Adulthood pro tip

People in crisis are often experiencing decision fatigue. Don’t ask them “what can I do?”, ask them something concrete. “Can I get you dinner?” “Does your dog need to be walked?” “Would you like some quiet company?”

They may say no, and that’s okay, but if you can save them the chore of having to think up a task for you, it’s a good thing.

(Anecdote: my best friend had a difficult delivery with her kid. When they were in the hospital, I asked if I could send dinner, and then asked “do you want to make any choices about what you eat?” I know what she generally likes, so when she said no, I was able to send things that she would enjoy and didn’t have to choose. She says it was one of the best things I could have done for her. Sometimes offering to make a choice for someone is a gift.)

For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

guess who’s watching kubo and the two strings with @moeby tomorrow?

it’s finally happening

zendaya, a feminist woc who has always spoken out about social issues and bella thorne, a strong independent women who just came out as bisexual like wow can you believe shake it up was actually the best disney show ever

I can't believe Zendaya is already the best Mary Jane Watson ever.

Wow. An icon.

this is so fucking funny did he ever reply

I need character motivation

Why would a thief dare to steal from a god?

Master thief is bored, and figures they can best all mortals, why not try to best a deity?

Someone, possibly a rival church or deity, promised the thief something they couldn’t refuse, like a particular magic item or resurrection of a loved one or something.

They’re the Robin Hood kind of thief who feels like the item needs to be taken away and given to people who need/deserve it more. (That’s why Prometheus stole the fire, after all).

The thief is just plain curious about the item, and knows they’ll never get the chance to investigate it if they don’t claim it for themselves.

The thief is particularly devout, but the gods are exceedingly quiet/inactive in the world, so they take it to keep it safe from other thieves.

The thief is of the opinion that the god stole something from them first. Like.. a loved one, for example. And now in return, the thief steals something as compensation.

The thief is in love with the god and wants to get their attention.

The thief wants to become God of Thieves themself and therefore want to best the current God of Thieves - by stealing from him.

The thief has a collection. he could be a collector of x, and the gods have the most powerful x. it's just a matter of circumstance that it's powerful and owned by the gods; if it wasnt an x, he wouldnt steal it. but it's x, so...

The thief is being blackmailed or used by someone else to do his bidding.

The thief is compelled by another god, he's being used as a pawn by the gods in a godly prank or war or wager.

!!!!!!!! LISTEN UP THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT !!!!!!!!!!!

Wikileaks just proved that the Primary Election was rigged. 20,000 freshly leaked emails reveal resentful disdain toward Sanders, as party favored Clinton long before any votes were cast

The best part? these aren’t even all of the files.

because on On July 25, the same day the DNC is supposed to name Hillary as the Democratic Nominee, Wikileaks is releasing thousands of DNC/Clinton emails.

stay tuned….

Source / Files 

#StayWoke

GUYS!!! YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS TWITTERS DOING EVERYTHING TO SHUT THIS DOWN

And yet, Clinton is still a better choice than Trump.

Let’s be honest here. All of us Bernie supporters suspected all of this from the start. We knew Bernie was a long shot, that Hillary was the establishment candidate. That was a big part of why we liked him.

These leaks are only news in that they confirm things everyone already knew. We already knew that our primary system is broken, for both parties, that it’s way too easy for Washington insiders to just plain ignore what happens in the primary. Most states’ delegates to the convention have almost nothing to do with the primary election results, and once those delegates are at the convention they can vote however they please anyway. These things are well known.

Does that make it right? Of course not. But faulting an establishment politician for taking advantage of a primary system already rigged in her favor is like faulting a dog for chewing on a raw steak that was left within reach. It is something that happens when we haven’t been paying enough attention before it happens. Getting mad when it does happen doesn’t fix it. If we want election reform, the time to do it is not in the middle of the election, but well before it.

Hillary Clinton is still a better choice than Trump. Electing Trump is literally electing a fascist totalitarian to the head of the most powerful nation in the world. Hillary might be a spoiled, entitled, establishment candidate, but Trump is the end of the free world as we know it. Lesser of two evils here, folks.

And honestly, Hillary isn’t a bad option. She’s only a little left of center, but if we put a progressive Congress in with her, we should be able to get some things done.

That will not be the case with Trump.

#NeverTrump

Rewrite a classic fairy tale by telling it backwards. The end is now the beginning.

Once upon a time there was a princess who loved so deeply that her heart was worn constantly on her sleeve. She fell in love with a prince, and the next year, her father allowed them to be wed- he remembered his own wife every day, and wished his daughter to be as happy as he had been.

The day of the wedding came, and the girl walked down the aisle in a dress of gentle silver. The Prince took her hand and smiled, and leant in to kiss her.

For luck, he would later say. A kiss for luck, a smile for joy, a laugh for a happy ending. It was a saying his own family had had for years, but it was a saying that failed him.

For the second his lips touched hers, she fell to the floor with a sigh.

Not dead they healers told the prince. not dead but sleeping, not dead but unable to wake.

The prince- so ashamed, so in fear of his life and hers- stole her away from the castle that night, away from her father and her people, so they would never have to watch her waste away.

He hid her in a forest, in a casket of diamond and ice, and he waited. Waited, for he did not even know where to start. He did not even know if the hope for her waking had a point.

He was there for two days when they found him. Seven short folk, small men with beards and axes in their hands, and harsh smiles on their faces.

We can help you they said to him, the six cackling behind the speaker. But, prince, it will come at a price.

I would pay anything. He vowed. Only later, realising he should have asked what it would be.

The Seven disappeared and left him on his own. Alone, other than the silent not-dead princess at his side.

When they returned there was an eighth with them- an old frail woman with a basket in her hands.

We will wake her she said, pulling out an apple and throwing it in their air but you will never look at her, talk to her again, and she will work in the mines with my dwarves here.

He wanted to say no. But knowing she was alive, even out of reach, was better than sleep and near death.

so yes he said. Help her.

The old woman smiled and picked out a knife, cutting the apple into small parts. One, she handed to the prince, the other, she took over to the casket, and opening it, she placed it on the princess’ lips.

A gasp, a flash of her eyes opening, and the prince knew nothing more.

The princess woke in a place she did not know, surrounded by people she did not know. An old woman and short men- and her prince, asleep on the ground.

He is not dead the old woman said only sleeping. But around you, he will never wake. He saved you but cursed you both- and now your life is tied to my mines.

The princess tried to fight, to leave. 

But the old woman had magic and she did not, and the dwarves were all she knew for many years. Sometimes as friends, sometimes as enemies, often arguing but always allies, they worked side by sides in the underground mines, looking for fairydust and rubies, magic and gold.

They taught her the songs of work and the songs of marches, and soon she forgot that she had even been a princess.

One evening she was walking back to their home alone, when she heard a noise to her left. She looked, expecting a rabbit, a bird, but out stepped a man with a bow in his hands.

You shouldn’t be out in the woods alone he said to her.

This is my home.

Trees are no home for anyone. She wondered if she should tell him of the many people hidden in the forest, each with no where else to go come with me.

Why?

Because I have a place you can go.

She should have said no- but what was there for her in the trees and the mine? So she took his hand and he led her out into the bright daylight, through winding roads intil they arrived at a castle she did not know.

where are we? she asked.

The Huntsman smiled my home, and the home of my queen.

He led her in through the doors, up to a room where a woman was sat on a throne. The woman stood as she saw the princess, staring at her in wide eyed shock.

You look just like her the queen whispered.

Once, the Huntsman said quietly, seeing the question in the princess’ eyes my queen had a child. A daughter who should have been your age. But she was stolen away by the man my queen loved.

You-

I’m not her  the princess said- but she had never known her mother. Only her father and an empty throne at his side.

No. the queen said, her tone one of disbelief. But I am in need of an heir, and you in need of care. Stay here a while, and let us see.

It’s Bulbasaur blooming season

Lots of variety this year!

A late bloomer!

Water-lily Bulbasaur catching up on the latest gossip at the lake

Wow, looks like thing are getting serious between hibiscus and fuchsia!

this is pure and good

When Kendra Harrison realises that she’s broken the 100m Hurdles World Record!

WHAT TEAM

The elevator pitch challenge

Describe the plot or premise of your current project in 150 characters or less. 

If Sanders doesn’t get the nomination, and you can’t see yourself voting for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, then don’t. Vote third party.

Consider the Libertarian or Green Party.

Don’t feed the establishment by voting for Clinton, and don’t feed authoritarian isolationism by voting for Trump.

No. The absolute largest chunk of people considering changing their votes at the moment are disappointed non-conservatives. There was barely any competition among republicans; from the get-go, the voter base united behind Trump. If non-conservatives split their votes across multiple fronts, they WILL lose.

Voting third party in America throws your vote directly into the garbage. Our system does not work like Australia’s. You don’t get a second or third choice, and candidates who win aren’t going to look at the numbers and say “I see 25% of Americans voted Green, I should implement Green policies.” That’s not how it works. Conservative voters overwhelmingly back a single party, the GOP, while non-conservative voters are the ones that scatter across multiple, weak fronts when faced with an unappealing Democratic party nominee. Think about it like this:

The majority of Republican voters support Trump and are not changing their vote even though party leaders and figureheads are universally decrying him. They’ve been groomed for decades by the GOP to be this way, and now party leaders have lost control of the impressionable voter base they created for themselves. There’s nothing they can do about it at this point. While a small number of Republicans can and are switching parties, it’s not very much. Meanwhile, Democrats are floundering, trying to decide which front to unite under. Some of them go to the Green party or Libertarians, sure; the rest stay with the Democratic party in the hopes that even with people leaving, they will have enough to block Trump. But Trump doesn’t need a majority of total Americans to vote for him; he only needs more than the other candidates have. Do you understand what I’m saying? Trump could get 10% of the vote, but as long as no other party has more than 10%, he still wins. The second you split the left and middle across three or four fronts, the right seizes control. This is how it goes down every single fucking time we go through this.

The other thing to consider is that the electoral college is NOT going to weigh in favor of a third party. Doing so would be political suicide. They are paid to vote certain ways, and not doing so would fuck up their careers. Even if an entire state votes in favor of a third party, the electoral college is going to vote for whichever primary party matches up the closest, and sometimes not even that. Their votes are counted when making the actual choice of president; ours are not. They proved that with Gore. The majority of Americans voted for him; the electoral college installed Bush anyway and told us to suck it up. The question at this point is whether they’d risk it a second time, and we have to hope that they won’t, which is why we have to unite under a single front to block Trump.

^^^^^^^THIS!!!!!!!!!! People do not understand that under our plurality system, it doesn’t matter if the majority of the population doesn’t vote for Trump. As long as he has more than any of the other candidates, he wins. Splitting up the more liberal voters is now what non-Trump supporters want to do.

THESE CHILDREN ARE TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER ROSS PEROT

And Ralph Nader.

DO NOT SPLIT THE VOTE, PLEASE! GOP is gonna vote Trump, they won’t vote for a 3rd party person. That means a solid voting bloc. Dem who split the vote are in essence giving him a free vote. HILARY WITH ALL HER FAULTS IS STILL BETTER THAN TRUMP!

GOD DAMNIT YALL BETTER NOT SPLIT THE DEM VOTES

This is how the Conservative Party in the UK won the last election with less than 40% of the overall vote!!!! Don’t do it America!

NOT splitting the vote is how Canada snagged this magical unicorn man in the last election.  Basically everyone I know voted strategically, even if it was against their party, to ensure that Harper’s crusty conservative ass was kicked the hell out.  Personally I waffle between the Green Party and the NDP politically, but I sure as heck voted Liberal last election.

Think about how much Obama accomplished with a hostile Congress in 6 of his 8 years in office.

Now think about how much Trump can “accomplish” with a Congress that isn’t hostile.

I’m legit scared of this election because of this. Our system is screwed up and I’m sorry if you hate both parties (I’m still shocked we ended up where we are),  but realistically, writing in Bernie because you’re “Bernie or bust” or voting for a third party isn’t going to work this time.