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Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

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Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

“My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.

Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood. Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didn’t want to.

See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon. 

Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy. 

To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died. 

You’re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies. 

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But, assuming the mother wasn’t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their “bodily autonomy” is a choice that the mother made. YOu don’t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isn’t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too. 

First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation. 

And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.

Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.

If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other. 

When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.

When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.” 

And that is gross. 

^ THIS. This is this this THIS THIS THIS. THIS!!!!!

This is probably the strongest and well worded/supported argument for abortion that I have ever read.

WHY THE FUCK HAS TUMBLR FLAGGED THIS?! i’M FUCKING FURIOUS!!!

Yep, this was flagged for me too. Which is why I’m going to reblog it several time until Tumblr implodes.

This!!!!

*this but with one exception: women, not “people who can get pregnant”. This is misogyny against WOMEN. Name the problem.

My word choice was deliberate and accurate.

Anti-abortion action is, yes, driven by misogyny, absolutely. BUT it affects all people who are pregnant and can become pregnant, regardless of whether or not they are women (whether they be trans men, NB folk, or even girls, who are NOT adult women.) Both those facts are true, and my word choice was intentional to reflect that.

Great, now do it for the Vaccine Mandate. My body my choice and all.

Go on.

Say it.

for sure, a person doesn’t have to get the covid vaccine if they feel unsafe doing it, especially since it’s one of the least studied and quickly released vaccines and they’re keeping the information about it behind a wall for 75 years or something to that effect

but that wasn’t really the message of this post; I get you’re wanting to pit together these two ideas of body autonomy and that’s great, but nobody should have to be forced to do or not do something with their bodies if they don’t feel like it’s safe for them, that’s the whole idea

No you provided the point and what I wanted just fine, thank you.

okay! I’m glad we agree

Since the almost universal arguments in favor of killing a baby are,

Show me the numbers of people having them for those reasons vs the number having them as birth control.

As far as the “my body, my choice” crowd goes, I counter with this, “Not your DNA, not your body.”

Now you know that “killing a baby” is an emotionally charged phrase that it meant to conflate ending a pregnancy with like, infanticide. Which intentionally undermines the argument being made here- a baby that has been born is no longer a violation of someone’s bodily autonomy the way a developing fetus is.

And in case this wasnt clear before, “my body my choice” doesnt mean that the FETUS is “my body”, it means that the fetus is INSIDE MY BODY, using my body, potentially against my will.

My argument is fundamentally NOT about those 3 reasons you listed. Again, I feel like I was pretty clear here. An abortion is justified ethically if the person who wants the abortion doesnt want their body being used to carry a fetus any longer. That’s all the reason you need.

My response was basically for anyone who happened to come across this later, not specifically you. However:

Abortion is infanticide, no matter how you cut it. In the coldest, most logical, clinical terms, abortion ends in death. And, if someone kills a pregnant woman, how are they charged? With either at least two counts of manslaughter, or at least two counts of murder. Why is that, do you think?

A developing baby isn’t violating someone’s bodily autonomy. There is exactly one way a baby gets there. That baby cannot be using your body against you will.

When you engage in the act of reproduction, you can’t be surprised when reproduction happens.

You are incorrect.

Consent to sex is not consent to carry a pregnancy to term. Consent to having sex with someone (if there IS consent) isnt giving consent to a fetus (a DIFFERENT PERSON) to use your organs and blood for the duration of pregnancy. Consent to 1 action with 1 person is NOT consent to a completely different action for 40 weeks with a completely different person. Consent is not transferable or irrevocable.

I’m not going to debate the exact legal definition of a baby (though 1 U.S. Code § 8 does define child as “born alive”.) If a pregnant person is killed, how that is charged is inconsistent, but it wouldnt be listed legally as “infanticide” or “killing a baby.” Those arent legal terms. My point was not a legal Nit pick, but to point out how you were using emotionally charged rhetoric to misrepresent the argument.

Again, to be clear- if your argument is that a fetus is a person, and you understand that a pregnancy requires the fetus to use the pregnant person’s body to reach term, then you should be able to acknowledge that unwanted pregnancies, for whatever reason they are unwanted, are an example of one persons body being used by another person without their consent.

Yes, it is. You seem to be forgetting that actions have consequences. The consequence of the act of reproduction is reproduction. You’re not gonna have sex and then get a house. You have sex, you have a baby.

Ah, now you acknowledge the baby is a person, but only to try to refute my argument. Interesting.

Once again: Consent to the reproductive act is consent to the result. Let’s be fully honest here, this talk of “no consent to the result of my actions” is only ever applied to this. I don’t see someone who ate like a pig and didn’t exercise suddenly go, “Hey, why am I fat? I didn’t consent to this.” Why would we? It’s a ridiculous concept.

If you fall off a ladder and broke your arm, did you consent to the injury?

Good, because what is legal is irrelevant. After all, I could point to the ruling that Anthony Johnson could keep John Casor as his slave as an example of why looking to what is legal isn’t always correct.

No, typically it’s listed as “unlawful death of a mother and unborn child(ren).”

Not relevant, really.

Can’t be emotionally charged if there are no emotions involved.

As far as the argument goes, it is: Abortion is killing a baby (or unborn child, if you prefer) vs “Nuh-uh.”

What does an abortion do? Please, describe it as if no one has ever heard of the act.

If they truly didn’t want to conceive, they should not have engaged in the act of conception. Every action has a reaction. 

You’ve spent your entire post describing pregnancy as a reaction and a consequence, rather than thinking of the fetus as a person. You compared it to accidentally falling off a ladder and “consenting to an injury.” Is the fetus like an accidental injury?

If getting pregnant is the same as gaining weight if you eat more calories than your body needs or breaking your arm when you fall off a ladder- people are allowed to turn around and go on a diet and get their arm put in a cast. They dont just have to live with the extra weight and the broken arm because they chose to do the things that caused them. Just because you had a consequence doesnt mean you arent allowed to take steps to undo it.

So which is it? Is ths fetus just a consequence that *can* happen (and thus a person can take steps to undo it should it happen on accident) OR is the fetus a person (and no person is obligated to use the body of another without consent, regardless of age or need)

Because you dont get it both ways.

“My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.

Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood. Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didn’t want to.

See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon. 

Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy. 

To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died. 

You’re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies. 

reblogging for commentary 

But, assuming the mother wasn’t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their “bodily autonomy” is a choice that the mother made. YOu don’t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isn’t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too. 

First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation. 

And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.

Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.

If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other. 

When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.

When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence." 

And that is gross. 

Look I clown veganism often enough but really, truly, don’t ever fucking feed somebody something without their knowledge or consent. It’s hugely fucked up and not OK.

also if someone hasn’t eaten meat in a while… or ever… they will get incredibly sick if they just start eating meat again.

|| Please don’t do this. Not just with vegans/ vegetarians, but with ANYONE you don’t know very well. You never know what they may or may not be allergic to, their abilities o(or lack thereof) to digest certain things, dietary needs and restrictions, religious beliefs requiring them to abstain from the consumption of certain foods and about a thousand other things.

Some people are legitimately allergic to thd proteins in certain meats and can’t even eat anything cooked in the same pan as X meat product/s.

I’m vegan but couldn’t care less if others aren’t, not an overwhelming number of (not all, just alot, unfortunately) non vegans find things like this funny.

Quick reminder: Sometimes people say “I’m vegan” or “I’m vegetarian” because its easier/faster/begets fewer annoying questions than the longer explanation.

As an epidemiologist I can list a few of the more annoying longer explanations that no one wants to have to explain to every person who ever offers them food:

- You drank water contaminated with giardia, which gave you 3 weeks of diarrhea followed by 3 years of lactose intolerance

- You were bitten by a Lone Star Tick and developed an allergy to beef and pork because the Lone Star Tick is a bastard

- You are Jewish and the meat isn’t kosher, but you don’t want to say that because antisemitism is A Thing and you don’t want to get bombarded with questions about the Middle East while you’re hungry

- You are Muslim and the meat isn’t halal, but you don’t want to say that because Islamophobia is A Thing and you don’t want to get bombarded with questions about the Middle East while you’re hungry

- You are on a restricted diet for medical reasons and don’t want to get bombarded with questions about your medical history while you’re hungry

- You are on a restricted diet for reasons that *are nobody’s business* and don’t want to get pulled into Potentially Triggering Diet Talk while you’re hungry.

Listen. Food can be very very complicated for people, and a very very very sensitive subject. Respect people’s food restrictions. None of it is your business.

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I’m a sucker but whatever

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Also 2 hrs of netflix may be the only time in a week where you could put the feet up and just melt.

$999 to start a business…now that is funny. Does he mean lemonade stands and mowing lawns? How very suburban. New invention? Costs more than that to make a prototype and geta patent. It also presupposes a person has already acquired the skill set and level of expertise in that market to be successful PLUS knowing how to run a business. This has to be one of the most clueless, out of touch pieces of advice for success I have ever heard/read. Obviously it is coming from someone born privileged.

My favorite poem 💗💗💗

Voodoo Junie has blessed your account. A random miracle will fall into your lap answering all of your financial questions. Authority, tradition, and success in money matters will hold their promise with the King of Pentacles. ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Like/to charge
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Microburst rain storms in Lake Millstatt in Austria. Seems as if the sky is falling down.

Source

ohaaaaa 

So beautiful

Rain

Wash away my sorrow, take away my pain

Your love’s coming down like

Rain

“In 1984, when Ruth Coker Burks was 25 and a young mother living in Arkansas, she would often visit a hospital to care for a friend with cancer.

During one visit, Ruth noticed the nurses would draw straws, afraid to go into one room, its door sealed by a big red bag. She asked why and the nurses told her the patient had AIDS.

On a repeat visit, and seeing the big red bag on the door, Ruth decided to disregard the warnings and sneaked into the room.

In the bed was a skeletal young man, who told Ruth he wanted to see his mother before he died. She left the room and told the nurses, who said, "Honey, his mother’s not coming. He’s been here six weeks. Nobody’s coming!”

Ruth called his mother anyway, who refused to come visit her son, who she described as a "sinner" and already dead to her, and that she wouldn't even claim his body when he died.

“I went back in his room and when I walked in, he said, "Oh, momma. I knew you’d come", and then he lifted his hand. And what was I going to do? So I took his hand. I said, "I’m here, honey. I’m here”, Ruth later recounted.

Ruth pulled a chair to his bedside, talked to him

and held his hand until he died 13 hours later.

After finally finding a funeral home that would his body, and paying for the cremation out of her own savings, Ruth buried his ashes on her family's large plot.

After this first encounter, Ruth cared for other patients. She would take them to appointments, obtain medications, apply for assistance, and even kept supplies of AIDS medications on hand, as some pharmacies would not carry them.

Ruth’s work soon became well known in the city and she received financial assistance from gay bars, "They would twirl up a drag show on Saturday night and here'd come the money. That's how we'd buy medicine, that's how we'd pay rent. If it hadn't been for the drag queens, I don't know what we would have done", Ruth said.

Over the next 30 years, Ruth cared for over 1,000 people and buried more than 40 on her family's plot most of whom were gay men whose families would not claim their ashes.

For this, Ruth has been nicknamed the 'Cemetery Angel'.”— by Ra-Ey Saley

She’s 60 now, she’s still doing activist and advocacy work, and working on a memoir.

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Protection spell for your feline friends! Like to charge, reblog to cast.

⭐️ Let’s protect all the kitties! ⭐️

Just as you found this post, may you find money flowing effortlessly into your life from henceforward.

Blessed are you who read this. Manifest the receiving an abundance of money now. As the universe has been good to you, be good to another. Bless a friend and bless a stranger.

Reblog to cast and pass the blessing!

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