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how come goyim will make 30k note posts about why not to use antisemitic memes but ignore the SEVERAL hate crimes that have been committed since chanukah started
If there was a way to run SUPER MEGA AD BLOCKER on this website I fucking would
No doctor will ever get my respect like the woman in the ER who checked me for claws and fangs because I told her I was turning into a werewolf and could feel it and let me know gently that she couldn’t find any but that didnt make it feel any less real, like THATS how you do it, other doctors who just flat out told me I was wrong take notes
Ok but real talk here, big, important question for everyone:
Why do you like but not reblog?
It feels like the bare minimum in fandom to reblog stuff you like. It’s the easiest way to support artists/writers and guarantee they do more of that same kind of thing.
I thought of some reasons people might not want to reblog and I’m going to debunk them:
Reblog = repost and reposts are evil!!!
Reblogs are different than reposts. As long as the original post came from the artist, the artist gets the credit for it and that’s what they want. REPOSTS are when you find a piece of art you like, save it to your computer, and later make your own post with it, and that’s not cool
Reblogging is too much effort!!
It really, really isn’t. On mobile? Press and hold the reblog button. The post has now been reblogged. On desktop? Hold the alt key and then click the reblog button. Off it goes, letting more people enjoy the beauty of the post you just enjoyed yourself!
I don’t want to tag things though
So then...don’t? Just reblog it with no tags. You want to tag it later, you can. You never want to tag things? Cool, neither do I most times!
I DO want to tag things but I feel like I’m bothering people
I guarantee you, 90% of the time, artists love tags. Even the keyboard smash tags. The ones they don’t love are the ones demanding more art/for the artist to do things in a specific way/to change the art to suit one specific viewer’s preferences.
If I reblog things a lot, it’ll annoy people!
If people are following you, it’s for your content. If it annoys them, they can unfollow you. That’s on them. If you mean it’ll annoy the ARTIST if you go in and reblog their whole art tag...wrong, false, no, definitely not, they might even make more art specifically for you if you do that. Especially if you tag with ‘I love this piece because...’ and then give a reason why you love it, that is the most encouraging thing.
Reblogging doesn’t fit my blog aesthetic.
Idk what to tell you here, you’re in control of your aesthetic. Make a side blog maybe, reblog there and leave your main ‘clean’. Or vice versa. No reblogs = a quickly dwindling supply of art that people are willing to post.
Reblogging is an important part of fandom/tumblr community in general. It encourages more people to make more content which means more things for you to do/see/read.
It’s part of the fandom ecosystem; we have content makers and we have content viewers. Without makers, we have no art. Without viewers, there’s no reason to post it online. If viewers are limited, people start reconsidering whether to bother posting their art online or just share it with their friends they know will give feedback.
Reblogs are how you contribute to the fandom. Try it.
There is no dial tone on a cell phone 😑
It’s that time of the year again :)
thanksgiving sucks go help some natives survive. help our families too.
mi’kmaq fishing sovereignty post: https://ysera.tumblr.com/post/632357902965932032
navajo/hopi covid relief fund: https://ysera.tumblr.com/post/631833415079133184
sovereign bodies/mmiw database fund: https://ysera.tumblr.com/post/631828874798497792
navajo water project: https://www.navajowaterproject.org/
more efforts and posts about indigeneity: https://ysera.tumblr.com/tagged/ndn/
This whole “trust Tumblr blindly” thing is eventually going to kill someone, as I became pointedly aware of on one occasion I was making fun of how poorly a particular bleach-based drain declogger was working on my sink and got a chorus of really dangerously misinformed people telling me to pour vinegar in after it because all cute little cool kid diy home care blogs they’re following talk about vinegar like it it’s the big secret the cleaning companies don’t want you to know.
And I cringed knowing that someday, some Well Actually expert who read a blog article once is going to give that advice to someone who unfortunately didn’t take high school chemistry and isn’t aware that MIXING VINEGAR AND BLEACH MAKES CHLORINE GAS.
Farewell online privacy
Deadpool’s instructive video may save your testicles
Hello welcome my ADHD themed gameshow, "So you were holding it literally moments ago but now it's gone" the where YOU look for whatever you were just holding while going increasingly mad
NOMAD ← I’M WITH NOMAD
Happy Valentine’s 2018 ♡♡♡ (Free Valentine’s Day card coming up soon: follow blog for more)
PETITION HERE
Santa is on strike due to global warming. All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger. Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.
Listen, I know it’s a B*zzfeed article, but if you listen closely you’ll hear the neglected screams of the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis community and all the researchers who fought for decades to get funding for this sort of thing, but because the illness got re-branded as “chronic fatigue syndrome” and WRONGLY classified as a purely psychological disorder, and not a complete autonomic nervous system collapse following a major event (trauma, prior viral illness etc), we’re both woefully behind and wholly unprepared for the mass disability event that is about to follow Covid-19 if steps aren’t taken Immediately to correct the guidelines being handed out by doctors to “long haul” Covid-19 patients when it comes to self care and long term recovery.
Jennifer Brea over on Twitter has been talking extensively about her experiences with having ME/CFS and then contracting Coronavirus on top of that (source). She also regularly boosts the experiences of others, and is one of the most forefront advocates for ME/CFS to be taken seriously by medical professionals worldwide, and her documentary www.unrest.film/ has been paramount to raising awareness to the neglect and medical abuse many people with chronic conditions face.
If you’re a “long haul” Covid-19 sufferer and you’re finding my blog because of the various chronic fatigue things I’ve posted over the years, I’m so sorry. We think I got it back in March/April, and while we also think my MCAS meds might have helped me recover better, it’s been a rough few months, even by my standards. But please know you are not alone. Reach out to the ME/CFS communities online. You’ll find support and resources that may help you affirm that you’re not alone or crazy and that yes, some of the things your doctors are recommending you to do, like “kick starting your recovery with exercise” is in fact making you worse. Many, many, many people with ME/CFS suffer from severe and debilitating exercise intolerance, especially if their ME/CFS comes with a side helping of POTS (Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome). My exercise intolerance is made doubly worse by suffering from a mast cell dysfunction (MCAS), which means if I exercise too hard or too much, I can trigger an episode of anaphylaxis and go into shock. Sounds bonkers I know, but as anyone with a chronic condition can tell you, the body is capable of wild and often terrifying things that as many, many people are now finding out, most doctors are either ill equipped to deal with or even believe in.
But for whatever it’s worth, I believe you. I believe you got sick, and you’re still sick, and if I can give you one piece of advice from one chronically sick person to another, rest. Please, rest, please don’t push yourselves. Be kind and gentle to yourself. Yes you might end up with some deconditioning, but you cannot show this thing who is boss by running a marathon or climbing a mountain. Health doesn’t work that way, no matter what the moral purists and healthful bloggers say. Be gentle, be kind. Your body is going through a trauma not yet fully understood by medical science, and you cannot expect to bounce back the way you once did. I’m sorry. You didn’t do anything wrong. You didn’t do anything to deserve this. It’s just how things are. But you’re not alone, and I hope there is some comfort in that for you.
turkey and azerbaijan are attacking armenia right now, and it’s 1915 all over again because the world is distracted and people are too busy wondering if they’re gonna live or die, and who gives a shit about my country anyway? my mum told me to tell my friends and explain to them what’s happening and that we are the victims in this war because azerbaijan is spreading lies and people are believing their lies and i told her, what good is that going to do? do you think anyone’s going to come to our aid? is russia going to help us? is america? is england? erdogan said they will finish what their ancestors started, and he means genocide. he means ethnic cleansing. he means to massacre every last one of us. and in doing so admitted to the very same thing turkey has spent 105 years denying. i don’t know who to tell and what good telling people will do because we’re a small, insignificant country, and we have nothing to offer to the people in power, the handful who rule the world. so i sit here with my pain and i feel helpless. i know there’s twitter threads and links to petitions and people being urged to contact their senators, and sorry if im being pessimistic, but azerbaijan has been attacking us for the last 22 years, and though we defend ourselves, we can’t do anything to stop them. they’ve violated ceasefires (and geneva conventions) multiple times. i don’t think they’ll rest until every last one of us is dead.
we just want peace. we just want to live peacefully. we’re not asking for a lot here.
Reblogging because fox says I don’t have to. But I like to be helpful. So, if it works, yea!
I was today years old when i found out that i was allowed time off to vote. Something no boss has ever told me.
Spoopy Season Safety
Video Transcription from user @/lelegenevieve on TikTok: “If you’ve been supporting the Black Lives Matter movement or are looking for ways to support, please stop scrolling and signal boost this video. I’ve been coding—pretty tirelessly—everyday for my website pb-resources.com. It’s an education tool and resource I’ve been using to compile information to fight police brutality and white supremacy. There are calls to action, educational tools, and different places to donate. Today I added this section that allows you to input your information and send automated emails; and everything is filled out for you. It was also really important that for me to adds way to support the Black trans community. And in a few days, the website will be generating ad revenue and 100% of the proceeds will be donated; so all you have to do is visit the site to support BLM. Lastly, I’ve been asking you guys to follow me on Instagram (@/alexisdenisew) so I can hit 10k and get the swipe up update and I’m almost there. So if you haven’t already, go follow.”
If anyone with experience with audio transcription formatting would like to repost this with a better transcript, please do, my experience is limited.
As of today, June 16th, 2020, Alexis is at 11K followers on Instagram and has the swipe up feature, but please continue to share this website!
Listen up!
You see a post like this? Where OP might hurt/kill themselves? You hit that button that I circled
Hit that.
Click Suicide or Self-harm Concern
Yes.
Fill in the rest of it, and hit submit. The "content you reported" will fill itself in
Tumblr will follow up and help them.
Warning: this is only for mobile. If anyone knows how to do this for desktop, please add it!
This could SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.
YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE NOT TO REBLOG THIS.
I DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF IT DOESN'T GO WITH YOUR BLOG'S THEME.
And yes, REBLOG. Liking does no shit at all. This isn't ig.
You reblog, people see it. You don't, people don't see it. This shit's that simple.
This could save someone's life. It's not a joke.
Please reblog, this is so important.
🌹 a flower for everyone not feeling their best today
How the hell do you have a school for deaf children and expect them to “listen with their ears”? It’s not like language immersion. They can’t just learn to hear by being forced.
reblog if you’re a safe place for:
lesbian
gay
bisexual
transgender
queer
pansexual
demisexual
ace
hopeless romantics
cis-men
cis-women
non binary folks
the whole spectrum etc…
follow everyone who reblogs ;)
The panic over COVID-19 causing people to hoard shit unnecessarily means I can't find medical supplies (like disinfecting alcohol wipes) without paying an obnoxiously exorbitant amount.
Generally healthy, able-bodied people don't need masks, exam gloves, or alcohol swabs to protect themselves against COVID-19. But chronically ill people and their caretakers do need those supplies to live their everyday lives.