#inform yourself

[pilloclock]

Learn about Congo 🇨🇩 We cannot , after finding out so shamefully late about the genocide, continue as per. We have to change our choices and make the effort to be as ethical as we can and talk about this!

[beebee18]

The idols will understand.

Do not stream Lose my breath.

One single song is not going to make a negative impact.

We need to be firm and stand with what's right. Western artists know kpop fans are wayyy more devoted and blind for their idols to support anything they do.

They are trying to take advantage of that fact.

Please do what's right. Keep yourselves and other's informed.

I know it's hard, to keep watching, keep reading and it's never ending. It's worse for them.

However dejected you may feel, support, boycott, donate (if possible), petition and pray.

They will have more comebacks, we will still be listening to them, supporting them. (They have an entire discography of masterpieces). Right now, it's important to be people with hearts first, and fans later.

The idols will understand.

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(Ignore the tags, they are there purely for reach purposes except the first few.)

[pleaseletmeexist]

For people without chronic pain who want to understand a little better: There’s a difference between pain and injury. There’s a reason why chronic pain is considered an invisible illness. When we are going through the worst pain, most of the time nothing will show up on any type of scan, bloodwork, or test. Sometimes, we’ll cry out in pain, and there’s nothing you can do because there’s no injury. For some of us, there are techniques to help us, but you have to realize that hurt does not equal a threat to our body most of the time.

[n3xus-apparatus]

[wolfossum]

People make guilt tripping posts about how much everybody needs to care about every single issue in the world but then they refuse to go vote.

Activism my ass.

[sailorofcosmos]

Complaints about being AFAB

Part One

I was tricked into believing that pain (and even agony) were "normal" and I just had to power through it. Ladies and trans friends, your period should not put you out of commission. You should not be able to feel your ovaries. You should not be doubled over in pain. You should not have to double up with a tampon and a pad. If you are using a maxi/overnight pad during the day, your flow is heavy. And if your ob's solution is to slap BC on everything, please verbally abuse them.

If you have a condition like endometriosis, you have excess estrogen in your body. The main ingredients in BC are estrogen and progesterone. How does giving you more estrogen help to regulate your estrogen levels? It doesn't.

And let's talk about all the negative side affects, utmost being the mental. BC can make you suicidal. There. If you're already struggling with depression, anxiety, a mood disorder, emotional distrgulation, etc., please be aware. BC sent me to the hospital and my OB denied anything was wrong.

Forms of BC do work for some people. They can really help. But please inform yourself.

I asked my OB a lot of questions. I wanted to know what I was putting in my body. I wanted to know what ingredients there were and how it would affect my systems. I do this with all my medicine. My OB didn't like that and dismissed me as hysterical. Needless to say, I filed a complaint with their practice and told them they were lucky I wasn't suing for medical malpractice.

It's sad that this is common. It's sad that no one tells you this. It's sad that this society has made women's health all hush hush and shame those who communicate, laughing at them for "over sharing". AFABs, share this with your friends. It's only stigmatized because of patriarchy.

(Picture is © to whomever made it)

[gender-queery]

When my mom trys to tell me that people who watch anime and alt people have their head in the clouds and are out of touch with reality, but I'm the one who educated her about the majority of politics for this year's election so she doesn't even have room to be on that shit because she herself was less informed than I was when I can't even vote in this election

[pyracantha14]

Looks like vaccination DRAMATICALLY lowers Long Covid risk. PLEASE read this and get those new variant vaccinations folks!

[lonelymammoth]

I adore this.

NOTE TO SELF-SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!

[pilloclock]

Link to donate to Congo !

PLEASE READ 🇨🇩

Resources

[beebee18]

So sick of people saying;

"They might not know what's going on"

"They don't know about the artist"

First of all, when you wanna collaborate with someone you should research about them. I know the process was a year ago but after everything that's happened, there should've been reactions.

Secondly, if they supposedly don't know, do they live under a rock??

Stop coddling them, they are full grown adults. Heck we're the kids here.

If Engenes can reprimand Jake, I don't see why we treat skz like absolute oblivious babies.

If you think "They don't know." how about we keep pushing this so they supposedly do get informed.

Remember, holding your favs accountable does not make you an anti.

If they are not allowed to speak because of the company, I understand.

Though it makes me wonder how Skz (+Twice) literally the two groups that almost run the entirety of jype do not have a say in this kind of shit.

Keep yourself in check, inform others, pray.

[taraxippos]

One of my all time biggest pet peeves with historical(ish) fantasy is when the writer constructs a religion with a clear bias that it's stupid and false and therefore only the Stupid People and/or commoners believe in it and all the smart/elite main characters are like, quasi-atheists or otherwise just routinely flout established religious conventions of orthodoxy and/or orthopraxy because they're Too Smart for it or etc.

It's usually an extension of assumptions that people in the past were just less intelligent than in the contemporary, just being like "I know that the sun is a star millions of miles away that the earth orbits, but this ancient religion describes it as a chariot flying through the sky" and not really bothering to learn the context and just (consciously or subconsciously) settling on 'that's a crazy thing to think and was probably believed in because they were Stupid'.

And that whole attitude pisses me off so much. People were as 'smart' 10,000 years ago as they are today. These beliefs aren't just desperate, random flailing to explain phenomena that could not directly be accounted for either, it's not like people just looked at the sun and went "Uhhh I don't know what the fuck that thing is, actually. I guess it might be a chariot or a boat or something?? Yeah let's go with that." and based entire religious practices on this. Every well-established belief system exists within broader contexts of cultural values/subjective perceptions of reality/knowledge systems/etc, and exist as part of a historical continuum of religious practices that came before. Even when not Materially Correct, they have context and internal logic, they're not always dead literal with zero levels of allegory, and they're never a result of stupidity.

[babykittenteach]

No but fr having an indigenous family broken up for its own good by the state and one of them leave her homeland to go get a Real Education is not just counter to the original story's characterization, it's not just erasing the colonialism commentary for the sake of failed feminism presumably based on the girlboss objection to portraying women as caretakers and the classist objection to blue collar jobs, it is an act of colonialism.

It is in fact so ridiculously an act of colonialism that it should come off as such to anybody able to think about media critically for a few moments, but to anybody familiar with what the US did to many indigenous peoples via the faux benevolence of boarding schools, including to native hawaiians, it's fucking revolting.

Like, shoutout to removing Pleakley's gender exploration, to removing the cop villain in lieu of just having the mad scientist remain one, to removing some of Cobra Bubbles's nuance, to removing commentary on race and colonialism, etc etc, but mainly: this did a colonialism.

[substanceabuseinoregonteenagers]

There are many reasons why teenagers will start to use different drugs, but there are also many different ways parents can help or prevent it from beginning. Here's a link to a resource that can inform you or others on what you can do to help!!!

[afterartist]

⚠️⚠️IMPORTANT!!⚠️⚠️

If you have an Apple product you need to hear this,

In the latest update Apple has added and insidious Ai to every single one of your apps

You will need to manually turn this off to stop Ai from using your apps as a learning base

First:

Head to settings and find the Apple Intelligence & Siri tab

Second:

if you scroll to the bottom of that tab you should find an option to see your apps and a separate option to see apps clips (these can be done in either order but I’ll explain clips first)

Third:

You should come to this screen with an option of “Learn from Apps Clips”, make sure to turn that off (if it’s green it’s still on)

Fourth:

Head back and click onto the apps section, this should bring you to a screen with all your apps

You’re going to have to click on every single one of your apps and turn it off manually (Apple has deliberately made it as tedious as possible in a way to discourage people doing this)

Fifth:

SHARE THIS INFORMATION!! either via my post or making your own,

Every uninformed person is another source of content for Ai to steal from, don’t let this undermine us

As far as I’m aware that’s everything, but there may be more

I will update this if more information comes out

[valtsv]

something i think about a lot and don't see discussed often in the silt verses are the narrative foils and parallels shared by the saint electric and VAL, particularly when it comes to their respective endings. a woman sacrificing her humanity in flames and undergoing apotheosis, elevated not merely to sainthood but ascended to godhood, and losing the entirety of herself in the process, becoming a product to be traded and sold, and a woman who sacrificed her humanity to be made into a commodity, a "valuable" weapon, finally rejecting her attempts to claim that same godhood in favour of reclaiming her personhood in a similarly fiery death. the peninsulan propaganda machine's greatest triumph, and its most damning defeat. the beginning and the ending of the same tragic story.