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[wikkerwisp]

Hey everyone: It's June Upd8 time. . .

TW // Mention of abuse Hello, everyone I come to you, (again,) to remind you we're running a fundraiser for our car! I don't wanna alarm anyone, however we need to get rolling on this in order to pay the Recipient (Whom I elected to stay Anon) "J".

Our k0fi is open, for those who can d0nate, too. Please visit the GFM to make d0nati0ns, we are not using Paypal for things unless commissioned (or through k0fi).

We need $700.00 more to pay off the car, and a good $400 towards tires and a battery. That's to even get it running and working. And home.

tw// Mention of Abuse👇 Thank you again to everyone that's already donated, we've made it this far, we just need a few more pushes, and need to try and shoot for the end of June/July for this Car so I can not only be free of waiting over an hour for a ride, but having to deal with ex-ab//sers for rides.

Gofundme HERE

[jamesroach]

i didnt want to do it like this, but a series of recent testing and medical procedures has left me in a difficult financial situation that needs to be resolved in the next two days.

i am humbly asking for some help, if you can spare it. paypal.me/jamesroachmusic

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I'm cross-posting this from bluesky, but in short over the last few years i have been unable to afford healthcare or insurance and my longstanding heart problems have developed into something more serious that have required a lot more urgent medical attention. a high stress environment has only exacerbated this effect.

up until now i have been able to pay it with credit and freelance work but the rising costs of healthcare in the US have put me in a rough spot. I am generally a pretty private person, so I am not proud of myself for begging online but since i live alone and have been bed-ridden for a few weeks I have run out of options. thank you for any help you can afford, i know how difficult it is for everyone right now.

[fandomsandfeminism]

What Happens When A Country Bans Spanking?

Researchers look at countries that have prohibited corporal punishment for kids and their rate of youth violence.

Now a new study looking at 400,000 youths from 88 countries around the world suggests such bans are making a difference in reducing youth violence. It marks the first systematic assessment of whether an association exists between a ban on corporal punishment and the frequency in which adolescents get into fights. 

[puolikarhu]

[F]or both boys and girls, [prof. Elizabeth Gershoff] said, “We found [spanking] linked to more aggression, more delinquent behavior, more mental health problems, worse relationships with parents, and putting the children at higher risk for physical abuse from their parents.”

“People often ask: Why didn’t you look for positive aspects?” she continued. “My answer is: We did, and there were none. We see consistently that the more children are spanked, the more behavioral problems they have in the years ahead.”

[quasi-normalcy]

Once again worth emphasizing that this is pretty much the exact opposite of what authoritarians said would happen

[moniquill]

This is an important study in the same way that many ‘water is wet’ studies are; it provides hard data that can be referred back to.

But yeah, startlingly enough if you don’t use violence to control children, they’re less likely to try to use violence to control others.

[maidthings]

apparently he was shot right after being asked a question about "transgender mass shootings"

[egospect]

[littlehumansizedbugg]

this is important

[allenvooreef]

'Whatever happens next, I do not think it is to be feared'

It's rare that a game this special has a DLC that lives up to it, but Outer Wilds managed it somehow!

Prints are up in the shop ::)

[jroahn]

i don't feel like finishing this one

[titsay]

[titsay]

it's almost their season

[sunriseseance]

Right now my thoughts are with the family of Melissa Hortman, a democrat from Minnesota who was assassinated along with her husband and her dog in the dead of night. Senator Mike Lee (from Utah) made a joke about it. There was no moment of silence, no national response. MAGA extremism kills people.

[yamino]

Here’s a picture of her and her dog. Sometimes it’s hard to really conceptualize these things without faces to go with the names. I wonder why no major news outlets have focused on this story, or posted this photo of her with her golden retriever. Her dog looks just like mine. My heart is shattered every time I look at this.

[yamelcakes]

Gilbert was a service dog dropout, who flunked out because he was “too friendly.” The Hortmans, of course, were thrilled to officially adopt him. He was the second retriever the Hortmans fostered and trained through Helping Paws. Their other foster dog, Minnie, was successfully placed as a veteran’s service dog. Helping Paws is always accepting donations in Melissa and Gilbert’s memory:

https://www.helpingpaws.org/donation

Calling All Paws! Every Gift Of Any Amount Makes A Difference!  ONE-TIME DONATIONMONTHLY DONATION Choose the amount that works best for you

Melissa did so much for Minnesota, and I’m so angry that her murder was mocked by Republican legislators while the assassination of a hateful podcaster who rubbed shoulders with white nationalists and Nazis somehow receives more outrage. Trump never even reached out to Walz to express condolences for Melissa. He refused to attend her funeral. Now he wants to give Charlie Kirk The Presidential Medal of Freedom. I’m so fucking angry about it.

[would-you-punt-them]

Okay I kinda assumed that they might try to turn Charlie Kirk into a martyr but seriously what the fuck

Here's a list of real things that have happened in the past 2 days:

He's being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom

JD Vance personally escorted his body back to Arizona in Air Force Two

All American flags both in the US and abroad are to be flown at half-mast for the rest of the week

Republican senators are calling for a statue of him to be built in the Capitol (quote: "we have one of MLK don't we?")

News anchors are sobbing live on television

The governor of Utah has pledged to give the shooter the death penalty

Vigils are being held nationwide

Evangelicals have been equating him with Jesus

In the House of Representatives a request for a prayer devolved into screaming that the Democrats killed him

The New York Yankees held a moment of silence before the game and proceeded to lose 12-2

People across the country are losing their jobs en masse for criticising him online

MSNBC's political analyst was asked what created the environment for the shooting, said it could be his divisive rhetoric, and was fired on the spot

A UK student wrote "he got shot lol" in a private group chat and it made the news

The State Department announced that they will revoke the visas of foreign nationals who "praise, rationalise, or make light" of his death on social media

Also it was 9/11

[oddity-txt]

So I found this caterpillar on my way to class

We’re bros

[oddity-txt]

I named him chicken nugget

[oddity-txt]

Aaaa he’s turning a duller color… I hope he’s alright

[oddity-txt]

So apparently chicken nugget is a spicebush swallowtail and they turn yellow before they pupate. He was making little silk things everywhere Bruh this caterpie is going to evolve to metapod today my boy isn’t messing around

[oddity-txt]

update hes entirely yellow now

[oddity-txt]

i made him a tube room

hes crawlin all over the place checking it out

[oddity-txt]

its happening

[oddity-txt]

False alarm he moved a bit This guy

[oddity-txt]

??? caterpie doesnt evolve into kakuna

[oddity-txt]

whats he doing

[oddity-txt]

its happening part 2 For Real This Time

[oddity-txt]

chicken nugget using those advanced tactics balancing my man doesnt do anything halfway

[oddity-txt]

i put on some tunez for him so he can get into the metamorphazone

[oddity-txt]

sorry for keeping you all in suspense but chicken nugget is doing fine and he has a cool hat now

hes been chillin like this for a couple days 

[oddity-txt]

hes been in cocoon for 10 days now 🎉🐛🎉

[rebecca-lotto]

let me know how he’s doing soon

[oddity-txt]

HES BUSTIN OUT

[oddity-txt]

im going to sleep, chicken nugget is snoozin and ill check up on him as soon as i wake up

hope he doesnt party too hard 

🐛 💤 💤

[oddity-txt]

hes gone goth hes in his emoteen stage

[oddity-txt]

CHICKEN NUGGET IS A CHICKEN WING NOW BABY WE HAVE LIFTOFF!!!!!

[oddity-txt]

hes’s in a bigger container than the one in the pic now but im gonna let my home boy find his way in the world after he gets used to his wings a little bit

[oddity-txt]

this kid doesnt have a bad angle dang

[oddity-txt]

https://youtu.be/TwpFUQzvRp0

there he goes he’s free and im so proud and a little sad

this was an incredible experience

(thats my family oohing and ahhing in the background)

[tarotsunset]

I’ve seen yall reblog the unfinished ones SO MUCH that I’m getting pissed, anyway here’s the full chicken nugget saga.

[extraterrestrialsprobably]

Awesome! Hope you’re happy somewhere, Chicken Nugget!

[magical-game]

I have missed this post so much! Let’s all celebrate Chicken Nugget!

[frivolousphantasies]

do you guys realize that,,,, chicken nugget is one of those butterflies that is perfectly half female and half male?? nugget’s left wing is typical of a female spice bush swallowtail and the right wing is typical of a male

a gender role smashing icon

[krystal-prisms]

I wondered why the wings looked different

[decorativeskull]

Incredible

[babygoose-deactivated20240106]

intersex icon

[oddity-txt]

He’s a bilateral gnandromorph!!

[sleepy-sphinx-deactivated202012]

WE STAN?????

[matthew-gubler-fangirl]

chicken nugget said intersex rights

[cowboybaedling]

This whole post is wonderful, but I think a lot of people don’t realise just how rare bilateral gynandromorphs are. Research has shown that only approximately 1 in 6,000 butterflies is a bilateral gynandromorph! So thanks so much @oddity-txt for sharing this wonderful being with us!

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[shinypenguinpizza]

Absolutely blessed post

[yomikoreadsbooks]

A whole journey here!

[idontwikeit]

Ask a historian, “What was mankind’s greatest invention?” Fire? The wheel? The sword? I would argue it’s history itself. History isn’t fact. It’s narrative, one carefully curated and shaped. Under the pen strokes of the right scribe, a villain becomes a hero, a lie becomes the truth.

-Gaal Dornick, Foundation

[jerico3193]

[frizz01percy]

this should be the most reblogged post on tumblr before it dies

[xan-thos-blog]

We need to reblog this so much that the post breaks

[bittymoonbear-deactivated201807]

Do not like

[secret-unicorn-sierra-blog]

Keep. Reblogging.

[dawn-machine-official]

If we reblog enough we could save it

[vwidjojo]

Reblogged at 1.7 M notes

[weirdo09]

reblogged at 1.8M notes

[earhartsease]

how did this lose over 5k notes

[cybermax]

I’m glad we cost Yahoo 2 billion dollars.

[cybernetic-divinity-deactivated]

it’s like a perfectly preserved body at Pompei

[jjsbizarreadveyj]

Finding this on my normal dash is like taking a stroll through the Park and suddently stumbeling upon the Codex Hammurabi just lying there.

[ender--slime]

ok i wont say too much more about this cuz most people are more eloquent than me about it. but something you gotta understand about all the bad actors in the homestuck space with platforms is this:

they dont want current homestuck to be run and organized better. thats a front to get people behind their ideas.

the truth is that they dont want current homestuck to exist at all. they dont wish They were the ones writing post canon- theyd prefer none of it exist, period. they want hussie and her friends Gone, like they successfully achieved in 2020 when the original hs2 team was violently harassed off the internet and quit writing it. did any big drama happen during that three years? did anybody have any shit to say? no. because that was the goal.

when it turned out that hussie did indeed want her beloved, deeply personal passion project to be finished and got a team together to do it, and it ended up having much better reception this time and started to become accepted as Real Homestuck, guess who came crawling out of the woodworks to have some shit to say?

thats all. just think about that. you dont have to love the way official stuff is run (i dont). you dont have to like andrew hussie (i dont!!). but what you DO have to do is realize that these names behind these projects are human beings. and theyre deserving of basic human respect, which these bad actors have never, ever, EVER offered them.

[nekropsii]

I haven’t seen much about the recent news, but from what I’ve seen I’ll say that a lot of it does seem to be personal attacks towards Hussie. Like I’m sure there’s some aspects of the dealing that she didn’t handle as well as she could’ve but 90% of that statement seems to be calling her manipulative or a bully of w/e else, and I’m sure she would’ve had trouble having civil discussions with someone that clearly has so much vitriol towards her. People are probably gonna let that pass bc it’s long since become a meme to shit on her and everything she does but it’s just rlly weird

No, literally, 90% of it is name-calling, memes for some reason, fake screenshots, straight up social hit lists, and constant seemingly out of nowhere declarations of innocence. Like, this section for example:

The audacity to say “people are willing to extend [Hussie] a lot of good faith” is fucking mind-boggling. As if you can’t just say anything you want about them, and have everyone instantly believe you because of “he’s already bad enough as it is”-type logic? The only times people have given Hussie undue grace is in areas where legitimate criticisms are to be raised - particularly, it’s impossible to bring up the Racism in Homestuck without someone coming to bat for Hussie. It is in that department, and absolutely zero others, in which people give Hussie more grace than necessary, and that’s not because of Hussie’s “mythological status”, it’s because this fandom openly hates BIPOC and will ally with anyone if it means chasing more of them out.

We have known for ages now that Hussie is a nightmare to work with. I’m not disputing the idea that there’s potentially been rampant maltreatment and unprofessionalism behind the scenes, I’m just pointing out that it also exists within the callout post, it has zero actual evidence in it, and I do not think we should take this as a good faith recounting of events. ESH. This is a joke.

[nekropsii]

Also, like, we can't just let this slide, right? This is just a straight up lie.

[nekropsii]

Oh, so this isn't even the first time Gio has spearheaded smear campaigns against trans women in the Homestuck community? This isn't even the first time he's done this? He's done this before and completely gotten away with it? Are you serious?

AND he originally got really Anti-Semitic during this whole thing, and covered it up? (Screenshots Taken From Linked Post!!!!!)

There was a section originally with this title, a clear reference to The Jewish Question. It was changed to one that's less... Evocative of Nazi Germany, with a footnote added explaining the change.

That footnote is gone now. What the fuck? What the fuck? What the hell's going on?

[prideknights]

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

EVERYONE(!) I’m blazing this post because at this pace we might barely hit 1,000,000 signatures—or just fall short. PLEASE reblog this post, no matter where you are from, so we can reach as many EU citizens as possible and end this horrible practice!

[iiipeashy]

Forgetting Something?