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(cartoon by Rick McKee)

People need to fully understand what RGB’s death means. It’s not just a vacancy on the supreme court that could be potentially filled by a conservative Justice - that’s an awful thought, but that’s not the main problem.

The problem, is that this is EXACTLY the opportunity Republicans have been looking for for decades. If a conservative nominee is pushed through before the election, and I’m hoping it won’t but if it does, that will lead to a Republican majority in the Supreme Court. And you can bet your life, literally, that they will work to roll back every progressive law they can.

The concept of a separation of church and state is already a joke in this country, but it will get so much worse.

But more than that? Even if a nominee isn’t pushed through…

The vacancy RGB left behind will motivate Republicans to come out to vote in droves.

THAT is what everyone needs to understand. This is a once in a life time opportunity for the Republicans. You think you don’t want to vote for Biden because he’s not exactly who you want? Because he’s not progressive enough or liberal enough?

What about all the Republicans who may not support Trump, but want a Republican majority on the Supreme Court? The ones who may not like him, but would be willing to deal with him for four more years if it means controlling the Supreme Court for the next 40?

It’s awful and unfortunate that RGB died so close to the election. Throughout her life she worked tirelessly to fight for equality. Don’t let her life be in vain.

Now more than ever, it’s important to vote. Everyone. Down the entire ballot.

I’m lucky enough to live in California, a historically Blue state. But those of my followers who live in Red states, you especially need to call your representatives in the Senate and tell them to postpone any nomination. Cite Mitch McConnell’s own actions in 2016. Anything you can do to add pressure. Remind them who they really work for: you, their constituents.

We cannot give up the fight. We can’t. Your vote matters. If it didn’t, why would the GOP be trying so hard to take it away? Make sure you’re registered. If you want to mail in your ballot then drop it off at designated polling stations instead of the post office to ensure it’s counted in time.

I don’t have many followers so I don’t know who will see this, but please, reblog this. Spread the information. RBG’s death will galvanize Republicans out to vote en masse. We can’t afford to be apathetic or disenfranchised. We can make a difference, but not if we don’t bother to try.

@one-time-i-dreamt @thebibliosphere

ms-demeanor

Okay. Yes. I understand the people saying “if the ACA gets repealed I die”, I understand that because I’m married to someone with pre-existing conditions and I’ve got pre-existing conditions and I’m the child of someone with pre-existing conditions and a lot of my life has been spent navigating insurance and worrying that someone was going to lose a job because if they lost the job they lost the insurance and that meant you would die.

“I can’t afford to keep living in this state but if I move to a cheaper state I won’t be able to get insurance so I’ll stay here because I’m already on the plan and they can’t deny me” goes a long way toward explaining why I had to live with my abusive mother in law for so long (I could afford it and I had health insurance. Things were really rough before the ACA. I know. I was there, with the bone tumor and everything).

I’m that perfect age where I got kicked off my parent’s insurance when I was 24, while I was unmarried and still in school, and I felt *so lucky* at 25 that when I got electrocuted briefly and thrown against a wall it was at work because it meant that the hospital visit and the tetanus shot was covered by worker’s compensation, I understand the abject terror of hearing your breath bubbling in your chest when you’re uninsured and I know what it’s like to go to a quack chiropractor with a broken spine and have them make the injury worse but you can afford $65 out of pocket for an adjustment and a heating pad but not $220 for an office visit and $90 for a prescription for steroids from a real MD.

I know what all of that is like and that’s why it seems batshit crazy to me to head into this election or this SCOTUS appointment and just hope the ACA is going to be safe because of some phone calls.

Buddy. No. No, now is the time to figure out how you’re going to be smuggling prescription drugs across the border and which doctors in the area will see you under the table and learning how to hack used, outdated CPAP machines.

I keep saying yes, sure, fine, vote. Do the thing. Cool. Whatever. Make your calls, call your senator, sure.

But I’m fucking *terrified* that trump is going to win and a bunch of people are going to straight up kill themselves because they don’t think they’ll survive that. That’s what I’m hearing. “Vote because if you don’t vote I’m dead.” Honey, I’m going to vote, but like hell am I going to let you die if the bullshit system lets you down anyway.

These assholes don’t get to kill you.

MAKE A PLAN TO SURVIVE.

Mutual aid is far from perfect but you know what makes it better? More people participating in it.

Teach your able-bodied, insured, well friends to fake symptoms so they can get you an inhaler; learn how to pick locks so you can help people who lose housing set up a low profile squat; humanize the disenfranchised to your shitty conservative relatives; get a police scanner and make a hobby of listening to it so you can warn your neighbors when there are DUI/ID/registration/ICE checkpoints; get an EMT certification so you can be the friend/neighbor/family member who tapes broken fingers and sutures minor wounds to keep people from going bankrupt at the ER.

There are a thousand things you can do to make yourself safer and your community better *regardless* of who wins the election in November so you might as well start now.

capricorn-0mnikorn

That’s what I’m hearing. “Vote because if you don’t vote I’m dead.”

The one time I’ve seen that (in so many words) was in response to someone dismissing calls to vote for Biden with: If you don’t vote for him, I’ll cry (here). Because there’s a lot more at stake, here, than just our hurt feelings.*

That said, you’re right. You’re absolutely right. When my father was a young man, and facing a draft in the 1950s, he joined the Coast Guard and served aboard an ice-cutter in the Arctic. As part of his training he took a Wilderness Survival Course offered by the Navy.

The Navy developed the course in response to pilots who committed suicide when their planes went down, even though they had enough shelter and food to last until help got there, because they were feeling overwhelmed and hopeless. And that hopelessness was far more deadly than the cold. The same is true now:

The Loss of Hope is Far More Deadly than any Government Policy.

That said: Voting and Direct Action, contrary to debates I’ve seen within the Left, recently, are not mutually exclusive choices.

You can vote, and register your neighbors to vote, and offer rides to the Early Voting drop-off boxes for your elderly neighbors, or your neighbors who don’t have a car.

And you can also learn first aid, and make a hobby of listening to a police scanner, and dismantle hostile architecture, and all the rest.

*And for nearly 200,000 people, death has already come because of 45′s “leadership” – and that’s just from COVID-19, not including those who have died in White Supremacist mass shootings (which have been on the rise since 45′s inauguration), or those who’ve died in ICE detention camps (or who died unreported on the other side of our border, because their pleas for asylum were rejected, and they were sent back to the violence they were fleeing, or those who will die from heart and lung disease, thanks to the smoke from the wildfires that’s spreading over the western half of this continent).

prettycolors

#1de29d

glumshoe

hot take but gerrymandering and corruption and coordinated disinformation already do enough to ensure systematic political disenfranchisement and voter suppression without you jerks running mass anti-voting demoralization armchair civil war accelerationist campaigns against one other as a fun low-stakes hobby….

certifiedsophist

Ship, I know this is coming from a genuine place of both concern and frustration, but this is not persuasive at all and it hasn’t been the past 2 billion times other people have said it. I understand that the deck is stacked against the possibility of change happening through voting; that’s why I’m not very interested in doing it, unless something genuinely unusual seems to be in the works (like Bernie, or frankly Obama tho he obviously turned out to be quite disappointing).

If Biden wants the vote of someone like me, he should convence me he actually cares about my political support by backing policies in line with my views (like politicians do with literally every other constituency they court for elections). If he fails to do that, presumably he doesn’t think he needs my vote, in which case why is this such a big deal? Just win the election without me. I’m not a utilitarian; I’m not here to shave .001% of the evil off the world by voting for the slightly less shit guy. My vote is available for someone who is actually fighting for something meaningful to me.

starlightomatic

Yeah, he should do that. But unfortunately he didn’t. And all of us are ethically obligated to try and make the world better. Though I guess you’ve said you don’t hold by that, which at least makes you honest.

certifiedsophist

I am involved with my community, work with local leftists, talk about my political views and attempt to make what I judge to be the best use of my time to care for people. I do not agree that voting for Biden is obviously or meaningfully an improvement to anyones life in comparison to the other things you or I could potentially be doing with our time.

Additionally, this is an increadibly solipsistic and short-sighted view of ethics and our obligation to others. When politicians fail in some respect, that failure deserves a response; if I commit to voting for a politician no matter what, I sanction their acting in absolutely disgusting and horrible ways on my behalf. If you’re a Biden supporter and believe Biden is failing to capture a political constituency that is vital to his election, you should be taking that up with him and not with that necessary political constituency.

tikkunolamorgtfo

You know you can vote for somebody and then still petition, lobby, and protest them, right? You can do your bit to put out a few fires like supreme court apointees, Betsy Devos, etc, and then just… protest the hell out of Biden’s bad policies. To paraphrase Angela Davis, (yes, THE Angela fucking Davis) he’s the candidate who can be most effectively pressured, and even if he doesn’t listen, you can still rage against him until the cows come home. I swear, I think some of you want things to be as bad as possible because you think it will bring about some 1917 style revolution, and that harm reduction doesn’t matter because ultimately those extra lives lost or destroyed under Trump will be necessary collateral damage for the next great leap forward or some shit.

morethanonepage

Also, Noam Chomsky:

REAL POLITICS IS CONSTANT ACTIVISM

linddzz

“The left position is you rarely support anyone. You vote against the worst. You keep the pressure and activism going.”

witchesversuspatriarchy

A friendship was made that day

bijoux-et-mineraux

Polished Malachite Stalactite - Copper Crescent, Congo

xekstrin

*looks around*

Is anyone gonna say it

brambledboneyards

malachite is a poisonous mineral. please do not fuck the malachite stalactite

zdravomilla-deactivated20220114

@lizaleigh do you know any rock people that can confirm/deny because I am very curious and really don’t feel like getting into a conversation with my geophysicist brother that MAY somehow get back to the fact I saw a malachite that looked like a weird dildo.

lizaleigh

…sadly, I am not on good enough terms with any of our partner geologists to just attach this to an email with the subject line: “EXPLAIN.” Although I think @mollisaurus is a mineral person. Thoughts?

mollisaurus

oh geeze, i’m kinda rusty on minerals but malachite is just copper carbonate and is really common in both antique and modern jewelry so i think like if you were really gun-ho about it you could go ahead and put it wherever you want?

vulcanology-geology

It’s really only a problem if you’re polishing or cutting it. The particles would be bad to breathe. It’s rather porous too, so I would worry about bacteria growing. Well, being literal anyway… Better to leave the poor thing alone. ._.

thepioden

I mean it kinda depends on where you stick it because malachite does not like acidic environments very much and the malachite will degrade and also might dye your bits blue-green as the copper dissolves out.

So use a condom when fucking rocks is the takeaway here.

rosenagldky-deactivated20201223

Oh my god guys it’s poisonous

It is super poisonous

There is a reason we do not use it in make up any more

Not even with a condom, do not fuck the rock

nassadii

Try this one instead.

naughtylittledragon

malachite literally explodes in water does it not?

rosenagldky-deactivated20201223

I… no… I think you’re thinking of pure sodium?

Malachite is however water soluble, which really just means it will poison you quicker

reclusiveandelusive

This is both hilarious and cool as fuck because you’re getting all this information on minerals and rocks. You’re also watching people argue over wether or not you can fuck this rock

bijoux-et-mineraux

I go on hiatus for a week and come back to find tumblr molesting my post, but hey, at least we all learned something so yay tumblr, you just keep on being you.

aimee-b-loved

I’m still not sure if I can fuck this rock.

adulthoodisokay

I’m looking into it.

adulthoodisokay

UPDATE:

buzzfeed

Today in “I’m so sorry, coworkers, it’s for Tumblr,” I brought this post to the attention the science reporters at BuzzFeed. Dan Vergano did a some research and weighed in on the question “Can you use malachite as a dildo or is it toxic?”

The answer is “It’s probably fine, just wash it first and maybe use a bunch of lube.”

sprigglebearstudios

Oh man this got so much better than the last time I saw this post

0hcicero

This is my favourite. Science side of tumblr: asking the REAL questions

badscienceshenanigans-deactivat

*biologist crashes through the underbrush* Ok so here’s the thing though Malachite is not poisonous to YOU. BUT fucking this stalactite will probably wreck your vaginal flora and leave you with a gruesome infection within a couple days. Want details? SO GLAD YOU ASKED, ‘CAUSE HERE THEY ARE. • Malachite is not copper oxide. It’s Cu2CO3(OH)2. Like most carbonates it’s water soluble– that’s how it became a stalactite in the first place! And technically any given chunk of “malachite” isn’t just malachite– it’s a mix of various copper carbonates & oxides. This will become important later. • When malachite dissolves it makes a bunch of copper (Cu++) ions. Cu++ is GREAT at killing bacteria and fungi– so good at it that sprays with Cu++ get used a lot as a spray in agriculture to stop plant disease. It takes such a large dose to harm larger organisms that copper sprays are used a lot in organic agriculture (like Bordeaux mixture). So bottom line, yes malachite is technically nontoxic to humans. But it kills bacteria when it dissolves and releases Cu++. • Malachite dissolves somewhat slowly in water– but vaginal secretions aren’t just any water. A healthy human vagina has a pH of 3.8-4.5 and a salinity of about 0.9%. It’s also warmer than your average underground cave at 37°C (or 98.5°F in American meat units). As luck would have it, acidity, salinity, and warmth all make malachite dissolve faster. • In other words, the human vagina dissolves malachite. • I have no deeper explanation for why human females can dissolve rocks with our genitals. It simply is. • Gonna to take a quick moment to point out that sex toys that dissolve when you use them are maybe not the best investment. • Anyway the key question now is “how fast does the human vagina dissolve malachite?” Are we talking geological timescale, a Nazis-in-Indiana-Jones situation, or something in between? If the reaction kinetics of dissolution are very slow, then there’s nothing to worry about. An encounter with a stalactite would have to last years for enough Cu++ to leach out to cause problems. If it’s quick then we’re in trouble. • Unfortunately it looks like nobody really knows. One of the best sources on how malachite dissolves & precipitates in water– an EPA document on how to avoid too much Cu++ in municipal drinking water systems– helpfully says “The kinetic constraints on the formation of these solids in water systems are largely unexplored” (p. 42) because end equilibrium points is all you need to run a city water system safely. In other words, the experiments that would tell us how fast malachite dissolves in various types of water just don’t exist because nobody’s ever needed to know before. So we’d better assume it’s going to happen reasonably quickly, #for safety. • So in best scientific fashion, we’re just going to bullshit our way ahead using what facts we DO have on hand: endpoint equlibria. • Is there any info out there telling us what equilibrium concentration of Cu++ we get in salty acidic water at body temperature? Almost! One J.F. Scaife published some great data on this back in 1957. TAKE IT AWAY, SCAIFE.

That orange box is how many moles of dissolved Cu++ Scaife got from sticking malachite in some water that had 0.171 moles NaCl/L (body salinity is about 0.154 moles NaCl/L so this is slightly less salty than people) at 30°C. He’s got no acidity in there, and again the salinity and temperature are slightly lower than people. But this is probably the closest we’re going to get to data on how malachite behaves in vaginas anytime soon, folks. From this we can take away that if you leave malachite alone in a vagina you’ll get AT LEAST 9.12 x 10^-4 moles/L, or 5.8 ppm, of Cu++ at equilibrium. • Recall from above that most “malachite” isn’t actually pure malachite, it’s a mix of various copper carbonates & oxides. The EPA document elaborates: “[T]raditional ‘eyeball’ identification of malachite by its blue-green color is extremely unreliable, because almost all cupric hydroxysulfates, hydroxycarbonates, hydroxychlorides, and even fresh cupric hydroxide can be some shade of blue-green. … Thus, the uncertainty in the computed copper concentration in equilibrium with malachite is at least about a factor of 2 … until further experimental data focusing on this problem is generated.” In other words, “do your math and then double how much Cu++ you think is going to be in the water, just in case.” So that gives us 11.6ppm Cu++, at equilibrium, with malachite in a (til now!) healthy vagina. • Next step: do we have any idea what happens to bacteria in acid conditions with copper? OH MY GOD WE TOTALLY DO. Gyawali et al 2011 checked this out in the context of “so what if we rinsed tomatoes with a solution of lactic acid and copper, because that would be a safe & organic way to get rid of E. coli?” So now this post has officially ruined stalactites, vaginas, and tomatoes.

^This would happen. These are the counts of 4 E. coli strains exposed to various levels of lactic acid & Cu++ for 8 hours. This table only shows the end counts but it represents the death of 99.7% of bacteria*. • Losing 99.7% of your vaginal flora is seriously bad news. You’re looking at really good odds of a yeast infection, bacterial vaginosis, and/or other infection issues. And that’s if you’re lucky enough to not be in the 4% of the population or so that’s sensitive to skin contact with copper. • The good news? Biochemically speaking, you’re probably ok to put it in your butt. It’s not as acidic or salty in there, plus there’s a huuuuuge stockpile of gut microbes right upstream that can quickly repopulate the colon after spelunking is complete. However this stalactite is not flared at the base so it is the wrong shape for putting in your butt. Do not put this stalactite in your butt. • This all looks like fun and games, but I think it’s really interesting that the internet’s mistake in concluding that this stalactite is fuckable is very similar to the mistake made by the Flint water management system. Hear me out. • Central to the Flint lead poisoning crisis is that authorities only looked at & tested Flint’s water in its central treatment plant before it went out through the pipes. Not after it went through the pipes. They did not consider what would happen biochemically as it went through the pipes and metals started dissolving. • Similarly, in concluding that the stalactite is fuckable, the internet only considered the stalactite itself. Not the biochemical processes that would happen to it as it, welp, went through the pipes. • Media frequently reports that the Flint River’s water is “corrosive,” leading many to believe the river is full of industrial waste. This ain’t the case. You’d need industry to fill a river with industrial waste, and industry left decades ago. That’s why Flint’s so poor. So what IS in the water? Road salt. Plain old stupid road salt. The old Detroit-based source didn’t have salt because it came from Lake Huron which has a large, mostly rural watershed. Meanwhile the Flint River runs through a lot of towns, making it slightly salty as everything melts down in spring. And as we recall from the stalactite experience, a little salt is all it takes to get metals to dissolve. • Information on this engineering problem was not coming through clearly from the engineering or chemistry sides. It took a biologist, pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha, to document the real-time results and provide the data to kick-start a high-level investigation. • Morals of the story: when dealing with a biological system pls consider asking a biologist, your vagina and/or city could depend on this • Pls use a condom when fucking any water-soluble material • Still don’t put the stalactite in your butt -3/10 do not recommend

astolat

OK, I haven’t reblogged this before now but the final post takes it to a whole new level and I can no longer resist.

date-a-jew-suggestions

If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you

prismatic-bell

A note:

I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:

Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.

Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.

And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.

date-a-jew-suggestions

Very good very important addition

moonchild8914-deactivated202305

No sex please, we’re online

It’s not just Tumblr, people. This shit is getting ridiculous.

lunariagold-deactivated20230802

Of course it’s not Tumblr! They came for Craigslist personals first because that’s the oldest trick in the book: Sneakily taking down the ‘perverts’ under the guise of vague, high morality goals and working slowly up from the bottom, picking off larger and larger targets. Few people cared about CL because of the stereotype of scary unwashed creeps trawling for sex online. That wasn’t so familiar or cute so it was fair game.

Tumblr is biting at the ‘artists’ heels and suddenly there is a bit more noise, because artists aren’t supposed to be treated like shit, are they? However even now the hair-splitting over what’s porn and therefore garbage and not-art shows that attitudes are not so different. It’s still the same divisive, dangerous us v.s. them mentality that is so easily exploited.

This is why when people tell me I shouldn’t worry about this because ‘my art isn’t porn anyway’ it makes me angry. It means so much more than drawings or a silly blog. This is about people being slowly phased out of their freedoms, rights and agency. History has shown time and time again that whenever power wants to make a crushing move backwards, it comes for what it declares ‘obscene’ first. People are raised to be scared and ignorant of sex so it’s an easy gateway. When they come cracking down on sex is when we most need to pay very close attention. They are not protecting us.

womanculture

I love that folks will look at a homeless person w a dog and performatively feel sorry 4 the dog and start bitching like there isnt a miserable, hungry, suffering person in front of them. If ppl gave the dude one of them empty houses in town or in the burbs n some food money u wouldnt have 2 see them or their dog on yr drive to yr office job jst sayin jst throwin that out there, like the infrastructure n the resources r already there.

If u dnt like seeing homeless ppl, give em houses, y'know? Shit really pisses me off

luddyke

honestly like seeing ppl say “homeless people shouldnt be allowed to have dogs” is so fucking disconcerting because theyre fucking people and if u dont think that those are suitable living conditions for an animal and that we should socially enforce not allowing people to keep animals in those conditions then why the FUCK are you not concerned that people are forced to live in those conditions

mockiato-deactivated20200315

And the same people don’t blink over stray animals, it’s just when a homeless person is *taking care of that animal*. They’d rather the animal not have someone look out for them at all in any way than be cared for by someone who’s too poor for their taste.

montereybayaquarium

Child: *picks nose* Parent: Ew My brain: don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it Me: ACTUALLY THE SHEER VOLUME OF OCEAN ANIMALS THAT FEED ON DETRITUS-FILLED MUCUS LIKE JELLIES AND VAMPIRE SQUID SUGGESTS THAT BOOGER-EATING IS A HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL GASTRONOMIC ENDEAVOR

detailedart

☄⛈🌟🌫 Sky Variations & Nebulae of Water • Part II | Art by StrayChild on ArtStation

tsunamiwavesurfing

grownthot

people are capable of beautiful things

soggymoistblent-deactivated2015

i thought this was going in a bad direction

aspiringwarriorlibrarian

“I earned more money than I knew what to do with, and I didn’t want to forget my roots. So I paid back the people who helped me and my family.” He’s also giving elderly and low income people three free meals a day.

Past a certain point, extra money doesn’t really benefit you, so give it those that would benefit. Quit letting people hoard ludicrous amounts of money out of vanity when others need it so much more.

humansofnewyork

“Rio was the biggest slave port in world history. Two million slaves arrived in this city—five times more than the entire American South. Favelas were built because the government didn’t want to provide basic services to the descendants of slaves. So these descendants were forced to build their own communities. Favelas are unregulated. They’re poorly serviced. But don’t call them ‘slums.’ That’s a lazy translation and it’s unfair to the people who live here. The word ‘slum’ implies that all favelas are the same. The word ‘slum’ ignores 120 years of improvement that these residents have made to their communities. And the word ‘slum’ makes it easier to ignore these communities. That’s exactly what the government wants. Because if favelas aren’t viewed as real neighborhoods, then their residents don’t deserve real services. So please don’t use the word ‘slum.’ Because it only helps to encourage that narrative.” (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

humansofnewyork

“We were pretty poor back in Mexico. My parents were divorced. Mom did the best she could. She was always a hustler. She’d sell jewelry, or food, or anything that she could. But a lot of nights there still wouldn’t be enough to eat. We’d survive on tortillas and salt. I was only eight when we came to America. So I was too young to understand. I think my mom thought she could make some money and bring us home. She thought she’d learn English, and maybe start a business. But it was so much harder than she expected. We moved so much looking for work. She’s fifty and she still cleans houses every day. Every year she gets more worn down. She’s been getting sick a lot lately. But she can’t afford to stop. She never will. Right now I’m in school. I always thought I had to be the best student because I’m undocumented. I thought I’d go to law school, or graduate school. But now I’m not so sure. My mom would literally destroy her body to make that happen for me. How could I allow that to happen? I’m a Dreamer. And everyone loves the Dreamers because we’re a perfect package to sell. But why am I the only one who gets the chance to feel safe? Whenever I hear ‘I stand with Dreamers,’ I always think about my mom. I’m not willing to throw her under the bus. I’m not willing to be a bargaining chip to make her seem like a criminal. Everything people admire about Dreamers is because of our parents.”

humansofnewyork

“My grandmother was the first in our family to discover it. One day she joined a meditation in the park. She was taking so many medications at the time, but she threw them all away and never took another trip to the hospital. That was before the crackdown. At one time were one hundred million followers of Falun Gong in China. It’s a peaceful religion. But the following grew too big. Our teacher seemed like a threat to the government. They said crazy things on state media. They called it a cult. They said we’re terrorists and that we kill our parents. They began to arrest us. They even harvested our organs. I know it sounds crazy, but you can Google it. We tried to resist. We practiced inside our home. We secretly handed out fliers to push back against the propaganda. But they caught me on camera. Everywhere there are cameras. They followed me to my home. They shoved me in their car. For eight months I was in detention. The first thing they did was take a sample of my blood. For hours every day they put us in a room and forced us to watch television about how to be a good citizen. If anyone looked away, the whole group was punished. Eventually my family bribed the court with huge money and they let me go. But for three years I had to write a letter every month saying that I am a guilty person. When my probation ended, I left the country.”

mymelibe-deactivated20190324

does bl*zzard have one female model that they just kind of tweak every time they make a new female character or am i just a hater

fragisbeardv2

kyaaaatsu

i wanted to make a comparison to the readily unmasked male heroes on the official overwatch website’s hero roster, but as far as the male heroes who have *unmasked* skins, the diversity only widens.

and we must include torbjorn, both for his unique facial features and also unique body type/stature

and although roadhog remains masked his body type compared to the other male heroes, even to reinhardt who matches roadhog in height, is VERY unique

whereas new female heroes get small tweaks in their facial features and body types, the male heroes’ scope of diversity is a lot wilder in comparison, which sucks and isn’t really fair.

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