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[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[sun-cheyne]

Also just a handy, DIY air filter in general, if a bit bulky. For a less bulky and cheaper (but also less effective) solution, you can simply tape one filter to the fan, cut a shroud if you'd like.

[snowriddenwolf]

just FYI, this is quite literally what the climate scientists at my work who specialized in wildfire smoke impacts recommend. it works great, it's cheap to make, and it will make a noticeable impact on your air quality.

[mechanicalriddle]

i have asthma & keep one of these running in my room perpetually. after I set it up the difference in my sleep quality was pretty much night and day. Dont waste your time on proprietary air filters; SIMPLY bust out the duct tape

[pyrophobicpoet]

trying to enjoy wholesome fan content for your comfort media only to discover the fandom is infected by the batshit crazy virus

[modern-politics111]

[scotty-wolf-lover1968]

important and encouraging

[pcamtschatica]

Found a great (free) documentary on the Freedom House Ambulance Service here- https://www.wqed.org/freedomhouse/ (has captions too)!

[hoodiedeer]

I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve heard about this. like for years I’ve been thinking “imagine if the police were in charge of ambulances and firefighting, all the horrible problems that would cause, wouldn’t it be better if they were a separate thing, etc” as a way to better understand/explain the fundamental problems with the existence of police. that framing was part of what made me start to understand why my friends were saying “ACAB” and “abolish the police”. I had no idea it was literally once historically like that and not just a hypothetical tbh

[ardentdelirium]

Interview with one of the original members of Freedom House Ambulance

[scriptmedic]

This is cool as shit, and a part of my own career’s history that I didn’t even know about.

[pyrophobicpoet]

Once again, I’ve been bamboozled. I thought I was reading a 100k+ word fanfic about a character becoming disabled and learning to thrive with that disability, only for said disability to be miraculously cured at the last chapter.

[pyrophobicpoet]

I’m reading the fma manga for the first time and have just reached Envy’s true form—incredible. I know it would have been awful to animate back in the 2010s, but I wish fmab’s Envy was this detailed. The shows were pretty light on fucked up monsters prior to the Envy reveal, but now that I’m finally reading the manga and getting into YNT/DOTSR as well, I’m wondering if Arakawa just had so much fun illustrating Envy that she wanted to draw more fucked up lil guys. Because I would have had fun. I love drawing fucked up lil guys.

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[baddywronglegs]

The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that

[thepollingstation]

Are you confident you are the only person alive with your full name?

yes

no

other

Voting ended onMay 21

[los-copa]

her name was Juniper Blessing, she was 19 and she was just doing her laundry

[wispthicket]

From one of her friends on a Reddit post.

[strawberry-macchiato]

The fullmetal alchemist’s final transmutation

(Its been 3 million years since my last fma art and it’s also a bit late for oct 3 but i managed to finish an art! Yippie

[arcobaleno-22g]

art by Aliya Chen\chenalii

[redstonedust]

the worst part about grief is that it feels like the world should be horrendously earth shatteringly changed, and to an extent it IS but its also the same. to everyone else it's just another tuesday. the world moves on. you have to go grocery shopping.

[gael-garcia]

Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams

[fluentisonus]

musée des beaux arts, w.h. auden

[pyrophobicpoet]

I don’t want to be famous, but if I were to be, I have one goal: if I get my novel(s) published and they get a substantial enough fanbase that people write fanfiction, I’m going to publish my own fanfiction of my own IP on ao3 and I will tell absolutely none of you which account is mine. Which ao3 works are canon? None of them. All of them. Welcome to the ARG.

[blindbeta]

Everyone! We are at 2,802 followers! Please run in circles with me. Also share this blog with everyone on tumblr so I can be insufferable about having 3k followers on the tumblr dot com.

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The New American Gothic (2017) by Criselda Vasquez

[gracklesong]

From Criselda Vasquez's Instagram (3 April 2026):

Donate to Help Bring My Father Home from ICE Detention, organized by Jorge V

Hi everyone, Thank you for taking the time to read this. On Tuesday, March 31,… Jorge V needs your support for Help Bring My Father Home

[cock-holliday]

People love to say things like “Hiding Anne Frank was illegal, turning her in would have been legal” without like fully grasping the modern implications properly. You have tons of folks like “if WW2 happened today id have __” that do not realize what is happening around them.

We have this idolized AND sanitized version of what happened then, and so we do not recognize it when it happens now.

Resistance fighters assassinated nazis and blew up weapons and infrastructure and destroyed records and forged paperwork and raised secret funds and smuggled people in vehicles and yes, hid them in their homes.

“Well it’s sad he got sent to an ICE camp but he faked his permit :/“

Whoever helped him fake his paperwork did what fighters in ww2 did. People who cut through chain link fences do what fighters in ww2 did, people who blow whistles chasing after ice cars do what fighters in ww2 did, people who destroy arms factories and cop city cranes do what fighters in ww2 did, people unmask agents do what fighters in ww2 did.

People are doing it now! They’ve been doing it now! You keep saying “oh if this happened here__” it HAS! It IS!

What are you doing about it?

[wildseerbigwings]

planning. I live in a relatively "calm" neighborhood, but when I do run into ICE agents, or anything of the like, I will be immediately helping my neighbors with anything to keep them safe.

My Oma grew up in the midst of Nazi Germany, and she taught me very well about what to do if things like that happen again. Stay calm, think, plan, do not stop fighting, keep your neighbors safe.

I do not intend to disappoint her.

[pyrophobicpoet]

Birthright, blackout poem by Aeden Romeyn (@pyrophobicpoet) using Executive Order 14160, a nonsense document free to read on the federal register if you want to be informed on said nonsense.

[ID: Two pages of Executive Order 14160, the order by Donald Trump that aims to revoke birthright citizenship, used as a blackout poem. The poem reads in fits and starts. These words are spliced together from multiple separated letters: 'white,' 'disrespect,' and 'people.' Poem begins now:

By the authority of State Purpose a priceless and profound gift is repudiated solely based on race. Among the categories not subject to the privilege of a wh-ite father or mother. under the auspices of the State, it is policy that no government shall recognize true children of the Homeland. All agencies consistent with this order d-i-s-respect the public. Definitions mean nothing to the authority of the p-e-o-p-le united.

Poem ends. Donald Trump's name at the end of the executive order has been blocked out with black boxes and replaced with the poet's. ID ends.]