the subway is an angel and they've plastered ads all over her

things that are part of the subway angel: tunnels & trains & tracks, commuters & tourists & buskers, rats & pigeons, graffiti & poems & sculptures & mosaics, signage & lights, beams & poles & high ceilings & echoes

things that are not part of the subway angel: advertisements, cops

THE TURNSTILES ARE ALSO NOT PART OF THE SUBWAY ANGEL. SHE WANTS TO SEE YOU. SHE DOESN'T CARE IF YOU HAVE MONEY. SHE JUST LOVES YOU

Interesting wood burning technique

This looks cool but this technique is extraordinarily dangerous and people have literally died trying it

For more info, check out the very informative Ann Reardon video:

For those of you without 15 minutes to watch the video:

The way it works is using a microwave transformer, which transforms the normal current from your wall (120v to 200v) into 2000v. Two thousand Volts. That's over 10x what's needed to stop your heart.

That's enough electricity to melt electrical safety gloves to your hands. Experienced electricians have died trying this.

As an added layer of dead-causing danger, because of the way the transformer works, that safety switch in most houses that turns off the power if someone is being electrocuted doesn't work. The coils in the transformer don't actually touch.

Do not do this.

I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"

TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE

Ok, unless something's going on I'm not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term "Pet Play" is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.

Yeah, I'm not mad about using the term "pet play". That's a perfectly fine term. I'm mad because they didn't use that term: they used "pet p!ay", a censored version

Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.

To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content 

For everyone new to tumblr, the same rule applies to tumblr too.

You cannot censor your tags! Censored tags cannot be block or filtered. Censoring tags HARMS your audience, it does not protect them

ID: A Screenshot of missfalasteenia from Twitter:

Gaza is now flooded due to Israel shutting down the sewage system.

We are witnessing yet another phase of this genocide. Starvation, infection, and diseases.

Just because you've stopped talking about it doesn't mean it isn't happening.

This was tweeted on January 4th, 2024 and last edited at 10:12 pm. At the time of the screenshot, this has 89k views, 4.8k reposts, 29 quotes, 5.3 likes, and 113 bookmarks.

https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/unfolding-water-catastrophe-gaza#:~:text=All%20five%20of%20Gaza's%20wastewater,waste%20accumulating%20in%20the%20streets.

Always good to add sources

I cannot believe I'm seeing fractal woodburning on my dash AGAIN and simultaneously on twitter AGAIN Jesus fuck that shit will kill you violently and explosively. It will hurt the entire time you are dying! And for good measure, it will also burn your house down!!

If you see fractal woodburning videos, block and report them.

Don't fuck with electricity unless you are professionally trained and have the correct PPE.

Signed, someone who had to undergo formal training just to operate a 480 V shutoff

Ann Reardon gives a good explanation of the dangers, please please don't do this because you will die!

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From Misa on Wheels

for anyone unsure of why an ASL (or other sign language) interpretation of a movie is important there are a 2 main reasons

1. many Deaf people are not native speakers of English. reading captions means reading a foreign language. Deaf people whose native language isn't English deserve equal access to media and captions are not true equal access.
2. Deaf literacy rates are incredibly low due to improper and inadequate teaching. 1/5 of Deaf students graduating from highschool have a literacy rate at or below 2nd grade. this makes reading captions difficult for many of us.

if cis people are so great then why don’t they have a siberian orchestra 

I need people to stop buying into the idea that "small business" = "ethical business." Many small businesses are wonderful, and absolutely deserve your support, but plenty others aren't. If you're genuinely concerned about where you spend your money, you have to do your due diligence even if a business isn't a mega-corporation.

The lady who owned the small business I used to work at was horrible to work for, gave free coffee to cops, treated us all like shit, and got pissed if you didn't worship the ground she walked on for giving you a job. I would never work for her again, and if someone asked me if they should apply to work for her, I'd tell them to run for the fucking hills. The turnover rate was atrocious when I worked there, and I wouldn't be surprised if she still burns through employees at an unholy rate.

Small businesses are just as capable of worker abuse as big businesses, and they frequently get away with it because people refuse to believe that their beloved Mom & Pop Shop is run by rancid assholes who think Jeff Bezos has the right idea about how to run a business.

Small business owners CAN be better! They CAN be pro-worker and pro-union! But it's not inherent, and small business owners can be some of the most abusive pieces of shit you've met in your life.