The Eff am I Doing?

Call me Swan | Certified Scary Brown Person | 20something | They/Them | Queerace/Enby | Personal space enthusiast

[swan-lite]

officially moving all bg3 / Astarion nonsense over to @swan--writes

[mollybeenoel]

By Momoire

[cottaqecore]

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[microraptorhours]

i love you archival work. i love you alphabetizing. i love you sorting. i love you reshelving. i love you document restoration. i love you shelf reading. i love you inventorying. i love you analysis. i love you archival work.

[radicalgraff]

"Everyone Hates Police and the Cops Know It"

Sticker spotted in Vancouver, Canada

[afemalesebastian]

"Sewing is a gateway drug to thinking through complex problems. It seems really simple; culturally, we make it women's work. Let me tell you: real sewing at any kind of level of proficiency is a bloody magic trick. Sewing, like mold making, involves mental frames that require one to think inside out and backwards. It requires one to work on an order of operations that is often taking into account the reverse. It's a really, really important skill, and if you learn how to sew, you're mostly on your way to carpentry and welding and sheet metal work. I'm not kidding: these are planar forms meeting under rules and conditions. And if you can make a sleeve work, I swear to God, you could build a house."

--Adam Savage

[normalmammal]

I’m so pro abortion I feel insane hearing any other take on it

[normalmammal]

Even lefties I know will eventually concede to some situation where they think it’s right to force someone to carry a child against their will as if that’s not one of the most inhumane and cruel situations to put someone in regardless of any other factors

[not100bees]

The thing about Miss Piggy is that she kind of has a Roger Rabbit comedy superpower where she wins nearly any conceivable fight she's in. But unlike other characters of which that's true, like say, Bugs Bunny, who tend to win because they make the opponent play the game with their rules, Miss Piggy wins because the joke is that she can beat the shit out of literally anybody.

[markovchaingang]

normalized data implies the existence of problematized data

[transcyberism]

that's his brother Lore actually

[mysweetoddbird]

sorry but once you notice how often ppl use a southern accent as shorthand for being unintelligent you can never unsee it. classism is baked so deeply and why are you acting like anyone who talks the way my grandfather talks is stupid.

[in-the-drowning-deep]

ditto cockney accents being used to denote stupid and evil. why are you acting like someone who talks like a member of the working class is irredeemable and an idiot.

[bogleech]

Attempted killer apprehended for an unrelated assault that someone else committed anyway

[bogleech]

If you're still not quite clear on what the article is saying, this woman had a rapidly growing malignant tumor until her doctor poked it with one needle to take a sample.

Her immune cells responded to that tiny little needle wound as they normally would, and only then detected something wrong with the surrounding cells, attacking the cancer they now associated with that trivial damage.

It doesn't reliably work that way all the time or we would have noticed this happening a lot more often, but this would also seem to imply that, across the entire history of the practice, there's probably an above-zero number of people who actually beat cancer through acupuncture.

[a-book-of-creatures]

It’s giving “leeches actually have health benefits but not for any of the reasons they were supposed to be good for”.

[triangleguy]

my phone crashed 3 times while i was trying to make this

[bryverros]

i personally think the funniest thing about this post is one specific exchange below

[cerastes]

I don’t think we ought to normalize or justify bullying as a means to keep people from being annoying — a sentiment that in and of itself could make for a whole article’s worth of conversation — but I do think we should make a habit of politely but directly telling people “hey I didn’t like that”, “that wasn’t funny”, “you are mistaken”, and the like if it’s called for, and more importantly, you should be able to take a “that wasn’t funny” for instance without taking it personally, because protecting a polite harmony where no one can criticize each other, not even politely, is also really, really bad.

[fernsnailz]

my seal drawing

[free-and-to-none-accountable]

'“The U.S. Army brought the leading citizens of Ohrdruf to tour the facility, which turned out to be part of the Buchenwald network of concentration camps. A U.S Army colonel told the German civilians who viewed the scenes that they were to blame. One of the Germans replied that what happened in the camp was 'done by a few people,’ and ‘you cannot blame us all.’ And the American, who could have been any one of our grandfathers, said 'This was done by those that the German people chose to lead them, and all are responsible.'" "The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough. I ask you to consider what the Mayor of Ordruf might have thought before he died. Maybe he felt like a victim. He might have thought 'How is this my fault? I have no jurisdiction over this.' Maybe he would have said, 'This site was not subject to local zoning, what could I do?' But I think, when he reflected on the suffering that occurred at this camp, just outside of town, that those words would have sounded hollow even to him. Because in his heart he knew, as we do, that we are all responsible for what happens in our community.”

Arizona Right Watch (@azrww.bsky.social)

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before

A Surprise Zone of Interest

We are All Responsible for What Happens in our Community

Cindy Gallop

There are ordinary heroes everywhere. All hail, the good citizens of Surprise, Arizona! '“The U.S. Army brought the leading citizens of Ohr

[boogiepopmeup]

KEEP SHARING THIS SHIT AND KEEP TALKING SHIT ON SURPRISE!!! They are now saying they aren’t going to stop this

Arizona Right Watch (@azrww.bsky.social)

Surprise Mayor Kevin Sartor gave a press conference about an hour ago regarding the planned concentration camp in an industrial warehouse at

[aloeverawrites]

Arizona Right Watch also posted a video of within the warehouse.

I recommend watching it.

This, this is the first time I've seen a concentration camp before it became a concentration camp.

This is the first time I've seen a place and known that people are going to be tortured there, that people are going to die horribly there. If it's not stopped.

We have to stop it. We just don't have any other choice.

You may have seen pictures of concentration camps after they were liberated, but this is the first time you've seen a concentration camp before it became one.

You saw photos of an atrocity you couldn't do anything about.

This is not that.

[slipperyliz]

Surprise has online forms for contacting their various branches of government. You can send them your thoughts on this concentration camp.

https://surpriseaz-services.app.transform.civicplus.com/forms-list?tile=All%20Forms

[tpwrtrmnky]

Free higher education isn't a static thing that just passively exists in the countries that purport to have it, by the way. It's something that has to be maintained, actively, because the mechanisms of poverty elsewhere in society will keep trying to enforce class segregation.

Even if university is free, a university education is still a strenuous thing that demands a lot of focus. If some students have full family support and can genuinely be full-time students, while others have to combine attending classes with working jobs, at scale that's going to influence who ends up getting good results and who ends up having to drop out.

If there is a system to support students financially, chances are that without an active effort to ensure that support keeps up with inflation, it will eventually be less than the cost of housing. Again, you end up with class differences.

None of these political fights are ever truly over.

[sapphocottagecore]