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EVERYONE(!) I’m blazing this post because at this pace we might barely hit 1,000,000 signatures—or just fall short. PLEASE reblog this post, no matter where you are from, so we can reach as many EU citizens as possible and end this horrible practice!

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Forgetting Something?

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GET YOUR BODY OUT OF SURVIVAL MODE SO YOU CAN CREATE FROM YOUR HEART

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- A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers // kagonekoshiro

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I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains

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This YouTube comment had me leaning hands braced on knees like that person who had to take their shirt off to process Destiel becoming canon.

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Just an FYI. The FDA is not allowed to announce any food recalls due to the health communications pause the current administration enacted. You can still find this information by visiting USDA the site directly.

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls

Here’s the fda link to use to search for recalls, safety alerts, and market withdrawals.

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts

So, while you are making your grocery list, you may want to visit the recalls list since there’s no public communication right now.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/white-house-pauses-federal-grants/

So, the facts are, most universities in the US are kept in business by grants. Professors and researchers apply for grants, grants pay their salaries, their equipment, their space, their travel, and their students. This includes Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, Project Assistants etc. this is true across pretty much all academic disciplines. Often what this means is, the professor does their thing, their TA teaches the bulk of classes, students get taught, all while the university makes a profit.

If you kill grants, you kill all of this. This will give universities the excuse to cut tenured faculty, because the university can't afford them directly. This will cut grad students, because this is the only way grad students are paid for. With no grad students, many classes will suddenly not have teachers. Classes will be cut, teachers fired, and the universities will likely have to increase tuition to make up the difference. Knowing universities, they will not cut the number of incoming students coming in (that's their money!) so now classrooms will be packed to the gills with professors that are both underworked and underpaid.

This is just one segment of the people being impacted by this week of horseshit, but believe me, colleges will be permanently altered.

But isn't this just temporary, you ask? Possibly. Much of this is likely to be permanent, definitely in my field. This is coming from the executive order that includes

So anything that can be argued as "woke", "Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies" will not be funded. You can tell those words are squishy to the point of meaningless, but that's the point. Anything can be squished into those categories. Certainly my ecology work is toast.

Anyway if you see a scientist or an academic or a doctor or what have you, please be kind to us. This is... unprecedentedly bad

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/white-house-pauses-federal-grants/

So, the facts are, most universities in the US are kept in business by grants. Professors and researchers apply for grants, grants pay their salaries, their equipment, their space, their travel, and their students. This includes Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, Project Assistants etc. this is true across pretty much all academic disciplines. Often what this means is, the professor does their thing, their TA teaches the bulk of classes, students get taught, all while the university makes a profit.

If you kill grants, you kill all of this. This will give universities the excuse to cut tenured faculty, because the university can't afford them directly. This will cut grad students, because this is the only way grad students are paid for. With no grad students, many classes will suddenly not have teachers. Classes will be cut, teachers fired, and the universities will likely have to increase tuition to make up the difference. Knowing universities, they will not cut the number of incoming students coming in (that's their money!) so now classrooms will be packed to the gills with professors that are both underworked and underpaid.

This is just one segment of the people being impacted by this week of horseshit, but believe me, colleges will be permanently altered.

But isn't this just temporary, you ask? Possibly. Much of this is likely to be permanent, definitely in my field. This is coming from the executive order that includes

So anything that can be argued as "woke", "Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies" will not be funded. You can tell those words are squishy to the point of meaningless, but that's the point. Anything can be squished into those categories. Certainly my ecology work is toast.

Anyway if you see a scientist or an academic or a doctor or what have you, please be kind to us. This is... unprecedentedly bad

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Homestuck Theory

Okay so in Homestuck, Hussie often depicts himself wearing this green shirt

This shirt is actually a real piece of MSPA merch for Problem Sleuth

However, as you can see, the real shirt’s design is much more complex than the one worn by in-comic Hussie.

So my theory, what if every shirt in Homestuck is actually a simplified stand-in for a more complex design?

What if we’ve been doing Homestuck cosplay all wrong?

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Honestly as someone who reads tarot, has tarot, and is also WKM themed but *well done at that in using visuals to read cards*—

Honestly, this is good. Make sure to if you do keep going, look into symbolism of how the cards also *thematically* work with eachother, the suits of cards, clear down to Major and Minor Arcana.

As they say, the reader of the cards with a good made deck; whether the card is upright, or reversed, should be able to discern the general message and meaning of the card, based on the detail/nuances therein to the meaning itself; making the rest of the deck along with it easier to decipher during readings.

The minimalist design on these, is perhaps best for that dramatic traumatizing "story" we all know and adore.

Because [not that OP doesnt know], every Major Arcana, is also a part of the Fool [0]'s journey through the Major Arcana, life cycles and lessons abounding.

Good luck on your makings, you did really nicely imo OP-!

(I need coffee and it is early.)

Did somebody say WKM Tarot? No? Well, I did now! It was very fun to sneak all the little references in :) I found the cards to fit very well.

As a Tarot enthusiast, I needed to put them into this little cross over. I hope the idea is new enough, I haven’t dug into deeply the fanart yet!!