“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; one day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hallow mockery; your prayers and hyms [sic], your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy – a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.”
— Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), from a speech given at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852.
For all of the northerners that stood up for Texas during our freeze and said, “Don’t make fun of them, they’ve never dealt with this before. Their infrastructure isn’t made for snow and freezing.”
This one is for you.
Where I live 108°F with 80% humidity with no wind is normal.
Pacific North West is dealing historic best waves 35-40°C or 95-105°F.
First of all. Don’t make fun of them for bitching about the heat. Just like Texas isn’t built for a freeze and our pipes burst, Pacific North West isn’t built for heat and a lot of their homes don’t have AC.
If you live somewhere with a high humidity like 80+ HUMIDITY IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. The “humidity makes it feel cooler” is a lie once it gets beyond a point.
If you live somewhere with a lower humidity, misters are nice to cool off outside.
Once you get over 90°F (32°C) a fan will not help you. It’s just pushing around hot air. (I mean if you can’t afford a small AC unit because they’re expensive as hell, by all means a fan is better than nothing).
If you have pets, those portable AC units aren’t safe. If your pets destroy the outtake thing, it’ll leak CO2. Window units are safer.
Window AC units will let mosquitoes or other small bugs in. Sucks, but that’s life.
Now is not the time to me modest. If you have to cover for religious reasons, by all means. If you don’t, I’ve seen people wear short shorts and a swim top. It’s not trashy if it keeps you from getting heat stroke.
If you do have to cover up for religious reasons, look for elephant pants or something similar. They’re made with a breathable material.
Shade is better than no shade, but that shit it just diet sun after some point. Don’t think shade will save you from heat stroke.
I know the “drink your water” is a fun meme now, but if you’re sweating excessively you need electrolytes. Drink Gatorade, Powerade, or Pedialite PLEASE. I don’t care if you’re fucking sitting in one spot all day. That shit WILL save you from heat stroke.
Most importantly. RESEARCH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEAT STROKE AND HEAT EXHAUSTION PLEASE!
If you’re diabetic and can’t drink Gatorade, mix water, fruit juice, and either lite salt or pink salt
If you can afford it, cover windows with thick curtains to insulate the house
If you have tile floors, lay on them with skin to tile contact. If you don’t, laying your head on cool counters works too.
If the temperature where you’re at is hotter than your body temperature, don’t wear heat wicking clothing. Moisture wicking is safe though.
Check your medication labels. Many make you more susceptible to sun and heat
-Room temperature water will get into your body faster. This is something I learned doing marching band in high summer in Georgia, and it saved all of our asses. Sip it, don’t gulp it, especially if you’re getting into the red; same goes for whatever fluid you’re drinking. And just in general drink during the day.
-If you are moving from an air conditioned space to an un-air conditioned space, if at all possible try to make the shift gradual. When my dad and I were working outside and in un-ac houses a few years ago, he’d turn the air down to low in the truck about ten-fifteen minutes before we got where we were going. This way your body doesn’t go from low low temps to high temps. S'bad for you.
-If you can, keep your lights off during the day. Light bulbs may not generate a lot of heat, but the difference is noticeable when it gets hot enough. I literally only turn my bedroom light on in the evening when it gets too dark.
Don’t be afraid to just like… pour water on yourself if you need to. The evaporation will cool you off.
Put your hand to the cement for 15 seconds. If you can’t handle the heat, it’ll burn your dog’s paws. Don’t let them walk on it.
Dogs with flat faces are more prone to heat stroke. Don’t leave them out unsupervised.
Frozen fruit is delicious in water.
Wet/Cold hat/handkerchief on your head/neck will help you stay cool.
Pickle juice is great for electrolytes! You can even make pickle juice Popsicles!
Heat exhaustion is more, “drink water and get you cooled off.” Heat stroke is more “Oh my god call 911.”
[Image description: an infographic showing the difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke. The graphic is labeled “Heat Dangers: First Warning.” Signs of heat exhaustion: faint or dizzy, excessive sweating, cool, pale, clammy skin, rapid, weak pulse, muscle cramps. If you think you or someone else may be experiencing heat exhaustion, get to a cool, air-conditioned place, drink water if conscious, and take a cool shower or use cold compress. Signs of heat stroke: throbbing headache, no sweating, red, hot, dry skin, rapid, strong pulse, may lose consciousness. If you think you or someone else may be experiencing heat stroke, call 911. End description]
Be safe.
-fae
As someone who works outdoors in the summertime: OP is very, very correct and heat is NOT a joke.
I would also like to add that beyond a certain temperature, cold water can genuinely be dangerous as a shock to your system. Roofers especially are often BARRED from drinking cold water, because going from nearly 40°C heat and then drinking something ice-cold can CAUSE ACTUAL SEIZURES.
Your best bet is lukewarm or slightly cool water, combined with wrapping an ice pack in some cloth and putting it on the back of your neck or tucking it into your belt.
And for the love of god if you have to go outside, wear BIG FLOPPY UGLY HATS as well as sunscreen. (Good Sunscreen. 60SPF minimum.) Sunburns retain heat and are Fucking Miserable on top of giving you cancer. Bad ones dry out your skin and can cause infections when you’re still sweating a lot and it gets into blisters.
Heat Stress is cumulative. If you are out trying to do the same thing Monday to Friday, something that you could manage on Monday is probably going to knock you flat on your ass on Friday if you don’t pace yourself.
If you’ve had any sort of heat-stress illness in the past, you are more prone to getting it again and more easily than someone who’s never had it.
reblogging bc it’s getting solidly into the Deep Heat where I am.
Cooling towels like this can be lifesavers, but you have to be able to wet them regularly to keep them cool. Not sure how well they work in super humid areas, but in the dry heat of AZ, they are great.
I get anywhere from 2-4 messages a day over on ffnet and its always the “hello I am artist I love your story (unspecified) I would like to create art for low/reasonable cost for it please contact me on another platform where we can exchange emails and financial information as ffnet messenger will not let you do that which hinders my ability to send phishing scam links”
(They don’t send that last part but that’s why)
Some are clearly bots but others immediately delete their account when I message back like “this is the third time I have had this message today” which is very funny
(I message them back sometimes just to see the response, some reply first like “I am not scammer let me show you” and it’s an instagram of AI generated or stolen artwork, but mostly I delete them cus its digital clutter)
People have the right to be very angry and upset today, tomorrow, and the foreseeable future. But we must work towards a second Reconstruction. Remember: fuckface won by a point and a half with 49% of the vote, and Republicans won the House and Senate narrowly, as well. It’s infuriating how preventable it all was, if only a handful of votes had gone differently, but that’s the point. They never had a mandate, and now they’re hurting so many people that no one will be able to ignore it. I know Trump 1.0 should’ve been enough for them to never vote for him again, I know, I know. But even a little of their 2024 collation swinging to Democrats or simply not voting for Republicans at all will make a difference in the midterms and 2028. The Senate seat in North Carolina is now in play, and Susan Collins in Maine is vulnerable, too. The GOP barely has control over the House as it is.
We flipped the House in 2018 and White House and Senate in 2020, and Trump and the GOP caused far less harm to the everyday person back then than they have over the past 6 months alone, let alone what’s about to happen with the passing of this nightmare bill. Trump’s been polling underwater for months. He was at his political height in November 2024, and has lost ground since then as the average idiot with the memory of a goldfish remembered that oh, yeah, Trump is actually a terrible president. We have to make the GOP pay for this, and take back power so that Democrats can restore Medicaid and SNAP funding, and slash ICE’s funding. It’s the only way forward. This era will end. They will be in the minority and out of the White House again. We will begin to pick up the pieces if we win in 2028, and we can stop the bleeding with the midterms in 16 months.
(Note for the “I can’t read” crowd: I’m not saying people won’t suffer. I’m saying all this will not be permanent if we take power back.)
Some of the worst cuts are not happening right away. The midterms are vital. We must win at least the House and ideally the Senate in 16 months.
Also WE DON’T HAVE TO WAIT 16 MONTHS.
You, right now, tomorrow even, can disrupt their stupid 4th of July photo op. You can flier their neighborhood with GUILTY OF MURDER photos. You can demand that Dems in state office pass laws forcing ICE to wear uniforms with name badges. You can hold noise protests in front of their house.
Also folks, the bad shit is happening right away. Hospitals will start closing immediately and people will start dying immediately. There is some bleeding that can be stopped with the midterms but there will be a considerable pile of bodies by that point.
Make those who rule over us suffer like we suffer.
^^^
They won this election by a narrow margin because they didn’t have popular support, but they’re very good at manipulating social media discourse and always have been. Not just because Musk owns twitter; they were working with consulting firms like Cambridge Analytica, who use the data mined from people’s phones and social media use to manipulate their votes, even back in 2016. They understand the timelines needed to do so and how short they are - they literally understand the window of time needed to drop a story that’ll sway just enough voters to get a candidate through before it can be refuted, down to the minute. They know how to get moderates to vote conservative, and how to get progressives to stay home and not vote at all.*
So what every single one of us has to do is continue to reach out and build relationships with people around us. In our families. In our communities. We have to be in conversation with people and counteract the online propaganda machines with humanity and genuine connection. We have to be the catharsis and the dopamine hit for others that they seek online. You can’t have a constructive conversation on social media, its format lends itself to conflict, not exchanging ideas. But you can have a conversation over dinner, or Saturday lunch. In person you can make someone feel heard and respected while you disagree with them, and they’ll be open to your ideas and start considering them. Change is work. Change takes time. Change doesn’t happen over a single afternoon. But a relationship you have with someone has more long-term influence through the connecton you make with them than if they were left to doomscroll alone and dug their heels in over internet arguments. You can’t just start that process when an election kicks into gear; but if you have the respect and ear of people by the time the next one rolls around, they’re more likely to listen to you.
*also, please stop falling for it and letting them
The Phantom of the Opera is a guy in a mask who pretends to be a supernatural creature to harass his opera house into giving him ransom money, causing disasters when they don’t pay him.
Clearly, they should have hired these guys to stop him:
How do you defeat a party that feeds off of disinformation
all we can do is keep slapping them in the face with factual information.
If they ever realize they’ve been conned and start crying about how no one told them, we smack them again with months and years worth of, “we so fucking told you”
At the end of The Princess Bride, when Inigo tells Westley he doesn’t know what to do with himself now that he’s not in the revenge business anymore, and Westley tells him he’d be a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts?
The name of Dread Pirate Roberts’ ship is The Revenge. Which means Inigo still gets to be in The Revenge business.
I have been watching this movie since I was at least five years old, and I never made the connection until now. (Feel free to tell me you all saw it long ago.)
Every time someone tags me about this post escaping onto facebook it’s been shared in an entirely new group. I feel like a bug that’s just had its nice rock taken away. Eventually one of my older relatives (who do not know tumblr exists) is gonna find this and show it to me because I’m the arthuriana and lotr guy and I’m gonna die on the spot
The backlash begins: Republicans heading home from D.C. face local protests over Trump bill
Jen Psaki remarks on how the devastating removal of health care and food aid to millions of Americans was actually only an afterthought for Republicans, in service of tax cuts for rich people, and reports on protests already spreading nationwide.
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