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Sounds like a heck of a move.
Turning off reblogs for every post on the site is an unconventional move, but let's see where they're going with this.
Aw, who's a cutie spider? Who's the very best spider? YOU are! Yes, YOU are! *Skritch skritch skritch*
glimpse into my beautiful imaginary world where arthropods are really big and we domesticated them
edit: people are starting to say some "my worst nightmare" or "eeeww no that one is yucky and scary" comments on this like they do on any bug post and id like to say. it's fine if you don't like bugs it's fine if you're scared of bugs but don't put that on MY post clearly talking about how much i like them and how cute i think they are. you can make your own damn post about how much you hate wasps or spiders or whatever. i'm blocking people who make these kinds of comments.
Just amazing stuff!
Art by xiaoyu huang
YES
Can't argue that. It's a banger. (Also, check out their cover of I Wanna Be/1000 Miles. It's great!)
I can never watch Rocky Horror because they don't use the (superior, imo) Me First and the Gimme Gimmes version of Science Fiction Double Feature
Look, you can fuss if you want, but Ozma is the best lesbian trans princess, and that's just science, not opinion.
The concept of the Oz books was that Baum was getting letters to Dorothy about her adventures and writing them in books.
Therefore Dorothy discribed Ozma like this to him.
Love this.
hope is a skill
I'll take anything I can get at this point.
Damn, this is good to know. The weakness of something that relies on reporting from the public.
this has been happening a few times and now twice today that someone in my notes was marked a terf on shinigami eyes and I kneejerked to "oh shit what are YOU doing in my notes" before doing my due diligence and seeing if this is a correct mark and blocking
95% of the time if the url isn't a giveaway, a few keyword searches on their blog will show they're a terf, if not their bio or pinned. but now 4 different people in a week were trans.
I thought okay doesn't mean they aren't a terf so I dig deeper. And all 4 of them were non-exclusionary trans people who had reblogged or posted something recently defending various trans groups who get a lot of shit on tumblr. Trans people talking about transandrophobia, talking about tearing down transmedicalism, accepting trans people with "unconventional" expression/genders, or advocating for intersex folks in a way that challenges popular binaristic ideas on this site
This is wildly disappointing. All four of these people are clearly not terfs, but as I sat here I realized they are groups of trans people who get accused of being a terf by other trans people as a way to silence crucial community conversations that move us past bio and gender essentialism.
I'd urge people to do second looks at blogs marked as anti-trans and verify before just going off of the mark (not just for this but always as a good rule) and I'd hope if you are a trans person who marks trans people as anti-trans for challenging binaries and essentialism, you knock it the fuck off
Good lord, this. Due to strange circumstances, I've been involved in editing a translation twice in my life. It's insane. In one case, the original author was relying on a WORD COUNT to judge the accuracy of a translation-- that was a two-language chain, at that! Languages are nothing like each other at all, and it's fairly common to have concepts, words or just grammar that doesn't translate between two languages at all.
strangely common misconception that words have basically the same meanings in every langauge and that translation is just a matter of identifying which exact word in the target language corresponds to the word in the original language
There aren't a lot of you, but what the hey, right?
Please reblog if YES so your followers will know!
Yeah, I'm spreading this one around, too.
I'm old enough to just say two words: Tom. Leher.
We all had fun with geography class now onto science! take this quiz to name as many elements as you can :)
obligatory rb for sample size <3
I mean, why not?
If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.
Using the right name is important, and not everyone knows this, so here it is.
not to be maya on side but please do not call someone or something “mayan” when talking about our people, culture, etc. “mayan” refers to our language family (a language FAMILY, in which there are plenty of unique languages). we are the maya, not the mayans. i am maya, not mayan. it is the indigenous maya community, not the indigenous mayan community.
This bears repeating.
An incomplete list of things that employers commonly threaten that are 100% illegal in the United States
"We'll fire you if you tell others how much you're making" The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 specifically protects employees who discuss their own wages with each other (you can't reveal someone else's wages if you were given that information in the course of work, but you can always discuss your own or any that were revealed to you outside of work duties)
"If we can't fire you for [discussing wages/seeking reasonable accommodation/filing a discrimination complaint/etc], we'll just fire you for something else the next day." This is called pretextual termination, and it offers your employer almost no protection; if you are terminated shortly after taking a protected action such as wage discussion, complaints to regulatory agencies, or seeking a reasonable accommodation, you can force the burden onto your employer to prove that the termination wasn't retaliatory.
"Disparaging the company on social media is grounds for termination" Your right to discuss workplace conditions, compensation, and collective action carries over to online spaces, even public ones. If your employer says you aren't allowed to disparage the company online or discuss it at all, their social media policy is illegal. However, they can forbid releasing information that they're obligated to keep confidential such as personnel records, business plans, and customer information, so exercise care.
"If you unionize, we'll just shut this branch down and lay everyone off" Threatening to take action against a group that unionizes is illegal, full stop. If a company were to actually shut down a branch for unionizing, they would be fined very heavily by the NLRB and be opening themselves up to a class-action lawsuit by the former employees.
"We can have any rule we want, it's only illegal if we actually enforce it" Any workplace policy or rule that has a "chilling effect" on employees' willingness to exercise their rights is illegal, even if the employer never follows through on any of their threats.
"If you [protected action], we'll make sure you never work in this industry/city/etc again." Blacklisting of any kind is illegal in half the states in the US, and deliberately sabotaging someone's job search in retaliation for a protected action is illegal everywhere in the US.
"Step out of line and you can kiss your retirement fund/last paycheck goodbye." Your employer can never refuse to give you your paycheck, even if you've been fired. Nor can they keep money that you invested in a retirement savings account, and they can only claw back the money they invested in the retirement account under very specific circumstances.
"We'll deny that you ever worked here" not actually possible unless they haven't been paying their share of employment taxes or forwarding your withheld tax to the government (in which case they're guilty of far more serious crimes, and you might stand to gain something by turning them in to the IRS.) The records of your employment exist in state and federal tax data, and short of a heist that would put Oceans 11 to shame, there's nothing they can do about that.
God, yes. We have to fight as hard as we can, no matter where we are. The stakes are too high this time.
Any red state can turn blue if enough voters turn out.
Yes, but also: "Cast in the name of God, ye not guilty!"
Humans are derived fishes. The skeleton of a human (A) compared with the skeleton of a derived tetrapodomorph fish (B), with the fish skeleton scaled to the size of the human’s and oriented in a humanlike pose (and with a humanlike skull). Red shading indicates dermal bone and, in fishes, the dermal fin rays. (From Long 2011 © John A. Long.)
– F. H. Pough & C. M. Janis, Vertebrate Life (10th ed., 2019; p. 165)
It's a mixed bag, but I'm in.
some trends i am really down for
being nice to people working in customer service
girls in thigh-highs
receiving $400,000
pasta
Yyyyep
Once again Haiku bot brings a post that's well worth sharing.
Respect Ace people; respect people.
Okay, I realize this hilariously late for Asexuality Awareness Week (which was last week), but due to unforeseen stressors, it didn’t really get done in time.
Anyway! I’ve wanted to do something like this for a while, and I’m proud of myself of actually getting a six page comic done within a week. (Not that it’s really anything super fancy, but it’s better than nothing lol) I do apologize for the massive ugly text wall that is page four but I had a hard time figuring out how to convey it visually while being kind of pressed for time. oh and the occasional copy/paste, I’m sorry for that too
Enjoy! Click on the separate pictures if the text is hard to read.
Heck, I'll reblog it, too, to get the word out!
A book crystallized in the ocean
I mean, yeah. Too true.
Yeah. But they don't hate the Very Rich these days, especially since the Supreme Court had been busy legalizing bribery.
This would be great, but can we please do something to stop the big property management groups from buying everything up and turning it into overpriced one-bedroom apartments that can only be afforded by three roommates each working two jobs plus a gig economy "job" on the side?
Like to charge reblog to cast
I'd happily donate blood!
Turns out, you get leukemia a couple of times, they start saying "Nah, thanks, bro, we're good."
Trans women are women. Pass it on.
I mean... *Waves at Olympics*
I think one thing people forgot about terfs is how RACIST they are towards women of color (god forbid be a trans woman of color) and how those people uphold white supremacist views of gender.
Here, have a plushie
reblog to give a plushie to the person you reblogged this from
