The thing that’s so galling is how Tumblr is following this pattern that’s emerged among new and growing platforms: embrace and support sex workers while the platform is maturing, and then banning those same people – who helped the platform grow and flourish – at some arbitrary point in the future.
It’s not 1950. The Internet isn’t your corner newsstand. Instead of banning all adult content, which ridiculously tends to include non-sexual LBGTQ content, platforms like Tumblr should work with legitimate sex workers to develop tools and policies that both protect children and respect the rights of adults.
That’s a good question! Carnotaurus and other abelisaurs have ridiculously tiny arms:
Those two bones that look like the wrist? That’s the entire forearm.
There’s some indication that they may have been especially flexible, which could point to them being used in some sort of display or other intraspecific behaviour. It’s also quite possible that they just…didn’t really serve any function. They could just be vestigial – that is, an evolutionary “leftover” that just hasn’t had the pressure to evolve away (like kiwi wings, or whale hips).
reblog these illegal abelisaur arms while you still can. the info staff DOESN’T want you to know!
I feel like I should make a post about this because it’s not something that’s very well-known, and that Americans in particular may need to know about given the uncertain state of our healthcare system at the moment. I’ve wanted to write this out for a while, It’s kind of a long post, so sorry about that!
If you have an emergency and have to go to the hospital, you’ll owe the hospital a lot of money. (I got into a car wreck and broke my ankle and my arm. My hospital bill was around $20,000)
You’ll also owe the ambulance provider, if you need one. (My ambulance bill was about $800)
You may get separate bills from the anesthesiologist or surgeon. (My anesthesiologist bill was $1,700)
You may need follow-up appointments. (My orthopedic surgeon billed me for the appointments and his surgery together and it was about $1,000)
You’ve also got to pay for medical equipment you need afterward, like crutches or a walking boot. (Mine cost about $75)
Altogether, I ended up with almost $24,000 in medical debt from one car accident. That’s a really scary number for someone like me who makes $10/hr at a 12 hour a week job.
I got my debt down to $1075 by making some phone calls and submitting some paperwork.
The first thing I did was contact the hospital. They don’t make it easy to find, but many hospitals (perhaps most hospitals?) have financial assistance programs for people who can’t afford medical bills. I don’t make a lot of money, and I have bills to pay, so they were able to help me. I called the billing department and asked if they had any assistance programs for low income people who can’t pay their bills. I had to call multiple times, and I got transferred in circles by people who didn’t know what I was talking about. Finally, I got an appointment with someone in “Eligibility Services” (I don’t know what other hospitals call it, if it’s something different). I had to bring my pay stubs and copies of all of my bills. When I got to the hospital for the appointment, nobody knew what I was talking about so I had to wander a little to find where I needed to go. I spoke with the guy in Eligibility Services, and I waited for a decision on how much of the bill they would forgive. A month later, I got a call telling me it was totally forgiven.
I did the same thing for my ambulance bill and my anesthesiologist, but the process was a LOT easier. I just had to mail some paperwork and it was totally forgiven.
I didn’t bother with the medical equipment suppliers, since the bills came from separate companies and I didn’t feel like going through the process twice for $75. I was assured at the hospital that they had similar programs for debt forgiveness, so I could have probably avoided paying that too.
The only thing I couldn’t get taken care of was the surgeon/follow-up appointment cost, but they were able to put me on a no-interest payment plan.
Medical debt is scary because it’s something that can come from stuff that’s already really scary. I didn’t need the burden of $24,000 in debt on top of trying to get around on a crutch with a broken arm (it’s not easy, believe me!).. but I can’t imagine what it would be like with a bigger debt or a more severe medical emergency. I see lots of people in even worse trouble than I was in, both financially and medically. Please know that there are options for you when that GoFundMe doesn’t do enough. Even if your income is higher than mine, it’s worth a shot even for partial debt forgiveness.
I am about 900% sure there are people who don`the know this.
PLEASE READ THIS IF YOU LIVE IN AMERICA AND HAVE MEDICAL BILLS
I had to do this once as well and I can ABSOLUTELY confirm that this is true.
Get in contact with the hospital. Don’t just…sit there and let the anxiety grow and panic and then ignore it in an effort to find peace.
My sister in law just told me a similar story at Thanksgiving and I had no idea either.
Im just thinking about that experiment a trans girl did on Instagram (which also had a Female Presenting Nipples ban) where she posted a picture of herself shirtless every single day starting on day 1 of her HRT trying to see at which point the instagram mods would decide that “Yep those are woman boobs we’re shutting this down”
If the purge only hit child porn and porn bots we would be perfectly fine with it. But that’s not the case.
We’re upset that after years of us complaining to Staff about the bots and child porn that it took Apple removing the app from the store for them to take action.
We’re upset that many artists, both safe and not safe for work, were purged. Many of them make their livelihoods through their art.
We’re upset Staff continues to lie to us and avoid our questions. It shouldn’t be that hard to tell us the truth.
We’re upset Staff made it impossible to search for NSFW content and the subjects they’ve deemed NSFW even if our settings allow it. For example “Yaoi” is currently one such search that now shows nothing.
We’re upset that despite this all the bots are still here. Many people are saying they’re actually getting worse.
We’re upset that Staff continues to make changes to how the site functions without informing us until it’s too late.
We’re upset that we still don’t know all the details about what blogs get purged and what ones don’t. Some say any blog marked NSFW is a target, others say it only takes an external link in the bio, others say it’s only artists, others say it’s anyone.
We’re not upset they’re trying to get rid of kid porn. We’re upset they’re failing at it in every way possible!
I knew a NSFW wlw blog. Its owner was a great girl who made sure all her content was appropriately tagged and marked as NSFW, she answered all questions truthfully and helped every girl who came to her asking for advice. I didn’t follow her because she posted a lot of porn but I checked her blog once a week to see what she’s up to and, admittedly, enjoy her NSFW posts.
This girl, who was careful and appropriate, who did literallynothing wrong, got purged.
But when I look at a post, its first ten notes are still porn bots.
The very worst part about this kind of thing is that conscientious taggers are always the easiest targets.
The porn bots, who have every reason to lie and mistag and annoyingly insert themselves where they’re not wanted are harder to catch. The nice people who are a benefit to the site get hit instead.
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