 2 XYZ. Shoppers also searched for..." Instead it'll just throw a random, barely-linked pile of results and you have to wade through every single one to see if the thing you want exists.
THIS. For ages I used to say that I had "high Google-Fu". I could find *anything* because I knew how to use strings to enhance searches. The string commands haven't even worked for well over a year or more, far before they put in this infernal (and often wrong!) AI BS on top.
I used to be able to search for recipes and easily eliminate unwanted ingredients with a -. For example I'd look for low-carb desserts but without the zillions that use peanut butter simply by searching for something like:
low carb chocolate dessert recipe -peanut
And I'd get a slew of on-point suggestions. For some time now if you do -peanut Google ignores the - and assumes you want recipes stuffed with peanuts.
Where it's even worse now is now you get directed to sites full of bogus AI recipes that don't even make sense. But they have peanuts in them.
I used to be able to use reverse image searches to find out who made that awesome art so I could give credit in my share. They've removed that ability entirely and replaced it with Lens, which is AI BS just showing you more like what you looked for. (Rebecca Watson complained about this in her recent video about JD Vance jizz cup rumours and I apologise for that sentence but...yeah. Watson is great, go find her on Youtube and subscribe because she went into detail about how Google has become less and less useful for debunking.)
This isn't just about Google inserting shopping ads instead of what you wanted to learn about. That's bad. But the results now are just *broken*. The tools we used to have to make searches better have been removed. Google no longer wants us to find the answers we seek, but the answers they want us to have, and that's super creepy and dangerous.
And the alternatives are either using Google in the back end or have other significant barriers to use.
This sucks.
Duckduckgo and all the other alternatives work this way too, now.
Verbatim search, guys!! Go to "Tools," and enable "Verbatim."
It's a pain in the ass, but it still works!
1) yay, thank you
2) WHAT THE FUCK WHY DID THEY HIDE IT
For all you Firefox users, here's an addon that forces verbatim mode to always be on:
Download unfuck-google for Firefox. This addon forces 'Verbatim' search on Google - removing all bs personalization and localization and let
To my fellow queers, in case you’ve lost sight of things a little bit like I had, I want you to watch this
This is why we create, this is why we don’t hide even in the face of great adversity. Our stories are beautiful, and moving, and remember how much it means to people. I love being queer, I love being a lesbian, I love being trans, I love us. I love our joy, our stories, our hearts. I love the way we love.
Don’t loose sight of that, in all the discourse, in all the inter community fighting, don’t loose sight of The Reason™️. Remember how far we’ve come.
Look at where we are, look at where we started. Your love, your joy, your story, your visibility MATTERS. The art you create matters.
I love us, I love our love, and nothing will ever change that
Happy 10 years Korrasami 💕🏳️🌈
Aaravos was in his Manuela Dominguez era this season
I think they should invite the original creator of Dashcon (who is now a raccoon biologist) to Dashcon 2 (which just so happens to be in Toronto, the raccoon diabetes capital of the world)
I am dying to learn about the raccoon diabetes
Since this post is blowing up, I figured I should go ahead and clarify some questions I’m seeing in the tags
Did you really create Dashcon?
Yeah, when I was like 15. The con happened when I was 17.
Were you the person in the StrangeAeons video?
Yes.
Are you Nessie?
Also yes. Nessie is short for Lochlan. They named me after the Loch Ness Monster.
Are you associated with Dashcon 2?
No, however we did speak a few months back and they gave be a presentation on their business model and plan and honestly it seems pretty legit. They did say I’m welcome to come and would like to have me host a rabies/rabies pride panel (I’m a certified rabies educator), however last we spoke they were trying to figure out their budget for a flight. Obvi they are taking more care with their budget than the original Dashcon did, so I get it.
Are you really a raccoon biologist?
Among other things. I conduct research on interactions between humans and raccoons with support from an accredited institution and IRB approval. Right now I’m studying interactions between tourists and the critically endangered pygmy raccoon of Cozumel. However, as tourism behaviors start in one’s own backyard, I also study wildlife habituation issues in tourist hotspots in the US as well as how humans interact with—and habituate—raccoons in general.
Raccoon diabetes?
Yes. Contrary to popular belief, raccoons are not evolved to safely eat garbage or other anthropogenically sourced food. Raccoons are incredibly susceptible to diabetes, obesity? And kidney problems.
Toronto has a large raccoon population and an over abundance of anthropogenic food sources—garbage cans filled with happy meals and the like—and thus a large number of obese, diabetic raccoons.
What else do you do with raccoons?
Aside from my research, I am also the assistant director of Exotic Pet Wonderland animal sanctuary. We are the only specialized sanctuary for “pet” raccoons in the world, but we also have various species of foxes, wild cats, and mink. I frequently collaborate with various state game departments and local law enforcement on animal abuse and neglect cases and to act as a rabies vector specialist. My director and I are who gets called when cops want to actually do the right thing instead of taking the easy way out and euthanizing the animals.
Can we see your raccoons?
These are my “personal” raccoons. Moonshine (bottom) came to me after she was purchased as a baby to be a pet for a human child. Moonshine was “evil” and bit the baby, and now she is my biological daughter. Alabama Toothpick (top) was handed over in a Walmart parking lot child custody style after being illegally kept and her owners deciding she was “too much” to live in their RV. She is blind due to a disfunction of her tapetum lucidum caused by not being fed a proper diet by her previous owners.
I do have a large raccoon enclosure in my home—complete with a floor to ceiling climbable tree sculpture. Both of my girls are currently at the sanctuary torporing (having a long winter’s nap) outside while I prepare to research in the Caribbean for two months. However, I will be taking in 6-10 raccoon temporarily from a case in working, so I should have more in my home to share soon.