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Israel has resumed its assault on Gaza, and has denied the entry of vital aid, including food, water, and medicine. People in Gaza are still living a nightmare, struggling to afford the necessities of life.
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Life-changing OCD hack is learning that you can literally call poison control to check if you fucked up and took medications wrong in a way that could kill you instead of having a panic attack while reading reddit and quora threads for an hour. They won't even be mad at you. Like obviously don't do it every day or something but genuinely you can do this if you need to
as people turn more and more towards the internet as a first choice for information, poison control (which has rebranded as poison help? i think?) is seeing fewer and fewer callers
part of this is because the USAmerican birth rates have slowed, and the number 1 culprit for why you'd call poison control is kids under 5 put shit in their mouths all the time
but part of it is BECAUSE people are turning to the internet first
and you don't have to! poison control is FREE and available in EVERY US STATE AND TERRITORY
they are staffed 24/7 365 days a year! they do everything they can to minimize wait times and they have an ENORMOUS database of medications, household cleaners, chemicals, pesticides, and MORE! and not only information on JUST those things, but how they interact with other things! they can even give you advice on if your pet ingests something they shouldn't!
but poison control isn't federally funded! they're a frankenstein mishmash of state funded, federally funded, and a couple of other weird ones (like organizations helping with funding) just for flavor. poison control NEEDS you to be politically aware. keep a finger on local and state politics; if your state is voting to shut down their poison control center, make sure your reps hear about how pissed you are!
poison control saves lives, but even more than that, it keeps people out of emergency rooms and walk-ins when they don't have to be. when Louisiana closed its PCC in 1988, people who called the PCC hotline were instructed to call their local hospital instead. the number of medically-treated poisonings rose by 42%...meaning ERs and walk-ins were flooded with people who'd taken, say, one extra pill of ibuprofen by accident, or got a bit of rubbing alcohol in their mouth, or got their dog's flea medicine on their skin. stuff that was SCARY, sure...but wouldn't have needed medical care at all if there had just been someone to tell those people you can just wash your mouth out, or wash your skin, or refrain from taking any more ibuprofen for at least 24 hours!
anyway help ur local PCC, put the pressure on your political reps, and if you ever have questions like "hypothetically what would happen if you inhaled iodine," you can call 1 800 222 1222 and speak with a real live reassuring person any time day or night!
Not to derail, but as someone who used to have pretty severe phone anxiety, I've used the official poison control website (www.poison.org) as an alternative to calling. They have a lovely chat feature, if, for whatever reason, you don't want to/can't call (also thinking of my D/deaf and HoH friends) and looking at their site, it does seem to route to the local PCC centers.
They have safety checks in place after chatting with them in the form of automated texts that you reply to within a set time or they'll send emergency services to you. They even have an official pill identifier, in case you get your pills mixed up, and helpful tips on their site.
"don't go grocery shopping when hungry" doesn't work for me because Not Hungry Me cannot conceive of a universe in which food is needed so she buys like a cup of pomegranate seeds and some fancy cheese and thinks that'll get us through the week.
FUN FACT the scientist who said that made it the fuck up! he's also the same dude who said that if kids made eye contact with the character on food boxes they wanted it more. so now all the cereal mascots/kids mascots look downwards to a child height. but THEY MADE IT UP and it's allllllll bullshit and bad science to the point cornell deleted the fuckin cereal eyes study from the face of the earth and modern research is saying you SHOULD shop when ur hungry because it makes you put more value on food that would give you more nutrition and actually sharpens your ability to feed yourself well
So I think the cereal box guy was Brian Wansink and honestly that tracks. If Wansink thinks we should be grocery shopping when full then we should definitely be doing it when hungry. Bruh is an absolute joke.
THAT'S THE BASTARD
IT'S HIM
imagine being so bad at science that your university forces you to stop
things he also came up with that are BULLSHIT:
eating around fat people makes you eat more junk food??? (wtf?)
portion sizes affecting how hungry you feel
"if you are served second portions you are more likely to take seconds"
the entire concept of mini and fun-sized portion sizes (based in fatphobia btw!)
the idea of boredom eating and stress eating being bad for you and not normal
the idea of eating in front of a screen being terrible for your digestion
that julia child's cooking was trying to make you fat (based on 18 of 4500 recipes...)
the idea of western food being unhealthy
the cereal eyes thing
the shopping while hungry thing
and much much more!
also he committed kickstarter fraud in 2018 and is a massive fatphobe who thinks fat people recruit others to become fat by just existing. fuck him lmao
Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on healthy eating. Now, emails show how the Cornell professor a
Cornell University food behavior scientist Brian Wansink has retracted another paper — his fourth this year. “There is no empirical support
Cornell University scientist Brian Wansink is facing yet another formal correction — his eighth this year, along with three full retractions
Brian Wansink of Cornell University publishes headline-friendly studies about food psychology and oversees a $22 million federally funded pr
Here's a few articles by Stephanie M. Lee about Wansink's multiple p-hacking scandals. Initially I just found these looking for more information but now I'm also extremely amused by how much she was on this guy's ass for his shitty science.
‘Al-Qassam Brigades are the pride of Gaza’
He added that the people of Gaza were there to “protect the Qassam Brigades, just as they protect us and our honour.”
Glory to the resistance!
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glad that we’re talking about Alison Bechdel being a terf again. really hoping that fact breaks into the general cultural zeitgeist this time but not holding my breath
because trans girls are starting to talk about this again, it isn’t going to be long before a bunch of TME people come in like “um, if Allison Bechdel is a terf how come she said this nice thing about trans women in the 90s? checkmate you hysterical tranny” with a few examples of Bechdel being mildly supportive of trans people’s right to exist, but make no mistake — Bechdel keeps close company with self described terfs and has done basically forever; Adrienne Rich is pretty much her idol & the basis of her understanding of feminism, and she actively attended Michfest for absolutely years and years whilst they were excluding trans women and even whilst Camp Trans protested right outside, and even in her most recent book she talks about it as this magical place that was free of men rather than the symbol of transmisogynistic hate & violence it has been recognised as for years. Some of the trans storylines in DTWOF are actively transphobic imho, and the Dykes To Watch Out For website (also Bechdel’s blog) is still to this day filled to the fucking brim with blatant terf dogwhistles including referring to the trans girl character as “trans identified” in her bio.
People have to stop falling for “but they said nice things about trans people…” stuff. Some bigots are still polite enough to refer to trans people by the correct pronouns & think we deserve some basic respects in society/to be free from violence, but still fundamentally are bigots with transphobic ideas about gender. it is desperately important that we do not let transmisogyny go unrecognised and i acknowledged within the feminism movement.
I can't lie, I find it very odd that posts cautioning people against donating to individual* campaigns and promoting the idea of supporting mutual aid efforts and community kitchens in Gaza can rack up 10k+ notes--while a post promoting a community kitchen (that I can personally vouch for) struggles to get 1k notes, and has barely pulled in a couple hundred dollars over the past week.
I actively try to avoid using guilting tactics in fundraising, but this is weird to me. It's like people are using these posts as an excuse not to do things they already didn't want to do anyway, rather than actually taking their recommendations on board...
*In my experience, these campaigns often support large extended families + their neighbours
This campaign is a mutual aid initiative involving myself, my friends Mohammad Abu-Alwan and his two brothers in Palestine, and Shakhya Scri
MAQMAP is a community kitchen aiming to support families in the Mawasi Al-Qarara area.
Mohammed is planning to distribute food parcels, each containing one liter of vegetable oil, one kilo of sugar, one kilo of rice, one kilo of lentils, one kilo of pasta, and a can of sauce, to the 70+ families in Mawasi Al-Qarara camp later this week.
Thank you so much for all of your help so far. Any money that you can spare would really help to keep this initiative going in the coming weeks.
The organisers have begun to purchase and hand out food parcels! For the next parcels, they plan to supplement the flour and other essentials with fruits and vegetables. Not only starvation but also malnourishment are killing people in Gaza.
Thank you!!
With your help, MAQMAP has made more than 70 packages of the most essential food items to deliver to families in the camp, as well as delivering cash assistance to orphaned children. The next set of packages will go out tomorrow, inshallah.
We need your help to keep this initiative going!
🫓 Donate here 🥕
What are your thoughts on the whole Xiaohongshu migration, if you have any?
I think it's good for people in the US to be breaking down cultural barriers that have been put up artificially to divide us. I think that the US media is probably going to spin this in some Sinophobic direction, but it's going to be a bit harder since they can't pretend that there's some secret Chinese influence like they did with TikTok. This time it's obvious to everyone involved that the app is Chinese and people are still flocking to it anyway. It's a big middle finger to the US government, saying "we aren't scared of China, we aren't mad at China, you're not going to manipulate us so easily".
Twenty-five years ago today, every U.S. media outlet, along with then President Bush and the U.S. Congress were whipping up a full scale fre
Most of what we hear about Tiananmen in 1989 focuses on student activists, since they dominated Tiananmen square itself and waved banners de
A note of reflection on the June 4th Tiananmen protests written by three members of Qiao Collective whose families were closely involved in
More than thirty years later, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 remain a touchstone of a Western mythology spun to challenge the fundame
Western governments have levied false allegations of genocide and slavery in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. A closer look makes clear th
oh also another piece of data that debunks the whole "muslim nations are just defending china because they want to cozy up to a rival superp
Addding on because the following addresses both: Atrocity Fabrication And Its Consequences by A.B Abrams
(Internet Archive PDF link included)
I’ve shared this book on Tumblr a thousand times but that’s because it’s the most effective and concise debunking of the “Tiananmen Square massacre” (chapter 3 for that) and the “Uyghur genocide” (chapter 10 for that) I’ve read.
Here are some samples from each chapter respectively:
The book is formatted in a way that it is possible to read these chapters as standalone. Although I do highly encourage anyone who reads the book to go through it in order if they can.
Checking out the brief introduction chapters are pretty essential. But if you’re more interested in debunking the above two narratives than jump ahead to the previously mentioned chapters.
once you start thinking "idk if I want [transition related surgery] but if I could magically just have the results from it I would agree to it in a heartbeat"
then you gotta acknowledge that you actually do know that you want that surgery. the thing you're not sure about is whether or not you can endure the process of getting and recovering from the surgery.
and you'll never know the answer to that actual question unless you start seriously looking into it and researching what that process is like and what things you'd need to do in order to make it happen.
A ceasefire agreement is not an end to the violence and the need for help: it is only the beginning of rebuilding, and a return to the violence of the settler-colonialist aparatheid status quo.
Samar, having been only recently released from the hospital, is very ill again and had to be readmitted. Not only that, but her youngest child, Qusay, has been hospitalised as well. Mohammed urgently needs money to pay for their treatment, as well as for food for the rest of this 15-person family.
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let us take a moment and grieve for all the lives lost. so many thousand people have been murdered by the zionist entity in the last fifteen months. palestinians in gaza have lost too much, from friends and family to their homes and livelihood.
this ceasefire is not an end to our solidarity with gaza. we will all be here waiting and praying for palestine to be wholly liberated from the occupation and watch her people be happy and free.
in the meantime, please keep donating to palestinian fundraisers. it is essential to support families planning on rebuilding.
alaa is a mother of two young children. her fundraiser has been verified. i request you to help her by sharing and donating to her gofundme.
please donate here
In the end it doesn't really matter how big samus is I think at the end of the day she's probably tired of people expecting her to comptop
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My name is Ahmed. My wife Hadeel and I dreamed of a simple life together. We married in February 2023, and now Hadeel is pregnant, which makes our situation even more urgent. We had just settled into our cozy apartment in northern Gaza when everything changed on October 7, 2023, when war shattered our lives. We lost our home and my job, and after a series of evacuations, we ended up in a tent by the sea in Khan Younis.
As winter approaches, our situation is dire. We urgently need your support to help us rebuild our lives. Thank you for your kindness during these challenging times.
Amid the devastation of Gaza, five children stood before a broken electric pole leaning on the ground. They decided to turn it into a balancing game, competing to walk across it without falling.
Their laughter echoed every time one of them wobbled or nearly fell, cheering each other on with enthusiasm. After playing, they sat beside the pole, dreaming of real amusement parks far away from the rubble.
Despite the dusty sky and the destruction surrounding them, they realized that their dreams and laughter were stronger than all they had lost.
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My name is Ahmed, and my wife is Hadeel. We had a simple dream… Ahmed Abu Arab needs your support for Ahmed & Hadeel: Rebuilding Our Lives a
— Ahmed and Hadeel
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all the time i am thinking about young women's empowerment project chicago and "girls do what they have to survive" and so incredibly grateful for their work + so incredibly emotional about it
anytime anyone asks me for a mad studies reading list i put Girls Do What they Have to Survive on it. because i think it's fucking crucial to recognize this as a mad + disabled narrative and actively include sex workers esp those of us who were sex workers as youth into our movement.
their concept of "self harm resilience" absolutely NEEDS to be recognized and acknowledged
very jokerfiying how usamericans have such a different opinion on their police than their military just because their military principally kills and abuses foreigners
hey, im posting this on islam's behalf but shes in a really scary spot right now and needs help getting her family out of gaza and help getting her sister medical attention. please share or donate if youre able to
My name is Islam Mohammad, I am 23 years old, and I am from Gaza. I hav… Islam Mohamed needs your support for Urgent Plea:Save a Family Trap
shes at 84% at the time of writing this, ive talked to islam over bsky and her situation is still very dire (she very recently lost her uncle and her cousin.) islam is a very kind person whos suffered a lot in the last year and shes just trying to get help to support her family and get them to safety.
islams gfm is currently at 87%. shes currently in egypt and her sister is still in critical condition at the time of writing. i would really appreciate if people could share and donate, shes shouldering so much to help her family right now
