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I'm Iskandar and I like cars and bikes. This blog occasionally posts about automotives :)

He/Him, 22, Transmasculine

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🚧WM/IniD🚧: @trans-kitami

#pin #10 000 judgments that i never sent #flashing

orpheusilver

HOW TO HUG LONG DISTANCE

orpheusilver

HOW TO EMAIL HUGS

orpheusilver

10000 KILOMETER HUG TECHNIQUES

wolveswolves

By Tanja Askani

nu11ifi3d

BIG DUMB IDIOT BABY APPLE FIGHT

weaver-z

I wish all of my followers a wonderful Big Dumb Idiot Baby Apple Fight Friday

calamitys-child

I'm a pacifist like institutionally but I'm absolutely certain that violence solves at least some problems on a much smaller level. I don't believe in wars or nuclear weapons or military campaigns I do believe in the power of that guy who punched the nazi in the face so hard his entire media presence immediately crumbled to dust

azaablue

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

swagcatholic-deactivated2026021

burgersnacksformax

@snaphappi

inthesensethat

cordic

its important to me that all y'all know that mannertee has an arch nemesis

his name is Ikanzame and he's a shark with bad driving etiquette!!

butch-of-the-blades

ikanzame!!! your people of virginia desire you carnally!!!!

semtitulo

who else has fantasized about the Nutrient Brick

yms1

what doesn't kill you makes you stay on tumblr for 13 years and counting

free-and-to-none-accountable

Hey does anybody have any advice or know any tips? I've always wanted to know how to do something.

dinosaurcharcuterie

1. If you can avoid it, never call a business on the first day of the week it's open. Wait until at least 40 minutes after they're open on the second day. This waits out the first wave of frantic callers and gives whoever is on the phone time to grab a coffee and drink enough that they don't feel disturbed in their morning start-up ritual.

You'll spend less time on hold and reach more people with the time and patience to hear you out.

2. Take notes for phone calls. You can literally make a numbered check list of what you definitely want to bring up, and then during the call take down who you spoke to, at what date and what solutions/deadlines were promised.

This keeps you on topic without forgetting your priorities, and also gives you something to refer back to later.

bmwiid

If you want to complain but don't want to be THAT person:

pre call: find out what governing body deals with the type of complaint you are making. They ALWAYS have rules. For example, in the UK, the Financial Ombudsman Services have a 7 day acknowledgement stipulation AND if the complaint goes over 8 weeks they need to be advised. If you disagree with the outcome of your complaint you can then take it to them and they look into it for you. It costs the company money to have a decision go to FOS. Normally its around £500-ish.

1: Make a list of things you are unhappy about with the service/situation. Ask if all calls are recorded. Get names and times of your call too. As person above said - NOTES!

2: Tell the person that you would like to make a FORMAL complaint. Not just a complaint, but FORMAL. This will normally get you transferred through to the dedicated complaints team rather than the regular call handlers.

3: List your complaint points. If they try to explain away your points, write those down, but you need to make sure that they have ALL your points.

4: At the end of the call - ask them to read what they have written. It's annoying as hell but it will help you in the long run. Make sure you check you have the name of the agent taking the complaint. They might not be the one who DEALS with it, but names are gold.

5: Ask WHEN you will receive a written acknowledgement of your complaint. Ask for your complaint reference number. If they don't have either of those, ask who the governing body is for your specific type of complaint. If you are calling about an energy bill for example, it should be OFGEM. If its bank charges it should be FOS. If they don't know, then ask to be put through to someone who does.

6: When you get your letter/email of acknowledgement, there should be contact information on there, and a return email/address. Send an email/letter BACK, with your points on there as well. It's a good idea to list them - bullet points or date order or numbered. Attach any relevent paperwork or images (screenshots work really well for phone calls and so on) that support your complaint.

7: They should keep you updated with progress reports on your complaint, but they might not. That's okay - keep ANYTHING they send to you in a dedicated place. Try to respond to requests for evidence or information within 24 hours. They may try to use YOUR delay in getting that information as to why its taking so long.

8: They have a certain amount of time to resolve your complaint. Check online cause it can vary, but with FOS and the FCA its 8 weeks - FROM THE FIRST POINT OF CONTACT i.e: your initial call to complain. If its longer than that they MUST tell you the reason why. At that point you can take the complaint to the higher body, but its normally a good idea to hold off till they uphold or decline the complaint.

9: You CAN dispute the decision and you CAN ask for more money if they offer something too low. Don't accept store credit or a discount on the next bill. Cash Only. If you are cancelling your contract, make sure they are waiving the cancellation fees ON TOP OF your compensation. If they say they can't do that, remind them they are at fault and (if they upheld your complaint) have accepted liability. PUSH BACK on anything you don't agree with. Ask for SPECIFIC terms and conditions. Ask what steps they have taken to stop this happening again.

10: Get your decision in writing, with the T&C's listed. I always check my paperwork and contract I was sent last (if your policy renews they can change the T&C's so always use the most recent one) and check the T&C's match. if they don't - even if its the page number that is wrong - go back to them and dispute it. If they are working from a copy of the T&C's you DONT have, ask when they sent those to you, and ask for proof of sending it. If they are working of a set they never sent you - this is a breach of the contract YOU have, and it WILL be accepted by FOS or whatever.

Now I know this seems like a lot of things, but if you feel strongly enough to complain, you should be treated fairly and lawfully. Learning how to complain is a skill, and you cannot let your concern for being 'that person' override your rights as a consumer. LOTS of companies are getting away with shit because its 'too much work' to go through the process.

PRO MOVES: Be polite. Be respectful. Keeping a log of who you talked to and when. If they say that they don't have notes, advise them that you were told calls are recorded, so they can pull that call and listen to it. If the calls aren't recorded, tell them you'd like to add the lack of correct notes to the complaint - give them the time, date and name of who you spoke to, and what you said. NOTES NOTES NOTES.

I've worked in complaints for a regulated company for 5 years, and at the company for 10 and it's MY JOB to know this stuff, so I hope it helps someone.

wildernessflavoredjellybean-dea

America is absolutely disconnected to meat

I think I realized this when I had went to see my dad and stepmom one day and asked if I could place my hawk’s food. (A rabbit leg) in the freezer. My step mom was disgusted by the idea that a leg from an animal was in the freezer meanwhile an entire chicken was sitting in the fridge.

Your rotisserie chicken is an entire chicken.

Your pork chop is a hunk of pig.

Your rack of ribs are from a cow’s rib cage.

It’s like Americans view meat as colorful red and pink hued shapes that just exist and come into the world packaged.

You see so many people getting harassed or even having their content flagged for showing how to process or field dress meat when it’s at it’s freshest. Right after culling. For some reason this is considered “gore” by many folks when in reality it’s no more different from plucking a processed chicken after cull.

You also notice that Americans have an idea of what’s normal meat and what isn’t normal meat and there’s racist undertones that I’ve noticed in a lot of these comments left on foreign cooking videos

You have people that claim a video of a man in a different country preparing something like this is “eating a dog.” Meanwhile this is roasted goat.

You have people who’s only perception of an edible fish is in fillet or fish stick form and they call something like this nasty because “Eww there’s a head!” Yeah.. most animals have heads..

Some of ya’ll need to realize what your meat looks like prior to processing and that it’s prepared in different ways. We also need to erase the stigma behind non traditional meats.

sevdoesnotexist

Truly, genuinely, as an indigenous person I talk about this exact thing a LOT! Like, don't get me wrong I get a bit squicked when dressing a chicken or gutting and cleaning a fish, lord knows I had really mixed feelings the first time I saw a deers throat slit (I thought it was cruel, until my elder asked me if I would have preferred to let it suffer instead) The truth of the matter is that animals and humans are intertwined. We are food to one another, that's the way of the world and I think people forget that when we champion for humane treatment of animals and when we rail against factory farming we need to remember that removing death is not the goal, removing undue suffering it.

depsidase

barkingbarghest

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model. Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites. Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions. Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers. Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.” “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.

anarchopuppy

noai.duckduckgo.com blocks all AI content in search results automatically

sapokanikan

kate BUSH. not kate SHAVE. something to think about..............

bitchesgetriches

Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.

Delicious. We love to see it.

tobaeus

@ralfmaximus

ralfmaximus

Ultimately, she spent 20 hours redoing the copy from scratch — and with her $100-per-hour rate, that meant her client was shelling out $2,000 for copy that likely would have ended up being far cheaper had a human just written it in the first place.

I love stories like this.

tacofriend

Get peer reviewed!

lierdumoa

danikriatura

The FBI cut the phone lines during the 1977 disability rights sit-in. Then they turned off the hot water.

They locked the doors from the outside. One hundred and fifty people were trapped on the fourth floor. Half of them used wheelchairs. The government assumed they would leave.

Kitty Cone was thirty-three. She had muscular dystrophy. Her muscles were failing, but her logistics were flawless. She knew how to organize people.

The federal government had promised to sign regulations protecting disabled Americans from discrimination. The policy was known as Section 504. They printed the promise on paper. Then they stalled. Without a signature, it was just typography.

The protesters entered the regional Health, Education, and Welfare building in San Francisco on a Tuesday morning. They took the elevators to the director's office. They brought sleeping bags and catheters. They informed the staff they were not leaving until the law was signed.

By sunset, the police surrounded the exits. Kitty sat near the windows. She organized the floor plan. She assigned committees for security and sanitation. She kept her medication in a small cooler.

According to federal memorandums released decades later, the strategy to end the occupation relied on medical attrition. The building was not equipped for long-term habitation. The FBI calculated that a population requiring ventilators, specialized diets, and daily medical aides would voluntarily evacuate if the environment became sufficiently hostile. They instituted a blockade.

The blockade went into effect immediately. No food deliveries allowed. No medical supplies permitted through the lobby. Guards stood at the main doors checking identification.

Kitty's muscles deteriorated faster under the physical strain. She couldn't walk. When the phone lines went dead, the fourth floor lost contact with the press. The government waited for the quiet.

Kitty dropped to the floor. She realized the barricades were designed for standing adults. The police had blocked the hallways at waist height. They hadn't blocked the linoleum.

The floors were covered in cigarette ash and spilled coffee. She dragged her body through it. She crawled under the barricades to reach the restricted elevator shafts and unguarded offices.

She carried notes in her pockets. She found a single working payphone the FBI missed. She called the local news desks. She called the mayor's office.

She crawled back. When her arms failed, someone pulled her by her ankles. The Black Panthers heard the news reports. They crossed the police lines with hot meals. The FBI could not stop them without a riot.

They shut off the elevators, so she crawled.

The occupation lasted twenty-five days. It remains the longest non-violent occupation of a federal building in American history. On April 28, the Secretary of HEW signed the regulations without a single alteration.

The protesters left the building the next morning. They went back to their apartments. The Rehabilitation Act regulations laid the groundwork for every accessibility law that followed. The HEW building still stands on United Nations Plaza. The elevators run on a schedule. The doors are heavy glass.

Kitty Cone: the woman who crawled under the barricades.

Source: Kitty Cone's oral history, Bancroft Library.

Verified via: National Museum of American History.

(Some details summarized for brevity.)