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can we get a shoutout to trans girls who don't wear makeup

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remake of that one post that i cannot find so some please link it in the comments!!

#ive seen like 9 seasons of ninjago so i cant vote but im not 100% sure on the answer #anyway. yea

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No in between. Reblog if you vote pleas

#chilly. chillycold.

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my life's mission is to explain the plot of MHA in the most flippant way possible, I think

#GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD #brother no. brother stop. brother i take it back- #bnha #god. godtier post. horrible

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venturing into the Crokri fanfiction tag not because it is good, but because it has been long enough since the friendship breakup to heal, and long enough since I was posting homestuck for me to be fine with indulging in my objectively bad opinion old comfort ship anyway. sometimes you have a really bad week (what was I talking about. "sometimes you have PMS for two days" more like) and you go hey remember when I was really into (worst ship in the world that requires completely reinventing at least one guy/borderline intentional media illiteracy)

i miss them

#homestuck

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hi....... I miss the Vantas brothers so bad. remember the Vantas brothers? oh my god they are my boys

#homestuck

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hey neil idk if you’re the best person to ask but i would like to think you have some sadge advice or something. as an introvert how do you deal with going to funerals and that whole interaction with people trying to support people and people trying to support you? It’s all strange and weird to me. thanks.

You remind yourself that this is not a usual thing for anyone, and that everyone is dealing with their own personal reactions to what's happened, with grief or loss or just the weirdness of it all. And you look after yourself.

And take refuge in things that people say. "I'm sorry for your loss", or "May their memory be a blessing" or "Thank you so much" when people offer their own condolences. It's formulaic but it works.

#death mention #in the abstract #having recently helped a friend through her father's funeral all of the advice in this rings true

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People often say to me: “You draw like some kind of inhuman machine.  If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?”  The answer is yes, but there is another way. The key to precise drawing is building up muscle memory so that your arm/hand/fingers do the things you want them to do when you want them to do them.  Teaching yourself to draw a straight line or to make sweet curves is just a matter of practice and there are some exercises you can do to help improve. If you’re going to be doodling in class or during meetings anyway, why not put that time to good use?

#drawing reference #drawing ref

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hedgehog stew

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If you as a protester need to shield your body from a blow from police, do so with closed fists and using your forearms to protect your head/where needed*. Similarly, if you are holding a line with other people (as in you have your elbows linked with theirs), stand with your fists closed. If you are holding onto your own wrists, then the second your hands come unlinked (if the cops are breaking the line, e.g.), close your fists.

Instinctually, you may fear that having closed fists will read as aggression. However, I give you this advice for a very specific reason:

If you are thrown into a violent situation with a cop, you do not want to accidentally close your hand around/grab the cop or anything on their person.

This is not intuitive. This is not the kind of thing anyone would think about without being taught. I was taught this a few years ago by more experienced protesters. (And it matters to me greatly that folks get taught things like that before they need them)

There's a piece of advice that goes "if you're touching an electrical component that might be live, touch it with the back of your hand, so that if you're electrocuted, your hand doesn't close around it and trap you." This is the same principle. You are making it so that your hand cannot accidentally close around the cop or anything on their person.

Feel free to add additional advice onto this post. I was taught this, but have been fortunate enough to never need to use it. To be clear, I don't think anyone who has used this/similar advice should indict themselves by saying so.

*(I believe the advice is also to curl downward into a shelter-in-place position but I'm less clear on this, someone better versed can jump in if there's more specific advice out there.)

#safety #protest safety #on my mind

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Much more succinct than my reply, thanks.

Once you have invoked your right to remain silent, continue to exercise that right (remain silent), or cops may later claim you chose to waive that right. This sucks, but is how cops work. I've never been in this situation but I imagine if I had already invoked my fifth amendment rights, but I felt I was in danger if I didn't respond to something being said to me, I would try to make the only thing I say at that point "I have invoked my fifth amendment rights to remain silent and my right to an attorney."

in light of police across the country cracking down on pro palestine protests with brutal force, it feels like a great time to remind everyone to shut the fuck up around cops. don't make small talk, dont act friendly, don't fucking engage with them!! if you are arrested DO NOT speak without a lawyer present. protest organizers, get into contact with local pro bono lawyers who can be there for your arrested comrades. no matter what, if cops are there, shut the fuck up unless you are actively doing a protest chant. dont tell cops why you were there, dont tell them if you're affiliated with the school you may be protesting at, dont tell them if you came there with anyone, dont tell them anything!!!

#there are still things in my reply that I like BUT #re: how to invoke your rights #this. every step of this. these quotes and NOTHING else. #final note I think we all know this but none of this is victim blaming this is advice #be kind to yourself if you ever get arrested and do not perform every step of this perfectly #the cops do everything in their power to make it near impossible to remember and do

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What an amazing sound - Women from the Rugova region in Kosovo are singing to the rhythms of tepsia (copper pan for preparing traditional food). This disappearing minimalistic style was a popular form of singing among communities throughout the Dinara mountain range. Filmed by Japanese ethnographers from the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka.

#music #whoa #putting this in tags where I'll find it so #my jams

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remember when you used to be able to play snake with the… hold on what’s it called

hmm. don’t think i’ll be calling it that. anyways i was gonna say remember when you could play snake with the buffering circle on youtube but. now i have other concerns

#anyway op I do remember #ah I miss that. good nostalgia post. also good um. also good Whatever This Is Now post

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You can't cut soft cheese in thin slices or wedges because it just gets squished, but you can with hard cheese, cause the protein holds it together. Casein point:

#good post.

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Full circle rainbow was captured over Cottesloe Beach near Perth, Australia in 2013 by Colin Leonhardt of Birdseye View

#how to adult #for future reference #fact checking #factchecking

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If you see folks with bright lime green hats at a protest you’re attending, feel free to ask them if they’re a legal observer with the NLG (National Lawyers Guild). If they are, they should be able to help you with some basic information you need to go including if they have any support in place in case you get arrested. This is not a replacement for preparing before you go, but if you don’t know who you’d call if arrested and you see one of those green NLG hats, talk to them.

OP addressed the bit abt lawyers to protest ORGANIZERS and was correct to do so. I’m just saying, as an individual protester, try to have as much information as you can.

Also, sometimes there are groups of people who have plans about risking arrest. If you plan to risk arrest (you cannot always plan for this, particularly looking at police responses to current protests) it’s good to talk it over with someone else who is planning to and especially good to talk with someone who has prior experience.

For context, I have never gotten arrested as part of a protest, and I am not a lawyer. These are just things I picked up at protests circa 2018 where people did acts of civil disobedience with the understanding that arrest was likely.

The types of arrests happening at these current protests cannot always be anticipated so it’s important to connect with people in the know and get as much information as you can. For example, I’ve been at a protest where my job was to make sure everyone knew the boundary between city property and federal property, bc getting arrested on each has very different implications.

This is NOT something that should scare anyone off from protesting. When you attend a protest, organizers will generally APPRECIATE VERY MUCH people who want to hear whatever safety advice they have to give.

Know your personal level of risk and your ability to be arrested (the impact on your life, how much you can afford an arrest), know when you need to bail. No protest organizer worth their salt will judge anyone for safely getting out of there away from the cops when you need to.

Do not talk to the cops without a lawyer. Don’t make small talk, don’t talk to them during the protest, don’t talk to them if arrested. If you are arrested, clearly invoke your 5th amendment rights e.g. “I am invoking my 5th amendment rights to remain silent,” (reference the fifth amendment and say with certainty that you ARE invoking those rights to remain silent), and then do not break that silence.

(Is “I am invoking my right to an attorney and my fifth amendment rights to remain silent” a good sentence? This is where my knowledge runs out.)

It’s been a few years for me so I hope all of this advice stands. Anyone in the world who is on the ground out there right now is welcome to correct me if necessary.

Talking to cops is not only a problem for you. Shut up around cops to keep the people standing to other side of you safe. It isn’t a matter of how clever you are—none of us are clever enough to talk to cops, because the truth isn’t what matters to cops.

in light of police across the country cracking down on pro palestine protests with brutal force, it feels like a great time to remind everyone to shut the fuck up around cops. don't make small talk, dont act friendly, don't fucking engage with them!! if you are arrested DO NOT speak without a lawyer present. protest organizers, get into contact with local pro bono lawyers who can be there for your arrested comrades. no matter what, if cops are there, shut the fuck up unless you are actively doing a protest chant. dont tell cops why you were there, dont tell them if you're affiliated with the school you may be protesting at, dont tell them if you came there with anyone, dont tell them anything!!!

#safety

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beautiful post everyone, this is what it’s all about

I need to have an it/its weekend