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achillcs:walked through this while listening to sigur rós and...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:22:17 -0400

achillcs:

walked through this while listening to sigur rós and suddenly i was a mystical forest boy with icy breath

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:10:05 -0400

me: I kinda hate zombie stuffalso me: UH MY OCS ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE AU

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:54:14 -0400

me: I kinda hate zombie stuff

also me: UH MY OCS ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE AU

kipplekipple: It’s interesting to me that we frame a lot of issues as costing money. Unhoused folk...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:47:35 -0400

kipplekipple:

It’s interesting to me that we frame a lot of issues as costing money.

Unhoused folk cost money to house.

Disabled folk cost money, too.

Immigrants cost money.

Trans folk cost money.

Nobody ever says, “Hey, how much does Jeff Bezos cost?” “How much does it cost us to have Elon Musk around, hoarding his money?” “What’s it costing us to have all these fabulously wealthy people?”

It’s costing us a lot more than we ever talk about. Not just because their hoarding of wealth takes that money out of circulation and contributes directly to poverty and the spiralling cost to human beings everywhere.

Also because things are being framed in this way, because we are being forced to think of ourselves and others in terms of cartoon dollar symbols.

That is not a natural state of affairs for humans, it is not something that is morally defensible, and it is something that eats away at each of us in different ways depending on our position vis à vis wealth.

You are never too expensive to deserve to live.

sapropel: gaycism: I can’t fucking believe my eyes. A man is...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:26:13 -0400

sapropel:

gaycism:

I can’t fucking believe my eyes. A man is being sentenced to death because he’s gay and a lifetime in prison would be something he would enjoy. This is sickening. Everyone should know about this.

Oh yes we love our carceral state

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:22:08 -0400

……what if you just. made a pancake. then wrapped it in a crêpe. useless, yes, but....

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:33:51 -0400

……what if you just. made a pancake. then wrapped it in a crêpe. useless, yes, but. listen.

ysera:

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:26:43 -0400

ysera:

flamboyantcomplainer: celestrious: My Brother, My Brother, and...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:20:56 -0400

flamboyantcomplainer:

celestrious:

My Brother, My Brother, and Me but it’s a crappy thriller.

holy shit this is a fantastic job of editing omg

maramahan: I find it kinda odd how people talk about writing “flawed” characters like the flaws are...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:09:14 -0400

maramahan:

I find it kinda odd how people talk about writing “flawed” characters like the flaws are an afterthought

Like “cool cool we’ve got this perfect hero now to just sprinkle on some Irritability and Trust Issues then microwave for 6 minutes on high until Done”

But I’ve personally found it feels a lot more useful to just… think of the flaws as the Good Traits except bad this time

The protagonist is loyal? Maybe that means they have a hard time recognizing toxic relationships and are easily manipulated by those they want to trust

The hero is compassionate? Maybe they work too hard and overextend themselves trying to help people and then they refuse to ask for help when they need it themselves for fear of burdening others

They’re dedicated to their ideals? Maybe they’re also too stubborn to know when to quit and they have trouble apologizing for their mistakes

If they’re creative, they can also be flighty. If they’re confident, they can be arrogant. If they’re brave, they might be reckless. If they’re smart, they could be condescending. Protective can become controlling, and someone who’s carefree could very well also be emotionally distant

In my opinion, the best “flaws” aren’t just added on afterwards. The best flaws are baked in deep, ‘cause they’re really just virtues turned upside down

sweetoothgirl: rhubarb frangipane slab pie

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:06:29 -0400

sweetoothgirl:

rhubarb frangipane slab pie

sweet-and-sapphic: cowboysuggest: don’t base your personality on memes please don’t please for me...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:04:21 -0400

sweet-and-sapphic:

cowboysuggest:

don’t base your personality on memes please don’t please for me develop actual interests even if it’s just something like pressing flowers or reading books please get a hobby that doesn’t have to do with memes please for humanities sake please i promise your life will immediately feel more whole and lively once you stop caring so much about memes and the internet yeehaw

Hey while we’re at it, maybe don’t base your personalities entirely off fandoms, either. Enjoy the company of people who don’t ingest the same media you do. Learn to talk about other things and appreciate people for being fun, polite, enthusiastic, generous, etc. Please, please, please learn to think of yourself and others in terms of qualities instead of strictly interests.

paperfinch: paperfinch: frog mage doing its best every...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:03:28 -0400

paperfinch:

paperfinch:

frog mage doing its best every day

that’s the spirit

deadgodjess: shikagemaru: more-meme-than-man: I really just do not understand the...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:35:12 -0400

deadgodjess:

shikagemaru:

more-meme-than-man:

I really just do not understand the ultra-rich.

Like, the Flint water crisis, right? I just read an estimate that it would take $55 million to bring clean water back to Flint. That sounds like a lot of money until you consider that’s less than a tenth of a billion dollars. Jeff Bezos is worth $118 billion. For less than .05% of his net worth, Jeff Bezos could bring water back to an entire town. At the most money I have ever had in my bank account, .05% of it could buy me like a burger. And not even a particularly nice one.

And let’s say, yeah, the ultra-rich are soulless monsters devoid of empathy or altruism. For .05% of his net wealth, Jeff Bezos could completely turn his public image around. Instead of being the asshole who exploits his workers, suddenly he’s the unlikely hero who saved an entire town.

Like

How do you have the power to become a hero at practically no personal cost and just

Not?

Queue the stream of libertarians bitching about “you can’t just steal money from people!” Shut up, chad. I’d skin Jeff Bezos with a butterknife if it would undo his greed and give money to the millions of people it could help. He could single-handedly end poverty if he wanted to.

unidentified-flying-binch:

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 19:14:15 -0400

unidentified-flying-binch:

visitheworld:The Roman bridge at Köprüçay River / Turkey (by...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:07:24 -0400

visitheworld:

The Roman bridge at Köprüçay River / Turkey (by Andreas).

beaniebaneenie: fuckyeahasexual: fuckyeahasexual: So if you...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:03:51 -0400

beaniebaneenie:

fuckyeahasexual:

fuckyeahasexual:

So if you lived in a society where you had to secure your communication in order to be yourself around others, here are the apps that could help you do that.

Signal let’s you securely text and make phone calls.

Onion Browser allows you to surf the web without leaving a trail.

Duck Duck Go isn’t super secure but it won’t record your searches like Google.

ProtonMail is a email client that lets you email other secure email accounts.

Periscope allows you to stream live video.

Semaphor is there so you can securely make group chat rooms.

American privacy laws allow you to use these all. So that’s pretty cool.

Because we’re currently living in the prologue of a cyberpunk dystopian novel, imma reblog this.

Here’s How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the Border

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:02:06 -0400

Here’s How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the Border:

chamerionwrites:

If you’re horrified by news of families being separated at the borders, here’s a bit of news you can use.

First, the policy: It helps to be incredibly clear on what the law is, and what has and has not changed. When Donald Trump and Sarah Huckabee Sanders say that the policy of separating children from their parents upon entry is a law passed by Democrats that Democrats will not fix, they are lying.

There are two different policies in play, and both are new.

First is the new policy that any migrant family entering the U.S. without a border inspection will be prosecuted for this minor misdemeanor. The parents get incarcerated and that leaves children to be warehoused. The parents then typically plead guilty to the misdemeanor and are given a sentence of the few days they served waiting for trial. But then when the parents try to reunite with their children, they are given the runaround—and possibly even deported, alone. The children are left in HHS custody, often without family.

Second is a new and apparently unwritten policy that even when the family presents themselves at a border-entry location, seeking asylum—that is, even when the family is complying in all respects with immigration law—the government is snatching the children away from their parents. Here, the government’s excuse seems to be that they want to keep the parents in jail-like immigration detention for a long time, while their asylum cases are adjudicated. The long-standing civil rights case known as Flores dictates that they aren’t allowed to keep kids in that kind of detention, so the Trump administration says they have to break up the families. They do not have to break up families—it is the government’s new choice to jail people with credible asylum claims who haven’t violated any laws that is leading to the heartbreaking separations you’ve been reading about.

So that is what is happening. Whether or not that is what the Bible demands is the subject of a different column. Good explainers on what is and is not legal detention of immigrants and asylum-seekers can also be found here and here and here.

Next: Which groups to support.

• The ACLU is litigating this policy in California.

• If you’re an immigration lawyer, the American Immigration Lawyers Association will be sending around a volunteer list for you to help represent the women and men with their asylum screening, bond hearings, ongoing asylum representation, etc. Please sign up.

• Al Otro Lado is a binational organization that works to offer legal services to deportees and migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, including deportee parents whose children remain in the U.S.

• CARA—a consortium of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, the American Immigration Council, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association—provides legal services at family detention centers.

• The Florence Project is an Arizona project offering free legal services to men, women, and unaccompanied children in immigration custody.

• Human Rights First is a national organization with roots in Houston that needs help from lawyers too.

• Kids in Need of Defense works to ensure that kids do not appear in immigration court without representation, and to lobby for policies that advocate for children’s legal interests. Donate here.

• The Legal Aid Justice Center is a Virginia-based center providing unaccompanied minors legal services and representation.

• Pueblo Sin Fronteras is an organization that provides humanitarian aid and shelter to migrants on their way to the U.S.

• RAICES is the largest immigration nonprofit in Texas offering free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children and families. Donate here and sign up as a volunteer here.

• The Texas Civil Rights Project is seeking “volunteers who speak Spanish, Mam, Q’eqchi’ or K’iche’ and have paralegal or legal assistant experience.”

• Together Rising is another Virginia-based organization that’s helping provide legal assistance for 60 migrant children who were separated from their parents and are currently detained in Arizona.

• The Urban Justice Center’s Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project is working to keep families together.

• Women’s Refugee Commission advocates for the rights and protection of women, children, and youth fleeing violence and persecution.

• Finally, ActBlue has aggregated many of these groups under a single button.

This list isn’t comprehensive, so let us know what else is happening. And please call your elected officials, stay tuned for demonstrations, hug your children, and be grateful if you are not currently dependent on the basic humanity of U.S. policy.

Update, June 17, 2018: Thanks to readers who updated us with more organizations fighting this policy. Other good work is being done by the following:

• CLINIC’s Defending Vulnerable Populations project offers case assistance to hundreds of smaller organizations all over the country that do direct services for migrant families and children.

• American Immigrant Representation Project (AIRP), which works to secure legal representation for immigrants.

• CASA in Maryland, D.C., Virginia, and Pennsylvania. They litigate, advocate, and help with representation of minors needing legal services.

• Freedom for Immigrants (Formerly CIVIC), which has been a leading voice opposing immigrant detention.

• The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center represents all of the immigrant kids placed by the government in foster care in Michigan (one of the biggest foster care placement states). About two-thirds are their current clients are separation cases, and they work to find parents and figure out next steps.

• The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project is doing work defending and advancing the rights of immigrants through direct legal services, systemic advocacy, and community education.

• Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights works for the rights of children in immigration proceedings.

• The Women’s Refugee Commission has aggregated five actions everyone can take that go beyond donating funds.

• And finally, the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP)—which organizes law students and lawyers to develop and enforce a set of legal and human rights for refugees and displaced persons—just filed suit challenging the cancellation of the Central American Minors program.

Update, June 18, 2018, 8:19 p.m.: Listed below are more organizations that are helping separated families at the border. Thanks again to readers who sent in information:

• Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative has a guide to organizations throughout Texas that provide direct legal services to separated children. Also listed within the guide are resources for local advocates, lawyers, and volunteers.

• Immigrant Justice Corps is the nation’s only fellowship program dedicated to expanding access to immigration representation. Some IJC fellows work at the border, and others work in New York, providing direct representation in immigration court to parents and children resettled in New York City and surrounding counties.

• The Kino Border Initiative provides humanitarian aid to refugees and migrants on both sides of the border. They have a wish-list of supplies they can use to help migrants and families staying in the communities they serve.

• The Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network supports undocumented immigrants detained in Aurora, Colorado.

Several companies also match donations—if your company does this, you need to provide the tax ID of the charity you have given to, which is usually listed on these organizations’ websites.

I do not want to see or be seen by fans of painter and pedophile Egon Schiele

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:56:23 -0400

bananapeppers:

bananapeppers:

he was charged with kidnapping and seducing a minor who was either 12 or 13 (please note that seduction is used differently now than it was then: here it refers to a man’s coercing a woman or girl into having PIV sexual contact with him), and he used “very young local girls” as models for his nudes (which he futher presented as nude paintings of young girls), which was the reason for his ostracization from Český Krumlov!

the Egon Schiele Museum Tulln’s site changed URLs since I posted the above over a year ago. the text at the new page (under “The Neulengbach affaire”) is somewhat different, more euphemistic and more defensive of him, and even so the museum in his honor still mentions his pedophilic behaviors.

even some of his defenders, such as art critic Ken Johnson writing for the New York Times in 2005, don’t deny that he was an art-world child pornographer. and Girl Museum founder Ashley E. Remer points out that another of his defenders—who does not deny some of his actions, instead more generally denying the pedophilia of pedophilia to excuse him and his contemporaries from it (her argument: everyone was a pedophile, and therefore no one was a pedophile)—is invested in trading in Schiele’s works as the author of his catalogue. identifying Schiele’s pedophilia as pedophilia could hurt Jane Killar’s career, as she has made a career in the trading of one man’s works which include child porn.

knowledge of his pedophilia isn’t secret enough to call an open secret.

as he depicted “lesbian” sexual intimacy and these works are some of the most accessible (the most hyped, the most prioritized) depictions of “lesbian” sexual intimacy located in the visual arts, his works circulate constantly among lesbian and bi girls and women who may know him only as a source of “lesbian” imagery and who may know few other sources of lesbian imagery in the visual arts. it is comprehensible and unallowable how and why we are directed to his and other exploitative men’s works and not-directed to lesbians’ and bi women’s works depicting sexual intimacy between (adults who are) women—nor to lesbians’ and bi women’s works depicting other aspects of our total lives. I recommend resources such as, but not limited to, @lesbianartandartists, and as far as tips for identifying red flags are concerned (because there are and will be other Schieles), I caution us (myself included) against following the deeply installed inclination to rely on men to represent us. men who fetishize lesbianism are not reliable mirrors for us.

I want more of us to see better that pedophilia, misogyny, and homophobia do not coexist accidentally.

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Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:13:46 -0400

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