clocking in for another day at the i dont wanna factory

leoreturns:

Will it hit a million notes today?

Will it hit 2 million notes today?

Black Water Sinking Ships

That's an image....

Only one thing y’all can take from trans women. Notes.

i hope all of these girls have a great day and i love the girl who forgot her wig but the sis with the hijabi damn near made me cry sob i love this <3333333

Another thing abt this video: nearly every beauty involved is Indigenous or Black, the two minority groups of trans women that frequently get left out of discussions when it comes to highlighting trans women and their beauty, and the two groups at the highest risk of violence while trans. These women deserve love and praise just like y’all’s favorite white women do. Show up for Black and Indigenous trans women.

That lovely woman with the long face right in the middle who winked at the camera nearly made my heart stop.

Why do so many in vet med 'hate' doodles?

Me: Ugh, doodles

askbox: *inundated* WHAT IS WRONG WITH DOODLES?????

Me: Mistakes were made! Mayday, Mayday!

But seriously, there's a lot of factors as to why so many people in vet med have an incredible dislike of doodles. I could probably write a 10 page essay but I'm going to try to keep this short.

1- They are 'trendy', and thus come with all the problems that come along with that. Backyard breeders, unethical breeders, any doodle breeder who calls their doodles either 'purebred', 'akc registered', or uses the phrase "you get the best of both breeds" is a goddamned lying liarface... these dogs are bred purely to make money. There's rarely any health testing, almost never temperament testing. It's 'make a fluffy puppy with a cutesy name' and people are DRAWN to cute. I watched many people adopt *huskies* from the shelter because "They're so cute!" NO. BAD.

2- People are rarely prepared to handle the traits of either/any of the breeds that go into doodles, especially those mixed with working-type dogs. The number of labra- and goldendoodle owners who don't understand why their dog is always eating things is aggravating. It's because they're labs/goldens! They eat shit! It's what those breeds just DO. Most doodle owners do no research into the parent breeds at all. This means they are also unprepared for the health problems that can crop up from the parent breeds.

3- People see breeders calling these "Great family pets" and then ... don't fucking socialize or train them so now, as vet staff, we are faced with sometimes 90+ pound dogs that can't sit on command, are jumping all over us, mouthing us, or pissing themselves in terror and wanting to bite our faces off because they're so afraid of strangers. This is not the dogs' faults but it doesn't make us like them either.

4- This seems to be a bit less of an issue now, or at least less of an issue where I am, but a lot of people don't... groom them? Some breeders even specifically say to not get them seen at the groomer before they're a year old???? And people hear "non-shedding" (potentially A LIE) and then... don't.... brush them? So then they turn into a solid felted mat and they become a groomer's behaviour-nightmare-shear-it-like-a-sheep-"What do you mean you couldn't leave the hair long?!?!?!?"

5- Oh gods, the ENDLESS EAR INFECTIONS AND ALLERGIES AND GI ISSUES

So yeah, that's the quick and dirty on why "ugh, doodles"... at least it's a little shorter than a why "UGH, frenchies" would be

Propaganda

María Félix (Doña Barbara, La Mujer sin Alma, Rio Escondido, La Cucaracha)—Maria Felix is still possibly the most well-known Mexican film actress. She turned down multiple-roles in Hollywood and a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer in order to take roles in Mexico, France, and Argentine throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s. She was so famous and so respected as a dramatic actress that she inspired painters, novelists and poets in their own art--she was painted by Diego Rivera, Jose Orozco, Bridget Tichenor. The novelist Carlos Fuentes used her as inspiration for his protagonist in Zona Sagrada. She inspired an entire collection by Hermes. In the late 1960s Cartier made her a custom collection of reptile themed jewels. She considered herself to be powerful challenger of morality and femininity in Mexico & worldwide--she routinely played powerful women in roles with challenging moral choices and free sexuality. But even still, years after he death, she is celebrated with Google Doodles, and appearances in the movie Coco, and holidays for the anniversary of her death.

Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins)—Oh where to start .... I'm not sure I even know how. She's just perfection. And it's not fair I can't bring post 70s work into this, because she just gets better and better, and her drag performance in to die for. But in the era I CAN talk about, she shows she has THE RANGE. Beautiful, feisty, funny, holding her own against Christopher Plummer, Paul Newman, Rock Hudson. Oh she's luminous.

This is round 4 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

julie propaganda because she was my first ever crush as a child and i will forever be in love with her

Opening VGen comms again for May-June (with chibi options!!!) Pls read over everything before submitting a request 🫡

They'll be open until Sunday!

https://vgen.co/zeroshadows

I forgot Cassie Animorphs and I am so so sorry

Hello everyone! I’m making a post on behalf of my friend, who doesn’t have a Tumblr.

She is a 2-Spirit Inuk artist who is fundraising to access vital medical treatment for chemical burns and resulting pain & complications.

She’s been struggling to receive accessible care in a racist medical system, and she needs our support.

Donations will also pay for transportation to & from the hospital for treatment, as well as basic necessities like her phone bill.

She was recently unable to pay and therefore couldn’t handle her medical needs because she had no access to a phone.

It would mean the world to me if you could spare anything to help her. I am sharing the link to her GoFundMe, as well as a PayPal info for direct donations. She’s in Canada, so if you’re donating from the U.S, your donation will even be a little more in CAD than USD!

People often apologize for donating small amounts, so please believe there is no amount too small. If everyone who saw this donated a few dollars, her care would be covered in full.

Donating directly to funds like this is an immediate and impactful action you can take to support an Indigenous person in your sphere.

Donate if you can, and please share this post. I’ll be reblogging it throughout the week for visibility.

Thank you for your support!!!! ♥️

PayPal/E-transfer:

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Password: healing

Hi everyone! Thank you sm for your support so far! We have a ways to go, but you’ve already made a big difference!!!

We’ve gone from $300 to $800!! That’s incredible! ♥️♥️♥️

Wow.

Transcript:

My name is Jessica Valenti and since Roe was overturned, I’ve been documenting the harms caused by abortion bans in a newsletter called Abortion, Every Day. I cover everything from legislation and court battles, to anti-abortion strategy and language, but the topic that I find myself writing about most, I’m sorry to say, is suffering. 

And while Americans know about some of the suffering caused by abortion bans, thanks to the bravery of women like Doctor Dennard, there are hundred of other stories that go unreported. I have spoken to a 21-year old woman in Texas who was denied an abortion even though her fetus developed without a head, and a hospital worker in South Carolina who watched a college student die after attempting to end her own pregnancy. I get more messages every day than I could ever possibly answer. And while I could share stories that would shock and sicken you in the way that I am shocked and sickened every single day doing this work, I wanted to use my time here to stress that this incredible suffering, this cruelty that treats American women as less than human, is all by design. 

Despite Republican assurances that cases like Doctor Dennard’s are the result of legislative growing pains, or doctors simply not understanding the law, despite claims that their bans just need to be tweaked or clarified. I want to make clear that all of this pain and suffering was not just expected. It was planned for. Anti-abortion lawmakers and activists would have voters believe that they had no idea that this is what post-America, post-Roe America would look like, but they had 50 years to plan for this moment, and they made that plan carefully, strategically, and callously. 

Every raped child forced to give birth, ever cancer patient denied care and every woman arrested after having a miscarriage was accounted for and strategized over. But with Americans getting angrier and angrier at what abortion bans are doing to their families and communities, Republicans are desperate to hide that truth from voters. They need us to believe that they’re not the cruel extremists that their laws show them to be. And they certainly don’t want us to know that they planned for women’s deaths in the same way they strategize over a talking point or a poll. And I mean that literally. 

For months I have been tracking a conservative campaign to sow distrust in maternal mortality numbers. Republicans know that the data is going to show that their laws kill women, so they’re preemptively claiming that maternal death numbers aren’t accurate. Some states have even disbanded their maternal death review committees entirely, and because the people most likely to die are the most marginalized among us, their hope is that no one will care. 

I’ve also documented how the anti-abortion movement laid the groundwork over months to blame doctors for women’s deaths, as if the people working under threat of losing their license or jail time are the problem, and not the laws that prevent them from doing their jobs. All of which is to say, when Republicans feign surprise or compassion over post-Roe horror stories, they are lying. They knew that women would suffer and die as a result of their laws. They decided it was a trade off worth making, and everything they’ve done since Roe was overturned has been in service of hiding that fact. 

Most of those lies are hiding in plain sight. When Republicans tell Americans that the national fifteen week ban they’re proposing is a reasonable middle ground, they leave out the fact that the law would force women to carry non-viable pregnancies to term. Their compromise would do to any American capable of pregnancy, what Texas tried to do to Kate Cox and again, this is not an oversight, it is a deliberate part of a much broader extremist strategy. 

Right now, there is a quiet but well-funded campaign led by the most powerful anti-abortion groups in the country, that is focused entirely on pressuring and forcing women to carry doomed pregnancies to term. They’re not only trying to do away with exceptions for non-viable pregnancies, they’re trying to eradicate prenatal testing altogether. It’s a lot easier to force women to carry a dying fetus to term if they never get diagnosed to begin with. 

When I tell people about this, the question I get asked out often is “why?” Why would anyone want to deliberately create a world where women are forced to be walking coffins? It is inexplicable until you understand that this has nothing to do with families or babies but enforcing a worldview that says it’s women’s job to be pregnant, and to stay pregnant to matter what the cost or consequence. But because Republicans don’t have the bravery to admit that truth, and because they’re afraid of voters who are more pro-choice than ever, they lie. They talk about compassion because they know that their laws are cruel, they use the word consensus while passing bans that voters don’t want, and they call Democrats extremists while fighting for the right to deny women life-saving abortions in emergency rooms. 

And because Republicans know that votes overwhelmingly oppose their bans, they claim to be softening on abortion by pushing one of the biggest lies in abortion politics, exceptions. Again and again, Republicans propose and pass exceptions that no one will ever qualify for. The only purpose they serve is to allow extremist lawmakers to feign moderation, or pretend as if they’ve conceded something. 

And frankly, any Republican who claims that exceptions are real should have to do so in front of all the people who’ve been told that they do not qualify for care even as they went septic or had their uteruses removed. They should have to defend themselves in front of women like Kate Cox and Doctor Dennard, or Brittany Watts, who wasn’t just denied care by by religious hospital when her water broke too early for her pregnancy to survive, but was arrested when she miscarried at home. 

The only Republican exception that holds an iota of truth is the one about women’s lives, though not in the way that they think. When you look at any Republican “life of the mother” exception, they all contain a caveat. And that caveat says that when women’s whose lives are at risk can be given abortions, unless the risk is because she’s suicidal, and I want to stress how telling that is. Republicans know that forcing people to be pregnant against their will, will make them want to kill themselves, and they enshrined, into law, that they don’t care. In a moment when we are hearing so many extreme horror stories it can be difficult I think to get back to that foundational cruelty. That to force someone to be pregnant against their will, for any reason, at any point, causes profound existential harm. Abortion is health care, but it is also freedom. That’s why every abortion denied is a tragedy, and increasingly Americans understand that. They don’t want the government involved in their decisions about pregnancy at any point. 

The first time I came to DC was in 1992. I was 13 years old and my mother brought me here, for the pro-choice March for Women’s Lives, maybe some of you were there. I remember men screaming at us from the sidelines, and I remember how confused I was, over why they hated us so much. Today, my 13 year old daughter is in the room, and it’s her first time in Washington and yet somehow she’s here with less rights than I had 32 years ago, and I think that we should be ashamed of that. My deepest hope is that she doesn’t need to follow in the steps of her mother and grandmother, and come here decades from now to defend her daughter’s humanity. Thank you for your time. 

My good sir I had a mortgage before any of those characters were published 💀

I know who exactly three of these people are. When I was a kid I wanted to be a Herald of Valdemar.

I wanted to be Menolly with her entire Faire of fire lizards.

I wanted to be a Starfleet officer.

I wanted to be Dirk Pitt.

i wanted to be indiana jones

I wanted to be Han Solo.

I wanted to be Vesper Holly most of all.

Sticking with the literary theme: Meg Murry. If we're doing movies/TV, Princess Leia or Laura Holt.

I wanted to be Alanna

Also Meg Murry, and the kid who lived in the tree in My Side of the Mountain.

Harry from the Blue Sword in middle school, Heralds of Valdemar not until high school

That smart kid from The Westing Game who figured out all the clues

I wanted to be Claudia Kishi with a side of Meg Murry.

Cimorene.

I wanted to be Nancy Drew

Cimorene, Claudia (while knowing in my heart I was really a Mallory) and Meg Murray, yep.

Getting really sick of all the "There's No Place Like Chrome" ads on youtube. There's Firefox. Firefox saves your passwords. Firefox autofills things if you want. Firefox also does things that Chrome doesn't like allow adblockers, and it does not mine your data and sell your information for advertising purposes. Google is really trying to push people to use Chrome so they can take as much data from users as possible in order to make as much money as possible and it's borderline sinister.

Anyway, download Firefox.

The irony of this is because of the ad blockers on my Firefox, I've never seen any such ad.

Hass Idriss | Untitled Creation 2024

At some point in your life, you were taught that being slightly annoying is an unforgivable sin. Maybe it was by your parents or a teacher or a friend or a bully or an older sibling. But someone taught you that being slightly annoying is a crime punishable by death.

You must unlearn this.

You must accept that all people will be annoying at some point or another in their lives, maybe all of their lives, and that this is okay. It is okay for strangers on the bus, it is okay for children in the grocery store, it is okay for people on social media, and it is okay for you.

If you ever want to truly love your fellow humans, if you ever want to truly love yourself, you must have forgiveness for being annoying.

The sheer physical control it takes to look so smoothly robotic is freaking insane...and yet we humans (at least a few of us) have mastered it.

Also, when he collapses "to his knees" and then hovers his knees above the ground, flexing his knees in and out, moving across the flagstones? Hellaciously difficult. Oh, I'm sure most people could give it a try, but he does it smoothly, with absolute control. Years of practice, years of physical training.

It is far easier for a human to walk "like a robot" than for a robot to learn how to walk like a human, folks. Machines can knit, but only humans can crochet. Enjoy these sensations of delight and wonder at how marvelous our fellow beings can be!