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Hello! My name is Lia, and this is NOT the blog you want to be following. My personal is thesunlightmuse, and here are my sideblogs: Hunger Games: haymitchgeese Food service: hi-can-i-take-your-bullshit Fourth Goofy Option™: critstargirlie

[nat-20s]

You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

[nat-20s]

Some things about this post since getting quite a few notes:

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

3. I think there are times where scrolling is fine. Right now, for example, I'm being connected to a machine for two hours to donate plasma and platelets. Yes this is a brag but it is also a time where scrolling is one of the few things I can do. (Though I will probably also read or watch something on phone lol)

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

hmmm, this seems to be some kind of curse breaking spell… be free ye reader

[inkrrred]

Training days

[sourdough-seal]

“your characters need to be likeable” allow me to introduce you to the very worst guy who ever lived

[exuberantocean]

You know what I think its grossly under-rated in fandom? Second loves.

What it's like to love and lose and then love again. To suffer through either the death of a loved one or the death of a love you used to share. To know that loss, to know that hurt, and to still make yourself vulnerable to someone again. To love scared, to love wounded, to love anyway.

[exuberantocean]

By under rated in fandom I mean so often past loves are either erased completely or downplayed like "oh yeah they weren't really in love.". I think it flattens the character. Humans are capable of so much love. Each relationship is different and you can learn from each one! And yes, there's something brave in learning to love again, something incredible romantic, why pass it by?

[gallusrostromegalus]

I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today.

It's right-handed

I am right-handed

There are grooves for the thumb and knuckle to grip that fit my hand perfectly

I have calluses there from holding my stylus and pencils and the gardening tools.

There are sharper and blunter parts of the edge, for different types of cutting, as well as a point for piercing.

I know exactly how to use this to butcher a carcass.

A homo erectus made it

Some ancestor of mine, three species ago, made a tool that fits my hand perfectly, and that I still know how to use.

Who were you

A man? A woman? Did you even use those words?

Did you craft alone or were you with friends? Did you sing while you worked?

Did you find this stone yourself, or did you trade for it? Was it a gift?

Did you make it for yourself, or someone else, or does the distinction of personal property not really apply here?

Who were you?

What would you think today, seeing your descendant hold your tool and sob because it fits her hands as well?

What about your other descendant, the docent and caretaker of your tool, holding her hands under it the way you hold your hands under your baby's head when a stranger holds them.

Is it bizarre to you, that your most utilitarian object is now revered as holy?

Or has it always been divine?

Or is the divine in how I am watching videos on how to knap stone made by your other descendants, learning by example the way you did?

Tomorrow morning I am going to the local riverbed in search of the appropriate stones, and I will follow your example.

The first blood spilled on it will almost certainly be my own, as I learn the textures and rhythm of how it's done.

Did you have cuss words back then? Gods to blaspheme when the rock slips and you almost take your thumbnail off instead? Or did you just scream?

I'm not religious.

But if spilling my own blood to connect with a stranger who shared it isn't partaking in the divine

I don't know what is.

[gallusrostromegalus]

This is the axe

My knuckle rests exactly in the triangular plane just above the orange intrusion, and my thumb on the plane with the white patches.

How many hands held it just like that? How many generations was this passed down? Were you lost? or did you fall into disuse when technology improved?

Do you still desire to be held?

[skweebs]

This was the axe that made me ugly cry in the museum. It was created half a million years ago by either Erectus or Heidelburgensis, and was passed down from person to person, long enough that somehow a neanderthal picked it up, and passed it down to their family.

It has now felt 3 generations of human species hands, it's smooth but still sharp except where the very tip has been broken off, but it shows that this axe was loved and taken care of. And it is still being taken care of! It was used to teach archaic children to build, to carve meat, to break bones, and now it is being used to teach us about all those people who came before us and put their hands right where we put ours.

The fact that @gallusrostromegalus and I put our hands on the same place and felt the same rush of emotions only days apart is amazing, but its not new. People loved this axe, it belonged to their loved ones and it's full of all those emotions. And if there's anything to take away from humanity, new and old, it's that we love a good rock.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Hello! You and I never met, but I feel like we've held hands now, the same way that we held hands with everyone else who's held that axe, and I think that's lovely :)

[muppethole-deactivated20240312]

[clockwork-hobbit]

It's a fantastic point, but John Boyega's net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn't safe either...

[neon-classical]

There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao

Not to mention the way the money was made

An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers

[dr-dendritic-trees]

This is something I hate SO MUCH about how tumblr talks about money.

Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.

But like... an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense). 

These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different. 

The reason why billionaires are evil aren’t because having money is bad, its because to get a billion dollars you have to cheat. You have to take it from someone else. If Bezos paid all his workers and suppliers fairly and treated them well, and paid his fair amount of taxes, and etc, then it literally wouldn’t matter how much money he earned, because he wouldn’t be doing anyone any harm. But its not actually possible to amass a billion dollars (a full order of magnitude bigger than a million) while behaving in an ethical manner. 

[thunderboltsortofapenny]

[arcticmoe]

The last post is everything.

[kipplekipple]

Also wanna say that John Boyega specifically does a lot of proper grassroots good work and actively puts himself in a position where he knows the racists will keep on coming for him, to actively and materially help marginalised communities.

The fact a black man is never able to say a single word without being criticised is not being missed btw.

[ostensible-adult]

How to tell the difference between a million and a billion: A million seconds is eleven and a half days. A billion seconds is thirty-one and a half years.

[forcefem-now]

The difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is roughly a billion dollars. The difference between sixty million dollars and a trillion dollars is roughly a trillion dollars.

[frankierotwinkdeath]

Please someone cast Tom Hiddleston as Mr. Darcy I’m begging

[frankierotwinkdeath]

If I heard that man say “I love you, most ardently” I would die on the spot

[physichotic]

your intrusive thoughts disgust you for a reason. your intrusive thoughts scare you for a reason. your intrusive thoughts send you into a panic for a reason. your intrusive thoughts distress you for a reason. your intrusive thoughts upset you for a reason.

they're not things that you secretly think. they're not things that you secretly believe. they are the worst things your mind could conjure in order to make it difficult for you to get through the day.

[coolxatu]

[volvereparcas]

Hot take though

my wife worked on an oil rig in Wyoming out of high school because there aren’t a lot of jobs that pay that well for someone without access to college. She was a driller and then a supervisor after the crew supervisor was killed during their shift. She saw multiple people die and loose limbs and she got pretty bad ptsd from watching a friend get decapitated by a chain that went loose and catching his head in her hands.

Shifts are often 20+ hours at a time with an 8-10 hour break between shifts for at least two weeks at a time and then a week off. Rigs are normally understaffed which make it worse and a lot of people on rigs turn to drug use just to be able to stay awake during their shifts. But it’s a job that pays a lot in rural and low income communities for people who don’t have a lot of options. A lot of people go in knowing they’ll maybe die but at least their families won’t have to work afterwards because of life insurance policies from the companies they work for.

I know this post was probably just meant as a joke post the whole thing with Joe Biden and fracking but like sometimes it shows that people who post these things don’t know a ton about what they’re talking about. It remains one of the most lethal jobs worldwide. Switching from oil/natural gas to sustainable energy sources will take time to transition and right now we have millions working in drilling with odds stacked against them. Republicans don’t care about oil workers’ lives because they can be used to make a profit and the left hates them because of a career they didn’t have a lot of choice in choosing.

The oil field is like the military where largely low income and marginalized individuals get preyed upon by an organization that doesn’t care if they live or die. Fracking and drilling being bad for the planet and needing an end and oil workers being worthy of concern because their lives are treated as disposable are two ideas that can coexist.

[squeeful]

class solidarity must extend to ALL workers, not just workers of sectors you approve of.

[antique-scarecrow]

“The oil field is like the military, where largely low income and marginalized individuals get preyed upon by an organization that doesn’t care if they live or die”

[not-thesunlightmuse]

“class solidarity must extend to ALL workers, not just workers of sectors you approve of.”

[odinsblog]

Awww…

[moved-029043462834058-deactivat]

APPALACHIAN BAIL FUNDS

if you can, please take the time to donate to these bail funds in appalachia, or at least reblog. appalachia is a deeply impoverished part of this country and these people could use all the help you can give. this post includes links for cities that may not be in appalachia but another part of the state is. this is by no means comprehensive. if you have any links to funds from these states feel free to reply with a link, especially if they are for virginia, west virginia, or maryland. please do not hesitate to tell me if any of these are fake.

ALABAMA:

montgomery bail out

local organizer star robb (tweets from birmingham DSA confirming this) is bailing people out in hoover and birmingham, venmo: @/starrobb, cashapp: $StarRobb

etowah county’s freedom fund (twitter link) paypal is here

huntsville paypal

GEORGIA:

atlanta solidarity fund

support #justiceforgeorgefloyd protestors in atlanta

messiah young and taniyah pilgrim bail money, goes toward two black people who were attacked by police in their car

athens freedom fund

KENTUCKY:

louisville community

lexington bail

MARYLAND:

baltimore action legal team

MISSISSIPI:

mississippi bail fund collective

bail fund for zach borenstein, a man who was arrested during protests in mississippi on may 30th (excess funds will be going to the mississippi bail fund collective)

NEW YORK:

emergency release fund: new york city, which is specifically focused on trans people

OAR of tompkins county

brooklyn community bail–as of 5/30/2020 they are asking people to direct their donations elsewhere

the bronx freedom fund

may 2020 buffalo

liberty fund

rochester cashapp: $BLMRoc

NORTH CAROLINA:

take action chapel hill

NC community bail fund of durham

charlotte uprising

alamance county

forsyth county

asheville

fayetteville

greensboro

OHIO:

columbus freedom fund’s (twitter link) paypal is here

canton/akron

BLM cleveland (twitter link) paypal is here

cincinnati bail–for this one, you need to click the amount you want to donate and then pick “cincinnati bail fund”

PENNSYLVANIA:

lancaster bail fund for #blacklivesmatter–as of 6/2/2020 lancaster has met their goal and is no longer asking for donations

bukit bail fund of pittsburgh

dauphin county

philadelphia community bail

philadelphia bail fund–as of 6/2/2020 they have met their goal and are asking people to donate elsewhere

pittsburgh aftercare jail support

SOUTH CAROLINA:

columbia bail (twitter link), cashapp: $SodaCityBail; they also have a separate cashapp for money that goes toward supplies: $PSLColumbiaSC

charleston, SC protestor fund

TENNESSEE:

nashville bail

mid-south peace and justice center (memphis), cashapp: $OfficialBLMMemphis

just city memphis

hamilton county

knoxville venmo: @/endthemoneybail-knoxville, memo: “BLM”

VIRGINIA:

richmond community bail

roanoke bail

WEST VIRGINIA:

BLM west virginia

OTHERS:

appalachian feminist coalition bail fund, although they are encouraging donations to the aforementioned group in knoxville, tennessee

the bail project also operates in numerous states across the country, including those that are in appalachia

please pay attention to what is going on in these states, especially the smaller ones. do not let it slip by just because it isn’t happening in a bigger city. again, if people find more i will be adding to this post.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Please remember to check a bail fund’s website to see whether they are still in immediate need or whether they are trying to redirect donation traffic to other organizations in more crucial need.

Remember also that just because a bail fund’s immediate needs have been met, many of them need deep financial wells in order to provide continued support for the communities and people they serve long after the initial bail.

Read their front pages to see what they advise!

[feministism]

[quasibee-deactivated20220523]

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This website reads Terms of Service and ranks them so you don’t have to – because, let’s be real, you don’t.

[not-thesunlightmuse]

THIS BLOG IS NOT A THING

Yes, occasionally I reblog shit to it, but its an accident. Usually it’s because I forget to set xkit to the blog I actually want to use.

However, this is my main, so I follow from it. Please message me so I can tell you which blog to follow!

[not-thesunlightmuse]

friendly reminder not to follow this blog as I don't use it

message me if I followed you and I'll direct you to the appropriate side.

[not-thesunlightmuse]

THIS BLOG IS NOT ACTUALLY A THING

That being said, I follow from this as it is my main. Which is why I invite you to message me at this blog once I follow you, and I will tell you which of my sides to follow!

[not-thesunlightmuse]

THIS BLOG IS NOT ACTUALLY A THING

That being said, I follow from this as it is my main. Which is why I invite you to message me at this blog once I follow you, and I will tell you which of my sides to follow!