[guerrillatech]

[suuniva]

POSTING THIS AGAIN!!!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!!!

[remanence-of-love]

[gambolling]

This is a real medical condition known as Gan’s Syndrome, an ocular retinoblastoma occurring in 0.0004% of the total retinoblastoma cases. Ruptured blood vessels create often symmetrical, or at least fractal patterns and though the eye can see, visual acuity is lowered. It can be treated but never cured, though most suffering with the condition live normal lives. Gan’s Syndrome was founded by Dr. Sharon Gan.

[softfeelsinc-deactivated2018032]

wow, so spine chillingly beautiful. Sometimes nature is so beautiful even if it’s hindering a person’s life. 

[violentvoices-deactivated201704]

sadly yet again another fake post A quick google and you can see nothing by this name exists.

[tanknaka]

no its real my cousin sasuke has this

[trans-axolotl]

On this intersex awareness day, I challenge you to learn some intersex history!

For instance, do you know the reason why intersex awareness day is October 26th? 

The first public demonstration in America about intersex issues was in Boston, October 26, 1996. Morgan Holmes and Max Beck were planning to give an address about the detrimental effects of nonconsensual intersex surgery at the annual American Academy of Pediatrics, but were not allowed to speak. As a result, they demonstrated outside the conference along with allies from Transsexual Menace. 

Intersex Awareness day started in 2003, and is stronger than ever 16 years later!

[creekfiend]

I love to see my cattle rancher friends dragging the shit out of their antivax colleagues

[ging-gum]

my frogs w burnout series

[pastelparrotlet]

You're allowed to grieve things other than people. Relationships, lifestyles, states of mind, all deserve the same processing methods and coping mechanisms.

[catchymemes]

[paxamericana]

'Woke up sweating': Some Texans shocked to find their smart thermostats were raised remotely

Some said they didn't know their thermostats were being accessed from afar until it was almost 80 degrees inside their homes.

Without anyone touching it, they said their thermostat was changed while they were sleeping, making their home unbearably hot.

“Was my daughter at the point of overheating?” English said. “She’s 3 months old. They dehydrate very quickly.”

His wife received an alert on her phone soon after that. The family said their thermostat had been changed remotely, raising the temperature of their home during a three-hour “energy saving event.”

The family’s smart thermostat was installed a few years ago as part of a new home security package. Many smart thermostats can be enrolled in a program called “Smart Savers Texas.” It’s operated by a company called EnergyHub.

The agreement states that in exchange for an entry into sweepstakes, electric customers allow them to control their thermostats during periods of high energy demand. EnergyHub’s list of its clients include TXU Energy, CenterPoint and ERCOT.

[eilooxara]

I’m reminded of a discussion I had in an engineering class about clean energy technology back in grad school.

They were saying “oh wouldn’t it be cool to have a smart energy grid with surge pricing, to spread out the load on the grid”

And I’m like “no”

And they’re like “WHAT”

And they didn’t seem to get that poor people who absolutely can’t afford surge pricing, and also would be in danger during a heat wave, exist

And deserve to live

They’re like “but it would be GOOD for poor people because they’d be able to lower their energy usage at peak hours and save money overall”

But like

That’s not how being poor works?

Poor people don’t have as much control over their schedules as non-poor people! They can’t just cook their dinner two hours later because electricity is too expensive right now, they just worked a twelve hour shift and need to get to bed!

Poor people are more likely to be chronically ill and really not able to “tough it out” during surge pricing times!

The whole “if we all make little sacrifices here and there, we can Help Save The Earth™” thing is making some big assumptions about what sacrifices are possible to make, and enforcing it with pricing doesn’t actually help the environment, it just hurts the poor

I know this is a tangent and not what the above post is actually about but it’s a similar kind of thing

“spread out the load” does not work in a society where systemic inequality exists

[i-fear-neither-death-nor-pain]

Tangent or not, this is an extremely good point

[mysharona1987]

[instructor144]

[mysharona1987]

Fun fact: Tucker's super rich mom made a point of only leaving him $1 in her will.

And she likely did that for a reason: So he couldn't contest the will and argue "But maybe she was old and not in her right mind and forgot me."

It's apparently a specific practice amongst rich people when you want to leave a loathed family member nothing and don't want to give them a leg to stand on in court.

[mysharona1987]

Tucker's mom giving off the Lucille Bluth vibes.

[we-used-to-dream]

GET FUCKED TUCKER

[queennan1-deactivated20240816]

Yeah, my great aunt decided to leave all of her property and money to my dad rather than any of her shitty kids or grandkids (like they all lived in houses she owned and maintained rent free within 5 miles of her own home and guess who took care of her for the last 10 years of her life? Like cleaning her house, taking her to church and appointments, and out shopping. My dad, my mom, and me.) She changed her will about 2 and a half years before she died and left each of her kids and grandkids $10 each so they couldn't contest the will. She actually insisted on a traditional will reading, probably for the drama. I was 100 % sure her oldest son was gonna have a stroke when he realized Dad got just about everything, including all the houses they all lived in. Auntie even stipulated in her will that Dad should boot them all out if they gave him trouble and at the very least they should all start paying rent.

Anyway, if Dad hadn't already had a will leaving everything to me and mom one of those jerks would probably have tried to kill him.

[mysharona1987]

"Insisted on a traditional will reading probably just for the drama."

Your great aunt was amazing.

[theboboshow]

Your dad showing up to the will reading like Ransom from Knives Out.

[punkrorschach]

[bff0f7]

so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

[adamtheredbeard]

The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it's rough

“The Roman Catholic Parish in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was just grafitted.”

[afronerdism]

Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.

[doobiebenson]

[awwww-cute]

[fukkkres-deactivated20140519]

u lucky he holdin me back bitch on antartica i woulda slept u

[glowingforrest]

bonding with your houseplants by watering them from a water bottle you’ve already drank from

[harpyhormones]

indirect kiss

[funnytwittertweets]

[dankmemesreasonforliving]