faelapis:

beachdeath:

me sitting here two weeks before the midterm elections watching my twitter and tumblr feeds fill up w/ memes and discourse about how voting is useless and democrats aren’t gonna save us: uh guys? guys? hey guys? guys? you guys? guys? hey you guys? you guys? guys? uh guys? guys? guys? guys?

one of the most common tactics of the right isn’t to change who you vote for. they know that’s unlikely to work. it’s to do everything in their power to make sure you decide to stay home. 

republican turnout wasn’t actually that high in the last election. democratic turnout was just fucking abysmal, because of attitudes like this. 

amnestylodge:

batmanisagatewaydrug:

a-fatal-errxr:

oldroots:

sev-elbows:

batmanisagatewaydrug:

trashytwenties:

batmanisagatewaydrug:

karstenharrington:

batmanisagatewaydrug:

batmanisagatewaydrug:

just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesn’t turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog

oh hey!! I’m not a janky radfem I can do it myself!

makeup culture is wack and normalizes a ludicrously high bar as the bare minimum women can do. I saw a “lazy"makeup tutorial the other day that listed 22 separate goddamn products. you’re supposed to buy and know how to use 22 different things on your face just for the privilege of being considered lazy and that’s uuuuuuh what’s the word? bullshit.

Really, five products could work, even 3. Just frame the face, eyes, lips, and you’re done.

0 products also works great

because I’m gonna be real here, the idea that 22 products is a minimum sucks but it’s really upsetting that any amount of makeup is the bare minimum at all

I would really just suggest some powder foundation, concealer, mascara and lipgloss/lipstick, or tbh just mascara works too, but that’s up to you

I’m sorry if I didn’t express this clearly enough in the original post but I’m not really looking for more concise makeup regiments. my intention was to point out how it’s Bad that makeup is considered a bare minimum at all, regardless of individual feelings on the matter

no face should be “required” to have “a minimum” of makeup. makeup has no health benefits and does nothing but fill the pockets of companies that prey on women and our insecurities.

makeup should not be seen as hygiene because it isnt. get that shit out of your head.

this post: makeup culture is ridiculous and 22 products should not be considered a minimum requirement for someones face. no one should have to do that

the notes: so like……. what youre saying is……. we need to make the minimum about 5 or 6 instead… i gotcha

Really the only makeup you need is eyeliner but that’s just my personal opinion

okay

where did we lose you

why are people like this

lanean:

hrefnatheravenqueen:

Hey there US friends! If you’re voting using these machines (Hart eSlate) or similar ones right now or in the near future, make sure that the machine has NOT changed your ballot before casting it, ‘k? It’s apparently an already known problem, and has been for years, but has never been fixed.

Additional Source: https://abc13.com/politics/straight-party-voters-reporting-their-votes-were-changed/4556377/

What’s worse is that Georgia removed a ton of people off the voter role who hadn’t actually moved out of state or been convicted of disqualifying felonies. It was the cross state ballot checking system that checks for changes in voters’ status. Texas was just an old machine/s that needed better calibration.

Also you got this:

This image is a bit out of context– The quote is from the speech where he talks about raising voter turnout to make up for absentee ballot votes. Potential voter suppression through the automated checking system for disqualifying factors for voting though, which is run in part by him. Definitely shady.

Be sure to double-check your ballots no matter which state you’re in!

hrefnatheravenqueen:

Hey there US friends! If you’re voting using these machines (Hart eSlate) or similar ones right now or in the near future, make sure that the machine has NOT changed your ballot before casting it, ‘k? It’s apparently an already known problem, and has been for years, but has never been fixed.

Additional Source: https://abc13.com/politics/straight-party-voters-reporting-their-votes-were-changed/4556377/

Gender of the day

The kiddo I nanny for is starting to get the concept of gender sort of. And today she was like

Bab: I’m a girl!

Me: oh really? That’s cool. Am I a girl?

Bab: *laughs* No! That silly!

Me: oh I’m not a girl? Then what am I?

Bab: you an Emily!

Me: oh ok, I guess that makes sense

Bab: I’m a big girl!