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[werewolf-transgenderism]

✨hi all!✨ I hear there's a lot of energy for phone calls at the moment and I want to encourage you to keep that energy up and also call your reps to ask for a ceasefire in gaza! ❤️

Jewish Voice for Peace has a site which automatically connects you to the right people and provides a script you can use to call your members of congress if you're in the US.

Islamic Relief in the UK also has a page where you can write to your MPs to call for a ceasefire.

if anyone else has info about how to contact govt representatives in other countries please add it here as well!

[ibtisams-deactivated20240709]

This is one of my favourite resources with links for contacting your reps for Canada, USA, UK, and Australia

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights also has resources on calling your local reps (with script) for USA residents

Download the app 5 Calls which will give you scripts and put you in direct contact with your reps (I believe USA residents only)

Here are two links (1, 2) for Aotearoa New Zealand residents to contact their MP

Reminder for United States residents who are calling: include telling them that as a voter you will not be supporting them in upcoming elections unless they take action against helping the US stop funding Israel

While calling your local reps and demanding a ceasefire is still an important effort while so many of these countries are continuing to fund and support Israel in their genocide against Palestine, it is not the most effective way to help Palestine and support those in Gaza right now.

Protest

Boycott

Donate (PCRF, help Ahmed escape Gaza, help Yousef escape Gaza and get chemotherapy treatment, Anera)

Research (decolonizepalestine.com, Palestine Academy, Palestine Film Institute)

Most importantly: do not stop talking about Palestine

[mtg-player1]

for Norway: Palestinakomiteen

[samirasystole]

for the netherlands(havent found something perfect)

https://palestina-komitee.nl/ for information and https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/contact/informatie-rijksoverheid you can contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

[fox-on-the-moon]

Actually making your selfinsert overpowered and friends with all your faves and a hybrid of the coolest species and in a relationship with your crush and the long lost sibling of the villain is called having fun and its cool as fuck

[wholesomey-artist]

[amethystsoda]

*thinking about a minor mistake made years ago while trying to befriend someone*

[dragunsblood]

[mpc07-foundtheinternet]

@textop

[champagnemoon]

body positivity has largely failed because people started arguing for attractiveness and romantic prospects instead of respect and dignity

[carewitchproject]

this is truly the best summary of what all of this SHOULD be about

[depsidase]

[samgirly]

Who else never really learned emotional regulation as a child and now has to learn it as an adult? 🐸 Even just naming the feeling out loud can help me to feel better.

[c-ptsdrecovery]

Other tips:

Accept that you are feeling the emotion instead of trying to ignore it or push it away

Remember that it won’t hurt you and doesn’t mean anything bad about you (for instance, feeling frustrated doesn’t mean you’re childish or something)

If the feeling persists after self-soothing, ask yourself what that might mean. Sometimes you just feel the emotion because you do, but sometimes there’s something else you can do to help yourself. Are you still feeling angry because you’re hungry or tired, and you need to eat or sleep? Is it an interpersonal problem that needs a solution, like do you need to draw stronger boundaries with somebody? Does everything seem hopeless and overwhelming because it’s after 9 pm and your brain is lying to you? (My brain always lies to me after 9 pm. It means I can put this train of thought aside for now and it’ll probably seem much less awful in the morning.) 

[spw-art]

All fat and intersex people should be given one hundred thousand dollars and a wish from a kind genie. Maybe more.

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[comment-tube]

[tpwrtrmnky]

Transition actually meaningfully impacts your life and is more than just a band-aid fix. Look. Listen to me. It Actually Fucking Works. In real life. There are people in the world right now whose lives are getting better because they are transitioning. Do you understand?

[textk4kira]

I love you aro men, i love you aro transmascs, i love you aro sapphics, i love you aro enbies, i love you heterosexual aros, i love you cishet aros, i love you aro fems, i love you butch aros, i love you gray-aros, i love you demi-aros, i love you aros who have treated as predators by the rest of the queer community, i love you aroallos, i love you aromantic people 💗

[headspace-hotel]

I feel that "lawn care" as promoted in the USA can be considered some kind of pseudoscience.

It doesn't have the conspiracy-theory-adjacent qualities of virtually every other "pseudoscience," which makes me hesitant to call it that, but the theory and method of it is still full of totally unsupported junk.

[headspace-hotel]

Where do I start?

I'm a gardener and so are the majority of people I spend time around. If you are mowing 3+ times a week and regularly spending money on fertilizer, soil tests, herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides, you have chosen the most expensive, time consuming thing you could possibly do with your yard. Unless you are a farmer as your livelihood, NOTHING else you could grow is that high maintenance. Nothing.

Most turfgrasses are invasive species. I said it.

The practice of "nuking" your lawn (killing everything in it and "starting over")...If you have a so-called "weed problem" this is probably the worst thing you can do.

Listen to me very carefully: "Weed" seeds are everywhere. There is, at all times, a supply of seeds lying dormant in the soil, waiting for the right conditions to sprout. (It's called the "soil seed bank" and you can look it up.) They are capable of "waiting" for years, even decades. Furthermore, most "weed" species spread by wind, meaning you can't physically eliminate them from an outdoor area unless you...surround your entire yard with an incredibly fine mesh netting and never leave, I guess.

Heavy management will make your "weed" problem progressively worse and worse because those plants are specifically adapted to colonize barren areas that recently underwent disastrous events that killed off most life.

Basically all plants are adapted to live in the company of other organisms, and suffer when there are no other plants around. "Weeds" with deep taproots penetrate into and aerate the soil. Clover puts nitrogen in the ground that other plants need. Low ground covers keep the soil moist and stop the sun from baking your grass to a crisp.

The plant "taking over" your lawn is probably not killing your grass. Your grass is dying and it's being replaced by something more suited to the environment. This is supposed to happen.

Monocultures are notoriously susceptible to disease and mass die-offs. "Oh no a big patch of my lawn is dying!" Yeah, that happens when you plant monocultures. You set yourself up for this.

"Why is there a bare patch in my yard/why won't grass grow well here?" Because in nature, each plant has a relatively narrow range of conditions it likes to grow in, so other plants it might otherwise compete with can stick to their preferred conditions and nobody has to compete directly. Win-win. Not all parts of your yard have the exact same amount of sun, moisture, etc. Expecting the plant life to look the same is unrealistic.

Let me make this very clear: It is fully impossible to "solve" the problem of plants popping up in your yard that aren't your one favored variety of grass. You will be buying herbicides for the rest of your life, and it will get worse, not better, because willy-nilly use of herbicides is leading to plants developing herbicide resistance faster than we can come up with new herbicides.

[headspace-hotel]

@kidpixdeluxe-4

From my limited knowledge of ecology, "but this is what natives have been saying for YEARS" basically sums up literally all work that has been done with ecology in north america

[falloutnewvegastransedmygender]

If it means anything, when I worked in lawncare for a bit (which had me overworked and feeling like an evil henchwoman) one of the things that was emphasized was trying to get customers to water and mow less frequently with better practices.

But most of it comes down to turf grasses being out of their zone, kept constantly short, and expecting chemicals to do all the work. Not to mention people who could not comprehend that to kill weeds without killing their lawn we have to use slower selective herbicides, or that most herbicides were post-emergent and we couldnt make the ground poison to everything besides their specific grass.

[tubapun]

In Scooby-Doo 2002, one of the clues they find is that the Daemons are poorly taught what they believe to be the slang of the era (much of which is shoddily replicated AAVE) in an attempt to blend in while in their college kid disguises\

This is a subtle reference to how white people who misuse AAVE to "seem cool" are actually demons from hell, and should be exploded

[okie-dokiie]

THEYRE GOING TO STEAL MY FUCKING POKEMON.

[sandersstudies]

My Shakespeare students (they are 12) wanted to summarize the lessons they learned this semester. If. Um. Anybody would like to see.

[sandersstudies]

I cannot emphasize enough that they made these with very little input from me.

Henry the Fifth

- ALWAYS encourage others to do their best.

- NEVER talk about people behind their back.

Antony and Cleopatra

- ALWAYS check your produce for pests. [They liked this one so much made a rap about it.]

- NEVER count your chickens before they hatch.

Hamlet

- ALWAYS act decisively

- NEVER tell your girlfriend to go to a convent and become a nun [Oh boy they REALLY liked this one]

Romeo and Juliet

- ALWAYS collect all the important information before making an important decision

- NEVER bite your thumb at us, sir. [They enacted this scene in the original language a lot, except they swapped every “sir” for “bro.”]

The Merchant of Venice

- ALWAYS pay your debts.

- NEVER judge based on appearances, because “all that glisters is not gold.”

The Tempest

- ALWAYS try to forgive others.

- NEVER be a colonizer. [Yes, a middle schooler said this]

Midsummer Night’s Dream

- ALWAYS stay on forest trails

- NEVER fall in love with an ass. [They were excited about this one for obvious reasons.]

Twelfth Night

- ALWAYS stay in touch with those important to us

- NEVER read other people’s mail

Macbeth

- ALWAYS wash your hands. [One of the girls performed Lady Macbeth’s entire Out Damn Spot monologue at the end of the semester]

- NEVER succumb to peer pressure.

[maidthings]

oh my fucking gods. your logic with pay difference, by that logic than, I guess since black men make slightly more than black women, they face no systemic oppression than right? You are a fucking joke

anon theres this thing you might want to look up called intersectionality

[maidthings]

"are you saying black men occupy a place of relative privilege over black women" sweetie every serious feminist have been saying that for over thirty years now