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IT IS TIME

IT IS TIME

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What I mean when I do not control the hyperfixation.

i’m starting a collection

Hey everyone, House just passed H.R 9495 as of 11/21, which is a bill that prevents non-profits for helping with causes such as Palestine and other acts the government deems "terrorism."

The guardian explains why it's a massive problem here.

This could seriously hurt non-profits that are trying to help multiple good causes with the vague terminology they are using to give themselves power to dictate what that means.

They are trying to fast track it while everyone is panicking about the results of the election. CALL YOUR SENATORS AND SAY NO TO H.R. 9495.

If you can't call for any reason, absolutely spread the word and reblog this post.

This is extremely serious and a dangerous bill. We should do what we can to stop it.

Everyone just don't watch it show them we're done with these, don't even see it once just to check how bad it is, just pretend it doesn't exist

it’s not that it’s another soulless live action remake. it’s not that people are being racist to nico parker already despite the fact that a honduran-american woman voices astrid in the movies. its not that toothless is solely in the uncanny valley camp and it makes me cringe to look at him. it’s not that it almost looks like a shot for shot remake so what’s even the point actually. it’s not that the lighting looks and smells like everything is CGIed in. it’s that those costumes look like they got them from fucking party city. i saw those boots on sale at target.

I can make lemon meringue pie from complete scratch but only if Thanksgiving was recent

it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore

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.

use, and i cannot stress this enough, thriftbooks

GRRM may write more women than Tolkien, but as a woman I would feel much safer in Tolkien's world, and around the author himself

I'm a very calm person and there's not much a reasonable person could say to offend or even shake me, which is something I like about myself

but I feel like because of my sunny disposition I've been robbed of the opportunity to run out of a room crying dramatically about something someone said

Beethoven did eventually get his picture on a bubblegum card, admittedly 44 years after Lucy said he didn't.

For anyone that may not get the reference in the ask. I had to stop and laugh for a moment after reading the first sentence and I will be screenshotting this and sending this to my mother soon, but without the tumblr bits.

Hey, I'm stumped on this objection, if it's alright, I want your input on this

"For these types of people I always give them a hypothetical situation for them answer So if you knew your wife was going to die by giving birth to the child would you let Your wife get an abortion or would you let your wife die in the child grow up without a mother?"

What do you think?

I would answer that the choice is never actually that simple. We imagine this cinematic moment where the doctor comes out to talk to the anxious husband in the waiting room and says “Sir, we can only save one of them. Should we save your wife or your child?” and he has to make that choice.

That makes a very dramatic movie scene, but it’s not real.

There are three categories of “life of the mother” situations:

1. Very early pregnancy. Mother has a life threatening condition and cannot be kept stable until the child reaches viability (now around 22 weeks with evidence-based best practices). Even in these situations, a direct abortion isn’t the life-saving care. Usually we’re talking about the mother needing a treatment for her life-threatening condition that risks the life of the baby. Most ethical choice is to treat the mother. If the baby dies as a result of the treatment, that is a tragic loss. If the baby doesn’t die, awesome! In this category, there is no way to save the baby without saving the mother, because if the mother died, the baby would too. Ectopic pregnancies fall in this category because there is currently no way to save the baby. If we developed the ability to get ectopic embryos to successfully re-implant in the uterus, that would become the ethical option.

2. Late-term complications. I’m going out of order here for a reason. This is anything where the mother’s life-threatening health issue starts after viability, but especially when we’re talking 30 weeks and on. Baby’s chance of survival with an early delivery goes up rapidly as baby approaches full term. In these cases, if the mother needs immediate treatment for a life threatening issue, she doesn’t actually need her baby to die. There is no reason to choose between the mother and child. A C-section is actually safer than a late-term abortion, since third trimester abortions usually still involve the mother laboring and delivering a dead baby. If the concern, as posed in the original hypothetical, is that she would “die by giving birth,” then she probably just needs a C-section (or a better doctor).

3. The third category is the most complex one. This is when the life threatening issue for the other begins when the child cannot yet survive outside the womb, but may be able to in a few weeks. This is where the difficult decisions are made. This category includes women diagnosed with cancer who might decide to delay treatment to protect their child until their child can be safely delivered. However, even here we can see examples of mothers who choose to receive treatment without first killing their child, and doctors who find innovative ways to treat life-threatening illnesses without harming preborn children.

The true answer is “save them both.” We can’t always - just as any doctor knows in a triage situation they can’t always save all the patients. The decision of who to save is never based on which patient is more human, more valuable, or more worth saving. The answer is instead based on how the doctor can save the greatest number of patients. If the doctor can save everyone, they do. If the doctor knows a course of action means for sure saving one patient, while another might not make it, but the alternative is losing both, then they will choose to save at least one. We almost never see a situation where the doctor has to arbitrarily choose between two patients - the decision is always based on the condition of each patient, the resources available, how much time there is, etc. There are algorithms for this kind of thing.

Basically I refuse to let unrealistic hypotheticals dictate actual policy on saving children.

Because people believe in the “we can only save one, choose!” scenario, we get doctors telling women that they will die if they don’t get an abortion, and then they cry to the media that they had to go to Colorado or California to get their “life-saving procedure.” The reality is that either the doctor could have treated the mother without first killing the baby and given the baby a chance to survive, or they could have delivered the baby and then treated the mother.

Anyone who says they couldn’t do the first option under ____ state abortion law is either lying or ignorant. If the mother’s condition is actually life-threatening, every state allows doctors to treat the mother. Killing a child doesn’t cure any illness.

Save what’s left of us. 🙏💔

Hello there, 🙏💔

I’m reaching out with a heart full of both hope and hardship. 😔 My family and I are in Gaza, and life has become a daily struggle due to the ongoing devastation and conflict. 💔🌪️ We’re doing our best to get by, but even the basics are difficult to come by. 🍞💧

I know that people around the world have shown great compassion to those affected by crises. 🌍💙 If you’re able to support us with even a small contribution, like 10 euros, it would truly make a world of difference. ✨🙏 This support would help us meet our needs and take a step closer to finding safety. 🕊️ Our only hope now is to leave Gaza for a safer place where we can rebuild our lives and look forward to a more peaceful future. 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️❤️

If you were in my place, facing what we face every day, what would you do? Any kindness you can offer would be a light in this darkness.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and for any kindness you can offer. Your compassion means more than words can say, and we deeply appreciate it. 💖🙏

With all my gratitude and best wishes for peace for you and your loved ones, 🌈🕊️

-

Praying for you

Hey.

My mom's really depressed. We found out today that our house does not qualify for insurance unless we jump through like 500 more hoops and pay thousands of dollars for a bunch of tree removal, and we're losing our insurance in March, so my mom's officially finally at the point of "Okay, we need to leave California."

We have hardly any money, we don't know if our house will sell if we put it up, and my mom and I sat in the living room just now at 4 in the morning to cry together about how we both think that we might lose everything we've worked for in this house. A nest egg, a promise of a future for our family, some form of hope.

And now we're barely scraping by.

My fundraiser to get out of California didn't make enough. Even with a few behind the scenes donations that were absolutely major, we still couldn't get out of here. We're on our last hope and prayer.

So, why'm I making this post?

Because I'd like you, if you can find it in your heart, and if you're a religious type, to pray for my mom and my family. We've spent years now trying to get out of California and we're right in the middle of putting in new floors which my mom is doing almost entirely by herself at age 74, and we've still got so much stuff packed into this house that we're gonna need to just pack up our car and go throw a ton of it in the junkyard just to get it out of our house.

We need help. Of course we need financial aid of some kind, my mom's retirement can only afford so much when our electric bill is $875 (California!), but this post isn't about that.

This post is about my mom needing a miracle, and I don't know how to give her one. I'm nowhere near having my game finished so I can't make money on video game sales.

So all I have is just this little bit of faith that maybe this post will find enough people who can pray for us that God will hear and will send my mom that miracle that makes her happy again.

Thank you for reading. Please reblog if you can't do anything else. Blaze the post. Something. I don't know.

My mom's been through so much pain in her life that I can't just let her be sad like this. I can't watch the state of California take not just her money but even her happiness from her and leave her stranded and alone.

Thank you again.

I love you.

Patchwork quilt floor!

go fund me

alright. I hate to be doing this. And I know I haven’t posted in absoloute years. My dog of 13 is currently ill and is needing injections monthly, so I put my money towards that to help my mam. With that, my laptop has broke and I really really need it for school. It’s my last year and I have huge exams that determine my future and what colleges I may get into.

I feel so awful for asking such a big favor but even liking and reposting can be such a help. From cents to euros, any donation would mean the world to me. There is so much going on, for every home, stay safe 💜💜💜💜

Donate here 💜

reblog if you think sign language should be taught as a language in schools.

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I can Imagine how odysseus is telling Penelope everything. But because it Just gets worse He is chilled about everything

Oh yeah, war wasn't that Bad. I killed an Infant, but i got over it pretty quickly

Poseidon killed 500 men... He should've killed the 43 men beside me, ha ha

And i've been trapped on that Island and wanted to die, good old times

Then Poseidon came again and threatened to drown ithaca and you and telemachus, so i stabbed him 600 times

And Penelope Looks at him Like He is crazy

This reminds me of my rural high school class going to the US capital. We were gaping at the metal detectors like they were an exhibit and irritating the security guard (not our fault, most of us had literally never seen one before, or only once) and at how food trucks are REAL???

Y'all have,,, NO idea how much I want a pizza rn. It is taking all of my willpower to save my money and not order one this instant to celebrate getting stuff done today

Who relates?

The plot ideas in my head: incredible, beautiful, award-winning

My plot ideas when I write them down: dumpster fire

"how could Odysseus hurt a god it doesn't make sense-"

Me, unable to stop thinking about preteen Percy Jackson, with no god help nor special tools besides his sword nor the sheer rage and force of will of an adult man who's suffered for 20 years trying to get home, making Ares bleed ichor on the beach: ....No yeah this tracks to me tbh

One last talent show to save the rec center

Ok everybody here's the deal.

My science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist (you might know her, creator of the squid facts hotline and matcher of classrooms + scientists) has secured absolutely no grants to support general operations for 2025. But! We're selling advent calendars to fund our program! They absolutely rule. They can save our nonprofit asses. If we sell 5000, which I realize, is so many, we can fund our program for 2025. Then I can offer a bunch of programming for free. Running a nonprofit is a weird job.

Every day, counting down to frankly whatever you want (it's usually Christmas, but man, maybe you want to count down to Halloween, that's fine by me) scratch off the sparkly sparkly iridescence and reveal a fact about frogs! We have 24 top-notch frog facts here.

You should get one for every kid in your life, then get one for all the adults who still let themselves access joy in critters.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

It's almost seven am. I haven't eaten since about noon yesterday. I have company coming over later today so I need to pretend to be human instead of hiding in bed like I want to. I need like ten more dollars to buy breakfast and some hot coffee to take my meds with so maybe I can function again. Can anyone help me?

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To The Person In The Newspaper - Jordan Bolton

This is epic and I don't mean to break the mood but cowboys are very much still a thing

They outlived samurai and we cry for them 🥲

every western movie ever made: The wild west is dying. theres no more room left for cowboys anymore…

me everytime: :(