There is a new subreddit called r/PeriodPantry that allows people who need period products to post wishlists. Many people are forced by poverty to chose between menstrual hygiene products and other necessities, and may end up skipping meals or suffering health problems or social isolation as a result of lacking hygiene products. Please feel welcome to post a period product wishlist, fulfill a wishlist, and/or reblog this post to help it reach others.
Hey, this is a really cool mutual aid group, if you need period products or can help someone get period products this is a great little group to check out.
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Today on ‘subject areas that use terminology that is way too suggestive for me to take seriously’: structural concrete.
- plain member
- reinforced member
- prestressed member
- sequential jacking
- yield penetration
- top and bottom fibre stresses
- 'Tables are available that indicate the approximate size of a member required for different purposes.’
- designing members for serviceability
I’m on the verge of calling in immature to work tomorrow, this is making me laugh way too hard.
Just came across the term 'crack friction’ and I bluescreened because I was like 'you need lube’ and 'yes, it would be if I wrote it’ simultaneously.
Today’s crop, as I return to this unit after some time working elsewhere:
- erection tolerances
- collapsible void-former
- yielding sacrificial member
- standard penetration test (okay)
- cone penetration test (sure)
- dilatometer (…)
Gonna give this list for my trans masc friends to take in during the bottom surgery consults.
(via hockpock)
We would be in a significantly better place as a people if “old” and “fat” could be neutral descriptions of fact and not seen as insults by default.
Just in case I need to say it, thin/young people can and should feel free to reblog this. That’s kinda my point.
The fact that this post got 10k+ notes before someone vomited a bunch of “there’s a weight limit on who I will afford basic respect toward” and “blah blah UNHEALTHY” bullshit, is a win. I mean it’s annoying as hell to have to suffer that at all, but if this was like 2015, it would have happened at 100 notes and I would have lost a crap ton of followers for defending myself and daring to suggest fatness is OK actually. So I’m taking the chance to be grateful for a little evolution.
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“I’ve been a massage therapist for many years, now. I know what people look like. People have been undressing for me for a long time. I know what you look like: a glance at you, and I can picture pretty well what you’d look like on my table. Let’s start here with what nobody looks like: nobody looks like the people in magazines or movies. Not even models. Nobody. Lean people have a kind of rawboned, unfinished look about them that is very appealing. But they don’t have plump round breasts and plump round asses. You have plump round breasts and a plump round ass, you have a plump round belly and plump round thighs as well. That’s how it works. And that’s very appealing too. Woman have cellulite. All of them. It’s dimply and cute. It’s not a defect. It’s not a health problem. It’s the natural consequence of not consisting of photoshopped pixels, and not having emerged from an airbrush. Men have silly buttocks. Well, if most of your clients are women, anyway. You come to male buttocks and you say – what, this is it? They’re kind of scrawny and the tissue is jumpy because it’s unpadded; you have to dial back the pressure, or they’ll yelp. Adults sag. It doesn’t matter how fit they are. Every decade, an adult sags a little more. All of the tissue hangs a little looser. They wrinkle, too. I don’t know who put about the rumor that just old people wrinkle. You start wrinkling when you start sagging, as soon as you’re all grown up, and the process goes its merry way as long as you live. Which is hopefully a long, long time, right? Everybody on a massage table is beautiful. There are really no exceptions to this rule. At that first long sigh, at that first thought that “I can stop hanging on now, I’m safe” – a luminosity, a glow, begins. Within a few minutes the whole body is radiant with it. It suffuses the room: it suffuses the massage therapist too. People talk about massage therapists being caretakers, and I suppose we are: we like to look after people, and we’re easily moved to tenderness. But to let you in on a secret: I’m in it for the glow. I’ll tell you what people look like, really: they look like flames. Or like the stars, on a clear night in the wilderness.”
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Before Pride Month really hits, here’s a quick reminder that it’s completely normal to pick up or shed different labels over the years. You learn new things about yourself and the queer community, you’re probably not the same person you were when you started your queer journey. Maybe you cut your hair or got that tattoo you always wanted or listen to other music. A lot might’ve changed, so why should labels be exempt from that?
Or maybe you’re not yet sure which label fits you - the same way you haven’t made up your mind which clothing style you like best. Maybe you’re hoarding a whole bunch of labels or maybe you don’t care much about labels at all and are just vibing. Either way, I hope you all enjoy the pride festivities whichever way you prefer.
Sincerely, your friendly neighbourhood queer (who used to identify as straight, then pan, now bi and as of now is still questioning my position on the ace spectrum and has given up on labeling their gender).
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So, while we’re all trying to fight one of the other terrible “think of the children” bills trying to ram its way through Congress, KOSA, we should also be talking about The EARN IT Act.
Long story short, it’s basically yet another surveilance bill using a “protect the children” bill, as a hideous meat-suit, putting restrictions on sites that’ll make them even more vicious towards NSFW content, creating a climate where using a VPN might be a crime, and they’ll be creating a federal committee to decide how best to spy on us!
Long story long, well, the Linktree is right here.
Beyond the stuff in the Linktree, I urge you to directly contact your congresspeoples and tell them to kill this bill, especially if they’re on the Judiciary Committee, which is currently marking up this bill.
The members of the committee are:
- Dick Durbin, Illinois, Chairman
- Dianne Feinstein, California
- Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island
- Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota
- Chris Coons, Delaware
- Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut
- Mazie Hirono, Hawaii
- Cory Booker, New Jersey
- Alex Padilla, California
- Jon Ossoff, Georgia
- Peter Welch, Vermont
- Lindsey Graham, South Carolina, Ranking Member (Ugh)
- Chuck Grassley, Iowa
- John Cornyn, Texas
- Mike Lee, Utah
- Ted Cruz, Texas (Double-ugh)
- Josh Hawley, Missouri
- Tom Cotton, Arkansas
- John Kennedy, Louisiana
- Thom Tillis, North Carolina
Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee(she cosponsored the bill, so probably not)So yeah, do what you can, even if it’s just boosting this terrible, terrible danger we need to thwart.
And, I will add, as with my previous KOSA poster, this poster is officially, for the sake of spreading it, under a CC0 license.
Feel free to spread it, remix it, add links to the bottom, edit it to be about the other bad internet bills they’re pushing, use it as a meme format, do what you will but for gods’ sake get the word out!
…And yes, for the record I was thinking of the Judas Priest song when I came up with the tagline for this one.
(via wilwheaton)
All the humanoid figures in the building you’re in suddenly come to life and are trying their hardest to kill you, (this means dolls, mannequins, sculptures, puppets etc but they have to be human-ish) How Screwed Are You?
I’m chilling. (there are none that i can think of)
slightly unnerved
Oh no (I could fight them off.)
OH NO! (can’t fight them off)
already dead (I live in a museum/large fashion store)
Add the approximate number in the tags!! If you’re wondering if something counts, drop a comment!
do those in the images of fictional characters have those characters’ powers? bc there’s gonna be a world of difference between fighting off legos and plushies versus fighting off tiny transformers and murder drones and cyborgs who can astral project into technology and such
Normies talking about getting whiplash from recipe blogs. You know nothing
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“available with premium subscription” “will be removed on the 31st” “available free with ads” “rent 4.99 buy 20.00″ “not available in your country” “not available on this device” what if every streaming service fucking killed itself and films ran around their fields free and organic in their natural state
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Yes, I would like to inquire about my missing salmon on the table
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Round 2: Poll 2
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oh my god you’re so right
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req’d by @inkyswampbones
so i made an attempt at a doodle…..
text: Skulls: everyone’s got 1!
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