My writing

I started off as a fanfic writer and now I am finally selling some original stuff to some nice people. http://www.lessthanthreepress.com/author-sandra-bard/

[sandrabard]

Start-up Can you list a serial generation language programming? The vocabulary of commonly spoken communication is ________ the vocabulary of a programming language? a. Greater than b. Less than c. Equal to What programming language do you like?

Start-up Can you list a serial generation language programming? The vocabulary of commonly spoken communication is ________ the vocabulary of a programming language? a. Greater than b. Less than c. Equal to What programming language do you like?

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[elinimate]

A male colleague was making fun of the #metoo movement a few days ago, and many more (I’m one of 5 women in a department of 200 men) joined in. So I raised my voice and said I was glad women were speaking up about sexual harassment and assault and that I hoped that everyone who perpetuated this toxic behavior got taken down.

“Yeah but it’s a trend now, lots of them are just saying it for their 15 minutes of fame.” He then continued to say that he didn’t know anyone who had been harassed or any man who had done it.

I asked him if he had a daughter. He did. I asked him how old she was. She was was 17. I told him I’d bet my rent money that his daughter had experienced sexual harassment. 

“That’s impossible.” 

“Did you ask her?” 

“No.” 

“Well then, do it.”

The next day, he came in the office with five bouquets of flowers for all the women in our department, including me. He publicly apologized for making fun of sexual harassment and for making our lives harder by doing so. He said that he simply hadn’t known how widespread it was. Apparently, his daughter deals with it very regularly. She hadn’t told him because of the way he spoke about assault cases that were on the news. She thought he’d think less of her if she’d mention it. It was her idea that he should make a public announcement. He said he felt like a bad father. 

I said: “You were. Same goes for everyone who laughed with you. Be better, now you know better. And educate other men that still think the same way you did yesterday. And next time someone tells you about an experience they have, don’t automatically assume that because you haven’t seen it, it’s not true. That kind of willful ignorance is why we still deal with this shit.”

He also offered to pay my rent as that was part of the bet, but I told him I’d rather have him put effort in being a person his daughter and wife could be proud of. 

[thesporkidentity]

In conversation the other day my mom stopped and asked my dad about what percentage of women he thought had experienced sexual harassment. He said about 20-30% maybe. My mom told him that both of us had been harassed multiple times at work (same goes for both of her sisters) and that she had actually been assaulted by a groper on a public bus. I have never seen anyone’s face go slack so quickly before as he realized that literally every woman in his family had experienced this. And while I’m glad he believed us and has changed his view on that subject I still can’t shake the frustration, the anger, that it required being sat down and spoonfed these incidents that we didn’t particularly wanted to relive. This is something that women have been saying for years, but men just never listen. Not even when they’re forced to sit in mandatory harassment in the workplace training seminars.

[suspend]

this post needs more attention

[badacts]

dudes who accuse films like captain marvel of teaching young girls to hate men have no idea that literally no one and nothing is more effective at making girls hate men than men

[badacts]

this is now my most popular post and i haven’t so far seen a single dumbass attempted rebuttal so i’m feeling pretty good about it tbh

[cannabiscomrade]

Please consider donating to Callie! She is fighting stage 4 cancer, and as this is going on, her parents are facing homophobia and lesbophobia from people who could be helping.

Here is her gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/tinybutmighty17

Click here to support Callie Strong organized by Callie's Crusaders

I am asking friends and family to please help if you can and to please pray. This is my sweet niece who is 18 months old. Her name is Callie

[cannabiscomrade]

Here’s an update from her Facebook page as of April 12th: 

Callie had a long day of playing hard and walking today! She did amazing! We tried to give her some juice today she didn’t keep it down so she’s still npo for now. She’s such a amazing and tough little girl!

Also her doctor dr Weiss (they call him the neuroblastoma god)he stopped in today and said that Callie will be starting round 5 of chemo on Monday! He also said that there will be no need for round 6 after that stem cell transplant. He said 98% of her tumor is dead! And there is no need for round 6.

Also Callie got a special friend today someone I guess called the gift shop and bought her a gift and had it sent up! I didn’t even know you could do that! Thank you to the to the Ledbetter Family in Kansas City Missouri for Callie’s gift! She loves it so much!!

Please keep Callie and our family in your thoughts and prayers! And thank you for the continued support at such a hard time for us all!

Would you like to help buy meal cards for the family to eat while in the hospital?

Please Call ‭[phone]‬ and press number 9 each meal card is $6 and leave under the name Callie Reynolds due to the hospital not changing her last name since she was adopted! Message the page to let us know if you do buy food cards so we can make sure to pick them up!

Would you like to help in another way??

Gofundme https://www.gofundme.com/tinybutmighty17

Venmo: Tiffany-Shaffer-11 Cash app: [email protected] PayPal: [email protected]

Get your amazing shirts here 👚 ⬇️ https://www.bonfire.com/calliestrong/

Again, call ‭[phone] to donate a meal card! 

[liberalsarecool]

What is the woman having the abortion is a mother to another child?

“When Guttmacher Institute researchers last ran the numbers in 2008, they found that 61 percent of women who terminate a pregnancy in this country already have at least one child.”

Texas wants to murder mothers with children.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

EU calls Project Gutenberg archive, 15 million ebooks, Grateful Dead recordings and Prelinger Archive "terrorism," demands removal from Internet Archive

In the past week, Europol and the French government’s L’Office Central de Lutte contre la Criminalité liée aux Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (OCLCTIC) have sent 500 “terrorism” takedown demands to the Internet Archive demanding the removal of tens of millions of works: the entire archive of Project Gutenberg; an archive of 15 million texts, the entire Grateful Dead archive, the Prelinger Archive of public domain industrial films (much beloved by the MTV generation as they were the source of the channels classic interstitial animations), and the Archive’s collection of recordings from CSPAN.

The takedowns come in just as the EU is getting ready to vote on a proposal that will force platforms to remove “terrorist” content within one hour or face censorship through national firewalls, fines, and criminal sanctions.

Even if it was possible for the Internet Archive to sift through tens of millions of documents in a collection targeted by one of these takedowns in one hour to figure out if the takedown notice is valid, the timezone problem means that they would have to be ready to do this in the middle of the night in San Francisco, when the EU agencies most typically send their demands.

Even without this absurd law, the situation is dire. The French authorities gave the Internet Archive 24 hours to comply with its demand or face a nationwide block.

https://boingboing.net/2019/04/11/one-hour-service.html

[saint-batrick]

jesus CHRIST

[imthenic]

The fuck?

[sandrabard]

so it starts again

[lithicc]

Fun History Fact: The overwhelming majority of cowboys in the U.S. were Indigenous, Black, and/or Mexican persons. The omnipresent white cowboy is a Hollywood studio concoction meant to uphold the mythology of white masculinity.

[howmanymoredays-deactivated2013]

Thank you.

[myvaginaisanuclearreactor-deact]

I will always re-blog this

[skywritingg]

I think it was high school when i overheard some white girl put on her best semi-disgusted and confused voice and go “why do so many Mexicans dress up like cowboys?” and I had to be the person to tell her.

[mexica-boricua-deactivated20180]

Why do you think the whites say buckero? Cause they couldn’t say vaquero.

[thewellofastarael]

[manynamedshe]

I dunno if I reblogged this before but fuck it, y'all gon learn today.

[nyokoko]

Teach the children.

[fifty-shadesofgay]

also, cowboy culture was hella gay. like, write-poems-about-your-cowboy-partner gay.

IF people acknowledge it, they play the necessity card– there weren’t any women out on the range, so they had to “resort to men.” this claim completely erases 1) the romantic (not just sexual) writings of actual cowboys, 2) the acknowledgement of cowboys’ potential homosexual activity by writers at the time, and 3) the possibility that some men would deliberately become cowboys with the intent to seek out homosexual encounters.

no one wants to admit it, but cowboy culture was just. so inherently gay.

[scandinavianindian]

Im here for the gay POC cowboys

[anthonybrxdgerton]

Article 13 has been approved by EU. It’s worse than Net Neutrality has ever been. I don’t even know if we will have any access to Tumblr, Pinterest, Ao3 or even Instagram. Memes are probably dead, just like reactions, fanfictions and gifsets. Everyone in EU is in danger that they will not have access to their favorite sites. But I haven’t seen a SINGLE post about it on my dash because Americans doesn’t give a damn.

[sergle]

I’m thinking about this on twitter again but I want to say it here too

[itsrainingshadybitches]

[blizzardofjj]

I don’t use this but might be for someone out there who does, check it out?

[ms-demeanor]

Here’s a pretty comprehensive write-up:

https://www.diabetesdaily.com/blog/you-can-get-cheap-insulin-at-walmart-without-an-rx-in-some-states-576008/

[sandrabard]

This wound is just not healing.

[sandrabard]

Now what happens?

[earth-tooth]

dont support industries that are driving animals to extinction thank you!

[tinysaurus-rex-deactivated20240]

Already reblogged one of these but another reminder: don’t by nautilus shells!

[sandrabard]

Tumblr CEO: No More Porn

Checkout the even LESS SFW deleted scenes, only on DROPOUT.TV : https://chdropout.page.link/yt-ch-shorts Finally, Tumblr's returning to its family-friendly r...

i was watching this, I am sure this is all over tumblr now, but I had to save it for myself

[forever-my-sun-and-stars]

The Radioactive Man Who Returned To Fukushima To Feed The Animals That Everyone Else Left Behind

Naoto Matsumura is the only human brave enough to live in Fukushima’s 12.5-mile exclusion zone

He fled at first but returned to take care of the animals that were left behind

He returned for his own animals at first, but realized that so many more needed his help, too

Matsumura, who is 55 years old, knows that the radiation is harmful, but he “refuses to worry about it”

“They also told me that I wouldn’t get sick for 30 or 40 years. I’ll most likely be dead by then anyway, so I couldn’t care less”

Matsumura discovered that thousands of cows had died locked in barns

He also freed many animals that had been left chained up by their owners

Many of them now rely on him for food

The government has forbidden him from staying, but that doesn’t stop him either

He started in 2011 and is still going strong 4 years later

He relies solely on donations from supporters to work with and feed the animals

His supporters are calling him the ‘guardian of Fukushima’s animals’

The man clearly has a sense of humor as well

[revolutionary-afrolatino-deacti]

source

[friendlycloud-blog]

This hero deserves way more notes.

[psychedelicsex]

There should be a way to donate to this guy

[psychedelicsex]

Actually I spent some time and I found a link to donate to him. Click here to be sent to a website where you can donate to his efforts

[squeakitties]

ALERT TO ALL ANTHRO ARTISTS

the tag “fur-ry” (minus the dash) is among those in the site-side blacklist, and is why so much artwork and so many blogs are suddenly invisible from the search.

provided this isn’t a temporary measure, i strongly advise to remove the “fur-ry” tag and use stand-in tags such as “anthro” and “kemono”, since neither are affected. 

the New Xkit extension “Tag Replacer” is an easy way to swap your tags over, and you can change it back if this issue gets resolved!

[darkwavepossum-moved]

Holy shit. This actually is real. Non-furs can laugh all they want but Tumblr seriously just fucked over a load of artists and blacklisted a wholeass subculture, which is really fucked.

[viostormcaller]

*sighs*

[smooththegoofyshark]

I know I have some fur-ry followers so here ya go

[lilboreddev-blog]

REBLOG IF YOU LOVE DOGS

[poeticfog]

9 million people fucking love dogs

[tracknumber06]

Here we come 10.

[dark-eyed-harmothoe]

BREAK THE POST

BREAK THE POST

BREAK THE POST

[bifrostiron]

I’ve finally found it again

the elusive 10 million note post

they say no two people reblog it with the same original text