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[ladyblackshipper1987]

There are some out there that won't like what I have to say but I'm too pissed right now to give a shit.

To the people out there who are glad about Roe vs Wade getting overturned because you think that banning abortions will be saving the lives of unborn babies and that the people fighting to keep abortions legal are just people fighting for the rights to kill their babies, you're wrong. That's not what this is.

Abortions will keep happening whether they're legal or not. The difference is that getting an abortion legally is safer than getting one illegally. This will only cause the death rates to rise because of all the people who got pregnant and died trying to get an abortion, killed themselves because they can't handle being pregnant and can't get an abortion. It's happened before and it will happen again.

Maybe you don't care about that because you think it's what they deserve for even considering an abortion, but it's not just them.

There's also the ones who died because their pregnancy wasn't viable and the only way they could keep living is if they had an abortion, but they couldn't find a doctor willing to give them the life saving procedure because they didn't want to put their job at risk.

I keep hearing people say "They should have kept their legs closed!" but it wasn't like that with everyone. What about the ones that were raped by a random man on the street? Or someone they thought was their friend? Or even one of their relatives? Just bring raped is mentally damaging, and being forced to carry a baby that was conceived through rape can be even more damaging than that.

I've also heard people say "Just give the baby up for adoption!" but that's not always a good idea. Adoption is the alternative to being a parent, not being pregnant. It can be dangerous being pregnant. It can damage your body, make you lose teeth and hair, change your hormones, and change the shape at the least. It's even worse with some people. With some people they become allergic to things they weren't allergic to before, ranging from mild allergies to things that they rarely ate at all to deadly allergic to things they ate all the time. Some even become allergic to their own skin.

With my mom she was high risk for both me and my brother. She was bleeding the whole time for both of us, ended up going on forced bed rest at some point in both pregnancies, and she says she didn't die and/or miscarry with either of us. She was LUCKY.

What about the women that do want to give birth to a baby only to not realize until after getting pregnant that there's a very high chance they'll dying and don't want to take that risk? Is that baby's life really more important just because it wasn't born yet?

What about the ones that find out early on that the baby will die in the womb no matter what? What about the ones that found out late into their pregnancy that the baby died at some point?

If abortion is banned it bans even the ones that are medically necessary.

What about the women who miscarry? There is no way to tell the difference medically between an abortion and a miscarriage. People who miscarry will end up getting arrested. It's something that's already started happening. If you don't believe me then look it up yourself.

I used to be prolife. I know how you think. You think that banning abortion is saving the lives of babies because their mothers didn't want to keep their legs closed, but that's not what this is. You're only thinking of all the babies that would get to live if they weren't aborted while not considering the consequences it will have on the person carrying the baby.

This isn't about people wanting the right to abort an unwanted pregnancy because they don't want to kept their legs closed. This is about the adults, teens, and children who got pregnant after being raped. This is about the people who are unable to carry to term and the safest thing to do is to have an abortion. This is even about the people in abusive relationships who choose to have the abortion because having a baby with their abusive partner will make them even more trapped than they already are because trying to escape an abusive situation while pregnant or with a child is harder than without.

[phaeton-flier]

You guys are all aware that they trained people for those civil rights protests, right? That the people doing sit ins had to be trained to keep their cool as white people screamed invectives and pouring drinks on them? It was a very organized operation.

[hbbisenieks]

One of the greatest lies that recent American history has perpetuated is the idea that Rosa Parks was "just a tired Black woman who wanted to sit down on the bus" and not a motivated activist who trained with other civil rights luminaries and very intentionally got on that bus specifically to get arrested about it.

Can you think of a reason why they might not want you to know that the people staging sit-ins and getting arrested for sitting on the bus were trained and organized?

[itsoverfeeling]

Panels from the autobiographical graphic novel March: Book One (2013)

[puppygirllaika]

It's worth noting that the March books (it's a trilogy) are the autobiographies of civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis, and they are seriously worth a read.

[satanfemme]

it's actually kind of crazy that everyone is sorted into 2 arbitrary categories at birth that supposedly predicts every single one of ur interests, skills, and personality traits throughout the next 80-90 years. and if, at any point in your life, you decide you don't really like this chosen-for-you persona, and you feel bad about being forced to act like it anyway, this is actually a diagnosable mental disorder in the DSM and half the country kinda wants you to die for "having" it. like personally I don't think there's anything mysteriously wrong with a trans kid's brain just because some doctor wasn't able to fortune tell that kid's life by reading the shape of their junk like tea leaves. you know?

[thegaylibertarian]

[liminalweirdo]

I am once again begging you to get your hands on physical media and/or save your fave stuff OFFLINE.

[t4timekeeper]

i’m pursuing a career as a pastry chef and i enjoy making sweets for the people i love. if one more person starts waxing hysterical about the dangers of sugar and fat and calories in response to me making something nice for them i’m gonna become a real life batman villain.

[t4timekeeper]

like they almost always DO want the sweet in question, so it’s not a matter of disliking the gift. but they feel the need to perform this whole display of guilt and shame about it. and it’s super awkward and uncomfortable.

[t4timekeeper]

it’s not black tar heroin. it’s a cookie. i made it with love. it will not kill you. if you don’t want it that’s perfectly okay. but at least have the same grace and manners you would if you were rejecting any other gift, alright?

[ladyblackshipper1987]

If someone were to give me pastry treats, I can promise you I’d go feral over it and give you stuff I’ve cooked in return.

My best friend has actually heard me growling while eating food I enjoy multiple times before!

[raakhti]

what is HAPPENING

[moonglade-poetess]

Hey guys, with so much love, and as someone with an actual English degree:

Please just use Sparknotes if you're going to do this. I get it. I do. But chatgpt or other genAI shit doesn't actually know what's important for you to know, and in some cases it might fully make shit up. Use sparknotes. Failing that, talk to someone who did read it. I'm begging.

[the-barefoot-hatter]

oh my god, there's whole books series that ALREADY do that. Have they never heard of the No Fear series published by Sparknotes? It puts a plain everyday english translation on the opposite page from the original text, plus character lists with descriptions and helpful commentary.

stop using AI for things that already exist!

[thememedaddy]

[kat2107]

Let me tell you a story.

I am an archeologist. I specialize in a somewhat obscure but by no means boring or meaningless Neolithic culture in Germany.

It has a Wikipedia page. A well curated, surprisingly extensive Wiki page that encapsulates all the important information about the culture, including literature references for further research.

One day, we asked Chat GPT about this culture. W were curious which details it would get wrong.

ALL OF THEM, except for the fact that it's a culture in present day Germany.

It didn't even get the chronological time frame wrong and called it a celtic culture.

When we told it it's wrong, it came at us with made up literature sources. Literally made up. It took two well known German archeologist who weren't even active at the same time, added a year - both were already dead - and sold that as source.

And it LITERALLY would only have had to quote Wikipedia to get everything right.

THAT is how unbelievably shitty and wrong all those AIs are.

They are making shit up. They are not sourcing information, they're just slapping words together by their most like relative occurance.

Do not trust ChatGPT or any other so-called AI ever.

[liberalk1tsch]

we’re genuinely losing the plot with people getting upset about fmcs being petite.

don’t get me wrong—it’s 100% deserved in many cases. fatphobia in mainstream media and the «itty bitty ‘i’m not like other girls’ girlypop fmc with a tiny waist (yet somehow curvy with a massive rack) who is super frail but for some reason is able to become a master warrior in the span of a few months» trope is overused and undercriticised.

BUT

katniss everdeen has never and will never fall under that category. her thinness is due to the fact that she’s lived most of her life on the brink of starvation. her «naturally small» stature (a physical description repeated throughout the series) is portrayed realistically in providing both hindrances and advantages. she is strong, yes, but she’s also canonically a small person and i’m so sick of people going to bat to say that she’s not because they’re mistaking petiteness for weakness.

while we’re at it, her being well-fed is simply NOT true. having more to eat in comparison to her peers in the seam who are literally starving to death does not mean that she actually had enough to eat. she didn’t. she ate more than her neighbours and had access to a healthier diet, but that doesn’t mean it was enough.

even peeta and delly—who actually did have enough—rarely had access to fresh food. food insecurity is a very real problem across the district. that’s. the. point.

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

Honestly, one of the saddest things I've ever seen and the thing that makes me the most angry is children and teenagers having to tiptoe around adults because the adults don't know how to handle their emotions and so the children have to do it. To protect themselves and a lot of the time to try and protect the adults from their own emotions. Especially when the adult is meant to be their parent, guardian, etc. But honestly, no adult should be making children feel that way. I had to do it all the time growing up and now that I'm an adult and still see it happening makes me realise how fucked up it always was and still is. Yes, adults have emotions too, but we can't make them the responsibility of other people, and never that of children.

[tiinamenzel]

bye👋

[depsidase]

[adamtotscomix]

[asidewalksymphony]

[depsidase]

[yourlocalnautilus]

the fact that generative A.I. has created a completely new fundamental doubt in reality (checking to see if an artwork we see is manmade or not) and doubt in the instinct of enjoying art is unforgivable. its sickeningly tragic, and i mean it. NOTHING is worth this price and i hope that everyone will one day realize this.

[lifehacksthatwork]

Signs of a heart attack are different for each gender yet we only really teach the male warning signs. Make sure you’re aware of both and spread it to as many other women as possible!

[branwyn-says]

EVERY SINGLE TIME I HAVE TAKEN A CPR CLASS I have had to be that person who points out that the training videos ALWAYS frame the “male” symptoms as the default universal heart attack experience, while the “female” symptoms are framed as though they’re a deviation from the norm, rather than the primary symptom set that cis women experience. 

ALSO: I just showed this post to my roommate, who is an MD at a clinic that specializes in care for the LGBT community in the Baltimore area. I asked her  whether hormones were responsible for the difference in the “male/female” symptom arrays. I asked how that would apply to her trans patients (which, she treats a LOT of trans patients). She said, basically, that the longer you’ve taken testosterone the more likely you are to get the intense chest pressure and the arm pain, versus the upper back pressure and shortness of breath.

Obviously I am not a doctor myself, consult your own health care provider, etc.

[sanscarte]

Reblogging this comment because this is the FIRST TIME I’ve ever seen someone address what XYZ medical condition would look like in trans patients. Also this is partly why my great-grandma died: the (male) doctor dismissed her heart attack as basically indigestion, because she didn’t have the typical male symptoms.

[solarpunkarchivist-deactivated2]

Oh my God someone was able to answer the trans patient question!

[raccoonmilf]

Chat, is it considered “abusive roommate behavior” to release a raccoon into the living space after you have asked your roommate for months to please clean up their messes (they do not pay any of the mortgage)

[raccoonmilf]

For context, when I used to live alone I would do something called “Princess Time” where I would do an initial sweep (to remove any significant hazards) and then I would release a raccoon into the living area and clean. This helped because I would 1) feel like a princess and 2) the raccoon would bring attention to things my ADHD brain had decided to ignore and I’d quickly clean that stuff up.

So like, if I’m expected to clean the house now, I will be doing it in the way that is most effective for me. And anything that has not been cleaned up after months of having sit-down talks and sending reminders and being promised things will change, might be deemed “trash” by the trash panda and thrown away.

[raccoonmilf]

We haven’t done since we moved into the house, because I didn’t want to cause my roommate or their cats destress or have their things destroyed by a raccoon

[raccoonmilf]

I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.

I wanna make things very clear that underneath all the whimsy, I am a trained professional.

[raccoonmilf]

Those vibes are likely because I’m the original creator of Dashcon and my personality has not changed since 2012 lmao

[persephinae]

hey peeps, i would be calling your doctors STAT to see if you're in the clear about where your drugs are manufactured

then i would definitely be call your representatives and bitch them a new asshole

people are legit going to die because of this

also surgeries??? anesthesia? where is that medicine from? like this is so fucked up

[the-composite-doll]

Trump’s latest 100 percent tariff on pharmaceuticals: What we know

The US largely imports pharmaceutical products from India and Europe.

[bliss-bliss-bliss-bliss]

Now, today is September 26th, and this is supposed to go into effect on October 1st, which is like nine months in the warped dog-years time of the Trump administration. And it's very possible he'll walk it back or conveniently forget about it, which happens pretty frequently.

Which means that calling your reps now may actually make a difference in whether this kills people.

Step 1: Search up the generic name for whatever meds you take, then call your pharmacist - not your primary - and ask where it comes from and whether any part of it is manufactured in the US. THEN call your primary and tell them to pre-order your next round, even if you're not due yet. (They might try to tell you they can't do that. They can.)

Step 2: Call your reps - by now you should be calling them so often they're one of the top numbers saved in your phone, but you can also find them very easily here - and tell them specifically that you are worried about the financial impact on American business this will have and ask them what they plan to do about it. Because sadly, concerns about money and saving their own skin will probably get their attention faster than any concerns about the harm it will do to vulnerable individuals.

NONE OF THIS IS INEVITABLE. I'm serious, call your reps. We've gotten other Orwellian nightmare shit walked back or shot down - because remember that we're not dealing with actual politics anymore, we're dealing with a spineless madman with late stage dementia who's favorite pastime is Just Saying Things To Say Things - and we can get this shot down too.