Sahiya 1/2

My transition to truth, love, and womanhood. 

[geiser]

the way monkeypox is being branded as not really an issue and only affecting men who have sex with other men, is honestly so heartbreaking. did we not learn anything from the 80s AIDS crisis?

[geiser]

monkeypox can be spread through sex, its true, but i've seen way too many people making light of the situation, jokes like "oh lol nothing to worry about im a virgin!" or "well im not having gay sex so" and lowering their guard, when according to the who "Monkeypox spreads from person to person through close contact with someone who has a monkeypox rash, including through face-to-face, skin-to-skin, mouth-to-mouth or mouth-to-skin contact, including sexual contact. [...] Environments can become contaminated with the monkeypox virus, for example when an infectious person touches clothing, bedding, towels, objects, electronics and surfaces. Someone else who touches these items can then become infected.  It is also possible to become infected from breathing in skin flakes or virus from clothing, bedding or towels. This is known as fomite transmission." and it can also be spread from animals to humans, rodents being one of the possible animal hosts.

[geiser]

be careful, check your symptoms, isolate if neccessary, and remember that anyone can get or pass on monkeypox.

[boppinrobin]

It’s also airborne, just like smallpox, and lingers in the air (it’s why they don’t shake out the sheets of monkeypox patients in hospital settings). Make sure you utilize whatever methods you can to improve the quality of your indoor air environments and wear your high-filtration masks.

[dailyhistorymemes]

The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

[paula-of-christ]

[im-the-princess-now]

I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help

[dresshistorynerd]

It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.

The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.

This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.

Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.

This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.

In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.

[trickstertime]

Then in 2020:

Irish people donate €2.5m to Native American tribe devastated by coronavirus

Navajo Nation say Irish generosity is the ‘good in all of the bad that is going on’

[catsnuggler]

Not enough people know the Mormons believe Native Americans are Jewish people who turned away from God and got cursed by having their skin darkened, or that Mormons literally have Manifest Destiny right there in the text, no extrapolation. I’m not Native at all, but frankly, it’s one of the most disgusting things of that faith that caused me to utterly reject it. It is a vile religion that is white supremacist to its very core.

[catsnuggler]

I know most everyone sees Mormons only as annoying missionaries who won’t get out of your face (including in the third world, where missionary work is a vital part of the colonization process), and some folks vaguely know they’re also big homophobes, and that is true, but they’re so much worse than, eh, “only” all that. They’re rabidly anti-communist, highly patriarchal, incredibly homophobic and transphobic, and highly nationalist - obedience to the state is one of their articles of faith, and it isn’t in there as a token gesture so they can get into most any country unmolested, either.

To be sure, most Mormons aren’t Nazis and don’t have favorable views of Nazis, but they are about as reactionary as Nazis, particularly with their obedience to the church hierarchy. Mormons like the conservative who hates everyone the fascists hate, but hates the fascists because “I’m an American, and we Americans love democracy and hate fascists,” obviously knowing nothing about, say, Chile in 1973, or how NATO was totally cool all that time working with Spain while Franco was still in charge, or how American industrialists coordinated with the Nazis before the war, or literally anything about the deeper history of America and fascism. But whether they know how fascist they are or not, they’re comfortable doing fascism, and a hiccup away from realizing they really do fundamentally agree with fascism, so long as their “prophet” is in charge.

I guess what I’m saying is, by all means, poke fun at Mormons, and make jokes about them. They really are ridiculous, and I agree as someone who was, unfortunately, raised as one. But they’re not only a joke, they’re also a threat wherever they are in numbers.

[coyotesmokebreak]

A note on mormon beliefs about natives: they believe that by marrying natives and having children with us that they can “restore” us to our supposed previous esteem.

A small excerpt from one of Joseph Smiths “revelations”

“For it is my will, that in time, ye should take unto you wives of the Lamanites and Nephites, that their posterity may become white, delightsome and Just”

[wizardfail]

i was raised mormon + its genuinely horrifying. like 

they also own the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii and several elementary and secondary schools in mexico and the pacific islands. given the information previously provided in this post, this is particularly alarming.

during the obama romney election the leaders of the church sent out a letter to be read in every congregation that was like…remember to vote in a way that god would appreciate or else :) he may be upset w you :)

they also have $32 billion in business assets that they handle through church-owned finance companies (look up Deseret Management Corporation) so they don’t have to report their expenses. their holdings include swaths of land in utah, america’s 14th largest radio chain, and utah’s largest newspaper. oh and they’re just sitting on SO MUCH FUCKING LAND WHY DO HTYE OWN SO MUCH LAND????

tl;dr: the church’s racist rhetoric doesn’t just encourage racism in its members. church assets are actively used to “educate” + convert indigenous people and maintain political control in utah

[overlyactivepingpongball]

Welcome to the funniest set of memes I’ve ever seen thank you

[silverybeing]

I’ve been thinking about liminal spaces a bit tonight. And truck/rest stops are often considered to be liminal spaces. Having family a few states over, I’m no stranger to family road trips and, by extension rest stops. There is one thing about them that I’ve thought about for years. 

People work there.

There are people who are not just passing through, but show up day after day, clock in, work for hours, and then go home. Where do they live? What are they like? Are these liminal spaces no longer liminal for them? Its a set destination for them now.

What sort of weird shit do they see every day that they just sigh and return to mopping the floor? The unusual that is just another day on the job. That weird otherworldiness at 3am but whatever I’m on a break. 

Perhaps they are immune to the effects of the passing spirits mixing with the mundane, cause how can you be in a liminal space if its your job? Maybe they are special caretakers that keeps the spirits moving on their way, giving directions to things no one else is supposed to see.

Either way they aren’t paid enough to deal with this shit.

[foolerrant]

so i work at a highway servo in a small rural town and i’ve done so for about a year. and 100% the creepy shit doesn’t stop, but you do sort of become resigned to it. like in the beginning i once screamed because saw myself in the mirror behind the milk and thought it was not me. but here’s some stuff i guess:

we keep the doors locked because crime exists so they make a beep sound when someone’s waiting to enter, but the amount of times i have checked the monitor and there has been nothing and no one there is not enough to say ‘general sensory problem’ but just enough for my anxious personality to be wary of the ghosts.

occasionally i discover large strange bugs i have never seen before that apparently only exist in the dead of a hot summer night. i also watch a lot of spiders crawl across the outside cameras.

once a man came in around 2am – no car, just wandered off the highway – and took every sausage roll and walked out without paying. which okay, theft happens. but he did it, looking into my eyes, and did not say a word as i called after him. he just walked in calmly, looked into my soul, remained entirely silent, and casually robbed the place. i was shook.

a cousin of mine who had been missing for three months once showed up.

and there’s this totally dead period between 3 and 5 where i usually mop the floors. which is why its weird when i find footsteps in my clean floors after ive finished.

plus, time passes differently in the freezer room . i fill up four full fridges worth of coke and red bull and other assorted soft drinks in fifteen minutes – like i’m not trying that hard its really not possible. and i know that because when i do the three fridges that cant be filled from behind, it takes me more like forty minutes or more.

i get strange customers who come in asking for directions with out-dated melways who don’t own phones and seem misplaced in time somehow but are always so very thankful. sometimes they ask for directions to places ive never heard even tho i’ve lived in the area my entire life.

or i get the same person at the same time to get the same thing every day. they have the same greeting and we have the same conversation like we’re stuck in a time loop. these pod people always come between 4 and 5am.

and i can safely say, you will never know fear until there is a 3am power outage in a storm and you are blanketed in absolute darkness so suddenly your heart stops beating. and then you have been outside in said storm taking out the rubbish and become soaked through like a drowned rat with only the weird glow of ur phone light with a painful 3% battery life to guide you.

overall its just a strange environment: deathly silent, with flickering fluorescent lights and grime in the back store that no matter how hard i try to clean never comes away and footsteps in the newly moped floor even tho there hasn’t been a customer and this room at the back entirely empty save only for ancient promotional material for products i’ve never heard of that makes me feel uneasy.

[jumpingjacktrash]

i would read a novel about your life btw if you feel like writing one i’ll buy it

[mermen]

[mysharona1987]

[taviacw]

I had to spend $300 on a new car key because I left them in an Uber and the driver refuses to return them for some reason. I’m going back to Lyft. It’s more expensive in the moment, but the $3 more I would’ve spent on a Lyft was $296 less than what I ended up spending on the uber that still won’t return my property.

[blvckgeezus]

So they holding your keys hostage? What kind of shit is that

[xoxochristina75-deactivated2025]

You should be able to contact uber directly not just the driver…but the driver shouldn’t just be holding your stuff…

That’s super fucked up

[taviacw]

@blvckgeezus essentially, yes

@christinaleannaruth I reached out to uber. They know he has my keys but there apparently isn’t anything they can do about him refusing to return them 🤷🏾‍♀️

[thatssoliyahhh]

Is the Uber driver giving an explanation for why he won’t return them?

[taviacw]

When I called him, he yelled at me that he was driving and hung up right after. Uber told me to give it 24 hours to see if he reaches back out.

[taviacw]

@momo-mania I reached back out to uber because the driver is ignoring my calls. They sent him a message. Guess I have to wait another 24 hours.

[taviacw]

Update: I just need to give it another 24 hours.

And Uber doesn’t have a fucking call line, so I guess he gets to keep my motherfucking keys

[taviacw]

[citedsilence]

What kinda fuckery is this?

[youthoughtiwasasleepdidntyou]

This may be a stupid question but; have you considered contacting the police? Refusing to return your property is as good as theft, surely?

[taviacw]

Nopes. Police only recover keys if its an industrial building. I called non emergency today and they said it would be useless to file a police report. I’ve exhausted every measure. Social media, uber support, the police, all of it. And none of it worked. 😭😭😭

[thelastexhaledangel]

dude won’t even mail them?

[taviacw]

UPDATE 3/16/18

Uber blocked my access to the “help” and “previous trips” tabs in the app. I can no longer reach out to them through the app and - if I hadn’t already screenshotted his info - I’d have no access to my uber drivers name and license plate.

PLEASE switch over to Lyft guys. Uber has made it ridiculously clear that they do not care about the safety and well-being of their riders

[sorry-not-so-sorry]

An Uber driver stole my phone. I got in contact with him a day or two after it happened and he just said “you can get it but only if you come by yourself”. I tried contacting Uber again and again and even reported him…but the nigga still has my old phone. It’s cool though, karma will get him.

[taviacw]

I went in to try and report him and uber had blocked me soooooo 🤷🏾‍♀️ I guess they rock w him. I’ve tried to explain that this man has access to my house and car so many times and I guess they were like “we sure are tired of this bitch…… blocked”

[kanyeshrugtae]

Aw hell nah! that’s some bullshit. I would call Al Sharpton, Help Me Howard, Iyanla Fix My Life, TMZ, shit someone to make this publicly known 🤷🏿‍♀️

[wildlyunlikelybabe]

I had an uber driver openly solicited me for sex, after I made a clear refusal. So yeah uber drivers are usually trash

[taviacw]

I dmed the CEO. Wish me luck on a reply y’all.

[taviacw]

Oh hey, my keys are being dropped off at a hub. And all I had to do was reach out for a week straight, contact uber support via social media, have several friends blast them across all of social media, file complaints with the BBB and the AG, dm the CEO, and call their critical emergency number. Thanks for your impeccable customer support, Uber. I will never use your shit service again.

[taviacw]

This post blew up over the last week with questions and several horrifying stories of Ubers y’all have taken, so I wanted to update just in case I hadn’t.

Couple things: One, yes, I did get my keys back. After about two weeks of messaging back and forth, trying to find new avenues to reach Uber’s support and having plates ran, i got my keys. The car key doesn’t start my car anymore, just grinds the engine, so I’m inclined to believe sometime during my separation from them, they were deactivated or something. I know that I SHOULD change the locks. But I don’t have another $300 to go to a locksmith to do that.

Two, y’all have posted some downright horrifying stories and it really made me think about how hard I had to search to get an actual phone number. But y’all listen: Uber has a secret phone number. Its a “critical emergency” line and they definitely hung up on me when I called it, but I had a location for my keys about 30 minutes after.

I tussled with sharing it, because it’s supposed to be the 911 of Uber, but then, after reading all the stories and realizing y’all have been in perilous situations and that the drivers that put you in them are still earning money by putting people in danger, I realized Uber doesn’t give a shit. If it’s supposed to be Ubers 911, everyone should know it. I can’t guarantee if you’ve lost something this will work, but if your driver is/was erratic, or threatened you, or harmed you, their number is 800-353-UBER. It’s 24 hours. They may or may not hang up on you. But it’s what I did, and - I know just not uber/lyfting isn’t an option for most of us - I’d suggest it for y’all too.

800-353-UBER

800-353-UBER

800-353-UBER

800-353-UBER

[burningflamesparadise]

based on this post

[turning-the-tides]

It’s wolf loving hour

Wolf’s outfit referenced here  

[devinellekurtz]

Kipo X Pokemon !!

[gendercensus]

The Gender Census 2020 is now open!

[ Link ]

The seventh annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 12th March 2020.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a blog post summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, retweet this tweet, boost this Mastodon post, check out this post on Reddit, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks like Facebook. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 11,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/gendercensus2020/

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

[marvelfandom]

#frightened yet aroused

[sahiya1half]

Who wouldn't be ~♡

[runcibility]

In 2016, everyone was taking online personality quizzes to find out what superhero, Disney princess, or 90s sitcom character you were. I took one of these myself (I'm Batman, if you were wondering)....

In 2016, everyone was taking online personality quizzes to find out what superhero, Disney princess, or 90s sitcom character you were. I took one of these myself (I’m Batman, if you were wondering).

In 2017, the fad suddenly vanished. Then we found out Cambridge Analytica had been using online personality tests to secretly mine user data and create personality profiles to divide Democrats against each other, manipulate swing voters, and help elect Trump.

Now it’s 2020, and suddenly these quizzes are back. And I see even many of my most politically astute friends are taking them. If we’re not going to learn from the past, I guess we deserve whatever we get.

https://www.facebook.com/apiper/posts/10157287692029232

[aqueerkettleofish]

While we’re on the subject….

Your birthdate and month will get you your stripper name AND tell the whole world information that can be used to steal your identity.  Same for quizzes that ask about your first pet, the street you grew up on, etc. A couple of years ago I started working on a parody of those quizzes, where it was your mother’s maiden name, and a different value for each of the last four digits of your SSN, but decided not to finish it because some jackass would reblog it unironically.

[ailurinae]

your birthday and month are public information, the records can be looked up regardless. I’d be more worried about the questions that look like the backup security questions websites often have (where did your parents meet, what was your first car, what was your first pets name, etc) (which are a terrible idea by the way, and the entire infosec community is against them)

[runcibility]

Hey, I don’t mean to pick on you specifically, but I’ve seen this sentiment a lot in response to this, and I want to kindly and gently point out the gist of this post.

There are certainly plenty of people who want to find ways to get at your personal information so they can use it to scam you or open lines of credit in your name.

That is not what this is about.

This is about gathering data on what you do and do not like, what your political temperature is. It’s about finding out the things you are sensitive to, what your personal pressure points are, so you can be gently pushed in one way or another.

For example, if they load the questions towards finding out what angers you the most, they can use that to stoke a sense of outrage in specific, targeted ads against you on Facebook. If you’re angry about sexism and misogyny, they’ll craft questions to gauge that, and you’ll suddenly get targeted advertisements and news articles about how your favorite candidate is actually sexist.

By the time it’s debunked, it’s too late.

I think we all like to believe that we can just… logic our way through our day. But fundamentally, the human operating system is so full of emotional buffer overflows that it’s impossible to fully resist manipulation. The best you can do is to avoid situations where you’re likely to have someone gather useful data to do just that.

It’s 2020. We have to be paranoid not because it’s cool or hip or fun, but because it’s absolutely necessary.

If you’ve got time, I highly recommend listening to the interview Terry Gross did with Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistle blower.

(Again, I want to stress that I’m not picking on you specifically - I’m just expanding on a point seen often in response)

[johnwaynegayscene]

get lyra home! organized by Violet Beeler

Violet Beeler get lyra home! meowdy! i'm a broke jewish disabled trans chick stuck across the country from friends and family, and after dea

it's been a minute since i've been active, and this is partially why. i'm in a very bad place here and any shares or contributions couldn't be more appreciated <3 i promise i'll return to my normally scheduled bullshit as soon as i can breathe again

[johnwaynegayscene]

i gotta get the fuck out of pittsburgh yo

[johnwaynegayscene]

i got gaybashed at a bus stop yesterday morning, after everything that's already happened here in the last months i need to gtfo of here asafuckingp, i'm terrified and exhausted. gofundme fees suck so if you want to help out and bypass them, you can chip in at the following :

venmo @punkyrooster

cashapp $punkyrooster

paypal.me/awesomandias

literally anything helps, i'm fucking desperate to get home 🖤

[johnwaynegayscene]

this is getting more and more attainable, please keep sharing and donating cuz it's literally saving my life and maybe it's sunk cost fallacy but i've put this much work into staying alive that i'd love to keep my streak going!!! 💜❤💙

[johnwaynegayscene]

this is making really really good progress!! thank you all so much 💜 every reblog helps so much!!

[johnwaynegayscene]

I'm sorry if this comes across wrong, but like as a trans guy I WISH I had your body type (aside from the boobs ofc lol) I'm very short and it's quite dysphoria-inducing

i appreciate the sentiment, but i gotta say in terms of dysphoria inducing, men telling me that they wished they looked like me is pretty fuckin high up there

[johnwaynegayscene]

this is really really fucking with me. i wish you hadn't sent this message. telling a trans woman who already deals enough with constant degendering and shit due to being too afraid to dress as femme as she wants because of multiple violent assaults that you, as a man, see her body type as the ideal, that's just fucked up man. don't say this to any other trans people. it's pretty shitty.

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

That’s why everybody better vote for Bernie.

[squish-this]

Unmute unmute unmute

This lady was so eloquent and passionate and an extremely well reasoned advocate and I’d vote to put her in office in a heartbeat