conservative women are harassing a retro clothing brand for featuring David Ross Lawn wearing their dresses, which they apparently used to love because their linen clothes are modest and it allows the tradwives to cosplay as waifs from the olden times so they’re big mad that the brand is inclusive
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Also, when I followed the brand yesterday, they were at 320k followers and now they’re at 323k so they’re gaining, not losing
personally I allow retro clothes and it’s all linen!
thanks @bmoharrisbankofficial but unfortunately i can’t focus on the very important message here because i’m too busy being confused by the fact that apparently if you send an ask with only one letter tumblr will bold that letter in the “asked you” notification text?? why the fuck would that be the case
I was gunna put this in the tags but it’s a lot. When i first started going through the process of getting a diagnosis, i was labelled with ODD. I immediately took issue with this, it seemed like an unfair diagnosis based entirely on the session the psychiatrist had with my parents (which mostly consisted of “my child is being really difficult on purpose”), and Hoo Boy when i tell you ODD immediately strips you of your ability to call out anyone on anything, that would be an understatement. I couldn’t even disagree or bring up my concerns about the validity of MY OWN DIAGNOSIS without it being labelled as oppositional defiance. Whenever i displayed any negative emotion the “treatments” did so much more harm than good. When you label someone as ‘defiant’ (ugh), when that word is put on their medical record, that person is never allowed to complain about anything again. Knowing that POC are disproportionately affected with this diagnosis makes me feel sick, i can only imagine what’s being swept under the rug as someone just being “defiant to authority”, not even just in the medical field but as justification for police brutality and mass incarceration. When i say medical racism kills people, this is what i mean.
this is so fucking important. reblog.
ODD really sounds like a term for “this kid has opinions and i, an adult, hate that” How evil to decide that because a kid doesn’t obey your every command like a slavish robot, that they must have a “condition”
Although there were planes used against the miners in the Battle of Blair Mountain, it is not true that this was the first time planes were used to drop bombs on American soil against Americans.
The Battle of Blair Mountain took place in August and September of 1921. Just a few months prior to that, on May 31 and June 1, planes were also used to help destroy the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a prosperous black neighborhood nicknamed The Black Wall Street. At least 39 people died during the event, which is known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. Hundreds were wounded, and 6,000 black people lost their homes.
Both of these events were hugely important moments in American history.
Ask yourself why neither was taught to you in school. Also ask your local school board.
As someone that has grown up surrounded by beaches and done surf life saving, I know how the sea works. Lots of people dont. Every summer multiple tourists die here because they don’t respect the sea, if you’re going to the coast, here’s a thing I saw on Facebook.
wow.
reblogging for all of us that grew up in land locked states, then visit the ocean and are used to just plunging into a lake.
These are not unique to the sea btw. Rip tides are also a danger in other large bodies of water, like the Great Lakes
I was raised agnostic and tend to remain ambiguous on theological matters.
-but my house has a porch on the second story that affords me a terrific view of my neighborhood and the Colorado Front Range and I was partaking of some peace before the 4th Of July Finger-Loss Festivities begin, and I have had a
~*Spiritual Experience*~
I just watched my neighbor try to unload an actual wooden pallet that had to have been forklifted into the back of his insecurity pickup worth of fireworks.
Except that he does not have a forklift in his garage.
He does have so much sports memorabilia and cardboard boxes of unsold MLM Merchandise and patriotically themed camping gear and posters of women in bikinis and flags of suspect political organizations in his garage that there is only BARELY enough space for the fireworks and certainly none for his truck.
So he had to unload the individual boxes of recreational explosives from the back of his truck and stack them in the minimal space he had cleared by hand. This is a tedious and time-consuming process as this neighbor has purchased a wide variety of recreational and locally illegal explosives instead of many of just a few types, so the individual boxes are rather small.
He begins, and this is crucial to what happens next, by cutting apart the industrial-grade saran wrap his explosives dealer had so carefully wrapped his merchandise in, and discarded it unsecured on his lawn.
One fallacy, I think, of anti piracy arguments is that a lot of them seem to assume that if I’m unable to pirate something I’m going to pay for it instead rather than going “oh! that’s a terrible shame” and then quickly forgetting about it
“If you were not pirating [media] you’d be paying for it and therefore piracy is evil 😡” actually if I were not pirating that media I would be thinking about something else. I have made the decision to not spend any money on this and even god himself could not shake it
the research on this was already done decades ago and then quickly squashed because the record labels did not like the finding that people who pirated music were spending way more money on actually buying music legally than people who did not pirate music. it turns out people who care enough to pirate media are generally big fans of that media and willing to spend money on it if they have the money to spend
article is from 2009 so we have known this for a LONG time.
The Norwegian study looked at almost 2,000 online music users, all over the age of 15. Researchers found that those who downloaded “free” music – whether from lawful or seedy sources – were also 10 times more likely to pay for music. This would make music pirates the industry’s largest audience for digital sales.
Wisely, the study did not rely on music pirates’ honesty. Researchers asked music buyers to prove that they had proof of purchase.
As someone who is WAY too into movies and has a reasonable amount of disposable income… I never stopped pirating because some movies I want to watch are simply NOT AVAILABLE TO BUY OR RENT. There is nobody to exchange dollars to in order to put it in my hand, it’s just stopped being distributed. No streaming service picked it up. Piracy is the only thing keeping it alive and in circulation.
The various studies have found ONE area where piracy actually affects sales: The first few weeks that a movie is in the theaters. If it’s widely available digitally, that notably cuts into box-office sales.
…Later, it doesn’t matter.
Music piracy is strongly tied to bigger purchases.
Ebook piracy is so tiny there are no studies about its economic effects. There’s ranting about how many unauthorized downloads there are, and publishers who refuse to renew contracts based on finding pirate ebooks available - but nothing about how ebook piracy actually cuts into ebook profits in the industry as a whole.
There’s claims that the industry loses over $300 million/year due to piracy. This claim is shared everywhere - based on a 2017 report by digimarc, which includes no source data - and it assumes that every unauthorized download is a missing full-price sale instead of “if I can’t read that one, I’ll read something else.” (And that’s aside from the bundle downloads where someone was only interested in one title and will never look at the others again.)
The piracy will continue at least until publishers sort out how to allow used ebooks. Which they could do - DRM could let you transfer ownership of an ebook from your device to someone else’s - but they don’t want to; many publishers opt out of Kindle’s “two week lending, no more than twice” program, much less letting people actually give their books away.
…Nobody became an avid reader by reading full-price books of which they were the original owner. They borrowed books. They were given books other people had already read. They found abandoned books and read those.
Imagine someone saying “Oh I have these books on my shelf in case I want to re-read them, but I would never let anyone else read them.” Imagine if someone bought a book or two a week, and then threw them in the shredder when they were done reading them.
Book culture is a sharing culture. And publishers have been trying to stop that for over a century, and they want ebooks to be their perfect “one purchase = one reader” system.
If they want to reduce ebook piracy, they need to figure out how to let teens give each other the book they’re finished reading. How to let teachers buy a few copies a year to give out to students who seem interested. How to put a stack of ebooks on the office “Share Books” digital shelf for anyone to pick up.
Because right now, the story is “you can’t even leave your ebooks to your heirs in your will.” And it doesn’t matter what kind of sophistry they use to justify this claim… the end result is going to be, “well, then people are going to share books without their permission.” Just like they’ve always done.
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