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BREAKING: 21-year-old protester, Kaden Rummler, was shot point-blank in the face by ICE. he just spoke about how he’s blind for life and almost died:
“I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can’t fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.”
What the hell is wrong with these people?
GoFundMe for Kaden Rummler, the young trans man blinded by ICE agents this week.
Fundraiser for K R by Sarah Gallimore : Help ICE Protestor After being shot by Feds
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forget cannibalism it bums me out that i will probably never be able to ethically eat like, a flamingo
Penguin flippers, Kiwi breast, elephant trunk steak, that kind of stuff?
you jest but now I’m genuinely curious what penguin meat would taste like under all that blubber. would it retain any “bird” flavor or would it be more similar to marine mammals??? i don’t actually want to eat a penguin to be clear, you’ve simply sparked my curiosity
My grandfather reported that they taste like fishy rubber boiled in motor oil. So bad that he only tried it once despite being on a ship in the Antarctic ocean for months on end. 1940s dry rations were preferable to fresh penguin.
Ok so I tried something similar today during work.
Pretty much most marine birds who mainly have fish in their diet taste pretty similar.
I tried a number of auk species (those include things like puffins, little auks, guillemots, razorbills ect.) And when boiled they both smell and taste kind of like wet Catfood and have dark meat.
Pretty gross and not reccomedable.
I could imagine its fair to assume penguin meat will not taste much different, though I can’t give first hand accounts.
BUT i live in a place where people used to hunt and eat young gulls and they supposedly tasted good ( biggest lie ive ever heard).
I think with most of these marine bird species you really only eat them when you NEED to or go through a longer process of trying to get rid of the fishy taste by keeping them in milk baths or vinegar.
The joy of cooking has a similar suggestion for eating varmints who tend to eat garbage, such as opossums: Keep them alive for a week or so, feeding them oats, cereals, and honey.
Can confirm, makes for tastier varmint
THE JOY OF COOKING????
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ALTopossums and beavers and bears, oh my!
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elon musk did a nazi salute twice at the inauguration, and republicans are defending him.
trump revoked executive order 11246, which prohibited discrimination.
trump put all dei employees on leave to be fired.
trump blamed the dc plane crash on dei.
trump banned all lgbtq+ flags from being hung in government buildings.
trump ordered the pentagon to cancel celebration of mlk jr. day, black history month, women’s history month, holocaust remembrance day, asian american pacific islander heritage month, lgbtq+ pride month, juneteenth, women’s equality day, national hispanic heritage month, national disability employment awarenessmonth, and national american indian heritage month.
trump proposed removing all palestinians from gaza, turning the area into a vacation resort called “riviera of the middle east”.
trump posted an ai generated video showing what he hopes to turn palestine into, with a large golden statue of himself in the middle of it.
trump rolled back biden’s executive order to lower prescription drug costs for people using medicare and medicaid.
trump is attempting to ban tylenol for pregnant people because he’s convinced acetaminophen, a word he can’t even pronounce, causes autism and adhd. tylenol is the only safe and approved pain medication for pregnancy. he would rather pregnant people suffer than have autism and adhd.
trump rescinded the $35 cap on insulin, and prices are expected to rise to $1500 a month.
trump ordered the national institutes of health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.
trump ended the guidelines to prevent ai misuse. the guidelines prevent many things, but notably it prevents production of ai child pornography.
when sean hannity asked trump about the economy, he said “i don’t care”, after campaigning with the economy as his main talking point.
trump has withdrawn the us from the world health organization.
trump is ordering health agencies to stop reporting on bird flu and halt publications of scientific reports.
trump’s epa is reversing the ban on asbestos, which causes deadly and rapidly-spreading cancer if exposed.
trump has pardoned over 1500 people who stormed the capitol on january 6th.
trump is refusing to swear in adelita grijalva, who promised to release the epstein files.
trump changed denali back to mount mckinley.
trump signed an executive order to rename the gulf of mexico to gulf of america.
trump shut down cbp one, an app which granted legal entry to 1 million+ immigrants.
trump has discussed introducing a “gold card”, which would allow the wealthiest people to buy us citizenship for $5 million usd.
trump is allowing ice raids at churches and elementary schools.
trump announced plans to declare a national emergency at the us-mexico border.
trump signed an executive order to expand the use of the death penalty.
trump is considering freeing diddy.
trump disbanded the school safety board that works to prevent school shootings. it was comprised of survivors, educators, and gun violence prevention advocates and formed after the school shooting in parkland.
trump has threatened to invade panama to claim the panama canal.
trump withdrew from the paris climate act.
trump revoked all protections for transgender troops in the us military.
trump rescinded executive orders made by biden that benefited and protected women, lgbtq+ people, black americans, hispanic americans, asian americans, native hawaiians, and pacific islanders.
trump bombed iran 3 times without congressional approval.
trump is attempting to make it legal to refuse to hire or fire pregnant women.
trump pardoned 23 individuals convicted under the freedom of access to clinic entrances (FACE) act for their anti-abortion activism, including oftentimes violent protests at abortion clinics.
trump signed an executive order allowing deportation of foreign students who they believe express support for hamas or hezbollah.
trump announced that the us government will from here on out only recognize male and female as sexes. intersex is not legally recognized anymore.
trump is shutting down the lgbtq+ youth suicide hotline in july.
trump has told all schools and universities that they have two weeks to end all diversity initiatives, or he will cut federal funding. (as of feb 19, 2025)
trump told harvard to stop accepting immigrant students.
trump fired the staff of the federal aviation association after a deadly plane crash in dc.
trump has fired the heads of the tsa and coast guard, and gutted a key aviation safety advisory committee.
trump denied disaster relief funding for north carolina after tropical storm helene.
when asked about the epstein files by a female reporter, trump leaned in and said, “quiet, piggy.”
a newly released epstein document includes a letter that jeffrey wrote to larry nassar, alleging that donald trump “shares [their] love of young nubile girls.”
in georgia, a black woman named adriana smith is being kept alive on ventilators because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she died. she is legally brain dead. this was an exact plot in multiple episodes of the handmaid’s tale.
ice agents in minneapolis threw tear gas into the car of a family who had three children, including an 11-year-old autistic son and a 6-month-old baby. the baby stopped breathing and had to be rushed to the hospital. the family were not protesters, and they are u.s. citizens.
the state of louisiana just rolled back desegregation laws because of a petition from the department of justice.
the trump administration removed the federal government’s memorial to victims of gun violence. they took down 120 portraits of dead americans, including police officers and children.
the supreme court weakened the clean water act’s limitations on raw sewage discharge into our water in a 5-4 ruling.
the official white house twitter account posted an “illegal alien deportation” asmr video where they did closeups of chains and the sound of ankle chains hitting the metal stairs of the airplanes deportees were being loaded onto.
on truth social, trump posted, “LONG LIVE THE KING!”.
at CPAC, a republican group called the “third term project” held a rally to support changing the constitution so trump can run for a third term. on their posters, they’re photoshopping his face onto julius caesar’s, seemingly forgetting what happened to julius caesar.
the trump administration paused health communications to prevent the fda from announcing food recalls.
the trump administration will not renew biden-era grants worth $1 billion that were aimed at boosting mental health services in schools.
the u.s. has surpassed 1,000 measles cases for the first time in five years, with 96% involving unvaccinated individuals or those with unknown vaccination status. rfk jr. has repeatedly claimed that measles can be treated with vitamin a.
republicans on tiktok are recreating elon’s salute to prove that it “wasn’t a nazi salute”, and they’re either doing it completely wrong because they know if they replicate it then it will actually be a salute, or they’re doing the proper salute and posting it online.
google and apple maps now display the gulf of mexico as “gulf of america”.
rfk jr. wants to ban SSRIs and put everyone on them into labor camps.
rfk jr. is now claiming that tylenol during pregnancy and circumcision both cause autism.
multiple state legislators are drafting bills to allow the punishment for abortion to be the death penalty.
andy ogles drafted a constitutional amendment to allow trump to be president for a third term.
the us senate confirmed russell vought, one of the main authors of project 2025, will lead the white house budget office.
nancy mace repeatedly used the t-slur during a congressional meeting, three times were out of spite.
andy biggs introduced a bill to abolish osha and completely eliminate federal workplace safety protections.
georgia republican congressman mike collins called for the deportation of new jersey born mariann budde, the bishop who urged trump to “have mercy” on the lgbtq+ community and immigrants during a service at the national cathedral.
florida republican anna paulina luna has introduced a bill to add trump to mount rushmore.
new york republican claudia tenney introduced a bill to make trump’s birthday a federal holiday.
west virginia republican delegate lisa white has introduced house bill 2712, which would remove rape and incest as exceptions for abortion, even for minors. you can call her at (304) 340- 3274 or email her at [email protected] and let her know your opinion on that.
there is a bill named the SAVE act which would require americans to provide their birth certificate, passport, or other citizenship documents every time they vote, and would require the last name on their driver’s license to match that of their birth certificate. this would prevent married women who have changed their last name from voting.
the u.s. government is considering suspending habeas corpus, which protects people from unlawful detention and ensures you receive due process.
bill h.r.1161, which is available publicly on congress.gov, would authorize trump to enter into negotiations to acquire greenland and to rename it to “red, white, and blueland”.
six states (arizona, idaho, iowa, kansas, mississippi, and north dakota) are planning on challenging obergefell v. hodges, which would end same-sex marriage nationwide. about a dozen more states have representatives are also considering filing similar resolutions.
a bill to ban the mRNA vaccine has passed out of the house committee.
amazon revoked protections for lgbtq+ and black employees.
the cdc has removed their hiv prevention page.
the cdc has cut back their foodnet program, which is required to surveil foodborne pathogens. this could leave the country more vulnerable to foodborne illness outbreaks.
the united states state department has officially changed its “travelers with special conditions” page which previously said “lgbtqi+ travelers” to “lgb travelers”, completely getting rid of the tqi+.
every single republican told us we were overreacting. trump swore he had nothing to do with project 2025 yet continues implementing details outlined in it. not a single person has the right to tell us we’re being dramatic anymore.
hope “cheaper eggs and gas” was worth it.
EDIT: i removed the “trump refused to swear on the bible” point because it was being taken as me being an offended christian. i’m not christian, im agnostic. the reason i included it in the first place is because he’s the first president in history to ever refuse to swear on ANYTHING. meanwhile his “conservative christian” followers had no issue with this, and decided to continue to scramble for excuses instead of admitting he may not be as religious as he claims he is. i figured taking that point out entirely is probably better than filling this with an explanation in the middle of the other important issues.
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Sadly, this is AI:
- branches on the left flicker in and out of existence
- cat runs in deep snow but somehow is able to jump really high between leaps, more dog-like than cat-like
- cat face-plants in the snow instead of hiding/burrowing in it, which is not normal behaviour (no play-hunt behaviour at least)
- snow clings very cleanly around its face instead of clumping unevenly
- cat’s whiskers seem to disappear/reappear at some point
- cat is completely dry, even though he’s coming from the middle of nowhere (meaning he supposedly was in the snow for a while)
- cat’s pupils don’t change size even though the cat seems to change its focus from close object (camera) to far object (looking in the distance)
- the zooming in doesn’t make the picture less detailed, it makes the details even sharper, which means there’s no loss of pixels like you have on every phone camera, and the video ratio indicates that this would be filmed on a phone
- the background blur is not a normal blur: the elements are detailed, but weirdly smoothed out. This is AI blur
- the snow lifted off by the cat running actually doesn’t go anywhere; the snow on the ground stays un-disturbed and smooth, the clumps of snow are projected in the air but they never land, they just disappear
- speaking of the snow, the cat’s leaps don’t leave any hole in the ground, even though, as we see later on, the camera is capable of a lot of detail
- the music is completely generic but matches exactly the moment when the cat’s head pops out of the snow. It’s really atypical of tiktok and tiktok-like videos (if unknown music, no match with the video; if movement matches the music, the music is generally widely known, because this is how people think of stuff). My guess is the music was generated alongside this video
I think it’s very important to get off the high horse of “I CALLED IT! People who are falling for these videos are IDIOTS!! It’s OBIVOUS to ANYBODY PAYING ATTENTION!!” It’s actually not obvious, and it’s less and less so. People are not idiots; they’re reacting in good faith to harmless content, because this is what being a person is.
The more we go on, the more we have to be wary of not only visual details, but behavioral details as well, because AI is becoming really difficult to spot. There’s a dude on tiktok who does this admirably (Jeremy Carrasco on @showtoolsai, check him out), pulling apart details that help out tremendously, as:
- if it’s an animal video: is the behavior consistent with what that animal would do? Does it move as it should? A lot of AI “running animal” videos are trained on dog videos, so you can find dog-like behavior in animals that shouldn’t display it
- where does the light source come from?
- what is the frame ratio? Does it make sense with the ratios you might find on a real camera or a phone, or does it look cropped? Is it a home-like video but with a cinema-like framing? Is it an all-around weird ratio, that could be explained by someone cropping an AI logo out of the video?
- who’s filming, what’s the setup, does it look planned? Is it really abnormal that this was captured on camera?
- is it a trend currently (for example: white women filming themselves crying while trekking because they were unprepared was a trend a few months ago)? Is it particulary infuriating? Is it particularly cute?
- most importantly: who’s the owner of the video? What account is posting this? Do they post AI a lot? Do they post random videos that aren’t their own? Can you find where the video originated from? Is anyone credited?
These are not foolproof, but they help a lot. I’ve gotten got several times, but these reflexes helped me so much.
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i promise the map of salamander diversity is not what you expect
Appalachia numero uno salamander capital of the world baby <3 there are like 70 something species in North Carolina alone
Basically its cause they evolved here!
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hey it’s ok if you lost your ai virginity back when you were uneducated. a lot of posts go like “reblog if you have never ever used generative ai and never ever will!!!” but it’s ok if you have used gen ai before and it’s even ok if you used to think it was cool, back before you understood what it really was and how it worked, either because no one had taught you about it and you discovered it on your own or because the only education you had received about it was from the tech bros. you’re not a burger with a bite out of it for having used ai. ok
It is 100 percent okay to stop using it today and join the “boo AI” club.
This isn’t a purity thing. This is a “everyone stand with us against destroying the environment and giving asthma to poor people” thing.
Did you know that when one community says no to an AI data center, they specifically search out communities with fewer resources? Communities that can’t defend themselves? And the pollution 100 percent affects their health and wellbeing, in addition to burning through our already scarce drinking water.
You can stop using character.ai today. You can say “I listened to the facts and stopped.” And another thing: don’t you think it’s a bit more impactful to have used it, stopped, and then you’re in a position to say how little it helped? How doing things for yourself improved your life?
also posts in the spirit of “if you’ve used AI even ONCE your soul is tainted!!!!” can’t be great to those with OCD
So true. People Gold Star Lesbianning ai makes me so tired.
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hewasmadeofthegalaxy-deactivate:
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Nothing shuts down a bougie conversation like “well, when I was homeless—” Nothing. It’s one and done. They are fucking taken out. The conversation is dead. Done.
“there’s enough charities in place to help our homeless population”
Well I was turned away from every single one in the area because I was a non Christian trans person. Not that there were many I could make the walk to, to be fair.
“if someone is homeless, they can just forage for food! Probably eating healthier than we are har har har!”
I was homeless in winter. And yeah, sure, I knew how to use pine needles to make tea and boil bark but. Come on. You think every homeless person has that fucking knowledge or resources? And I was homeless on a mountain. What about people who are homeless in cities? What are they going to forage? Gravel? And what about areas where foraging is illegal? You want them to get arrested? In a police state like this?
“well as long as they don’t get into trouble, there won’t be trouble!”
You make laws criminalizing their existence. The “trouble” they make is surviving. I got the cops called on me because I went for a walk. I had a stick I was using to help me walk because I have a limp and couldn’t afford a cane. A fucking white couple saw me and called the cops and told them I was walking “with a rifle” and was “very threatening”. I got DAMNED lucky that a Light horseman found me first and told me what happened. Laughed a little. Told me not to worry about it, he’d call it in as bogus, and have a talk with the couple. But again. I was lucky. If that had been a state cop and not a rez one, I could have been fucking shot. For walking.
Honestly, if you are not for the liberation of homeless people, if you are not for decriminalizing homelessness and all aspects of it, if you say things like, “now I support those people, but I wish I didn’t have to see it, because it makes me uncomfy,” you have swallowed the propaganda pill. Congrats. You were not immune to it and now you are sick with it.
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Reishi farmin’
It’s the Mush Room
this is where u wake up to get judged when u die
Interdimensional House of Pancakes
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Hey. Heyhey. Do me a favor real quick.
If you don’t already know you have issues doing so, squat down real quick. Bend your knees all the way and touch the floor. Just make sure you can do it. Okay? For me? And then stand up all the way and make sure you can balance on one foot.
Like. You don’t need to blow it into some huge thing. Just. Make sure all your bits and peices still work the way you think they do.
Can you turn your head to look behind you without twisting your shoulders? What about standing on your toes? If you sit down on the floor can you get back up without using your hands?
If there was ever a tumblr post worth sending to your mom, it’s this one.
Just saying, bodies are a use it or lose it kinda thing.
okay so every time I see this post crop back up in queues and notifications I end up thinking about it. Because I made the post and even I’m still doing the thing where I read the post about maintaining range of motion in my delicate meatsuit and I nod and hmm and think yeah that’s a good idea and then dont move from where I’m curled up shrimp style staring at the nightmare rectangle.
So like. Thinking real hard about moving doesn’t count as moving. Major bummer. Anyways. Joints.
@fucking-relax helps a lot with this tbh
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Hi! I live in Seattle, WA, am a ace, she/her pronouns, and belong to far too many fandoms. Enjoy.
