realism at work. no, in fact, i would rather have the dissolution of the united states, a blowjob, and a suit tailored just for me in a lightweight italian wool.
Uh huh … it’s just the last time you guys didn’t vote for the least awful option we all had to endure Trump so we get nervous when it sounds like you’re going to do it again… Please don’t do that again….
you are trapped in a little black box with the windows painted over
do you understand that the two party system is not going to be replaced by something better if biden doesn’t get the votes, it will be replaced with a dictatorship that doesn’t allow you to have a voice period. it’s going to result in a government that wants to do HERE what israel is doing right now, which they are publicly saying they want to do and have plans for, and there will be no holding democrats accountable because dems and the courts will be stripped of as much power as possible.
if you’re upset about what netanyahu is doing the answer is not to let another far right fascist control the most powerful country on earth.
you are like a little yapping chihuahua to me. all it took was one mention of the president’s name and your mouth is already filled with pavlovian slobber. i just made a post wishing for president biden to commit suicide and you want to utilize that very post as a platform to try and get me and, i imagine, the thousands of others who agree with the sentiment to vote for him. what’s wrong with you? i genuinely wonder whether you believe on some level that what you just wrote will be mind-changing or whether it’s just the output of a liberal compulsion towards idealism. but i suppose the tactical inefficacy shouldn’t surprise me, since you’re suggesting a vote for the democratic party as an effective manoeuvre against fascism and genocide (in the states, at least!) i’m bored. it’s been seven years of this exact rhetoric (“vote blue so that america is not cast into a hell of trump’s creation!”) and, hurrah, the american people have obediently voted democrat both elections around! we have thusly been living in the status quo you’re fighting to maintain for seven years— is this what your success looks like?
any proponent of democracy would understand the basic concept of exerting voting power: “i refuse to vote for the democratic candidate so long as they are aiding and abetting a genocide abroad.” the democratic executive and legislature has willingly acted against the will of 80% of its voterbase, and you beg that we bail them out, because the miasma of your realism has so invaded your senses that you cannot even imagine a slight tactical shift on the part of the democratic party. the dotardly corpse running the show at present has lost us roe v. wade, and has, in fact, been committing genocide at home at the mexican border. your suggestion that we must abide by a system of choosing between “less genocide” or “more genocide” is puny, unstudied, and doomed in more ways than i can count.
In the context of Palestine, abolition hinges on the understanding that a reform of the Zionist state cannot possibly solve the problems created by Zionism, it only helps maintain them. Seeking to reform the Zionist state assumes that Zionism’s initial impulse—which is premised on settler colonialism and necessitates land theft, dispossession, displacement, human and cultural genocide—is acceptable, but that something went wrong, somewhere down the line. For instance, a reform limited to the West Bank and Gaza implies that al-Nakba— Palestine’s catastrophe—did not start around 1948, but in 1967. Ending the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip would not dismantle Jewish supremacy in those parts of the Palestinian homeland first occupied in 1948; nor would it address the Right of Return of Palestinians displaced from those cities and villages occupied in 1948, without which the Zionist dream would not have materialized. Indeed, the “peace process,” with its endless round of futile talks, is an illustration of the attempt at “reform,” rather than abolition. What that process has led to is an entrenchment of dispossession, now subcontracted to the Palestinian Authority. Instead, one must ask: “When was Zionism not a supremacist ideology privileging some people over others, based on perceived ethnicity? When did Zionism not necessitate the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people? Was there ever one brief moment, from its inception to the present day, when Zionism was not violent?” Zionism cannot be reformed; it must be abolished.
Nada Elia, Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/nationalism, and Palestine
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
An actual World Heritage Post
how does this post not have a million notes but anyone online can quote it
little comic i made about me & my experience with being ace. planned to post this during pride but im really slow at drawing & writing lol (plus i had made some traditional sketches of this comic before drawing it out digitally) anyways it’s nighttime & im tired so gooooodnight
I don’t think younger/newer users fully grasp the shit show that ace discourse was around 2014-17
It was so hostile that, to this day, discussions that begin to derail just enough can make me physically nauseous, some specific mockery trigger crying sessions years later. We lost most accounts with any sort of ace positivity. There was no information, no support, and all this damage was done predominantly by other queer people.
All this to say that you, however you identify yourself, should be engaging with aphobic comments the same way you do any hate. We don’t sugarcoat or try to be comprehensive with people who are blatantly racist, homophobic or terfs, so why give it a pass just because it’s coming from a queer person? I see how this tolerance goes and it’s done enough damage as it is.
You know I find it funny as an aroace person when I’m told I haven’t ‘met the right person yet’, because it insinuates that people only fall in love or come to like 'the right people’.
People fall in love with absolute pieces of shit all the time. They fall in love with people that don’t love them and with people they will soon no longer love.
A lot of people that love hardly ever fall for the 'right person’. So why is it me that hasn’t even fallen for the 'wrong person’ that has to find the 'right person’.
“ne'er-do-well” is such a harsh criticism like bro ne'er? e'er? like youd think at least some'imes id do well but nope. ne'er
This sounds like something a serf would say to another serf while leaning against a rake after being kicked out of my wizard tower for the dozenth time because he once again asked me if I could make this here root vegetable into a lady love for him
UHHH???? I KNOW IM AT WORK BUT THIS IS IMPORTANT!! IF YOU HAVE AN IPHONE GO TO YOUR AIRDROP SETTINGS IN GENERAL RIGHT NOW AND TURN OFF “NAMEDROP”
IT ALLOWS ANYONE WHO PASSES YOU AND ALSO HAS AN IPHONE TO GAIN YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION!!!!
“BRINGING DEVICES TOGETHER” is what you’ll be looking for!!!!
I have an android but this is still important
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uhhh???? i know im at work but this is important!! if you have an iphone go to your airdrop settings in general right now and turn off “namedrop”
it allows anyone who passes you and also has an iphone to gain your contact information!!!!
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Why is this a thing
Guys! Feel free to turn this feature off, but Namedrop very much cannot be used so that “any stranger passing you by can gain your contact information” — it very much requires your permission every time you use it!
And then your hip would break because their medical staff is garage and they don’t have the same regulations as over so no you’re back to square one you fucking tool
that is american propaganda used to justify their lack of a working healthcare system. it’s not true and even if it was what good would having slightly better healthcare do if it’s only accessible by the richest members of society?
You absolute fucking clown. Lmao
Damn. Spains healthcare sure isnt garage like they said
Sorry, he WHAT? Imagine being this man’s boss and having to sit him down like. Listen. Brian. We need you to fuck the bird. You have to act like you’re excited about it.
crane husband…..
this is the diametric opposite of all those awful swan wife stories and i love it.
(WalWaPo makes you jump through like three separate hoops before you can read the article, so I will share some of the highlights:
Walnut was born in a species-recovery breeding program in the 1980′s. The program had crane chicks hand-raised by human volunteers, and at that time they did not fully understand the measures necessary make sure that the chicks do not imprint on humans and retain their identity as cranes.
As a result, her keepers believe, Walnut does not recognize other cranes as members of her own species.
It has not been proven that Walnut killed her previous suitors; however, there is a persistent rumor in the white-naped-crane-conservation community that she did.
Because this species is highly endangered, and the gene pool of the captive population is small, it’s pretty important for the survival of her species that Walnut A) mate, and B) not kill a bunch of other cranes.
The actual name of the keeper is Chris Crowe.
They both arrived at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in 2004.
Walnut immediately began paying special attention to Chris–and ignoring the eligible male crane in a nearby enclosure.
Walnut initiated their courtship, performing the opening moves of a mating dance.
Chris realized that if he reciprocated the mating dance, it might be possible to artificially inseminate Walnut with her participation and consent. (The process normally involves restraining the bird.)
It worked!
Chris and Walnut have had five children, who were raised by other crane couples at the facility–sometimes the biological dad and his mate–both because it’s unclear whether Walnut would accept the chicks as her own, and because Chris is not equipped to be a Crane Dad.
However, the Institute provides her with artificial eggs to sit on, and Chris takes his turn looking after them. (This would not work with real eggs because he can’t sit on them properly, but Walnut seems to feel that he is on the job if he just stands over them.)
Chris accepts that he is pretty much married to this bird. White-naped cranes live to be about 60, and they mate for life, so he knows he can’t retire while Walnut is alive. (At the time of the article, Walnut was 36, and Chris 42.)
Legit cannot pick the funniest part of this
she has not been PROVEN to have killed her exes, but there is a PERSISTENT RUMOR (really officers she’s simply DEVASTATED, she sobs, wearing a new feather boa unfortunately resembling her most recent deceased husband)
His name is Chris CROWE. (Mrs. Walnut Crane-Crowe?)
the mental images of a whole human man learning and performing the crane mating dance, and “sitting” on artificial eggs so she thinks he’s performing his duties as a husband and father (and apparently OBJECTS if he does not?)
“chris, buddy, you gotta marry the possibly-murderous crane lady for the GOOD OF THE SPECIES.” (alternately: “chris, my man! good news! we found you a very interested lady! She’s 36, she’s very spirited and independent, she holds a very important and rare status in her society! …Is there a downside? WELL…”)
chris sits any potential human partners down, like “my love, you must understand before we wed,,, i am already… Attached” (camera drifts wistfully to the above photo) “Lady Walnut and I have an,, Understanding… the relationship is open, but very committed”
just had to explain this post to my father bc he thought my stifled laughter was a signal of illness.
well done, everyone, good game. hit the showers.
Not only is he ‘married’ to walnut, this has apparently happened SEVERAL times, so he has MULTIPLE crane wives, none of which know about any of his other crane wives. This man is, for some unknown reason, irresistible to cranes
the “this content has been removed for violating Tumblr’s Community Guidelines” notice really adds a lot of flavor to this post and somehow makes it MORE obscene than whatever that actually was
Hola amigos!! Sorry I haven’t been posting much lately, I’ve had some serious personal things going on! Don’t worry, as soon as it’s sorted out I’ll be back again with more fun experiments for the whole family!
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“we need to stop the stigma towards drug users and addicts” and “we need to challenge the idea that being sober makes you boring” and “we need to stop acting like binge drinking to the extent you’re doing medical damage is fun and normal for young people” are all ideas that can and should coexist.
just so we’re clear, the threshold for “binge drinking to the extent you’re doing medical damage” is waaaay lower than you think.
I work in an obstetrician and gynaecologist’s office. we have to tell patients on a regular basis that they are binge drinking weekly when they think they are simply consuming a normal amount of alcohol on the weekends.
having more than 3 drinks in a single sitting if you have an estrogen based endocrine system is a binge that is medically significant.
having more than 5 in a sitting is a medically significant binge for someone with a testosterone based endocrine system.
every time you do this, it significantly impacts your risk of getting breast cancer, and damages your liver. it takes time to recover from that liver damage. if you’re having a 3-5 or more drink binge on a weekly basis, you are an alcoholic, medically speaking, and your liver is not recovering.
again: the bar for what binge drinking is, medically, is so much lower than what you think it is.
alcohol is a really toxic substance and not something you should fuck around with.
again: if you have an estrogenized hormone system (common for most women), then 3 drinks is a binge. if you have a testosteronized hormone system (common for most men), then 5 drinks is a binge.
anything above that number, consumed as frequently as weekly or more, and you’re medically a binge drinking alcoholic.
also, if you’re drinking any quantity of alcohol 6 days a week or more, that’s another threshold at which, medically speaking, you meet the definition of alcoholism. your liver needs more days without alcohol in your system than just one a week to recover and be healthy.
I don’t say any of this to shame anyone—to me, alcoholism or substance use disorders aren’t a sign of weakness or moral failing. and most of us genuinely don’t know this stuff.
rather—I point this out because it’s important to reduce harm, and find ways to live healthier, happier lives. there is a life outside of constant binge drinking. it’s not always easy to find it. but it’s out there. you deserve a life where your emotional needs are met by something other than alcohol, and a life in which your liver is healthy, and the ways you cope and celebrate and find joy don’t put you at increased risk of cancer.
also–even if alcohol is the only way you can self-medicate, or if you choose to go on with your alcohol usage anyway regardless of other options–you still deserve to know what it’s doing to your body.
information is key. you don’t have to stop drinking, but the utter lack of education on alcohol + the normalization of binge drinking in current society leads to many people drinking without any idea of what it’s doing to their bodies.
addicts deserve accurate medical information regardless of what they decide to do with it. for some people, losing liver function is worth the benefits they get from binge drinking, but they can’t make that choice if they don’t know what the consequences are to begin with.
addicts deserve accurate medical information regardless of what they decide to do with it.
You can’t make an informed decision, without information.
I’m Diné (Navajo) and in high school I was put in some kind of group for native kids. It was run by a white woman who told us that if we were ever in class and feeling overwhelmed, we had permission to just up and leave class to go wander around outside and reconnect with nature. We all took advantage of this regularly
the implication she thought you were like, forest fairies that had to periodically connect with nature to regain your strength is the most racist but also kinda funny thing I ever heard
Image ID: A screenshot of a tweet from user katya_zamo posted 1 hour ago. The text reads “ And to those ignorant fools who have the nerve to tell me I would be decapitated in a heartbeat in Gaza: What about Glasgow? What about Moscow? What about Medford, Malden, or Marlborough Massachusetts? As a gay person who can’t pass, as a cross-dresser, as a sissy-they have, they…” The rest of the tweet is cut off by a Read More. The tweet under it reads “Free Palestine” in all capital letters. The second image is a continuation of the first tweet that reads “As a gay person who can’t pass, as a cross-dresser, as a sissy-they have, they do and they will kill us anywhere. Bitch.” End ID
[Image ID: Tweet from Gabriel Diani (he/him) on 09 Jan 23 reading: We went from “golden age of prestige tv” to “please stream my show the first weekend of I might not get a season 2” to “every season of this television show has been wiped from existence for all eternity for tax purposes.” /End ID]
Both the article and the tweet are disingenuous. Jenna Ortega never praised Hamas, but she also didn’t say “Palestinians deserve to live” either.
Her exact tweet was “decolonize Palestine” which holds very different connotations. Implying that Palestine has been colonized in turn suggests that Israel is a colony and not a sovereign nation state.
Are you seriously surprised that some Israelis are not happy with people telling them that their country doesn’t deserve to exist?
Their country doesn’t deserve to exist, hope that helps!! ♥️
“implying that Palestine has been colonized” yeah. That’s what happened.
“In turn suggests Israel is a colony and not a sovereign nation-state” hey quick question how come the Palestinian population in Palestine went from 1,300,000 to 156,000 in one year?
