Tag: signal boost

respectingromance:

respectingromance:

Just a reminder that, if you dare to write frankly about women’s sexuality and then run for governor of your state, far-right tabloids will post context-free excerpts of your work to imply… something, it’s unclear. Maybe deviance, definitely something unsavory. But you shouldn’t let that scare you from doing what you want with your life, whether that’s writing romance or running for public office or both. You’ll be amazing and inspiring, regardless of what nasty people say about you.

And Georgians… vote for Stacey Abrams tomorrow.

Everyone reblogging this today, can you make sure to add that Election Day is today, Tuesday, November 6th? I did not think it through when I posted yesterday and now all I can do is throw this comment at the bottom. 😩

GEORGIANS, VOTE FOR STACEY ABRAMS *TODAY* (Tuesday, Nov. 6)

Midterm 2018: What should you do if you are denied the right to vote? Here are some tips.

DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED. That is what the Republicans rely on–hopelessness and apathy. That is what ultimately stops change from occurring.

Know your rights, know what to do if someone or something prevents you from casting your ballot, and DEMAND your right to vote!

Midterm 2018: What should you do if you are denied the right to vote? Here are some tips.

Study shows glyphosate may be killing honeybees | DW | 24.09.2018

Need another reason to get out and vote this November?

Trump and the GOP don’t care about the environment, are doing everything they can to gut the EPA, and because they run the EPA, the EPA is doing NOTHING to ban this toxin.

Honeybees are *VITAL* for the earth’s survival, thanks to the pollination they offer to our food. 

Seriously, if you care as much as you reblog that you care about climate change and saving our natural resources, THEN GET YOURSELF REGISTERED AND GET OUT AND VOTE REPUBLICANS OUT THIS NOVEMBER!

Study shows glyphosate may be killing honeybees | DW | 24.09.2018

HEY!!!!!

For many places, *TODAY* (Oct. 9) is the LAST DAY you can register to vote!

YOU MUST BE REGISTERED TO VOTE FOR A MINIMUM OF 30 DAYS! 

If you’ve moved and no longer call your former home “home” anymore, then you need to register to vote as you’re most likely living in a completely new district.

This isn’t something that just “travels with you” from place to place.  Nor can you just walk up to a random polling place on November 6 to vote.

YOU MUST BE REGISTERED.

And it’s SO FRICKIN’ EASY TO DO!  Seriously, just go HERE: https://www.vote.org/register-to-vote/

It will take you LESS than 5 minutes.

THAT’S IT!  LESS THAN 5 MINUTES!

It’s great that people reblog causes they care about on this site and get the word out and keep people informed…

But at the end of the day, none of that matters if people do not VOTE!

So if you’re not happy with the results of the 2016 election or the more recent results of the SCOTUS confirmation, THEN VOTE THIS NOVEMBER!

But before you can, you need to register.

SO ALL THOSE THINGS YOU REBLOG AND CLAIM YOU CARE ABOUT…PROVE IT AND GET REGISTERED, AND GET OUT AND VOTE!

thehmarie1089:

your-reference-here:

This is from the forecast discussion of Major Hurricane Florence from this afternoon. As a meteorologist, when I saw this, my heart sank. They don’t use wording like this for every storm.

Florence is going to be a devastating. There will be huge amounts of flooding, both from inland rain and from costal storm surge. Winds are going to be some of the strongest you can get from a hurricane. People within the path of this storm could lose everything.

If you know anyone who lives on the North or South Carolina coast, tell them that if there’s an evacuation ordered, they need to get the hell out. Do not take chances with this one.

Reblogging again to add a list of things/essentials from a friend who lives on the NC coast and has weathered hurricanes and other bad weather:

– toiletries (paper towels, toilet paper, baby wipes for “bathing” in case power & water go out)

– water, 1 gallon per person for at least 7 days (err on the side of caution if possible); more if you have animals!!

– non perishable food items, if you get canned food make sure you have a can OPENER

– pet food & supplies, if you’re really worried about flooding it may be beneficial to get life vests for your pets, also find a way to put identification information on them!

– batteries

– flashlights

– battery packs for cell phones charged up in case of loss of power

– filled cars with gas & filled gas can(s)

– get all essentials like passports, important docs, and cherished items together & ready to go

– just in case, determine a way to get onto your roof safely

– fill bathtubs with water so if water isn’t available you can refill the toilets to keep flushing and keep waste to a minimum

– if you have dogs look up how to make a makeshift potty, you can use a hard baby pool and some sod potentially

– check your prescriptions and get them refilled now if necessary

– if you’re taking insulin and lose power, fill a separate cooler for your insulin than the one you would use for food. Insulin > food

If your place begins to flood get the hell OUT of the water!!! There is no telling if you have a live electrical charge in there!

Do not cross any water you cannot see the bottom of the ground in. I’m serious.

Read up on flash floods and common safety tips.

The New Porn Blogs

angryschnauzer:

Something that i’ve seen happening in my notifications this week is a new kind of porn blog interacting with my posts, and i want to explain WHY its so important to block them.

In the past all that would happen if a porn blog would follow you is just that, they’d follow you. It was all to do with google algorithyms where if a porn blog was shown as ‘linked’ or following a legitimate site/blog then it increased the place they came in the google searches. Great if you are one of those scam websites that gets people to click on links that either plant malware or are just shady as fuck. 
Porn blogs were also sometimes shut down without warning so all the scammers hard work was over and gone. Good for us, not good for them.
Most of these blogs were just stolen gifs/videos from other porn blogs anyway. If you thought gif stealing was bad/rife in the geek/nerd fandoms, just have a peep at the porn blogs.

Well a lot of the search engines etc caught onto this and built controls into their software, so they found a new way of getting (or at least trying to get) people to click on links to take them off of the tumblr site. This is by finding a random post from a legitimate blogger, which could be about anything, and either deleting the entire content of the post and adding in some ridiculous comment like ‘For more fun follow this link’ with a hyperlink off of tumblr, or if its a photo that in any way is either fun/a meme/or a little nsfw, they keep that in place and just add their link like above. Scroll down their blog and literally every single post will be a reblog and have exactly the same comment on, getting you to click and take you off site.

What does this matter i hear you ask? Well, when it comes to reporting a post, it helps to confuse the tumblr bots/staff as to what’s being reported… the comment or the original post? This means that when a bunch of posts are reported, they are all coming from different originators, this will make tumblr staff’s life even harder, and legitimate blogs are at risk of someone hitting ‘deactivate blog’ in the admin settings, meaning YOU COULD LOOSE YOUR ENTIRE BLOG BECAUSE SOME ASSHOLE PORN BOT REBLOGGED FROM YOU.

So don’t ignore this kind of thing, if you see one of these stupid reblogs (the bots very rarely actually follow you anymore), BLOCK THEM RIGHT THERE AND THEN. 

10 July 2018

knitmeapony:

oliviavoldaren:

thatdiabolicalfeminist:

Reminder: Do not buy from Amazon or even open the website on 10 July 2018, in solidarity with the transnational strike.

Amazon workers in Spain have called for a transnational strike because Amazon has been avoiding accountability for its labour rights violations by merely shifting the work (and the human rights abuses Amazon inflicts on their workers) to non-striking countries, each time a strike occurs. If there is widespread striking transnationally, Amazon will have no choice but to recognize the strikers’ demands in order to keep their facilities functioning.

Our job as allies is to support the strike by avoiding using the Amazon website or purchasing anything from Amazon for as long as the strike continues. A mass boycott of the site, coinciding with the strike, will strengthen the workers’ bargaining position and could be crucial to Amazon workers gaining back basic rights in a variety of countries.

Please remember this includes subsidiaries like Twitch and Audible.

This is tomorrow!

Please do not shop on Amazon tomorrow.

Please do not stream Amazon music or video tomorrow

Please do not order from sites using Amazon Payments tomorrow.

For one day, please, avoid it.

kaleidoscope-vol2:

So what does Justice Kennedy retiring REALLY mean?

Only 17 states have laws that protect abortion.

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, abortion would immediately be illegal in 33 states because of what is known as a “trigger law.”

Call your governor. Register and vote. Every judge in America is important.

Contact your senators and tell them not to take any meetings on the replacement before the election.

And fucking vote for women’s rights.