if ur dealing to the people on the left you’d just say “$45 a gram” and theyd be like “yeah bro sure dude i gotchu thats legitness ur the man” but the ppl on the right u gotta finesse like “my normal price is $15 a g but this stuff is called Cosmic Throat Cum Squirt Haze so the lowest i can go is $50″ and theyd b like “wow… so cultured… i cant wait to smoke this out of my native american themed bong…”
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Do y'all not remember the russian spies that plagued tumblr??
this site has been on a noticeable decline from the moment they expunged the russian chaos agents
Tumblr had what
I like how the consensus on this site was that despite being a constant dumpster fire of failure, the one thing the admins were able to successfully figure out was an international espionage ring orchestrated from the kremlin as opposed to thinking maybe, just maybe, they banned a bunch of funny black people because hillary ate shit in 2016
It’s really fucking weird that people are pretending this didn’t happen.
I can specifically speak about lagonegirl as I was a follower. They never spoke to their followers. Their posts all had a similar format to Vox posts at the time. They would leave a written funny comment on their posts turns out those were taken from Twitter users and written out like it was their own words. The many popular Black tumblr users rebloged the posts and added more funny comments and post would get widely shared.
I’m starting to wonder if this is a new Russian scam. Get people to belief it didn’t happen so they can do it again.
having sorted through the replies on this post, there are two camps:
1. people saying yes, russian psyops on social media accounts were totally a thing. they copied real content (which could be traced back to their original sources) but edited and modified in ways that helped them shape the conversation in the direction that served their purpose. source: here are 5 sources documenting it
2. people saying no, russian psyops was never a thing. uhhhh, duh! pfff, you believed that? cringe. OBVIOUSly fake.
I gotta add they were on *all* the damn socials, it’s just that Tumblr hoards its old junk whereas all the others only want new content front and centre. If we didn’t sift through our ashes so much we’d have forgotten, too.
Oh yeah I forgot to add before this fell out of the queue, obviously no one thinks staff figured that out on their own. It was a massive international intelligence operation that also included facebook, reddit, twitter, instagram, youtube, buzzfeed somehow, and teams of competent professional intelligence analysts.
Afterwards the inquiry concluded that the russian trolls (of whom several were in fact indicted) specifically targeted Black voters to divide and undermine their vote
op was purpose-designed to alienate and disenfranchise Black Americans, “a bunch of funny black people” try a bunch of digital blackface, just a wholeass online minstrel show
We’ve lived through such interesting times, haven’t we?
[without glancing up from my Library Book about History]
Ok guys you do know that every major Empire employs PsyOps pretty much 24/7, right?
China’s combination Space Force and Cyberwarfare Army was formally launched in 2015. These agencies have full-time employees, you know? This is what they do.
Russia has been big into telecom as a vector for Imperial directives all throughout the history of the technology and they did not miss a beat when we switched from analog to digital.
Every time there’s a big election, there’s folks on some government payroll on every social worth a damn trying to steer the conversation. This isn’t even new! It’s just another branch of Propaganda, really, which all Empires engage in. They did it with television. They did it with Radio. They did it with newspapers. This is basic Statecraft.
Cultivate Skepticism.
There are far more players to this game than just Russian Trolls, and this year is an important one. Tumblr is a small pond but something is sure to show up. Be wary. Stay calm. Fact check.
A lot of leftists are half a step away from outright saying “People who can’t work are bourgeois.”
If you can conceive of “working class” and “owning class”, might I note that anyone who is not “owning class” and is unable to find/perform work is dependent on whoever/whatever they can find to support them because of the fact that we live within capitalism, making them infinitely more vulnerable to abuse, including from those who are “working class.”
This includes and is not limited to:
Disabled people
Children
The elderly
Single parents who don’t have the income for childcare and need to stay home
“[R]ather than waiting until watered-down regulations were issued publicly and then responding, issue by issue, this meant the government would have to respond to the demonstrators…People would go and stay, until the issue was resolved definitively.”
A lot of sentiments I see online about “just standing up for yourself” fall apart when considering that a common consequence of “standing up for yourself” is losing a key part of your current support network.
It’s hard to tell someone to stop being transphobic to you when you carpool with them to work, and it’ll get a lot more expensive without them. Can your budget tolerate that cost, or is it the expense that stretches you too far?
It’s hard to tell someone that they need to be more polite to you when they’re the one who helps walk you through legalese. Can you find someone else to do it for you, or are you left floundering?
It’s hard to tell someone to stop being sexist to you when they’re the one writing your reference letter. Do you have someone else who can be your reference, or are they the only one whose letter would be accepted?
In order to be able to stand up for yourself, you need to be able to bear the potential consequence of that person leaving. You need to either have redundancy in your network, or be able to pay for what they did for you. Safety is about more than if someone will hit you.
Do it anyway.
Tolerating bigotry will only diminish your mental health anyway. Good luck with carpooling when the ropes snaps tight around your throat.
I have stood up for myself and always will because I’d rather make the whole world my enemy than make an enemy of myself.
Justifying bigotry is pathetic and you should all feel bad for allowing trash like this to sway you.
Fuck Nazi rehtoric.
This post is not about justifying bigotry. It’s about sometimes being unable to act against it because of second and third order consequences.
Carpooling with a bigot is stressful. You still need to get to work. If you don’t have another way to get to work that’s in your budget, then, suddenly, you have a cascade of consequences.
You lose your job, because you can’t get to it. If you’re American, you lose your health insurance. You quite possibly lose any connections you had at that job, because not being able to get to work gets you seen as a flake, and probably as a liar, given that one of the common interview questions is about having reliable transportation. You don’t have a good reference to get another job, because they see you as a flake. If you’re carpooling, you probably don’t have good transportation to another job. Are there any available jobs in an area you don’t need a car to get to? Are you qualified for any of them? Do those jobs pay enough to survive? Even if it’s enough for you to survive, is someone depending on you? Is it enough for them to survive on as well?
It’s a hard thing, to weigh your dignity against your child’s ability to go to the doctor. I find it hard to judge people for that choice, regardless of its outcome. Nobody should have to make it.
Of course, if someone has a support network that makes it safe for them to act, they should. In a perfect world, everyone would be able to. But there is no benefit to antifascism in insisting that people ignore indirect consequences. If this upsets you, consider working on safety nets in your community so that people can more securely stick to their principles.
It’s still justifying supporting bigotry.
Secondary and tertiary consequences are expected and par for the course. There’s a reason why we have the “Nuremberg Defence” and we’ve literally hung people from their necks because they’ve justified their support of the atrocious because of their mundane happenstance.
No matter the reason, do right. Your lack of action in the moment could lead to another’s death/rape/abuse. If you’re not willing to stand and fight upon the hill of ethics then maybe yours aren’t exactly based upon solid foundations.
Most of your reasoning is “American circumstances” which is built upon avoiding noticing the bigots in your midst. Where did that get them? Half a country out of their mind on self inflicted rage bait used to spurn hatred from the rich to any minority available? You’ve failed yourselves, don’t put it on the rest of the world to follow suit. Maybe instead, forsake any chance at a perfect world and live a martyr doing what you can for the next in line.
Suffer now so that the next generation doesn’t have to instead of kicking the buck down the line for another to shoulder.
There’s a reason American philosophy isn’t respected anymore and I think you should take a look in the mirror as to why.
As a child I went homeless and took my family to court over this shit. From the words of my siblings, who are all in better places, the change started with me. I’m broken and warped but at least what I did changed the world, even if a small amount, for the better.
What can you say in that regard? That you rolled over? That you couldn’t put yourself on the line? Yeah, figures. Save someone, anyone, through your actions and get back to me.
I think we are talking past each other because we are thinking of severely different degrees of bigotry. Reporting sexist comments may not be worth losing your job over, but reporting sexual harassment or assault is a different story. Telling your friends about one of them’s racist microaggressions may not be worth it, but racial slurs definitely are. In addition, the post is about bigotry directed towards you, not towards others.
I am willing to stand and fight on the hill of ethics, and I have in the past. But we need to pick our battles, or else we end up dying for nothing but our own pride. You may disagree, but I don’t think that martyrhood is nearly as useful as living and helping each other. The core of my ethics is to reduce harm as much as possible. That approach requires forethought and temperance in order to avoid bad consequences outweighing good ones. Again, you may disagree with that.
You do seem to agree that it’s important to help the next generation. I don’t think it helps them if their parents behave recklessly, especially if it’s to the point of death. Lack of medical care, food, shelter, affection, attention, etc. isn’t good for kids, and good parents have to weigh that too when considering their actions. It’s not always just your own safety that you risk. That needs to be considered.
I know what I’ve done for others, and I am proud of the difference that I’ve made. I am not interested in laying out my deeds for you, particularly since it would violate the privacy of others.
As someone who grew up with “I’m not going to praise you for doing what’s expected of you; that’s not being good, that’s doing the bare minimum” I want to encourage you to celebrate every little thing you can. Everything that takes energy and effort should be appreciated and you’re allowed to be happy about trying.
For the most part, my approach to prescribing hormones is “sure,” but I will note that the one thing I lean HARD on patients about is smoking. If you’re transgender, and you’re on hormones, the number one thing we want to protect is your cardiovascular health. That’s frankly the number one thing I want to protect in all my patients, but anyone taking exogenous hormones is at higher baseline risk. And the best thing you can do for your heart is DON’T SMOKE. It’s a bitch to quit, and I didn’t even smoke much or long before I quit in my late teens, and I STILL didn’t enjoy quitting and had smoking dreams for years. It’s harder to quit than just about anything else up to and including crack and heroin, and that’s coming from a patient of mine who recently passed in her early 60s who’d done all of those things—for years and years—but eventually was able to quit everything except smoking. And that killed her. She developed severe COPD and eventually called to say her blood oxygen saturation was dipping into the 70s, which is incompatible with life. She was lucid enough to decline medical care, including refusing to call 911 or go to the ER. A week later, after both I and one of our outreach nurses had contacted her to ask her to please go to the ER, I got a notification that she’d been found dead. She had been so frustrated that she wasn’t a candidate for a lung transplant.
One of my oldest trans patients is in her late 50s. She’s had blood clots that went to the lungs. Repeatedly. Smoking raises that risk. Estrogen raises that risk. She’s a veteran with PTSD; of course she smoked.
These aren’t theoretical. These are humans I’ve cared for over years of their lives. I have been rooting for them—my beloved former addict, who spoke without shame about her years of homelessness and drug use in the city; my queer elders, who are slowly trading in their motorcycles for power scooters. I want everyone to live their fullest, best life.
Smoking doesn’t fit into that. Please don’t smoke. I don’t want you to die like that—not now and not later. I want you to have the future that you may not be able to see yet, but exists.
Since I moved home as an out queer, word got out, and there’s a whole apartment complex of lesbians in their 60s to their 80s who come see me—sitting next to their wives in the office, nagging about blood pressure meds, tattling about not having gotten the shingles shot they said they would. To be clear, when I was growing up in town, I knew no lesbians. Not one. I knew one gay kid in my class, which eventually turned into two. We were it. To see these women living decades with their wives and being able to squabble like any couple in my office over who was supposed to bring their home blood pressure cuff in for us to check it… it means the world to me.
So, just a reminder that spite is a great reason to quit smoking.
Also, I keep hearing people RAVE about the book The Easy Way to Quit Smoking by Allen Carr. You can do this - other people have done this! There’s help out there. And spite.
Good addition! Quit smoking to stand against capitalism!
HI harm reduction for anyone who just picked up the habit and feel very black and white about everything! Or anyone feeling too black and white and going well I guess I’ll die then who cares! Harm reduction here
- smoke less! Make arbitrary rules about when you get to smoke. Tie smoking to some thing you hate to do but need to get done. Like, I only get to smoke when I do (thing I gotta do). Or I only get to smoke… when I am dressed for the day and have left the house. Whatever works from where you’re starting. No smoking indoors, whatever, only 1 cigarette after work, make shit up
- If you’re doing the “i only smoke when I drink” or “I only smoke socially” and it’s becoming hanging out w smokers more often or drinking more often -> switch it up w prior thing new rules. I only smoke… alone. I don’t smoke… with coffee. Whatever. Smoking w other smokers IMO only leads to more smoking don’t do that for either of you
- Get your space smelling less of cigarettes. Like, wash your clothes all of em, designate one item your smoking jacket or whatever. Basically work to overcome the olfactory fatigue so you can actually smell how much you stink. I swear this one works even if you currently feel that you like the smell
- if you JUST STARTED, but your mental health is so shit that you don’t have it in you not to smoke, moderate as well as you can to stave off the actual addiction part. Like, switch to lower nicotine cigarette brands (lights don’t mean less, google this one). Don’t smoke every day. Go every other. Make that your hard line - not every day. Give future you a better chance at kicking it
- In any context of this any starting point, supporting yourself through other avenues will help. Quality sleep, nutrition, exercise, mental health care, whatever all the basics anything achievable for you do those things if you can
- Substitute treats. Pick other things to treat yourself. Food, tv, bed rot, whatever. Let your id have other stuff that’s not smoking
Ok im done this is all just. Idk stuff I wish I’d known decades ago that I hope can help others. There can be more to it than just quitting or not quitting if you feel stuck or hopeless in it cheers on the nebulous other
It’s also worth noting that people get discouraged by repeated attempts to quit, but the people who succeed at quitting and making it stick? Are people who have on average tried many, many times! Don’t beat yourself up if you struggle. The struggle is not weakness, it’s where the success comes from.
1. Smoking killed my twin at the age of 40, don’t fucking do it.
2. Almost 20 years after I quit I still have dreams where I’m smoking again. And they’re always like “FUCK I GOTTA POST ABOUT THIS” because
3. The most useful thing I did (I did a couple of things, including smoking the fuck cheap nastiest rolling tobacco I could find to break myself of the idea that “smoking was pleasant” * and tapering down over I think two months? It was 2005 guys I don’t remember the details) was telling the internet the day I quit and publicly promising to confess to starting again. Then I whooped and hollered and demanded praise for all my milepost goals – and still do to this day, except now Oct 29 is kind …urgh… because it was the one day Amy put up with me nagging about them quitting and obviously. That did not happen.
It’s the same principle as the keychains or coins the Anon groups use tho – something tangible to prove to yourself that you’ve made it so far.
4. I did in fact get interrogated about if I smoked several times during the whole process of boob removal, and I did in fact stand over Amy’s grave and cast that up to them. At minimum I would have been expected to be clean of nicotine for a month before and after and I saw some sources saying 6 weeks was the absolute least amount of time their surgeons would accept.
*believe me, smoking what’s swept off the processing room floor for a month makes you very clear about if you enjoy smoking or if you are addicted to nicotine
I have used this for many years. Definitely b do it.
This article was super long-winded so I screenshat the important part
the fact we’re responsible for getting doctors to “lower their defenses” in order to literally just do their jobs is ✨INFURIATING✨
This literally leaves me shaking in rage
Yeah, while I was actively in the throes of dying, I had to politely hedge my way around asking doctors if they thought it might be XYZ that was causing my totally weird symptoms because so-and-so told me I reminded them of their mum’s friend who had a similar problem.
If I tried to be direct or disagreed, I was politely rebuffed with the suggestion that I might benefit from “prolonged psychiatric care,” i.e., fuck off, or we’ll put you on a psyche hold. And I knew on some level I would not survive that. I just knew my time was running out, and I was still having to be polite to these fucking assholes who looked at me and saw a mad woman who’d somehow escaped her attic.
I remember the exact moment I was sitting in the hematologist’s office, politely trying to float the idea of MCAS past him by talking about it in abstracts in the desperate hope it might connect some dots for him and make him think he came up with it by himself.
And he just looked up at me, and I could see that he knew what I was doing. That I was feeding him breadcrumbs. I also saw the moment when he realized I was likely right, and he put his ego aside in favor of helping the patient in front of him. He was frank; he told me he didn’t know how to help me, but he had a former colleague who specialized in mast cell disorders, and I should talk to her.
But before that, he wanted to look at my blood more closely because he had a gut feeling and oops, look at that. I was literally hours away from organ failure because the lifelong pernicious anemia I’d been afflicted with had been misdiagnosed as a mood disorder.
I’d been living on borrowed time for so long my body had been shutting down in front of him, and I’d still dragged myself to the clinic, dressed nicely, and put makeup on because failure to do so made me a Bad Patient who didn’t take care of myself. And all the while, I was still playing fucking 4d chess with doctor’s egos because God forbid a patient know their own body and have thoughts about it.
Anyway, shout out to U of M hematology department for not being filled with egotistical cunts and saving my life ✌
We shouldn’t have to jump through these hoops, but this is the hell world we live in.
solidarity between people who want to take psychiatric meds to function and those who don’t.
What’s important is that we both have autonomy, informed consent and safe access to treatments we want, and to not be forced, coerced or pressured into those we don’t.
Hi. I’m Geo. You probably have a decent idea of what this blog is about from the header.
I am a radical inclusionist. I don’t think that people that aren’t queer go around accessing queerness for clout because I don’t think that queerness is accepted enough for it to be worth it. Same for being disabled. If someone is lying, then that’s their fault, not mine for not questioning them.
I take cults and emotional abuse seriously. I know how people can control you without ever speaking to you. I know how people can trap you while others think you’re free to leave. I know how it can be orchestrated for others to turn on you. You are safe here. You are believed.
I take medical abuse seriously, and believe that therapy can be abusive too. It’s another branch of medicine, and can be just as lifesaving and just as flawed as any other. I believe you when you say you were hurt.
I believe that restricting human rights from any group, no matter how harmful the group, causes immeasurable knock-on harm to marginalized people. It will always be easier to frame marginalized people, and those who are privileged and guilty will almost always get out of it. This is also why I think that callout culture is a net negative for marginalized communities.
I have a right to personal privacy. I may restrict information for my personal safety. I will decline to comment on situations where I feel like I do not have an informed enough opinion. I will block people that demand personal information or opinions after I have declined.
I have a blanket policy of blocking for suicide baiting. I don’t care why you did it. I don’t think it was justified. I don’t care if it was a joke. I don’t think it was funny. I do care if you regret it. I still won’t unblock you. Go think about why you’re okay with being someone’s executioner, and why you think you’re worthy of that power.
Land Back.
Reparations.
Defund the police.
Prison abolition.
Decriminalize sex work and support your local sex workers.
Decriminalize homelessness.
Criminalize rent, golf, and discrimination against fat people and hair texture.
Recriminalize monopolies.
Join a union.
Attend your local library and community center.
Universal basic income should be a living wage.
Universal healthcare and daycare.
Marriage equality for disabled people and polyamorous people.
Pass the SSI Restoration Act.
Reform the foster system.
Free college.
Children’s rights are a critical human rights issue.
End the artificial cap on medical school attendance.
Run for local office, you won’t change everything but you can shift something.
Primitivism will kill disabled people.
Recognize that issues outside of the US are often different, and that priorities may differ because of that.
alright i am sick of yt to mp4 sites being shady and full of viruses and finding websites that seem to be working and then don’t work (looking at you y232 (no hate, just frustrated))
so HERE’S HOW YOU DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS WITH VLC!! VLC FREAKIN RULES!!
get your youtube link
open vlc, go to media > open network stream
paste your url in the box and PRESS PLAY!
wait for the video to open then go to tools > codec information
copy the entire file location (click the box, then ctrl-a to select all, then ctrl-c to copy)
paste into your browser of choice (i use firefox)
right click video and press “save video as”, choose your file format if you want
Navigate to C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist (or whatever equivalent there is on Mac; if you have a Mac just fish around in the program files you’re bound to find it somewhere)
Open youtube.luac with a text editor like Notepad
Delete whatever’s in there and replace it with ALL of the stuff with the github file.
Save the file, restart VLC, and then it should work.
PLEASE REBLOG THIS ADDITION FOR THE LOVE OF CRUMBCAKE THIS IS RIDICULOUSLY IMPORTANT
(and re: other additions in the tags, I hear you and that’s totally fair you want quality! but if you really don’t care and/or those websites are blocked, this is a workaround you can use)
As a side note this is all perfectly legal. When sued by google, the French courts (because VLCs parent organization is French) concluded that because Youtube was distributing their videos for free, people had every right to download them for free, and no violation of intellectual property was being committed.
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