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Liz. 40s. Perpetual student. Lover of: cats, the color pink, Hawaii, Hawaii Five-0, Scott Caan, traveling, cooking/baking and other things

[chungledown-bimothy]

reblog to tell a 14 year old that these are the very, very hard years and they're not wrong to feel the way they do.

[nojglisrenaissance]

I had a fifteen minute long crying session yesternight over the fact that all I was 10 years ago, at the ripe old age of 14, is lost and lonely, and now, at 24, I am neither and that filled me with so much gratitude

[cecil-speaks]

reblog to tell a teenager that these aren’t actually the best years of your life and that things can and will get better when you have independance and maybe are away from your situation right now.

Its me reblog to tell me that

[sevastiel]

Same thing with young adults. It can still get better. Your thirties aren’t when you’re getting old, that’s 70s-80s and we all know old people can be cool as hell anyway.

It might take time. More than has already passed, but it will get better.

It gets better. It does, right? Yeah. Yeah it gets better.

[the-haiku-bot]

It might take time. More

than has already passed, but

it will get better.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[feminist-space]

The above is a video shared by smrchildsadness on Twitter, showing a person participating in a pride parade exchanging a pride flag with a person standing on his (am using his pronoun based on the TikToks/Tweets of what happened) doorway who had a Portuguese flag. There are sounds of cheers and crying and the two people hug each other as they exchange the flags. The man at the doorway then waved kisses to the crowd within the pride parade.

The Tweet says: "NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE WAS WAVING THE PORTUGUESE FLAG BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A PRIDE FLAG AND THEY TRADED FLAGS AND HE'S SO EMOTIONAL TO GET HIS OWN PRIDE FLAG I'M EMOTIONALLY RUINED"

For context, apparently they were worried that maybe he's a nationalist because he was waving the Portuguese flag and some nationalists opposing the pride march were waving that flag. But upon interacting with him, it turns out he didn't have have a pride flag and he wanted to wave *a* flag in support of the pride march. So they had an exchange and now he has his own pride flag 😭🥹.

The image above is a Tweet by kunwara_ladkaa that says "I'm crying so much right now (Image taken by Manuel Fernando Araújo/Lusa)". The image shows the same man from the pride parade crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

The above image is a Tweet by dudz_zZzz that says "ainda não parei de pensar nele," which according to Google translate from Portuguese to English is "I still haven't stopped thinking about him." The image is a drawing of the person from the pride parade, crying as he hugs his new pride flag.

Posts were made on July 1, 2024.

[feminist-space]

One of the most joyful moments of 2024 during a Pride Parade in Portugal.

[should-be-sleeping]

You are 60% water and every lake, river, pond, swamp, creek, and ocean you encounter wants to reclaim it desperately. Be careful out there.

[should-be-sleeping]

[should-be-sleeping]

Good, I hope it haunts everyone about to enter a body of water so bad that they wear a life jacket. 🙌

[should-be-sleeping]

Every single person I knew (past tense) who has drowned was "a strong swimmer." Water in the wild does not care how good you are at swimming.

[should-be-sleeping]

I mean this with all due respect:

You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.

Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.

Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.

If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.

You may be unable to return to shore. Rescue may be unable to find you quickly.

[joanthreatt]

Scheduling this for when weather starts warming up. Be careful swimming this summer

[decomposedmaw]

Pixel post dividers for everyone! It's not much, but feel free to use them if you'd like. I don't know the ideal size for these, so let me know if they're too tall. I can make them a bit shorter next time.

[uberfluss]

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

[welcomingdisaster]

what level of skin care do you perform regularly*?

none

just sunscreen

just lotion/chapstick

sunscreen + lotion/chapstick

sunscreen + lotion + exfolliant

sunscreen + lotion + exfoliant + serum/toner/primer

several different kinds of the above/more than the option above

Voting ended onMay 28

*by this I mean genuinely a part of your routine, not just once in a blue moon -- things you're doing at least half the time.

[marinella-ela]

[unwelcome-ozian]

[jockoppressor]

Spin the wheel. Tomorrow, you wake up in this country with, however implausible, a passport for both it and your home country. How do you feel?

This is awful; I’m booking a trip home immediately.

I really don’t like this; I’ll stick it out briefly, but I’m heading home soon.

This isn’t great; I’d rather be back home, but I’ll manage until I can get back.

Being here isn’t better or worse than being in my home country.

This is pretty nice; I’ll stay a little while, but go home eventually.

I love it here; I’ll be staying a long while before I go home.

This is amazing; it’ll be a long time before I go home, and I may stay here.

Voting ended onApr 20

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[littlechinesedoll]

a prosperous lunar new year to all 🐉🐎

[newtype-lila]

rb to tell prev they're being so brave right now and pat their head a little please

[cupcraft]

Do you want to be politically pure in theory or help your neighbor. Is it fruitless to help your neighbor because there's no Perfect Pure way to do it ?

[kingxanthesecond]

Honestly I would rather be politically pure. Your neighbors would never help you, so why help them?

[cupcraft]

Youre who this post is talking about. Individualism and elitism is not going to help the revolution and grassroots activism and mutual aid.

[gean-grey-blog]

When the pandemic hit this old church lady joined our tattooed queer leftist mutual aid group bc her church soup kitchen closed. We shrugged and told her she was welcome as long as she didn't proselytize.

That woman never gendered me right once, but she shut up about Jesus long enough to feed people next to us bc she cared more about action than ideology. She also had a whole network of other church people who helped contribute $ to ingredients. We provided more and better meals together than in our "correct" silos

That's how any of us get out of any of this

[crafting-and-tea]

If you watch what people in Minnesota are doing to keep their neighbors safe and to force ICE to waste MASSIVE amounts of resources in their state, the key to their success has been large numbers of people getting involved. Leftists, liberals, people who'd been politically disengaged, people who had been conservative-- everyone is welcome to step up and help. If they were applying political purity tests to everyone, they would not be winning, which they are. Immigrants would have been starved out by ICE, ICE would have taken a LOT more people, and would be able to do that with far fewer officers.

Your heart and intentions and ideology can be as pure as the driven snow, but if you don't show up and do something to help, it doesn't mean shit. You're just as helpful to people under attack as the most enthusiastic Trump follower who is cheering ICE on.

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

@armchairsoapbox good tags.

[6irlpet]

i dont want a childproofed internet i am almost 30 fucking years old. give your kid an internet safety talk and stop making it the problem of every adult on the planet every time some cryptkeeper legislator gets the brilliant idea (via conservative lobbying) to push through yet another bill gutting our access to free expression + increasing the powers of the surveillance state + lining the pockets of Big Data in the name of Protecting The Kids they wont even feed. this shit is exhausting i can’t believe we’re going to be fighting about it for the rest of my life

[homunculus-argument]

There's families where both parents are raising the kids. Then there's families where one parent is doing their best to raise the kids while the other parent sabotages every attempt to do so every step of the way. Then there's families where nobody is raising the kids, and the kids are doing their best to raise each other. And then there's families where the kids are doing their best to raise each other while the parents sabotage their every attempt to do so every step of the way.

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[mariacallous]

[mockiatoh]

When the hurricane hit, the were SO many conspiracy theories floating around about it. That the hurricane was deliberately created via cloud seeding in order to kill off Christian republican voters and take the land. That the death toll was in the thousands and that the ~250 was a deliberate lie. That the entire population of towns were dead and missing. That the mainstream media was covering it up. You had disaster influencers on TikTok fundraising for basic necessities claiming that thousands were dead and dying of cold and the like. (Pocketing the funds of course).

They created this weird mass hysteria about a natural disaster being created to attack republicans and… republicans left them out in the cold.

(Obligatory ‘no one deserves this based on who they voted for & also the margin was pretty thin.) These rural communities are overwhelmingly republican, with urban NC being where most of those dem votes are… and still the republicans can’t even pretend to care about their core constituents. Unfortunately, we’ve seen time and time again that no matter how hard rural America gets fucked by republicans, they see it as ‘the government’, while anything that benefits anyone but them is a crime by ‘the liberals’… and even the things they do benefit from are a crime by ‘the liberals’.

Regardless of who is actually responsible for what, the GOP is credited with any positive changes, the dems are raked over the coals for anything that’s less-than-perfect, and anything that is undeniably a republican decision is simply The Government (with no expectation of accountability).

[the-library-alcove]

Oh my. I've been waiting for this to happen for almost fifteen years.

Not the "(((they))) are controlling the weather to wipe out Christian Republicans" and all of the other conspiracy shit, no. What I've been waiting for is the storm that would wipe out coastal homes in North Carolina, and I've been waiting since 2012.

Why 2012?

Because in 2012, the North Carolina General Assembly passed Replacement House Bill 819, which, being blunt and sarcastic, tried to outlaw sea level rise.

More technically, in order to keep the high valuation of beachside developments and properties from crashing due to the accurate fact-based assessment that they'd be worthless in a few decades due to climate change, as "beachfront property" is worth a lot, but "underwater property" is not...

Well, to keep those properties and investments from having to face that reality of their future residents being shellfish and tidal pools, the General Assembly made it illegal to use science-based models to predict how high sea level change would go over the next century. Instead, they mandated that a simple linear increase based on historical data would be used--saying that the sea level would change by only 8 inches (20 cm) by 2100... instead of the 3 feet (1 meter) that climate science was predicting. That way, all of those pricy developments on the Outer Banks and beachfronts would maintain their high assessed worth... at least until the sea and storms showed up and said to the General Assembly, "What, are you going to arrest the ocean?"

Which has now happened.

And, just as predicted back in 2012, the insurance companies are taking one look at this and going, "Nuh uh".

As that article I linked up above notes at the close...

In short, HB819 proposes a number of potentially far-reaching changes that may result in unintended consequences for coastal property owners, local governments, insurers, emergency managers and other organizations and agencies.

And now those consequences are here.

[thatdisasterauthor]

I want to be very clear here, what happened with Helene and the fallout is not just an issue effecting North Carolina. It is effecting disaster response as a whole. After disasters, FEMA does what's called door-knocking. Essentially they go on foot in these effected areas and go door to door/encampment to encampment to make sure everyone knows what help is available to them, help people fill out forms, provide resources to do it if you don't have internet and such, etc..

Except they don't do it anymore. And it is in large part because of Helene. The rhetoric around it was so violent, and the rumors that FEMA was going to steal people's houses were so pervasive, the door-knockers were threatened over and over, even had guns pulled on them. How true this is doesn't particularly matter, it may have just been more rumors, but either way it resulted in door-knocking being stopped for Helene and eventually stopped entirely. It is not a thing FEMA does anymore.

Now, to get individual post-disaster assistance if you don't have a way to access the internet or a working phone, you will have to go to dedicated facilities. Can't get there due to disability or injury? Don't have a way to access news about where those facilities even are and how they work? All the roads washed out or impassible due to debris? Too bad, you're on your own now.

So not only is the aid being delayed if not fully withheld for the Helene survivors, many of them may not have even had help in the initial application process the way they should have, and now in every disaster going forward, other people are going to face the exact same thing.

This government has done so many horrific things, but FEMA specifically has drawn some of the highest levels of ire and destruction. We'll be feeling the effects for a long, long time, and I truly hope we find ways to fix things sooner rather than later.

[digitalmagpie]

Side note:

If you live in a disaster-prone part of the USA, it might be worthwhile to download and fill out the Emergency Financial First Aid Kit, especially if FEMA isn't going to be helping you work through that anymore. We initially got ours from the FEMA site, but it looks like there are a few other places out there.

If/when you need to evacuate your home, take it with you.

It'll give you a head start on all the paperwork mess you're going to have to fill out and you'll have all the information you need with you already.

If a disaster or other emergency strikes, you may only have seconds or minutes to react. In those critical moments, your focus will be on yo

[liberalsarecool]

Some context:

Rudy Giuliani appointed Howard Safir as FDNY commissioner.

Michael Bloomberg appointed Nicholas Scoppetta as FDNY commissioner.

Neither were firefighters or worked a day for FDNY before taking the oath.

Mamdani shuts it down.