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How I donate to incarcerated individuals for the holidays:

I browse the website writeaprisoner.com to search through profiles of people who are currently incarcerated throughout the country. You can filter your search by location, race, age, sex, etc. I utilize this feature because I typically donate to individuals who are marginalized by race, gender, sexuality, etc. 

You can also view each person’s charges if you have preferences against donating to folks incarcerated for specific offenses like sexual predation. 

I check their profile for their institutional e-mail which should be called “JPay.” Click the JPay hyperlink on their profile to be directed to this page which will instruct you on how to write letters and send money through the service.

Unfortunately, not every detention center on this site provides access to this service, but most of them do. I do not have experience with other institutional e-mails, but I’m sure most of them work in the same way as JPay. 

From there, simply create a JPay account or login if you already have one. They pretty much walk you through how to send money and e-mails to a person of your choosing using their Inmate ID# which is listed on their profile under the “Contact” → “By Mail”” section. 

There are several other ways to put money on someone’s books, this is just a method that has been proven to work for me personally. Please let me know if you are confused about anything or run into any problems.

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I am mere centimeters away from writing a full on essay about how the “goblins are inherently antisemitic” myth spawned by this website propagates misinformation, displays a huge misunderstanding of what folklore is and does, and contributes to an environment that distracts people from how antisemitism actually operates and the ways in which it’s dangerously on the rise in our current climate–something which, surprise surprise, has almost nothing to do with little green fairy men

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moved to calain.tumblr.com

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“Most girls and women understand the risks they take when they become angry. No matter how justified, appearing angry won’t do her any favors and will actually undermine people’s perception of her competence and likeability. Studies show that when men are angry, people tend to lose their own confidence and defer to men’s opinions. When women are angry, the opposite happens. Studies also reveal that people will opt to work for angry-sounding aggressive men, but not with angry-sounding aggressive women.”

— Soraya Chemaly, from Does Your Daughter Know It’s OK To Be Angry?

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The Ride of the Rohirrim . The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers / J.R.R. Tolkien

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Fingolfin across the Helcaraxë. The Silmarillion / J.R.R. Tolkien

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yiling laozu

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Universe

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Joe Biden using the Italian NHS as an example against universal healthcare *at this particular moment in time* is everything I need to know this fucker is worse than Donald Trump.

I want to clarify something because there are many Americans on the internet and it seemed that neither Biden nor Sanders have adequate understanding of the situation, that is why Sanders could not counter attack properly to Biden's disgraceful remarks.

First, no healthcare system in the world is well-equipped to deal with a massive influx of patients, let alone many requiring intensive care because we are sick from a virus we have no cure or antibodies for.

Second, the funding for Italian NHS has been cut dramatically (approx 37 billion over 10 years) in the name of neoliberal policies, with the blessing of the European Union pushing for cutting the public and outsourcing healthcare to privates.

Third, the Italian NHS is decentralized. There are 20 regions in Italy and each one manages its own healthcare services. This has been a problem since ever because poorer regions = worse healthcare and decentralized system = no coordination for national emergencies.

Fourth, we are managing as best as we can DESPITE the cuts. There has been executive government mismanagement at the beginning and people partyin' and wildin' even though corona was around, which did not help.

Fifth, DESPITE everything Italy consistently ranks among Top 5 in Europe and world. America is, like, #37 or sumn. No healthcare system is without problems, the American one is just too insane to sustain. Whether universal healthcare works or not pretty much depends on how much funding it gets.

Sixth. Cutting funds to public healthcare is no less of a violence than lynching an immigrant or denying abortion. Cutting funds to public services, healthcare on top of everything, is violence. It's a violence against those who cannot afford to go private. It's a violence against those who rely on it to fucking live. Proper funding of public services is a way to ensure equality. Neoliberalism is not the lesser evil. Neoliberalism IS the evil.

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bartering is way worse than having tokens that are worth something to everyone. you want some food? too bad! the farmer wants wood, and you can't get wood

You don’t actually know how barter systems work, do you?

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why you should not dismiss research unless you rly truly mean it

Internet, I am a queer researcher of queer health and I have something to say.

A few weeks back, a study went viral about the relationship between marriage equality policy and queer teen suicide rates, and a lot of people reacted thusly: “queer mental health is better when we’re not discriminated against! BREAKING: SKY IS BLUE, WATER IS WET”

This happens a lot. People see research about a thing ~Everyone Already Knows~ and they mock it. Now I want to make two things really clear:

1. Everyone does not already know.

2. This shit can lose these projects their funding.

Did you know that media coverage is a crucial factor in funding allocation? When we submit our application for grant renewal, we have to provide a list of news articles about our research so they can decide whether the public cares enough about us to let us keep doing our work. And most research doesn’t get all that much coverage, so individual reactions can really matter. If the primary reaction to our publications is eyerolling, we legitimately might not be able to continue.

I’ve seen some frustration from people who believe this research funding would be better put to use “actually helping” the affected populations instead of–I don’t know, pinning them under microscopes or whatever it is they think we do. But funding for policy initiatives is driven by research. I know you wish politicians would listen to individual voices telling them where the problems are, but that’s honestly not a smart way to direct limited resources. We need solid evidence. And a lot of the areas that need the most attention aren’t obvious–who knew bisexual people are at a much higher risk for physical and mental health disparities than gay and lesbian people? Who would have guessed that transgender folks are more likely than any other group (including straight people) to be military veterans, but overwhelmingly don’t claim their benefits? I’m sure some people noticed these patterns, but they definitely weren’t common knowledge within the queer communities I’ve grown up around, and those findings are leading to direct action as we speak.

I get that it can be frustrating to feel like your identity is being reduced to facts and figures for the benefit of red tape. But trust me, the researchers aren’t your enemy here. Most of us are queer too. All of us are just as frustrated by this crap as you are. We are doing our best, and I swear to you this work really is making a difference. Please don’t sabotage it.

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some TES lore stuff you should know about

dragons are actually gendered! and, barring Alduin ofc, the male dragons aren’t SHIT compared to the Jills: female dragons tasked with keeping Tamriel’s time and timeline intact. if you’ve ever wondered why someone couldn’t travel back in time with magic to prevent shit like baar dau falling in morrowind or finding a way to stop dagon without having martin sacrifice himself, it’s probably because a Jill ate them.

TES is actually post-apocalypse! tamriel’s mannish society reached their height sometime in the 2nd era with actual fucking astron- excuse me, “mananauts” and spaceships and technology. elven culture peaked in the Merethic Era. everything from the 3rd era to 4th era circa skyrim is basically a huuuuge dark age for society as a whole. it fucking skyrockets to abstract star wars shit by the 5th era, so everything’s alright

every culture in TES has a tower: the altmer have Crystal-like-Law, the orcs with Orichalc, humans with White-Gold, bosmer with Green-Sap, etc. the khajiit’s tower is a literal tower of khajiits stacking on top of each other to reach the moons like a bunch of furry dorks

Lorkhan is not an Aedra (as, by definition, he did not give to Mundus), not a Daedra (no, Nirn is NOT his realm in Oblivion), not a Magna-Ge (duh), and not an Ada (as he was fundamentally changed after viewing the Aurbis on its side). What IS he, then? /shrug

Alduin isn’t the first son of Akatosh so much as he’s the first son of Aka-Tusk/AKA, but skyrim doesn’t mention this because it would confuse the fuck outta casuals, so Akatosh is the closest to what Aka-Tusk was.

SPEAKING OF: Auri-El, Akatosh, Tall Papa, Alduin, and such and such are all shards of an oversoul of the OG god of time Aka-Tusk. Why are they all separate now? Blame Marukh and his Selectives.

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oblivion crisis denialism. it didn’t actually happen, it’s just a thalmor false flag

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the ‘dagoth ur did nothing wrong, sincerely!’ crowd worry me a bit because it’s pretty damn clear (to me anyway) in morrowind that his rhetoric is reactionary. like his liberating morrowind schtick isn’t anti-colonial action, it’s about enforcing a certain type of dunmer supremacy.

an actual anti-colonial struggle would involved the most oppressed in morrowind, which are actually argonians and khajiit: the slave class. it would abolish slavery and provide reparations for the formerly enslaved *on top of also* ridding morrowind of cyrodiilic colonialism. ashlanders, who have been driven to more and more barren lands by house dunmer, would also have to be greatly involved and reparations (including land that was taken from them) would have to be provided for them as well.

INSTEAD, in the game, dagoth ur /the 6th house is allied with the commona tong, a racist and reactionary force in morrowind. it is thoroughly anti-abolition of slavery and is very comfortable with keeping the khajiit and argonians as a slave class. this is speculation on my part but i’d imagine they would be more okay with the eradication of these races before accepting the abolition of slavery. 

on top of that, corprus. its use as a biological weapon to weed out the unworthy is very fascist.

so yeah this was a far too serious ramble on why dagoth ur and the 6th house are reactionary forces that use the language of liberation for propaganda purposes. he’s a very interesting character and his back story allows for hints of tragedy, but by the time the events of morrowind occur he is extremely not a good dude and he did quite a few things wrong! i think part of his tragedy IS the fact that he ended up the way he did: not just his almost quasi-undead state, but his worldview and politics (which are, as stated, reactionary and fascistic).

ok i’m really done now i promise

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i cant be the only one who cares about jane prentiss’s red dress??? i cant be the only one overwhelmed by the image of this style icon?? hole-covered, dilapidated flesh; barefoot; flashy red party number; worms

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Martin, the 2 weeks he was trapped in his apartment, eating canned food and listening to the knocking on his door:

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wow this is so good???

"I do not know why the hive chose me, but it did. And I think that it always had. The song is loud and beautiful and I am so very afraid."