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I love your fiburritos!

Tomorrow is the dot dye workshop at the guild, prepare for pictures of Poorly Dyed Fibers

#dot dye #dye #hand dyed #dyeing #craftblr #yarnblr

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Had a 'fun' new experience today in the form of my first ever mammogram because I found a lump on my chest a few weeks ago, and when you find a lump, you get that shit checked out.

Ironically, the lump I went to get investigated turned out to be nothing, likely just a cyst that made its way to the surface, but they did find something else on the scan that requires me to do a follow-up ultrasound in six months. The doctor stressed that it is most likely a fibroid, but given my family history of breast cancer and general weird health fuckery, they're being vigilant and keeping an eye on it.

The mammogram itself was fine. The technician doing it kept complimenting me on the "pliable" nature of my breast tissue and how easy it was to smoosh me into the machine. I was like thanks, I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome; my body is basically made of only slightly more reinforced laffy taffy.

She said, "That explains that," and then proceeded to smush my tits into a pancake. Apparently, they were the most compliant tits she's worked with. I said thank you because what else can you do in that situation. And then she asked me if I wanted to know how much they weighed, and I said boy, do I?!

So she started reading off the results and was like, "17.7 lbs," and I was like, gosh, no wonder they feel so heavy, and then she kept talking and said, "And the other one weighs..."

And that's when I realized she didn't mean total.

She meant one boob was 17.7lbs.

So in case you've ever wanted to know, my right boob weighs 17.7 lbs, and my left one weighs 17.3 lbs, bringing the grand weight hanging off my chest to an even 35 lbs.

The tech was like "gosh! That's a lot for someone of your size!" and I was like "ya fucking think?!"

For a frame of reference, I weigh 136 lbs total. One-quarter of my weight is tits.

I am one-quarter titty.

And I'm telling that to the next doctor who suggests I lose weight.

Anyway. Remember to do regular breast exams, and don't be afraid of mammograms. Yes, they're checking for cancer, but they also tell you fun things like how much your chest weighs and whether or not your boobs are compliant.

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guh, i'm tired of telling people i'm they/them and then being referred to mostly wish she/her in response. i used to not mind that people would assume she/her because it was a sign that i was being visually read how i wanted, but as people continue to actively be terrible at remembering to use my actual pronouns once i do tell them, the assumptions have started to irritate me as well.

can i get a uhhhhhhhhhhhh society where gender isn't so tied to appearance please

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friend server has changed our nicknames to various things you might find in a haunted house or whatnot so whenever one of us has a tough time it produces really good sentences such as “keep going you can do it creepy spider” and “terrifying shadow i hope you feel better soon” and “thank you sinister glow you’re always there for me”

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I should be able to get some kind of The Quantum Thief gevulot so that I can appear differently to trans people and cis people.

Like, show a basic binary-gender gender-conforming gender to the cis, and a more complicated gender for trans people.

And the ability to opt-in known allies to my real gender, of course. But random strangers? You get "generic woman", sorry.

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Life For Gaza: Each Cent Counts, Quenching the Thirst of Humanity in Gaza City

The Gaza Municipality is tasked with providing vital services such as water supply, waste management and sewage treatment. However, the widespread destruction in Gaza City has severely hampered the Municipality's ability to deliver even the most basic necessities to its residents. With limited access to water, the population faces a dire health and environmental crisis, especially affecting children.

By joining forces in this initiative, we cultivate hope and solidarity, fostering empathy and collaboration across communities while easing the hardships endured by those in Gaza. This collective effort reassures them that they are not alone in their struggle. The Gaza Municipality earnestly appeals for your support to help reinstate essential services, currently the foremost priority. In the northern regions of the Gaza Strip alone, over 500,000 individuals urgently require these services.

Where your donations will be directed:

- Water supply enhancement projects

- Maintenance of water wells

- Implementation of water desalination initiatives

- Management of waste collection and disposal systems

- Reconstruction of roads demolished during war

- Implementation of sewage water pumping and treatment schemes

- Execution of pest control and rodent eradication programs

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Question for people who are more tumblr-savvy: If I block someone on my main, will they also be blocked from this blog? I always block all fet-ish blogs who interact here, but I’m worried it might not be enough. I’m on mobile 99% of the time, and as far as I know, it’s not possible to specifically block from a side blog on mobile.

After I’ve blocked someone, their notification (like/reblog/etc.) disappears from hijab-described’s notification center, but im not sure if it’s simply “invisible” to me and they might still be able to interact and I simply don’t see it.

Does anyone know the answer? If not, I might write a message to tumblr support to ask, but I don’t want to bother them and I don’t know how long a reply would take to arrive.

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C'mon don't be losers, instead of doing Watcher subscription giveaways just literally buy esims for Gaza or donate to non-profit charities like Care for Gaza, which actually help affected Palestinians and deliver food and other necessities to them. There's also a bunch for Sudan like the one set up by the ICRC. Don't give $6 just for a man to eat expensive shit on camera when that $6 can do so much for an entire nation of starving people.

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So many places with those metal folding ramps buy a ramp that’s the wrong length and therefore totally unsafe or unusable. (In most cases it should be no steeper than 1:8)

I went to a cafe recently that had a step and a “please ring the bell for wheelchair access” sign. When they brought out the ramp, it was so steep my chair would have gone over backwards if I’d tried to use it. The cafe had been recommended to me as accessible by an able bodied friend who had been impressed that a ramp was available. In general, the majority of temporary metal ramps I’ve come across have been unusable and/or unsafe.

One of the major problems of this is that the owners of the cafe felt they’d done their bit to be inclusive, and other abled people assume that the world is more accessible than it actually is. It hides the issue of inaccessibility.

Luckily there’s an online tool to help calculate the length of ramp you’ll need for your step here:

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In Japanese, they don’t say “moon,” they say “tsuki,” which literally translates to “moon,” and I think that’s how language works.

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History of Step

What is Stepping?

What is Step?

Stepping or step dancing is “a percussive dance in which the participant’s body is used to produce complex rhythms and sounds through a mixture of footsteps, spoken word, and hand-claps,” writes the African American Registry.

Step has its origins in Africa, as dancing has been a large part of traditional African culture for centuries.

Calling Step a "bizarre silent dance without music" has to be one of the wilder antiblack racist descriptions I've ever heard of stepping lmao. Anyway if you see the video, it's step!!! They're stepping!! It's a Black American form of dance!!

#free palestine #antiblackness #step #big yikes

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I hate this whole needing money to live thing

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It's Lesbian Visibility Week and my five years on testosterone, so I have an urgent message from one random man to all lesbians on T:

YAAAAY WHOOO SOLIDARITY FOREVER I LOVE YOU HOORAY WHOOO HAHAHA YAAAAY CLAPPING AND SCREAMING AND HIGH-FIVING YOU AND CRUSHING BEER CANS AGAINST MY FOREHEAD YAAAAAY FRIENDSHIP AND JOY YAAAAY

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#underground

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I’m way behind on Tumblr. Barely keeping up on tiktok with Butch positivity.

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It’s Flat Friend Friday; reblog with pictures of your pet being flat and comfy.