Here’s what Donald Trump doesn’t want you to know: ACA open enrollment begins TODAY!
Spread the word and #GetCovered.
hey if you’re a broke motherfucker like me, you’re likely to be able to get your insurance for FREE with your state medicaid, so go enroll and it’ll take you there.
Also proably enroll tomorrow (11/2/17) becuase the site is currently down for “Maintainence” but honestly it’s super-easy and takes like half an hour, tops.
NY State residents, please be aware that on Election Day (11/7), the BACK of the ballot will have a referendum to vote on convening a NY Constitutional Convention. Placing it on the back of the ballot was a DELIBERATE move.
If it passes, it could be a disaster for ALL CURRENT AND FORMER NY State (including state, city, county, town, village and school district) public employees (police officers, firefighters, corrections officers, teachers, sanitation workers, teaching aides, librarians, bus drivers, lunch aides, highway workers, board of elections, etc.) who could stand to lose a great deal, including part or all of their pensions or medical benefits (even those who have already retired), that they were promised in return for their commitment to their careers in public service.
If you love anyone that is currently, or has ever been a NY public employee, please TURN YOUR BALLOT OVER and vote “NO”.
tumblr servant is a godsend with a lot of useful functions but my primary use for it is this
so let’s say you’re a big fan of transformers so obviously you don’t want to blacklist #transformers, and you’ve got this cool friend kyle, but every single time kyle posts or reblogs something about transformers it’s just… it’s garbage. it’s a Bad Post. he has bad opinions and he should feel bad. you know that it’s petty shit but it irritates you every time you see one of his bad, bad transformers posts. but most of what he posts is awesome! you don’t wanna unfollow his ass! so you make a tumblr servant instead and even if he doesn’t tag shit about shit, if the word ‘transformers’ is in the post at all you will never see it. peace is restored on your dash. you are free.
you can also do a lot of other shit like dim posts or highlight posts or give you notifications etc etc etc but i mostly just hide Bad Fandom Opinions because i’m petty
@ogtumble perhaps of use in your tumblr questing and following
nbd, the writer who created The Punisher in 1974 (with artist John Romita) just cosigned Hells Kitchen Movie Club. If you need to speak to me, @dave-acosta or @deecunniffe, we’ll just be outside hyperventilating
Ullaakuut! I am Inuk, and I am here to explain to all you Qallunaat about the very incorrect and downright rude word used to call Northern Indigenous peoples in Canada and Alaska.
Eskimo is a slur. Some of the older generation are fine with being called that, but it’s been only recently that Northern people have been colonized by the Qallunaat. As such, they grew up in a time where their language was taken from them, and they were told that that is what they are called (you’ll also see this with the use of Indian when referring to indigenous people). The younger generations tend not to be as happy with being called Eskimo, and given the role the word has had in the colonization of us, there is good reason for it. We have our own words for us. Mine is Inuk. Plural is Inuit. Inuit means people.
Eskimo is a slur. If you are not a person who would fall under the term, you have no right to say otherwise. Northern indigenous people can choose to reclaim it if we want. Some do. But that is not an excuse for you, as Qallunaat, to use the word. A lot of us see it as a slur. It doesn’t matter where the word comes from. It doesn’t matter what it means. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks, we say it is a slur, it is a slur. You can argue until you are blue in the face, but white people, who colonized my people, who threw my grandparents in residential schools, who called us Eskimos and protested seal hunts and our ways of life, do not get a say.
Eskimo is a slur. We can reclaim it, but for many, it is still a dirty word. And no matter how much a word is reclaimed, it will always be a slur. We have names for ourselves. We have our words, our names which we present to you. If you demand I call you Scottish/French/whatever, I can demand you call me Inuk. I am not an Eskimo. That is not my word.
As well, “censoring” the word doesn’t suddenly make it okay. Take it out of your vocabulary.
If you are white, you are not to add on to this. You are not to talk about the origin of the word. You are not to argue that it’s not a slur. I am the person who that word refers too. I am telling you it is a slur. Do not whitesplain on this post. It is a slur. Point blank. If the word is not used on you, is not meant to refer to you, this is not your conversation. Northern people are the authorities on this. No one else. Our word is law on this, and when a sea of voices denounce the use of the word, and a few promote it, you may not use those few to call me a word that is hurtful and carries a painful history of colonization. My people are called it. Not yours.
If you need a word for nose rubbing, bunny kisses is an acceptable (and adorable) alternative that is respectful.
This was a difficult one to do, and it shouldn’t have been.
I had to do a little bit of reading and see if “fat” is a term that overweight people are comfortable with as a descriptor for themselves. If the prompt is “fat” and I draw an overweight woman, is this an insult?
I had to look around to find some decent references. This ended up being difficult. I realized how infrequently I draw fat characters, how I’m not experienced with it. This is my own fault, and also indicative of deep institutional biases. The art that I studied in school, with a few exceptions, overwhelmingly favoured thin subjects. The anatomy classes I studied in school, WITHOUT exception, taught the forms of a thin human body. The art styles that I am aesthetically interested in don’t often feature fat subjects. I have no history of images and practice to draw from. And coming from this institutional bias, I have over the years failed to challenge myself by drawing fat subjects, and building an artistic competency with it. This drawing took the most number of drafts and redraws out of all the inktober drawings I’ve done yet.
And as I was drawing it, I had been wondering what kind of response it will receive, if I’ll get the same kind of comments that other artists have received who dared to draw fat subjects and especially fat women in non-negative contexts. (Bad comments, in case anyone was wondering. A drawing of a fat woman who is attractive and comfortable with herself and not the butt of a joke is apparently very threatening to a lot of people)
I could have avoided all of this by drawing something silly and humorous, a round little creature, (my first idea was a drawing of the Frog Prince) or some kind of safe and non-positive depiction, a funny old woman, a maid, a witch, something where I’ve made it clear that the character I have drawn is not supposed to be attractive.
But I didn’t want to draw that. I wanted to draw a powerful, haughty, attractive, fat empress. This idea ended up being more challenging than I had anticipated, and it gave me a lot to think about, made me realize a lot of things I need to work on.
Anyway I hope you like her, because she doesn’t give a damn what you think of her.
At
the end of the month, my drawings with the most notes will be cleaned
up and made available as prints and a calendar, so like and reblog the
ones you like best!
This post has not been approved by Evidence-Based Science, the Atheist Bureau of Standards, or The Rationalist Inquisition. It is purely anecdotal, unproven, and non-scientific.
Stone City – Oakland, California (painted by friends of mine)
Tumblr Exodus 