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This reminds me of recent discourse on booktok where a smut author/influencer/reader was saying the classics are inaccessible and then, as a white woman, used POC and poor people as human shields to defend why she shouldn't have to read ANYTHING but fairy smut and Colleen Hoover. She was very quickly clapped back with "I was in an underserved underfunded district all we had was the classics" "theres libraries" and "do you think Black kids aren't capable of reading or understanding classics?" And then she doubled down about how the average literacy in the USA is at a 6th grade level. And then she got FURTHER clapped back at for the fact that a lot of the classics are at 6th and 7th grade levels AND we have tools like sparknotes, internet dictionaries, and how kindles even have a built in dictionary and how most classics are available for free in both MOBI and PDF format AND in print at most libraries (school, public, etc)
what is HAPPENING
The organs will be donated, the brain will go to TBI research, and the scraps will be sent for composting/green burial. It's all in my advanced directive.
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- Earthy Mama
All of this! I love natural materials; they last beautifully, are easy to mend on your own, and don't look dingy after 3 washes. The only real problem is you must learn how to do laundry properly rather than dump all of your clothes together into the washer with 2 tide pods and then blast them with the dryer 1-3 times. Like... A waxed cotton canvas barn coat is significantly warmer than my polyester polyfill jackets on drippy dark hikes, wool & cotton socks don't give me blisters, silk (actual silk, not nylon and elastane) stockings don't give me rashes on the backs of my thighs. Natural materials are your friends!
Idk exactly how to explain this but the softness of real wool and real linen is very different from the artificial softness of polyester “sherpa”, fuzzy faux-fur, spongey acrylic knits and people have gotten too used to the soft plastics and now associate wool with “itchy” and linen with rough and cotton with “too heavy” and then go and wear 100% polyester fleecy sweatshirts and say it’s so warm and cozy but actually they’re just staticky cooking in their sweat locked inside a plastic membrane and you are paying too much to be wearing filaments of petroleum products and the money isn’t going to the people sewing them either. I’m saying you all need to touch grass and the grass in this situation is good quality textiles made of natural fibres.
Fashion Ins and Outs for 2025
In:
Vintage Furs/ Genuine Fur
Real Leather
Cottons, Linen, Hemp fabrics
Wool, Hair, & Silk
Woven rather than treated stretch factors
Feather and Down stuffed products
Buy Once Clothing
Quality
Well Fitted and chosen undergarments
beeswax lanolin and non-petroleum/silicone based waterproofing waxes
Out:
Faux Fur
Imitation Leather
Polyester, Acrylic, and Spandex based fabrics
Polyfill in bedding and garments
Green Washed fabrics like Bamboo & Viscose
Petroleum-based products
Wasteful Microtrends and Shien hauls
Quantity
Skipping Underlayers/ Poorly fitted undergarments
synthetic waterproofing treatments and materials
Alabama coat dress in pink shimmer tweed~
Suzannah London
X turned against him, the daddy Musk cybertruck tesla boys are realizing his cars can't do shit, and no woman will touch him anymore, and he's the most blatantly bitter divorced loser in pop culture. While also being terminally online and trying to buy the country. Of course he's hanging with incels and edgelords.
why is musk back on 4chan. Even *I’m* not back on 4chan.
Rick and Morty, COD, & Minecraft. The people I date always seem shocked because the rest of the media I consume "lines up" with me being into them, I've tried, and never managed.
fuck everything. whats the media people ASSUME youre into. what are people surprised that you havent watched/played/whatever
That's because the race wars don't harm the rulling class like a class war does, and the state and its agents are not here for the common man but for the corporate oligarchs that run its campaign donations.
They got an alleged killer of 1 guy in fucking time prison with all the kings horses and all the kings men gaurding him and dudes with rifles pointed at him as if he has super strength and can fly away but a school shooter gets arrested and they take him out for burger king
And the sudoku and the little sweet treat just before bed. And actually turning down the bed. And closing down the house at the end of the day, and also soup.
you can make fun of old people all you want but then you'll be knitting with a good album on and a cup of tea and you'll be like this is excellent actually. the old ladies were right about this one. about the crosswords too, by the way
Ladies and Gentlemen, now is an excellent time to study up on historic Class struggles, the Pinkertons, and Mining Uprisings in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Haymarket affair is a great starting point. They'll bring this back in full force. It's also time for the left to start carrying again.
Having grown up next to a very real sundown town, and having dealt with these people for 20+ years as a result of it, after about age 12 or 13, most people who can be "saved" from that ideology start saving themselves because they recognize it's fucked. The ones who can't be saved start justifying and rationalizing it, first in their own heads, then outloud to others. Having watched Klan marches while just trying to go to the dentist, having been spat on for being a "race traitor" having had to physically defend friends from attempted hate crimes, having had to help put out a burning cross on a friend's yard, fuck the mentality that we have to coddle them. The ones who need coddling still hold those same ideologies. The ones who have truly reformed don't ask for forgiveness, just to be allowed to fight back alongside us, and they shut the fuck up, keep their heads down, and sure as shit don't glorify their old ideology or try to dismiss it as "haha I was so quirky when I had that little Nazi phase" they are genuinely remorseful, accept how bad the shit they did was, don't play it off, and work their asses off to dismantle the groups they were in.
There is something revealing here and in other notes of that post. I'm trying to put my finger on it...it's as if there is an acceptance that White Supremacy, while wrong, is a privilege people are allowed to indulge in, and so other people need to endlessly be patient and rehabilitate them. Like it's a White Right, like of course they get to explore their evil legacy a bit, in order to discover it's wrong. And/or that fascism/white supremacy/ideological racism is something anyone could fall "victim" to if they were exposed to the same "magical" radicalization material, and not that people who "fall into" hate groups already have a fundamental world view that is precedent...they start from a place where the natural logical progression is an all powerful ethno-state.
It's also revealing that a hypothetical reformed neo-nazi must needs constant validation and forgiveness lest they fall back. Presumably someone who has exited a hate group like this, truly reformed, would not seek validation, they would have the wherewithal. They would self-actualize, and understand why. But it's revealing isn't, that they can forgive a "nazi phase" because the risk is that they could return to a "nazi phase"...so what are these people imagining they are forgiving? They aren't imagining forgiveness, they are imagining some sort of mutual sycophantic theater where politics is just...the posts you make on the internet I guess. Idk, lots to think of here. I don't think these people have met real creeps, the kind that make your skin prickle. I don't think these people have engaged at any level what neo-nazi material looks like.
The best breeders I know do 5 things:
1. Deworm and get Veterinarian Administered Vaccines for their puppies
2. Health Test all of their dogs both genetically and through programs like PennHip or OFA and have standards from these organizations they expect their breeding stock to meet (Good -> Excellent for OFAs generally)
3. Do tons of early neurological stimulation for their puppies and are working with their puppies daily from the time they are born
4. Include anti-breeding contracts on their produced dogs that are "Pet" quality, and have very strict breeding contracts for their dogs of greater than pet quality (usually enforced via co-ownership) BUT may not specify Spay/Neuter in their contracts. I'm staunchly against early spay neuter as someone who works in rehabilitation and general practice because I see the long term effects of early spay neuter on the daily. They also tend to leave spay neuter in their contracts to the best judgement of the dog's primary DVM.
In the practice where I'm employed, we don't sterilize earlier than 6 months unless there are extenuating circumstances. We were also one of the first clinics in the area to adopt Balance.it fresh food feeding programs and recipes, the first to refuse convenience euthanasia (we still do B.Es), and the first to refuse the declawing of cats.
We've also limited our crop and dock procedures. We've done 10 medically necessary docks in the decade I've worked here all of which were due to injury, mutilation, or disease processes. With 3 ear amputations due to tumors or significant injury. We also refer our cosmetic crops to another doctor for clients who would otherwise get backyard crop jobs.
Your breeder should not be pushing against core vaccines and monthly preventatives. They also absolutely should not be pushing against BOAS surgeries, especially on pet dogs (and a lot of the breeders I know who push against BOAS are the ones whose dogs got them anyway.)
why do breeders push against vaccines and spay/neuter? ive never understood this
The cynical answer, that i think is the truth deep under the anti-vax rhetoric, is that it's a way to save money and excuse the fact that they are selling puppies that have never been vaccinated or dewormed, despite being 8 to 12 weeks old. Exams and age appropriate shots and dewormers eat into their profit margin. Maligning these and building distrust of veterinary staff helps hide their shitty breeding practices, and gives them a somewhat captive consumer population for the homeopathic bullshit and supplements many of them also sell. And quite a few will say that if you get them these vaccines or dewormers that it will make them *more* prone to getting the disease or conditions like epilepsy. This tells me that that have parvo on their property and shitty genetic lines.
Some breeders may truly believe all their bullshit, but the person they learned the bullshit from? Knows it was bullshit and just wanted more money and control.
*EDIT* missed the s/n part, but that goes back in to building distrust of vets to keep control over their customers along with not understanding the studies.
And it's also a great way to excuse shitty hips or elbows if you can blame early spay/neuter.
State of the art Equine rehabilitation facility... maybe buy myself a Thoroughbred colt with the dream breeding
what super expensive indulgence would u get for urself if u suddenly came into a bunch of money?? assume all bills/mortgages paid, all friends helped: what treat are u buying just for u?? for me it would be a quilted lambskin chanel bag in iridescent pink
America be like "you cant have free healthcare or easy access to disability but you can have a gun"
Night Train (1959), dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz
You can literally feel what makes you sicker and you can keep choosing it out of obligation and familiarity or you can slow down and ask yourself if you truly think you can survive it and if surviving is all you wanted to do
And then you start to understand what people meant when they say you can't help anyone else if you can't help yourself
I call it The Truck Stop Swipe.
There is a way of washing your body where you stand use just a damp wash cloth to clean yourself, and you don’t stand under water or in a bath. Do you call this a:
- top and tail
- pta/ pits tits ass
- dry bath
- other (put in tags pls)
- never heard of this
push back against the idea that 4B is “terfy” please. i guarantee that that will be the left’s excuse for opposing it, even if the real reason they hate it is that they are just as addicted to male supremacy as the right.
I'm all for 4B, and will be joining Y'all if BoyToy and I split, but I'm also not seeing myself joining yall as anything more than an ally and supporter of what 4B is doing any time soon.
Are you 4b? Considering it? Not interested? (4b is Not dating men, marrying them, or having children? And when did you start?
Yes, my whole life naturally
Yes, a while ago as a result of learning about radical feminism
Yes, as of this election
No, opposed to the idea
No, I already had kids and was married before learning about it
No, I already had a boyfriend and don’t want to break up with him
-🐌
I opted for the paragard IUD. It's hormone free, and as long as you don't have a copper allergy, it's a great option that lasts for 10 years. If you've had negative physical or psychiatric reactions to hormonal birth control options, Paragard is the way to go.
I love you planned parenthood 💖
If you have a republican senator, work the church angle HARD work hunting, conservation, and gun clubs HARD idc if you don't value those things, those are the things a republican senator will LISTEN to
Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.
Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.
I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅
Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.
