Dragons Make Everything Better

25. Clarke. They/them. White. I’m really queer and really tired. All I do is eat book dissociate and gradually become a better person

Pops’s Great Big Mutual Aid Masterpost

hater-of-terfs:

So, this isn’t the first post ever made like this, but I’m trying to do something a little different than just posting a bunch of links. I’m only gonna include resources that are international, common, displayed either as a map or as a geographically-sorted list, and easy to participate in, to make this masterpost as accessible as I possibly can. If you’re reading this post you’re probably an English-speaker with an internet connection, and so with that in mind my goal here is that any given link you click will have a decent chance of having something near you, and there will almost certainly be at least one link on this list with something you can plug into

Groups

  • Mutual Aid Wiki - A map of mutual aid groups of all kinds, largely (but not exclusively) ones started in response to the pandemic
  • Food Not Bombs - A map of free public meals from rescued food waste. Can be a little outdated
  • Buy Nothing Project - A list of hyper-local gift economy groups
  • Trash Nothing - A list of local groups where people give and request things that would otherwise be thrown away
  • Transition Network - A map of local groups seeking to build sustainable circular economies from the ground up, for people, not profits
  • Industrial Workers of the World - One big labor union for everybody, with local chapters across much of the world

Locations

Sharing Spaces

Can’t Find Anything?

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beemovieerotica:

everythingeverywhereallatonce:

everythingeverywhereallatonce:

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Stanford president’s research under investigation
Marc Tessier-Lavigne faces years of allegations of scientific misconduct in his research, including papers he co-authored containing images
The Stanford Daily
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Stanford president resigns over manipulated research
Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne will resign effective Aug. 31. He will also retract or issue lengthy corrections to five widely cite
The Stanford Daily

holy shit this kid who took down the PRESIDENT OF STANFORD is an EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD FRESHMAN????? imagine being the president of an elite university with a celebrated scientific career and you get taken down by a TEENAGER writing for the student paper of your own university who broke a story about decades of data manipulation and scientific misconduct that led to an eight-month investigation (which itself was riddled with issues that the same student reporter also continued to expose). imagine being on the board of trustees or in any other position of leadership at this institution and watching this teenager clown on you for not being able to do your fucking jobs. he had to lay it all out on a fucking platter for you to bring it home. insane.

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lmao bi flag website design… okay slay

okay so I HAD to check and

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HE WAS FOUND OUT BY THE SAME SCIENTIST WHO CAUGHT THE INFAMOUS ALZHEIMER’S FRAUD !!!

her name is Elisabeth Bik and she is an absolute legend, she quit her day job to focus on combing through thousands of scientific papers a week, for no pay, to identify cases of data manipulation and scientific fraud

her patreon is here

the full documentation of Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s data manipulation is here

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roadhogsbigbelly:

been watching more tiktoks from this twink and honestly this is one of the most interesting academic discussions i’ve seen in a while

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captainhaterade:

1989nihil:

bethfuller:

bethfuller:

does anyone have that unsettling oil painting of a dark window with a sheet leading out into the darkness? it did the rounds on tumblr a while ago and i need itttt

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YES THANK YOU

Dragan Bibin, Dead of Night

@lee-and-other-things​

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i don’t… see a dog???  👀

Litmus test for “is the brightness on your phone too low for art appreciation”

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liquidstar:

ajhasaplan:

liquidstar:

adventure time lore is insane. it starts off just being a goofy kids show that has magic for no reason, but then you learn that all magic users are manic and/or depressed (what betty calls sadness and madness). because it turns out magic is actually a cosmic force beyond mortal comprehension, that itself was learned from cosmic entities that predated the existence of time itself inside a sea of monsters. and “magic” really is just understanding more about the nature of the universe than most people. that, in a way, reality isnt “real” and understanding that allows you to mold it. and thats magic. but that drives you to insanity and/or apathy. and there are beings who hold significant cosmic importance who are more prone to magic. and the reason magic became prevalent on earth is because of a nuclear war a thousand years ago, which released the entity that represents the destruction of all life onto the world. and after a nuclear apocalypse this gave way to a new earth, where magic could thrive. but a lot of the beings we see arent even magical, theyre just mutants from what happened 1000 years ago. and humanity as we know it has been all but wiped out. but everything stays the same because cycles of war and violence continue. and it doesnt matter if its nukes or magic. everything stays the same, but still changes.

bwhat?

how do the stretchy yellow dog and princess made of candy figure into this

so the stretchy yellow dog believed his powers to be magic, while the princess suggest that it’s actually just a mutation. neither of these are true, what actually happened was that his dad got infected with alien eggs and gave birth to him out of his head which makes him half alien half dog and thats where the powers come from. this isnt revealed until way later on and his alien dad eventually comes back into the fold to give him an identity crisis.

the princess made out of candy actually is sort of a mutant. she was born from a giant mutated wad of gum called the “mother gum”- it came into creation during the war from the radiation and such. its a bunch of separate sentient wads of gum all attached to each other, PB just ended up being the first one to drop off from it and gain independence (along with her brother neddy). she eventually grew to be more humanoid, and as a little girl she began to crave community and family (like how things were with everyone in the mother gum). she’s also a genius who loves to play god, so she decided to just Make Her Own Family by frankensteining some other wads of gum. she lived happily and created a small community with them, though they eventually decided to try to overthrow her (keep in mind, she was still a little girl) by basically drugging her with “dumb dumb juice” which would make her more subservient. it didnt work. instead they got dosed with it, and got turned into different types of candy. they became the first citizens of her kingdom. from that point on as she “grew up” (loose term bc shes functionally immortal) she would grow her kingdom too. she would be absolutely ruthless about this of course. like a true mad scientist, she doesnt care about ethics, she cares about results. she would do anything it takes to keep her kingdom safe. including war crimes. no, im dead serious, she’s violated the geneva convention sooo much. she spies on not only her citizens, but other kingdoms too, and will absolutely resort to sabotage. she’s obsessed with keeping order and control. so she keeps her citizens (life that she created) intentionally dumb too. she creates life as science experiments and then discards it (goliad, lemongrab, etc.). characters will straight up call her a dictator. shes NOT a good person but shes quirky about it i guess. shes not morally gray shes morally pink

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lumpenproleneetariat:

i gotta be honest, but ive seen the whole “transmasc gets mistaken for a trans women in a transphobic incident” that the transmasc, while flattered to be seen by our haters as one of the coolest kinds of people out there (trans women) managed to maintan respect for us and the fact that they are not affected by transmisogyny etc.

it is possible! don’t limit yourself or our friends in their capacity for solidarity, just identify key components of when it gets in the way.