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@vastsexual
you can have multiple most gorgeous looking women giving performance of their lifetime in a movie or show yet people will still come out obsessing & wanting to fuck a white man with the personality of a wet cardboard
oh because we were all wondering
Crying. They made a bookshelf for the back of Sam Reid's pants.
From Matthew Santos' Instagram.
Botanical [ 8 colors ]
Nature doesn't hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
This energy though
The amount of transphobes that just don't know anything about swords or fencing is fucking killing me. Firstly, alot of fencing competitions are gender neutral. Secondly even if someone who did have a massive strength advantage entered a fencing competition that still wouldn't help them too much because a duel with swords is very rarely decided on strength. It doesn't matter how strong you are, if your opponent hits you that's a point for them. Fencing is won entirely by fucking knowing how to fence, shockingly.
Also, anybody commenting "Why is her hair greasy. She needs to wash her hair" needs to step outside the house like atleast once in their life. Girl just won a fencing competition and she was wearing one of these 👇 the whole time
SHE WAS FUCKING SWEATY
lmaoo
this post was brought to my attention today and I checked her twitter and this made me happy
transition timelines are one of the greatest things we have in the world
It is a known fact that swordswomen are necessary for a thriving ecosystem. She saw a need and did something about it.
rule 1 of arguing is to never actually present the case in favour of your point. it shows weakness in your position that you feel the need to prove it. instead simply repeatedly assert it to be true and self-evident. rule 2 is to use mockery tactics at every opportunity. the more personal attacks to better. rule 3 is to always argue in a pack. this will indicate to your opponent that your point must clearly be convincing to other people, so there must be something to it. make repeated references to the fact that more people agree with you whenever you can. if you follow all three rules in the end you should have convinced exactly 0 people, but that's fine because if they didn't already agree with you they clearly had a moral deficiency anyway and were never even reachable in the first place
Outcropping, George Kamelakis
being a vampire is about penetrating someone but it's also about being filled up with their fluids. in this way vampirism confuses the top/bottom dichotomy
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After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented
agricultural workers in punjab who have to labor in 45°C (113°F) plus heat are losing their teeth as their bodies prioritise cooling through respiration and minimise saliva production.
(h/t @stylo-90)
"Like most outdoor laborers during peak season, Rashid drinks 15 to 20 liters of water daily to survive the relentless heat. By mid-morning, sweat soaks through his clothes as his body’s cooling mechanism works overtime. He chews on sugarcane during breaks, which provides quick calories — an ancient practice that sustained ancestors but now compounds health problems. Nothing about his general health seemed unusual at first. But when I asked about saliva — that often-overlooked component of oral health that most people never think about — there was a long pause.
“My mouth is always dry,” he said quietly in Urdu. “Even when I drink water until I feel sick. My mouth stays dry.”
(...)
Saliva is not just moisture. It’s a physiological fortress, a sophisticated system that most people take entirely for granted until it fails them. For anyone, but especially for people doing physically demanding work in extreme conditions, saliva performs three critical functions that are absolutely essential to tooth survival: It buffers acids from food and stomach reflux that would otherwise erode enamel; it holds calcium and phosphate minerals, which actively remineralize tooth enamel when microscopic damage occurs; and it contains enzymes and antibodies that fight bacteria, helping prevent infection and decay.
Without adequate saliva flow — and I mean genuinely adequate, not just the minimal amount needed to swallow — teeth begin to demineralize within weeks, a process that becomes increasingly difficult to reverse.
(...)
Increasingly erratic monsoons — along with land degradation and other issues — have also been impacting crop yields in Pakistan’s agricultural belt. (In 2025, the country’s output of major crops dropped by 13.5 percent.) Malnutrition among agricultural families has worsened significantly. According to data from Pakistan’s National Nutrition Survey, roughly 28.9 percent of children under five were underweight in 2018, and about 40.2 percent of children in the same age group were stunted. Agricultural wages for outdoor workers have stagnated while food prices have skyrocketed in recent years. Almost half of all rural agricultural families are now undernourished, struggling with food insecurity, and unable to provide adequate nutrition to their children.
One farmer described the economic reality with painful clarity: “Twenty years ago, we ate what we grew: wheat, vegetables, milk from our animals. Even in difficult years, we had this. Now I can’t afford that anymore. And I chew betel nut because it keeps me alert through the heat, keeps me working longer. My teeth pay the price for all of it. But what choice do I have?”
(...)
My research that when workers in their late twenties and early thirties lose functional teeth, they don’t just lose the ability to chew solid food, though that’s devastating enough. They are fundamentally unable to do their jobs effectively. Agricultural and other manual labor is physically demanding, and, since tooth loss makes it hard for them to eat properly during long work days, their energy levels drop. Physical endurance diminishes. Productivity decreases significantly. Wages drop accordingly.
Additionally, there’s a stigma associated with having bad or no teeth. One of my patients, a 26-year-old construction worker in Faisalabad, who has lost four front teeth and has six others that are showing severe decay, described it this way: “Contractors see you and assume you’re weak, unreliable, physically breaking down. I lost three job opportunities after they saw my teeth. They literally told me they couldn’t hire someone who looked that ill.” He’s now unemployed, living with his parents at an age when he should be establishing his independence. “My friends joke that I look like I’m 60,” he said, with the weariness of someone who’s heard that comment one too many times.
Nasreen, another patient from Lahore, who used to work in construction but shifted to domestic work as her tooth loss progressed, says her condition, which has affected her speech (the loss of front teeth disrupts the ability to pronounce labiodental sounds like “f” and “v”), is costing her domestic work opportunities as well. Households hiring for in-home roles have turned her away, telling her she appeared “unclean.” Nasreen told me she stopped going to the market — the central gathering place for her community. “People stare,” she said. “In my community, a woman without teeth is considered unmarriageable. It’s not stated explicitly, but everyone knows it. My younger sister’s marriage prospects are affected too, because people talk. They wonder if there’s something genetically wrong with our family.” Nasreen used to earn 800 Pakistani rupees (about $2.85) a day as a construction worker; now she makes 400 rupees (roughly $1.45) a day, a 50-percent reduction that her family can barely absorb.
(...)
When a 28-year-old loses the ability to eat, speak clearly, smile, and work because of a climate crisis created primarily by high-emission countries on the other side of the world, that’s not just a dental issue, it’s a manifestation of environmental racism and climate apartheid. And it demands urgent recognition and immediate response.
(...)
What gives me genuine hope amid this, however, are the community responses emerging organically without government support.
In 2023, in the Punjab village of Chak Beli Khan, for instance, a local health worker named Shabana Khan started organizing work shifts that avoided peak heat hours — a simple intervention based on understanding that the worst heat occurs between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Shifting work hours from the traditional 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. schedule to 4 p.m. to midnight helped farmworkers reduce their peak heat exposure significantly. Crucially, it also improved their hydration capacity; workers can actually retain fluids better when working in cooler hours, when their bodies aren’t in constant crisis mode trying to cool down.
I’ve documented the results of this intervention over a period of two years: Two workers reported improved oral health six months in. More significantly, their saliva pH readings improved from an average of 5.1 — dangerously acidic — to 6.2, moving into healthier territory. Word spread through the region. By the following harvest season, eight surrounding villages had adopted similar work schedules. It’s not a perfect solution — the work remains physically demanding, and wages haven’t increased — but it’s a real improvement from their previous work situation, and it emerged from on-the-ground wisdom.
Similarly, in Faisalabad, a local microfinance and community health organization operating with limited resources began providing subsidized water stations and electrolyte solutions to agricultural laborers during harvest season to help their bodies retain fluids and maintain proper chemistry. It has made a measurable difference.
One patient told me, “My mouth felt different within weeks — less dry, less burning sensation, like my mouth was actually producing moisture again.” His saliva test showed improved chemistry across multiple markers. After I documented results in 15 workers there and helped the organization understand the clinical significance of what they were observing, the organization began lobbying provincial agricultural authorities to fund the work as an official worker-safety program. The group is now building the case for funding by compiling clinical evidence and lived testimony.
(...)
But even these emerging solutions are, in truth, band-aids applied to a systemic wound that requires major intervention, both nationally and at the global level. What’s genuinely needed is policy change on multiple fronts: government-supported mobile dental clinics in agricultural zones with expertise specific to climate-related oral disease; binding workplace regulations for shade structures and mandatory hydration protocols during extreme heat; food-security programs that support truly nutritious food access in rural communities and don’t depend on cheap, processed foods; targeted health insurance, specifically for agricultural and other outdoor workers, covering both preventive and restorative dental care; and finally, climate-adaptation planning that centers human biology and human dignity, not just infrastructure and economic metrics.
Rashid came back to my clinic recently, his face showing the toll of another harvest season. We discussed implants as a long-term solution, knowing full well that he cannot afford them — the cost is prohibitive for an agricultural laborer earning 400 to 500 rupees a day. Before he left my clinic that day, I asked him what he’d want people to know about what’s happening to him and others like him.
“Tell them that climate change isn’t abstract,” he said. “It’s here, right now, in my mouth, in my family’s survival, in my ability to work and eat and live with dignity… It’s not just teeth; it’s my entire future. And I’m not alone. Every farmer I know is experiencing this. We’re all getting older before our time. We’re all becoming invisible.”
Seems legit
we all hear about kudzu being introduced as "erosion control" in the South but I don't think contemporary people understand on a gut level what that means
these are images from a 1930s pamphlet that endorsed kudzu, entitled "stop gullies: save your farm"
It was Bad.
Invasive plants need to be understood as part of a much larger cycle of incredible violence against the land.
For context: erosion on that scale occurred as a result of our clear-cutting entire states. The land east of the Mississippi used to be covered in old-growth forest to an extent that we literally can’t imagine anymore, because most of us have never seen a forest over 100 years old. It turns out if you remove all vegetation from a landscape, you end up with a bunch of loose soil ready to move downstream. A fast-growing plant that covers everything in dense vegetation sounds like salvation when you’re surrounded by 40-foot deep gullies that get wider with every rainstorm.
It must be emphasized that scientific agronomy began less than 200 years ago, with Justus von Liebig’s studies of plant nutrition, and went down many blind alleys in its first hundred years. Europeans had brought to the Americas crops and practices which were not suited to the land, and which they tried to make work by main force. They also brought ideas which did not suit the conditions, such as, that if land would not grow trees it would not grow crops.
Many people today would like to say, “they should have taken guidance from indigenous practices!” But those practices succeeded in supporting perhaps four million people in the entire vast land area we now refer to as the USA and Canada, one per cent of the current figure. Worse still, the native peoples were constantly engaged in brutal and often genocidal warfare, which served to keep their populations down to the level that could be supported by their food supplies. Even people with no pre–conceived notions of their own superiority would have questioned the value of such examples.
Today we live in a world of eight thousand million humans. In such a world, to protect biodiversity and leave any land at all untouched by human use requires intensive agriculture, inter–regional trade in foodstuffs, refrigeration and other modes of food preservation, and the use of synthetic chemistry to substitute for non–food crops. The crucial question that we must face is this : is “sustainability”, which means long–term survival, only possible at a low level of material culture with small populations, or can we beat Parson Malthus’ game?
Dear white people with fucking braincells,
Do not be like the idiot above. They say that there were only 4 million people in the Americas before European colonization? Nope!
“there is a general consensus that the Indigenous population in the Americas was nearly 100 million people at the time of Spanish contact.”
- Williams, Charlotte. 2023. 'Estimating Populations of the Americas pre-1492'. Dispossessions in the Americas. https://dia.upenn.edu/en/content/WilliamsC003/
Dispossessions in the Americas
And genocidal warfare? I’m sorry?
The indigenous people’s of Turtle Island are people. Historically, our cultures have engaged in both warfare and peaceful diplomacy. In the tens of thousands of years that we have lived on that land has something that we may call genocide ever occurred?
Yeah, I mean, probably.
But there is no evidence of a pattern of constant warfare or genocidal behavior which is what the fuckwit above me claims. Perhaps they mixed up my culture and their own.
Next time you want to dismiss indigenous knowledge out of hand why don’t you try getting your own fucking facts right? Before you call 100 million murdered natives and their descendants bloodthirsty savages?
Thank you very much for saying this and providing citation
I saw that someone had left this reblog that had some very incorrect claims and I wanted to correct them but I would have to look everything up and write up refutation to the claim
If anything, the 100 million number is an UNDER estimate.?? I know at least that in my state (Kentucky) pre-European populations are estimated based upon the amount of artifacts like projectile points... But the problem with that is...rivercane! (the native North American bamboo, which is discussed in another reblog thread, used to form its own ecosystems known as Canebrakes, which were the ecosystem that was destroyed to create these cotton plantations worked by slave labor.) River cane is so sharp and strong, arrows and knives for butchering could be made out of river cane no problem. (I've seen this handling the plant myself, you can easily cut yourself on splinters of rivercane)
rivercane was used to make furniture, bed frames, containers, roofs, all sorts of everyday tools, and it all would have decomposed back into the earth when it was done being used.
Saw a post and decided to fix it ^^
i always reblog pro wasp propaganda to spite my phobia
He’s back at it again
The note inside a bullet.
B-17 bomber is riddled with German anti-aircraft fire but miraculously survives. Later they discover the explosive shells were all inert; sabotaged by Nazi slaves working in armament factories.
Inside one empty shell is a written note: it's all we can do for you now.
The most important part of all this is that these small acts of bravery and noncompliance cannot be known as long as the enemy still stands, and might never be known. Just because it doesn’t seem like anyone is doing anything doesn’t mean it’s true. The best malicious compliance or subtle sabotage is the one that’s never detected, but makes ravages nonetheless.
Serafinski Blessed is the Flame An introduction to concentration camp resistance and anarcho-nihilism 2016 Taken from the original book: Run
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"there comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to throw your bodies upon the wheels and upon the gears. Upon the levers. Upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop!"
~Mario Savio
To finish the quote by Mario Savio:
"And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!!"
Not all dogs have jobs and I think they should get to wear little vests too
