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thebibliosphere:

ayeforscotland:

Whenever I see anything like this my first thought is that @thebibliosphere will know what these words mean.

Unfortunately, you would be correct.

“Vampire facials”, which many people think is needling but is actually far, far worse, refers to platelet-rich plasma facials, in which blood is taken from a patient, processed in a centrifuge to extract the plasma and then re-injected it into the face. It’s supposed to make the skin “heal” itself because of platelets or some shit, giving you a more youthful look. Kim K helped make it popular after it was on her show but I know she also supposedly regrets it.

It’s uh, controversial to say the least. And not just because it sounds like painful bullshit but because lack of regulation for this sort of thing has lead to a couple of cases of HIV transmission happening.

The penis version is that they’re doing the exact same thing, taking plasma from themselves or a donor and injecting it into the penile tissue, supposedly to treat erectile dysfunction, but a lot of the men doing this are doing it just to get a girthier look.

And if you think I hate knowing all this, you’d be right.

i hope you’re proud of yourself Joy.

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libraford:

eroticcannibal:

ice-block:

ice-block:

It’s so fucked up how tiktok culture has made clout-poisoned people turn the public into content, every day I see people minding their business have their entire faces put online for thousands of likes, a couple kissing on the train, a lady dancing across a cross walk, a guy nodding his head to the music at a club, a lady buying a banana at the store, ring camera footage of the neighbors kids being stupid. Just let people live jfc

I think I may have made it seem like this is about wholesome content (which my sentiment towards that is the same) but most of the time when I see this stuff people are being ridiculed for being completely normal. And I didn’t make up any of these examples btw, I couldn’t find the dance one but only because there are too many videos of people being recorded at cross walks

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Im gonna add this to every post about this i see im never gonna shut up about it. This will get people killed. This will ruin lives. More people live in hiding than you think. So many people are one post away from having to abandon their whole lives. Dont ever post anything of anyone without their consent, stranger or not.

I am a photographer. It is my job to go into schools and take candid photos for the yearbook.

The number of kids that are on a ‘do not photograph’ list isn’t large, but it is a non-zero number. If that kid is even out of focus in the background, we do not use that photo.

If a child shows even the tiniest bit upset that there’s a person in the room with a camera, I do not take their photo.

At pop culture conventions, I ask people if I can take their photo. Or if I take a candid of them, I track them down and give them my info and get th3ir consent before posting.

At events like parties, concerts, performances, consent is generally implied because these are photographed events, but if an attendee approaches me and tells me to crop them out then I crop them out.

This makes street photography tedious, but I learned in my very first job as a camp counselor that people have very good reasons for not wanting their photo publicized. There are kids in the foster system with abusive parents. There are adults with stalkers. There are people who might be a witness to a crime.

Even outside of this- I’ve seen how private persons become memes against their will just by going out in public. Some people are super not normal about meme fame.

Leave people alone. The world is complicated. Make your own content.

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2bpoliticallycurious:

saywhat-politics:

Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists

The recent transformation of the state’s election laws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges to other voters’ registratio

ProPublica

The recent transformation of the state’s election laws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges to other voters’ registrations. Experts warn that election officials’ handling of some of those challenges may clash with federal law.

Media outlets have reported on the high number of challenges and numerous cases of voters feeling harassed, impeded or intimidated by being placed into “challenged” status. But the outsized role of the small group of people making the challenges was less clear. ProPublica was able to determine that a vast majority of the challenges since SB 202 became law — about 89,000 of 100,000 — were submitted by just six right-wing activists, including Schneider. Another 12 people accounted for most of the rest. (ProPublica obtained data for all challenges logged in 30 of the state’s 159 counties, including the 20 most populous.) Of those challenges, roughly 11,100 were successful — at least 2,350 voters were removed from the rolls and at least 8,700 were placed in a “challenged” or equivalent status, which can force people to vote with a provisional ballot that election officials later adjudicate.
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Even some voters who managed to remain on the rolls were still forced by challenges to fight to remain registered. In Fulton County, which encompasses most of Atlanta, an immunosuppressed cancer patient had to drive nearly two hours round-trip to a crowded hearing to defend his right to vote. At the same proceeding, a Black woman likened her challenge to voter intimidation.
“There is a clear imbalance of power between the individual bringing the challenges and the county and voters,” said Esosa Osa, the deputy executive director of Fair Fight Action, a voting rights advocacy organization. Elections officials and voters, she said, “currently have very little recourse once challenged, regardless of the merits of the challenge.”
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Someone should challenge the right to vote of these SIX right-wing activists. See how they like it.

liquidstar:

adventure time lore is insane. it starts off just being a goofy kids show that has magic for no reason, but then you learn that all magic users are manic and/or depressed (what betty calls sadness and madness). because it turns out magic is actually a cosmic force beyond mortal comprehension, that itself was learned from cosmic entities that predated the existence of time itself inside a sea of monsters. and “magic” really is just understanding more about the nature of the universe than most people. that, in a way, reality isnt “real” and understanding that allows you to mold it. and thats magic. but that drives you to insanity and/or apathy. and there are beings who hold significant cosmic importance who are more prone to magic. and the reason magic became prevalent on earth is because of a nuclear war a thousand years ago, which released the entity that represents the destruction of all life onto the world. and after a nuclear apocalypse this gave way to a new earth, where magic could thrive. but a lot of the beings we see arent even magical, theyre just mutants from what happened 1000 years ago. and humanity as we know it has been all but wiped out. but everything stays the same because cycles of war and violence continue. and it doesnt matter if its nukes or magic. everything stays the same, but still changes.

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luisonte:

El putoQUEEEEEEÉ?

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pazzesco:

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Due to the success of the 1896 series, Champenois asked Mucha to design 2 more sets based on the seasonal theme in 1897 and 1900.

The 1897 series (above) of color lithographs on paper is located at the Art Institute of Chicago.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

dailyfryes:

crafantale:

Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed’s Evie Frye Voice Actress Victoria Atkins has been replaced by AI while protesting for SAG-AFTRA

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She also never receives residuals

And yet Ubisoft continues to make more AC games whilst not even paying their workers what they’re owed… and using AI. Wow.

WHAT THE W H A T

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socialjusticeinamerica:

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aspiringbelle:

mysharona1987:

This sounds like something from The Handmaid’s Tale, ffs.

This was an ad in the early 90’s. I first saw it in a textbook in the late 90’s, used as an example of the “slippery slope” fallacy.

Now it’s over 20 years later. It’s happening.

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Anonymous asked:

I know child trafficking is important, but the movie Sound of Freedom is kind of making me raise my eyebrows. I heard that the movie has some QAnon adjacent stuff.

publiusmaximum:

fandomshatewomen:

fandomshatewomen:

ianxfalcon:

fandomshatewomen:

I’m not sure which specific things are QAnon adjacent but in researching the movie I found this article

Mel Gibson Hollywood allegations resurface after "Sound of Freedom" release

After the release of "Sound of Freedom" in theaters, an interview of Mel Gibson speaking in 1998 has gone viral.

Newsweek

and like mel gibson is a raging racist, sexist and antisemite. and this isn’t the first article I’ve found that connects mel gibson to the sound of freedom I just can’t find the other one right now. so that’s enough for me to not want to watch the movie in theaters.

mod ali

Jim Caviezel, who stars in this movie, is a QAnon simp (and generally a far right weirdo). He was in Gibson’s Passion of the Christ and it wouldn’t surprise me if the two of them rubbed off on each other.

Caviezel seems to believe that “the cabal” - who of course don’t exist, it’s just QAnon nonsense - are child traffickers. This makes him possibly the worst person in the world to star in a movie about child trafficking, as it’s bound to fuel his bullshit beliefs.

Ahhh thanks for this!!!

BTW here is some additional context about this movie from a Youtube commentator who usually puts out work addressing disinformation and misinformation

Here’s a bit more, from Slate:

How Sound of Freedom Misrepresents Its Subject—and Why the Movie Is So Seductive

This is the exact point where a legitimate problem and dangerous conspiracy theory meet.

Slate Magazine

fatsoupy:

i put my mullet into a weird ponytail today it sparked something in me