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THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.
this for real fucking works
Apparently this one fuckin works, and who am I to argue with the collective agreement of tumblr. Will report back if good things happen.
Redditors crashed the website with donations over $25k and 0 wishes left. via /r/MadeMeSmile
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With the holidays here, thought this is worth sharing
This website is still here and some of the asks are heartbreaking. Like âJamie wants a new pair of jeans because heâs never had new clothes beforeâ. Or âKayla wants a bag with her name on it for when she moves foster homes again.â
A lot of these kids ask for brand name clothing and it sounds pretentious but having one nice new fashionable piece of clothing means a lot when all your previous clothes have come out of black trash bags from charities.
Btw, you can filter wishes based on gender, age, price, etc to help you find the perfect wish for you. This charity is LGBTQ-affirming (unlike a lot of religion-based charities that are unfortunately homophobic), so you can even look for nonbinary kids to donate to.
Also, I would really encourage people to be open to granting wishes made by older foster kids (14+) or young adults who aged out of the system and still lack family support. Theyâre so often forgotten.
If you donât have a lot of money but still want to help give a kid a nice Christmas, there are lots of wishes that are $24 for stocking stuffers as well, or $15 for a sqishmallow!
https://www.onesimplewish.org
Terry Pratchett started his career as a crypto-monarchist and ended up the most consistently humane writer of his generation. Â He never entirely lost his affection for benevolent dictatorship, and made a few classic colonial missteps along the way, but in the end youâd be hard pressed to find a more staunchly feminist, anti-racist, anti-classist, unsentimental and clear-sighted writer of Old White British Fantasy. Â
The thing I love about Terryâs writing is that he loved - loved - civil society.  He loved the correct functioning of the social contract.  He loved technology, loved innovation, but also loved nature and the ways of living that work with and through it.  He loved Britain, but hated empire (see âJingoâ) - he was a ruralist who hated provincialism, a capitalist who hated wealth, an urbanist who reveled in stories of pollution, crime and decay.  He was above all a man who loved systems, of nature, of thought, of tradition and of culture.  He believed in the best of humanity and knew that we could be even better if we just thought a little more.
As a writer: how skillful, how prolific, how consistent.  The yearly event of a new Discworld book has been a part of my life for more than two decades, and in that barrage of material there have been so few disappointments, so many surprises⊠to come out with a book as fresh and inspired as âMonstrous Regimentâ as the 31st novel in your big fantasy series?  Ludicrous.  He was just full of treasure.  What a thing to have had, what a thing to have lost.
In the end, he set a higher standard, as a writer and as a person.  He got better as he learned, and he kept learning, and there was no âtoo lateâ or âtoo hardâ or âI canât be bothered to do the research.â  He just did the work.  I think in his memory the best thing we can do is to roll up our sleeves and do the same.
This post seems to be making the rounds again so here it is on the word blog
GNU Terry Pratchett
i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina â chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan â ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota â twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return
as many have noted, this 11-hour-old post is an incomplete list. the situation on the ground continues to rapidly evolve: harvard set up an encampment despite the ban; UT austin students are getting brutally assaulted by the police, prompting faculty to declare the first university-wide strike
Funny what a little bit of Holocaust denialism will get you trending with.
Also, worth noting that calling it "Holocaust denialism," as Aye and Alejandra Carabello (and myself) have, is not hyperbole.
JK Rowling is denying that trans people were targetted by the Nazis, and promoting the tweets of known anti-trans activists screeching that any insistence that we were is "the LGBTQ+ lobby" revising history. That is, by a 2022 ruling on a case regarding similar tweets by the Regional Court of Cologne, (translation) "a denial of Nazi crimes."
She is, by German court precedent, quite literally engaging in an element of Holocaust denial.
In case anyone is unfamiliar with the Nazis' destruction of both gay and trans culture in Germany, Germany had a sympathetic gay and trans health clinic in the early 1900s. The Nazis destroyed it and burned literature studying homosexuality, gender noncomformity, and what we now understand to be transgenderness or transexuality. This took place only 3 months after Hitler came into power.
In addition to homosexuality, crossdressing was illegal under the Hitler regime even though trans people had (albeit limited) rights prior to his rise to power. And before anyone says it, the trans holocaust victims we talk about weren't misidentified crossdressers, drag artists, or gender-nonconforming people. One trans woman, Liddy Barcroff, died in a concentration camp for her "crossdressing" after telling arresting police âmy sense of my sex is fully and completely that of a woman.â The queer community, all of us, suffered huge losses both in individuals and in education and understanding during the Holocaust. Denying any part of that is offensive and dangerous.
The Institute for Sexual Research, founded in 1919, pioneered modern gender-affirming health care. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with medical his
On 6 May 1933, the Institute of Sexology, an academic foundation devoted to sexological research and the advocacy of homosexual rights, was
Last year, a German court acknowledged the possibility that trans people were persecuted by the Nazis
It's also important to add that the founder of that institute was Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, who was a gay Jew. This allowed Nazis to claim that Jews were promoting homosexuality to "destroy the family" and weaken the white race.
You know, pretty much exactly what Republicans are saying now, just in dogwhistles.
do not separate themâŠ..
Starter Pokémon in Ohio
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It's crazy that these strikes are happening given that all the writers and actors are asking for is less than 0.3% of the revenue these studios make.
This is what gets me. The writers and actors arenât asking for much but these CEOs are digging their heels in
It's because it sets a precedent that the CEOs are terrified to set. That they will acquiesce to worker demands if the workers are resolute enough.
Because in an ideal world for these rich fucks, the workers give up, and the CEOs win, and its reinforced in the collective public mindset that all a strike does is "disrupt the economy, deprive people of valuable products, and waste people's time". The goal is to maintain the assertion that Strikes Don't Work. I don't think they genuinely give a shit about 0.15% of their revenue. What they care about is the OPTICS.
They cannot back down, for the exact same reason that WORKERS cannot back down. Because if the workers win, it shows people just that bit more that The Poors have power and ultimately we can make the rich do what we want if we put our fucking minds to it. And that, to the rich, is bad news bears to the highest degree.
You gotta love that Tumblr is on the rise because of Twitter and Reddit going down, and not because Tumblr has actually done anything to really improve its website.
I personally kin with a website that accidentally and coincidentally fails upwards.
The site that wins simply by remaining upright.
We are literally this meme, posted eons ago, in our ancient texts.
So when Earth gets its own permanent superstorm like Jupiterâs Great Red Spot and it makes it so the tropics are basically no longer habitable by humans is it going to have one of these random old-person hurricane names
How fucked up would it be if they chose your first name for that storm
Like youâd pretty much have to change it, right? The stormâs not going away and keeping your name would be in pretty poor taste, Iâd think
in a Young Adult novel it would just be called The Storm
In a Terry Pratchett novel it would just be called Alfred. Not Hurricane Alfred, or Tropical Storm Alfred, just Alfred. This might be brought up once by a naive, sympathetic viewpoint character, but some wiser (for certain values of wise) character will admonish them for discrimination against natural phenomena, and noting that we would never call a human âHuman Jimâ. Later in the story, the Alfredâs individuality and relatability will be a significant plot point.
in a cyberpunk novel it would be the second half of an ordinary word, with an apostrophe at the beginning. the âphoon, the âcane, etc.
goddammit youâre absolutely right
âIn a cyberpunk novelâ
As if half the english-peaking internet doesnât already call The Plague âthe âRonaâ
etc., etc.
imagine simping for capitalism this badly
The only reason there are pyramids in Egypt
is because they are too heavy to be carried to the British Museum
jeff this isnât a joke this is legitimately true
A new open access study by leading scientists rebuts unfounded criticisms and reaffirms the need for effective outdoor cat control.
According to researchers, coordinated critics have mounted a âmisinformation campaign designed to purposefully fabricate doubt regarding the harmful impacts of outdoor cats and stymie policies that would remove outdoor cats from the landscape.â
The conflict stems from a groundbreaking study published in 2013 by scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. That study evaluated the combined impact of the tens of millions of outdoor cats in the United States. The authors found that roaming outdoor cats kill approximately 2.4 billion birds every year and are the leading source of direct, human-caused mortality to birds in the country. Similar results have since been confirmed in Canada and Australia.
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To those of you still in denial about how bad outdoor cats are to wildlife not just in your own countries but globally hereâs the cold hard scientific facts stating that you are apart of a movement of uneducated critics spreading misinformation.Â
Hereâs the link to the open-source scientific artificial as well:
Responding to misinformation and criticisms regarding United States cat predation estimates (2018). Loss S, Will T, Longcore T, Marra P. Biological Invasions; 20(12): 3385-2296
but what aboutâŠ. all the rats, mice etc they kill⊠hmmmmm
Maybe click the actual scientific research and read it before leaving a comment hmmmmm it would have saved you the embarrassment of proving the point of research. Which was that people that criticise keeping cats indoors were found to have zero actual evidence to back up their criticisms, therefore all their claims were based on nonsense or emotions.Â
Yikes! Think this is a good lesson in clicking links before you comment!
This study is going to cause so many ructions in the publicâŠ. buckle in, guys
You have not seen ructions in public until youâve seen me tell a bunch of farmers to keep their barn cats indoors and encourage black snakes to take care of their Rodent probs because at least the snakes donât spread toxoplasmosis.
Nobody does a ruction like a six foot plus dude who is secretly afraid a five foot snake will casually slither by and be all âsupâ
Anyway here is my Chief Rodent Control Officer after taking a tithe of eggs which she does when thereâs not enough rodents around
Yeah itâs not too hard to predict how that conversation will go:
You: You know those cats running around your property that wonât let a human touch them if their lives depended on it? You need to bring them all in the house.
Farmer: haha good one. You know theyâd freak the hell out, right? Assuming that I could catch them and drag them in in the first place. And how am I supposed to control the rats if all my cats are inside?
You: Bring in a bunch of snakes andâŠ
Farmer: haha go away now.
I love it when people assume I am not in fact a farmer myself. Iâm a shepherd, with sheep. I donât have barn cats because, among other reasons, cats spread toxoplasmosis. You know what toxo does? Probably not. Youâre probably not dependent on small ruminants for any part of your livelihood.
Toxoplasmosis causes abortion in sheep and goats. Every ewe or doe who fails to lamb or kid is lost milk, lost meat, a lost replacement animal in the flock, lost cash from the sale of a new herd sire to someone else. When you have rare breed primitive sheep like I do, each lost pregnancy is also the entire breed slipping closer to the brink of disappearing.
You also appear to be unaware that there are live traps for catching the very feral barn cats - Iâm SO glad someone who knows my profession, life, and attendant tools so well chimed in - we also use them to eg trap raccoons, foxes, and possums who are predating small livestock like chickens and rabbits. Incidentally, did you know cats can shed salmonella which can go on to infect your chickens? Why are you raising your own chickens for eggs and meat if youâre just going to get the same salmonella roulette you could get at the grocery store without all the goddamned work?
Chickens will also eat mice and young rats, incidentally. If youâve got an honest to God adult rat infestation in your barn your husbandry practices are fucked up six ways from Sunday and you need to build better feed containers before you do anything else. The country isnât the city. We do a lot more mice here.
You could of course also get yourself a nice working terrier and while youâre doing chores let the dog go to town on the rodent population.
Because if you actually have barn cats you canât get near, theyâre serving as a potential reservoir for rabies (which will pass to any mammal including you, including cattle), feline distemper, toxo, salmonella, and a host of parasites starting with coccidia and running out to various worms that donât much care if they infect a barn cat or, yknow, a pregnant cow worth $2000.
So no, actually, thatâs generally not how the conversation goes. But thanks for chiming in, city kid, assuming I was not in fact a working shepherd.
Yeah, theyâre gonna lift the working class right into a company town.
Only rich people would think this was a good idea.
Learn your history, people!
We DID this shit- for DECADES. It was fucking awful. Companies paid people in âscripâ which was only good for use at the Company Store. So effectively, the company got your money coming and going, and they didnât pay you at all. And the longer it went on, the less likely you were to have savings that could have helped you move away or get a different job.
Iâve already seen one ad trying very sneakily to promote the idea of âAmazonBucksâ, including giving them to workers as rewards, or instead of things like healthcare, sick days, and PTO.
Hereâs your reminder that scrip is fucking illegal, that company towns are always a shit idea that should stay dead and buried, and that if unions didnât work? Every big company out there wouldnât be fighting tooth and nail to destroy them.
#UnionStrong #SolidarityForever
Whenever I read LotR and reach the battle between Eowyn and the Witch-king, I get the impression that the reason why the prophecy loophole works isnât that the Witch-king is unkillable except for some illogical weakness nobody had thought about yet for misogynistic reasons, but that the Witch-king himself derives so much of his power from the fear he instills in others and from his own belief that he is unkillable. Eowyn doesnât fear him, because she doesnât fear death. When she twists his words right back at him, sheâs not trying to exploit a prophecy loophole, sheâs just making a play on the double meaning of the word «man» with fairly standard battlefield bravado.
But, crucially, it gets the Witch-king wondering if there might be an actual loophole in the prophecy. He starts doubting his own invincibility. Thereâs no logical reason why a woman might be able to kill him if a man cannot, but prophecies are tricky things. What if âŠ
And this is what undoes him, in the end. This last minute doubt. The Witch-king, deep down, believes that Eowyn can kill him, thus making it possible for her to do so.
The elves care about the prophecy. The Witch-king cares about the prophecy. All the old, powerful beings of Middle Earth play by the rules of prophecy and live by the logic of Norse Sagas and Germanic legends.
Eowyn marches up to the Witch-king like Jared (19), goes âthat sign wonât stop me because I canât readâ, and because the storybook logic, the fairytale logic, of the prophecy allows for her kill him, the Witch-king as a creature of stories and nightmares has to play by his own rules and die by her sword.
As people have pointed out before, the phrasing of Glorfindelâs words about the Witch-king allow for quite a number of the inhabitants of Middle Earth to kill him, if weâre only looking for possible loopholes in the prophecy.
not by the hand of man shall he fall
According to this, the Witch-king could technically be killed by elves, dwarves, ents, hobbits, orcs or maiar. Why doesnât Legolas kill the Witch-king? Why doesnât Gandalf?
As mentioned, elves are very aware of the story logic that governs Middle Earth. They see their own place in the narrative, they know which foes are beyond them. Gandalf, too, knows that he cannot be the one to kill the Witch-king, and the Witch-king knows that Gandalf cannot kill him. Through their combined beliefs, the outcome of their fight is predetermined.
Eowyn doesnât know what she can or cannot do according to story logic. The Witch-king has killed her Theoden. She sees no reason why she shouldnât avenge him. And when she hears the Witch-king tell her that no man can kill him, she simply decides that that rule doesnât apply to her.
Eowyn isnât the only person who could have been the exception to the rule, but she is the first person who decides to genuinely, honestly believe that she is the exception to the rule, and this is why she ultimately kills the Witch-king.
