Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It mu
Hey, so the ACLU is gearing up to take this on if yall have room to support this org, it would mean a lot to me (and other adult queer creators). As always, word of mouth is really important here too so reblogs are greatly appreciated.
everything everywhere all at once // in the heights // knives out // the menu // birdman or (the unexpected virtue of ignorance) // a real pain // nimona // fantastic mr. fox // kubo and the two strings // spider-man: into the spider-verse
a full fledged co-conspirator even. the realtor splits the commission with the house, which uses its cut to get asbestos removal, granite countertops, plumbing renovations you name it. the key being the House desires these things for its self. not for its *shudders* occupants.
it's a strong independent entity! it doesn't need a relationship (with freeloaders who scuff its floors). it's single and KILLIN IT! and by "it" let's just say. heh. an entire upper middle class white suburban family
If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...
Start helping with citizen science projects
Public participation in science is increasing, and citizen science has a central part in this. It is a contribution by the public to researc
What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!
You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases
Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.
Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.
Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.
Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.
Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.
Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.
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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.
Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help
Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.
Yes, this. A stunning number of people will default to "because it's illegal." Teaching an intro-level bioethics course will demonstrate real fucking fast that a lot of the population just lets legality stand in for morality.
I remember during my first lit class in college we were reading Oedipus (the "accidentally killed his dad and married his mom" guy if y'all aren't familiar). Our professor was excellent and honestly a hero for approaching this play so thoughtfully with a bunch of 18-19 year olds. At one point my professor turned to the class and asked us why we thought we had, as a culture, such a social taboo against incest to place it as equivalent (or even worse) to patricide.
Most of the students were uncomfortably silent. Some were like "bc it's gross." Some introduced the concept that it was bc of health issues the child of such a pairing could have. Ofc then he came back at us with "would it be better if he was sleeping with his dad, or either him or his mom were incapable of having children?" Obviously the answer was a resounding no
It was an uncomfortable and awkward and incredibly important experience. It was part of the way through the semester and we already knew and respected this man and couldn't just write it off as "wow what a fucking weirdo guess he wants to fuck his mom" though that didn't stop some of my classmates. Simply bc none of them understood why they themselves thought incest was bad.
Having grown up in a xtian cult, the way people refuse to analyze their own beliefs is eerily fucking familiar. I recognized that feeling of discomfort in my classmates bc it was the same that would result from me asking certain uncomfortable questions of people in the congregation. They didn't want me questioning things bc it was a flawed ideology that wouldn't hold up to scrutiny.
Any ideology that is destroyed or corrupted by questioning its principles, isn't an ideology worth standing up for, imo.
TLDR; everything op said, and also some of y'all echo my cult upbringing even broaching subjects ur uncomfortable with. It's okay to be uncomfortable. You need to sit with discomfort in order to better understand yourself and the world around you.