Columbia is unhousing students of color after suspending them:

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It's vulnerable. I want to help it.

Dead Like Me (2003-2004)

Really unfortunate that Dead Like Me never hit big on tumblr because I feel like you guys would have had a blast babygirlifying Mason, who once OD'd on heroin (he can't die, he's already dead, so it was just a really really bad time) because he smuggled it in his ass on an airplane.

Also Mandy Patinkin is in it and the main character George has so many beautiful sapphic moments with so many insane women <3

Venmo @ bcabolitioncollective

Incidentally, they also suspended Ilhan Omar's daughter.

Since it's election year in the US, I think everyone should check open secrets to see if the candidate they're voting for has taken money from AIPAC. Any vote cast towards a recipient of AIPAC funds is a vote cast towards the genocide of Palestinians.

So sorry to do this to you all but. Jackles.

FAQ/guidelines

I’ve been seeing a lot of honestly very personally antagonistic behaviour in the notes on these polls, so much so that I’ve had to step away entirely from something I and I bet many others hoped would be fun and lighthearted.

I would appreciate it if you would release some guidelines on interacting with kindness and respect for each other and fact checking the claims people make about creators and actors before they post/reply/tag/etc.

I love being a hater as much as the next person but everyone still deserves respect ♥️ I want everyone to feel comfortable voicing their opinions without fear of retribution, because I see how this experiment could escalate into doxxing or death threats.

I also want to make sure misinformation is not being taken at face value. It is important to identify creatives who stand by Israeli genocide and criticise this support, for example, but not everyone accused of anything has in fact done it. These accusations should be taken seriously but when they hqge been credibly debunked they need to stop being spread. Accusations of pedophilia, sexual assault, and racism can all be made to discredit someone rather than bring the truth to light—and people are especially likely to circulate misinfo about debunked claims when they want to prove that a piece of media and/or its fans are bad.

In short, I want everyone to please be critical consumers! I want everyone to be smart and be kind to each other.

well I want everyone to be mega haters and rip eachothers dicks off ❤️ peace and love on planet earth xoxo

Fantasy books stop having arctic kingdoms of all blond hair blue eyed white people.

@takemyadvice-dontlistentome yep!

I have incredibly high arches. Like, a millimeter from being an operable medical condition. And my arches go all the way across so even the outside edges don't touch the ground. I've been in physical therapy multiple times for issues related to my feet.

The first time, I developed hip issues, and the therapist quickly figured out that it was from me walking wrong: my feet rolled outward so I was essentially walking on the outer edges of my feet. They worked selective muscle groups to help me stop doing that, and they said I should avoid shoes with arch support because arch support is only on the inside and would make the rolling worse (that's specifically a me issue, not an arch-support-in-general issue). But, even years later, when my legs got tired on long hikes, I would still catch myself rolling my feet out to the sides.

The second time was after COVID lockdowns when a lack of outdoor activity caused my arches to (painfully) fall so far that I went up a full shoe size. A podiatrist suggested shoes with better arch support, but I explained that I had been told I can't use arch support because of the rolling issue. He said I might need to have custom inserts made but in the meantime sent me for more PT.

My physical therapist told me emphatically that he didn't like arch support and instead wanted me to build up the muscles that support my arch. My problem wasn't some spontaneous congenital issue. I'd had these feet my whole life without the arches collapsing until I suddenly had a massive decrease in walking and the muscles deteriorated. Sure enough, a few weeks of exercises and my feet went back to their usual size.

BUT we figured something else out during PT: most of my work was done barefoot, and my therapist commented that he never saw me rolling my feet, even though I'd told him it was an issue. I thought about it and remarked that it was probably because my toes are spread while I'm barefoot, which balances me better.

All of this was briefly derailed by The Great Breaking of Both my Legs of 2022, after which I had to start over. But somewhere in there, a friend had recommended barefoot shoes to me, and one of their defining features is a wide toe box that allows your toes to spread. They also have thin, flexible soles that allow your foot to move and forces you to engage your foot muscles while walking, which creates strong arches and better flexibility that can make you more resilient against foot injury.

TL;DR Your feet probably aren't inherently bad in a way that needs more support. You're just walking in shoes that don't allow your feet to work the way they're supposed to.

Would like to state for the record that the official stance of this blog is that arch support and ultra-supportive shoes are a conspiracy by Big Podiatry to give you mechanically compromised feet that continually require podiatric care

Would like to state for the record that the official stance of this blog is that arch support and ultra-supportive shoes are a conspiracy by Big Podiatry to give you mechanically compromised feet that continually require podiatric care

Liberals will say shit like "Yeah, well Trump would be doing so much worse right now" while Biden and the Democrats pull shit like this

Fuck you and your lesser-evilism. I refuse to do the math you want me to. The appropriate level of fascism is zero. If you don't believe that, line up with the fascists and follow your leader.