i finished it a while ago and only just got around to taking some pics but here is my finished crochet caterpillar in all her glory. gaze upon it

this is the dumbest set of money saving tips i’ve seen in a hot minute and im genuinely too busy banging my head against the wall to explain why

oh you’re poor? why don’t you try just not having anything

love that they casually crossed out recycling bin, like yeah just don’t recycle aha /s

Daily Adoptable Dino!

[Judgement intensifies]

Ok real quick PSA regarding the smoke in New England/Southwest Canada (from someone who lives in California)

For those who don’t know, standard surgical masks (the kind most people use for covid) will not protect you from smoke. They aren’t made to filter particles that small. Please check and make sure your masks have an N95 rating or higher if you’re trying to protect yourself from smoke in the air, especially if you have respiratory problems.

You can get them at hardware stores and they usually look like this:

hi, just an fyi for those that don’t know: quite a bit of canada is burning— especially the east coast!!

over 400 fires are currently active across the country! as i’m sure you’ve all seen, this doesn’t just affect us here in canada, but also neighbouring countries.

while there isn’t much we can personally do to put an end to the fires right now, we can all try and help those in need! if you are able to, please donate to help those who have been displaced by the fires and have lost everything they have (link below)

if you are unable to donate, please share and spread the word!!

If you are on the East Coast and trying to figure out what all of these air quality warnings mean and what you should do, here is what the colors and corresponding AQI numbers mean. The updated AirNow map is at this link:

Edit: this was posted at 10:50am on June 6 2023 and the screenshots were taken around 9am.

Americans not giving a shit about the wildfires burning down forests and homes in Canada until smoke starts spreading across the border. Meanwhile Indigenous communities across the country are far more likely to be impacted by the fires and I’ve seen all of one link to a charity and about nine million memes. 🙃

Yeah, we're just over here in America twiddling our fucking thumbs. As a Native American, I can tell you that this land has a lot on its fucking plate. We are currently in the middle of an attempted genocide on trans people, increasing food prices, our president trying to put a new oil pipeline through one of our states bordering your backyard, and our own climate disasters. Oh, and the fact that we've been fighting against police brutality on a massive scale and now we're getting a 60 million compound to train police in the middle of a forest on land that I and other indigenous people have not given up on. They're just murdering people, just murdering my people, my neighbors, my family. So don't come to me with this bullshit about how Americans don't take global issues seriously enough. We don't have the fucking capacity because they're literally murdering us.

And here in California... We're having terrible wildfires every summer because the State took away indigenous rights to preserve our forests, so welcome to the fucking neighborhood? I've been seeing people reblog all kinds of box fan creations that we came up with years ago when the wildfires really started.

The things that are hurting you right now are only taking a break from hurting us, we live under the same fucking sky, we deal with the same droughts, nature doesn't know the difference between you and me.

We're both connected to the land, we're no different than you. If you're seeing a bunch of Americans be glib, unfollow some people. Figure out a way to follow people that don't make you feel like they don't give a shit about you I guess.

Elon Musk: the most dangerous Antisemite

Hey non-Jewish leftists and progressives who consider yourselves allies to Jews or, at a minimum, not antisemitic: now is an exceptionally great time to step up

This is shockingly similar to Henry Ford — i.e. an automotive mogul seen as an innovator in the general public uses his fortune and outsized influence to establish a large media presence and spread antisemitism.

There are some important distinctions, but nothing that makes me feel better about the situation.

1. At its height, Henry Ford’s publication, “The Dearborn Independent,” had a circulation of 900,000. The largest circulation in America at the time was 950,000.

2. Ford marketed explicit antisemitism, which eventually led to the downfall of his publication — you’ve probably heard of “The international Jew” and “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

3. Ford was eventually forced to publicly apologize after he made the mistake of attacking Jewish attorney Aaron Sapiro for more than a year, until Sapiro eventually sued Ford for libel (i.e. he fucked around and found out lol). Ford eventually lost the case and was forced to publicly apologize (his apology was written by associates and his signature on it was reportedly forged). The magazine was shut down soon afterwards.

Despite everything, Ford was able to secure his position in history, albeit with some, um, unfortunate footnotes and the occasional caveat being mentioned.*

All in all, this feels very similar to Trump copying David Duke’s run for the Louisiana legislature, but that’s a story for a different day.

* some additional footnotes and caveats:

- Hitler quoted Ford in his infamous book

- Ford was a notorious union buster

- Ford received the Grand Cross of the German Eagle in 1938, the highest honor a foreigner could receive from Nazi Germany, with personal congratulations from Hitler

- After issuing the aforementioned “public apology” in 1927, Ford said that he would like restart the publication of “The International Jew.” In 1940. 13 years later.

- It’s just my personal opinion, but we probably shouldn’t honor literal nazis, but whatever

- To this day, no one at my synagogue will buy a ford car. I don’t know if this is the norm in other places, but I imagine that it’s not uncommon.

- Yes, I’m aware that nobody explicitly praises Henry Ford anymore, and everybody knows what a shithole he was. While “Henry Ford hated the Jews” is a common refrain, specific knowledge of his hatred is lacking, and I think it’s important to point to explicit hatred in the past, because hatred is normally hidden nowadays and needs to be identified outside of the group receiving the hatred.

This is an incredibly important addition

The fake post game really elevated when people started putting fake dividers between them, but it kinda sucks that they never put placeholder text up top to get rid of the double pfp/username

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oh yeah and one at the bottom to make the real notes look natural would help too

When will I get to watch “Queer Love Actually”??? A comic I wrote over the holidays and only finished drawing this week (my patreon backers got it early). 

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No, don’t take HER picture, take MY picture.

“That sounds like a good idea…….”-“Is there something bothering you with the idea?”-“No, the idea is GOOD…..🙂”

Can someone explain this to me?

Old people use quotation marks to indicate emphasis, as a substitute for italics (which many of them could not produce on the old typewriters they learned to write on), whereas young people use them to indicate sarcasm or falseness. They’re used as “scare quotes”.

And old people use ellipses simply to indicate a pause, or for some other incomprehensible reason I’m not aware of. But young people use ellipses to indicate passive-aggression.

So an old person could type something like:

and what they mean is

But a young person would interpret that sentence as

The linguistic difference across generations is beautifully explained here thank you

"nothing matters so do what you love and be kind" is the single most viscerally impactful message i have ever gleaned from consuming media and i'm going to live every day with that kind of hopepunk nihilism for the rest of my life

Sluts

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Kill.

As you wish