Mermaids Against Thinspo

This blog opposes the glorification of self harm. #apac

[snarfflarf]

bitches be like "i can win chopped" then go on and cook a risotto 💀

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[gupdoo3]

Babygirl I can find places to sit down you didn't even think were possible

EDIT: This is a post about my experience as a physically disabled person, if you are able-bodied do not hijack this post

[trippysiren]

And then I get the most unholy knee pain on the way back up. 

[trippysiren]

It's my 8 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳Damn!

[upsetgazette]

[rabbits-habits]

Accommodations are not special, they’re not a leg up, they’re not a benefit. They’re not putting anyone ahead in the race, nor are they taking anything away from others.

They exist to put us on a level playing ground to everyone else, and nothing more.

[trippysiren]

Remember me?

So in my absence, I've now been with my partner for 3 years.

I am currently working on getting a professional autism diagnosis, and I'm currently self-identifying as such in the interim.

I've gone back to being vegan. I will not be posting animal rights content here because activism actually does bad things to my mental health.

And i miss y'all!

[monachopsis-11]

I get a lot of people telling me how great it is that I’m learning about myself, how proud they are etc. for me recognizing that I’m autistic and trying to help myself. While this is still preferable to the people who just flat out deny it it’s not helpful.

No one in my family has any concept of what I’ve gone through, they’ve never seen me have a meltdown, they just think it’s cool self discovery which is absolutely minimizing the way I’ve struggled my entire life and it’s incredibly invalidating.

All I want is for someone to apologize, to say that I shouldn’t have had to figure this out by myself at all, to say that they’re sorry I did, that the system failed me and they did too. So for all the self/late diagnosed people out there I am sorry, you shouldn’t have had to figure any of this out by yourself, you should’ve been recognized in childhood and had adequate support, no matter how well you masked people should’ve asked more questions.

Because self diagnosis is necessary but it’s also very lonely and heartbreaking to learn that you weren’t broken and you could’ve had help from the beginning if someone had just acknowledged what you were going through.

Autism isn’t my tragedy, not being seen as autistic is. I lost so much of my childhood because no one wanted to spare me a second glance and for all the other autistics out their with similar experiences I’m so sorry, it sucks and it’s okay to grieve what could’ve been.

[librarymage]

I am once again asking the autistic community stop punching down on autistic people they’ve been taught to view as “stereotypes.”

I’m talking about nonspeaking autistics.  About autistic people who need full-time support.  About asexual and aromantic autistics.  Autistics who don’t want a lot of friends.  Unemployed autistics.  Autistics who were/are in special ed.  Intellectually disabled autistics.  Autistic adults who live with other family members.  Autistics whose meltdowns aren’t “subtle.”  Autistics who injure themselves.  Multiply disabled autistics.  Autistic shut-ins and agoraphobes.

We are all just as deserving of respect and dignity as former gifted kid autistics who still do everything they can to distance themselves from us even as they preach acceptance.

[badsciencejokes]

Put your favorite bird names in the comments — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/3wYRPJf

[tiz-aves]

I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT TIT-BABBLERS FOR MONTHS NOW. SOMEONE BLOW THIS UP SO BOOBIES AND TITS DON’T GET ALL THE ATTENTION ANYMORE

[tlirsgender]

A nonhuman character in heavy makeup: *is very long*

Me: is that you, Doug

The credits: Freaky Creature played by Doug Jones

Me: YEAHHHH

[agir1ukn0w]

A nonhuman character in heavy makeup: *does that elegant hand movement that Doug always seems to do*

Me: DOUG!!!

[protectspock]

[graftandgrief]

Eating while on shift is not permitted, staff are told. “If the system detects no keyboard stroke and mouse click, it will show you as idle for that particular duration, and it will be reported to your supervisor. So please avoid hampering your productivity.”

A training video about the webcam system, seen by the Guardian, says it “monitors and tracks real-time employee behaviour and detects any violations to pre-set business rules, and sends real-time alerts to managers to take corrective actions immediately”.

Capitalism is so exhausting

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

Fuck this

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

This is insane.

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

Capitalism is so innovative /s

[thestoryofaslut]

Hi!  Want to completely fuck the keyboard-tracking system in the ass?  Want to do it in a way that they literally cannot do anything about without disabling primary Windows functions?

Step 1: Open Notepad.

Step 2: Copy the following text, line for line, omitting only the --- that caps either end of it. --- Dim objResult Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Do While True   objResult = objShell.sendkeys("{NUMLOCK}{NUMLOCK}")   Wscript.Sleep (6000) Loop --- Step 3: Save this as whatever.vbs, put it somewhere you can access easily, and double click it when you start your computer.

What does this do?

This runs a very basic script, and every six seconds, your computer will double-tap the NumLock key (i.e., turn it on, and then off) in a single instant.  This counts as a key-press, occurs with a key that shouldn’t affect most things that you’re doing, occurs with no gap between them even if it could affect things you’re doing, and should prevent this kind of BS from engaging.  As an aside, this will also prevent your computer from automatically locking itself, so take that into account if you need to manually lock your computer when going to lunch or whatever.

[grucose]

Damn, Tumblr back at it. Now we got coders coming in to save the day.

[barin-mclegg]

Tumblr’s collective hate for capitalism is astounding every time but damn if I don’t love it

[simonalkenmayer]

For all my call center readers.

[hermajestyimher]

The way he ended the incels was so attractive to me

[the-unabridged-journals]

international friends: here’s the deal. South African scientists have been tracking the COVID genome and keeping an eye out for mutations. Most places in the world aren’t doing so. When we announce a new variant, it’s not necessarily from South Africa, we just publicised the fact that we detected it here. And yet, because we’re a country in the Global South, it doesn’t matter that our scientists are incredible and are doing the world a service by tracking and reporting these things, because our ordinary citizens are being blacklisted because of it and being prevented from entering other countries and placed on red lists for no reason 

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

For those who aren’t aware, this is exactly how the Spanish Flu came to be named the Spanish Flu. It didn’t originate in Spain. Spain was just the first country to acknowledge there was a global fucking pandemic and do something about it.

[alexseanchai]

[image description: a Venn-type diagram by TrevorABranch on Twitter, transcribed below:]

the blue box labeled “Countries in southern Africa” contains Botswana, South Africa, eSwatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, and Zambia. the green box labeled “Countries banned from entering the US (and many other countries)” contains the same list minus Angola and Zambia.

the red box labeled “Countries with confirmed Omicron variant cases” contains Botswana, South Africa, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and the UK.

[africanandvegan]

My mother who lives in England is currently in Zim. She’s been there for a week. She got Covid earlier this year in England.

[ryan-sometimes]

COVID is slowly becoming a “third world” disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can’t get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.

[ryan-sometimes]

Watch also when some first world countries finish vaccinating their populations, they will turn to third world countries and “donate” or sell surplus vaccines. People in these countries will go “Oh how sweet! The government is donating vaccines to the poorer countries <3” when it was their hoarding that led to many, many third world citizens dying before they could even get vaccinated in the first place.

[comradesaucegay]

african and latin american countries are also pushed by pfizer to give up sovereign assets as part of their vaccine agreement

[nanalineni]

Yo europeans, sign the fucking petition, get the european commission to lift the patents

No Profit on Pandemic! Sign now!

Everyone deserves protection from COVID-19.

[nanalineni]

This is not a bullshit useless change dot org petition by the way this is an actual thing with legal consequences. If this petition gets to a million signatures, the european commission HAS to examine it.

[queerqueerspawn]

They need not only a million signatures but to pass thresholds in at least seven member states - which only Belgium has done so so far. Especially if you have Italian, Irish, or Cypriot citizenship, please sign. Sign it in general, but try to circulate if you can to anyone with those nationalities specifically.

[leosuncancervenus]

231,195 / 1,000,000 signatures as of 10/28/21

[hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon]

237,730  /  1,000,000  signatures as of 11/28/21 and the Signatory Deadline(it has to be signed by this date) is January 8th, 2022.

PLEASE sign, especially if you’re from one of the countries that has not reached it’s threshold. (France, Sweden, Greece, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria…basically every country except Italy and Belgium)

Minimum thresholds must be met in at least five more countries in addition to the 1,000,000 signatures requirement.

The countries closest to reaching their minimum threshold are Ireland(89% of required signatures), France(75%), The Netherlands (75%), Spain (69%), and Cyprus (46%). If you or anyone you know have citizenship in these countries, please sign it, encourage them to sign it, and pass it forward.

If the requirements are met, the European Commission will be forced to examine this and take legal action. Real change is a possibility if enough signatures are collected.

Spread this.

[mahougirlmutualaid]

P L E A S E HELP, ABSOLUTELY URGENT!!!!!!

TLDR; black owned orphanage completely out of food and in danger, please help! V/enmo and ca//shapp is savegodprovides, PayPal is therealmaxspaceerase@gma(il.)com

Please, don't scroll past this, I'm literally begging you!

Hello, I'm Madison! I'm a volunteer at God Provides Orphanage and Ministry, an orphanage in Buguri, Uganda run by my close friend @wesonga01! It homes over 50 orphans as well as struggling families.

It's a wonderful place dedicated to really giving each child a sense of hope and stability for their uncertain futures. Yazid's helped deathly ill children afford medicine, takes people in whenever he can, sacrifices so much, and would do ANYTHING for these children.

Right now, we're in a huge emergency. There is absolutely no food left, and the kids are struggling to sleep from hunger. We desperately need any help we can get!!

Please, share this post. Reblog it. Send it to your friends, your discord group, your relatives, strangers you think would care. Post it to other social media. Send it to social media personalities who would want to help! Share this news at your church. PLEASE don't forget about our kids right now. They are relying on our help to survive. I can't bare to see their dreams cut short.

There's lots of previous proof on this blog as well as @mutualaidminutes, and you can can call or message Yazid on discord wesonga01#0356 , Instagram at wesonga_01. Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart! I will not stop working until they have food, no matter how hard it is or how long it takes. Thank you.