I love sloths

2D animator with horrific online presence.

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags the book that is physically nearest to you at this moment.

[thebellekeys]

europeans be like “omg north americans are so racist it’s horrible” and then elect fascists

[thebellekeys]

I would like to emphasize that I agree with all of these tags by the way. My post wasn't aiming to pin all of Europe's grotesque racism on the new elections.

[dailymanners]

A few weeks ago I was at a board game night with some of my old classmates from various mainland European countries. They started talking about how horrible Trump's treatment of immigrants is and how they're so glad to be in Europe where nothing like that is happening right now. I asked them what they thought about the fact that their own governments were complicit in turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave of asylum seekers, and some of them legitimately didn't even know and were surprised to hear that their own governments had enacted policies that caused the deaths of thousands of asylum seekers.

Even here in Iceland, almost nobody has been talking about the fact that some of the far right populist parties have legitimately been talking about wanting to establish detainment camps to keep asylum seekers in.

[barishal]

Additional readings:

Greece suspends asylum applications for migrants from North Africa by Laura Gozzi (BBC).

Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers by Helena Smith (The Guardian).

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say by Lucile Smith and Ben Steele (BBC).

Bill on Detention Centres for Asylum Seekers Published by Jelena Ćirić (Iceland Review).

Italy sends 40 rejected asylum seekers to Albania by Karl Sexton (DW).

Record number of migrants, refugees reached Canary Islands by sea in 2024 (Al Jazeera).

Portuguese government announces major migrant expulsion plan by ANSA (InfoMigrants).

[dailymanners]

This post is a few months old now, and the bit about Iceland is now outdated, because Alþingi (the Icelandic parliament) passed the bill approving the detention center for asylum seekers. It will be legal to handcuff and detain children there.

Never let anyone from Europe feed you the lie that racism and fascism are unique to North America in the 21st century.

[dailymanners]

This post made racists angry enough to harass me over it, which all that's going to do is make me bring this post back and reblog it more.

[revcleo]

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationaldevelopment/2024/06/19/fortress-europes-migration-crisis-a-man-made-phenomenon/

Every year, thousands of migrants and refugees try to reach Europe. The response of the European Union (EU) and its member states has been t

Fortress Europe keeps cruelly raising its walls against the global south | Pia Klemp

The deliberate policies of the EU and its member states have turned the Mediterranean into a mass grave – as we watch

[elgreytea]

What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

Free Gender-Affirming Kits & Resources | The Queer Trans Project

Get free gender-affirming kits and flight assistance. The Queer Trans Project is a Black & Trans-led nonprofit supporting the trans and nonb

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, hand mobility! 🙌

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[fictionalauthorityii]

Finding out AI companies are chewing through - literally, they’re pulping and burning them as they go - millions of books often including 1/1s and old texts that cannot be reprinted

Meanwhile there’s always some dipshit telling me AI is the future and we’ve got to just let companies erase human history and literature so they can train their abomination machines to pretend to think like people because a judge said it’s fine

[wageronancap]

[odessa-edmundson]

'Modern Poisoning Tools': AI Firms Buying and Destroying Thousands of Books To Feed AI Models

AI companies are buying and scanning printed books for training data, raising copyright and cultural preservation concerns as rare volumes a

[monsterboyjunction]

Saw a post and decided to fix it ^^

[weevilwoodpecker]

i always reblog pro wasp propaganda to spite my phobia

[the-bitch-mob]

fuck it. be creative even if you never really *make* anything. write out plot synopses of stories and then move on. design OCs you'll never use. make mood boards and concept art and don't do anything with them. life's too short to forget everything that inspired you and creation doesn't have to be "complete" to be worth the time you put into it.

[autisticadvocacy]

The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipi

The Trump administration wants to make a rule change that would decrease or end benefits for SSI recipients who live with their family. As many as 400,000 disabled people may have their benefits cut if this rule change occurs.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

It's worth noting as always that as things currently stand, the MAXIMUM benefit a person can receive from SSI is $994 a month.

If two people on SSI are married, the MAXIMUM they can receive is $1,491 a month, total, for both of them. (Meaning marriage to another SSI recipient reduces your maximum income possible to $745 a person each month.)

Could you live on that?

Could you live on that without living with family?

[gudakdalee]

The administration is working on a rule change that would deduct the value of a disabled adult’s bedroom from their SSI allotment, even if the family members they live with are poor enough to qualify for food stamps. This would mean slashing the benefits of some of the most low-income SSI recipients by up to a third — about $330 a month in Burton’s case — or ending their support altogether. The SSI rule change is being reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, a process that involves editing the draft regulation and considering where it falls on the list of the president’s priorities. Once it’s returned to the Social Security Administration for initial publication, there will be an opportunity for public comment; it could take until next year to be finalized, depending on the amount of opposition it faces. (quote from article above)

AND IT NEEDS TO FACE A LOT OF OPPOSITION, SO CALL AGAIN!!

im gonna look up contact info for the office of management and budget staff, White House Budget Director Russell Vought, and Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano. Bombard them. no peace for em.

[thedisdainfullysilentvisitor]

And they're going after disabled people cause they think A, no one will fight for them and B, they're too weak to fight for themselves.

[thegenderienvy]

This will kill people btw. Let’s not beat around the bush on that.

[orchidvioletindigo]

I want to add that SSI is also the one where you aren't allowed to have more than $2,000 worth of money or assets to your name if you're single or $3,000 if you're married or else the government cancels your benefits.

The cap isn't just on monthly income, it's on how much you're allowed to have period.

[ladzwriting]

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If you love illustrated books and gothic fiction, @emrynbird has you covered. I'm so touched that she loved my similarly horrific tale that also ends in the relationship being together.

I read Hallowed Be Her Flesh and it rules if you want a cosmic horromance that engages with religion and theology in a way that feels so historically accurate. So much care goes into this work and it is beautiful to read. Check out all of Emryn's works here.

OUR CRIMSON CAGE comes out August 11th and is up for eARC requests and preorders 🩸

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[emrynbird]

PRE-ORDER IT!!!!!

[liberalsarecool]

Stay engaged.

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Even though it's hard...stay engaged.

[ultrareginarules]

Keep fighting, keep resisting. It's only over when you give up.

[inthefallofasparrow]

If you have to be over 35 in order to be elected President of the US, then logically there should be an upper limit too. Say 70, maybe 75. The same could really be said for any political position. Honestly, the setup clearly needs to be that anyone who is retirement aged should ideally be retired, not 'leader of the free world'.

[inthefallofasparrow]

Politicians shouldn't be dying in office of old age or related illnesses.

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley is 92. He is six years older than the second world war. He has been an elected official for almost seventy years. He literally has a grandson, who has himself been an elected official for almost twenty years. Chuck Grassley should not be in charge of anything. Elizabeth Warren should not be in charge of anything. Mitch McConnell should not be in charge of anything. Clarence Thomas should not be in charge of anything. Bernie Sanders should not be in charge of anything. They can still mentor and endorse younger politicians, they can still be advisors or have other roles in government. Hell, they're all rich and well-connected enough to keep influencing things in other ways anyway. But they shouldn't be electable, as a rule. At a certain point, they need to step aside. They should 'want' to step aside. Even if they are still perfectly cognitive and capable of doing the job, that doesn't mean they should. But, of course, no one is ever going to be willing to pass that sort of law, because it means both parties would lose half of their seats.

[hussyknee]

How long have you been on Tumblr?

Over 16 years (before 2010) (toddlers in the dawn of the ant colony)

16 to 14 years (2010-2012) (livejournal and Myspace refugees)

13 to 11 years (2013-2015) (you used to follow thebootydiaries)

10 to 8 years (2016-2018) (era of Russian bot conspiracy)

7 to 3.5 years (2019-2022) (post sex ban to Goncharov)

3.5 years or less (2023–2026) (Twitter refugee)

Voting ended onJul 15

Rebagel for science pls.

[charlesoberonn]

[greenyball]

reblog to make a conservative fucking explode

[queen-mihai]

Code compliant American flag 🏳️‍⚧️😎

[podcastwizard]

LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

you people aren't CASTING

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

NO

[gaslit-dipshits]

[appalachian-werewolf]

PoweredByWho — Who's Building Data Centers in Your Backyard?

Follow the money behind America's data center boom. Track 2,300+ projects, PAC spending, and the politicians who sign off on it.

[reasonsforhope]

Reasons for hope: Lots of amazing people did a ton of work to make this fantastic, fully interactive resource available - because no matter how bleak things seem, there are millions, and millions of people doing everything they can to protect both the world and their own communities.

You can use this to view and subscribe to updates, project statuses, and for at least some of them even whole dossiers. This is an amazing resource, I highly recommend checking it out

[3liza]

do you live in seattle (the american city)?

yes

no

Voting ended onJul 10

please reblog to get this poll out of my bubble, i want reach

[3liza]

so ive been meaning to do this poll for a while because my hypothesis is that seattle is the most Tumblr city, likely in the entire world. tumblr has a huge american majority userbase obviously, but just for comparison going forward, only 0.22% of the american population lives in seattle. as of this reblog, this poll is showing 4% of respondents are seattleites. given, this isnt scientific at all, because my blog just has a lot of seattle connections and seattle followers, but it's still an impressive bias