Pillowfort is getting a lot of new users, for some reason.
I'm askmeaboutthehonmoon over there. Going to try to be somewhat active on it.
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Pillowfort is getting a lot of new users, for some reason.
I'm askmeaboutthehonmoon over there. Going to try to be somewhat active on it.
I love that Leverage really goes out of it’s way to show us that just because you break the ‘rules’, it doesn’t mean you’re breaking the rules. Rules and laws and society are all made up, at the end of the day, and all you really have is your own moral compass and sense of justice; is this just to you? Is it right? Should it be OK for companies to put people in insurmountable debt for the rest of their lives just because our medical care is so expensive in this modern day and age? No law or rule should change what you know in your heart is right and wrong, and I think that’s the key thing that makes someone a good person in my eyes.
#there was a time when parker wouldn’t have noticed, #not because she lacked the capacity to care, #but because she had narrowed herself, #to stay alive she cut off as many unnecessary things as possible, #watching her get them all back, #is one of the glories of this show (via @seananmcguire)
Leverage hands down has the best character development I’ve ever seen.
This scene hit me like a brick. My parents were hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt when I was 16 bc I’d had cancer the year before (my treatment ended up being free but the initial ER bills and such were not).
But somewhere along the line they just… Disappeared. My mom says they’re not being paid and they’re not in collections. It’s almost as if someone out there did…exactly what Parker did.
Ever since I saw this the first time, I’ve imagined it was Parker doing it. That she and Hardison had a free weekend and decided to take it out on a collections agency. That I was one of the lucky ones who got a little Leverage.
Okay but like yeah, that is actually a thing that happens, albeit not exactly like this. I don’t remember the exact process but basically there’s a booming industry to sell peoples debt - the business you owe money to sells it to someone else for a fraction of the money owed, wipes their hands of the whole affair, and now whoever bought your debt is riding your ass to get you to give the money to the. But it’s also entirely possible for people to just… buy up massive amounts of debt for pennies on the dollar, and then just. Forgive it. Because capitalism is a living nightmare, but the system is broken enough that it’s possible to exploit it for good sometimes.
Like, the main reason I know about this is because John Oliver did a piece on debt buying a few years ago, and ended it by revealing that he’d bought 15 million dollars worth of medical debt just so he could forgive all of it. Both to expose how broken the system was because some random fucker like him could buy millions of dollars in peoples debt with zero regulations, and also just to take the record for biggest TV giveaway in history.
A charity where you can do this, right here.
Be Parker! Be somebody else’s Leverage!
Reblogging for the website.
yes! if you want to help with the medical debt crisis in the US and have some extra money please donate to RIP Medical Debt if you can. They’re completely legit and really do what they say - you really CAN relieve an incredible amount of debt for the needy with even a small donation. I’m a monthly donor and receive a quarterly report of the debt they’ve abolished, and it truly is amazing. Based on those reports the average amount of debt abolished per person is actually I would say about $600 - which means, if you’re doing the math, that with a $6 donation to RIP Medical Debt, you can potentially pull one person out of a poverty spiral - maybe even one family. For six dollars. that’s a pretty good deal, I think.
RIP Medical Debt is now called Undue Medical Debt!
Undue Medical Debt makes it easy for donors to make an impactful difference in the lives of those struggling with medical debt.
I'm keeping an eye out for heat stroke in my area and I can't figure out what a full body flush would look like on dark skin since all the pictures are just fake training pictures. Anyone have video/pics of a heat stroke flush on black skin?
Big thanks to @rezmacro for the info!
More info from @tragicmoth on things to look out for in darker skin tones: the other signs including:
• High internal (core) body temperature, typically over 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius).
• Behavior changes — like agitation or aggression.
• Blurred vision.
• Confusion.
• Delirium.
• Dizziness.
• Fainting (syncope).
• Fast heart rate (tachycardia).
• Fast, shallow breathing (tachypnea).
• Low blood pressure (hypotension).
• Nausea and vomiting.
• Seizures.
• Slurred speech.
• Skin color changes — either flushed or paler than usual.
• Skin that’s dry and cool to the touch (classic heat stroke) or sweaty (exertional heat stroke).
• Weakness.
Especially keep an eye on your local homeless population since they're most likely to be affected from lack of shelter
Confirmation and update from @rubyroboticalt!
Including a link to Blackdoctor.org
last time I'm reblogging this for now unless it gets more to add, but it's important you internalize as many of these as possible. The blind guy outside the corner store may not have visible pupils to look at, that woman on the corner may have a skin condition that makes her skin blotchy to begin with- people are going to show different signs in the moment.
Skin is an easy shorthand if only cause there's so much of it and it's usually visible in this heat, but the more you know, the better.
[Image IDs: Image #1: Tumblr reply from rezMacro reading: i've learned to use the pupils as indicators for darker skinned people; dilated pupils are indicative of heat exhaustion, constricted pupils are a sign of heat stroke.
Image #2: Tumblr reply from tragicMoth: as far as i am aware darker skin can either appear darker or have a grayish tone. unfortunately i do not have images of this. usually it's best to rely on the other symptoms of heat stroke.
Image #3: Tumblr reply from rubyRobitcAlt reading: heat rash on dark skin will usually be a "prickling" rash, it's a bunch of little bumps that may be ruddy or dark depending on exact skin tone, but may also appear without visible coloration. a variant type looks like the splotches associated with allergies, and the splotches can be ruddy/reddish, dark, or white/gray. src: academic dermatology of nevada, blackDoctor.org, askThePaediatricians, medicalNewsToday /End IDs]
When I was a kid, we moved into a house that had a huge lilac tree out front. It was mostly rotten, and it needed to be taken down before it fell. It took a while, but eventually, it was gone.
Mostly. A couple years later, little lilac babies popped out of the ground in its place. My mom was determined to get rid of them, because she'd planted a beautiful flower garden there, and the lilac trees would overshadow and kill the whole garden. I insisted on saving at least a few saplings. She said fine, but I had to dig them out and put them in pots myself.
So, I did. I spent days digging little lilac bushes out of the ground and putting them into pots. Some couldn't be saved, but some could. When all was said and done, I had five brand-new lilac saplings. Seven or eight years old, and it was my absolute pride and joy.
Three died due to sun scorching, severe drought that no amount of watering could save, and perhaps just being moved from their place in the ground. But two survived, and I was awfully proud of them! I'd go out and talk to them every single day. I watered them by hand and made sure they were fertilized properly. I learned all about their favored environments, and I was determined to make sure they lived.
One of my mom's friends saw what I was doing with the lilacs. She asked if she could have one to put in her backyard, and I agreed on the condition that she take very, very good care of it.
It's now fucking enormous. I'm talking ten feet tall and bursting with beautiful purple flowers every spring. My mom still gets updates each year as they start to bloom, which she forwards to me. And all I can think is, "That's my friend! Thriving some twenty years on, there it is."
The other tree nearly died, too. It lived in a pot for far, far too long. I wanted to plant it somewhere in my parents' yard, but my mom was reluctant. Eventually, we agreed to put it in the far back garden. It grew okay for many years, despite the shade, but in all these years, it's never bloomed.
Last year, the massive tree casting massive shadows over the lilac and the garden cracked in half and fell. It tumbled into the garden, crushing part of the nearby shed and destroying a few plants beneath it.
It missed my lilac by inches.
The clean-up is long done. The rest of the tree has been cut down, and my lilac has full sunlight for the first time in fifteen years. It won't bloom this year, I know. But it's got new shoots up. It's taller than ever. I spent half an hour a few weeks ago praising it for surviving all this time, dreaming about its future and telling it how I believe it'll become the tall beauty it's always been meant to be.
I think next year, I'll see flowers.
Hello, everyone who scheduled this post to remind themselves to check in - which seems to be, uhh, quite a lot?? First of all, thank you for the interest and all the lovely notes on this post. It means a lot.
The lilac is doing very well! It's got almost a dozen new little branches and it's covered in more leaves than ever before. It looks so, so healthy - and that's where it's prioritizing its resources. No flowers this year, because the lilac has chosen essential growth and fundamental health over ornamentation and reproduction.
It's a good choice, I think. It looks so good. So many little leaves, so much new growth. Bits I thought were going to be dead are beautifully green. I decided not to take pictures of it; something about it felt wrong to do.
The other lilacs in the yard have bloomed, though, and I did get pictures of those. Plus the little potted one on my deck, which has teeny little flower buds on it.
I hope that you'll all be here next year to check for flowers with me again. Because you really never know.
And who knows? Maybe you'll have flowers to show me, too. I certainly hope so.
Dude. DUDE. HUMPTY DUMPTY JUST FELL. YOU NEED TO SEE THIS ALL THE KINGS MEN ARE THERE TRYING TO GET HIM BACK TOGETHER. THIS IS SO FUCKED DUDE. IM SO SCARED. HE'S DEAD
🖐️ stand aside. only the court necromancer can save him now. we must pray his body isn’t too broken…
WTF are the horses doing
i don't fucking know i tried my best but i think we made it worse with our big hooves
WHY WERE YOU INVOLVED AT ALL ??
i don't knowwww *kicks in frustration and hits humpty dumpty again* fuckkkkkkk
STOP
for years now i have been like "well i want to commit fully to the fediverse and leave all corporate social media, but tumblr is the only place with reblogs that work like that, even fedi platforms that let you make long posts only have twitter-style post threads which isn't the same" and now tumblr is like "good news! we have turned tumblr reblogs into a twitter-style post thread"
Who else thinks this is because the head honcho is still big mad about getting kung pow penised that one time?
you genuinely might be on to something. with the new update the OP only sees the K. i'm not saying they definitely broke the whole fucking website just because matt couldn't handle getting kung pow penised but i'm not not saying that.
good news is my outdated mobile version still works fine. really awesome platform when a months out of date revision works objectively better than the most recent
hang on. if my months outdated mobile app still allows me to properly sort thru notes on post. does that not imply they’re handling this change pretty much entirely frontend and just hiding/not loading the truncated parts of the chain?
the long awaited sequel to "what the hell looks this website's backend like": "this website frontend must be insane too"
“There are many magic rings in this world, Bilbo Baggins, and none of them should be used lightly.”
-Gandalf the Grey, wielder of Narya the Ring of Fire and also coincidentally maker of the best magic fireworks in the world
Looking back into the history of my "fuck staff" tag because today's big announcement has me stewing in anger, and I encountered a change from a while back where they removed profile pics (for some dumb reason) and the uproar was loud enough to get the decision reversed (even as noted idiot cyle argued in favor of the terrible UI change, and even now is reblogging shit that paints himself as the superior intellect plagued by the peons of the userbase).
So yeah, send those feedback tickets, make a fuss. They've reversed course before, no reason they can't do it again.
When yet another stupid update gets rolled out
Although without the spirit of communal posting, now it's more like this
Okay, so according to this post, @staff says they're listening to us, so...
Sound off, Tumblr! How do you feel about the latest update to the reblog and notes?
Hate it. 👎
Like it. 👍
No nuance. Go ahead and reblog the crap out of this.
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some days are really hard and it can be difficult to understand why. but usually its probably because my blood is haunted
The entire range of human skin tones varies from so pale white that it's almost kind of blue, to so deep black that it's almost kind of blue, and I think that's beautiful. Do you love the colour of the guy.
the idea of consuming two conflicting things that promise to do the opposite of each other has always been hilarious to me. there’s a liquid shot-based sleep aid called 6 hour sleep and as soon as I saw it i immediately imagined mixing it and a 5 hour energy together for a 1 hour nap
mix NyQuil and DayQuil to create Quil
what does Quil do
All the time all the time
Thank you all for being a patron of the Wonderful Funny Circus, coming from far and wide for so many years to see our wonderful funny clowns. Since we are the only operating circus that has such wonderful funny clowns, we know how much you come to our circus specifically to see them, and to laugh and have fun in a way that, simply put, no other circus can offer. We have decided to executed the clowns
Tumblr next week: one of the things that makes Tumblr unique is being able to follow other users blogs! That’s why from now on, we’re making it so you can’t follow anyone anymore, and your dash is blessedly empty of any posts. If you want to see what others are posting, you can now click on their blog and see 5 of their posts (but no more).
More amazing updates to come, so be on the lookout!