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Now with 99.9% reblogging!

[dresupi]

Okay so it's happening... (blegh)

We're being evicted. Well, we're being told to vacate the premises. We got a notice, we have to be out by July 30, or we will be taken to court. We were a month behind on rent, but I thought we were okay, but we weren't, apparently, so for all intents and purposes, we're being evicted. The goal is to be out by the 24th so they can't like... try to say we were late or whatever. We have a place lined up to stay and we're going to try and get everything moved in two weeks. We're having to get rid of a bunch of stuff because we're staying with family, but they're letting us keep the cats, and that's a win. There are some things we need, including a floor mattress and some shower caddies and those vacuum seal storage bags. So I made a wish list just in case anyone wanted to give us a hand with this stuff. Thank y'all so much for even just sharing this! I'm... still a little numb so I'm probably not coming across like I'm worried or upset at all, I'm mostly trying to triage and wondering how we're going to move out of a place we've lived in for 15 years in two weeks. but we're going to do it.

[doggosource]

[viralfrog]

[intosnarkness]

legit the best advice i can give you: feed your friends

any time someone is in any kind of crisis or upheaval, offer to feed them. tell them they don't have to choose what it is if they can't make decisions, just ask about allergies and preferences and tell them you're just gonna make food happen at their house.

friend having a baby? delivery gift certificate to order food to the hospital after the kid shows up.

someone's relative passes away? offer to make them dinner.

buddy gets laid off? ask if you can order them lunch.

pal stuck in a depressive episode? offer to drive them to fucking mcdonalds, if that's what they want.

people in crisis are tired and sad and angry and the last thing most of them are doing is thinking about feeding themselves. so if you have the ability or time or money, providing that is always, always a good move.

legit i do this all the time, and it is 100% always appreciated. i have taught all my friends that when something happens, we feed each other. it makes people feel extremely cared for, and I cannot recommend it enough.

[sandersstudies]

Right after I reblogged this I found out a friends’ mom was hospitalized — this is such a good reminder

If you can, provide disposable plates/utensils and save them from doing dishes — when my husband was diagnosed with cancer, bulk paper products were our most appreciated gift

[vaspider]

In late June of 2019, one of my partners ended up in the hospital unexpectedly. We hadn't moved to Portland yet, so it was just me, and not me and my wife, taking care of my partner, who had their meds screwed up by a doctor just out of meds school and ended up with their heart completely not behaving and their blood sugar on the fucking moon, and me, quietly freaking out.

My friend Kate got a bunch of our friends together and bought us a shit-ton of Uber Eats gift cards. The entire week Emet was in the hospital, I ordered salad with salmon on it for dinner. It was about as much as a burger and fries would have been from one of the places that can make gluten-free stuff for me, and I didn't have to do anything but poke a few buttons on an app.

It was genuinely one of the nicest things anybody has ever done for me. I think about it all the time, and I've tried to replicate it for others as a result. We felt so loved and so cared for.

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

My partner & I basically ate nothing but fruit for three days from the edible arrangement my boss sent us after my dad passed away. Didn't have to think, didn't have to cook, didn't have to drive anywhere or order delivery. Just grab a skewer of pineapple or strawberries & keep plugging away. It was an absolute godsend.

[netscapenavigator-official]

You should be starting a recipe book. I don't give a shit if you're only 20-years-old. The modern web is rotting away bit by bit before our very eyes. You have no idea when that indie mom blog is going down or when Pinterest will remove that recipe. Copy it down in a notebook, physically or digitally. Save it somewhere only you can remove it. Trust me, looking for a recipe only to find out it's been wiped off the internet is so fucking sad. I've learned my lesson one too many times.

[existennialmemes]

I don't think it's unreasonable for our public officials to be expected to prove they're alive and not in a coma to be able to retain their office.

If someone were, as a random example, say hospitalized for over two weeks with no explanation, I think that should automatically trigger a special election to replace them.

If you're still able to do your job, then prove it. And if you're not, then you're actively obstructing democracy by not stepping down.

Which is to say, that if a public official were to pass away or into a coma, and their handlers choose to obfuscate that fact, this should be seen as intentionally obstructing democracy.

And there should be, you know, consequences for the people who would do such a thing.

[srsfunny]

Antique shops

[cipheramnesia]

Hmm, maybe I should go back and rewrite everything 🤔

[siderealglimmer]

Everything?

Will the alphabet still start with A?

[cipheramnesia]

The alphabet will start at 9

[aquaheartgirl]

You're NOT leaving this in the tags

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

The first photo is from 1956. It shows a Black woman watching members of the Ku Klux Klan (a terrorist, racist, far-right organization focused on white supremacy) walking along a sidewalk in Montgomery, Alabama (USA). I couldn't find the photo's author, but most sources state that it was taken in 1956.

The second photo shows members of the Patriot Front group (a white supremacist and nationalist group, formed in 2017, that openly advocates what they call "American Fascism") traveling on the subway during the 250th anniversary of the U.S. independence in Washington D.C., while a Black woman watches them. The photo is by photographer Cheney Orr, taken on July 4, 2026, 70 years after the first photo.

Via Jurunense

[circus-p-nut]

[largishcat]

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

[vintageeveryday]

Trinidad-born British actress Jacqui Chan is caught turning the heads of uniformed passers-by in this impromptu snap taken in Venice in 1956 by Anthony Armstrong-Jones (later Lord Snowdon), the British socialite photographer who eventually married Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II’s sister. Chan was also a photographic model and, at the time, was Armstrong-Jones’s girlfriend.

Read more of the story behind the image here...

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

"Uniformed passers-by are caught turning their heads to ogle actress Jacqui Chan as she walks down the street minding her own damn business."

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[fandomsandfeminism]

I think you can tell a lot about how rigorous and committed someone's belief in a human right is by how quickly they are able to name people who they think could or should have that right taken away.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Like "X is a universal human right. (This doesn't include Y people though)"

Either you think X isn't actually a human right, or you think Y aren't people.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Some folks really did go straight to the replies to prove me right.

[hyperlexichypatia]

It's wild to me that people in the notes are all arguing about rapists and murderers and people deserving to get their human rights taken away for doing Bad Things, and...

Yeah, sure, serial killers deserve human rights too, but isn't there a more obvious demographic you're sliding right by? Isn't there a demographic of people so thoroughly erased by human rights discourse that their rights aren't even debated, it's just taken for granted that human rights don't apply to these people?

(It's minors. I'm talking about minors. Also disabled/neurodivergent adults under institutionalization/guardianship who have been reduced to the legal status of minors.)

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I literally do this as a first-day activity in my childhood studies courses.

I take a poll: "how many of you would agree that 'everyone deserves the right to privacy' is a pretty uncontroversial statement?"

when 95% of them have put their hands up, I say "now, what if I clarify that 'everyone' includes children?"

and as everyone lowers their hands slowly and gives me a confused look like a deer in headlights, I tell them "okay. this class is about what it means to not be part of 'everyone'."

[jncos]

[allhailthe70shousewife]

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

What a great picture! Dad just yeeted the baby into the highchair, little Jack Be Nimble dancing in the foreground in his fancy shoes and yellow socks, the tipped chair falling over in the background, Little Baby levitating the spoon. Fantastic!

[raccoonmilf]

If the only thing that has kept you going was outliving Mitch McConnell, imma need yall to pick a new person to outlive and fast. Your mission is not over.

[birdsareblooming]

sometimes i feel like im climing up this incline again alone but thankully sisypus and the itsy bitsy spider and here with me

[birdsareblooming]

holy shit is that kate bush

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

This is the first time I realized that both the original post & the attached comment are by the same person. I thought "responder" was saying that "op" was kate bush. Still funny but in a different way...