feel like it’s important to note Sam’s been kidnapped and tied to a chair and no one knows where he is, I mean, he is 100% at the mercy of these vampires that could kill him any second but he’s still being a bitch to their faces. love that for him
My favorite bit of folk medicine is that we’re supposed to take wormwood for intestinal parasites. It’s actually really effective, which is how wormwood got its name, but the reason it’s effective is that wormwood is literally just poison and it happens to kill the worms slightly faster than it kills you.
That’s medicine BABEYYYYYY!!!!
No, but seriously, the reason plants have useful chemicals that we can use medicinally is because they have evolved those chemicals as poisons to prevent predation. Humans were just smart enough to figure out through trial and error how to balance these chemical extracts to counteract abnormalities in our bodies.
Like: “Hm. This plant toxin is a cardiac glycoside and increases heart output. In a healthy person, this is highly unpleasant and may even cause death. But… for my aging aunt over here who’s suffering from congestive heart failure… a little foxglove extract taken every morning with her tea would probably help her circulation and keep her weary heart kickin’ for a few more years.”
Medicine is the opportune application of poisons. Healers and poisoners are folks with similar skill sets and wildly different philosophies.
dear @shitpostsampler i would like a pony and a cross stitch pattern for “Healers and poisoners are folks with similar skill sets and wildly different philosophies” please <3
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More dispatches from the front lines of the culture war aka Texas. The rage is never ending and exhausting
I'm not trying to be a shit about this but like we *need* solidarity over this because the alarm was being sounded almost 20 years ago when W let Texas (and other southwestern states) start cutting out Mexican and Chicano history.
As a reminder, Texas constitutes one of the largest textbook markets. Whatever they remove, smaller and/or poorer states will struggle to put back or compensate for when they make their textbook purchases.
That means how Texas goes a disproportionate amount of school resources go.
This is an extremely, extremely important addition ^
Texas has an enormous sway on textbooks everywhere.
When it comes to almost any issue...Texas isn't "just Texas." The people in the notes that are like "Texas should just secede" or "can we just get rid of Texas already" are missing a critical point here. (And throwing the community activists who are trying to combat this stuff under the bus, but I digress.)
As I (and many others for longer and better than me) have tried to explain: Texas is a state of 29 million, and very powerful. The state government is NOT acting in the interests of the majority of the people, they are trying to maintain their decades long stranglehold on power, by doing everything they can, including miseducating youth with propaganda.
Even in the best of voter turnout years, only 52% of the eligible voting population casts a ballot in Texas. Communities of color, low income communities, disabled voters and all kinds of other marginalized folks have had their voting access nearly strangled to death.
What happens in Texas is coming for everywhere. We should be talking about national policies to curb this shit.
Finally, an only 90's kid post with things actually limited to the 90's and not things I was experiencing in 2012.
your future self loves you. they will look through old photos of you with affection, not disgust, nor embarrassment. they wish they could tell you stories of your future, of how much you’ll change, of the people you’ll meet, of how you’ll eventually learn to accept yourself, then love yourself. they will read your diary entries and poems and favourite lyrics, heart aching, tears in their eyes. if only you knew...
your future self loves you. if only they could show you. they are living proof. you’ll turn out okay after all. they wish they were there to console you, dance with you, and make you write it a hundred times: “I AM LOVED”. they will listen to playlists you made, just to experience you again. they will write you a letter - of forgiveness, longing, reassurance. you will never read it. but you will know.
I NEED people to understand that condoms aren’t free because “MEN like
to FUCK lol,” they’re free because thirteen thousand people die from
AIDS every year in the US alone.
Stop framing free menstrual products as more essential than free
condoms. They should BOTH be free.
If you want to clown on this post, I can and will block you.
Free condoms are not less important than free menstrual supplies.
“But you can abstain from sex!!!”
Sex workers deserve safe working conditions. Impoverished people deserve access to safe sex.
End of story.
I can’t finish this. My hands are shaking. Someone else do it
Thanks
Wait a minute
FOR ALL YOU FUCKING “DON’T PUNCH NAZIS, YOU’RE MEAN!” IDIOTS
And besides…
After one solid clock to the jaw, now memed into perpetuity, Dick Spencer is afraid to show his Nazi face in public. Direct action gets the goods.
People still asking “so this means I should punch anyone I disagree with, then?”
No, it means you should punch nazis because they disagree with other people living.
Also worth noting, here’s an excerpt from the 1939 book Fascism and Big Business by Daniel Guérin:
If in the beginning, when the Hitler bands were still weak, the workers’ parties had answered them blow for blow, there is no doubt their development would have been hampered. On this point we have the testimony of the National Socialist leaders themselves.
Hitler confessed in retrospect: Only one thing could have broken our movement – if the adversary had understood its principle and from the first day had smashed, with the most extreme brutality, the nucleus of our new movement.”
And Goebbels: “If the enemy had known how weak we were, it would probably have reduced us to jelly…. It would have crushed in blood the very beginning of our work.”
Punch them. Make them afraid to spread their poison. Oppose them in every avenue available to you because we know what happens when this goes unchecked.
The other point we keep bringing up to those who gasp and clutch their pearls in shock and horror when they see fascists being met with violence is that fascist violence is a serious, serious threat to our communities. By our count, bigots and fascists have murdered eighteen people this year and seriously injured thirty-five in a series of shootings, stabbings, arsons, and mob attacks. Pretending that anti-fascist violence is the real concern in the face of fascist attacks like these = willingly engaging in the logical fallacy of false equivalence.
For people pretending that anti-fascist violence is the real problem, we’d ask: How do you expect people trying to keep themselves, their families, and their friends from being hospitalized or murdered by fascists to react? Where is your outrage and condemnation of fascist violence?
“Is Black genocide right, and if so, what is the best way to dispose of Blacks? I am afraid of being punched when I go out to dinner now though because THOSE kinds of people (punchy antifascists) are about and about :( “ sure is a take, alright
[ID: First image: A spotted deer stands in a forest next to the words, “you are NOT a burden. not today, not ever.”
Second image: A pink unicorn stands in a purple forest with the words, “You belong in the world today, no matter how ‘off’ you may feel” written on one of the trees.
Third image: A rainbow-colored dragon with a fluffy white mane and tail sits next to the words, “You have conquered EVERY SINGLE bad day of your entire life. Today will be no different.”
Fourth image: A small blue and purple dragon lies down, sleeping, in a little glass enclosure in front of a blue-green tree. Next to it is written, “It is good that you are taking up space in the world today. It is good that you are here.”
Fifth image: A yellow butterfly sits on a leaf in front of a weeping willow while facing text that says, “even while you are feeling truly awful, YOU DESERVE NICE THINGS.”
Sixth image: A purple dragon with a white belly lies on its back in the grass. Next to it is written, “Your body is doing its best and deserves kindness today.” End ID.]