How your phone documents your abortion experience and what to do about it! By: the Digital Defense Fund
Risk: receipt for payment for your abortion and/or travel in your inbox Alternative: Make an email account just for this purpose, then delete it after
Risk: period tracking app shares your data Alternative: Use a privacy-driven period tracker like Euki App
Risk: search history saved in your phone's browser, and with your ISP (internet service provider) Alternatives: - Use a privacy-driven search engine, ex: DuckDuckGo - Install a paid VPN to hide websites you visit from your ISP - Browse with Tor or Firefox - Use a private browsing window, or delete your browser history
Risk: payment history for your abortion in a banking or payments app Alternative: use cash or pre-paid gift cards where possible
Risk: ad tracking & location tracking from apps, browser history, & social media activity Alternative: in your phone settings turn off location tracking & mobile ad ID
Risk: sensitive text messages about your abortion experience are kept forever Alternative: use an encrypted chat app, ex: Signal or Wire, with disappearing messages turned on (important!)
Her firing Kwarteng is actually kind of massive, because PMs and Chancellors have long been a tempestuous relationship that puts you in mind of nothing so much as a king and a grand vizier, but Truss and Kwarteng were BFFs and that was actually part of the appeal of choosing her as leader. Remember, the main thing that blocked Rishi Sunak’s bid was that he’d been a snakey chancellor. Nadhim Zahawi as well. Kwarteng was fully of the view that his job was to simply deliver his PM’s vision, nothing more (or, lol, that’s what he told everyone.) They pinky promised they’d have no drama and would be a smooth, choreographed performance.
And now she’s shoved him bodily out of the falling hot air balloon.
I didn’t think it would happen! I didn’t think she had it in her. My god. Bye, Kwasi. Nice to see the pound rising the moment you left. Do you think he sold his house when he moved into Number 11? It’s only been 38 days, he probably hasn’t even unpacked yet.
Anyway, Liz is famous for spineless u-turns and she’s now walking back on multiple key election promises, including her business tax cuts, because it turns out the economic system Kwasi promised her was great was actually fucking terrible and melted the pound even faster than the Royal minters can recast it with Charles’ face, so… Against the backdrop of a disintegrated Tory party whose knives are out and bloodied, fuck me, this is not a good look. So yes. I think they’re going to kick her out.
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As I was writing this, someone just walked into the staff room and yelled hysterically over to one of the Education lecturers “Mark, he’s gone! Kwasi’s gone! Your prediction came true! You were right!”
Turns out Mark predicted that today would be the day. He has now predicted Liz Truss has two weeks. This seems a fair oracle. Let’s see if Mark is right. Liz Truss’ removal as a Hallowe'en treat.
My god just IMAGINE like this man has spent his career trying to tell everyone who will listen that his special theory of economics is the absolute tits and we should all do it, mulishly refusing any criticism of it and insisting it's great, and the FINALLY becomes chancellor and gets to enact it and prove that it's great -
Only to tank his country's economy so badly that he resoundingly proves his special theory of economics is weapons-grade wank and promptly gets fired so they can fix his mess, thus becoming the second-shortest serving Chancellor in British history behind a guy who had a heart attack in office
What is the best way to learn plant identification for rescue plants? I'm hoping to try doing some plant rescuing soon from sidewalks and suchlike, but how do I learn what I'm looking at? Are there good digital resources for young plants? Most of what I know how to find uses mature plants as examples.
(In reference to my policy against seedbombing, with my caveat that if you want to commit mild botanical crime - a natural human impulse - you might as well rescue baby trees that would otherwise be killed)
Depending on how you learn best, you might like to:
1. Download an app like iNaturalist or PlantNet to ID plants by snapping a picture with your phone and uploading it to be identified by image recognition.
2. Find a visual chart of common leaf types and learn to identify common trees (i.e. oak, maple, etc.) - a worthy activity anyway. Some visual aids are styled like flowcharts, like this one.
4. Learn the characteristics of saplings as opposed to soft-stemmed annual plants so you can categorise plants of interest. I personally find it easier to spot the pale baby leaves, crown-shaped tops and woody singular stems of baby saplings than to pick out unfamiliar leaf shapes in a bunch of conflicting shapes, although it’s surprisingly easy to pick out the ones you know best. A naturalist would call this spotting the tree by its habit; the innate characteristics that make something tree-ish.
Note that if you have noxious plants in your area like stinging nettles or poison ivy, you’ll want to have a good idea of what they look like before grabbing/touching plants you don’t recognise.
Ruby, Golden Retriever (10 y/o), Main Street, Falmouth, MA • “She goes cuckoo when new people come to the house, more so than other dogs. She jumps up and leans into you like she’s never seen a person before.”
told my parents i miss archaeology and my mom was, very sympathetically, like: “do you want to dig holes in the garden?” and i was like. yes. i want to dig holes in the garden.
These are both moods, but unfortunately I am primarily a bioarchaeologist. (IE, I specialize in digging up old human skeletons.) And, uh, home-made bioarchaeology is tragically discriminated against by law enforcement.
Out of work paleontologists can take a page out of the Girl Scouts handbook and eat a chicken, clean the bones, encase them in a mud and plaster mix, then chip it back out. Which is legitimately how Girl Scouts earn their paleontology badge.
This is the best ad I've gotten since they added the Tumblr Blaze feature thank you tumblr user plaguerightsactivist for using this new feature correctly
yknow it's a real shame that romans didn't have access to australia specifically for augury reasons. i really wish i could have seen a roman augur have to deal with australian birds. like imagine trying to properly interpret an omen from a fuckin. cassowary
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