genderkoolaid:

idk if anyone else has talked about this but a trans man wheelchair user, andrew blake-newton was shot with a pellet gun in a drive-by hate crime & called a “tranny faggot.” the injuries worsened his disability. i don’t know if there’s any ways to donate to him to help but i wanna make sure people hear about this. the link has a video of him & his husband talking about the hate crime.

bakafox:

TREE! LAW! UPDATE!

gayberdnird:

chismosite:

LAPD detonated 5000 lbs of fireworks in the middle of a residential area, injuring at least 17 people and causing $900 million in various damages in a low-income, majority-POC neighborhood.

They then continue to pursue caging the person whose fireworks they stole while news media misreports to cover for police incompetency and destruction.

post on the damages

post on the explosion

in depth article

LAPD refused to ID officers behind a huge fireworks explosion. Now we have their names

The LAPD destroyed much of a South L.A. neighborhood, but would not identify the officers involved. Through investigative records, court doc

Los Angeles Times

It took TWO YEARS to get the names of those involved with this incident. There are people still protesting, still living in hotels, still with unfulfilled claims to the city from this shit

modmad:

tf2heritageposts:

tf2heritageposts:

you want to help stop tumblr from murdering itself? here’s how!

• click this link and go to the support page, then click “contact support”
• click on the category list and click on feedback

• now you need to tell staff WHY putting in an algorithm will cause the site to fucking die, and be sure to be detailed and not a dick in it. theyre not gonna listen to feedback calling them assholes
• viola, if @staff listens, we’ll be fine

i encourage you to reblog this so we can get as many people leaving feedback as humanly possible. we need to let staff know this is an utterly terrible idea

by the way, tumblr has turned off asks on all of their staff blogs, so this is the only way to tell tumblr how you feel

here it is again because uh. seems relevant.

foone:

Does anyone remember what happened to Radio Shack?

They started out selling niche electronics supplies. Capacitors and transformers and shit. This was never the most popular thing, but they had an audience, one that they had a real lock on. No one else was doing that, so all the electronics geeks had to go to them, back in the days before online ordering. They branched out into other electronics too, but kept doing the electronic components.

Eventually they realize that they are making more money selling cell phones and remote control cars than they were with those electronic components. After all, everyone needs a cellphone and some electronic toys, but how many people need a multimeter and some resistors?

So they pivoted, and started only selling that stuff. All cellphones, all remote control cars, stop wasting store space on this niche shit.

And then Walmart and Target and Circuit City and Best Buy ate their lunch. Those companies were already running big stores that sold cellphones and remote control cars, and they had more leverage to get lower prices and selling more stuff meant they had more reasons to go in there, and they couldn’t compete. Without the niche electronics stuff that had been their core brand, there was no reason to go to their stores. Everything they sold, you could get elsewhere, and almost always for cheaper, and probably you could buy 5 other things you needed while you were there, stuff Radio Shack didn’t sell.

And Radio Shack is gone now. They had a small but loyal customer base that they were never going to lose, but they decided to switch to a bigger but more fickle customer base, one that would go somewhere else for convenience or a bargain. Rather than stick with what they were great at (and only they could do), they switched to something they were only okay at… putting them in a bigger pond with a lot of bigger fish who promptly out-competed them.

If Radio Shack had stayed with their core audience, who knows what would have happened? Maybe they wouldn’t have made a billion dollars, but maybe they would still be around, still serving that community, still getting by. They may have had a small audience, but they had basically no competition for that audience. But yeah, we only know for sure what would happen if they decided to attempt to go more mainstream: They fail and die. We know for sure because that’s what they did.

I don’t know why I keep thinking about the story of what happened to Radio Shack. It just keeps feeling relevant for some reason.

rapeculturerealities:

Crisis pregnancy center failed to spot ectopic pregnancy, lawsuit alleges

Crisis pregnancy center failed to spot an ectopic pregnancy, threatening patient's life, lawsuit alleges

The suit claims an anti-abortion center in Massachusetts engages in deceptive advertising and incorrectly told a patient her pregnancy was v

NBC News

The paperwork the woman received after the scan, Liss-Riordan said, told her she had a “viable, in-utero pregnancy, which she did not.”

The lawsuit also alleges that the paperwork was signed by a doctor, listed as the clinic’s “medical director,” though the patient said she did not see the director in person.

After the woman left Clearway, Liss-Riordan said, staffers “followed up with her urging her to keep the pregnancy going.”

Dr. Amy Addante, an OB-GYN based in Illinois and a fellow with the advocacy group Physicians for Reproductive Health, said that typically, ectopic pregnancies should be terminated “as soon as possible.”

The alleged incident at Clearway, she said, “speaks to the dangers that crisis pregnancy centers can really present to pregnant people, because you don’t know who is doing your ultrasound.”

drinkyourjuiceshelby:

follow-up-news:

Writers Guild, SAG-AFTRA File Labor Grievance Against NBCUniversal (Exclusive)

The two unions claim the studio has infringed on their members’ right to picket as well as their safety by obstructing the public sidewalk i

The Hollywood Reporter

The Writers Guild, now 11 weeks into its strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers over stalled contract negotiations, has filed a grievance with the National Labor Relations Board against NBCUniversal, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The union claims the corporation is infringing its freedom to picket — and endangering its members — by obstructing the public sidewalk immediately abutting the studio during an ongoing construction project. The move comes days after SAG-AFTRA, the exponentially larger actors’ union, announced its own strike against the AMPTP over its own contract as well as accompanying protests at studios. SAG filed a mirrored action with the agency, as well.

According to a complaint the WGA filed with the federal agency on July 18, this has “forc[ed] picketers to patrol in busy streets with significant car traffic where two picketers have already been struck by a car and by refusing to provide K-rail barriers to establish pedestrian walkways for picketers to use after Los Angeles Police Department advised the employer weeks ago in the interest of public safety to do so.” The WGA contends NBCUniversal has “interfered with, coerced, and restrained employees in the exercise of their rights” — in short, “illegal conduct.”

NBCUniversal responds to THR in a statement: “We are aware of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA complaints. We strongly believe that the company has fulfilled our legal obligations under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and we will cooperate with respect to any inquiries by the National Labor Relations Board on this issue. While we understand the timing of our multi-year construction project has created challenges for demonstrators, we continue to work with public agencies to increase access. We support the unions’ rights to demonstrate safely.”

In early June, THR explored rising tensions between guild members and the studio over the issue, which affects protestors as well as pedestrians. Several local public entities had become involved, including the LAPD’s Labor Relations Unit and the offices of multiple elected officials.

blinkpen:

shortmexicangirl:

‘can i copy your homework?’

'yeah just don’t make it obvious’

all i can imagine is this

follow-up-news:

Stanford president to resign after investigation finds he failed to ‘decisively and forthrightly’ correct research

An extensive investigation found numerous issues with five studies in which Marc Tessier-Lavigne was a major contributor.

STAT

In an abrupt turn, Stanford president and renowned neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Wednesday that he will step down as the university’s leader. His resignation came after he learned the results of an extensive investigation into his past research, which confirmed data-manipulation in scientific papers that he co-authored and found that he took insufficient steps to correct them.

The nearly 100-page investigative report was released by a special committee of Stanford’s Board of Trustees. The report, authored by a former federal judge and an outside panel of scientists that reviewed a dozen papers Tessier-Lavigne co-authored before becoming Stanford’s president, concluded that he did not personally engage in scientific misconduct.

The panel found numerous issues, however, with five studies in which Tessier-Lavigne was a major contributor, including evidence of data manipulation in scientific images.