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In talking to a canadian customer today about why i hadnt seen a major dip in canadian tourism that i had expected this year, i was told that Seattle is viewed as the safest possible option, while regular visitors to florida are staying home. So what i mean to say is

WOO HOORAY! Seattle Doesnt Count as America! ( b￣▽￣)b

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I have had tea outdoors there!

Butchart Gardens, BC, Canada

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I was actually there for this. People were photoshopping pickles into everything imaginable and some unimaginable too.

One of my favorite genres of post

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In my experience as a third culture kid who travels a lot the best indicator that you as a non-x is appreciating x culture is if the locals actively invite you to participate in it with them

Yes, you are allowed to buy those handmade Inuit winter clothes if an Inuk is literally selling them to you. They would not be offering you a price point if they didnt want you to buy and wear them. And you might discover that theyre the best winter clothes youve ever worn because of COURSE they would be if theyve kept this culture warm in harsh winters for thousands of years.

Yes, you are allowed to join those Cambodians in that local holiday theyre celebrating during your visit if they literally invited you to it. They would not have invited you if they didnt want you to participate. And in the process you might learn a lot about a culture you never wouldve interacted with and you can all have a laugh together about your clumsy but genuine attempts at getting your footwork right in one of their traditional dances.

Yes, you are also allowed to ask if you can participate in something from the local culture you are visiting. Sometimes you will get "sorry, thats a closed practice" but in my experience most of the time you'll get "of course, let me show you how to do this!" And in my experience people tend to appreciate when others make an active effort in sharing their culture and wont stone you to death if youre clumsy about it while youre learning. I guarantee that the local children doing all of this for the first time too make the same mistakes you do and they can tell if youre being disrespectful or genuine.

So much "cultural appropriation" discourse really starts to sound like "you cant participate or visit any other cultures if youre from a Colonial Culture and have to stay in your little box and never relate to other people"

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We’re really going back to the “no sales girls over 5’ 9” must be conventionally feminine appearing and wear makeup” era huh

Pink News has a very helpful article about the M&S nonsense - undoubtedly most of it will be preaching to the choir over here but if you're looking for an actually level headed source of info for yourself or to show ppl on your life ^ here u go

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"They go to SEX CLUBS and pretend to be DOGS!"

Yeah well you go to church every Sunday and pretend to be a good person

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I had a neat thought so I'm gonna do a tumblr post about it

No nuance!! Just answer!!! I am soso curious :)

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A survey to assess what non sex workers think about sex work!

This survey is for people who have not done sex work themselves, to gauge both your opinions on sex work and how much you know about it! Click here to take it.

Please share to get as much of a range in respondents as possible.

You are encouraged to answer these questions no matter your current level of knowledge or how strongly you hold to your positions. While you might feel compelled to look things up when answering these questions, it's ideal that you respond without doing so - you can always do some research after if these questions spark your interest.

Questions in this survey will also have an additional focus on trans and/or intersex sex workers, because information collected will be used to inform the themes for Transactional Intercourse, an anthology of trans and intersex sex workers' writing. Some parts of the anthology will be aimed at correcting misconceptions and addressing topics which are the most controversial, and to do that we need to have a clear idea of what those are.

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I've just finished the first Murderbot book and it's very funny coming from Star Trek to this. In Star Trek you have androids and such actively campaigning for themselves to be considered full people with rights that deserve the same considerations as anyone else. Meanwhile in Murderbot all the humans are telling this guy that it's a person with rights and it's their friend and they like it and its response is basically

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Big Insurance Uses AI to Quickly Deny Claims, One Man Fights Back with AI App That Quickly Appeals

"The idea that American health insurance companies are using AI to analyze and adjudicate claims for approval or denial sounds terrifying, but one North Carolinian is using AI to fight back.

When Raleigh resident Neal Shah had a claim denied for his wife’s chemotherapy drugs, he thought it was rare, that he was the only one, that it was just bad luck.

Litigating his case on phone calls that lasted for hours changed the husband and father, and he set about creating a sophisticated app that uses artificial intelligence to compare claims denial forms against health insurance contracts, before automatically drafting an appeal letter.

“For a doctor to write this, it’s not rocket science, but it still takes hours,” Shah told ABC News 11, adding that a well-written appeal letter, sent in immediately, can sometimes get denials reversed within days or weeks, but most people either don’t know they can appeal, or don’t know on what grounds they can appeal.

In fact, according to Shah’s research, 850 million claims denials occur every year, and less than 1% are ever appealed.

That’s where Counterforce Health comes in, a startup that’s created a free-to-use app for claims denials.

It’s all the more critical a service now that health insurance companies, already armed with statewide government-protected pseudo monopolies and duopolies, are using AI to deny claims within seconds of them being filed.

“Before, you used to have a reason you would deny it, and you used to have a doctor review or a nurse review it, but once AI rolled out, they could just have AI deny it,” Shah explained.

For Counterforce Health, Shah brought onboard Riyaa Jadhav, a Jill of all trades who has helped grow and expand the undertaking through her experience in both the business world and working alongside patients at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.

Together, they’ve built Counterforce to the point where it boasts a 70% success rate in appealing claims.

Thousands have already logged on; many going on to use the service.

“Sometimes when enough people get loud, enough people put pressure, then I think all of a sudden society wakes up, so I really feel like it’s really about to click,” Shah said.

-via Good News Network, August 5, 2025

Here's the link to this organization, by the way. According to their numbers, less than 1% of denials in the US are appealed, but 75% of appeals are approved. This could do so much good.

And another source for validity:

-via NBC News, July 18, 2025

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I finished reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time in my life. With all of *vague gesture at everything* this going on.

I Am Not Okay

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Ok, so follow me here

The lizard assassin is fucking the twink doctor, and the twink Doctor is fucking that cool Irish dude who supports unions (based). The twink Doctor is ALSO fucking an android but that’s the other show

The union man is married a schoolteacher (based) who is helping their wife’s planet ecologically recover from a fascist occupation, because she’s awesome

Their wife is an anti fascist freedom fighter (based) and the biggest lesbian you’ve ever seen. The union guy is like, an exception. And so is her goo boyfriend. Goo boyfriend might enemies to lovers-ing the local bar owner. AND she’s dating two different women hosting the same worm (bad news about the tall one) and they’re both madly in love with their wife from a previous lifetime. The tall one I s also fucking that dude with the funky sword and two dicks. They’re married, actually.

The short worm girl and the terrorist (based) are both dating this girl who works slot machines who helps her husband start a union (based). She and her husband later become the leaders of an entire government and pass pro worker and feminist reforms (based)

The terrorist (based) also has a complicated toxic yuri situationship with her kinky evil dominatrix alternate universe self who is a dictator (god forbid women have hobbies)

In the alternate universe the short worm girl is a goth and married to the slot machines girl who’s a freedom fighter. The tall worm girl is in a throuple with the twink Doctor but he’s not a doctor he’s an asshole and the captain who in the main universe is everybody’s dad.

He is the best dad in the multiverse and cooks a mean jumbalaya. This is vital information

He has a cool space trucker wife and a son who’s a writer and best friends with the son of the alien labor union spouses. Dad might be doing an enemies to lovers thing with this theater kid who betrayed him

There’s also this creepy lizard nazi who comes by every once in a while to pester them. He’s the worst.

His daughter however is the most precious soul in the world and she was taken too soon

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Breaking my hiatus to bring everyone’s attention to the fact that Cornwall is now attempting to be officially recognised as a nation within the United Kingdom.

Kernow has its own language, culture, history and identity. The language was forcibly removed by the English until the last monolingual speaker died in 1777–her name was Dolly Pentreath. It has existed as a kingdom before England had ever existed. Historically, Cornwall has been a place exploited for minerals and resources and labour. Currently, it still is. There are now ghost towns where once thriving fishing villages stood (Mousehole, Pentreath’s home, was one of these). Cornwall is now a playground for second home owners who drive up house and rent prices and drive out permanent residents and workers. Local businesses go out of business and struggle to stay afloat when the influx of tourists come who only purchase from supermarkets, putting nothing into the local economy. There is a long, long and often very gruesome and bloody history behind this—leaders of rebellions executed all the way into 1715.

If you are in the UK, and sign the petition to get this to a debate in Parliament.

Can you spare 60 seconds to sign

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omg if baby oil dissolves condoms what the fuck does it do to babies???

This may be shocking, but babies and condoms are made of different material

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