[fleshdyke]

no amount of bird posts i make can ever capture how truly strange bitterns are

[fleshdyke]

i say this with so much love and adoration in my heart. what the fuck is that

(american, least, great, and yellow bitterns)

[officialbabayaga]

Rashida Tlaib has set up a petition to send to the White House to recognize and stop the ethnic cleansing and forced displacement happening in Gaza. If you’re a US citizen please sign. I have no illusions that this will change policy, but the public outcry against their actions must continue. We will not be distracted or discouraged from continuing to object to these humans rights violations.

[officialbabayaga]

Hi likes do not help this post, please reblog

[thesporkidentity]

i have some follow-up questions???

[foxofninetales]

Okay, THAT is what I call a fortune.

[thegertie]

Oh yeah, one night my friend/roommate, her (now) husband, and I went out to dinner. At the end, we all got our fortune cookies. Mine was "Health and love are yours this year" or something. Hers was "A good life is cultivated with care" or whatever.

His was "Let that car go first. "

You can bet we drove home carefully that night.

[swanasource]

[stil-lindigo]

frankly, the people whose kneejerk reaction to bisan asking for a global strike form the 21st-28th is to say that it takes years to organize a general strike are really unhelpful! no one is saying otherwise, but palestine will be a smoking crater if we all wait for years to do anything - bisan is asking us to do something now. Like are we only supposed to do something if we can do it perfectly??? At some point it’s a valid critique about the work that goes into social movement, and at another point I feel like some people are just trying to absolve themselves from not putting any effort into observing a week of economic inaction.

like idk! I get it, okay! People have bills to pay that don’t magically go away for a strike, we don’t have nearly enough social infrastructure in place to support people to fully stop going to work for a week. But fuck, dude! Stop immediately responding in such a defeatist way! Cut out unnecessary purchases! Try to shop local! Put more effort into promoting Palestinian voices online! Attend a protest, call a local rep, do something!

[cock-holliday]

Ultimately, the context of this (these) calls are different than ignorant calls for a general strike in the past for a few reasons:

1. It is being called for by someone affected by the situation. Social media calls in the past have often been called by people unconnected to the struggle or without any sort of connections to the work or others involved in the fight. Who are you calling for a strike? What is your role? Which gets into

2. Demands. With these calls for a strike, there are specific demands coming out for those in power to respond to. It’s not general dissatisfaction with capitalism, it’s not vague response to bigotry and oppression, there are goals. Ceasefire. Flow of humanitarian aid. End of occupation.

3. Very crucially, there is a spectrum for what is included in the general strike and a blatant recognition of how there isn’t time to prepare. Take off work (if you can), don’t go to school (if you can), don’t spend money (if you can), keep up pressure and protest (if you can), amplify Palestinian voices and sources, continue boycotting.

“Well I can’t call off work.” Neither can I, but there are items on the list I CAN do. Many people can’t attend protests but can pressure their reps. Many can’t pressure reps but can spread word on social media. Or financially support Palestinians. Or babysit for someone going to a rally. Or or or.

My law school once had a walkout. Those who couldn’t walk out wore something to show support. Signed petitions later. Pressured admin. If you “can’t do anything,” show support for those who can.

This is NOT the same as disorganized naive calls for strikes with no goals, no planning, and no thought.

Do not treat them the same if you cannot do everything asked. And do not waste your time asking Palestinians to forgive you for what little you can do when you could be doing any of the shit on this list instead.

[milf-adjacent]

[butchfagminotaur]

saying “i wouldn’t be a good parent” is a morally neutral statement and i’m sick of whenever i say it people replying “noo no you’d be a GREAT mother i know you would!!!” like… no! being a good parent requires a certain set of skills and traits and i know that i don’t have them and that’s a good thing!!! i think people should figure out if they would be good parents BEFORE having kids and maybe we’d have less shitty parents in the world! fuck!

[caats]

[everythingfox]

Big monch

[disneyydreams]

[p0perah-blog-blog]

stupid bitch.. chose vanilla pudding john smith ass over your sexy ass bear claw paw print on ur manly ass chest having mocha sexy ass ass

pocahontas was the worst

[rose---gold-deactivated20130629]

what did i just read

[fuckinowned-deactivated20200424]

i am LAUGHING

[gehayi]

Reminder that real life Pocahontas married Kocoum in 1610, but she was kidnapped by the English in 1613, held prisoner for a year, forced to convert to Christianity, and, in 1614, while still a captive and the wife of Kocoum, was married to John Rolfe, who asked Governor Thomas Dale if he could marry her  “for the good of this plantation, for the honour of our country, for the glory of God, for my own salvation, and for the converting to the true knowledge of God and Jesus Christ, an unbelieving creature, Pokahuntas[.]”

Knowing that, it makes the above scene (and Disney killing Kocoum as well) rather distasteful.

[official-graveyard-posts]

Official graveyard post. +Bonus

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[animentality]

[amygdalae]

Me: damn this situation I'm in sure isn't ideal, what am I gonna do about this

Suicidal Ideation Man who lives in my brain: perhaps I have a suggestion ☝️🤓

[amygdalae]

[sayruq]

This is in response to the missile strikes on Yemen and the Ansar Allah movement (aka the Houthis) being designated as terrorists again

[undeadrabbit-at-home]

Yemen parliament says US, UK, Israel 'top terrorist' entities

US officials said they see no end date to their bombing of Yemen in response to Ansarallah's efforts to defend Gaza

Here's an article for anyone who wants more info.

[over-sleep]

繕い　　(；ﾟДﾟ) ﾅﾝﾄｫ Mending a sweater

（Reddit:r/oddlysatisfying u/thegupeeman）

[strangesequitur]

I fully understand everything that is going on here and could probably do it but it would take me like three hours and as such I’m calling Witchcraft.

[ampervadasz]

[violetsandshrikes]

as someone with frequent painful plantar fasciitis, people really underestimate the importance of caring for your feet

make sure you keep up good hygiene! clean socks daily! air out your shoes/make sure they dry out!

i do a lot of field work and let me tell you, feet also dry out really fast and having the skin crack/fissure is absolutely not fun. moisturise them if you need to once a day!

keep note of any changes to your skin, colouration, foot shape, pains - keep track of any moles, keep track of circulation, note any signs of skin injury or damage

cut nails straight across (rounding corners can give you ingrowns)! pumice stone on foot to soften hard parts + remove dead skin (but do not shave calluses because that can seriously damage your feet)! if you notice peeling skin between your toes - get it checked out, look at fungal treatment. if you notice nails discoloured + bed raised - get it checked out, look at fungal treatment. if you get a wart, get it removed professionally and try to do so when it’s newer/smaller (less treatment needed to get rid of it). especially if your feet are in communal spaces a lot (think gym showers for example) these things can spread!

you can learn basic foot massages on youtube. for my plantar fasciitis i also have a range of physio exercises i do - rolling your foot on a tennis ball is good, but can also be really painful depending on where your foot is at! in which case, i often freeze a small bottle of water and use that to roll it

[violetsandshrikes]

also advice to my other plantar fasciitis sufferers + people who just get sore arches in general

proper taping. this has literally gotten me through some days where i woke up in serious pain. use zinc oxide tape - it’s rigid enough to give the arch support, while also having just enough stretch for placement/foot movement.

[violetsandshrikes]

big yes! learning how to stretch your calves and hamstrings can also reduce pain (also if you’re compensating for a bad arch you may also be putting a lot of strain on your Achilles’ tendon and these stretches can also help that)

it doesn’t work for everyone + make sure you’re not allergic/sensitive to it, but i also find deep heat applied to the sides of the calves after stretching helps a lot! you can also apply deep heat carefully to some parts of your foot which may help relieve pain as well

try to massage it into the soft parts of your foot (it’ll be 100% more effective)