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Trump is coming for our 401Ks
Trump's 401(k) executive order lets retirement plans invest in private equity. Experts fear this change adds risk to retirement savings port
I don't know much about private equity, but this sounds alarming. Anyone who does understand what this means for all of us who have 401ks want to explain?
severance song?
Is this guy from the beginning of Severance 2x5 whistling 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'?
Finished my piece for FTH, my highest bidder requested Zuko and Druk and I was happy to deliver
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One of the fanart pieces I won! Thank you!
what are the best wings you’ve seen on a bird
here are some of my favorites :)
sunbittern
lilac breasted roller
bluejay
x
Black Heron, makes shade then hunts fish that hide in it
Kea wings serve absolute cunt
Wallcreeper wings make them look like little butterflies
Lady Amherst's Pheasant
And Painted Buntings are just a personal favourite :}
Not as colorful as some of these but gyrfalcons have stunning wings
Werewolf Lance would wear this constantly
misc soulmate ideas
first touch
friends/partners who never touch bc theyre scared they aren’t soulmates
colors/marks on first touch
drawing on skin/writing on yourself
being able to see when your soulmate is bleeding lol
shared scars
matching tattoos
only certain things show up (i.e. no words)
everything you draw on your skin is permanent on your soulmate’s body
soulmates who show their love with lots of drawings or vice versa soulmates who consider drawing sacred and only do a few
soulmate drawing ceremonies
first touch x drawing on skin
after you meet/first touch whatever you draw will appear on the soulmates skin
leaving temporary marks whenever you touch
any drawings on your skin change color whenever you touch
shared dreams
shared NIGHTMARES haha
your dreams are really unclear/you forget a lot of it until you meet your soulmate for the first time
shared daydreams
shared “dreams” (future goals/aspirations/desires)
the closer you are to meeting your soulmate the more vivid your dreams become/the more aspects you learn about your soulmate
you get a last shared dream before death?
being able to manipulate your dreamspace together
inducing sleep to see your soulmate
sleep deprivation to avoid your soulmate
dream interpretation forums/classes
voices in your head
soulmates going silent
soulmates whove rejected each other/got into an argument/other still hear the others thoughts
only hear your soulmate when they’re in danger
telepathic soulmates in danger/in pain but the only thing you can do is comfort from afar
hearing the bad thoughts your soulmate has about you
saving your real voice for your soulmate only to hear
hearing your soulmate up until you meet
hearing your soulmate in times of great emotion
strong emotions again, but only when you experience great happiness. bc the universe has decided soulmates get to share the happiest moments of their lives together
telepathy
telepathy + times soulmates admitted they care about each other
tfw trying to get surprise gifts/plan celebrations for a soulmate who can maybe hear your thoughts is a herculean task, and includes many distractions
all the times u get distracted during class/the Most Secret Way of Passing Notes is with ur soulmate
feel free to reblog/use these as inspiration! i don’t own the concepts, but i did brainstorm with all of these… no credit needed, but appreciated!
please note: i wrote a lot of these with the intention of them being open to both platonic and romantic soulmates. don’t limit yourself!
the ‘everything you draw on your skin is permanent on your soulmate’s body’ one made me lol.
How many of us scribbled all over our faces with markers when we were toddlers? *raises hand*
If you're not following the Swann Street siege story this morning, it's incredible.
Yesterday evening, D.C. police forced a large group of peaceful protesters and demonstrators into a residential neighborhood in a tactic known as "kettling."
Kettling is a military technique to encircle people, to box them in on all sides, into a smaller and smaller and smaller space where they can't retreat or escape from. In American protests, it's often accompanied by police forces taking advantage of the fact that protesters can't retreat to inflict maximum harm with teargas, batons, and other weapons for an extended period before doing mass arrests.
It's not a dispersement technique, it's the complete opposite -- it's a technique of intense aggression, and it's controversial because it's seldom used in good faith and often results in intense prolonged violence, with the intention of also cutting everyone caught in the kettle off from medics, aid, food, water, the ability to leave, etc.
Last night, D.C. police pushed demonstrators into a residential neighborhood in an attempt to kettle them. But residents of the neighborhood had been watching, and threw open their front doors to protesters, including a first-generation Indian-American man named Rahul Dubey.
Rahul and his neighbors sheltered a hundred people or more, between them, for eight hours last night, including having teargas fired at their homes and having the police try to enter their private property several times through various methods. They were rebuked and dispelled every time.
Rahul and his neighbors orchestrated food, medical aid, and lawyers during the siege, including ensuring protesters had safe escorts this morning.
You can read the first-person accounts from the people who were trapped there:
Allison Lane: https://twitter.com/allieblablah
Meka from the 307: https://twitter.com/MekaFromThe703
And you can read Marcella Robertson's coverage on her timeline here, including Rahul's speech to media this morning: https://twitter.com/Marcella_Rob
hey! in the midst of all this, spreading this information could potentially save LOTS of folks out there in protest! it costs Absolutely NOTHING to share. the original thread is on Twitter by strwbrrymew. the link to the thread is here, it contains more important information to note, including a video about how to do a proper eye flush should someone be teargassed.
Do ppl know about trump actively trying to buy the company that’s currently working on a covid vaccine and wanting to keep it to American use only or is this a Germany only headline
A source
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8114015/Donald-Trump-tries-pay-German-company-creating-experimental-coronavirus-vaccine-US.html
German officials are trying to stop the US from enticing German company CureVac to move its research to the US, insisting no country should
It gets wierder and more troubling too. Apparently the CEO that met with trump has abruptly stepped down. The company is now being run by one of its founders. Wtf is going on here?
https://www.curevac.com/news/company-founder-ingmar-hoerr-succeeds-daniel-menichella-as-ceo-of-curevac-ag
Daniel Menichella started the month as CureVac CEO, one of the privileged few to discuss the coronavirus response with the U.S. president an
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/was-it-something-he-said-biotech-ceo-who-met-president-trump-month-exits-without-a-word
have not seen it in america but that IS pretty fuckin horrifying so like hey what the fuck
You really need to see this in the US because everyone else on the fucking planet has been seeing this for nearly a week and we are PISSED
Your government, in the middle of a global fucking pandemic, literally tried to buy the vaccine under development for said pandemic exclusively for the US.
This isn’t just a daily fail bullshit squawk, this has been confirmed by multiple sources, INCLUDING THE GODDAMN GERMAN GOVERNMENT. “CAPITALISM HAS LIMITS” and you have crossed a fucking line.
Wtf?? Trump is literally a supervillain at this point.
Concept: a temping/job placement agency specifically founded to help people who are having trouble finding employment due to supernatural interference in their lives.
“I’ve been held captive in a fairy mound for the past seven years, so not only is there a gap in my resume but my coding knowledge is way out of date now.”
“I’m under a curse from the bog witch and I can only work during daylight hours because at sunset I turn into an alligator.”
“I’m a statue who was brought to life by a love goddess last week and I’m not entirely sure what a ‘job’ is but I’m told that I need one?”
I’m a traveller between universes and I appear to be stuck here for a while. I heard this world has “jobs” which is apparently a thing that I need?
“It turns out I have no idea how to actually make shoes without elves doing most of the work overnight. Is there some kind of remedial class I can take?”
“I’m a swan most of the time, I’m looking for a job in security where no one will ask questions about what form I run tresspassers off in.”
”I had a run-in with some fae and now weeds grow in my footsteps wherever I walk, so, uh, is there a job where they won’t mind? Oh, yes, those dandelions were me, sorry about that..”
Usagiyoongi (on twitter)/ renten (on AO3) Commissioned me this piece and it’s everything I could have asked for : klance & fantasy ♥
enjoy this magical scenery!
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False memes
Okay, friends, I need some help.
A friend of mine saw a friend who does not speak Spanish circulating these two memes, trying to be helpful. Here’s the problem - the advice in Spanish DOES NOT MATCH the English AT ALL. In Spanish, the people are advised to invite ICE in, be honest and calm, and to instruct all family members to tell the truth. At the end, they are told their cooperation is appreciated. They are not advised of their rights, to request a warrant. The advice amounts to giving themselves up.
If you look closely at the bottom, you’ll see that the English version is from the ACLU. The Spanish version says “ALCU”.
Be aware of the information you share - it may not be helpful!
THAT SAID, the help I request is this:
I do not speak enough Spanish to translate the above into Spanish. I would like to give her the Spanish translation of this message to add to her post. (And this one.)
Help?
Translation:
If ICE agents come to your door:
Open the door to talk to the agents. Stay calm.
Ask why they’re there and be cooperative.
If they ask to come in, invite them in. Be hospitable.
Answer all questions honestly.
Encourage(?) everybody in the house to answer their questions honestly.
If they ask about family, friends, or coworkers, answer their questions honestly.
If they ask you to sign something, read the document critically before signing.
Your cooperation is appreciated!
ALCU Only be honest
Can you please translate the top text that’s in English into Spanish too, please? I’d like to give it to K to put on Facebook so that people can share a fully useful post with Spanish “this is fake, here’s what people are trying to do” because without an explanation of how the images are different, if a Spanish only speaker sees it then K is just accidentally sharing bad information, if that makes sense?
I appreciate your help so much.
(Also, seriously, whaaaaaaaaat the fuck.)
Traducción al español:
Muchas personas de habla inglesa estuvieron compartiendo estas imágenes, tratando de ayudar. Pero no se dieron cuenta de que la version en inglés y la versión en español son muy distintas. La imagen en inglés da consejos verdaderos mientras que la imagen en español te instruye a cooperar con ICE.
Esto es lo que dice la imagen en inglés, lo que realmente deberías hacer:
SI AGENTES DE ICE ESTÁN EN TU ENTRADA:
-No habrás la puerta, mantente calmado. Tienes derechos.
-Pregunta por qué están ahí, qué quieren. Pide un intérprete si lo necesitas.
-Si piden entrar, pregunta si tienen una orden de registro firmada por un juez*. Si es así, pide verla (que la pasen por una ventana o por abajo de la puerta)
-Si no tienen una orden firmada por un juez*, puedes negarte a dejarlos pasar. Pídeles que dejen cualquier información en tu puerta.
-Si entran por la fuerza, no te resistas. Dile a todos en la residencia que guarden silencio.
-Si te arrestan, guarda silencio y no firmes nada hasta que hables con un abogado.
*Una orden administrativa de ICE (Forma I-200, I-205) no les permite entrar a tu hogar sin consentimiento
ACLU. CONOCE TUS DERECHOS
EVERYONE REBLOG/SHARE/SPREAD THIS VERSION!
“The Basics”
The basic structure of the sortinghatchats system is that you aren’t just sorted into one House, but into two tiers of Houses: Primary and Secondary. Your Primary House defines WHY you do things. Your Secondary defines HOW. To build this system, we’ve drawn on the Sorting Hat’s songs, general HP canon, extracanonical data (ex. interviews with JKR)… and then extrapolated.
People are complex– for joy or for utility, due to social pressure or careless recreation, people often use the reasoning or methods of Houses that aren’t their Primary or Secondary. We call this “modelling” or “performing” a house and we will explain it in greater detail later. These additional layers help us capture some complexities in characters that we couldn’t get using Primary and Secondary alone. People can vary hugely in how they embody their Houses; in this system, Aang, the heroic pacifist protagonist from Avatar the Last Airbender, shares most of his Houses with HP’s Lord Voldemort.
The way you decide which Houses are yours is not necessarily by looking at what you do, but at what would make you proudest and most content if you were strong enough to do it. Your sorting is what you want to be and what you believe you should do, whether or not you actually live up to it. That’s how people like Peter Pettigrew can end up in Gryffindor.
PRIMARIES
Your Primary is your why. It’s your motivations, your values, and the way you frame the world around you. It’s how and what you prioritize, and what you weigh most heavily when making your decisions. People often also assume that others share those priorities. A common response to our system is “but you must oversort into Gryffindor/Slytherin/Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff–everyone has that type of morality, deep down!”
Gryffindor Primaries trust their moral intuitions and have a need and a drive to live by them. They feel what’s right in their gut, and that matters and guides them. If they don’t listen to and act on that, it feels immoral.
We call Gryffindor morality “felt” but that doesn’t mean they’re all impetuous, emotional hellions. Gryffindors can still be intelligent, deliberate creatures who weigh their decisions and moralities carefully. Reasoning, intellectualizing and debate can be support for a Gryffindor’s felt morality– but those things can never make a fully satisfying morality in themselves. Some things are just wrong, no matter what pretty words you use to explain them.
Ravenclaw Primaries have a constructed system that they test their decisions against before they feel comfortable calling something right. This system might be constructed by them, or it might have been taught to them as children, or it might have been discovered by them some point later in life. But it gives them a way to frame the world and a confidence in their ability to interact with it morally.
Ravenclaws do not lack an intuitive sense of morality or gut feeling about things, but they distrust those instincts and have a need to ignore or to dig down deep and dissect those internal moral impulses. Living within their built moral system is as important to a Ravenclaw as to a Gryffindor; it’s the source of the morality that differs between them–what they trust.
Hufflepuff Primaries value people–all people. They value community, they bond to groups (rather than solely individuals), and they make their decisions off of who is in the most need and who is the most vulnerable and who they can help. They value fairness because every person is a person and feel best when they give everyone that fair chance. Even directly wronged, a Hufflepuff will often give someone a second (or fifth) chance.
This doesn’t mean all Hufflepuffs are inherently tolerant human beings, any more than all Gryffindors are inherently good, moral creatures. Hufflepuffs tend to believe that all people deserve some type of kindness, decency, or consideration from them–but they can define “person” however they want, excluding individuals or even whole groups.
Slytherin Primaries are fiercely loyal to the people they care for most. Slytherin is the place where “you’ll make your real friends”– they prioritize individual loyalties and find their moral core in protecting and caring for the people they are closest to.
Slytherin’s reputation for ambition comes from the visibility of this promotion of the self and their important people– ambition is something you can find in all four Houses; Slytherin’s is just the one that looks most obviously selfish.
Because their morality system of “me and mine first” is fairly narrow in scope, Slytherins often construct a secondary morality system to deal with situations that are not addressed by their loyalty system.
SECONDARIES
Your Secondary is your how. It’s how you approach the world as a person interacting with it, and how you make your way. It’s how you problem-solve. It’s not necessarily what you’re best at, or even what’s the most useful to you, but about what skills and methods you value as being intrinsic to you. Do you improvise, do you plan? Do you work on something a little bit every day? Do you charge into the fray and tell people exactly what’s on your mind? What do you do? How would you describe the way you meet the world?
Note: the term “Secondary” is not meant to imply that how you do things is any less important than why (the Primary House). It’s simply the way our terminology fell out and we’re too lazy to change it. The importance of motivations v. methods is a personal sliding scale– it’s perfectly valid for a person to identify with their Secondary House over their Primary. (When drawing from canonical sources, we assumed each character likely was in a House that matched to either their Primary or their Secondary. For instance, Harry is in Gryffindor for his heroic Gryffindor Primary, but Ginny Weasley is there for her brash and bold Gryffindor Secondary.)
Gryffindor Secondaries charge. They meet the world head-on and challenge it to do its worst. Gryffindor Secondaries are honest, brash, and bold in pursuit of things they care about. Known for their bravery, it is almost a moral matter to stay true to themselves in any situation that they’re in.
Ravenclaw Secondaries plan. They collect information, they strategize. They have tools. They run hypotheticals and try to plan ahead for things that might come up. They build things (of varying degrees of practicality and actual usefulness) that they can use later– whether that’s an emergency supply pack, a vast knowledge of Renaissance artistic techniques and supplies, or a series of lists and contingency plans. They feel less at home in improvisation and more comfortable planning ahead and taking the time to be prepared.
Hufflepuff Secondaries toil. Their strength comes from their consistency and the integrity of their method. They’re our hard workers. They build habits and systems for themselves and accomplish things by keeping at them. They have a steadiness that can make them the lynchpin (though not usually the leader) of a community. While stereotyped as liking people and being kind (and this version is perhaps a common reality), a Hufflepuff secondary can also easily be a caustic, introverted misanthrope who runs on hard work alone.
Slytherin Secondaries improvise. They are the most adaptive secondary, finding their strength in responding quickly to whatever a situation throws at them. They improvise differently than the Gryffindor Secondary, far more likely to try coming at situations from different angles than to try strong-arming them. They might describe themselves as having different “faces” for different people and different situations, dropping them and being just themselves only when they’re relaxing or feel safe.
But the Journey Continues…
These four basic Primary and Secondary houses are summarized starting places that we use as a basis for further discussion. What are some ways this gets complicated?
Keep reading
Interesting. I’m primary Ravenclaw, secondary Slytherin. definitely saving for future reference
PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS:
there are several posts going around about how to best help if you witness an ICE raid/arrest as a (white) citizen. many of them are filled with extremely bad, LARP-y advice such as screaming at agents and getting physically close to them. in most cases, this is just going to make things worse for everyone at risk (including yourself). you need to stay calm, and avoid getting someone accused of resisting arrest.
to be clear: most of these fascists dont care about the law. “illegal” is not a magic word you can say to make them stop. and, being a white citizen is not an impenetrable shield. you can still be arrested, so be prepared for that. you are, however, less likely to be arrested, and MUCH less likely to be killed or held extralegally.
here is what you should actually do to help:
record, and make sure your phone auto-backups to a cloud. streaming can be problematic because its best to have lawyers look over the footage first. be aware they might also grab your phone, even without a warrant. if they’re grabbing it out of your hands, try to lock it. make sure you have a pin lock, not pattern or fingerprint. here’s some other ways to protect your phone from cops.
if you are able to film, and have determined it won’t escalate the situation, make it obvious you are doing so, because secretly recording is illegal in several states. narrate any violation of rights you see. here is a Q&A about filming ICE.
stay several feet back from agents, because they can claim you’re impeding them. if you’re recording and they claim this, take several steps back, and announce it as you’re doing so, if you’re filming.
ask if they are free to go, if someone is being approached. if ICE insists on the person asking for themself, and they speak spanish*, tell them “por favor repita: ‘am i free to go?’” (this just means “please repeat”) if the agent says yes, tell them “usted puede dejar”. if not..
calmly inform people of their rights if they are being arrested. they do not have to speak at all to agents, answer any questions without a lawyer, or sign anything. they do have to show their paperwork if they have it, but do NOT have to hand over the paperwork/passport, or consent to a search of themselves/belongings, without a judicial warrant (not administrative! here’s the difference). it is crucial that they give as little information as possible to ICE.
if you speak spanish, list their rights in spanish as well, and translate what the agents are saying. if not, keep the google translate app on your phone – it’s not perfect, but it’s quick/accessible and can download languages for offline use. you can also memorize this sentence: “no tiene que responder/dar su consentimiento” - “you dont have to respond/consent”
get their lawyer’s contact info, if they have one and are being taken away by ICE. many people carry a card with emergency contact info on it, including childcare info and loved ones, so you can offer to call those numbers for them.
call for legal help. do not call the ACLU or other big organizations for immediate help, call your local immigration help center (for New York State, contact IDP at 212-725-6422. for California, call the TRUST hotline at 844-878-7801). United We Dream is an immigrant-lead organization that provides aid nationwide, and can be reached at 844-363-1423. please save these numbers in your phone!
know the ICE rapid response network in your town, and keep their number on hand. if there isn’t one close to you, here’s how to make one.
finally, here are some useful toolkits:
comprehensive ICE response guide
know your rights posters for in-home raid readiness, community flyers, and informative videos
ACLU videos explaining what to do in various situations with ICE
*of course not every immigrant speaks spanish; people from south america are being targeted en masse right now, but may speak many indigenous languages as well as portuguese. so ask if you dont know what language someone speaks, and see if google translate can help.
WHAT TO DO AT AN ICE CHECKPOINT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE A WHITE CITIZEN
(please, please, please copy, paste, and share widely):
-Border Patrol can verify citizenship within 100 miles of a border or “external boundary.” This includes coastlines so NYC is within the 100-mile zone.
-Border patrol can only ask brief questions about citizenship, and they cannot hold you for an extended time without cause.
-You always have the right to remain silent. You do not need to answer their questions.
-***WITH THAT SAID, IF YOU ARE A BORN CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES AND ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE WHITE, YOU NEED TO SPEAK THE FUCK UP.***
-The most important acts of resistance are the small ones. Make it difficult and uncomfortable for ICE agents to do their jobs. They are counting on citizens to turn a blind eye and allow them to deport undocumented citizens without challenge. Disabuse of that notion.
-If you are on a train, bus, or anything else and ICE or CBP boards, you need to stand up and loudly let everyone know that they have the right to remain silent or only answer questions in the presence of an attorney, no matter their citizenship or immigration status. There have been numerous reports that confronting the agents in this way has caused them to leave without verifying citizenship. THIS CAN SAVE LIVES.
-If you see anyone being held up by immigration, loudly ask if they are being detained and if they are free to go.
-Immigration officers cannot detain anyone without reasonable suspicion, an agent must have specific facts about you that make it reasonable to believe you are committing or committed, a violation of immigration law or federal law.
If an agent detains you, you can ask for their basis for reasonable suspicion, and they should tell you.
-Always say no to a search and let everyone know that they can and should refuse consent to a search.
-They cannot search or arrest anyone without facts about that make it probable that they are committing, or committed, a violation of immigration law or federal law.
-Silence alone meets neither of these standards. Nor does race or ethnicity alone suffice for either probable cause or reasonable suspicion
-As white citizens, we have a level of privilege which protects us from retaliation from ICE for being “rude” and making a scene, which makes it our DUTY to speak up and make sure people without the same privilege know their rights. GET LOUD. YELL. YELL IN SPANISH IF YOU KNOW IT. LET PEOPLE KNOW THEY DON’T HAVE TO SAY SHIT. MAKE ICE UNCOMFORTABLE. THROW SAND IN THE GEARS OF WHITE SUPREMACY.
BONUS INFO:
-It is perfectly legal to record immigration agents as long as you are not on government property or at a port of entry. If your train/bus gets board, pull your phone out and start videotaping immediately.
-If you are detained or see someone getting detained, get the agent’s name, number, and any other identifying information. Get it on tape.
-Contact the ACLU if you see someone’s rights being violated.
Me: I am a serious fic writer of serious fic
Also me:
I feel like this scenario would work in just about any of my fandoms;
Voltron: Idiot 1 is Hunk, idiot 2 is Pidge, idiot 3 is Lance, Keith is the Selkie.
My Hero Academia: idiot 1 is Iida, idiot 2 is Uraraka, idiot 3 is Todoroki, Midoriya is the Selkie.
Avatar the Last Airbender: idiot 1 is Sokka, idiot 2 is Toph, idiot 3 is either Aang or Zuko, Katara is the selkie.
Fruits Basket: idiot 1 is Yuki, idiot 2 is Kyo, idiot 3 is Tohru, Hatori is the selkie.
