The “trans-trender” myth is so so so so fucking dangerous. Y'all are making it so hard for people to question and explore their identity. There is no such thing as an actual transtrender. They’re just trans people you don’t like, or they’re cis people who questioned their gender identity and then decided they weren’t trans.
Being trans has never, ever, ever been a “trendy” thing. Yes, trans people are becoming more well-known, but is almost always shown in a bad or misinformed light. Trans people are still getting abused, beaten, murdered, fired, kicked out, etc for being trans.
“We have no choice, we have no power to do anything, we don’t have the ability. Our bodies are flesh and blood, we can’t beat steel, bullets and tanks. I hope everyone who can see this video, all of the overseas Chinese people, help us. We don’t need you to spend money, you don’t need to do anything, just click this video and help increase exposure. I’m not relying on this to earn money to eat, I just want to increase public pressure so the Chinese government can understand that they can’t hide from responsibility …. We all dream of having democracy, freedom, openness. We want to be able to go on twitter, youtube without jumping the wall [using VPN], but the problem is that we can’t. What can we do? High housing prices, high cost of living, inflation, any problem in the government they cut from the normal people, everyone can only watch them do it. Look at my friends, my schoolmates, everyone who has the money or the ability to immigrate left fucking ages ago. No one is stupid, we just don’t have any choice. I’m begging you all to help, the Wuhan people need the attention and pressure of the world. We’re helpless. Just that one word: helpless.”
hi guys ik im never on here but pls if u possibly can watch this video from a local wuhan person talking abt the current situation in the city + China as a whole. it’s 10 mins long and in mandarin but there are English subtitles so pls I’m begging all of u to watch it and rb this post. https://youtu.be/wEkIdGht-S8
Cloudberry is a Ringed Seal, an Arctic species that is a very rare visitor to Irish Waters! By adopting her you will be directly helping to get her through rehabilitation and eventually released back home to the chilly waters up north!
Each adoption pack includes:
A personalised Certificate of Adoption for you to put on your wall at home or work
The full rescue story of Cloudberry
Regular ‘PUPdates’ about how she is progressing, including the most adorable photos and videos of her throughout her time in care, and eventual release!
PLEASE NOTE: As Cloudberry won’t be released in Ireland, there will be no invitation to her release day. All other seals in our care that are adopted include an invitation to their release, if this is something you are wishing to attend please see our usual Eco-Adoption Here.
The ringed seal (Pusa hispida or Phoca hispida), also known as the jar seal, (os netsik or nattiq by the Inuit), is an earless seal (or true seal) inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. The ringed seal is a relatively small seal, rarely greater than 1.5 m in length, with a distinctive patterning of dark spots surrounded by light grey rings, hence its common name. It is the most abundant and wide-ranging ice seal in the Northern Hemisphere: ranging throughout the Arctic Ocean, into the Bering Sea and Okhotsk Sea as far south as the northern coast of Japan in the Pacific, and throughout the North Atlantic coasts of Greenland and Scandinavia as far south as Newfoundland, and include two freshwater subspecies in northern Europe. Ringed seals are one of the primary prey of polar bears and killer whales (Orcas), and have long been a component of the diet of indigenous people of the Arctic.
Cloudberry is up for adoption! Support her rehabilitation here.
@vampireapologist can multiple people adopt her or is it just one seal per person?
Hi! Each seal can have multiple adopters. It costs about €2,000 to put one seal through rehabilitation. Each year, we get enough government funding to rehabilitate 6 seals. We rehabilitate over 100, so we almost fully rely on public donations and sponsorships to send our seals home and support the ecosystems in our Irish waters!
Many people can adopt one seal, and you’ll join a big family full of love!
It’ 2020. Sometimes a family is 50 humans with a lot of compassion and their single Big Fat Seal Child, and that’s fine.
Check out the website to meet other seals in need.
If you adopt my first rescue, Waratah, half of the adoption donations go to wildlife rehabilitation centers in Australia treating animals displaced by the fires.
why are y'all surprised her father said that tho… that’s exactly what the norm is for our religion, anything else is extremism or false ideologies pushed onto our women by ignorant men who wish to control women.
^^^
Notice how her dad asked her if something happened cuz he knows there’s people like this who harass young Muslim girls. If Muslims wanna take their hijab off a lot of the time it’s cuz they’re trying to escape islamophobia not islam
UGH “HATSUNE MIKU WROTE HARRY POTTER” I SWEAR TO GOD YOU CANNOT
DIVORCE HARRY POTTER FROM THE RACIST TRANSMISOGYNISTIC ANTISEMITIC
AUTHOR ITS IN THE TEXT STOP DOING THIS SHIT
before yall go “where is it” here’s a few examples off the top of my head!
racism: the entire spew story arc wherein jkr writes about her slave race that loves slavery and hermione is considered weird and to be causing harm by trying to end said slavery
transmisogyny: girls are allowed in the boys dorm rooms, but boys are not allowed in the girls dorm rooms. this becomes incredibly insidious when you know what her beliefs are
antisemitism: every description of snape, the entire existence of the goblins, “goldstein”
you can look up any of these things for more details i am not going into it the point is stop trying to “divorce” works from their creators when it turns out they are bigoted, because their views are definitely there within their works and especially when these messages are being taught to children it’s harmful to pretend these things aren’t there and that the media should be consumed uncritically “because miku made it”
worth mentioning that rita skeeter is extremely trans-coded in goblet of fire, a book that is primarily about characters deceiving others with their appearances
Bonus that often gets overlooked: when asked if there were any autistic characters in her books on twitter, she responded that there are no non-magical disabilities in Harry Potter because wizards cure everything with magic (yay, eugenics!). The characters who acquire magical disabilties in the books, namely Lockhart and the Longbottom parents, are institutionalized for life.
“They raided my condo and vehicle … in west Phoenix with 25 heavily armed SWAT officers, and pointed a silenced assault rifle in my face.”
Phoenix New Times
“I just spent the last 24 hours in Tempe and Phoenix police custody for spraying 'Penis Man,’” Shomer wrote. “They raided my condo and vehicle and swarmed my entire complex in west Phoenix with 25 heavily armed SWAT officers, and pointed a silenced assault rifle in my face.
“Anyone with any doubt who the bad guys are here … be certain it is the City of Tempe, City of Phoenix, and police forces valleywide. There is no excuse for pointing an AR-15 in the face of a non-violent offender.”
Shomer added in further posts that he spent a night at Maricopa County’s Fourth Avenue Jail following more than five hours in Tempe police custody, during which time he was giving “nothing to eat.”
He wrote that he was “told I wouldn’t receive medical attention after requesting it, even though it was posted on the wall to ask if desired. I was having a panic attack, cause they put a fucking assault rifle in my face (that’s illegal, both denying medical attn, and excessive force).”
Shomer also wrote in his post-arrest screed, “For the record, I hate the institution of the police. But, I do not think every single cop is a bastard. To say they all are, is imo, stooping to their level of profiling. Some of the detectives I met seemed to be genuine penis man fans.”
“Penis Man is neither man nor woman, you nor me,” Shomer wrote in one post. “We are ALL Penis Man.”
"I just spent the last 24 hours in Tempe and Phoenix police custody for spraying 'Penis Man,’” Shomer wrote. “They raided my condo and vehicle and swarmed my entire complex in west Phoenix with 25 heavily armed SWAT officers, and pointed a silenced assault rifle in my face.
"Anyone with any doubt who the bad guys are here … be certain it is the City of Tempe, City of Phoenix, and police forces valleywide. There is no excuse for pointing an AR-15 in the face of a non-violent offender.”
Shomer added in further posts that he spent a night at Maricopa County’s Fourth Avenue Jail following more than five hours in Tempe police custody, during which time he was giving “nothing to eat.”
He wrote that he was “told I wouldn’t receive medical attention after requesting it, even though it was posted on the wall to ask if desired. I was having a panic attack, cause they put a fucking assault rifle in my face (that’s illegal, both denying medical attn, and excessive force).”
Shomer also wrote in his post-arrest screed, “For the record, I hate the institution of the police. But, I do not think every single cop is a bastard. To say they all are, is imo, stooping to their level of profiling. Some of the detectives I met seemed to be genuine penis man fans.”
“Penis Man is neither man nor woman, you nor me,” Shomer wrote in one post. “We are ALL Penis Man.”
In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.
It doesn’t matter what it’s for.
You’re saving up for a new wheelchair?
For college?
To put a downpayment on a house?
Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?
Your benefits immediately get cut off if you’re a cent over $2,000.
And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.
So say you get $400. If they find out you’re twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.
“What if I spend the money that day?”
Doesn’t matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.
And yes, this system literally kills people.
Remember when “Guardians of the Galaxy” came out? one of Rocket Racoon’s creators, Bill Mantlo, suffered an accident in 1992 and has irreparable brain damage.
before the movie came out, Marvel gave him an exclusive preview screening. SOme people were upset because they felt if Marvel was really wanted to thank mantlo, they should have donated money to Mantlo’s family.
Bill Mantlo’s brother had to come out and explain: If Marvel gave them monetary aid, Bill Mantlo would lose his financial assistance.
That’s so utterly depressing.
disgusting
I have friends on welfare who won’t pick up a penny in the street because they’d risk the welfare they struggled to get for 10 years.
oh look another fucked up thing in this world. let’s just add it to the list. number 63858b
My brother has been on California State SSI for autism for the last 10 years, and he absolutely has to (no joke, HAS TO) spend all 720 bucks of his SSI every month, because if he puts it in the bank he risks losing his SSI altogether.
Sometimes, at the end of the month, he has no idea what to do with his money because the whole month went by and he still has 400-ish bucks in his account, and he fucking panics because he doesn’t want to get anywhere near 2,000.
And here’s the funnest part of the story!
One day he did a huge commission on Second Life and wound up earning 1500 bucks off of it, and he told the guy to donate it 500 bucks at a time over 3 months. The guy didn’t want to, and just donated all 1500, which put my brother at 2,036 bucks.
The state IMMEDIATELY (I’m talking less than an hour) called him up to tell him over the phone that they were canceling his SSI, because they noticed he had gone over the 2,000 buck threshold. He had to tell them that someone had made a charitable donation to him and that this was not a common occurrence in any way shape or form, and upon not believing him, my mother had to call to talk to them as his legal caretaker and say basically the same thing until they called off the cancellation of his SSI money.
He also had to cancel his renter’s assistance because it put him to 1,062 a month, so if he went 30 days without spending any money they’d cancel his SSI altogether. Like, none of us in the family have any fucking clue why that regulation is in place and it’s the stupidest shit in human history.
Please, legal side of Tumblr, tell me what positive reasoning this law has?
Happy 4th of July everyone! This is what the “nation of opportunity” looks like.
There’s something called an ABLE account that can help. If you are on SSI and were diagnosed as disabled before the age of 26 you can apply for an ABLE account that will allow you to save up to $99,000. More people need to know about this!
thank you so much for this information. i’m applying for an abled account right now
THERES A WHAT
OH GOD BLESS THE SHIT OUTTA YOU YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FREAKED OUT OVER THIS I WAS
I’ve been looking into SSI; I had no idea about this!
Harry Potter’s flaws fall far beyond JK Rowling being a terf, and this tweet was made in incredibly bad taste. It is a bad tweet because it seems to ignore that, but that’s not the point here. The point is people immediately used this to hound on him in this way.
can i just say like. there’s also Nothing wrong with what he said. There is absolutely fucking nothing wrong with a person saying “Can i go back in time and have someone else write Harry Potter”
literally if anyone else said something like that it wouldn’t have mattered at all
I don’t think it has anything to do with his NPD at all. I don’t get this at all
There are things we can’t excuse by using people’s personality disorders and past for and there are things we can. This is one we can.
Travis isn’t perfect, he’s a cishet white man so he’s obviously not gonna be world’s best ally, and he has NPD, so his reactions to things aren’t always gonna be what you would want someone to say. He’s trying to show support, and his feelings towards terfs in a way that you might not like, but is understandable for someone with fucking narcissistic personality disorder. Stop expecting him to be the most empathetic man on the earth and the perfect ally. He is trying his best and he’s gonna fuck up sometimes and we need to remember that it’s okay to not be perfect.
*edit* also we can criticize ppl’s actions without ableism. You can say this was bad and explain why but at the end of the day you have to remember that he’ll never be perfect, and always just be trying, just like everyone else
also he’s… trying his best anyways. why are we expecting folks who don’t necessarily know as much to perfectly write out every sentiment in an agreeable fashion? hes simply trying to be supportive nd theres no real reason to shit on him for that :/
“I’ve always hated Travis McElroy and now I finally have a proper reason!”
Olay but why do you hate him? Could there possibly be some aspect of his behaviour that you dislike, like, idk, him being arrogant or self-absorbed? Man I wish he had control over that huh
I truly hate this post cause everyone seems to have forgotten he has NPD… Like saying “I love how you made it all about you” to someone who literally has a disorder like this is just really shitty and I’m sure Travis feels fucking awful for this tweet
