Hoenn Is The Best

Still not as good as Sinnoh, though. I'm Sanic. Icon from Genopaint

[genopaint]

Commission for @saxton-hale-anagram of Penny Polendina from RWBY! Very cute character and very fun to draw!

[indomie-fried-noodle]

🖕🖕🖕

[saturniandragon]

Home of the DNSCrypt project, a protocol to improve DNS security. Download DNSCrypt clients, the DNSCrypt server proxy, and read the specifi

[saturniandragon]

Bypass ISP blocks and gain access to reddit, archive.org, neocities, and more

[tlirsgender]

Finding out people are actually slash gen not taught to Actually Read in school in favor of just looking at the words for half a second and keeping it moving whether you understand it or not is crazy but does explain a lot of things

[tlirsgender]

You start noticing like "why do so many people online seem to just pick out a few words they recognize and decide what they think you mean from that instead of actually reading what you said" & then you look at the education system & it's like Oh okay. Oh that's actually really bad

[datsderbunnyblog]

That's also why dog whistle politics is so successful at the moment

[shadow-manor]

The rest of the thread is here.

tl;dr: Don’t monetize AO3, kids.  You won’t like what happens next.

[ratherembarrassing]

read this thread. this is by far the most concise explanation of a lot of different issues that i’ve seen in fandom spaces in a while. cosigning both the linked thread and the thread about aus/uk/can law that’s linked in-thread.

[billybluboy]

AHDHXHEBSG TWITTER WRITERS DID WHAT NOW???? AND PEOPLE PAID THEM????

[prof-grace-aspen]

If someone has never taken a class that includes copyright law, they may not know this stuff, so I don’t necessarily blame random people for not knowing what copyright is, but like… maybe just maybe it’s something that should be taught????

[antifa-stray]

[mercurywells]

Just another reminder, because this always drives me crazy, but even if monetizing your fic was 100% unambiguously legal and protected, AO3 would still not let you do it because AO3 was founded and is supported by people like me who want a fandom community that is completely divested from making money off of fic.

[naryrising]

Yes, this. Lots of fanworks on AO3 are unambiguously legal. Fics based on Shakespeare plays and fairy tales and Greek mythology and The Great Gatsby and your original character from your D&D game are not violations of copyright, because no copyright applies to those things.

AO3 still doesn’t let you monetize those things on the site, because we don’t want the site to be commercial! Because that’s not what it’s for!

It’s not there for you (generic you) to make money off the efforts of the people who build and maintain the site for free! We aren’t getting paid for the work we do to give you a nice site to use, just like you aren’t getting paid for the work you do to create whatever art you share there. Because fandom is supposed to be a community where we share with each other, and therefore we all benefit.

The deal is, we give you a free, stable, safe platform to host your works. In exchange, you get a site that isn’t covered in ads and tip jars and links to gofundme and “read the next chapter at my patreon”. You get one goddamn place on the internet that isn’t trying to make money off you. And we will defend that space and keep it non-commercial.

[calebwittebane]

no idea where i was going with this but i abandoned it at the most disconcerting moment possible

[andromedamemes]

I like using brand names as generic terms, because they can lose their trademark and thus their power and brand recognition through genericization. Examples of former trademarks that have now been genericized include Aspirin, Trampoline, and Escalator. Examples of current trademarks at risk of genericization include Bandaid, Photoshop, and Frisbee. If we work together, we can take them down. List of brands we've conquered. You can help by expanding this list.

[tamamita]

Once US civil war 2 happens, Cuba should take Florida while they're not looking

[godspeedyoublackemperor]

i am poor transgender girl living in illegitimate desantis regime and am so hungry for estrogen . please president diaz-canel liberate us with your jupiter 5 artillery missles

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

holy hell actually

[alicat54c]

How about you look up the stats for food availability and poverty with starvation in Cuba before deciding you want to be conquered by them.

[tamamita]

i

wonder

how

that

HAPPENED

[mothmanphobia]

The United States ranks higher in deaths by malnutrition than Cuba does. X X X Wild how they're able to support people like this even with an embargo. I wonder what kind of system would allow them to do this.

It's literally shameful how the United States is so much richer than Cuba and still has a higher percentage of people dying of malnutrition. It's actually disgusting.

[nativenews]

A genocide researcher who is also a genocide survivor is rejected for job because of her evidence-based posts on an ongoing genocide.

[fernwah-funzone]

oopsie our administrative staff (smol beans) just happened to enforce the bigoted status quo and selectively upheld rules against minorities while ignoring the actual hate speech and harassment that goes on under their watch! oh well, human error! "mistakes" happen, you know! 🤗🥰

[demonyawa]

Wind Waker

[demilypyro]

In retrospect maybe I should have taken it as a sign when the first anime I really got obsessed with as a teen was the one about the angsty gay girl and her upbeat canon girlfriend

[demilypyro]

[ultra-kek]

I Think This Is Tom Cruise.

[sexygaywizard]

Just went to the grocery store and it is very close to midnight and so everybody there was pretty scrungy and tired and maybe whacked out, buying shit like cocoa puffs and cake (I was buying candy and ice cream so no judgement) and people were looking at me weird and I only realized until after I got home that I am like fully made up in a nice outfit and was very smiley and giggly bc I was listening to funny podcast and probably appeared to them completely out of touch with the reality of the situation I existed within

[sexygaywizard]

snapshots of my life

[sexygaywizard]

Honestly I think this image

holds true for more of my life than I would like to admit lol

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[varijacija]

[biglawbear]

I'm a gay man and not a lesbian but I just love how there are certain videos I can look at and say "I know the 'not to be a lesbian but oh my god' tags must be in the notes" and then I look and there they are

I love lesbians and I love videos that make lesbians go "oh my god". mlm wlw solidarity

[daakureisaiko]

Same thoughts as a gay man

[the-cimmerians]

#me‚ aroace‚ reblogging this for followers with the same affection that i give my dog a mostly finished peanut butter jar (@blondejaneblonde)

[depsidase]

[flagellant]

I truly don't have any words about what's happening in Ohio right now. I want to post something like I usually do. Give vocabulary, etc, whatnot. It's important, it's so important. But I don't have words. What could I possibly say about the level of devastation that has happened, is happening, will happen in the future? This is worse than the BP spill. And I don't know how to respond to that with anything other than a shocked numbness.

[flagellant]

There has been a complete media black out regarding the catastrophic and deadly environmental disaster currently happening in Ohio right now, which began a full week ago at time of writing.

A train filled with extremely toxic and reactive chemicals, specifically vinyl chloride, was derailed. A cloud of poisonous chemicals has sprouted and since the cloud is heavier-than-air, it will persist to continue to travel downwind, polluting the atmosphere and environment of everything it touches. All pets will die. Reaching the Mississippi will completely eradicate the safety of all its waters from that point and everywhere downstream. Creeks are already filled with dead fish which the Ohio government claims is not to be worried about. The entire state's soils and ecosystems will be contaminated to deadly carcinogenic levels for the rest of all our lives and far beyond it. If and when it reaches the Gulf of Mexico the currents will carry its poisons globally.

I wish I could say anything of hope right now. I wish I could even say I'm angry. But I'm not right now. I just feel numb. The scale of this is just so beyond anything I can comprehend and there's an explicit and purposeful refusal to report on this.

[tarilaran]

Article discussing some of the safety concerns:

While vinyl chloride itself is a carcinogen, the burning of the chemical, which releases hydrogen chloride and phosgene, can be immediately lethal. Phosgene, a highly toxic, colorless gas with a strong odor, was notoriously used as a weapon during World War I.

Another article:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90848025/ohio-train-derailment-toxic-chemicals-pvc-spill-fire-disaster

Meanwhile, the crash site was leaching other hazardous materials besides vinyl chloride. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says they seeped into surrounding waterways, and “were immediately toxic to fish”—though it added that “actions were taken to minimize that.” The agency has assured the public that, the poor aquatic life’s fate notwithstanding, everybody’s drinking water was “protected.”

Yesterday [Feb 9 2023], the agency announced that the air in East Palestine was finally deemed safe enough for residents to return.

The oldest source I can find discussing this is from Feb 8.

WHEELING — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday said Norfolk Southern’s train that derailed Friday in East Palestine, Ohio, did lead

[ms-demeanor]

Here is the New York Times reporting on this on February 4th.

Here are NBC and The Daily Beast reporting on this on February 5th.

Here are People Magazine, the Sacramento Bee, The Daily Beast again, CBS News, Reuters, and Reuters again reporting on this on February 6th.

Here is CNN reporting on it on February 7th.

The EPA response profile has been active and updating since February 4th.

I want to preface this by saying THIS IS NOT GOOD, and we shouldn't act like nothing is happening. This is bad. This is a serious environmental disaster. There are currently risks to humans and animals, and risks to humans and animals will be ongoing for quite some time at various levels.

However I think that "this will kill all the pets in the area and will lay a swathe of poison from Ohio to Mexico, burning the world between" is perhaps something of an overstatement and I'm aware that folks are upset about this but holy shit let's please try not to catastrophize the catastrophe.

The purpose of an intentional burn at the site was as a containment measure, because it is better to temporarily have extremely toxic chemical byproducts in an evacuated area than it is to allow an extremely carcinogenic chemical to slowly disperse.

There was a similar chemical spill in New Jersey in 2012 (still not a good thing! Not something that we should let go lightly!) and it did not result in "all pets dying" or a mass poisoning of rivers and streams.

Here is the DHHS Toxological Profile for Vinyl Chloride, a nearly 300-page document that goes over risk factors and harms caused by the chemical. Given the tone of the original post, here's what people probably want to see right now:

At the moment, there appears to be one man who claims that his pet fox died as a result of exposure to the vinyl chloride, and it sickened some of his other pets. There is some discussion of dead chickens and one dead hawk was found. Dead fish were found in some bodies of water, and the EPA is monitoring other bodies and has issued directives for dams and spillovers to collect chemical runoff to prevent as much downstream contamination as possible. At the moment, it is very difficult to say whether there will be a significant amount of acute animal deaths (wild or domesticated) as a result of this, though I would guess there will be a very significant increase of cancer in the area in the coming years.

One reporter at a press conference from the Ohio governor was arrested, he has been released and the AG's office is investigating his arrest. There are a lot of photos of the derailment and its consequences on social media and other news websites, and it does not appear that anyone is preventing people from taking or sharing photos of the disaster.

Look. I am not someone who thinks that you should blindly trust the government. There are huge issues here. This is a disaster that happened for a number of reasons, many of which are related to absolute shit regulation of chemical transportation and which were probably exacerbated by overworked railroad employees who got fucked over for the sake of the economy in December. There is bad shit here that is worthy of criticism, there are legitimate things to be concerned about.

But just because I don't trust the government doesn't mean I think it's a better idea to trust a shitpost account on twitter that provided "evidence" in the form of an instagram account posting screenshots of text messages from one guy who had a collection of exotic animals he wasn't able to retrieve from the evacuation area and a tiktok video.

There are definitely things to worry about with this, but please don't panic.

Also look, if the news is too miserable and you don't want to look at it too much but you want to at least pretend to stay informed, the Daily Beast's Cheat Sheet is a constant stream of paragraph-long reports on breaking news. Two of the stories I linked up above are from the Cheat Sheet. Just. Keep it open in a browser tab and check headlines once a day, okay? This has been news for an entire week, if People Magazine is doing human interest stories on it there isn't a media blackout please don't get your news from twitter or tumblr please I am begging you.

[the-great-mighty-dink]

Visit Original Link

this sucks

[kaijutegu]

Ohio Sheetz Employee Was Forced to Quit Her Job Because of Missing Teeth Caused By Domestic Violence

The company’s policy forbids employees from working with “obvious missing, broken, or badly discolored teeth” unrelated to a disability.

I have a lot of words, many of them profane.

One of the things that makes me the MOST angry about the way teeth are treated in the US is the extremely open way that we discriminate against people with “bad” teeth. This is a perfect example. This lady lost her teeth to domestic violence and found herself the victim of a ridiculously discriminating “smile policy.” Sheetz is actively discriminating in hiring based on peoples’ looks. There is plenty of talk (and plenty of peer-reviewed research) about how “bad teeth” can lead to discrimination in the US, and this is a perfect example of how our feelings about teeth can ruin lives.

According to Business Insider, the employee handbook says “applicants with obvious missing, broken, or badly discolored teeth (unrelated to a disability) are not qualified for employment with Sheetz.”

First off, what the fuck does that even mean? Who is defining disability here, and who at Sheetz is qualified to diagnose an applicant’s dental issues?

Second, and I think this is way worse, is that this policy is directly hurting people where Sheetz is located. According to their website, Sheetz is located in Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. That’s a lot of Appalachia and Rust Belt areas. Even if everybody in these states could afford comprehensive dental care, there are not enough dentists in these areas to serve people. PA, OH, and NC in particular have massive dental HSPAs (health professional shortage areas), and in WV and VA, you have people relying on Remote Area Medical clinics that are sporadically scheduled and often have massive wait times, simply because the people living in these areas are so removed from towns that can actually support a dentist. Imagine taking off of work for three days to camp out in a sports arena parking lot just for a chance at seeing a dentist and you’ll see what some of these people are up against.

Make no mistake: This policy is a way for Sheetz to discriminate against poor people, a lot of whom are the very clientele they’re serving. IMHO, that’s total bullsheetz.