Those “herbal remedies” to induce abortion are poison. They are poison and they will kill people. Stop sharing them.
Those methods depend on your body terminating the pregnancy to save itself before everything shuts down. It’s an extremely risky gamble and even if you survive, there’s often long-term or even lifelong damage.
leaning on ableism, ageism, and fatphobia for all your criticisms of Trump didn’t stop him getting elected again so maybe try being less shit this time around
no he’s not “crazy” he’s a fascist whose ability to do harm literally depends on social institutions defining him as sane.
no he’s not “acting like a toddler” he’s acting like an entitled adult bigot who weaponises every privilege he has including that conferred by his age.
no he’s not “ugly” he’s a relatively normal looking human being whose moral character is not at all related to his appearance because that’s not how that works.
Sometimes, in fandom, we just want to write id-tastic fic that rolls around in tropes that might be viewed as problematic. But we don’t want to address the problematic side of things in this particular fanwork; we just want to roll around and wallow.
It is considered courteous to give readers a heads-up via use of AO3 tags. I propose a tag that signals that a given fanwork is for rolling around, not giving a measured evaluation of anything. The MCU has carved out a space for this sort of fic with the “HYDRA Trash Party” tag, for which I commend them. Trash Party is a bit too specific to cover all of the ground I’m thinking of here, though; I propose “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.”
For those of you not familiar with Arrested Development, Michael Bluth finds a paper bag in the freezer labeled “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.” He opens the bag, finds a dead dove, and reacts as follows:
[gif of a white man saying “I don’t know what I expected” in a deadpan manner]
The “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” tag would essentially be a “what it says on the tin” metatag, indicating “you see the tropes and concepts tagged here? they are going to appear in this fic. exactly as said. there will not necessarily be any subversion, authorial commentary condemning problematic aspects, or meditation on potential harm. this fic contains dead dove. if you proceed, you should expect to encounter it.”
“In one of the more remarkable marches of human progress, Bangladesh has reached the point of near-universal electricity access for its citizens.
Coupled with the rapid electrification has been one of the greatest single declines in the poverty rate of a nation ever seen, falling from 44.2% in 1991 to 18.7% in 2022.
Granted, half of these households are considered according to Our World in Data to have lower tier access, which accounts for home lighting and charging mobile phones at least 4 hours a day, but the other half are considered as having higher tier access, defined as the added capacity to power high-load appliances (such as fridges) for more than eight hours a day.
Bangladesh is the world’s most densely populated large country with a density of 3,020 per square mile. As the twelfth densest country in the world, the 11 above Bangladesh are all microstates whose combined land area would not even equal half the size of the smallest state in Bangladesh.
To put this into perspective, (a rather silly perspective) if one wanted to reduce the population density of Bangladesh to that of Mongolia, its borders would have to include both all of Africa and all of Eurasia. That’s how crowded Bangladesh is, and what these amazing reductions in poverty truly mean to global human flourishing.”
-via Good News Network, January 21, 2025
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Note: This is the kind of thing I mean when I say that very, very few people in the West know the degree to which absolutely massive societal progress has been happening in a lot of different developing countries.
Especially around access to infrastructure and access to electricity.
The quality of life improvements to electricity access are massive.
It’s not just access to phones/the internet (already a huge deal that opens up massive channels of communication and information-sharing).
It’s being able to preserve food because you have a fridge, meaning you get to spend less money on food/have less food waste/run fewer errands/have way more flexibility around food.
It’s being able to do things after dark, because you have a lightbulb. It’s being able to work late, make more of your time.
It’s less air pollution because people can use electricity instead of burning fuel for things like heat/light/cooking. (Yes I know these things often use fuel or natural gas still, but they can be done with electricity, and a lot of developing countries are skipping over a natural gas/etc. phase and straight into renewables.)
Hell, it’s safety. I had a friend when I was younger who was from southeast Asia. She was horribly injured when she was a kid because her family only had kerosene oil lamps that had to be manually refilled. If her family had had access to electricity, that never would have happened.
It’s infrastructure for heating, air conditioning, and water access. It’s so, so many things. It’s huge.
*type of scam where a person sets up a situation to create an accident in order to demand compensation for damages. Often seen where the scammer pretends to get hit by a car.
The House and Senate are ALSO controlled by the GOP right now. The DNC is CURRENTLY having leadership elections because of the failures of 2024. And NONE of them are in the goddamn Executive Branch, which makes executive orders!
You know who ARE counterpunching right now? STATES CONTROLLED BY DEMOCRATS! THEY’RE ALREADY DOING SHIT AND SUING HIS ASS FOR THIS! Because that is in fact how you combt these orders!
Also Dems in Congress ARE fighting back, just pay some fucking ATTENTION.
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