peach-pot:

peach-pot:

recently saw a comment section full of people, primarily women, talking about loving living with their best friend and being sad about having to live separately one day. some people talking about missing living with their best friend, some talking about “getting” to live with their best friend “until” they find partners. saw one person mention that moving out to move in with a partner felt like a divorce. it makes me so genuinely sad… all these people recognizing the joy they can find living outside the norm, letting themself live with a friend instead of a romantic partner, but still feeling like they have to live with a spouse eventually. like it’s not even a decision, just an inevitability.

similarly, it makes me sad when someone shares their happiness from living with a friend with others and the biggest response is people insisting/assuming they must have a secret unrecognized romantic connection. just taking over a moment of joy to insist they’re wrong about their own life and feelings; all to reinforce the lifestyle everyone is already expected to conform to eventually…

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draconym:

draconym:

draconym:

draconym:

I saw the most incredible dog at the farmer’s market.

ALT

Please everyone guess what this dog’s pedigree is. (My guess was incorrect)

ALT

This was my guess as well. It is something else.

Congratulations to you!

This is a Dachshund / Samoyed

ALT

Yes it was an accidental litter

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noneedtofearorhope:

writefinch:

unrequirede:

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fullyarmoredbattlesturgeon:

I need this study

It looks like it’s Anarchist Direct Actions: A Challenge for Law Enforcement. It was published in 2004

https://href.li/?https://files.libcom.org/files/ADA%20fulltext.pdf

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It’s worth pointing out that cops in the US adapted to these problems through using grand juries to cast wide nets and do punitive fishing expeditions in the wake of any serious suspected left-wing actions.

Here’s how it works:

Someone starts a fire at an army draft office.

The cops look through their files for anyone who might be in the political orbit of someone who’d want to do that. People picked up at protests, for drug charges, vandalism, anyone who is already on their radar. They look into their known associates, anyone they live with, anyone they drink with.

Then they start subpoenaing these people for a grand jury summons. They give you immunity (but only for the matter of the grand jury!) so that you can’t exercise the fifth amendment against self incrimination. If you say nothing, they can imprison you almost indefinitely for contempt of court. If they catch you in a lie, that’s criminal perjury.

They’ll ask you for information on everyone you know. Obviously they’ll ask about their involvement in any crimes, but they’re casting a wide net. Who knows who, where do they hang out, who talked to who about what and when. They’ll ask you to spill interpersonal stuff, whether anyone is cheating on someone, whether people have substance abuse problems or embarrassing personal issues, if anyone is closeted, anything they consider dirt. Anyone you name is gonna get subpoenaed and they’ll be asked for all this information on everyone they know, including you, and although you have immunity from your own testimony, you don’t get immunity from each others.

Assuming you didn’t personally do anything they can prosecute you for in the matter of the grand jury, they’ll go after you based on what they know. The cops will arrest you on any little thing they have suspicion of, even if they know they can’t prosecute you, just so that they can keep you in jail for a few days while you miss two shifts at work and your friends have to scramble to raise bail. They’ll leak any embarrassing info that comes out, to your boss or your family or even the local press. Whatever they can do to make your life a little harder.

They will lean fucking hard on anyone who is involved in the scene but had second thoughts or felt like they were dragged into something they never wanted to do in the first place by their friends. The cops will say ‘do you want to get your life ruined by people who did something stupid over something you barely even believe in’ and sometimes that’s a very compelling argument! If people have dependents or kids who they think won’t be looked after if they go to prison, there’s a lot of pressure to cooperate.

It’s important to note two things:

1) Based on the ratio of actual prison sentences to maximum possible sentences for the charges, it’s better for people not to cooperate with the jury both individually and as a group. People who talk still get sentenced, with the information they helped provide.

2) These aren’t surgical strikes, they’re an artillery barrage designed to destroy infrastructure and send people running for cover. Cops don’t want you to have friends, they don’t want you to hang out and have fun, they don’t want you getting or providing food or shelter through anything you can’t get fired from. They don’t want committed direct-action people swimming freely through a sea of friendly people. They’re not scared of the flower, they’re scared of the soil that grows it.

Surviving a Grand Jury

Narratives from three people who successfully stood up to grand jury indictments: one who served jail time for resisting, one who went on th

CrimethInc.

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janmisali:

hbmmaster:

the fact that some languages have separate yes/no words for responding to negative questions (“do you not…”) is one of those things where once you learn about it you can’t stop noticing ambiguities caused by how english doesn’t do that

if A asks “do you not like cats?” and B responds “yes”, what opinion on cats would you instinctively assume B is communicating?

B does not like cats (“yes, I do not”)

B likes cats (“yes, I do”)

B did not sufficiently answer A’s question so their opinion on cats is unclear

[show results]

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draculaforce:

A burger and fries should be five dollars <checks wallet> a burger and fries should be two dollars

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nooowestayandgetcaught:

librarycards:

kibbychan:

for those who aren’t aware, jamaica is about to experience its worst storm in history with a catagory 5 hurricane for at least a full day. i only ask that you keep jamaica in your thoughts, and if you have a bit of spare money, contribute some money to families, because they are absolutely gonna get destroyed

Donate to Support Jamaica: Hurricane Melissa Relief, organized by Brittany Wolfe

The Greater Fort Lauderdale Diaper Bank is urgently responding to the devasta… Brittany Wolfe needs your support for Support Jamaica: Hurric

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Greater Fort Lauderdale Diaper Bank (many of whose employees have roots in Jamaica) is collecting monetary and (if nearby) physical donations.

Support Jamaica – Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Portal

Join hands with the Government of Jamaica. Support national disaster relief, locate shelters, and stay informed on Hurricane Melissa updates

Support Jamaica

Please also visit this website for information about local shelters and donations!

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gumi-megpoidd:

gumi-megpoidd:

gumi-megpoidd:

gumi-megpoidd:

whats sexier

horns

tails

no nuance. fight about it

fuck it. round 2

whats sexier

halo

wings

halo considering any affix above the head not directly attached

i have a third one

whats sexier

teeth

claws

PLEASE REBLOG THE THIRD ONE TOO I NEED TO KNOW

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dreadfulman:

It is genuinely fascinating how many feminist cis women, including those who are on paper openly supportive of trans people, struggle to actually think about trans men as a concept.

A few months ago I ended up having a very long talk with a friend of a friend. She told me that she’d never really spoken to a trans man before, the only trans people she knew were trans women. There was a point, after the third time I reminded her that I was a man, that she just sorta of slotted me into her mental box of “man”, and I could tell that happened because after that point she started trying to explain things to me as if I was a cis man.

I categorically do not “pass” and likely never will. I’m very short, my hips are prominent because I’m fat, I keep my hair long, charitably I could be said to have a baby face, I have D-cups and cannot bind due to spinal problems. To the majority of cis people I do not “look like a man”.

But for the rest of the conversation I had with this friend of a friend I had to keep reminding her of how other people are going to view me, because there was no room in her mental idea of “man” for a man who is not treated as one. This was not malicious on her part, she was very nice to me, and I believe her when she says she wants to support trans people. I do not think she was lying when she told me how horrified she was to learn about how her trans woman friends were treated.

She said she was envious of me going out alone and how I need to understand that’s a facet of male privilege and I asked her to look at me and explain why I’d be any safer. She was shocked to learn that I’ve been catcalled, been assaulted, that I regularly get spoken down to by cis men, shocked to learn I don’t have a single transmasc friend who hasn’t. She couldn’t understand that I’m going to be treated the same by misogynists as any fat cis woman who doesn’t wear makeup. There was no room in her feminism for trans men, because there was no room in her understanding of gender for men who are not cis.

We ended up talking about politics. She told me she was terrified of abortion being banned, and that this would never be a threat if men could get pregnant.

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stoptheantisemitism:

Are any of us even surprised that Israel has, after repeatedly breaking the ceasfire, gone full mask off and resumed the genocide?

Where are all those Zionazis that were “let’s wait and see before we jump to conclusions”

“it’ll stop when the hostages are home”

This is Zionism. All they do is lie and murder Palestinians.

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sleaterkinnie-deactivated202412:

sleaterkinnie-deactivated202412:

that onion headline that’s like “whatever. the emo kids are all sitting on each other’s lap” is their realest one yet

it was clickhole my bad

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