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hey let's start spreading the reminder now that you cannot safely self-manage an abortion with herbal medicine or essential oils. natural abortifacients function by poisoning you; you wait for your body to realize you're dying and reject the pregnancy in order to conserve resources, and hope that happens before the rest of your organs shut down.

i think there will be an upsurge soon of unscrupulous and/or malicious actors preying on desperate pregnant people; do not help them kill people. don't spread recipes for herbal medicines or ingestible essential oil mixtures that purport to cause a pregnancy termination.

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Just discovered the queue, this thing is amazing

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So there's something I want to say re: intentionally withholding your vote, and I want to do it without coming across as condescending or dismissive.

I've worked as a field organizer in two campaigns, 2010 and 2012, and my job was to help turnout the vote for Democratic candidates up and down the ticket. Technology may have changed, but people are still knocking on doors for specific voters the way they were 12 years ago.

If you say you're not voting/voting 3rd party, the campaign volunteer is supposed to mark that and move on. Their job, in the final month of the election, is to make sure the campaign's supporters have all the information and resources they need to cast a vote.

They aren't collecting data on why you're withholding your vote. They aren't submitting opinion polling results to the campaign. Something like 155 million people voted in the 2020 election, and if you say you're not voting, the campaign is not going to waste a volunteer's time and morale begging you to vote when there are literally millions of other voters to turn out.

Let me repeat that: The campaign does not track why you're not voting. They simply note your vote is not a priority for turnout and move on.

I say this because I see a lot of promotion of non-voting like that's a boycott, when the function is not the same. A boycott is a coordinated mass refusal to engage with an institution—which sounds similar if you see a vote as a good or service to withhold. Unfortunately, it's not.

A vote is a choice you're making as part of a community hiring committee. Your abstention doesn't prevent someone from being hired. It just lowers the threshold for the worst candidate to succeed.

All this to say: In my direct experience as an organizer, abstaining from the vote sends a message. That message is not "You need to try harder to win my vote." It's "Don't waste time on me."

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This sounds like a shitpost but people should be allowed to be horny. As in, sexuality is just part of life for most people and there’s no reason for consensual sexual behavior to be punished. A celebrity getting “caught” at a sex club shouldn’t be a scandal. No one should be fired for having a fetlife profile outside of work. Nudes getting leaked shouldn’t be career-ending. Denying and hiding (consensual) sexual interests doesn’t make anyone more professional, it just makes everyone more repressed. And sterilizing ourselves to be better work drones isn’t productive, it’s just creepy. I’d rather my surgeon get absolutely railed on camera and come to work in a good mood, frankly.

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★ 【nipi】 「 FGOイラストまとめ　おおむね2023 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

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★ 【狗脸脸dogface】 「 芙芙生日快乐~♥ (oct 13) 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

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★ 【旧都なぎ】 「 alexandrite 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

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★ 【comet】 「 Moonlight 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

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Please.

I want Barghest to hold me gently in her arms, and pat my head and tell me everything will be okay 🥺

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Yes, but what's the music in the background?

Is it a woman covering I'm Burning for You ?

Is it One Hot Mama?

Or are we getting something classical that's building up to a volcanic eruption?

This is important scene setting!

imagine a skanky balrog.

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shirou and rin cheebs i made to combat a shitty work week last week. i might turn this into merch.

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ready for wrath, ace witch kairi gonna cast a spell on you ☆

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Ishtar by ＲＡＺ@RazalorArt

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In the movie venom during the first human trials of the symbiote, the research team is happy that the patients “vitals are holding steady”. This is a reference to the production team not consulting a single medical professional to find out what good vital signs look like.

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If you're having a bad day, just remember that it's going to be winter soon and imagine what will happen to all the Cybertrucks ❤️

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I think if Hakuno and Ritsuka made out, it would short circuit the brains of 90% of Chaldea.

But also I think it’d be hilarious if they activated Harem Protagonist EX on each other and were like “Oh so that’s what being on the receiving end of that is like”

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you will never beat the biphobia allegations until you radically accept bisexuals who are stereotypical. you must accept the sluts, the polyamorous, the girls with straight boyfriends, the questioning, the confused, the ones who want to be another couple's unicorn, the ones who are in a phase and will eventually identify differently, and even the ones you suspect aren't truly bisexual but just want attention. take people at their word when they tell you who they are. let them live and express their identity as they see fit. happy bi visibility day