Reblogged st-just
every time there's another post about how science is malebrained and the superior feminine way of understanding the world is via bullshit woo i like to imagine a 1920s misogynist nodding along thoughtfully whilst stroking his beard
Reblogged kvothbloodless
the other day in the sims I started building what I intended to be a cheap fuck motel and set the lot traits to “clothing optional” and “romantic” but then I changed my mind and started building a multistory botanical garden nightclub with an infinity pool on the roof and an alligator swimming in it and a huge performance space with a glass roof
anyway I sent my simself and friends to check it out and was testing the infinity pool’s functionality and then when I panned back to our sims I realized. that I had not changed the lot traits.
hello friends thanks for coming to my chill hangout
Reblogged tiberius-claudius-nero
NYT Connections puzzles suck cuz it will be something like "sit" "pop" "cap" "efficate" and the answer will be like WORDS USED TO MEAN TAKING A SHIT MINUS ONE LETTER
Reblogged tiberius-claudius-nero
immuno-deactivated20240319
in the United Kingdom, people eat a street food known as the ‘tesco meal deal’, often made up of a sandwich, a side, and a beverage. it is renowned for being a cheap and easy option for many. however the more adventurous palate can opt for the ‘greggs sausage roll’ for a truly local flavour…
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A most beautiful interaction I had on Grindr tonight
Reblogged arundolyn
Shower before poop, executed by troops / Poop before shower, you shall build the Great Tower
Reblogged dedalvs
Don't use Gemini or ChatGPT just use me, I can give you misinformation and I'll do a little dance
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In 2023, I did a survey of military contractors trying to target policymakers with ads on WMATA, Washington DC's public transit system. Since then, WMATA actually changed their rules to make it easier for military contractors to advertise. This has led to an absurd double standard: WMATA recently denied an ad from anti-war group World Beyond War on spurious grounds even while accepting massive numbers of pro-war ads from for-profit contractors.
Under the old rules, military contractor ads were in apparent violation of Guideline 14’s straightforward ban on ads “intended to influence public policy.” But under the new rules, government contractors are now exempt from Guideline 14 via a carveout for advertisers that are “offering goods and/or services to the government.” No such exemption was made for peace groups like World Beyond War, who typically take the opposite position of military contractors in debates over Pentagon policy. WMATA’s new rules gave military contractors other exemptions as well. Guideline 9 — the legally questionable rule that [World Beyond War] was accused of violating — now explicitly prohibits advertisers from taking a position on any “governmental action or inaction, other than offering goods and/or services to the government” [emphasis added]. In other words, for-profit advertisers with money at stake are now one of the only groups allowed to share their opinions on political issues surrounding military spending and acquisitions. The ACLU seems to regard WMATA’s “internal procedures” with skepticism, requesting a discovery process into [their] “development and meaning.” It’s easy to see why: if upheld, these new rules would effectively legalize for-profit advertising in favor of militarism while banning most non-profit advertising critical of militarism. There is also another reason to be skeptical of the new rules: WMATA does not seriously enforce them. In the year since its “internal procedures” document was released, WMATA has accepted multiple ad campaigns that are in clear violation of Guidelines 9 and 14.
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One of the city's busiest Metro stations is currently running ads from a company bragging that its software "achieve[d] the first-ever simulated air-to-air combat kill against another F-16 in a live flight test."
But when World Beyond War added the words "*Including in Venezuela" to their previously-accepted "Peace on Earth" advertisement, their proposal was denied. From their statement:
Reblogged excusemebutiquit
I can see people’s auras but I don’t believe in that stuff so I just ignore it
From the article:
“If you look only at the trend of species declines, it would be easy to think that we’re failing to protect biodiversity, but you would not be looking at the full picture,” said Penny Langhammer, lead author of the study and Executive Vice President of Re:wild. “What we show with this paper is that conservation is, in fact, working to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. It is clear that conservation must be prioritized and receive significant additional resources and political support globally, while we simultaneously address the systemic drivers of biodiversity loss, such as unsustainable consumption and production.”
This massive meta analysis (for those not familiar, a study analyzing the results of many studies on similar topics) found that the vast majority of conservation efforts show much much better results than doing nothing. In many cases, biodiversity loss was not only stopped but reversed.
This shows that conservation efforts really work and money invested is put to very good use. Legally protecting endangered species really works, restoring habitat really works, removing invasive species really works, returning land to Indigenous communities works. All of the blood, sweat, and tears being poured into protecting the natural world has been making a real, big, tangible, difference on a global scale.
Reblogged lastvalyrian
The standoff with agents happened on Jan. 8, one day after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis. Wooten’s refusal to comply with ICE was captured on video and posted to Facebook.
The agents tried everything to intimidate the guard.
“You can’t come back here, bro,” Wooten can be heard in the video saying to an agent wearing a mask and sunglasses. “I’m talking to your manager,” the agent said. Wooten responded: “No, you’re talking to security, I’m in charge.”
ICE left empty-handed. Wooten said he just stood his ground, “10 toes down.”
“I was doing my job like I’m supposed to,’’ Wooten said. “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. I just want to make my family safe because I’ve been here three years.”
Source: facebook.com
Direct link to video. You don't need a facebook account to watch, just click cancel on the login popup and it'll start playing.
Reblogged notgreengardens
Some of you think of Cops as kind of a symbolic figure representing "telling you what to do" & you're Posting things like "acab includes fandom discourse" and I thuink the 80% white website needs to remember the reason why we hate cops is because they kill people
We hate cops because they're a weapon for enforcing the state's interests through violence. Like, they kill & imprison people. The antis don't have a Quite Literal boot on your neck please god log off or talk to a Black person or something
To be SO fair like really generous there is something to be said for unlearning the habit of figuratively "policing" other people especially in the context of, like, not being a fucking snitch, "kill the cop in your head" etc etc, but can we not completely lose the plot re: what cops Are
Reblogged arundolyn
this is a message to all babytrans. you may come across a subreddit or maybe even a 4chan board that is made up entirely of the most miserable trans people you’ve ever met. they have their own lingo borrowed straight from incel communities. but instead of being an incel where cishet men tell each other that women will never want to fuck them because of 2 mm of browbone, it’s trans women telling each other that they will never be a woman because of 2 mm of browbone. it’s trans men calling other trans men pooners for having a round face instead of a chiseled gigachad jawline. but they swear it’s not a toxic community because they’re all hiding under several layers of irony, so you can never really tell if someone is being serious. and it’s very important that you never visit these forums, even out of morbid curiosity
since this post is making rounds i feel like resharing this for no reason in particular
Reblogged st-just
Federal investigators assigned to the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman are looking into her possible connections to activist groups protesting the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement, in addition to the actions of the federal agent who killed her, people familiar with the situation said. [...] The decision by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department to scrutinize Ms. Good’s activities and her potential connections to local activists is in line with the White House’s strategy of deflecting blame for the shooting away from federal law enforcement and toward opponents they have described as domestic terrorists, often without providing evidence. [...] But even though investigators have not made public a specific allegation that anyone aside from Ms. Good and her wife were involved in an encounter with federal agents that day, the Justice Department is still planning to examine a wide group of activists who took part in the neighborhood watch activities, believing they were “instigators” of the shooting, the people familiar with the inquiry said.