actually I’m not going to reblog shit that blames the lack of it already being circulated on *checks notes* the US having a larger population than any individual European country.
your shit deserves to be talked about but dude can you maybe cool it on the “these people’s lack of knowledge is direct evidence that they hate and look down on everyone else in the world!!!”
sometimes there are just more people in a place impacted by some news than others.
Like don’t get me wrong, Americanization is genuinely an issue, and it really is difficult to find news on and connect with people like you when most of the people in a space are not like you. and if there are few to no spaces where folks like you can talk about your stuff, less of them know anything about any of it in the first place, and that creates a lot of issues!
but I’m tired of “US-centric” being used as a bludgeon against US Americans who don’t know about a particular non-US-relevant thing. it’s good for us to seek that knowledge out, sure- but this isn’t a personal moral failing. even aside from the fact that our whole country is built in a way that makes it a go-out-of-your-way task to learn about other places, and the fact that travel here is notoriously difficult and expensive (we border two countries, most individual states are very far inland from those borders, and crossing those borders can be extremely difficult), like…
there are a lot of us!
we’re not trying to push y'all out, there’s just. there are a lot of people here. we’re having a hard time finding info on your country, too, and I don’t think it’s wrong to prioritize the stuff that impacts us and our communities.
Call me whatever names you wish, but I think this is a much better (and healthier) attitude than “anyone under 18 should never be allowed to see any sexual imagery ever”
(For reference: this was at the Tom of Finland exhibition, containing actual, queer, kinky af pornography. There were definitely some young people there, perhaps in their late teens. There was even a parent with their baby who was probably too young to understand anything at all. And guess what, all those people are probably going to be fine.)
[ID: a sign saying “Please note: there is no age limit, but the exhibition is not recommended for children due to the explicit sexual imagery it contains. Parental or guardian discretion is advised.”]
Their flagship store and New York has unionized along with 3-4 other stores! This is happening! People are tired of being seen as dollar signs and being made to work just to get to work more, to survive instead of thrive. Keep it UP.
I was talking with my housemate about how to be more physically active if you’re not used to it at all because everywhere you’re told to start a training routine where you push yourself a little every day, and while that may seem easy for some people it can be really fucking daunting if you start from zero.
As someone who comes from a very physically active family that doesn’t exercise just for the sake of exercising but do things like walk to the grocery store and bike to work, here’s my advice that has always worked for me:
Go super duper easy on yourself.
If you want to walk more start by walking for 3 or 5 minutes. The shortest possible walk you feel you’re capable of. A trip around the block or across the yard. You don’t need to sweat or get your blood pumping. Just a short stroll. The hardest part is to convince yourself to set aside 5 minutes every day to go on this short walk but nothing else about it should be hard. Do it every day and one day you’ll realize that you don’t want to go home just yet. It’s very important that you don’t think “I want to pressure myself to walk further” but rather “I haven’t spent all my walking energy yet. I have more walk in me” and only then do you lengthen the walk. I repeat, at no point should it be exhausting or difficult because even when it feels easy your body will be building muscle and stamina and it will eventually feel too easy and you’ll naturally want to crank it back up to easy again.
If you’re not used to being physically active it might not make a ton of sense when I say that you’ll have more walking energy left but trust me, you’ll get it when you get there.
I grew up with going on evening walks with my parents and passed that on to other housemates who didn’t get it at first but are now going on walks long after they moved somewhere else. Because once you get the hang of it you’ll realize how calming it is on the brain to move the body even if the body isn’t exhausted afterwards.
And it of course helps to entertain yourself especially in the beginning. My housemate started out listening to audiobooks and podcasts but eventually realized Pokémon Go was the best motivator. Whatever you feel like you want to do on your 5 minute easy stroll.
Love this. Exercise should be individual. No pain no gain is a big lie most of the time. Just do a little bit if that’s what you can do. A little bit of something is better than a whole lot of nothing.
I just think things would be a lot easier if we could all come into conversations around power and oppression with the baseline understanding that while being a victim absolutely does not benefit anyone, being perceived as a victim does grant a certain measure of power.
there’s a reason it’s so common for abusers to claim victimhood before their victims have even been able to process the violence that’s happened to them.
the most advantageous position you could possibly hold is to be perceived as a victim of those you hold power over. to be granted “immunity” from the accusation of doing wrong.
people are tagging this with variations of “cis white women” and I just wanna say: you get it.
this is what “karens” are: cis white women who understand the power of perceived victimhood, and wield it against black men in particular.
this is why so many cis white feminists (TERFs and other radical feminists especially) seem so much more interested in wallowing in all the ways patriarchy makes life scary for them, and all the black and homeless and disabled and trans and otherwise marginalized people who are threats to them, than they are in actual liberation.
this is why they tend to avoid thinking or talking about the ways in which they benefit from the oppression of, or hold power over, other marginalized people- even if they spend time talking about patriarchy, or pay lipservice to racism or other forms of oppression in the abstract.
this is why they tend to perceive guilt as “an attack”: it threatens their power as the presumed victim, the person who is supposed to be so powerless she is simply incapable of harm.
the white supremacist patriarchal understanding of womanhood is that cis white women are helpless, and fundamentally incapable of being autonomous. they are also valuable, as potential wives and mothers, and thus worth coming to the rescue for.
this is a bad thing in that it revokes autonomy, but it’s a double edged sword: there is a power in being seen as incapable of harm, and deserving of sympathy and protection regardless of situation. and it is very, very difficult to give that power up.
i’ve died on smaller hills, so i can’t judge. but i do think it’s funny whenever posts about the proper definition of a poor little meow meow circulate, considering none of them mention that the origin was a kpop fan’s absolutely bonkers tweet about not being able to protect a full grown man who was getting backlash for including audio from the jonestown cult leader jim jones in one of his songs
I was clearly not at the devils sacrament what the fuck
Before you say no duh, remember that we need studies like this to quantify things for planning, government policy, and court cases, and also to help convince people who’s minds aren’t already made up.
I know I struggle to breath in heat like this, and hypoxia kills, especially when cars are involved.
I have a rare disease called primary erythromelalgia. When my body temperature gets too high*, my extremities turn bright red and hot to the touch. They itch, and then sometimes they burn.
Heat is a major barrier to access for me. I cannot go places that aren’t air conditioned on hot days. This limits my living options, my work options, and my recreation options. When people open the bus windows in the name of airflow, even though the bus is airconditioned, it can set off a flare. When there’s no shaded areas along the sidewalk, flare. When an event is only outside and only in the middle of the day, guess who might not get to go. I have friends whose apartments I can’t visit in the summer because they don’t have AC. At my last job, I needed a special accommodation to be able to go home when the air conditioning broke.
*“Too high” doesn’t have to be anywhere near heatstroke, btw. It doesn’t even have to be noticeable to me until I start bursting into flame.
Threads is the Hot New Garbagedump by Certified Scum Of The Earth and Facebook/Meta owner Zuckerburg. It is like if twitter was even worse.
There is ONLY a For You page, meaning you can never just see the posts from your followed accounts who, yknow, you followed for the purpose of seeing their posts.You can’t see those. you have to see the algorithm’s posts ONLY. You also require an instagram to get full access to all the features like Posting Images. You need a separate social media account to properly access this new social media. And once you’ve done so, the only way to delete your Threads account, is to delete you instagram account. The Whole Thing. For Some Fucking Reason. Not to mention, obviously since it’s zuckerburg, the thing syphons your personal information like crazy, worse still than twitter.
Like ALL your data. as much as it can get. (Love that it says “Other Data” btw. Nice subtle way of saying “whatever else we want”) ALSO wouldn’t you know it? It’s fucking banned in the EU because it violates a bunch of fucking privacy laws!! So it’s DEFINITELY not safe to use!
It is as predatory and exploitative as can be, created by someone that we collectively agreed Sucks Shit and Has No Empathy For Human Life and Individuality, and nobody should be touching it with a ten foot pole let alone sign up for it. Not even to test the waters or because it’s where everyone is heading, or to see how bad it is for yourself. It doesn’t matter if you’re joining to get an account ready in case the platform ends up the new big thing. You’re feeding the statistics. Even if you’re not using that account, Zuckerburg can show the number of signups to shareholders and investors to prove to them that it’s viable. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon in case it succeeds, inform people why they shouldn’t join, to reduce its chance of success! It’s like strikes and protests; The more of us get the word out, the more effective it’ll be!
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