onceuponamirror:

afatblackfairy:

spevvy:

garryjerrylarryx:

If you have epilepsy, seizures, or anything that can be caused by excessive light use, DO NOT WATCH STRANGER THINGS ON NETFLIX. It has a lot of flashing lights, strobe lights, and can cause episodes. Idc if you reblog this or not, but if you know someone that this can possibly happen to, let them know. It already happened to a friend of mine while she was watching it. 

PSA for my fellow epileptics

PSA!!!

I loved the show but have had a 3 day migraine because of it and those damn lights

allthingsvintagelovely:

Black Lives Matter is held to such a ridiculously high standard. If anyone who is REMOTELY associated with BLM commits an act of violence, white people use it as an excuse to smear the name of the entire movement.

Cops can murder unarmed Black people and many white folks still jump to defend the police force.

This is racism. This is white supremacy culture.

maxiesatanofficial:

drumandmirror:

I just learned this today from my mom (who learned it from NPR) but I looked it up and it is legit.  If you see an animal, other than a dog, which is covered in porcupine quills, stay away. It is almost certainly rabid.

Dogs are naturally curious and have a knack for getting into trouble. But otherwise, nature’s wild animals know to stay away from porcupines.  The only animals willing to attack a porcupine are either martens (which have a specific technique) or rabid animals that are already in the throws of rabies madness.  According to the vet on this month’s ‘Pets and Vets’ on NPR, every animal she saw (other than dogs) brought in with porcupine quills also had rabies.

So when you see that cute raccoon, clearly in distress, covered in porcupine quills, stay away and call animal control. It is not in distress because it is covered in quills, it is in distress because it is rabid and that is why it approached a porcupine in the first place.  

Rabies is incurable.  Please don’t let your good heartedness lead to you getting a fatal illness.  

This is important but I would like to add that rabies is curable/preventable if you seek treatment before the onset of symptoms. It’s best to avoid contact in the first place, so don’t take that to mean “oh it’s okay to approach this probably-rabid dog,” but if a wild/stray animal should bite you in spite of your best efforts, disinfect the wound and seek a rabies vaccination ASAP!!

mehofkirkwall:

So as a general PSA for the 4th– whatever gets lit up, wherever you are, I’m gonna level with you for fire danger and other stuff, because I worry about people and I know how many people hurt themselves.

Please follow your local fire safety laws. If you don’t know them, please find out how high the fire danger is, don’t shoot things off or burn things near trees or things like fallen leaves or pine needles.

If you’re going somewhere, prepare an area! Rake up the ground, even if it looks pretty clear– make sure there’s nothing down there and it’s in containers. It should be a 50 foot minimum clear area from where you plan to burn things and shoot them off. 
If there’s wind, use your head and don’t shoot high aerial fireworks till it calms down, please. It’s less about what’s going on on the ground in your area– embers come down somewhere and they might come down hundreds of feet away and torch something off. 
Likewise, keep an eye on the embers that come down. Deposit spent fireworks in a bucket or garbage can of water! This sounds weird or a hassal but it keeps ones that haven’t fully gone off, or ones that have and stayed hot from getting grabbed by kids or getting stepped on in the dark. It also means you can leave them in there till the morning or just later– no risk of sparks lighting off the spent pile either.
Make sure you have an extinguisher, flashlight and a first aid kit as well! This way you’ll have a more reliable way to extinguish any burning fireworks [since some compounds may just react more violently when hit with water], a way to see and a way to treat anything minor happening while having fun.

If you’re burning something.. made of cloth.. keep a tub or bucket of water around if you need to quickly douse things in the event of law enforcement or others appearing thinking something unlawful is afoot.
Ensure that no synthetic fibers are present in the cloth item, because burning plastic fibers or other synthetic textiles melt and can give off toxic fumes that could send you, your friends and family to the hospital. Keep in mind that burning fabric does not always burn in a straight line and that fire burns vertically– this means that you should hold the cloth item out away from you to ensure you do not sustain burns.
Additionally, ensure that anyone else with you is not within reach of the flame– follow the same rule as you would with a knife, a circle about 5 inches past whatever the cloth is attached to.
If you are burning the cloth object on the ground, please try to resist the urge to stomp on it directly while it is aflame. While tempting and it most likely deserves it, you run the risk of catching your pant leg on fire and burns are not good. Please follow the ground clearing instructions above if you do so. Or use a fire pit.

As with any major holiday, but primarily with this being a large American holiday there’s going to be a lot of recreational drinking and I beg you to not drink and drive. If you plan on drinking at a BBQ that you’re going to sit and watch fireworks after, make plans to either have a ride or to stay there. If you’re going to a community or public fireworks shows that serve alcohol, arrange a ride from there. I say again: DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE. DO NOT DRIVE TIRED EITHER. NEITHER ARE SAFE.

Now, secondary comments, have fun but remember to wear sunscreen while you’re enjoying the day time activities– white people burning is common knowledge, but people with dark skin need to remember to put on sunscreen as well to avoid nasty effects of having absorbed too much solar radiation. Remember to stay hydrated– dehydration can be a killer in the young and elderly, as well as in those taking medications for conditions such as depression, psychosis, anxiety, and others. Remember to provide shade for your guests and when at public events, remember to seek it out when you start feeling off. 

This has been a PSA about my concerns for the fourth and some things to remember.

askfriskandnat:

sanstheskeleton21:

askthe-skelefam:

askcharaundertale:

bladekindprince:

I have reason to believe that someone is going around into other people’s accounts and sending them messages on IM with fake links. 

This happened to me just now. I thought it was suspicious after seeing the tinyurl link, but I clicked it anyway and it brought me here:

Whatever you do, DO NOT LOG IN. Take a closer look at the URL at the top.

This is a scam. It’s a website made to look like tumblr’s home page, and it will steal your information and hack you right out of your account.

My guess is that this has already happened to tumblr user @turntableking and their account is being used to drag more people in.

Please be careful!

[[ omg I almost did this ]]

Reblogging again. @catzmir91 and @grenninja seem to have fallen victim as well.

SIGNAL BOOST

I JUST GOT THIS FROM TWO OF MY MUTUALS, IT IS REAL!!!!!!!!

thehumorousace:

mermaidmage:

Gay men deal with people saying they’re disgusting and wrong and getting stereotyped and beat up and fetishized 

Lesbians have to deal with the same thing, along with being over sexualized.

Bisexuals are told to “pick a side’ and “so do you want a three way” and people think they’re doing it to get attention

Pansexuals have to deal with “so do yo fuck pans” “isn’t that the same thing as bisexuality?” are not taken seriously, and have their identities diminished by the narrow minded

Demisexuals have to deal with “that’s basically everyone” “that’s not real” “you’re just making that up” and are basically told they aren’t valid 

Asexuals have to deal with a society that glorifies sex and treated like there’s something wrong with them for not wanting sex 

Polysexuals are basically shoved to the bottom of the barrel even in the lgbt community 

People who are discovering their orientations and change identity at some point(s) aren’t taken seriously and are considered “liars” 

ALL OF THESE ARE LEGIT PROBLEMS AND ALL NEED TO BE ADDRESSED 

NO MATTER WHAT YOUR ORIENTATION YOU ARE VALID AND YOUR PROBLEMS ARE VALID 

100000% important.

andreashettle:

mmmyoursquid:

seananmcguire:

mmmyoursquid:

chameleonchild:

eenymeenypia:

mmmyoursquid:

People love to talk about whether or not disabled people can work

but if you can work just fine and your disability is destroying your ability to have a life outside of work (because work takes all your energy and more)

Dead silence. Nobody cares.

File this under, oh you can be active for 4 hours? You can work part-time. Um no, I have to get ready for work (30 min) get to work (15 min) get home from work (15 min) feed myself all day (30 min) maintain myself, my home and my life (15 min, yeah right), which leaves 15 min for work and absolutely nothing else.

This is so accurate, back after I’d relapsed I wanted to try and go in for one class at school so I could still stay in contact with the education system. I let slip during a meeting that I managed to drag myself to that I could manage about 4 hours of activity a week, which the teacher sprang on to mean I was being lazy for just trying to get to 1 hour class. Never matter that it was 30 minutes travel, that I would have to get washed and dressed, that I would probably still need to recover for 3 days from it. 

Far too often abled people see the things they do easily as “non activities”, they don’t realise that for many disabled people these things have to be carefully planned and measured, and sometimes they simply can’t be done.

reblog bc the non activities thing seems really important words

I get X number of pain-free steps per day right now, which means that, for large conventions (like SDCC), I need to be in a mobility device.  I had someone ask if I used up my steps every day before transferring to the scooter, and look surprised and a little horrified when I said “no, I save them so I can go to the bathroom unassisted.”  Like, they had never considered that walking is involved in peeing.

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Reblogging for the important point that the term “activity” may mean something very different and much broader for a disabled person with a chronic pain or fatigue related condition compared to its meaning for a non disabled person. If you’re tired enough, simply sitting up in a chair rather than lying in bed is an activity that drains energy otherwise usable for other things. A thing I knew from other people with pain and fatigue related conditions, but worth reinforcing for followers who didnt know or had forgotten.