#REBLOG REBLOG TO SPREAD AWARENESS

[carrotcouple]

World Lupus Awareness Day!

Hello, Hi.

So today is World Lupus Awareness Day. As just a normal person but also as someone with a younger sister who has Lupus, I feel like it's important that I help spread some awareness!

For those of you who don't know what Lupus (also known as Systemic Lupus Erythematosus), is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy body tissue! I recommend that everyone look up more details!

Lupus or SLE's symbol among patients is a purple butterfly which is symbolic of the butterfly rash that some patients experience. Some symptoms are swollen and pained joints, fevers, chest pain, hair loss, fatigue and more.

A lot of this I have looked up (am looking up as I type so that I make sure I am accurate) and have also witnessed first hand. My younger sister was diagnosed with SLE in 2020 and was experiencing symptoms as early as 2012.

I'd like to talk about my younger sister in this post to just illustrate what she has going on and how things look for a person with Lupus (SLE).

My younger sister has Lupus Nephritis Class 1 (which means that she has Lupus in her kidneys), Discoid Lupus (which affected her scalp and caused immense hair loss, she still has scars from which hair cannot grow), Anti Cardiolipin Antibody Positive (blood clots could kill her or cause miscarriages so she's aways on blood thinners but this also means bleeding of any sort takes time to stop), Alpha Thalassemia Minor (similar to sickle cell anemia, she has tear drop shaped red blood cells), Chronic Interstitial Lung Disease (or also Restrictive Lung disease, she finds it incredibly hard to breathe in any situation where the air is humid and some days just normally she struggles to breathe).

All of these have made her life incredibly difficult. She is managing all of this with medication, however, medication only helps to manage it and some days are harder than the rest. Being a full time worker is hard. She had to drop out of college because she couldn't handle being a full time student, meds are incredibly expensive and what's worse is, because she looks normal on the outside, people don't accept that she's essentially disabled. (She's currently looking to apply for disability). A lot of days are just impossible for her but she keeps going because healthcare and legal help for people with SLE (or health issues in general) is so hard to get. Her mental health has to be constantly managed so that she eats and therefore can also have her meds.

Despite all this she finds it in herself to smile and do things she enjoys!

So! Yeah! Today is Lupus Awareness Day! Please share this and also look it up to learn more about it! Especially since I don't know everything obviously!

[kittycommitte]

This is your "oh shit it's getting hot again" reminder that SSRIs / antidepressants cause sun sensitivity and make you more prone to dehydration. Stay hydrated babes.

[tiffoii]

Friendly reminder to REPORT and BLOCK these acc’s since they post stolen artwork from the original artist @/Lanthart and many more.

[krillbot]

Yarn is an invasive species btw, if you put it in your bag without proper environmental controls it will kill and eat the other things in your bag until it is the dominant species

[nothingelsetobe]

Palestinian child recounts the moment his pregnant mother was shot in fr...

Please watch this video. Make sure it reaches people's suggestion pages too. Share it, Spread it, Reblog, Repost, Anything you can do.

Here's the full documentary on Faisal and his story. Bisan had a big hand in making this video and is the interviewer. Please go watch that and Repost, etc as well.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4bbGoKM5nr/?igsh=ZWI2YzEzYmMxYg==

[xerith-42]

I know it seems like striking on social media might not do enough, but as someone who has been outright obsessively using the internet since I was a child to the point that it is literally woven in my soul, been active and involved in online activism for about five years, and been using social media as marketing for about the same amount of time, I can confidently say that

THIS FUCKING WORKS!!

People base their entire businesses on their success on social media. They look at trending topics on twitter and don't see bite sized chunks of culture distilled to its finest and worst moments, they see market data! They don't see you as a single human being, they see you as a data point among thousands run through a probably AI assisted system that's prone to fucking up, that determines everything they're going to do.

How they're going to advertise, who they target it with it, what the general public wants. Every single major corporation uses data from social media websites to do this. Every. Single. One. Social media is a lot of things, and one of those things is a tool for business and politics. We know for a fact that social media politics bleeds out into the real world very fucking quickly.

Even if you can't strike financially, even if you have to go to work or school to survive, striking on social media is one of the best things you can do. Even if it's quiet. People are going to notice when thousands upon thousands of users across various sites go completely dark, and even more when some of them start getting real fucking loud about this. The US Capitalist Infused Government loves sweeping war crimes under the rug once they think the general public has forgotten about their atrocities and fallen into complacency. This system has been doing this for literal centuries.

Social media is just the newest and most expansive form we as a species have developed in the ongoing invention of ways to express our thoughts about things. It's the weirdest one, that's for sure, but executives pay attention to it. They don't often seek to understand it beyond a very basic level, because as I said, they view us as numbers on a screen, not as multifaceted incredibly and deeply fucked human beings. They do not seek to understand us on a personal level unless they think the cost of it won't outweigh the potential profit.

Pattern recognition is the tool of the moment. Machine Learning. Gathering endless amounts of data so we can replicate human existence through machines. You may think that social media strikes are ineffective because social media is just on the internet and it's "not real", but it is real! You are really doing stuff! You are contributing! Even if you're just lurking! Basic amounts of engagement can make a huge impact in a busted algorithm. Maybe you're not someone who would ever be drafted into an actual war-zone due to physical or mental health conditions, but you are probably a part of a key demographic of people that businesses are absolutely hungry for.

The budding adult has always been the target of greedy capitalists basically since this system was established and continued to get worse over time. The stage of your life when you are in the age range of 18-25 is an incredibly important transitional period, followed by a transitional period every six months until you lose sense of what six months even is because you haven't been happy in eight, and if you're in the 18-25 range currently, you got extra fucked by the pandemic. The world is in a turbulent stage and we are at the center of all of it and have been since 2001. Every single social media marketing expert will tell you the 18-25 demographic of social media users is a target demographic, because they are the most prone to extremes due to a life chock full of them.

We have to remember to be human, but we have to also know how to speak their language. They just see us as numbers? Let's show them some fucking numbers. Make posts about Gaza trend on every platform you have your hands on. Even if it's just liking posts, that gives them a slight boost in the algorithm. Commenting on posts is especially important on sites like Twitter and Instagram. But across every site the most important thing to do is reblog/retweet/share/send/copy link, whatever it is for that site, it is the biggest thing that everyone, and I mean EVERYONE looks at.

From a humble artist to a head of marketing at a billion dollar corporation about to have a meeting with a barely over 21 intern about how they need to run the twitter account, to said intern bumbling their way through adulthood with a job they only feel they're good at because they've been using social media since Skype was invented. We need to be loud, we need to make sure this can't be ignored, we can't sweep this under the rug. Mass media, especially coming out of the West, has been trying to censor, de-sanitize, and keep this issue quiet.

DO NOT LET YOURSELF BE SILENCED

There are tens of thousands of DEAD CHILDREN who have been BOMBED while in CIVILIAN AREAS and that is a FUCKING WAR CRIME.

THIS IS A GENOCIDE

Say that as many times as you can. Do not let it be ignored. A silent populous is a complacent one. Use your voice, even as small as it may seem. Make noise. Be loud. Be annoying. Don't let this be ignored. Talk about it everywhere you go. Do not let this be ignored.

Sometimes even we get disconnected from the real people around us. We base our sense of worth as a person based on the numbers going up or down but instead of developing a gambling addiction we just got angry about it but still fall into it because of cultural conditioning. But even if you only have let's say, completely random example, 70 followers. And only a small percent of them will see your post. Let's say maybe 20 on average, 30 on a good day, and even higher based on the machinations of fate. That's still 20 people who took time out of their day to read something you wrote, process something you created, share a part of your experience of living.

And likely they felt compelled to share it too, therefore increasing the spread of people who feel your influence. 20 people may not seem like a lot, but that has a major impact. Now imagine posts into the hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands and even millions. Those aren't just numbers. Each and every single one of those is just another person who might have reblogged a post because someone they like shared it, or because they wanted to spread its message, and that simple act causes a single post to have massive waves of effects from simple ripples.

Don't let yourself be discouraged. Don't think your voice or your impact "isn't enough to matter." Everything counts.

Don't let this be ignored. Don't become complacent. Know that every little thing counts, and to do every little thing you can.

[idoeatsandquiteoften]

IMPORTANT, REBLOG THIS

hello everyone!! This is just an ask for yall to reblog this, there’s been an increase of commission scammers on this site !! so if ur opening commissions, be careful !

[thespookiestprincessofthemall]

[chai-berries]

click here if you love abby anderson, support palestine, and/or identify as a lesbian <3

[supgoddo]

This was not on my 2024 bingo card 😭

Hi everyone! Uhm, I'd like to talk about StonerBang, more or less the stuff he did behind the scenes that never came into light This is something I was not expecting to post and I know its pretty different from what I usually post on here. I don't mean to bring any drama to the Storybot fandom, but I feel like this is something that should be talked about. I wouldn't have been doing this if it only affected me, but in reality the stuff Stoner did has affected multiple people that I know. Now what I'm doing here is pretty risky as Stoner himself has threatened me, and other people, to keep silence on all this. But I, myself, am choosing to take the fall so that their voices could be heard. Below this will be a link to a doc I've been working on for a while now. A small warning that the doc itself contains around 300-400 pages and if you don't have much time to read then i understand. But please take the time to check out the summary that I've listed at the start.

Please reblog this to get the word out as this is something serious I think everyone should know. And if anyone else had horrible encounters or questionable encounters with Stoner then you may reblog this post with images attached, but if want to stay anonymous you can send me the images on Discord, Tumblr or on Twitter and We'll blur out your name and reblog it for you. My Dms will be opened throughout the weekend and next week.

[rightyofelix]

This is for my voice to be heard and those who want to listen

Thank you.

[alexthescenecat]

What has been happening in the toonix community?

So for some context, the user called forsakenbanjo who used to be one of the founders of the Toonian label started to make posts saying he doesn't allows people to use the Toonian label anymore, and that they can use the Toonian concept, not the name Toonian or something he wrote

Adjunct evidence:

And that's what we did, me and the other founder of the Toonian identity ( @rightyofelix ) changed the terms, the carrd, the name, and basically everything but the flag

Here's the post

The Toonian community changed to Toonix community

(I'm the co-founder of the toonix label hiiii/silly)

After this, forsakenbanjo started to make posts saying all the toonixes are delusionals cus in his experience he was delusional and we need to stop using the toonix label. The whole toonix community ignored him cause we were trying to avoid problems, but he kept going.

This happened for months, until we finally got tired and started to fight back.

All his anti-toonix posts caused others to harass us, he indirectly encouraged people to harass us and send us threats. this, of course, is a huge problem because the community is full of minors, we're talking about 13-15 years old, and he's 20

I've been having death & r@p3 threats for idk too long, this threats aren't only directed to me but the whole toonix community that again, there's minors there

Are toonixes actually delusional?

No, we're not, please keep it in mind that forsaken's only argument about us being delusional it's because he was the time he was in the community

Please read my pal Julius' post to understand why the toonix label is not delusional

We are just another alterhuman community, nothing else

We stole the Toonian label?

No, we didn't stole anything cause again, the toonix community has two founders; forsakenbanjo and Felix, and now Felix it's the one who is taking care of the identity, he was the one who changed the name, the terms and the one who did the new Toonix carrd, but even before that he was the one who was spreading the Toonian label making a discord server, the new Toonian blog, was constantly talking about the Toonian label in all his socials, etc. So realistically he's the one who has been carrying the identity, forsaken only did the flag and the old carrd (actually deleted) and nothing else.

Felix's response here

And I'm sorry if some of our responses are rude but we are TIRED of being treated like we belong to a psych ward, we stayed in silence for too long to avoid problems but it didn't help so we are in all our right of being rude cause kindness and silence didn't work, and again, this has been happening for MONTHS (Approximately since February) and we are SO TIRED

I will be updating this if the situation keeps going

PLEASE REBLOG TO SPREAD AWARENESS!!!!

[nothingelsetobe]

‘Keep going because you’re our only hope’: Palestinian journalist’s mess...

Please watch this speech by Bisan. Keep protesting. Keep making actions. Keep spreading the word and educating. It's working and making an actual difference in the world. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, your efforts matter and we need to keep standing up against this genocide and oppression. I wish the best for the pro-palestinian students and everyone actively protesting. Free Palestine!

[sybbi]

Oh, good. The people who can't read a linked article on a post they reblog, much less open a separate tab and look into something themselves, are gonna tell us what is and isn't legit

[thespookiestprincessofthemall]

We have one day left before they addressed wether to pass the KOSA bill or not, you think this wouldn't be a problem but It is, they're going to violate the 1st amendment, not just to the children but to the adults as well, including but not limited to the people who are fighting for Palestines rights, and I don't mean we simply won't be able to fight for their rights, though thats bad enough, I mean we're going to be targeted by the government If this bill comes to fruition, If you actually care for us and the lives of the innocent PLEASE call your representatives and your senators, and PLEASE sign a petition against KOSA, I BEG OF YOU, PLEASE HELP US!

[wildhannimal]

we need to have a serious conversation

The Financial Diet

RESOURCES TO HELP NOW

Political Action/Electoral

Indivisible (progressive coalition building)

Run For Something

Working Families Party

Mutual Aid Networks

Mutual Aid Hub (national map)

Trans-centered mutual aid orgs

Los Angeles Mutual Aid

Media/Journalism

A guide to contacting/coordinating with media from on the ground

How To Raise A Citizen (a tool for parents and educators) - find at a local bookseller or publisher website, if possible

Oath (a platform to stop doomscrolling and start taking action)

The American Library Association advocacy guide

The National Coalition Against Censorship

Immigration

The Immigrants Rights Project

Resources for educators protecting students:

https://unitedwedream.org/actions/edu...

https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjet...

https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.o...

Abortion Rights

Mountain Access Brigade (abortion fund)

New York Abortion Access Fund

Frontera Fund