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monochromatic-stardust · 2 years

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This long but it is important... vitally important. LIFE SAVING LEVEL OF IMPORTANT particularly in regards to reproductive rights being under major attack, so please, please read.

With Roe being threatened there is a MUCH LARGER THAN EXPECTED (though maybe I shouldn't be surprised tbh), very misinformed, dangerous movement of people sharing herbs that are Abortifacients (which are TOXIC which is how they're able to cause an abortion) to large platforms of people, on all sorts of platforms with social media, from 13 years old and up, and giving HORRIBLE "advice" about it, which is at least 95% misinformation, and thus VERY concerning.

It's particularly prevalent on TikTok and the Discord servers these larger WitchTok creators have set up.

Including, but not limited to, vague AF instructions and dosing amounts, vague or flat out incorrect ways of dosing (tisane vs tincture vs topical vs THE BIG NO NO OF INSERTING IT), and apparently failing to realize that the SAFER and MORE SUCCESSFUL herbal abortions are blends of herbs to help balance the other effects, NOT JUST TAKING A LARGE (or multiple doses) OF A SINGLE TYPE OF HERB that's contraindicated for pregnancy.

PLEASE speak out against this.

Anywhere.

Everywhere.

I'm familiar with herbalism, grew up in a heavily holistic household, enough so that I know how damaging and deadly these methods have the potential to EASILY be, PARTICULARLY WHEN NOT UNDER THE GUIDANCE AND CARE OF A PROFESSIONAL, LICENSED, HERBALIST, preferably also with at least midwife involved.

They're also encouraging people to LIE TO DOCTORS about why they're seeking medical attention if (WHEN) something goes wrong. (Things like "tell them you ate something and now your stomach hurts.)

I have a a small, but decent amount of information and am looking into it further and am happy to share what I know, as well as anything other trustworthy people have made speaking out about it, of which there are plenty of TikToks for example.

But yeah, I am very concerned about how many people might end up with:

1. The "less" serious side effects (and yet, still ranging from potentially permanently damaging to life threatening) like burning a hole in their stomach, raging fevers, vomiting, diarrhea (all potentially extreme enough to need medical attention), dizziness (that sometimes doesn't go away), seizures etc

2. HEMORRHAGING, since some of these herbs increase flow to the pelvic area and uterus while others SLOW CLOTTING AND ALSO WEAKEN THE BLOOD VESSELS.

3. A number of different organs and systems that can be damaged like liver, kidneys, lungs, heart, nervous systems, cardiovascular system, brain, etc...

4. Organ failure/multi organ failure (mostly of those same organs)

5. Not successfully aborting the fetus and instead giving them extreme birth defects etc.

6. DEATH.

(Among other things, of course, like first and foremost allergies you may have to that family of plant, or contraindications for specific health conditions, or medication you're on, or hell your favorite herbal tea, essential oils etc etc)

I know people are scared, scared of losing their rights, scared about "what if" happens to them or someone they love, I know there is a resurgence of witchcraft, and as a result also natural treatments, but it's not coming from SAFE sources and these things really shouldn't be performed without being under the care of someone who knows their shit.

I also know that the lesson that needs to be driven home is one my momma taught us all:

Just because it's natural doesn't mean it's safe. Rattlesnake venom is natural but you don't see people lining up for that. And sure, deadly nightshade and foxglove are natural AND have been turned into the basis of medication commonly used by western doctors even, but if you don't know WTF you're doing with them, they'll kill you, very easily. Flowers we think of as harmless or ornamental can also be CRAZY POISONOUS. Have you heard of Oleander? Lily of the Valley?

As someone who only went through a (fairly short) phase of not using holistic treatments due to toxic living situations and the way I treated for using them plus not being allowed to spend money ON these items, I can honestly say I'm pretty sure I'm only as functional as a human being as I am because the holistic health care treats everything, and fills in the many, many, many gaps in "traditional" western medicine.

My quality of life got better once I was able to start practing what I know again.

I don't want to scare people away from ALL herbalism or holistic care... or to put it more accurately, I don't want to scare people away from herbalism (including Chinese herbalism), aromatherapy, homeopathy, Bach Flower Essences, the various types of body work etc AT ALL, since honestly it can be so good, so helpful, so healing.

By itself or in conjunction with western medicine, holistic health care and approaches to care and healing in general can change your life.

I just wanna put the rightful fear of REAL LIFE CONSEQUENCES into them regarding using unreliable and uneducated sources (like strangers on the internet who spout some shit off but don't go IN DEPTH about the dangers and how you need a professional for any BIG thing you want to do, and for many herbs used to treat many small things... and how you also shouldn't get your advice from all the various MLMs (like they did with Young Living and DoTerra which ALSO resulted in a LARGE increase in serious injuries from the (mis)use of essential oils), which are now starting to crop up regarding witchcraft and as they pick up speed I'm sure they're gonna include "herbal remedies" etc as well, cause essential oils and supplements weren't enough) so that fear of THE POTENTIAL DANGERS like organ failure and DEATH helps make sure they go TO legit fully trained, went to school for it, professional, certified/licensed holistic healthcare practioners who got these degrees from an accredited college and in order to BE certified/licensed they had to pass board exams/other monitored testing to prove they know their shit etc.

/end rant with many apologies for how long this is.

(But also not sorry cause if this helps to save even ONE person from making a bad choice, then it's worth it.)

#roe v wade #reproductive choice #abortion #herbalism #witchcraft #hedge witch #herbalist #witches #midwifery #pro choice #shut up stardust no one cares #I'm a witch but I know when I need a professional #also yes I know I'm a stranger on the internet but I'm telling you to talk to professionals for medical advice not me #natural doesn't mean safe

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strawberry-nugget · 3 years

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Oddly specific bnha headcanons

Characters: Deku, Bakugo, Kirishima, Kaminari, Jirou, All Might, Endeavor, Hawks, Dabi

A/N: I'm finally back from my mini hiatus and I finally finished a part of my never ending cursed head canons and I also hit a new milestone so I feel like you all deserve this attempt of mine at comedy for the love I've been getting...I'm also sorry, this is a wild ride, and as you're reading you might wonder why did I make these? And the answer is, simply, because I can 😭, no lol though true... I'm soft so if these made you laugh and you leave an LMAO comment I'll think about it forever uwu. I've talked about most of these with my dear friend @aichiin, who is an amazing artist whom should support in all platforms uwu bye

Warnings: some of this content is NSFW, 18+, so if you're under 18 DO NOT INTERACT

Disclaimer: everyone is at least of 18 years of age

• I can't explain why, and we've seen Endeavor texting shoto in canon but... I feel like probably his texts look like this: …..shoto why aren't you Answering your phone…

….tell fuyumi to make you soba… .

… ……are you still friends with that rude boy from school..

…I don't want any take out dont get any for me tell natsuo that I'm sorry and try to ask him if he's changed his mind about forgiving me.…

• All might opens a Facebook account a month before the beloved class graduates as his way to keep on touch with everyone after they're off to fight crime and lives his life as the ultimate Facebook mom and thinks he's texting people but apparently posting on your Facebook wall isn't texting. He has probably made a thousand posts asking midoriya how it works until people just, they just, accept it, I guess, there's nothing else they can do. He uses the Facebook mom tulip emoji and writes in all cap. Give him credit for being so sweet tho.

And probably it goes like this: "💞🥰🌷🤣WHAT AN AMAZING SUNDAY. GOOD MORNING YOUNG MIDORIYA HOW HAVE YOU BEEN" Ofc he will not hesitate to use all these emojis unironically, in fact, he doesn't know that is the ironic use of an emoji, leave him alone

(Comments on the post most probably go like this: Bakugo: I EXIST TOO YOU OLD HAG, FUCK YOU DEKU, I DIDN'T BRING YOU TO THIS WORLD BUT I SURE WILL TAKE YOU OUT. MOTHERFUCKER.

Denki: mister al mght do we have english tomorrow ?

Momo: @denki, no but we have literature, hello mister all might sir, have a nice day too

All might: YOUNG BAKUGO PLEASE WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE 🤣 YOUNG KAMINARI, AS YOUNG YAOYOROZU SAID YOU HAVE LITERATURE AFTER MY CLASS📜 HAVE A BEAUTIFUL EVENING YOUNG YAOYOROZU🌷

• I'm sorry for this but.... Midoriya, Denki and Kirishima probably lick their finger after they absolutely drill it in their noses but here's the deal

Midoriya inspects what he fished out like thoroughly, Denki dissociates while staring at it, and Kirishima does so straight out of his nose

• Someone told Shoto that Saiki K is based on true events and he genuinely believes it and tries to find Saiki K, claiming that he is the answer to all of his problems. Is very subtle about it tho.

• I think that in part one of these atrocious head canons we established that Keigo would willingly put effort to find the clit, right? Listen he probably asks what's the concept of the clit, like why is it outside and not inside- wait you have another spot inside, yeah? He's is so confused and for what? Won't stop for it mid sex but he searches reproduction organ anatomy later on on google because he brought some questions in his brain that need answers. On the clit. You heard me right.

• Dabi looks like he once had a break up that was so rough that he opened a Twitter just to drag the other person down. For once, I won't go into detail and will let your imaginations run wild.

• I have to do a a cursed one for Bakugo right? Well yeah uhm, he probably was caught flexing his muscles in the mirror during vacation, totally naked too, by one of his friends in his group and screamed in a high pitched voice and picked up that little hotel room fridge to cover himself up and chased them around the hotel room until he just crushed the poor item. To the floor? Because he tried to use it as a cover up and it just slipped... It's even worse if the friend was a potential s/o. He'll scream like one of the screaming/simping TikTok sounds.

• Bakugo also really hates chairs. Idk why I have this headcanon, but I know it in my heart that this man, as an adult, only has those round weird- ish IKEA stools around the kitchen table that's all. No more chairs. Nothing.

• this is too self indulgent but Kirishima and Deku look like the people who, while washing forks, spoons etc they create whole stories about them and treat them like characters, and others would just look at them so confused as to why it takes 16 minutes to wash off a spoon and why are they also crying but you wouldn't understand. This spoon is Cinderella. Back off and let. them. finish. their. stories.

• I feel like Jirou has phases where she only wants to wear black but then she sees a nice pair of jeans and buys it, and then buys some more and then she gets mad about having blue jeans and she dyes them, but then she grows out of that phase for a few months and she tries to find ways to make the fabric paint fade away

• I also think that she, after spending a little time with Momo, spends money on a lot of clothes, and it's not like Momo buys too many clothes, but Jirou always wants to upgrade her wardrobe and ends up feeling lost on what she wants to wear

• Denki and Kirishima turn into the same person a little more every single time they hang out together. You'll listen to Denki say 'manly' all the time and Kirishima starts trying to find leather jackets that look cool on him, and just adopts Dennis speaking habits.

#bnha #katsuki bakugou #bakugou x reader #bnha fanfiction #denki kaminari #kirishima x reader #eijirou kirishima #momo yaoyozoru #endeavor #dabi x reader #dabi #all might #mha #bnha fan fiction #bnha cursed heacanons

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undefined5posts · 3 years

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Credit: Jordan J. Lloyd

I've been trying to dive deeper into politics, discover the genuine roots of our society, the origins of our beliefs, and the consequences of our economic system. It's a big, long, wide journey and through multiple sources such as articles, images, videos and multiple social media platforms, I've been trying to educate myself more on important subjects.

Communism, capitalism, libertarian, conservative, the left, the right, the history, the impact. It is scary to commit to everything because once you start, you simply cannot stop, once you start waking up your conscience about the horrible reality, the lies, the truths, you cannot put it back to sleep. You can't just ignore prejudice, especially when you're extremely conscious of it's omnipresence. I have continually tried to build my own opinions all while actively creating bullet point arguments in my mind because I just know that at some point I will have to defend my thinking, and I want to do it right.

Now, I am so far from being enlightened, I am a beginner and an amateur in all of those themes, but I am trying, which is the only way to start and grow.

So to tell you about my beliefs, I am a militant human rights activist, I believe in equal opportunities regardless of gender identity, sex, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race and disability. This is a fact, not a belief, but the system was obviously not built to protect all people, its wasn't created to serve everyone equally but to grant a privilege to some and harm others. The current state of the world is not a slip, an accident or a misfunction of our brilliant system but a testament of it operating remarkably well. I believe that equity leads to equality, and I believe that we cannot "fix" methodologies that were immorally created with absolutely no honor whatsoever. I believe in reproductive rights, in legal, safe abortions for anybody who needs one. I believe in the decriminalization of marijuana. I believe that the death penalty is a despicable punition that should be banned as soon as possible. I believe in defunding the police and the military. I believe that it is a shame that I even have to talk about police brutality, I don't want to have to say that it is one of the most horrible things our world has originated, I feel extremely dense when I do because it seems like the most obvious certitude and I refuse to believe that this is a controversial statement. I believe that everything I have just stated, along with many more, isn't anything grand but the bare minimum, the bar is low, and yet, we still have the fight for basic human decency.

Humanity has become an option. We have normalized supporting people that represent everything wrong in this world under the name of tolerance. The left has never claimed to be tolerant towards hateful beings, We have never accepted homophobia, transphobia, racism, ableism and sexism. We cannot, for exemple, accept nazis, as too much tolerance inevitably leads to intolerance. This picture explains it perfectly:

I consider myself a communist/ socialist. The two terms still confuse me a little, some say they are the same, some say they differ quite a bit. What I know is that socialism is the transitional period between capitalism and communism. At the end of the day, the final result and goal is a stateless, moneyless and clasless society that will provide to each his need.

Our capitalistic society has brainwashed us way more than you may think. It is the root of so many of our issues, the underground demon of our problems. Every idea, thought, belief, and misconception of ours were all affected by our current economic system. It has sold us the billionnaire dream which is one of the most toxic things capitalism has offered. We have looked up to billionaires for way too long, why are they so idolized? Most of them come from high upper class families that can easily afford to invest in their inventions and creations. After starting up their companies and occasionnaly stealing other's people ideas to ultimately get undeserved merit, they then can start to properly exploit their hardworking employees's labour. And for unlimited hours and a minimum wage which probably won't even suffice you to survive, you will have to either pick up more shifts or a second or even third job, especially if you have a family to support. All while the CEO barely does any of the work and gets all the praise and money. So no, they don't all come from really poor families and have built everything for nothing.

The worst thing is that we've been so gaslit and brainwashed that we're proud of our own exploitation, we are wired to think that to be successful we have to suffer, work 10 jobs we all hate, constantly pick up extra hours, have 2 hours of sleep, have no free time to do anything we love, waste our entire youth, be depressed our entire adulthood, to finally have a few pennies to spend when we're eighty. We so strongly believe that this is the only right way to be successful that I don't think many of us have dared to question it's authority, and even if we do, we quickly accept that this a truth, a fact we cannot change and this is just the way things are.

We have capitalized water, food, land, forests, oceans, space, and everything in betweeen. Money is social construct and we have deliberately let it take over our lives. To think about the wasted opportunities and the misery that we have to endure so others can enjoy life truly angers me.

Also, communism is not an ideology that has every actually taken place. Despite what they say, there was never actually a communist country. However, every nation that has attempted a socialist system, for exemple Burkina Faso, has thrived. But of course, once capitalist countries noticed that, they decided to murder it's leader. So in conclusion, the only reason socialism failed is because of capitalism and it's interventions.

"As President (1983-1987), Sankara initiated economic reforms that shifted his country away from dependence on foreign aid and reduced the privileges of government officials; he cut salaries, including his own, decreed that there would be no more flying in first class or driving Mercedes as standard issue vehicles for Ministers and other government workers. He led a modest lifestyle and did not personally amass material wealth. President Sankara encouraged self-sufficiency, including the use of local resources to build clinics, schools and other needed infrastructure. [...] President Sankara promoted land reform, childhood vaccination, tree planting, communal school building, and nation-wide literacy campaigns. He was committed to gender equity and women’s rights and was the first African leader to publicly recognize the AIDS pandemic as a threat to African countries. Although Sankara became somewhat more authoritarian during his Presidency, his ideas, and the possibility that they could spread, were viewed by many as posing the greatest threat. President Sankara was assassinated during a coup led by a French-backed politician, Blaise Compaoré, in October 1987. Compaoré served as the President of Burkina Faso from October 1987 through October 2014, when he himself was overthrown."

Via:https://africandevelopmentsuccesses.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/success-story-from-burkina-faso-thomas-sankaras-legacy/

I have been reading and watching some amazing human rights activists, notably Angela Davis, Malcolm X and James Baldwin. The people that were villainized, labeled as violent and radical, when every single word that came out of their mouhs were pure facts. They are probably some of the most eloquent people I have had the pleasure of hearing. Every sentence, every argument, every single detail made so much sense and opened my mind to so many new realizations. This is the perfect exemple of how the media tarnishes the reputation of wise black women and men. I would strongly advise you to research more about them.

"Socialism & communism are demonized in the west to the point of erasing influential individuals' socialist advocacy. Heres a short list of people you may not have known were socialists/ communists:

MLK

Albert Einstein

Nelson Mandela

Frida Kahlo

Tupac Shakur

Mark Twain

Malcom X

Oscar Wilde

Bertrand Russell

Hellen Keller

Pablo Picasso

George Orwell

Shia LaBeouf

John Lennon

Woody Guthrie

Socialism & communism are not dirty words. Some of the most brilliant minds of our history were socialists and communists. Embrace it." Via @sleepisocialist on twitter

So what else can I say, capitalism has ruined our society and the way we act and think. I know a lot of people refuse to support communism because they think it's too much of a perfect ideal utopian world for it to ever actually exist. And to that I say, first of all, so you agree, it is a wonderful theory, and second of all, a world without racism, sexism, homophobia or any kind or discrimination could also be perceived as "too ideal to actually exist", but does that mean I'm giving up on talking, educating myself and others, protesting and trying to build a better future? Absolutely not. This is the objective, it would be so dumb to think that we just couldn't achieve that so let's not even try.

I want to talk more in detail about communism, theory, human rights, etc... but I don't want to make this post any longer. I will however be posting more about it soon enough.

I know this is a little different than what I usually post, but I want to speak, tell you all my own opinions, I don't want to just repost activism related stuff. I'll continue to do that, but not exclusively. I know it won't get as many interactions as my other posts, but this is what I needed at some point in my life, and if I could make understanding some basic informations easier to some people, it'll already be a great accomplishment.

Thank you for reading.

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