Tossed Salads and Scrambled M's

(HE/HIM) Scrambled M's all over my face, what is a boy to do? BIONICLE, HALO, ELDER SCROLLS, ORIGINAL SCI-FI STUFF, AND PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING I FIND INTERESTING. MIGHT GET A LITTLE NSFW SO DNI MINORS

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I don't often put out non-pop culture-related posts, but I've been reblogging about this for a while, and I've been meaning to post something like this. Support Palestine. In any way you can, and EVERY way you can.

Doing good was never this easy! Every click helps fund those in need - no cash, no credit card, no registration and for free!

This here is a website where you can donate towards helping those affected by Israel's genocide with just a single click of a button.

[floridensis]

Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Announces major changes to State Parks throughout Florida.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) announced an initiative yesterday proposing major changes to various State Parks throughout Florida.

Today, with only one week's notice, FDEP announced public meetings throughout the state scheduled for 3 p.m. on Tuesday, August 27th. The meetings will consist of a presentation and an opportunity for public comment, but with only an hour allotted, they do not appear to include a question-and-answer period.

To voice your concerns about these proposals and the lack of public participation, send your customizable email to the Governor, the Secretary of FDEP, and your state representatives. Adding your connection to Florida's State Parks in the email can help them understand how important this issue is to you, their constituent.

if you are able to make it to one of these, i strongly recommend you do. otherwise please send a message. we dont need fucking golf and pickleball in our already threatened natural areas

[weeberc3]

Sign the Petition

Protect Jonathan Dickinson State Park: stop the golf courses!

I'll add this petition regarding Jonathan Dickinson SP.

[kittyseeker-deactivated20200610]

Stop reducing native issues to “they had their land taken”.

Our sisters are still murdered and missing. Our children go hungry and cold. Our elders can’t afford health care. Our parents suffer from untreated mental illness and have addictions because they self medicate.

And thats not even on the reservations. Thats just in farming communities of the Lumbee. And we are doing well by comparison to other groups.

Stop reducing us to stolen land and erasing our real struggles.

[kokoona-deactivated20160520]

Natives have the highest suicide rates. Natives have the most unsafe school conditions. 75% of sex trafficking victims in Canada are First Nations. Natives are the most likely to be shot by police according to some studies and just as likely to be shot as black brothers and sisters according to others. Half of the homes on reservations in the US are legally deemed “uninhabitable” despite families and children living in them. Non native people can still commit crimes against us and not even be tried under native law, usually meaning not at all. Reservations flood often, they are stricken with drought. Most urban native kids carry the weight of being the only native their classmates and other townspeople will ever know. There are no college classes for us or about us. We are struggling, y'all. We have had our land, languages, and family ripped from us, it’s more than just history, it’s 500+ years of ongoing genocide.

[obsidianravenmcbovril]

Hitman - Berlin

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:)

[catgirlforeskin]

People love to go “ in the Soviet Union they picked your job for you 😭” yeah cunt that’s what we’re doin now too except they make you bark like a dog for three weeks straight first getting denied everywhere you wanna work until you end up somewhere you dont like anyway. Let’s just cut out that middle man why don’t we

[catgirlforeskin]

Forgot what website I’m on

[jikkybytt]

Can we not glorify Soviet Union and come up with a system that doesn't have to rely on russian nationalism and famine of Ukrainian and Kazach people?

[catgirlforeskin]

If the Soviet Union came back I would without hesitation become a collaborationist and laser designate small businesses and single family homes in my city for Red Army artillery. Western capital and imperial hegemony is, with no exaggeration, going to make CONTINENTS unfit for human life within our lifetimes. Deeply unserious handwringing

[wintersmitth]

I actually don't doubt you'd do that, actually.

Once again a westerner pretending only western people are better uniquely evil over people elsewhere.

Hope you'll get to live in a soviet union type country, I'll enjoy you not being able to leave your village bc local council doesn't want to lose work hands and won't give you your passport.

[vidma-kazhe]

Aaah, targeting small businesses and families to be bombed and destroyed. Yeah, that's how you save the world from hegemony -- by handing it over on a silver platter to a much crueler hegemony that has zero regard for human life and would make continents unfit for human life at a much faster pace /s

It's always funny how spoiled people from countries that never had to suffer the Soviet Union long for its return while people whose families lived under the occupation of Soviet Union are fucking traumatized by it.

Here's just a list of stuff that will be the part of the Soviet Union utopia these chucklefucks want to happen:

Yes, you will have your job basically picked for you. By association, your employer will also be entitled to your family life and what you do in your spare time -- your personal life, your problems or flaws can be made public if necessary, with workers going through your dirty laundry and domestic life in the open to shame you for not being an exemplary worker.

Your employers own you. Literally. If they tell you that tomorrow you will be flying to an entirely another region to work and live there, then you will be flying to an entirely another region to work and live there -- after all, you don't want to be fired and labeled as a social parasite, do you?

Late to work? Well, unless you were dying and have a document from a doctor proving it, you'll be doing non-paid correctional labor for weeks. Also your salary gets cut for that period. That will teach you.

Oh you want to quit? That means you don't appreciate what has been done for you, which makes you a traitor and a criminal disrupting workplace productivity. You don't get to quit, you get 2-4 months of jail.

Labor code? Don't be silly, why would you need a labor code to protect your rights? Don't you trust the ruling party to make decisions for you? You dare to doubt they want the best for you? Now you and your family be paying the price for rocking the boat. You all are getting evicted from your apartment and sent to a fucking tundra. Also, we're taking your kid and putting them into one of our orphanages. We are also changing their last name and do our best to brainwash and gaslight them into hating you and not wanting to be associated with you. If you survive the cold, lack of proper medical help, and the shittiest labor conditions, your child will be lost to you forever.

Wanna go travel? The ruling party says you don't need to travel. What are you, a spy? Don't you love it there, in your homeland that provides you with everything? Probably a talk with these nice people arriving to your house in a black car will teach you a lesson in gratitude.

Think living in Soviet Union frees you of landlords? Oh you sweet summer child, you get more than a landlord. You get a custodian (upravdom) who would stick their nose into every aspect of your life. What you buy, when you come back home, your hobbies, who you're friends with. If you're having a rough period with your partner, everyone in your dwelling will know -- and the custodian will personally approach you and tell you to stop disrupting family values or else. "Or else" means that there is a denunciation with your name in it, waiting to be sent to law enforces. If it's harsh enough, you can kiss your living place goodbye -- it will be given over to a more reliable family (or family the custodian is friends with) while you will be sent far, far away. You don't have a say in it. You don't get to argue or appeal in the court. If you suddenly think you're a person and tell the custodian to mind their business, the denunciation gets sent faster than you can finish your sentence.

"Oh" you might say, "But what if I'm entirely unproblematic and the perfect citizen?". That never stopped anyone. Any fact about you, even the most harmless, can be twisted and exaggerated to make your problematic. You like foreign literature? Suspicious. Why would you consume content made by capitalists? You want to learn foreign languages? Suspicious. Might be a collaborator. You're interested in high fashion and make cute outfits that differ from the cookiecutter stuff offered in stores provided by state? You're superficial and materialistic -- probably, it would be super easy to bribe you and make you betray your rulers.

A human-made disaster happens? Well, tough titties because your government will be hushing it up until the death toll becomes hard to ignore -- and if you question it, you'll be first on the chopping block for doubting your leaders. If you and your family are the first among being hit by the said disaster, they will bury you in nameless graves and pretend you never existed.

And the cherry on top? All the hegemons you hate so much, all the rich people you want gone will be ruling you. Giving you the bare minimum to live by and telling you to be happy you get to have a job, shaming you for wanting nice things or gaslighting you into feeling bad for experiencing burnout and not being able to work efficiently, they will be living the lives of luxury.

They'll be driving around in expensive cars while as you wait years in line to be allowed to have a poorly made car from your local manufacturing. They'll be dining in luxurious restaurants while you collect bread talons. They'll be wearing prestigious clothing and traveling to all the places they want, while you can get arrested for wearing jeans.

They will be enjoying everything they denied you -- and you won't be able to do anything because you gave them that power in exchange for empty promises. There are no legal mechanisms to make them accountable (they removed those), there is no people's choice, no courts for monitoring the actions of the ruling party.

It's amazing how people screeching "Eat the rich" would happily let the rich eat them and let the reach eat countless others for the promise of free scraps.

[aif0s-w]

The Soviet Union sucked so much that all its problems will never fit in one post, but here are a few more random points:

• Telephones were extremely rare. My mom grew up in a 10 story building in a medium sized city. Even in the 1990s, in that building they only had 5 telephones in the entire apartment building (with nearly 120 apartments). I was honestly surprised when I found out that telephones in ordinary households were very common in the US in 1960s

• Toilet paper didn’t exist. People used the good old Soviet newspapers (btw the printing paint has lead in it). The first package of toilet paper in the USSR was made in 1969 (after they imported some equipment from the UK). Even after that day, the toilet paper was always hard to find in stores. Meanwhile, the US started producing toilet paper in 1857

• You on a period? Take some gauze and cotton and have fun, cause there are no tampons or pads. Worldwide, pads were being produced since 1920s. In the great Soviet Union pads became available in the 1970s, but were very uncommon until the USSR fell apart

• Jeans are pretty comfortable, right? Well, you better not wear them in the Soviet Union. They were called “bourgeois fashion” (even though first jeans in the US were created for farmers and miners) and wearing them to work or school could get you in very big trouble. Plus, it was hard, expensive and semi-legal to even buy jeans. One pair of jeans could cost more than an average monthly salary.

• You bought something and you want to sell it? That’s called “speculation” and it’s a criminal offence. Congrats, you are the enemy of communism

• You are religious? Shame on you, you should pray to Stalin instead. If you’re Christian, you can’t buy a Bible; plus, you are much less likely to have a normal job if you were ever seen near a church. If you’re Jewish, you can’t go to a synagogue - unless you live in moscow or st petersburg (but even then you’ll have big problems). In the USSR Jews were considered a threat; education and job opportunities were limited. Muslims were not spared either; for example, the entire Crimean Tatar population was deported in 1944.

• Gay? Welcome to jail! You might get up to 5 years sentence for “being with a man”. Yes, Lenin briefly cancelled that- old laws of Russian Empire were being rewritten at the time, and as soon as they noticed that they accidentally allowed gay people to exist, the soviets banned it again

[mewlabu]

Here to add that the Soviet Union created massive environmental damage and resource exploitation. The idea that it would some how be gentler on the climate when they were wiping out forests and forcing industrial farming and dumping unrestrained waste into water ways is another way so many in the west just don't know shit about the USSR and the shit show it was.

Fine, dream of your socialist utopia if you need to, I mean we need to imagine something other than what we're doing, but for the love of all and the planet stop getting hard to any mention of the USSR. It was bad and it was broken and should never ever be a model for anything meant as an improvement on the present situation.

The shortage aren't even the bad part. You can deal with limited consumer options and lack of useless junk. The problem is that even talking about the shortages where someone could over hear you could land you in an interrogation room.

My mom talked to an American once who came to an art exhibition when the USSR was still a thing, he asked to buy her husband's illustration.

That night KGB were at her fucking door. They questioned her all night and for years after every letter they sent was screened and read and they'd pull them in anytime they thought there was something even remotely sus about it.

One time she and her friends were coming back from the beach and a cop stopped them and arrested them because the guys hadn't tucked their shirts in and looked too "American"

This is the shit people don't realize or think is easy to just get over because you never think it'll be that bad or that it will get you or yours. And don't realize the math of it. If a million cuts and restrictions that seems minor but are used to beat you down and beat any hope and imagination out of you.

And this is only as bad as it got because my grandmother, her mother, was well respected and high ranking in the military administration.

Didn't help though when Chernobyl blew and the state didn't tell anyone outside the area for days anything had happened, including my grandmother.

Too many younger western leftists don't understand that basic needs met only gets you so far. They imagine a world where housing is affordable and they can still be who they are and live their lives and that would be amazing but that is NOT what the USSR was.

Think bigger. Think new.

It's cute to joke about collaborating, while conveniently forgetting that collaborators were some of the first to end up vanished, in gulags or dead.

That my grandmother's generation lived in a psychological duality where things were known and everyone lived as if they weren't known and you didn't know which of your neighbours could report something that will get you disappeared without as much as a chance to defend yourself. I know this because my grandmother was that neighbour and the lives she ruined haunted her into her late life.

That after those repressions subsided, everyone had to go back to pretending their family members didn't disappear without a trace and that it wasn't their own friends, family or neighbours who caused it. You don't think it's a big deal, but the absence of closure, or acknowledgement of constantly living in anxiety while also pretending everything is fine, not knowing who or what to trust, never seeing anyone punished, impacts generations.

And that's for people who were lucky enough not to be part of larger groups targetted for displacement, removal, or reeducation or painted as a threat purely based on faith, language, skin, sexuality.

For them it was far far more violent, painful and unforgiving and never, not once, has anyone had to answer for what happened.

And when those of us who lived under this try to mark these losses, try to grieve this pain, to tear down the monuments and symbols of those nightmares, some western leftists or tankies think they get to make jokes, reclaim symbols they didn't suffer under, and make jokes about collaborators and how all the loss of life and all the suffering only happened to those who deserves it and have the audacity to joke about doing the same, oblivious to the freedom they have to even make these jokes, without fear of a knock on their door, and then get upset when we try to correct them.

They conveniently forget, also, that high ranking party members lived like kings, untouched by scarcity. That class didn't go anywhere, it just became illegal to talk about it still being alive and well. That people still experienced poverty, hunger, isolation. That power and the hunger for it, and social conservatism, and demands for homogeneity and conformity were rife among those in charge at every level.

So yeah. None of the problems we are facing now were or would be solved by the USSR or it's magical return. Not one. Not a single thing would be better now. We'd all just be very good at pretending it was to survive the way it very much wouldn't be.

[da-boy-o-kultur]

Never ask a man: his salary

A woman: her age

Soviet Union: Where did the Aral Sea go

[rosiewitchescottage]

We're taught plenty about The Nazis, and rightly so. We do NOT want anything like that back again.

So why don't we get taught more about this?

Blood and Stomach Pills! 😮 I've never heard any of this before.

Yes. I knew things were bad for people in The Soviet Union.

But I didn't know it was as bad as this. 😯😯😯😯

Thanks for the info, everyone.

[greencheekconure27]

Check out OP's very normal reaction.

"People (mostly Eastern Europeans) asked me not to glorify the USSR and it made me mad; I will now be donating weapons to LITERAL NEONAZIS from a country that isn't even communist anymore just so it can kill more Ukrainians."

Methinks OP is simply a piece of shit.

[short-wooloo]

Of course it's catgirlforeskin

Not enough to be a huge douchebag, they're also a fucking soviet apologist

[1hema]

Hello everyone, my name is Eman, and I'm reaching out for help on behalf of my family who has endured unimaginable hardship since October 7th. Our life was once simple and happy, but everything changed with the onset of intense and indiscriminate bombing at the start of the war. We've been forced to evacuate six times in search of safety, finally settling in Rafah in southern Gaza, only to find it too is now under threat. Currently, seven of us are living in a tent without basic necessities or income.

Recently, we received photos from relatives showing that our home and my father's fabric and curtain shop in northern Gaza have been completely destroyed, leaving us with no shelter or means of livelihood. With the looming threat of a ground invasion in Rafah, we have nowhere else to turn. We attempted to flee to Egypt, but the $5,000 per person fee makes it impossible for us—a total of $35,000 for our family.

We are desperate to leave Gaza for safety and a chance at a better future. Your support is our only hope. Please help us reach our goal quickly, as every moment brings us closer to the danger of invasion in Rafah.

To donate :

https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-appealhelp-my-family-escape-death-in-gaza

https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-appealhelp-my-family-escape-death-in-gaza

One last thing, and I hope I am not being rude. I hope that if you are not able to donate, you can share this fundraiser because we do not have any relatives outside Gaza to help us share it and reach the goal, thank you guys.

When friends are gone forever, neighbors are separated, and your childhood street becomes rubble, help us rebuild our home again. Give us a little hope.

To donate :

https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-appealhelp-my-family-escape-death-in-gaza

My mother, who is sixty years old, instead of resting at this age, she cooks for us, and the temperatures are very high, and we get burned every day just to get a plate of food mixed with smoke.

Do not hesitate to donate even a little, as it may be the reason for our survival

To donate :

https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-appealhelp-my-family-escape-death-in-gaza

[dduane]

Health officials sound alert after puppy at Colorado adoption event tests positive for rabies

Colorado health officials are trying to find anyone who attended an adoption event where one of the puppies later tested positive for rabies

SHIT.

Please reblog!

[thatdisasterauthor]

If you went to this event, or know anyone who did, take action IMMEDIATELY.

[muffinlance]

For those who don't want to read: animal adoption event in Colorado recently, one of the puppies had RABIES, they're trying to track down everyone who might have had contact to get them medical treatment ASAP (because RABIES), this is a very straight forward "oh shit signal boost just in case someone who needs to see this does" chain

[deadmomjokes]

Super important to get the word out-- rabies is spread via body fluids, not just bites or scratches. And not only are puppies known for teething and scratching accidentally, people tend to let puppies lick them like crazy, including on the face where permeable mucus membranes are, so it's totally possible someone was exposed without being bitten. So yes, signal boost, and if you know people in Colorado, see if you can get them to take a look and share the article/information with their local networks. Always better safe than sorry where rabies is concerned.

[liberalsarecool]

Do something small. Do something actionable.

[raptorific]

I just want everyone to remember that Donald Trump has spent the last several weeks mocking and berating everybody who suggested Biden step aside because the republicans really did not want to run against someone other than Joe Biden. They have no plan, no playbook, no protocol, for running against someone other than Joe.

If you're feeling defeatist right now, please just understand that the Trump Campaign Strategy People are having the worst, most stressful day of the campaign as they scramble to figure out how to beat somebody who isn't Biden in November. Their ace in the hole was a hunk of Kryptonite up their sleeve and now they find out they won't be fighting Superman. THAT is the mood of today.

[cyarsk5230]

He's experiencing the worst year of his life😂

Even god and Mother Nature hate Drake 😂

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THE SEVEN PLAGUES UPON TORONTO, FOR HE HAD ANGERED KING KUNTA!!!

(For real, though. If you live in Toronto, stay safe.)

[girlfriendnumber16]

All I need is for someone to gently cup my face and tell me I'm not as doomed as I feel.

[raccoonboywrites]

reblog to gently cup your mutual’s face and tell them they’re not as doomed as they feel

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IDK Macku Dance

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Reese's Fucks

Can this still be classified as content? IDK

[writing-prompt-s]

One evening, in the sky, a message appeared: “In 24 hours, a billionaire will die.” Everyone everywhere on Earth could see it, in every language. Nobody could explain it. The next day, one of the richest men passed away. “In 24 hours, 2 billionaires…”

[theradicalace]

like to charge reblog to cast

[prof-grace-aspen]

Putting this as a meme so maybe y'all will actually read it.

Held: Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts.

And this is why we cannot let Trump win another term: he now has complete immunity for any acts he "officially" performs as president. You thought he was bad before? Now he will have zero fear. He will do whatever he wants. And what he wants is outlined in Project 2025.

Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump’s vision

With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

Actually fuck it. This is important enough to where it goes on the popular alt.

Voting still fucking matters! Cause not has Trump EXPLICITLY STATED that he will support the Palestinian genocide as much if not more then Biden, but he is also gonna pull this shit.

VOTE! PLEASE!

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

Dude America what the fuck

[fascistsarefreefood]

Daily reminder that we do not actually live in a dystopian movie put the apocalypse down and back away slowly. You know when your cleaning a room and you pull everything out of it's draws to sort through it and you're like "what the fuck have I done I'm never going to be able to tidy all of this" I think that's the stage we're at in the world. Thanks to social media we've pulled out all the messed up shit from the cupboards of the world, it was always there but now we can see it and we're going to have to sort it all out we made this mess and we can fix it. Falling to the floor sobbing will not clean a crusty room. A group of people working systematically (preferably with music in the background) will.

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CUTE MASS EFFECT HEADCANON TIME (MOST OF WHICH HAVE LITTLE-TO-NO BASIS IN CANON) (POTENTIAL SPOILERS)

Tali, after ME1, fell in love with old spaghetti westerns, and trained herself how to quickdraw. Sometimes Adams, Gabby, or Ken will catch her practicing one-liners for when she's in the field (“Feeling lucky, Bosh'tet?”).

In every circumstance except for point-blank, Liara cannot aim for shit, and has more than once shot Shepard in the ass (and apologized profusely for it, afterward).

Shepard introduced the alien squad members to “old” Earth music, and will regularly blast it in the Mako, Shuttle, or Hammerhead. At first, they either rolled their eyes (Wrex and Grunt), or found it curious/outright enjoyable (Tali, Liara, Thane). By the third time Shepard plays music, everyone is singing along as loud as they can.

After the war (shhhh, Audemus' Happy Ending mod is canon to me, shhhh), Shepard introduces the alien squaddies to Christmas, and Wrex enlists the help of Garrus, Zaeed, Jack, and Grunt to try to kill Santa Claus. They end up falling asleep near the chimney, huddled up in a cuddle pile.

Shepard 100% bought the model kits (at first) just to waste Cerberus funds, because they are just THAT petty sometimes. They did later realize that the kits did serve as a nice distraction.