The time draws near.
I’m choking this is the funniest tumblr apocalypse post I’ve seen so far stjitdtiseyarhtgsr
I’m not leaving Tumblr … but damn this is hilarious.
sexiest moments in marvel movies
1. the bit where thor unlocks his powers near the end of thor ragnarok and the immigrant song starts playing in the background
2. the bit in winter soldier where bucky moves out of the way of that car
3. ‘would you kill me my love?’ ‘for wakanda? without question’
If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you
A note:
I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:
Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.
Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.
And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.
Very good very important addition
Essentially, this is the civil society version of a work-to-rule strike.
Don’t do more than is expressly asked of you, and do what you are asked with such an intense attention to protocol that not asking you at all becomes more effective than even bothering.
In this case:
“Have you seen an illegal immigrant?”
“Could you describe an illegal immigrant, officer?”
*officer describes a person who is in the country without appropriate paperwork, or who has crossed the border illegally*
“No, sir, I haven’t seen any illegal immigrant.”
And this is correct. You have NOT seen an illegal immigrant, because you have no way of knowing if Jose Fulano is here legally or not. And since you can’t see his paperwork (or lack thereof), and did not personally see him cross the border illegally, you are only answering precisely the question asked.
I’m not American, and I have like, three followers, but this is important.
The phrase “I don’t remember” is your friend.
A PRAYER BEFORE CRYING
The only men* I can really trust right now are Channing Potatoes and Andy Samberg and I know it’s too much responsibility for anyone but please PLEASE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD YOU TWO DO NOT FUCK THIS UP FOR ME.
*I’m sure there are other ones**
**I chant to myself lying awake sweating at night
SAFE HARBOR: in the library, the turned page
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Stiles takes the stairs up to the library slowly, unbuttoning his jacket, tugging open his collar. His final meeting of the day was tedious and overlong, a futile discussion about averting a border dispute that Stiles knows well is inevitable, after a difficult advising session in which he’d had to politely deflect questions about when his father might be returning from his latest trip. He’d been choking down yawns by the end of it, having been up until long after midnight reviewing the building master’s comments on the plans to repair the city’s granary roof, which must be approved within the week in order for the work to be completed before the snows begin.
At the moment, Stiles desires only a warm meal, eaten in silence, and a book to read four pages in before the letters start to blur. He pauses at the landing, hearing voices—the crown’s advisor to the treasury, whom he will have to engage in a few minutes of pleasant conversation, or be seen as haughty, or, worse, openly contemptuous. The voice comes closer, and Stiles weighs his options and slips through a small recessed door, closing it softly behind him.
This breaks my heart every time I see it reblogged because it’s so lovely and yet there is not more of it!
Verreck doch wütend
nwnsp thinks that’s “sad”, they should see this:
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Reblog and have a Happy Hitler Is Dead but My Queer Jewish Mixed Race Ass Is Alive Day
For the people who don’t speak German: lord-kitschener said “Die angry then”
Don’t invite me anywhere last minute I enjoy doing nothing so I need to know ahead of time if my plan to do nothing needs to be changed
This is legit and people don’t realize it.
“hey what are you doing?”
“nothing”
“oh great! so you are avaliab-”
“no you don’t understand. I’m doing nothing.”
I’m doing nothing. Actively. It’s important.
Not to be #thatperson but I feel like national news isn’t fully realizing how bad this is. Not to detract from the horror of Paradise and surrounding towns but this is really bad. And Sacramento is worse.
It is that bad, and you are not supposed to mind. You are supposed to accept the new normal. Sometimes American cities will be uninhabitable. Sometimes America will just burn. You will be encouraged to identify with this. It’ll probably be a whole thing, like how New Englanders take pride in driving in snowstorms.
The city of San Francisco currently has the worst air quality of anywhere in the world because of the wildfires. (This level of air quality, incidentally, is bad for people and kills them.) These once-in-a-lifetime wildfires will become more common in our lifetimes.
I think ! it’s okay! to say this isn’t fine!!
THIS IS NOT FINE
TEN YEARS AGO THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN TOP OF NEWS CYCLE DISASTER COVERAGE
THIS IS REALLY REALLY BAD AND WE SHOULD NOT LOOK AWAY
A few more things to think about:
a) This is happening in a region where the majority of the population does not have air conditioning in their homes, because the climate in the coastal parts of the Bay Area (including the East Bay, where we live) is typically very mild, and rarely gets warm enough to require cooling. Right now, it’s also not warm enough to require A/C for cooling, but A/C can also be used to filter indoor air. So most Bay Area residents do not have any technological means to filter the air inside their homes. When hbbo and I left earlier this week, the air inside was vastly better than the air outside, but the smoke was still so bad indoors that we were wearing N95 masks inside our apartment. Telling people to stay inside is a pretty inadequate way of protecting them when the air inside is so bad you taste ash every time you pull your mask down to take a sip of water.
b) The Bay Area is also currently struggling with one of the worst crises of homelessness in the country. The best public health recommendation available right now is: stay inside your home. I’ve been trying to find 2018 statistics without a lot of luck, but in 2017, the homeless population of San Francisco (city) alone was about eight thousand people. San Francisco is a tiny, tiny part of the area that’s affected by the smoke; the typical definition of “The Bay Area” covers either seven or nine counties, depending on who you ask, and homelessness across those counties hovers between about 0.2% and 1%. In other words: for an enormous chunk of the area currently blanketed by life-threatening smoke, between two and ten out of every thousand people does not have a home inside which they can shelter.
c) N95 masks, the only protective mechanism most Bay Area residents have access to, frequently don’t fit children correctly, because their faces are too small to allow for a good seal, and a lot of public health outlets are just flat-out recommending against having children wear them. Just—think about that, for a second. The entire Bay Area and Central Valley are in the middle of a public health crisis that has, now, for large swathes of that area, lasted for over a week. There are very few places in that entire area, indoors or out, where you can go to get a full breath of clean air. So, throughout that area, most kids are just—breathing in smoke. All day. Every day. Indoors and out.
d) I grew up in Los Angeles and I’ve lived in California for most of my life (I’m 37), and yes, wildfires have always been a part of the California experience. But not in November. It used to be that California had a well-defined “fire season” that lasted from about May to about October, with the worst of the fire risk in the most heavily populated parts of the state coming between mid-August and mid-October, which is, for wide swathes of California, the hottest part of the year (I know this sounds bananas to non-Californians, but this is just what our climate’s like: our perceptual summer is dramatically late-shifted into the autumn, and our technical “summers” can actually be quite cool, especially if you’re near the coast, as is true in SF and LA).
e) You can use Breezometer to compare the air quality in the Bay Area to the air quality in your location. The air quality at our apartment is currently 18/100 on their scale (higher is better); it’s dipped as low as 12 at various points this week. As I’m writing this on Saturday morning, the air quality is noticeably improving for most of the state, but:
…last night, and for several days previous, that blob of red centered around Chico was contiguous all the way west to the coast, down the coast past Monterey, and all the way south (through that area that’s currently orange/yellow) down the middle of the state—the Central Valley—to Visalia, and orange down to Bakersfield. Because I think California scale is hard to grasp sometimes: it’s about a three hour drive in no traffic just from San Jose to the area that hbbo and I are staying, near San Luis Obispo (marked on the map as “San Luis” because the “Obispo” got cut off—green area on the western coast, near the bottom of this screencap). The actual fire, which is near Chico, is about 370 miles (595 km), or a five and a half hour drive, from the southern edge of its smoke cloud in Bakersfield.
in the past two weeks i have been in all of these sections, so take this dumb venn diagram idea i believe is true
