We put up a good fight…but now we only have 60 days to turn this around. There is still ONE thing we can all do!!!!!
There’s something called the Congressional Review Act (CRA) that can be used to stop the FCC. We just need ONE MORE VOTE to win the Senate!!!
For those who missed my last giant post a few months ago, last year, the FCC voted to repeal the Obama regulations designed to protect a fair and open internet. If these regulations are knocked down, providers like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizonwill have EVERY RIGHT to slow down internet speeds to those who aren’t on their more expensive plans. Even further, they have the power to censor and regulate what we see online. MORE further, they’d even have the power to slow down competitors’ streaming speeds, like Netflix, to make their own services more appealing. THIS SHIT IS NOT RIGHT!!!!!
First thing you can do is to GET OFF YOUR ASS (OR ON IT IF YOU’RE AT A COMPUTER…) and take 20 seconds to sign this!!!! Second thing is to SHARE THIS CAMPAIGN WITH EVERYONE!!!
There’s going to be a huge protest on Feb 27th that I’ll be taking part in. The above link goes into detail on what YOU can do on that day. Please guys. Don’t just sit there and let this happen. THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE! THIS IS OUR INTERNET!!!! NOW FUCKING DO SOMETHING!!!!
Just voted now! TAKES ONLY 5 SECONDS, SAVE NET NEUTRALITY! Please!
One thing I’ve noticed about this thing is that a lot of people think “oh since this is really important, lots of people will be doing this, so I’m not going to bother.”
PLEASE BOTHER!!!!! MINDSETS LIKE THIS CAN AND WILL STAND IN THE WAY OF WINNING BACK OUR RIGHTS!!!!!!!!
There’s something really terrifying about the concept of being pursued by something that can only walk slowly after. Just slooowly following. You can chill for a while if you get far enough away but it’s still coming.
That’s called “persistence hunting” and it’s how humans hunted all sorts of megafauna to extinction, as well as what let our species become so disperse and so numerous. Our existence is a horror story told from the monster’s perspective.
So you’re telling me zombie is absolutely a valid career path
Watch the movie on Netflix called “ It Follows” lol
Basically our hunting super power is that we are really smart, good at tools and can walk/run forever.
If my roommate ran 20 miles twice in one day (possible if she does one in the morning and one in the afternoon) she would out travel a horse.
She is not FASTER than a horse, but if a horse was walking away from her for 8 solid hours, Kait could catch up to it. She could probably also walk after it for an additional 5-10 miles after the run and then stab it when it got too tired to go on.
But kait’s athletic.
I, on the other hand, am a fatty fat who weighs 210 and never exercises ever.
I once, completely spontaneously because i had no money for the train, walked 17 miles in the winter from one end of Chicago to the other. I had also not eaten and was wearing a backpack. It took me 3 hours, but I accomplished it with ease. If i wasn’t a chub goddess, and had eaten and it was summer and I wasn’t wearing a backpack with a laptop in it, imagine how far and fast I could have gone.
Now. Horses can only sustain a run for about 15 miles ( at 8-10mph it takes them a little over an hour).
If my fat ass was walking towards a horse for 3 hours and it was literally running away from me. It would become exhausted after 15 miles and unless it can recover completely in 2 hours for another lengthy sprint, I can reasonably catch up to it and stab it. (not that i would ever stab a horse. horses are terrifying and should be regarded with suspicion, respect and fear)
The longest run ever was 350 miles over 80 hours without sleep.
We are endurance monsters.
humans terrify me
“Our existence is a horror story told from the monsters perspective” is one of the coolest and most terrifying sentences I’ve ever thought about
A long time ago my mom taught me the scariest game of tag I’ve ever played, which I later taught to a bunch of my little cousins, who were at first amused and later terrified beyond all reason at the game.
It’s simple, one person is It, and everyone runs, except It. It walks. Slowly. Deliberately. Never breaks pace, just walks after the targets. Now, kids will laugh and run and taunt for a while, but when It keeps on coming, slow and relentless, they begin to get properly scared.
(Also if It isn’t athletic and doesn’t want to play tag, It can accomplish apex predator level fearmongering without running one single step.)
I am incredibly unathletic. I can dead sprint for like 200-ish metres/yards and absolutely hate myself for another five minutes afterwards, can’t jog more than 400m/0.25mi at a go… and I can absolutely walk 13+km/8mi+ in a single day as a tourist in a foreign country and still be good to go for another few hours.
If I was just walking, not walking, stopping in shops, sitting down and eating, fiddling with my phone, carrying a big bag, etc I could easily double that number. I’m a pampered city girl who’s never really had to walk more than 300-odd metres/yards if I didn’t want to. Someone used to persistence hunting their prey, with no distractions – yeah, they’re gonna walk everything to death.
In Japan, land of quirky customs, quirky inventions and even quirkier homes,
some warm up in winter using what looks like a cross between a low
table, futon, reclining couch and a comforter. It’s called a kotatsu, and there’s a special heater built in underneath the table that warms the extremities of all who gather ‘round it. Or even sleep under it, as this writer recounts during her first winter in Japan.
And apparently, it can lower heating bills too, as Martin Frid explains on these pages some years ago:
Sitting by the kotatsu
heating table, under a thick blanket, is still the way for entire
families to keep warm on winter evenings. Rather than heating up the
entire house, the cosy kotatsu is a comfortable way to spend a couple of
hours together, with a much lower energy bill by the end of the month.
I’ve seen so much anime that a kotatsu just seems like a normal, everyday thing… even if I’ve never seen one IRL. Kinda made me confused to see it referred to as “a wacky invention.”
yeah it took me a really long time to process that a kotatsu wouldn’t be common knowledge in the west until i remembered that not everyone was a fucking weeaboo in middle school like i was
THIS
I mean, as I can personally attest, Japanese homes don’t generally have central heating. This is literally one of the most practical ways to stay warm while still being able to work, eat, and nap.
According to NCADV, 4 in 10 people have experienced some kind of coercive control from an intimate partner. Sadly, #MaybeSheDoesntHitYou is raising much-needed awareness for a widespread problem.
This is disgusting. It really is. I hope that people gain awareness of this issue and their own situation and I really hope that we all find better.
I appreciate the hell out of the women reblogging this. As a survivor of such emotional abuse, I know it’s vital for men to step forward and talk about their experiences. The old “man up” narrative needs to die.
^^^
Absolutely right. Abuse is abuse, no matter the gender
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