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posted on Kate Bornstein's substack

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KOSA IS GETTING FORCED THROUGH ATTACHED ARE SCRIPTS FOR EITHER A DEM OR REP SENATOR CALL NOW PLEASE

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Local Hottie Beauty Pageant 2023

(I will do a new round every week. The winner will challenge the next and there can only be one left standing in the end. Remember to vote every week.)

Vote even if they're not your main #1 because this is a knock out. Also keep in mind this is not a favorite character competition this is the local hottie beauty pageant. But wait...One cannot just simply take a crown without a final fight from the King...

Now are you saying Long Live The King or are you Holding Out For A Hero? That is the true question you all need to ask yourselves...

Round 24: Fight **FINALS!* For The Crown!

Prepare for the coup of the century. If this isn't how you thought this poll was going to end then you haven't been paying attention.

Previous Rounds 1. England .vs. France- Winner: England- 46 2. England .vs. Germany- Winner: Germany- 69 3. Germany .vs. Romano- Winner: Romano- 26 4. Romano .vs. Denmark- Winner: Romano- 154 5. Romano .vs. China- Winner: Romano- 239 6. Romano .vs. Lithuania- Winner: Romano- 70 7. Romano .vs. Austria- Winner: Romano- 189 8. Romano .vs. Norway- Winner: Romano- 88 9. Romano .vs. Italy- Winner: Romano- 242 10. Romano .vs. America- Winner: Romano- 30 11: Romano .vs. Iceland- Winner: Romano- 228 12. Romano .vs. Ireland- Winner: Romano- 120 13. Romano .vs. Estonia- Winner: Romano- 244 14. Romano .vs. Japan-Winner: Romano- 96 15. Romano .vs. Finland-Winner: Romano- 86 16. Romano .vs. Netherlands- Winner: Romano- 132 17. Romano .vs. Russia- Winner: Russia- ?? 18. Russia .vs. Sweden- Winner: Sweden- 194 19. Sweden .vs. Greece- Winner: Sweden- 51 20. Sweden .vs. Portugal- Winner: Sweden- 36 21. Sweden .vs. Canada- Winner: Canada- 12 22. Canada .vs. Prussia- Winner- Prussia- 63 23. Prussia .vs. Spain- Winner- Prussia- 16 24. Prussia .vs. Turkey- Winner- Prussia

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hey!!!! remember standing rock water protectors and the dakota access pipeline?

the massive, poorly constructed environmental risk that spat all over the Standing Rock Sioux people's treaty rights? that dug up their sacred burial sites? the one where the oil corporation who owned it bought out a private company to do a sham of an "environmental analysis" and never consulted the tribe and STILL didn't actually get approval? the one that's literally operating illegally and without proper permits right fucking now?

yeah, that.

you remember that.

surprising absolutely no one, the army corps of engineers this week (September 8, 2023) released an EIS (environmental impact statement) draft for public comment that takes into account absolutely 0 of the tribe's concerns, and in fact did not consult with them once in the process!

they're going to officially approve the pipeline.

what's the good news?

IT'S A DRAFT. YOU CAN SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENT RIGHT NOW UNTIL NOVEMBER 13!!!

This link RIGHT HERE (https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/dapl-eis-2023) will take you to a Lakota Law Project page where they've set up a form to make it easy to submit a comment.

All you have to do is add your name, email, and zip code, and it pulls up a form with a pre-written message you can just click and submit, listing the most pressing concerns. You can also personalize it if you want, but you don't have to. This will take you two minutes. Please.

you can also access the comment information on the USACE website here, email NWO-DAPL-EIS@usace.army.mil yourself, or call Brent Cossette, the contact for the draft, at 402-995-2716!!!

you can also donate directly to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe here.

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Only food items specifically manufactured for animals counts.

If you have tried animal food, please let me know in the tags/replies what kind of animal it was meant for.

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Please reblog and add your nationality in the tags along with what you answered! I'm very curious about this; and it's not to shame anybody, so don't be rude!

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Okay I’m currently furious that migraines are often so blindly easy to treat and I had to find this out myself at the age of 26 when I’ve been to a neurologist since I was 11 lol so I’m about to teach you two neat and fast little tricks to deal with pain!

The first is the sternocleidomastoid muscle, or the SCM muscle.

This big red section is responsible for pain around the eye, cheekbone, and jaw, as well as some temple pain. Literally all you have to do is angle your head down a little, angle it away from the side that hurts, and then you can gently pinch and rub that muscle. I find it best to start at the bottom and travel upwards. The relief is so immediate! You can increase pressure as you feel comfortable doing so.

Here is a short and easy video showing this in action

The second is a fast and easy stretch that soothes your vagus nerve, which is the nerve responsible for calming you down. The vagus nerve, for those unfamiliar, is stimulated by deep breathing such as yawning, sighing, singing, or taking a deep breath to calm your anger in a tense situation.

You can stretch this out by sitting up as straight as possible (this does not have to be perfect to work) and interlacing your fingers. Put your hands on the back of your head with your thumbs going down the sides of your neck and, while keeping your face forward, look all the way to one side with just your eyes. Hold that until you feel the urge to breathe deeply or yawn, or until you can tell there’s a change. Then do the same thing on the other side. When you put your arms down, you should clearly be able to turn your head farther in both directions. If the first session doesn’t get rid of your migraine, rest and repeat as many times as necessary. I even get a little fancy with it and roll my eyes up and down along the outer edge sometimes to stretch as much as I can.

If you need a visual here’s a good video on it. I know some of the language they use seems questionable but this is real and simple science and should not be discarded because it’s been adopted by the trendy wellness crowd!

I seriously cannot believe I didn’t hear a word of this from any doctor in my life. Additionally, if you get frequent recurring migraines, you may want to see a dietician. Migraines can be caused by foods containing histamines, lectin, etc. and can also be caused by high blood pressure in specific situations such as exercise, stress, and even sex.

If any of this information helps you I’d love to hear it btw! It’s so so fast and easy to do. Good luck!

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Joey loves all foster babies

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lil tippy taps

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“Oh my love, the thing I would do just to be with you again”

Found this pic and have to draw Apollo with his boyfriend

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I need to see something.

Please reblog this and put in the tags if the surname "Donner" means anything to you (without looking it up first), and if it does, give one or two words that describe what you know. Please also include where you grew up, including the state if you grew up in the US.

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OC Bingo

Send me one of my OCs so I can fill in the Bingo card for them, marking which traits I think they have! Alternatively, fill in a Bingo card for a friend’s character that you love and send it to them!

Bingo is a game where you try to mark 5 boxes in a row, either horizontal, vertical or diagonal. The free space in the center is marked by default.

Original: rpgarden! I really liked the format, but it specified drawing/not drawing characters which I don’t do so it made getting a Bingo difficult so I made my own!

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This Ace Week I am once again so overjoyed that we have the ace-spec characters of Critical Role.

I’m so happy that we have canon aroace Caduceus Clay. Cad, who tramples happily over every awful stereotype of aroaces being cold and emotionless by being so full of warmth, deliberately kind to every plant and person he encounters. Who destroys every ‘unnatural’ stereotype by being the voice of the goddess of nature; who defies every ‘murderous aroace villain’ trope by being the party healer and cook, the Nein’s lifegiver. Who’s shown to have absolutely nothing missing from his life, because his love for his garden and his work and his families, both blood and found, fulfills him utterly.

I’m so grateful that we have canon demi mlm Essek Thelyss. After all the times I’ve heard ‘aces are just unattractive losers trying to cover for the fact that they can’t get a relationship’… here’s Essek, attractive and fashionable and charismatic, with his designer robes and well-manicured feet. Essek who’s shown to be a bit reticent about flaunting his good looks, like he’s just not interested in making his body available to people’s attraction, and whose friends don’t pressure him when all he’s comfy with is foot-dipping, or with lifting up bits of his shirt. Essek whose entire character arc is defined by a love that makes him change completely. Canon Demi Essek who’s shown building that deep bond of trust and knowledge with Caleb before their relationship begins.

I’m so glad we have canon demisexual Keyleth. Someone who has a ‘mostly asexual’ relationship with Vax, a relationship with ‘far less focus on the physical’ - and it’s shown as a deeply loving partnership which both of them are totally happy in and fulfilled by. Keyleth who gets so many scenes of nonsexual intimacy with Vax, who obviously has a relationship where she can say ‘I don’t really wanna have sex rn, can we just cuddle and I can pet your wings’ and he’ll go ‘fuck yeah.’ Keyleth who’s shown to care so much, about everything, who’s so often the moral core of her party, trying to push them to do what’s right, even when she’s not sure what ‘right’ is.

After all the tiring stereotypes and the misconceptions… CR gave us multiple aces. Aces with different identities, with different experiences and traits that different aces in the real world can relate to. Each of them destroying the aphobic stereotypes and tropes in different ways. Each enriching the world they’re in, enriching the overall representation by being there together.

So happy Ace Week to these funky little canon ace-specs. I’m so glad they’re here.

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spiraling bc the world seems bad....here are some uplifting headlines