Hey California peeps. The best thing you can do during a hurricane, is prepare beforehand.

I'm not talking about obvious stuff like supplies.

Communicate with ALL your neighbors and friends. Make sure everyone is accounted for during and after the storm. If someone loses power, or you can't stock up on something in time (due to hoarding and long lines etc) you will be glad you kept in touch with your neighbors.

To any of my followers in southern California, people are going to die. I'm not going to sugar coat it. Please stay safe and follow guides you find on there internet (preferably those written by people and organizations who have gone through hurricanes in the past).

A category 4 is the second highest category of hurricane and California has no infrastructure to deal with it.

People will loose their homes and families. Please stay safe

yes that jewish american teenager you saw on instagram has a lot of power in the israeli government. keep commenting "free palestine" i assure you. that will definitely help.

edit: the point of this post isn’t that the “free palestine” movement is bad it’s that trying to hold random jewish people responsible for the atrocities israel commits is antisemetic.

edit again: blocking all zionists and i encourage others to do the same. please don’t argue with them, it’s not gonna change their minds and quite frankly i don’t want to see that on my post.

The fact that people just get aggressive & defensive when you mention that the new Barbie film’s ending is deeply transphobic only goes to illustrate the point further: if you just disagreed, wouldn’t you at least want to hear trans girls out? Why are people so willing to point at us and say we’re just whining about nothing; why is it a stretch to believe that one of the most notoriously lukewarm milquetoast white cis liberal feminist female directors has some garbage opinions about trans people? Why are you so ready to overlook literally anything w have a problem with just because it’s fun?

It’s because you don’t actually care.

I'm so far past caring about Trump legal drama. Maybe I'd care more if all of the people who would succeed him in the Republican nomination (DeSantis) weren't Literally Worse In Every Way.

[capitalist voice]: in the dystopian commie hellscape that is china, housing just keeps getting cheaper and cheaper, leaving people who buy and then re-sell houses instead of doing actual work high and dry, while mean greedy workers selfishly buy houses, to live in.

Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.

Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.

This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.

I mean, the transgender rep in Ugly Betty is obviously flawed for casting a cisgender actress as a transgender woman, but for the time it was written, I'm honestly shocked it's as nuanced and well-written as it is. And the fact that going into this show I had no idea that this was even going to be a plotline for a main character is insane. The show came out in 2006 and yeah it's the big twist of the first season, but the fact that I was never spoiled for this is crazy especially considering how much time I spend on the designated queer people talk about TV shows website.

The fact of the matter is I really like Alexis Meade, I think her storyline while clumsily handled sometimes is actually really well done and if only it hadn't been 2006 and casting a transgender actress was a beyond unheard of thing I really think Alexis Meade could have been an icon. It's really too bad I've never heard of her before, she really is a revolutionary character being one of the first transgender main characters on a mainstream TV show in the early 2000s and she was nuanced and well-written, she wasn't a villain or a stereotype she was a real person whom I'm sure her inclusion in this show was a lot of people's first introduction to trans people. Ugly Betty actually took the time to explore why Alexis would do the melocramatic soap opera thing of faking her death only to return with a sex change, they treated her story with respect and explored her motivations as if she was a real person rather than using her as a punchline or shock value and I truly was not expecting that.

They didn't have to do that, but they did, this show really took their core theme of "every woman is beautiful in her own way" and said Yes, even trans women and I for one think that's beautiful