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[despazito]

Just because we killed Louis Riel doesn't mean we can't miss him

[3hdj]

I just tried to report a post for advocating the mass murder of immigrants. Tumblr wouldn't accept the submission until I went back and removed the words "white supremacist" from the 'explain why' section.

[maidthings]

Its exhausting I'm just begging people to see the animals that were around 65 million years ago as actual animals that were on this planet and not 80s b movie monsters

[3hdj]

my most embarassing trait is that I only remember the second species of tyrannosaurus (already cringe, tyrannosaurs are kinda cringe, caring about tyrannosaurus phylogeny is cringe) because of overwatch (OVERWHELMINGLY CRINGE). and its not even that guys name anymore

[barghest-land]

little one

[travestito]

is this what it was like in 9/11. trying to reason with people whose entire concept of human decency flies out the window when presented with the possibility of causing the smallest amount of harm to a "terrorist", no collateral damage is too large, no civilian too innocent, no connection too murky for people to deserve to die or be permanently crippled. people citing world war two urban warfare statistics to try to make a bad situation seem less worse and not balking at how fascist they sound

[travestito]

Americans are obsessed with punishment to an insane degree. people DESERVE to die if they support on hezbollah or hamas, regardless of whether their actions bring harm to anyone. if you're a nurse or a courier or a fucking security guard in a place where the only political entity in the region has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States your life is forfeited. if your child or wife or siblings happened to be mutilated it's your fault for existing. collective punishment and collective responsibility only exists for third world nations.

if you plant bombs in equipment you know with a high degree of certainty will enter civilian hands and be used around civilians, and you kill them or seriously maim them, this isn't terrorism, only Arabs commit terrorism

[our-queer-experience]

i cannot BELIEVE the cops that shot and killed breonna taylor are getting away free while her boyfriend gets the blame. for acting in self defense of a perceived intruder. like a lot of gunowning americans would’ve done. this is such racist, dismissive bullshit

[our-queer-experience]

im also astonished how little talk i’ve seen of this. maybe i’m expecting people to be too up to date on things but guys. tumblr is so white and none of yall will even TALK about racism when it doesnt serve you.

fucking talk about it

[magpiepills]

I’d love to talk about this. I live 15 miles from where Breonna was murdered by police. I will talk about this all day long. Yall want a refresher?? Here it is. I guess I’ll add a break, but you really need to read this and understand what happened and why you should be mad as hell.

• The officers only wanted a warrant for Breonna because of her ties to a known drug dealer. But she was never actually involved with anything to do with selling drugs. The warrant was obtained using false info that the LMPD detectives got from a Shively police officer. Nothing was done to verify it. A judge signed off on it.

• The police claimed they announced themselves before busting the door in, but 12 (TWELVE) witnesses who lived in the apartments claimed they didnt hear any of that. The only thing anyone heard was the door being busted in and then gunshots. One of those 12 witnesses barely spoke english and they continued calling this person in for questioning for months until this person FINALLY said that he thought he heard them announce themselves. They then said they have a witness claiming to have heard them announce themselves.

• Kenneth Walker only fired his gun because all he heard was banging at the door and then the door was busted in. And as previously mentioned there were numerous witnesses saying the cops did not announce themselves. Literally anyone who owns a gun would have done the same thing in Kenneth Walker’s situation.

• Then of course the actual shooting happened, there were two cops firing from the door way while a third cop started firing through the glass patio door that was covered by a shade. Breonna was killed in the hallway.

• After this was all said and done they had already arrested the drug dealer they were after. They were only trying to go after Breonna to strengthen their case. They could have simply called her in for questioning and had no reason to believe that she would have ran. And then we also learn that they had a phone call from the drug dealer saying that Breonna was holding money for him which is why they wanted her so bad. That would not have been enough evidence for the warrant, which is why they lied to get one.

• All of this info and tons more was in the leaked grand jury documents. It is incredible that anyone could look at these facts and say it was Kenneth Walkers fault that his girlfriend was killed by cops while he watched her die.

• police went to the postal inspector before getting the warrant, who told them she had nothing to do with it. They falsified his statement in the warrant application saying he actually did, and then threatened him to stay silent after they murdered Breonna.

• They also didn’t pursue medical assistance for her until 45 minutes had passed.

• Remember, LMPD narcotics cops had a problem where what got checked into the evidence room wasn't what they reported on scene, so they stopped having to report what they found on scene. They were 100% there to steal that money.

• During the emotional but peaceful protests, police killed a local BBQ restaurant owner, David McAtee and left his body laying in the street uncovered for hours.

• Cops showed up the PEACEFUL protests looking for violence, they threatened, taunted, tried their best to incite it. They abused peaceful protestors.

• Greg Fischer, who was mayor at the time, and Craig Greenburg, currently mayor have done fuck all to get control of the police department.

Louisville Metro Police Department is so incredibly crooked. If you call them up, they’re not coming. Forget it. “We don’t have enough officers to send one out.” But when one dies there’s a whole armada of them going down the highway.

They also just got a pay raise.

This doesn’t even cover the Kentucky state Police, who used actual Hitler quotes in their training material and it was kept quiet until a high school newspaper did some digging.

I could go on all day about this. All cops are bastards. That’s not just a cute little slogan. It’s not just a few rotten apples or poor training or unfortunate oversights. All policing is racist at its core. All cops are class traitors. I’ll talk about this all damn day.

Oh, while I’m at it, don’t forget that in the early 90s two studies were done that showed 40% of police families experienced domestic violence. Police no longer cooperate with such studies.

[3hdj]

I'm so glad I minored in anthropology at an institution where decolonization of the field is so emphasized, it's really helped me to be more critical of a lot of mainstream 'conservation' ideas and the media associated with it. I'm watching this documentary series about dissecting large animals because I love comparative anatomy, and there are so many moments in it that are so eye-roll inducing (even if you skip every time Dawkins shows his racist ass). In the episode where a feral camel is culled in australia, there isn't a single mention of the Indigenous peoples of the country despite so much of the episode discussing the history of it. The episode I'm currently watching, about polar bears, at 12 minutes in, is just so dedicated to ignoring the greenlandic Inuit, their culture, and their hardships, while they follow around them begging to be allowed to dissect one of the bears they hunted before they process it for food. like, why the fuck would they want to share it with you? They don't fucking know you! You're asking them to hand over the equivalent to a 600 dollar costco run so you can "just look" for a couple hours, and you're not even helping?

If there's anything I know, it's that making connections is important to good science, especially this sort. If people don't trust you, and your intentions, then you won't get nearly as far. That's the case for anthropology in all its forms, but also in conservation (see for example, black footed ferret reintroduction efforts) and I suspect, biology as a whole.

[codecicle-archive]

i don't care if you live in new york city get normal about drug addicts sometime soon or jump in front of the trains

[codecicle-archive]

i promise you that person on fent bent over + swaying in rags is having a worse couple hours than you've ever had in your entire life. i promise you that person begging for money on the subway is going throughs something 1000% worse than you having to avoid their eyes while going to a restaurant. i swear on my life that person talking to themselves in public isn't evil or the devil or going to kill you. i think you need to get the fuck over yourself and stop acting like you're suuuchhh an NYC native and being afraid of all drug-heavy areas and posting videos of people on the trains like "only in the city! lol!". i think you should learn how to either have some compassion or shut the fuck up

[nyancrimew]

i feel like one of the weirdest realizations you (or at least i) eventually have a few years into transitioning and being mostly around other trans people, is that moment where u notice that like ur brains mapping of like specific voices to specific genders is just kinda gone. like it rly is just all social constructs programmed into u by society, and living outside societies idea of gender just kinda melts that shit away, and it's not just voices, like other traditionally gendered attributes also suddenly don't matter anymore*

*except for myself of course, i am obviously totally failing at being a girl but everyone is doing it perfectly, dysphoria is so awesome lmao

[nyancrimew]

the real deep message here btw isn't just about gender, but about the general ability of the human brain to shed off bad socialization and habits if we change the environment we're in for the better and i feel like that's massive

[thestuffedalligator]

A couple years ago I was on a road trip and at one point we drove by what was obviously an overgrown golf course. Wild uncut grasses growing out of the fairway, weeds sprouting from cracks in the crumbling parking lot, a snack shack with outdated signage left to moulder and decay.

And as a lifelong golf hater my first thought was “LMAO get wrecked,” followed by “Actually it’s kind of weird they totally abandoned it. I’ve never seen an abandoned golf course, what’s the deal with that.”

So I looked into it.

The golf course was on Enoch Creek Nation west of Edmonton in Alberta.

It was closed in 2014 because unexploded WWII munitions were found on the golf course.

Unexploded WWII munitions were found on the golf course because during WWII the Canadian government ran bomb exercises on Enoch Cree Nation and dropped up to 100,000 live rounds on the nation.

The golf course was built because residents were told that only harmless practice rounds were used during the exercises, and the Department of National Defence declared the land safe for use.

But then in 2011 an independent contractor found evidence of live, heavy-action explosives on the golf course.

In 2020 the nation and the federal government agreed to a settlement of $91 million for loss of income of the golf course and for land cleanup. Not a day goes by I don’t think about this.

[justfrowzy]

woke up, mxster freethem... woke up and... smell the pronouns

[knowlesian]

“why do i believe this” and “who benefits from me believing it” are the first steps to decolonization and we should all be doing this more

[knowlesian]

since this is on my dash again another two steps, a little harder this time

“who do i hurt when i do this?” and “could i look them in the eye, validate and acknowledge that hurt, and then keep doing it anyway?”

[knowlesian]

feels like a good day for another two.

“whose voice is missing from this story” and then “how do i seek out those voices/how does a story i think i know change when i add new perspectives”

[poisonseller]

my son came out of the womb looking a bit different. did a dna test. yuuuuup. 100% homo habilis

[approximateknowledge]

once you learn enough about evolutionary biology you start seeing ghosts everywhere

[approximateknowledge]

after the end cretaceous extinction event, basically all megafaunal niches were suddenly empty; and most got filled in some way. proboscideans instead of sauropods, carnivorans instead of theropods, ungulates instead of ceratopsians and hadrosaurs etc...

but the thing is: only *most* got filled to some extent

not all

because there used to be dragons

and now their niche is just *empty*

it's like i can feel the gap they left, in everything from open grassland ecosystems to isolated islands; the world we know is shaped by the absence of a truly big flying predator

no bird could ever fill their niche, because of plain and simple anatomical constraints

because they cannot use their wings to jump

birds could never be azdarchids

they could never be dragons

there are no more dragons

but there used to be

there used to be...

[winternimbus]

my two cents in on the whole "TME/TMA" argument is that if you're genuinely getting that unironically upset over the language that trans women & AMAB nonbinary people (who are minority groups within a minority group--ESPECIALLY AMAB nonbinary people!) use to describe their own unique lived experiences and oppression. maybe you should step back from the computer and think about what that might say about you as a person, and what that entails for your political involvement if you're getting angry at us talking about what we have to deal with on a day to day basis. just a thought!

[blu3berry-syrup]

I 100% agree with you, but your post suggests that trans women/TMAs are necessarily amab but this is a widespread harmful belief that helps erase a tiny minority that is already very invisible. Some trans women are afab and TMA.

Afab TMAs should be included in those discussion. They should be able to talk about their spefic transfeminine experience too

[winternimbus]

for clarification--are you talking about intersex trans people, or are you talking about dyadic people assigned female at birth?

[blu3berry-syrup]

both

[3hdj]

I was going to make a joke where I joke about how you're the exact kind of person that Winter was posting about but I decided to look at your blog for a second to get my bearings about me and hey.

Buddy, did you make a whole new blog with the sole purpose of being irritating to a transfemme person? This post is pissing you off that much?

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Poilievre says he's against the use of puberty blockers for transgender children

Poilievre gave that position on Parliament Hill after facing a barrage of questions about his views on gender-affirming medical treatments f

I hate this man. I hate this party.

It keeps me up at night thinking that there is a very good chance this bastard is going to be Prime Minister one day

[femonologue]

Poilievre is the perfect archetype of a Canadian Conservative politician: an utterly mercenary husk of a human being, blandly palatable at a glance yet supremely abhorrent the moment his policies are examined - because he will say, do, or legislate literally anything that brings in more lobbyist funding and/or wedge-issue votes. He shakes hands with fascists for the support of their followers, then gleefully issues faux-appalled statements denouncing those fascists when they make the news for doing insane fascist shit (like that convoy occupation stunt in Ottawa). Every last word out of his lying mouth is calculated for political effect.

Pierre Poilievre genuinely does not care about a single thing on this Earth other than wealth and power. There's barely even a human being in there anymore - the guy is little more than a vast collection of shady deals and polling analysis reports wearing the skin of a man. Fuck Poilievre and fuck every single Canadian who votes for his soulless, corrupt, minority-scapegoating ass. No forgiveness.