Jacqueline Lou Skaags- tiny penny oil paintings
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Legally Recognize Non-Binary Genders | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government
{{Title link: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/legally-recognize-non-binary-genders/j5KvDVvh }}
Okay, the previous version of this petition failed to get the necessary 100,000 signatures within 30 days of its creation, so they made another one. Here’s the link which is current from MARCH 21, 2014 – APRIL 20, 2014.
If you signed a petition on this topic before March 21, you need to RE-SIGN to have your signature counted on this version. If you live in the US, please sign this version of the petition and reblog to your followers.
If you are outside the US, it is possible to make a WhiteHouse.gov account and sign without giving a US zip code. If you are non-USian and concerned about the ethics of signing this, here is what you would be doing, so you can make an informed decision:
* If this petition, or any petition on WhiteHouse.gov, gets 100,000 signatures in a one-month time period, a White House spokesperson for President Barack Obama will give an official response to the petition. The response may be either “yes”, “no”, or “yes/no with these qualifications”.
* This petition does not have any direct influence on the law in the US. Getting a bill introduced into Congress to be voted on is a thing done by Congresspersons (our equivalent of Members of Parliament), not by the President. The President can certainly say in effect, “Hey, Congress, it’d be really cool if somebody introduced a bill to make this the law, and if you managed to pass that bill I’d probably sign it”, and if the answer to the petition is “Yes” that’s most likely what he would do (in addition to possibly working for greater awareness of nonbinary people), but that’s the extent of the effect on actual USian law and policy that signing this petition will have.
* You might decide not to sign if you live outside the US. That’s fine! Please do reblog (this or any other post linking to the current petition) and ask your USian friends to sign. Thank you! :D
Not only a worthy cause, but the best guide to White House petitions I’ve ever seen.
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#petition #I didn’t reblog the last one because I figured you’d all seen it at least a half-dozen times already #but this is early enough you’ll still be in the first half-dozen #if not the first #(as I’m still a U.S. citizen I don’t feel much in the way of moral qualms about signing these) #(but if I were neither a resident nor a citizen I think I would) #(so it’s nice to have the explanation there)
Of course it is.
ALL BITCHES THIS IS MY HOME TOWN TAKE A FUCKING SEAT WHILE I TELL YOU THIS STORY. GET A BOWL OF POPCORN BECAUSE THIS SHIT IS DOPE
IN THE 1940’S PORTLAND WAS PUTTING IN LAMPPOSTS AND FOR WHATEVER GOD DAMN REASON THIS ONE NEVER GOT FILLED.
IN 1946, DICK FAGAN, AN AMERICAN IRISHMAN WHO WROTE FOR THE OREGON JOURNAL, GOT BLOODY FUCKING BORED AT HIS JOB AND WOULD LOOK OUT HIS WINDOW ONTO THIS SAD EXCUSE FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION HOLE. ONE DAY HE SAID “FUCK THIS” AND PLANTED SOME FLOWERS.
HE WROTE ABOUT THIS NEW FUCKING PARK AND SPOKE ABOUT HOW LEPRECHAUNS LIVED THERE AND SHIT. MOTHERFUCKING LEPRECHAUNS IN THE MIDDLE OF DOWNTOWN, WHAT THE SHIT.
HOLD ONTO TO THE EDGE OF YOUR SEATS BECAUSE THIS RIDE GETS EVEN BETTER. THIS PARK HOLDS A GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR BEING THE SMALLEST PARK WITH WITH INFORMATION SAYING “It was designated as a city park on 17 March 1948 at the behest of the city journalist Dick Fagan (USA) for snail races and as a colony for leprechauns”. MOTHER. FUCKING. SNAIL RACES. BITCHES.
IT’S EVEN BEEN PIMPED OUT OVER THE YEARS
HO HO HO MOTHERFUCKS WE CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS HERE
WE CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.
THE BEST PART IS THAT IT EVEN HAD OCCUPY PORTLAND PROTESTERS
SO I HOPE YOU FUCKING LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY ABOUT TINY ASS PARKS.
Well, then..
Prime leprechaun territory, really!
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#neat #fun facts #the Occupy Portland protesters are a nice touch
why are there no knock-knock jokes about freedom
because freedom rings
stop unfollowing me
knock knock
who’s there?
freedom
i don’t want a dom, i want a sub
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#joke #two jokes for the price of one #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #home of the brave
this egg fucking froze because our fridge is too cold
Why would you keep the eggs on the fridge?
we keep our eggs in the fridge…so they don’t denature? do you not refrigerate your eggs?
Because of the way our eggs are processed and the prevalence of salmonella in american chickens, americans have to fridge their eggs.
http://io9.com/americans-why-do-you-keep-refrigerating-your-eggs-1465309529
Wait, they don’t refrigerate eggs in other countries?
wait what people in other countries dont refrigerate eggs???
wait a second eggs in other countries aren’t refrigerated?????????
Waht.
yeah, we don’t refrigerate them here. they keep like a month or two, even in summer, just crack it into a cup in case it’s accidentally taken you too long to use those eggs, give it a whiff, if it smells okay you’re good to go even if it’s really old. don’t use the float test — that turns up a lot of false positives and sometimes you end up throwing away perfectly good eggs, which is not cheap. just turn your eggs upside down every now and then to help keep them fresh and yeah.
also chicken eggs do not look anything like those things you see on american tv shows. they have brown shells and the yolks are orange.
Americans refrigerate their eggs..
America..
if you read the link though, there’s actually a reason for why they have to do it, a reason that doesn’t apply anywhere else in the world.
we should organise a charity drive to mail european eggs to americans. we can send them uht milk too, i read on the internet that they only have the kind of milk that has to be refrigerated
Canadians refrigerate eggs too. And re: colour, every Canadian grocery store I have ever been in carried multiple brands of eggs, some of which were white and some which were brown. (We usually buy the brown: the last time I bought white it was because we realised at the last moment we were out of eggs and Mom sent me to the white-egg-only convenience store to get a dozen to tide us over.)
Who told you Americans don’t have UHT milk? I don’t know about big ones, but there are definitely single-serving ones that I think are intended for kids’ lunches. I used to go through multiple single-serving boxes* of Parmelat chocolate milk a day when I was a kid.
(Come to think of it, did they say “no room-temperature milk” or “no UHT milk”? Because while I’ve drunk well over a thousand cartons* of milk (all bought in America) that appear to fit with the definition of “UHT milk” I just looked up, I had never heard the term before.)
*The Canadian term for this is the genericised trademark “tetra pak”, but since I’m talking about my experiences as an American in America I figured I ought to use the terminology I would’ve used at the time, despite its relative lack of precision.
P.S. Maybe I should look into the possibility of larger tetras of milk, considering I just had refrigerated milk go lumpy nine days before its sell-by date (beating the previous record of six days). Bagged milk sounds like a neat idea, but it’s terrible for preservation, and the manufacturers won’t even admit it.
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#food #regional differences #reply via reblog
do u guys understand how creepy the pledge of allegiance is though like every day when ur a kid everybody just chants how great america is every morning it’s creepy
You do that every morning???
EVERY MORNING.
wait
wait
is this a real thing i thought that was just in the simpsons
no son
Wait, other countries don’t do this.
*whispers* Not even Russia
i know its the weirdest thing to move to the US partway through your schooling and everyone recites this prayer to the flag every day wtf
the Pledge is so fucking creepy! we were just thinking about that about an hour ago. the patriotism in this country freaks a lot of us out… ~H.
oh, and you can get detention if you refuse to say the pledge at some schools. or at least get scolded by your teacher, get your parents called, or be socially ostracised. all because you refuse to swear fealty to a piece of fabric as a daily ritual.
How do they know if you refuse to say the pledge?
Being homeschooled, my first exposure to routine Pledging was when I tagged along at my little brother’s Cub Scout meetings. By which time I was nearly eleven, had read Guardians of Ga’Hoole, and therefore knew how to look like I was taking part in a group chant without actually doing so.
(Yes, that does mean not Taking a Stand, but I personally think one should not Take a Stand against brainwashing cults until after one has escaped them. And I was still slightly too young, by my parents’ standards, to stay home by myself on a regular basis. (Mom was helping out with them, so I couldn’t stay home with her.))
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#reply via reblog #jingoism
Current state maximum speed limits in the USA [922×693]
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So that’s why the Mythbusters use 70 as their “highway” test speed.
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#I’d assumed 65 was America-wide #and figured they were accounting for mild speeding #but no California actually lets you do that #the more you know
BISCUIT CANS ARE TERRIFYING
just laughed for a solid five minutes
True Fucking Story
I jump EVERY time I open one of these. Scary shit.
legit shrieked IRL last time I used one
what’s a biscuit can
This is why I hate when Mom insists on stocking up on Pillsbury croissants in America just because they’re a little cheaper. It’s not worth it.
(In Canada, croissant cans look identical (except for the whole bilingual thing), but they don’t open the moment you pull back the paper enough. You have to whack the crap out of them to get them to open, which means you know exactly which points in time it might happen and can mentally prepare yourself.)
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#the more you know #(the following category tags were added retroactively:) #our home and cherished land #home of the brave
What American accent do you have?
What American accent do you have?
My Result: The Inland North(89%)
You may think you speak “Standard English straight out of the dictionary” but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like “Are you from Wisconsin?” or “Are you from Chicago?” Chances are you call carbonated drinks “pop.”
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland83%“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The South
The West
North Central
The Inland North
Philadelphia
Boston
The Northeast
Apparently, this is the accent you get when you spend a little less than half your life in NY and a little less than half your life in Minnesota and the rest in the south.
Bizarrely, if you’re English and you speak with a perfect southern, Queen’s English accent, this quiz says that you sound like you’re from the Northeast:
Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.
Right. Sure.
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland85%“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: North Central86%“North Central” is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw “Fargo” you probably didn’t think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
(makes sense, since I am Canadian, lol)
Strange, I got Inland North, despite being a lifelong West inhabitant (mid-northern California, Bay Area). I’ve never been asked if I’m from Wisconsin or Chicago, but have been asked if I’m English (I picked up a trace of it from Mom, who picked it up from her grandfather) or Irish (simply due to looks on that one; I don’t sound it at all).
I got Inland North too, but my accent’s actually Standard American – what this quiz calls “Midland”. Mainly it means that people don’t ask me if I’m from a particular area but they do ask me where I’m from a lot, because I never sound like I’m “from around here”.
This is what happens when you have one parent who spent their childhood in the Deep South and the Southwest, one from the Pacific Northwest who spent their young adulthood in Boston, and they met and got married in California and then moved to Indiana to have kids. I think the only major region NOT represented is Tornado Alley.
88% Boston. “You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don’t.”
While my dad is from Massachusetts, all that means is that I’ve had enough exposure to Bostonians from family-reunion-type things to know they sound foreign.
(Next one’s 75% Midland, though.)
(I thought hah-rrible vs. hoh-rrible was an American vs. Canadian thing. When people ask me if I’m an immigrant, I respond “it was a long prah-cess getting here”, which indicates both “yes” and “from America” without explicitly saying either. (Though I admit not everyone picks up on the second part.))
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We only have one month until the petition closes, and there are only about 1700 signatures on it!
DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THIS WOULD BENEFIT THE AMERICANS ON TUMBLR. THEY COULD ACTUALLY SEE THEIR FRIENDS THAT LIVE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THIS PLACE IS TOO GODDAMN BIG TO NOT HAVE A SYSTEM LIKE THIS.
AMERICA’S TRAINS ARE DECADES BEHIND OTHER COUNTRIES’ RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY. IT’S AN EMBARRASSMENT AND WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO FIX IT WITH SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
83,000 signatures needed by March 7!
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#signal boost #sounds lovely #I especially like the northern bits of the pink line #followed by the eastern bits of the dark blue line
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