Me. Lol.

[soft-october-night]

Like to charge reblog to cast

[lithominium]

You’re not casting

[annabelle--cane]

oohh my goddd who cares if people are mainly getting their music taste from tiktok? who CARES if this sixteen-year-old nonbinary kid has a frog hat and a hastily put together pseudo goth wardrobe and a playlist full of mother mother and lemon demon? who careeessss it doesn't MATTER why are you trying to hard to pull a "I'm not like those other gays, I have real taste" WHO CARES???

[annabelle--cane]

starting to get replies on this saying "no well actually it IS bad that these kids don't understand subcultures and just wear the clothes and listen to the music cause they think it's cool." a) cool. this post is about how people take any chance to mock children on public platforms when they're just minding their own business, b) that's one hell of a generalization, c) yeah, people wear clothes and listen to music because they like it. that's how it works. do you want demonia to add some kind of punk culture exam to their check out page or something.

[gothhabiba]

I cannot stand it when people are euphemistic in issuing content warnings ❗️❗️of all the times to NOT be vague and wishy-washy this is a prime one ❗️

[gothhabiba]

“warnings for ~dark themes~ and ~sort of yikes~! content”

I am going to spray you with water repeatedly until you manage to say the phrase “sexual violence”

[queerpyracy]

listen. listen. the consumption of animal products is about mutually beneficial relationships Not domination and that's why prioritizing animal r*ghts over animal welfare is an absolutely brain fungus take to have

[queerpyracy]

urban leftists who've never so much as raised a chicken will be like "umm think about the politics of your diet???" because they can't conceive of the fact that domestication is an incredibly sweet gig for most livestock where they don't have to look for their own food or shelter or water are protected from predators and also get free healthcare and a quick clean death

[justslowdown]

100%

The actual issues with our current livestock system are because of capitalism and industrialization. Can we please focus our energy on the global paradigm being cruel and unsustainable to us, the planet, AND livestock instead of getting lost in virtue signaling

[sunnyfuneral]

[redwolf17]

Look, I love the fae jokes. Hozier looks like he was pulled from a bog after a 1,500 year nap. His lyrics are poetic and morbid and romantic in a very other worldly way. BUT He’s right. Hozier has talked A LOT about how his music could not, would not exist without decades of innovation and creativity by Black artists. His entire style is based on soul and gospel and blues, WHICH ARE GENRES CREATED BY BLACK PEOPLE.

“My first introduction to music [was] Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, the music that my dad used to play in the house. From there, I just fell in love with the music coming out of black America. A lot of my folk influences would be coming from Ireland. There is absolutely no rock and roll without blues music. There is no blues music without one of the most horrendous atrocities of human trafficking in the last few centuries. It is, of course, a really difficult subject. Everything that’s popular music swings off the work and the achievements and the legacy of black artistry…”

So while I love the fae bog man jokes, we have to acknowledge the tremendous influence of Black artists. There’s no Hozier without Black music.

[stargazerofgoldenwords]

🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

[witches-ofcolor]

If yall couldn’t hear this in Work Song idk what to tell you. I really wish people could see past their imposed aesthetics of him and join the conversation he’s using his privileged to start.

[somesaypoetry]

Work Song is literally named after another song notably sang by Nina Simone

In fact, Hozier’s song Nina Cried Power (the title of which mainly refers to her singing “Power!” in the bridge of Sinnerman, I think) straight up lists several of his musical influences in the lyrics [link], and he says so himself [link].

And y’all should really listen to any and all artists Hozier mentions, they are excellent.

[solomontoaster]

Someone (not me) made a playlist that compiles a bunch of musicians and music that Hozier has said inspired him, it’s great and y’all should have a listen. 

[memecucker]

[lifeaccordingtodrew]

[fefeman]

What the fuck!

[yandere-angela]

turns out when they say “don’t accept food from strangers” and “don’t get in a stranger’s car”, it’s actually about government vehicles

[reasonandempathy]

How to Ditch Amazon

Support your local libraries and the small businesses that are actually making the products you want.  Fuck Jeff Bezos and the systemic, universal worker abuse, gaslighting, and brutality they live off of.

[bladelei]

this seems like a good thing to bring around as people holiday shop

[graventusk]

BTW!! theres an updated version of Overdrive called Libby and its wonderful. share an account with friends from other places so you can share libraries and also check out their taste in books!!

[whitepeopletwitter]

[typhonserpent]

If you are American, PLEASE SUPPORT THE SSI RESTORATION ACT OF 2021

This new bill has been introduced in both the house and the Senate.

Among other things, it will:

Raise the monthly disability income by just over 30 percent - bringing it to poverty level.

Remove penalties for recieving financial help from friends and family.

Increase the amount of assets a disabled person may have from $2,000 to $10,000 (this hasn't been updated since 1989)

Update outside income restrictions to allow disabled people to receive up to $399 a month without reducing their benefits.

REWARD, not penalize, people who want to receive additional income while on social security income.

REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT THIS WILL REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN

For those unaware current regulations do a lot to oppress disabled people. In fact marriage equality doesn't even extend to disbled people who risk having their benefits reduced or outright taken away if they marry someone. This means that in common law states disabled people can't even live with their significant other or they risk losing their financial independence.

Current regulations mean that if you're disbled you can't have so much as one penny over $2,000 to your name. So buying a car and gaining more independence or freedom is largely out of the question for disabled people.

Current regulations penalize social security recipients who receive income from outside sources, even if those sources are reimbursement. Did you get paid to babysit for a few hours? That's income, and you get your benefits reduced. Did you loan a friend $10 and they pay you back? The government considers that $10 income, and you get your benefits reduced.

These aren't mere anecdotes - these are all examples of actual things that have happened to disbled people I know, and if you have any disabled friends in your life I'm sure they can tell you the same stories.

If you value marriage equality, if you value financial independence, if you value the rights of disbled people, please PLEASE support this bill! Contact your reps, vote, and make noise! This is a great thing!

[typhonserpent]

UPDATE: Text SIGN PSLOAE to 50409

Resistbot is hosting a petition for this! They will automatically send letters to your representatives for you!

[catalystofthesoul]

So this is just a PSA, y'all should never sign a contract until you read it. I’m talking in rl right now. I just got through reading my employee handbook/service contract and my bosses slipped in a lot of bullshit like telling me I can’t complain about my job on social media, demanding I work off the clock in the name of good service, expects me to show up on time during inclimate weather, and considered disability or religious accommodation a direct threat to the company.

These are all things I took issue with and brought to my employer for further discussion before signing the contract. Most of my coworkers signed without reading, treating it like an internet terms of service contract.

Tl;dr real life is serious shit, lawyers write contracts to protect your employer FROM YOU, read contracts before you sign them - fucking ARGUE about contracts before you sign them

[lyrslair]

Also important to note, and something my bf has repeated to me many times: a contract is a negotiation until it is signed, and YOU ARE ALLOWED TO AMEND IT. Tech companies often put some bs in there about “we own everything you make while you work for us” which broadly applied also means anything done on your own time. He always ALWAYS does write-in amendments with initial and date to state that they only own things done FOR the company, on company time, because there have been companies that enforced that bullshit when somebody had a personal side project the company decided they wanted to steal. There’s only one company that threw a fit at his attempts to amend it and he considered that a huge red flag and refused to sign, turned down the job.

Never. EVER. Sign shit without reading it. Also: if your prospective employer won’t let you take the thing home to read before you sign it and says you need to sign it then and there THAT IS A RED FLAG. The job I had that turned out to be abusive as shit was like that. Every other job I’ve been able to bring the contract home to my parents to have a more experienced set of eyes on it. It’s also common practice in some fields to have one’s attorney look over it before signing. So never let them tell you that you can’t look over it with someone else. That’s a fat load of shit. For “lower level” jobs they may not accept amendments to the contract but if they won’t even give you the proper time to read it over, they’re trying to pull some bullshit on you and you’re going to regret it if you sign. Even if there’s nothing bad in what you signed it’s an example of how they are going to treat you while you’re there. Take it to heart and run like fucking hell.

[asryakino]

Please also tell your coworkers. Inform others. Tell everyone. Please, for the lovee of everything TELL PEOPLE THEY ARE ALLOWED TO DO THESE THINGS.

Companies BANK on the fact you’re not going to read it. Then they slip in shit like ‘you can’t talk about your wages’ because they want you to keep quiet, so thy can pay that guy six bucks, and pay the guy over there fifteen and pay you eight. They want you to accept it all blindly. PLEASE DON’T STAY BLIND.

Yes, I’ve lost out on jobs because I wanted to read it and they didn’t want me to. Or they wanted m to resign and I said no to to the things they added that I pointed out were unfair and borderline illegal. 

Read shit. Tell everyone else to read shit. BE INFORMED. 

[cricketcat9]

Absolutely 100% good advice ☝🏼☝🏼☝🏼

Never ever ever sign shit without reading and re-reading it! Take it home, show it to someone more experienced, if you can, show it to a lawyer. A contract is supposed to work for both sides. A company in Toronto tried to make me sign a contract with clause that in event of me leaving the job I will not work in a similar position anywhere in Ontario. Yeah, right, not enforceable in court, dudes, you can’t prevent me from making a living. Read the shit and don’t let them intimidate you. 

[iwrotesomeofitdown]

Hi. I‘m a lawyer. Ask for at least 24 hours before you sign a work contract. You do not have to sign within 30 seconds of the contract hitting the desk. It is absolutely standard procedure. It gives you time to show it to a lawyer or go to a public counselor and have them look it over. In-room signing is another way companies blindside and intimidate you. Don’t be rushed. This is an absolutely normal thing to do. People who try to harangue you or hurry you along are sketchy.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

THIS GOES FOR ANY SORT OF PUBLISHING CONTRACT AS WELL,

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

What with the whole “reopening the economy ‘after’ the pandemic” vibe going on, now, and employers aggressively trying to recruit new staff, there’s a lot of pressure to take whatever job you’re offered (especially in states with Republican governors & legislatures).

So all this is extra important to keep in mind, right now.

[kelila-rivka]

Same thing with leases! I always cross out dumb provisions in my leases, like not being allowed to put things on the wall etc. just cross them out sign it, the landlords probably never even notice.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[subversivelystitched]

Here’s a chance to change some black trans lives

Saw this on facebook and am keeping the momentum going. I’ve copied all the fundraiser links below, and here’s the link to the original post in case you’d prefer to look at the list that way.

Help me get home, please! deactivated

Gender Fluid Human In Need Of Help $3,500/3,500 FUNDED!

Adopted Trans Woman seeking safety & medical help $19,740/29,000

Shane’s Top Surgery $4,890/7,750 《《 this one has been up for over a year and he’s still waiting

Help J Remove Themselves from Toxic Household deactivated

Grace Mwangi’s Gender Confirmation Surgery $7,322/38,000 《《 needs more contributions

Nyne’s top surgery $3,839/6,000

Help Grayson start transition $2,075/5,000

Skyler’s Transition Fund deactivated

Londynn’s New Life $14,159/14,000 FUNDED!

NYIEMÄ’S GENDER CONFIRMATION FUND $15,442/37,000

Zoeys transition fund £11,323/13,500

Supporting Black Trans Elders cashapp $fakerapper $25,309 – donations have been disabled for now

Top Surgery For Yadriel Acazio $2,207/11,000

Coco’s Medical Transition Fund $4,918/15,000

Maya’s Transition & Recovery Fund $18,455/35,744

Help Create Corbyn $4,018/4,000 FUNDED!

Flora’s Transition Fund $35/5,000 goal progress reset by organizer

Amina Transition And Rent Fund €4,095 deactivated

Help Guilly Get Top Surgery!! $6,135/7,500

Atticus’ homeless fund $7,345/10,000

HOUSING FOR TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR $30,669/60,000

Ahren’s Top Surgery $4,245/7,500

Malakai’s Top Surgery $3,137/10,000

Top Surgery $8,000/8,000 FUNDED!

Help Me Secure Safe Housing $2,337/18,000

Kiana’s Gender Transition $2,740/35,000 《《 needs a boost

Jacobs top surgery $8,021/8,000 FUNDED!

Skye’s Top Surgery $2,860/8,500

Hunter’s Top Surgery $7,110/12,000

Help Me Pay My Medical Bills and Transition $4,075/45,000 《《 NEEDS A BOOST bc of an emergency room visit

Myles’s Tracheal Shave Procedure $3,946/30,000

Zeke’s Top Surgery Fund $5,449/9,000

help mimi get top surgery $1,836/10,000

Landon’s Top Surgery! $1,310 deactivated

Donate to Myla’s Breast Augmentation $2,725 deactivated

Vanessa L. Naisha needs support to seek justice! $15,000/15,000 FUNDED!

Debbie’s Transition Fund $47,390/75,000

Disabled Enby Needing Help For Top Surgery! $5,758/8,000

Tyler’s Transition Fund $20,831 deactivated

Clarabelle’s Bottom Surgery Fund $12,820 deactivated

help deluca get top surgery ! $5,460/7,000

Help Black Trans Woman Transition $25,729/30,000

Wriply’s surgery/ continued living fund $13,514/26,520 《《 this one has been up since 2018. I found Wriply’s socials and she’s still active, still waiting. Let’s get this fulfilled

Help a black trans woman w/ advanced cancer in ATL $23,680/25,000 《《 needs rent and grocery money

Help Harmony, a Black Trans Woman Survive $8,605/20,000

Help a black trans-man get FTM top surgery! $6,964/15,000

Malikais Top Surgery $4,773/7,500

Finn’s Therapy & Wellness Fund $3,389/7,000

Kyo’s (aka Key) Transition Fund $14,650/25,000

safety & transition funds for dallas! $15,410/45,000

Help a Black Trans Woman from homelessness $10,299 deactivated

Bottom Surgery and Electrolysis $8,162/40,000

Noelle’s Breast Augmentation $13,995/24,000

Aeri’s Moving Out & Transition Fund $16,063/25,000

SAVE A TEENAGE TRANSMAN’S LIFE $7,606/15,000 《《 needs more

Cody’s Top Surgery $5,558/7,000

Help Kit get Top Surgery $3,815/6,000 《《 now had surgery; still needs to pay off debt

Help Erika Begin Her Transition $14,207/20,000

Dan’s Top Surgery and Hysterectomy $325/24,000

I will periodically update the progress amounts. As the goals are met, I’ll mark them as funded and change the colors from green to pink to make it clear. I’m also tagging the ones that could use more attention with red.

Been hearing a lot about “reparations” lately? Well, this is one way to start working towards that, since those in power certainly won’t.

Last updated January 18th, 2021

[guerrillatech]

https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/14026897807x06578441

[guerrillatech]

[motherfucking-breadcrumbs]

For those who haven’t heard, this woman in Arkansas was speeding by a slight margin (5 miles) and was flagged to pull over by an officer. She put on her blinker and got into the right most lane, then slowed and put her hazards on, indicating she was looking for a safe place to pull over. This is actually what police departments, and this one specifically, tell people to do. The shoulder on that road was quite narrow, and she was likely waiting to exit the interstate.

Despite this, the officer slowly gains on her and uses a pit maneuver to spin her car out. This sent her (and her unborn child) careening into the median and completely flipping the car. The officer is heard calling for ems in a very calm voice.

From what I can find, the woman is alright, as is her child. She’s looking to pursue legal action against the officer, who has defended his actions by claiming she was driving wildly and swerving. As I’ve seen so far, he is still being paid and on the force.

[hawkeyedflame]

[stylish-suidae]

In case there was any doubt that cops are fucking liars, here's the video of her "driving wildly and swerving"

[dogsuffrage]

This is from last night (July 9th, 2021) btw. She was mistaken for not pulling over since she could have, but she very clearly had every intention of pulling over shortly, and using a potentially deadly maneuver on someone VERY CLEARLY just confused about how to safely proceed is inexcusable. She was also allegedly going 15mph over, not 5, but it's an empty highway so it's not like that difference matters, just want to keep facts straight.

[rukunas-deactivated20250520]

important !! please read and reblog !!

it’s unfair of us to have platforms and not use it to speak up for palestinians. i have resources provided below for how you can educate yourself on the ethnic cleansing that is happening in israel right now and how you can help.

educate yourself

thread on what is occurring in sheikh jarrah, another thread

thread of infographics about misconceptions regarding israel and palestine

tw bombing video of al aqsa mosque being bombed

tw violence, tw bombing, tw shooting video of palestinians in al aqsa mosque

tweet explaining importance of al aqsa

a website where you can learn more about palestine

a video breaking down the history of the israeli oppressing palestinians

video of palestinian explaining the importance of spreading awareness

tw violence video of 16 yo palestinian boy being forcefully evicted from his home by israeli solders

tiktok of palestinian speaking about what is going on in her country. please see the links in her bio for more information— tiktok will not let me copy and paste her linktree

free ways to help if you cannot donate

do NOT sign petitions !! they are not accounted for in the middle east and do nothing.

simply go to this website and click

watch this video to donate, it’s 3 hours long but just playing it in the background can help

watch this video to donate, it’s 1 hour long but just playing it in the background can help

if you are from the U.K., follow these instructions to call local MPs into action

if you are from the U.S., text RESIST to 50409 to urge congress to help palestine

thread of dua’as muslims can make to pray for palestinians

boycott israeli products

donate— it is better to donate directly to people rather than organizations, but i do have a few organizations listed.

do NOT donate to change.org

help children and hospitals affected by gaza bombing

help hungry children in palestine

donate to palestine child relief fund, known to be reputable

donate to united palestinian appeal, a direct charity

donate directly to journalist injured in gaza

ramadan zakat fund for palestinians in gaza

i’ll add more links as i continue to find reliable sources and proper donations. please dm me other resources and i can add them to this list. free palestine until it’s backwards, pray for palestinians who do not know whether they will be safe in their own country.

last but not least, if you are staying silent about this, or if you are a zionist, unfollow me immediately. i don’t need you on my tumblr.

[neolesbian]

so disney is using emily gwen’s lesbian pride flag with no compensation, and she’s still in need of money. i implore anyone who cares at all about the lgbt community to donate to her instead of paying for fucking mickey mouse pins

About Emily

About Emily

[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.

[yallareinsane]

I’ve had this dream before, I jump over the back fence and we run into the wild. I’m nervous and it’s cold, it’s always cold here. That strange fall/winter grayspace is upon us each time I dream of this. I shiver in my thin jacket, why did I go along with this? Why do I let her convince me to do this each time? Will I dream once where I tell her no, and she goes alone?

We walk among this tree line for a bit, then we’ll go deeper into the forest where she wants to hide. It is never revealed what exactly she plans to do. I know it is to run away, but what else is to it? So far nothing, I assume she wants to hitchhike to where some boy lives and stay with him.

In this dream I never ask, just follow and agree with her. Everything she says I give her reaction back, she laughs and nods her head, and I mimic. She crosses the street unsafely and I do too. Apparently here is where I officially lose my sense of individuality and choice.

She grabs my hand now, and pulls me farther along. All I think about is how much I want my mom, and how upset she will be. Asking me how I could do this to her and why. Ask if there’s something she did wrong and I’ll cry back that I don’t know.

In the back of my mind I know how it will end, I’ve dreamt of this so many times now. My mother will eventually find us and I get in the car while she drives me home. Lecturing me all the way and then it will stop. Then I will wake up still stressed, the dream was so vivid that at first I don’t realize it was just a dream. I’ll lay in bed staring somewhere as my stomach does flips and I think, until more thoughts trickle through my mind and I realize it didn’t really happen. It’s more like a nightmare, with how I awake exhausted, like I really had walked all those miles. My subconscious won’t allow me rest.

But I’m still dreaming here, and she still has my hand in her vice grip. She must know I was thinking about my home, and how I want to go back.

She isn’t as soft as I am. Her parents don’t care as much as mine, her mother not as loving.

This is just how our relationship works, she struts ahead while I follow behind like a dog. Occasionally I’ll walk in front with the short leash she keeps me on, then when I go too far she pulls back on her choke-chain of love. When I listen to her and stay with my tail wagging she’ll tell me how much of a good girl I am.

She decides to take a break and takes a seat against a tree in this dense forest. I don’t know where it came from, there are no forests near my house. I sit crosslegged next to her. She pulls out candy for herself and I grow more tired, she didn’t even bring me something to eat. But then she pulls out a Hershey bar and hands it to me.

Again, this is how it works. She is uncaring most of the time, but will remember my birthday or just act particularly sweet, and my organs melt inside of me. I take a bite of the half melted chocolate to keep my intestines from spilling bubblegum pink out of my mouth. In this moment, everything is soft.

But soon it is over, our time of eating melted chocolate in the cold forest, and it’s back to walking.

We hear movement, a skinny man is walking towards us. I am frightened at his speed, and the bones jutting out from underneath his shirt.

I shove myself behind her, I’ve been sheltered my entire life while she’s been allowed to walk the streets. I think of all the horrible things he could do to us, and how my grandmother is right. I would never survive alone.

It is nearing the end of this dream now. I turn and see my mom’s car approaching. Instead of the deep forest we were once in, we are now next to a road.

The car stops, and my mother gets out. This is where my memory becomes hazy, I don’t know how but I’m in the car and she’s disappointed. I blink back the guilty tears welling in my eyes.