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emmyc:

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collababortion:

FINALLY AVAILABLE FOR ANDROID!!

I’m stoked about this app - it was created in response to a White House challenge to create an app to help prevent sexual violence.  It’s free. It’s available for iPhones and Androids. It could save you or someone you care about.

WHOA WOWOW WHAT A GOOD

IF YOU HAVE A SMARTPHONE THIS IS AMAZING I HAVE WANTED SOMETHING LIKE THIS FOREVER

For the linkphobic or lazy: It’s an app that lets you pre-select up to 6 of your contacts. It then has four buttons that automatically deploys a message to all of the selected numbers - a car icon that deploys a text saying “I need to get home now” that AUTOMATICALLY INCLUDES YOUR CURRENT GPS LOCATION AND A GOOGLEMAP TO WHEREVER YOU ARE, a phone icon that deploys a text reading “I need a distraction, please call me and pretend you need me”, an icon when you’re unsure or nervous about a relationship or sexual situation that sends you links to websites and resources and deploys an appropriate text, and the proverbial oh-shit button that automatically contacts two emergency contacts or hotlines of your choice

what a good app

And don’t forget: The fact that you have something that can near-instantly send a quick photograph or video to a secure e-mail server can in and of itself be a powerful weapon against multiple forms of violence before it even happens.

Your electronic eye can be a weapon in and of itself.

TW’d this cause it made me have weird feelings about my second rape because this could have saved me, I think. 

Just wow. This is amazing. Downloading as I type.

this is brilliant. So when you contact the police or send your location it parses it into plain english for the cops/friends/etc to find you? That’s fantastic. signal boost!

How wonderfully smart and practical! Signal boost

stfuconservatives:

apihtawikosisan:

The heart of the Black Hills will be put up for auction on August 25th, potentially cutting the heart out of Lakota territory. The Pe’Sla fundraiser has managed to gather together $22K in a short period of time, but there are only 9 days left until the sale takes place. Help the Lakota back land stolen from them, land that is vital to the Lakota people.  Literally every dollar helps!

Only 7 days left now. Please, please signal boost.

tartingshop:

Even if you’re not in any related fandoms.

I’m talking to BBC Sherlock fans, too. 

Look, it’s really uncool to try and make this thing flop before you see more than a three-minute clip. No matter why they made it, or when, it’s obviously going to be pretty dissimilar to the BBC version (which is making people complain, for some reason? Even though copying the BBC characterization and look would be met with equal or greater resistance? idek)

This is my act of goodwill, as a BBC Sherlock fan and a potential Elementary fan. You can like two things at once, for different reasons! You can like them for the same reasons! You can totally avoid one thing because you absolutely loathe it while not actively trying to destroy it for the people who might like it! You can stop flooding the tag with hate so people can get to nice graphics! okay one step at a time here

I could get into how great it is that a WOC has a great role for once, and how there are literally hundreds of other adaptations, including modern ones (and future ones and one where they are mice and an anime featuring Holmes as a little girl) and how this one is no worse. How it’s not actually erasing textual queerness because no matter how great the fanfic was, no matter how much it teased, BBC Sherlock itself was never queer. It “no-homo’d” all over the place pretty bad, in fact. And even if you disagree with me there, we will get to keep the BBC fanfic! We will get to keep the show! Nothing will change, except there will also be a show featuring Lucy Liu kicking ass that is totally unrelated to the BBC version!

So please. Take the olive branch, Sherlock tag. Let this thing have a chance to find its feet instead of raving all over it like a pack of wolves who like to say “WRONG” and “ANDERSON DID IT” a lot. It’s going to make the fandom look a lot better in the long run, instead of becoming “that one fandom that killed another one out of pure malice.”

Please reblog!!

transsexualferox:

kiriamaya:

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jalwhite:

VIA Amnesty International

We are going into a difficult day. The state of Georgia is about to do something horrific. It is prepared to kill a person who may well be innocent. However, we have not been sitting quietly by…

darkknightrises:

I’m asking for a favor, Tumblr

pikitis:

pastsinner | thepoliticalnotebook | psydoctor8:

In repsonse to aatombomb’s and approachingsignificance’s post about Troy Davis, I propose we DO SOMETHING about it that takes 30 seconds.

We’ve all seen…

roxanneritchi:

newwavefeminism | numol | bornthisbrown:

social security numbers aren’t required!!!

please pass this around if you can!

scholarships!! no one should be denied the education the want. ever!

OH this is local!  Bay Area immigrant students, y’all!

by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith

We are published authors who co-wrote a post-apocalyptic young adult novel. When we set out to find an agent for it, we expected to get some rejections. But we never expected to be offered representation… on the condition that we make a gay character straight, or cut him out altogether.

Our novel, Stranger, has five viewpoint characters; one, Yuki Nakamura, is gay and has a boyfriend. Yuki’s romance, like the heterosexual ones in the novel, involves nothing more explicit than kissing.

An agent from a major agency, one which represents a bestselling YA novel in the same genre as ours, called us.

The agent offered to sign us on the condition that we make the gay character straight, or else remove his viewpoint and all references to his sexual orientation.

Yep.

In case anyone’s still wondering where to report Hypes, and in case he hasn’t been reported yet, he’s British, so this’d be the way to go.