Reblog to put testosterone into a glass of strawberry milk
ok so these new tariffs are likely going to be primarily affecting red states. i want y’all to ignore the urge to respond by saying the people in those red states deserve it because of the political representation we have. not because some of us are progressives but because this is an opportunity. if conservatives from these states start complaining about higher prices and financial strain, do not respond with “well you voted for this!” this is your opportunity to pull them to the center. say “wow that is really awful. i’m sure this isn’t what you wanted when you voted last year. you deserve representatives that will have your best interests at heart, you should let them know how upset you are! you deserve to be heard!”
because listen to me. republican politicians don’t give a shit about what progressives in red states have to say. they aren’t gonna change their voting trends for us. but if a bunch of small town conservatives start to get restless and angry with their politicians, if they lose support from their most important demographics, that has a shot at changing things. so swallow your pride and disgust and have a conversation with that republican truck driver instead of taking the pot shot that’ll get you 10 minutes of dopamine. do the hard work.
Time to roll this image out for the conservatives for once.
Make them mad that they've been made fools of, because that right there is an out. A lot of them are going to dig their heels in because if they admit that they were making shit choices then what have they been doing all this time? The sunk-cost fallacy wouldn't allow it.
But! What if they were flat out lied to? There's the excuse to back out! They didn't sign up for this, didn't know that they were voting for a liar (🙃 I know. I KNOWWW). But aren't they pissed now? At the guy who fucking SCAMMED them out of their vote?
yup. the republican party’s big pull is that they’re very good at pointing the finger at xyz minority group to blame them for the country’s ills. people like to know who to blame. conservatives especially like to know who to blame because very often they are not educated enough to understand what the actual problems are, because conservative politicians do not prioritize education.
so with the trump administration doing such a phenomenally horrible job at everything, now is the time to give those conservatives a group to blame. gas prices skyrocketing? trump isn’t following through on his promise to lower gas prices and i’m pretty sure those tariffs he imposed are why! groceries getting way too expensive? trump promised to make them cheaper but he’s doing the opposite!
if their options are imploding with embarrassment and having their entire worldview fall apart or ignoring reality, they’ll choose ignoring reality. if they have a third option of getting mad and blaming someone, that is the one they have been trained to choose. use that.
Guys. This works.
I live in the fucking Bible Belt. This place is so atrociously red that I am the weirdest person that most of the people I know have ever met.
I’m not even the weirdest person I’ve ever met. But we are few and far between.
And I’m telling you, they are angry about the same exact things we are. They just have a different narrative.
Now, FINALLY, we are coming to a point where there won’t be anyone else to blame properly EXCEPT the people in power.
And nothing, NOTHING, makes these guys listen closer than when you point out it was their special guy who did this to begin with and doesn’t that make you angry? This fucker lied to us!
Us. Not you. Us.
Because they did lie to us even if some of us didn’t buy it.
Make it us, the truck driver and the other guy next to him in the Kroger, against the evil dip shits in power.
That’s how they work.
Make them identify with YOU.
You may look different and like weird books instead of football and have a rainbow pin, but you’re here, in their community, dealing with the same grocery prices.
Make them see that.
And then point them in the right direction.
“Fucked up that the (insert policy) seems to be backfiring. I feel lied too. You?”
op turned off reblogs but i wanted this on my blog so i screenshotted it
Yeah.
Me at the beginning of this year: I’m so gonna fix my life dude this is gonna be the year everything changes I’m not gonna let anything slip through the cracks it’s time to live
Me approaching the end of March:
I actually changed a lot this March but it turns out the process of changing feels like this image too
i haven't seen anyone on tumblr talk about this yet but this is a problem. a major fucking problem.
This sucks so hard because I love poppers AND because the FDA appears to be making policy based on AIDS DENIALISM. Hoard PrEP
The fascists have clearly forecasted and already taken some steps in working to remove preventative care coverage requirements from the ACA. please be aware, they absolutely are coming for your PrEP. They want us to die of AIDS. have you met older fags who watched their communities die around them? I have, and these moves horrify me. We must take every possible action to preserve life-saving medication and the significant progress we have made in the AIDS epidemic. We cannot go back.
My other car is a rainbow trout
BIG PLESIOSAUR NEWS
I'm delighted to finally reveal the illustration I produced for the paper "Skin, scales, and cells in a Jurassic plesiosaur"!
While already excavated in 1940 this specimen was only really prepared in 2020 and new analysis methods revealed a wealth of details, many unseen until now.
Some of the coolest finds are thickened skin folds, remands of a possible tail fluke and scales on the paddles.
Beyond these superficial elements these specimen also has cellular details preserved. Among them melanophore traces hinting at the pigmentation of the animal.
You can read more about it in the publication! Also, stay tuned for more stuff regarding fossils from Holzmaden!
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00001-6
Anyone with a milk allergy needs to be on high alert. In the midst of a flurry of ongoing food recalls, the FDA has updated its initial recall of a handful of Cal Yee Farms' chocolate products to the highest risk level. Originally, the FDA announced a recall of numerous Cal Yee Farm products because they may have contained undeclared milk, soy, wheat, sesame, FD&C #6, and/or almonds. The recall has now been elevated by the FDA to the most serious level of recall, Class 1, for only a few of the affected products: the company's dark chocolate almonds, dark chocolate apricots, and dark chocolate walnuts because the chocolates contained undeclared milk.
What the...
We need to not stop talking about how Trump cut back food safety regulations during his first term and it had exactly the effect that logically would.
Every right leaning imbecile wants to pretend those rules were just arbitrarily hurting business owners, and that recalls were always this bad but are just reported more all the sudden.
No. It is really as simple as the fact that we had rules to reduce this sort of thing, a greedy idiot changed some of those rules, and now this sort of thing is astronomically worse.
We also need to talk about the fact that the threat of fines really was the only reason these brands bothered to practice even the most obvious quality checking or sanitation.
I'd say "they would just shit into your food if it would save them a dollar" but the unprecedented number of overlapping E. Coli outbreaks already indicate fecal contamination.
thinking about this horrific story alongside that of Kelaia Turner, a 12 black child who attempted suicide at 12 yrs old after being relentlessly tormented by her racist classmates and teachers. after surviving the attempt, she was stalked and harassed by her bullies who took pictures of her whilst she was in a coma at the hospital, and now that she is conscious she is completely immobile, unable to speak, and requires constant care. white people are raising demon children and the world should burn several times over for these two little girls.
The G*F*ndM* started by Kelaia's parents is just short of their goal
https://gofund.me/2ec6e9bf
USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.
Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.
If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.
Are you with me?
Spread the word.
I see a lot of people bringing attention to Sam Nordquist's murder, and the fundraiser for his funeral. What he went through was horrible, and I wish he'd experienced this kind of support in life as well. Thank you to the community and our allies for speaking up for him.
Around the same time the news about his murder was breaking, a Black trans woman was also murdered in my neck of the woods. Her name was Tahiry Broom. Her family says she loved making people laugh, that she was full of energy and confidence. She was only 29.
Her murderer called 33 sex workers, several of whom were also trans women. He had no money on him. He intended to rob and/or kill at least one woman that day, who he felt society wouldn't rally for or miss. She was just the woman who fell into that category, for him.
Please donate to the GoFundMe organized by her aunt, Patricia Bender. Tahiry deserved so much better. She deserved a full life. Her family is trying to make sure she's surrounded by love in death. From the date of this post (Feb. 18, 2025), it's 4 days until her service (Feb. 22, 2025).