I'm a fan of Ouat, GoT, with a hefty splash of world issues thrown in and a love of all animals. Be warned, not a fan of CS but everything negative is properly tagged as anti. I am a multi-shipper and try to follow all points of view even those I disagree with to help me understand how others see the world. This is a safe place for LGBT people and anyone with hate in their heart can respectfully fuck off. Anti-Trump person here.
If you don't already know you have issues doing so, squat down real quick. Bend your knees all the way and touch the floor. Just make sure you can do it. Okay? For me? And then stand up all the way and make sure you can balance on one foot.
Like. You don't need to blow it into some huge thing. Just. Make sure all your bits and peices still work the way you think they do.
Can you turn your head to look behind you without twisting your shoulders? What about standing on your toes? If you sit down on the floor can you get back up without using your hands?
If there was ever a tumblr post worth sending to your mom, it's this one.
Just saying, bodies are a use it or lose it kinda thing.
okay so every time I see this post crop back up in queues and notifications I end up thinking about it. Because I made the post and even I'm still doing the thing where I read the post about maintaining range of motion in my delicate meatsuit and I nod and hmm and think yeah that's a good idea and then dont move from where I'm curled up shrimp style staring at the nightmare rectangle.
So like. Thinking real hard about moving doesn't count as moving. Major bummer. Anyways. Joints.
while the stray cat story may have circulated in 2020 and 2022, this story is actually from the Leningrad Zoo in 2014. (here's the original russian article as well.)
these two felines were introduced at 6 weeks old in order to give more enrichment for the lynx and for education purposes, however they got along fantastically from the start and were eventually moved to permanently live with one another.
a much less exciting story, but a much cuter one as well.
The Republicans' proof of life tweets are so weird...
The Bulwark trio debate the trustworthiness of the GOP's desperate attempts to counter Laura Loomer's claim that Moscow Mitch McConnell is “brain dead and on life support”. Three different Republican officials issued separate public statements within just five minutes of each other in which they claim to have had a 20-minute conversation with McConnell about current pressing political issues including Trump's disastrous war with Iran. However the three never indicated that their purported conversations with Mitch were a conference call — so did they each receive an individual phone call from McConnell? Why has there been no video or even a single photo of any of these three conversations if they actually transpired? No audio has been released of any of those three calls either. If Mitch is still alive then he must be either unconscious or intubated in order to keep everyone from being able to quell these incessant rumors of his incapacitation or death.
Hundreds march in protest of fatal ICE shooting in Houston’s Magnolia Park
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo died early Tuesday during what ICE described as a "targeted enforcement operation." The protesters called for an end
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo died early Tuesday during what ICE described as a “targeted enforcement operation.” The protesters called for an end to such immigration operations in Houston.
Michael Adkison
July 9, 2026, 12:10 PM
A woman holds a sign commemorating Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a protest on July 8, 2026.
A crowd of hundreds marched in Houston's Magnolia Park neighborhood 36 hours after a federal immigration officer shot and killed a man along that very street. They called for an end to such immigration enforcement operations in Houston.
The protest, organized Wednesday evening by civil rights group FIEL Houston and the Houston branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, brought hundreds of Houstonians to the 6800 block of Canal Street where, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot on Tuesday morning. A small memorial of flowers and candles was set up just feet from where he was shot during an encounter with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
A small memorial of flowers, candles, and written messages to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on July 8, 2026, at the site where he was fatally shot 36 hours prior.
“This is the exact spot that Lorenzo took his final breath,” said Cesar Espinosa, executive director of FIEL Houston. “And in the spirit of solidarity, I don't know about you, but I say, if they come for one of us, they come for all of us.”
Federal authorities have said Salgado Araujo was a Mexican citizen without legal status in the U.S. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security alleged he was attempting to evade arrest and “weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer,” which the man’s family has disputed.
One of Salgado Araujo’s sons said he had lived in the U.S. for more than 30 years and was on his way to work before the deadly encounter with ICE. Salgado Araujo did not have a criminal record in Harris County.
On Wednesday evening, after chanting and several speakers denouncing ICE operations, the crowd marched down Canal Street. A group of more than 100 remained at the site for a small candlelight vigil, predominantly in Spanish.
A small candlelight vigil was held on July 8, 2026, at the site where Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot 36 hours earlier.
A man and woman who called themselves family members of Salgado Araujo briefly spoke at the vigil, visibly emotional. They expressed their gratitude for the large turnout of community members who showed up to voice their condemnation of the shooting.
Earlier, during the protest, Conchita Reyes, in conjunction with the Houston chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), shared a statement from the Salgado Araujo family, with whom LULAC has been working since the shooting.
“Here on Canal Street is where my dad Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and bled out before passing away,” Reyes said, reading from a written statement by the family. “He lay here in pain and in fear for his life and with the fear of leaving his family behind. He did not deserve to die. [...] He deserved to take his workers to the job site, finish the houses, and go back home to his loving wife.”
Reyes also stated the family's three wishes: for an independent investigation of the shooting, a reform to ICE operations “doing away with ambush-style tactics and unmarked vehicles,” and financial assistance for Salgado Araujo's wife, Maria.
Hundreds marched on July 8, 2026, in protest of the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a federal immigration agent.
“I feel like what happened to him wasn't the right thing,” Alejandra Batres, a Houstonian, told Houston Public Media. “He was a very hard-working person, that I read from. He wasn't doing nothing, and it wasn't right. And if I have a choice to raise my voice for other people that can't do it, I'm going to do it.”
Several elected officials also attended, some of whom spoke. Among them were Democratic Congress members Sylvia Garcia, Al Green and Christian Menefee; Houston City Council members Alejandra Salinas and Joe Panzarella; and Texas House Democratic Caucus leader Gene Wu. Garcia stated that she, Green, Menefee, and U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher had sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security “demanding answers.”
Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia speaks to protestors on July 8, 2026, demonstrating against the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
“I assure you that it's not going to be the last step, and we're going to stay on it and on it until there is a full, complete, up-and-down, thorough investigation, and someone is held responsible,” Garcia said. “Because this is too much like what happened in Minneapolis with [Renée Good, a woman shot and killed by ICE].”
Roberto Deltoro arrived at the protest holding a massive flag, with an explicit message denouncing ICE. As a Mexican-American born and raised in Houston, he said the killing of Salgado Araujo was a wake-up call.
“As soon as I found out, I knew we had to come out,” he told Houston Public Media. “I knew we had to protest, and we had to come support, because we’re so used to it happening somewhere else, in another state, another city. But now, look. It’s here in our own backyard. So, it’s always been a problem, but now we have to take action.”
I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other.
We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,
and to say thank you to to the person holding it. To smile
at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress
to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder,
and for the driver in the red pick-up to let us pass.
We have so little of each other, now. So far
from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these
fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here,
have my seat,” “Go ahead - you first,” “I like your hat.”
- Danusha Laméris, “Small Kindnesses"
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