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[lary-the-lizard]

Unfortunately, I was the 1 to discover and then tell everyone in my family that turmeric is a great anti-inflammatory medicine so now my siblings see something turmeric themed and give it to me, completely forgetting that turmeric in large quantities is disgusting and stains

[tightjeansjavi]

also, google is free, but pick up a textbook every once in awhile. Find articles written by POC and keep up to date with how you can be a better ally. I took a black feminist theory class in college…taught by two white women.

You heard me right. Two. White. Women.

Which is fucking insane in itself, but on the first day of class one of the professors was reading an article, written by a black woman…and decided that it was completely acceptable and appropriate to drop the n-word (hard r) and every single person in class was fucking MORTIFIED. Even in the context of education, there was no reason for a white professor to so casually and subtly use that word. (They were called out for it immediately after and profusely apologized)

My point is that covert racism is still racism, and unfortunately it is alive and well.

I also have all of the articles and works saved from this class if anyone would like to do some heavy and necessary reading! I have hard copies, but I’m sure I can find the links for the articles as well.

Just after doing a little research on google, I found these articles to be incredibly helpful on breaking down covert racism, racism, white privilege, etc.

covert racism

systematic racism

racism and health

becoming trustworthy white allies

what is white privilege

books on systematic racism, racial justice, and anti-racism

race equity tools

Bottom line, white people have no excuse to not stand up for BIPOC. There is no excuse for racism. There is no tolerance, and we have to do better. I firmly believe that the first step in becoming a better ally is to educate yourself.

[lary-the-lizard]

Thinking about all the great artists wasting their skills on drawing, painting, carving, photographing, and designing only skinny, white women that align with the capitalist, racist, sexist, and ageist Western standard of beauty.

Thinking of artists that waste their skills thinking that the only good art is art that is beautiful and/or arousing. Thinking of the men that think capturing naked fetishistic pictures is art

[lary-the-lizard]

Sometimes I’m reading a scene in a book or fanfic that’s supposed to be romantic or sexy and the characters are talking, saying what they feel or want etc and I’m like, this is the fantasy you play in your head? These was the sentences that do it for you?

[lary-the-lizard]

Just decided. Sex is morally wrong. No one should be having sex. It fucks with feelings way too much. From now on, no one has sex.

Thank you

[sweatermuppet]

closing statement from an article about being intersex & the possible connection of gender expression and sexuality in intersex individuals, published in The Gay Liberator, 1970s

[shubbabang]

its not funny but i do think about it a lot

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

This made me think about this panel from Calvin and Hobbes:

But unlike the adult in this strip, Calvin’s dad actually APOLOGIZED for yelling at him when he saw how guilty his kid was:

[formerlyluckymanticore]

Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.

[slugjehovah]

You can hate your body and still take care of it.

Exercise for blood flow to your brain, to build necessary muscle, and relieve stress/anxiety.

Keep hygiene.

Eat mindfully (fruits, veggies, protein, fibre. All that.)

Understand your hunger signals (headache, woozy, empty stomach.)

Rest and sleep.

Go outside (with sunscreen!!)

Socialize (I am aware that this is very hard when you hate yourself, but I promise you, good people would not see you how you see yourself).

Entertain your hobbies.

Eventually, after you have found what you love and enjoy, you will start to see yourself in more of a neutral light. You are allowed to not like parts of yourself. Loving every aspect of yourself is impossible. There might be parts of your body that you'll never fully learn to appreciate.

The reality is that the body you have is the body you keep. You keep growing. You keep going. You never stop having a body and your body will fluctuate as you age and grow.

Some days are really fucking hard. You keep going tho.

[lary-the-lizard]

This post is about taxes

Guys this is so embarrassing!

So growing up in the US of A, I was told by republicans that the reason why the US cannot do universal healthcare was because the taxes would be way too high. To accomplish nationwide healthcare, the government would have to take so much money out of our paychecks! There wouldn’t be enough to buy the things we need in everyday life. I was dubious of this claim as “socialist” countries like Norway and Iceland seemed to be doing really fucking well comparatively. When I grew up and became and adult that made my own money, I could count on about a quarter of my paycheck going into taxes, which I was happy with because it meant functional roads, national parks, libraries, and the like.

This year I moved to Canada, where healthcare is mostly paid with tax dollars, and believe me, it could be fucking better! but it is still better than the shite system the USA has going on. And you know the huge, huge chunk of my paycheck going to pay for this healthcare? You wanna know how much it is? It’s 12% of my paycheck. All of the taxes coming out my taxes, not just healthcare, all of it, is half as much as the US took, while NOT paying for my basic healthcare.

[dangerphd]

using a pin loom as a takadai to weave a band for a deeper understanding of how that technique works:

[cherryjams]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[bladespark]

My mother used to make computer cores as a "work from home" side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don't know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.

[zinjanthropusboisei]

Cyberpunk Odyssey retelling where Penelope unweaves the techbro suitors' memory cores at night to prevent their Ithaca IPO

[lary-the-lizard]

Why are you both so mean? Can we look at some facts before calling people evil? Wouldn’t the world be a better place with some fucking empathy?

First off, love a bold claim! Starting off by calling the majority of people pedophiles is fucking insane though. What is the intent behind this?

To make people feel guilty and disgusting and stop eating meat.

Absolute failure. This type of post will almost never succeed, too much malice, no practicality, just makes people angry.

What is the reasoning of this post?

Billie Elish, in her newly acquired veganism, is going through the stage where she sees the selfishness of eating meat and not the people making this decision. She claimed that it is impossible to love animals and still eat meat. This is obviously untrue.

Comparing people that eat meat to pedophiles is also wild. But the perspective is that people that eat meat abuse and destroy some animals while seeing and loving others when there is no huge difference between the animals society deems just to consume and inhumane to consume. Most people love pets but also love burgers, steak, and bacon. In a society where eating meat is so normalized, taking on the perspective that views animals like cows, pigs, and chickens as sentient and more equal to humans in worth is radical and horrifying.

Science, however, is not on the side of those that eat meat. It is known that pigs are intelligent and that cows have emotional attachments to each other.

When these are creatures that you consume you want to think of them as stupid and unfeeling, or that you are in some way just in thoughtlessly eating them. That is entirely understandable. In many ways, it is true that nonhuman animals are stupider than humans and it is true that they don’t grieve the same way humans do.

These are nuances that you have to struggle with when you seriously think about your morals in relation to what you eat. It is easy to either toss the thing aside and change nothing, or be so horrified by what you realize that you villainize all those that don’t change. So we get shot like these posts.

Recently scientists that study consciousness have been making a lot of discoveries in nonhuman animals. It is terrifying! We are not as different as we used to think. Humans are not as superior as we used to think. Is it ethical to keep eating meat? It’s easier to just not think about.

So instead you can set that monster aside, and think about fucking climate change. The meat industry is another monster that you can demonize without destroying egos. And you’re right to demonize it. It is insanely disgusting!

But also, your morality is different from others, and casting judgement is easy. But telling someone that cares a lot about a cause you don’t understand evil is cowardly and hurtful. Sure, they were also stupidly cruel, but it’s not about you, and you don’t know shit about what they’re talking about. Just keep scrolling.

Unfortunately vegans and vegetarians have a lot of information you don’t. And the only reason you don’t is because you don’t want to know. When we speak up we can be mean, but we’re not out here just trying to make you feel bad, we have a real and important cause. You have a fragile ego. These are not the same and actually, you’re just pathetic

[lary-the-lizard]

I’m just petty but I hate when someone wisdom posts and went out of their way to make it sound deep. It pisses me off. “You should be a witness to yourself” fuck off, that doesn’t even make sense!

Wisdom posting that I like it like, “You’re not going to be able to accept love until you stop hating yourself.”

[lary-the-lizard]

I think part of the reason we (and by we I mean me specifically, but I also know others do this) don’t ask for help is because we’re afraid of the painful silence we’ll hear afterward

[lary-the-lizard]

Im so opposed to authority that when someone in a video tells me to take a deep breath I hold my breath instead

[crabussy]

it's normal and actually good for your health to see yourself in the most guilt ridden character you've ever seen in your life

[crabussy]

(imagining the guilt ridden character I relate to being comforted or feeling miserable) it's good for them.this says nothing about me