Hello!

Any pronouns :)---No gender, just vibes---Aroace but kinda multispec as well lol idrk---Minor n POC w/ nearsighted abilities :3

[byjove]

I wish there was some way to effectively communicate to working class cishet white men that their financially irresponsible purchase of a gigantic hideous new truck is not sexy or impressive in anyway. Just saw a guy who’s girl left him because he was an abusive alcoholic and he immediately made a post that was like “Just spent the $3k I had saved up for a ring on the down payment.” and then posted a picture of his ugly new truck. Obviously this was meant to hurt her but I’m sure it just strengthened her resolve to never speak to him again.

[mohdayesh]

Very important, friends

This post is important. This is a link to the family of my fiancee Farah. I told her that many foreign friends trust me, but it was too late. I told her that if she knew me before, I would have helped her strongly. I told her that I trust you in supporting her 😅 In principle, she is an artist and she was excellent at her university and many of her paintings were attached to her university.

She also takes care of two beautiful cats (chocolate, tanka ) and was with them throughout the war and displacement, but she is not very lucky. She was able to create a donation campaign link a short time ago and could not collect a lot of money on it, kالآن She takes care of her family, her cats and herself and could not complete her university due to lack of money.

And this is her fundraising campaign. I told her that I trust you, knowing that our wedding will be at the beginning of the new year.

[neptunerings]

Currently at $1,415 AUD! The last donation was made a day ago! Please donate and share! Let's reach the 2K mark ASAP! There is $585 to go! Remember to double check the currency exchange! $10 USD = $15 AUD!

Verification: Farah is Mohammed Ayesh's fiancée! Mohammed is a good friend of @/el-shab-hussein and he is the ground contact, verifying fundraisers and sharing them on @/gaza-evacuation-funds! Also shared by @/el-shab-hussein!

[socialistexan]

I've never seen trad wives explained so perfectly. "Non-nude fetish content for sexist men"

[kaijuno]

[evilwizard]

[sunflowerlovergirl]

[hatesaltrat]

The road to the childrens’ hospital

@swedishfalcon-actual

[enchantingsorceress]

I hope this joke outlives the context that made it, leaving future generations baffled.

[storybookprincess]

so a very long time ago, my dad worked with an arson investigator

this guy was often one of the first people on the scene following a suspected arson, once emergency services had done what they needed to do. at times, there were also civilians on the periphery. often, they were freaking out, and understandably so; their home or workplace had just, quite literally, gone up in smoke

this investigator wouldn’t try to calm them down. he wouldn’t comfort them or be a shoulder to cry on.

instead, he’d walk up to the person most visibly losing their shit, hand them a fire extinguisher, and say “hey, can you keep an eye out for any other fires, and if you see one, can you put it out with this?”

of course, there was no actual risk of another fire. he wouldn’t be on the scene investigating if there was even a chance that the fire wasn’t completely put out. but the bystander didn’t need to know that

because that person, without fail, would immediately pull it together, take the fire extinguisher, and stand guard. they were, at least temporarily, calm enough for this investigator to do this job

my dad has told me the parable of the fire extinguisher a hundred times, and i think about it a lot. i think about what it says about people and crises. i think about what it says about the grounding power of having a purpose. and i think about the importance of letting someone help me through something, even if that help is just going to be another casserole to throw into the freezer, because useless or not, that fire extinguisher might be the only thing holding them together

[queer-as-city-folk]

...

They are advertising Eugenics on the New York Subway

[queer-as-city-folk]

This is from a company called MyNucleus that sells specialized IVF to let parents know ahead of time what traits their baby will possess in order to pick and choose what traits their baby will have.

Advertised traits they show off in their website include Autism and IQ, as well as Eye and Hair color

They advertise this saying you could ensure your baby doesn't have a cancer gene,

But it's about making sure you don't have a disabled child

[queer-as-city-folk]

Oh, I just saw a different ad from this subway campaign, and it's way worse than I thought

THAT'S LITERAL NAZI SHIT

[queer-as-city-folk]

Like genuinely the New York MTA should never have allowed this blatantly ableist racist eugenics company to advertise on the subway, and I want to know how much the MTA was paid to harass disabled New Yorkers.

[dev-tawfik]

Dear friends, this is my new campaign. I’m kindly asking for your support to help my family pay our rent.

Unfortunately, the beneficiary account responsible for receiving the funds was removed, and we are now in urgent need of $1200 For food and basic necessities

Deadline : 3 Dec

Current Process : $ 136 / $ 1100

We barely have food or clean water. Every day is a battle for the basics of life.

Vetted by @90-ghost link @dlxxv-vetted-donations link @postanagramgenerator link

Support Tawfik Dream of Higher Education

 

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[krikidilly]

hhhhhh while ur at it can u draw tanmui it's like rengiyuu jr to me

OF .COURSE I WILL. muitan top 5 tan ships for KK they are .like the cutest bugs to me

[pansexualpizza]

“Must have reliable transportation” = “this is how we legally discriminate against poor people who take the bus”

[courtcourttheshort]

As someone who has held several management positions with hiring responsibility, this is true. The boss at my last job informed me before I conducted my very first I interview,

“You can’t outright ask someone if they have a car or have kids. That’s technically illegal. But you need to know because sometimes they can be deal breakers. You can just say ‘Do you have reliable transportation?’ and ‘Do you have any current circumstances that could impede you from being successful at work?’

To which the last one most people fumble and would say, “Well I have kids, so sometimes they could get sick. But that’s not often.” But then your potential employer could mark it down on your interview notes nonetheless.

I thought that maybe it was just my own employer. But now I noticed that I am asked both of these almost every time I interview for a job.

Language is very sneaky. Be careful how you answer. Corporations can be snakes.

[iproposeawager]

In my businesses class my professor told us that the bus counts as reliable transportation. You do not legally have to say “I take the bus” just say “yes I do have reliable transportation” and leave it at that. Do not over share. DO NOT OVER SHARE. The second question just say no. If your kids are sick call out as if you are sick. I don’t have kids but I myself can get sick and that doesn’t hinder my ability to succeed so kids getting sick shouldn’t hinder you. When I call out I give as little info as possible. No one needs to know why you call out. They can’t ask about your “illness” because it violates HIPAA if they do. So as long as you don’t offer more info than you need to you should be okay.

[got-no-skill]

[zillychu]

oh my GOD I've known for about a month now that Disney was getting ready to go public with the Midjourney court case and it was SO HARD. TO STAY SILENT. all I've been able to do for like 2 years is go "trust me Disney is cooking something" and now it's finally starting.

like. I cannot emphasize enough how this is seriously going to destroy unethical LLMs. this isn't just about Midjourney, it's going to affect all the shitty art theft companies. they've been working on this a long time to ensure it's airtight.

Disney is evil, but for this battle, their interests align with ours. it's gonna be a long court case but at least we're finally gonna start seeing a shift now in regards to LLMs.

[kittydealer]

u/butachannel

[whatcoloristhatcat]

black classic tabby with low white spotting 2x combo

[yiddishfisting]

they all need to spontaneously combust immediately

[yiddishfisting]

the flotilla sure did piss them off huh

[catgirlcaliphate]

Just to expand on this for everyone reading:

They're mad as hell that there was too much international attention on this ship, with too many high profile people on board, for them to attack the ship with impunity.

Israel has no compunction about murdering aid workers and activists in cold blood, but they prefer to do it while nobody is watching quite so closely.

Delivering the aid would have been the best case scenario for the Madleen and her crew, but the real mission was to challenge Israel's control of the narrative, and they've succeeded at that.

Hence the tantrums and the middle school insults.

[acidtygr]

As much as I like seeing Trump and Musk fighting, and as entertaining as it is, watching politics in the world lately taught me one thing.

Question it!

Often a spectacle like that is a sign, that somewhere else, something else is being changed quickly and quietly, in the hope that people won’t care. Sure, it might just be two huge egos having a public breakup, but there’s a chance that there’s more to it. It may just be a diversion tactic.

Ask yourself:

what are we not seeing?

what is happening in other parts of the government?

what is this fight distracting you from?

is it travel bans for poor countries?

is it the fact, that other western countries advise against travelling to the US?

what other issues are not making an impact on the media right now?

And after you’re done… bring the popcorn!

[the-moons-ace-card]

[queerstudiesnatural]

greta thunberg, liam cunningham, rima hassan, and everyone else on that ship, thank you, and i hope you succeed. i really hope you succeed. you know what you are risking, and i wish for you to come back safely, having done what you set out to do.

[queerstudiesnatural]

for those who don't know, the freedom flotilla, a ship headed to gaza to try and get some aid past the israeli siege, just left with among its crew swedish activist greta thunberg, irish actor liam cunningham, and french member of the european parliament rima hassan.

the ship has already been bombed twice during previous attempts at approaching gaza.

my only hope is that if we make enough noise this time, israel won't dare bomb it with such prominent international figures on board, from fear of making them martyrs and turning the rest of the world against them.

so talk about it, post about it, and expect, demand their mission to succeed and their safe return 🙏

the only power we have is political and economic pressure at this point. ethics are out of the picture when it comes to the israeli government. so we need to make it clear that bombing this ship would be a declaration of war against europe.

[playitandmakeitsincere]

The activists on the boat have been abducted - if you are UK-based, please use this template to email your MP urgently and demand the UK uphold its responsibility to protect the ship.

The UK Has an Obligation to Protect the Freedom Flotilla

Special Notice: Once you have emailed this to your local MP, ENSURE you also send it to the Commonwealth & Development Office at fcdo.corres

[elbiotipo]

It seems that your cheap phones are not a god given right but actually a luxury sustained by imperialist inequality after all. Mirá vos.

[shatteredzydrateteacup]

[rifa]

This is part of why planned obsolescence is so evil. We could all have a phone or laptop that is made ethically that could last 10-20 years without the cost of human life and without filling landfills with electronic waste. But instead since the world is built on Line Go Up we are forced into a position where our tech (which we increasingly need to participate in modern life) self destructs so we have to spend more money at the expense of human life and the environment.

[meckamecha]

And all of it gets so much more heinous when you consider that there are finite quantities of all the resources needed to make these things and as the supply of easily accessible mineral resources dries up, the extraction processes needed become more destructive, both to the environment and the workers who are often forced into the job under threat of extermination.

Capitalist luxury cannot exist without colonialist genocide and ecocide