misrihalek

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if I forgot your favorite subgenre or misclassified a band feel free to argue in the replies 👍

#reblog #no goth metal smdh

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Unlearning How White People Ask Personal Questions

http://www.samefacts.com/2014/05/culture-and-civil-society/unlearning-how-white-people-ask-personal-questions/

#reblog #interesting

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i just found out tumblr was storing over three GIGABYTES of cookies on my device without me knowing and that's why it's been running so fucking slow recently... incredible. anyways everyone go clear your fucking cookies. don't let this website run a goddamn video game's worth of disc space in the background for no good reason.

#reblog #SO THAT'S WHY #Tumblr had over a gig of cookies for some godforsaken reason

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The internet is so fucking weird to artists who make anything interesting "thanks! I hate it" "this is cursed" "i love this but i hate this" you realize some people aren't drawing memes all the time right and art can be a medium of expressing complex feelings and writing off ppls expressions as a joke is so weird i hate meme poisoned weirdos

#reblog #food for thought

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English added by me :)

#reblog #a little hope for humanity

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#reblog #can confirm as part of a modding community #so long as we get there we don't give a shit about how

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Hmmmmmmm... *Thinks so hard that smoke coils out of his ears*

#tumblr #doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure this out #fix your shit tumblr #trans rights

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weird anti ideology finally leaking out into the mainstream

#reblog #food for thought

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god I fucking love strawberries

#reblog #I hope this means you're adding Strawberry twice

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good read for teachers.

#reblog #important #I'd scream all this from a rooftop if I could

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I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

#reblog #... #...I wonder how often that happens in NZ #one of these days I'll do more than wonder

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Kinda in love with the idea that different places on other sides of the world can look so similar. Something something universal human experiences

#reblog #...one of these days I'll travel again #I must

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Hey, PSA for younger/newer transmascs:

Tumblr has been showing targeted ads for "FTM binders" off Amazon. They look like this:

Do not buy these.

A binder is a piece of medical equipment. If you use one incorrectly, or use a poorly made one, you can really fuck up your ribs. This article from the Cleveland Clinic talks about how to bind safely.

A $14 binder is guaranteed not to be safe. There's a reason reputable companies charge more- sometimes a lot more. They have to carefully design binders so they don't crush your ribs or make you sick.

You know how everyone says Don't Bind With Duct Tape? Don't bind with Amazon binders.

#reblog #psa

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#reblog #oh FUCK yeah

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"Just the three of us...you, me...and this brick wall you built between us."

draw ur oc getting high with bunlith art challenge

#reblog #1000 hours in Paint.net #first thing I thought of

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#reblog #daaaaaamn #also props for the Bob Dylan music

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really? another album? didn't she just make one??

#reblog #we're building your soapbox one piece at a time #THE TALLEST OF SOAPBOXES!