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I’m not a brave man. I’m not a violent man. But I am a man who knows my strengths, and I’m prepared to use them.

So if I encounter any ICE agents in my neighborhood, I will smile and waive and as soon as they make eye contact I will engage in the most aggressively friendly chitchat ever witnessed on my block.

I will ramble on and on about whatever pops into my head. I will ask them about their day, their hobbies, their home life, and their personal backstory until I find a common area of interest, and then I will crank my smalltalk game UP TO ELEVEN.

I will force them to look awkwardly at their wristwatch DOZENS of times without taking the hint. I will ask seemingly simple questions that do not have ANY simple answers. I will pretend to wrap up the conversation with, “Anyway…” and then segue DIRECTLY into another topic.

Because every minute an ICE agent wastes chatting with me is a minute that they’re not targeting my neighbors and disrupting their lives.

I’m no superhero, but I do have a super power, and I’ll use it to fight oppression in any way I can.

outerspace-froggy-deactivated20

Love you, Dave

sunflower-key

@flavoracle I’m not a brave man, and I suck at small talk, but I would say I can be violent, what should I do? Because I’m not brave enough to act out but I wanna help

flavoracle

I mean, I’m not gonna ask anybody to engage in violence, but if you’re looking for something to do, what about this?

Get a copy of the song, Cotton Eye Joe. Carry around a big, loud speaker. If you ever see ICE show up in your neighborhood, start playing it at full blast.

Best case scenario? You can motion for them to come over your way and challenge them to a dance off. (Probably not likely, but it never hurts to dream.)

Worst case scenario? They think you’re weird and like Cotton Eye Joe.

Likely scenario? If you’ve let your neighbors know ahead of time that hearing Cotton Eye Joe means ICE is in the neighborhood, it may give them the head start they need to avoid harassment.

Now you might be thinking that picking Cotton Eye Joe is a really random choice, but consider the following reasoning:

The song has a very loud, clear, and distinctive opening, so it gets the message across right away without spending time on any kind of intro

The song was once popular enough that people can easily recognize it

While the song is catchy, it’s not very likely to be anyone’s favorite, so you don’t have to worry about ruining it for them

The opening line ‘Fit’adn’t is nonsensical enough to be used as a secret tipoff if you’re unsure who’s listening

It’s upbeat enough that it likely won’t get on your nerves too fast

When played really loud, it becomes nearly impossible to talk over

Would this actually work? Honestly, I have no idea. I’m no expert in active resistance. But I figure it’s worth putting out there. And who knows, maybe it could catch on.

Stay safe everybody.

‘Fit’adn’t

flavoracle

The tags that @anautisticaquarius added to this thread are just too good to stay hidden, so I took a screenshot to share with the rest of you :)

deftonesdick

This thread is so pure

bunjywunjy

Do sharks cuddle?

THEY SURE FUCKIN DO.

many sharks are at least moderately social, and if a specific species of shark has the ability to breathe without actually swimming and tends to have a lot of sharks in a fairly small area, well.

they are just going to Pile. and there is simply nothing you can do about it.

bunjywunjy

also, fun fact! whitetip reef sharks in particular are SO damn cuddly with each other that they'll actively seek out a buddy or ten when they get sleepy!

it's pretty much slumber party or nothing for these guys. you won't find a whitetip sleeping alone except in the most dire and tragic of shark circumstances.

(shhh! they are. SLEEBING)

darkarfs

It's INCORRECT SKELETON SEASON, folks!!

strawberry-crocodile

@bogleech

a-dinosaur-a-day

ah yes, halloween: the season where every animal magically has lots of bones they didn't have before

deaddolin

one of my fave posts honestly

dyke-parade

this is legitimately even funnier when you're an anthropologist because anthropologists would constitutionally not be able to answer this

bunjywunjy

so why the hell do humans have the ability to digest theobromine anyway? are there any theory papers about it?

it's still an open question! humans can handle a wide array of toxic plant alkaloids (theobromine, caffeine, capsaicin, menthols) and generally toxic substances (alcohol) that would put other mammals in the ground, so there's a whole field of study out there trying to figure out why this is!

for now though, feel free to indulge the mystery by indulging in a solid pound of high-quality milk chocolate in front of your sad pets.

RUB IT IN! RUB IT IN! RUB IT IN!

onwardmotley

#my completely baseless spiritual belief is that the price we pay for this is poison ivy, #we evolved to scarf down a bunch of weird poisons and think they're delicious, #and in exchange there is this completely harmless chemical found in a variety of common plants that doesn't bother any other mammal, #which we are all violently allergic to for absolutely no reason. (via downtroddendeity)

prokopetz

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

solardrake

paperandpencilsandskips

FUCKING GETCH OU

a-candle-for-sherlock

"I sigh for you at every hour, at every moment, like a hungry little bird."

“Since I’ve had to be without your sweetest presence, I have not wished to hear or see any other human being, but as the turtle-dove, having lost its mate, perches forever on its little dried up branch, so I lament endlessly till I shall enjoy your trust again. I look about and do not find my lover — she does not comfort me even with a single word.

Indeed when I reflect on the loveliness of your most joyful speech and aspect, I am utterly depressed, for I find nothing now that I could compare with your love, sweet beyond honey and honeycomb, compared with which the brightness of gold and silver is tarnished. What more?”

tendercoredyke

i’m literally going to lose my mind?????

diane-nguyen-watches-cartoons-d

Guy who’s only ever seen Rocky Horror Picture Show watching his second movie with the word “horror” on the cover.

charlesoberonn

renthebarbarian

Guys, he didn’t just co-write RHPS. He’s Riff-Raff.

dokja-ssi

happy pride to canonically bisexual bob belcher

ghostbrother2

if this 5000 year old tree isn’t too old to realize that its trans neither are you

vergak

ambientlemon

No offense but all the Germans in the comments explaining why this isn’t funny is the funniest part of this to me

kira-astra-infinitum

Like of course I know it means "We're looking for you". But why are you looking for them? To such their dich?

gaylienz

happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.

gaylienz

Non-Natives reblogging this are great and wonderful

lierdumoa

Please remember that "land back" does not mean "indigenous people are mystical elves with innate epigenetic wisdom of land stewardship and they don't belong in big cities," nor does it mean "non-indigenous people can't be farmers." What it DOES mean is that "non-indigenous farmers should be paying the equivalent of property taxes to the native governments their land was stolen from." It means, "there's a great deal of indigenous scholarship on sustainable agricultural practices that farmers should be taking into account, because indigenous agriculture was more advanced than European agriculture at the time Europe invaded the Americas and western agriculture *still* hasn't caught up in terms of figuring out how to produce equivalently high crop yields without compromising the ecosystem." It means, "non-indigenous farmers should be in an intellectual discourse with indigenous agricultural scientists and indigenous peoples that still do traditional farming, figuring how to repair the damage western farming practices have done to the ecosystem."

red-dead-revival

It also means that indigenous peoples should regain the right to sustain themselves on the land according to the practices they want, and they should have free reign to perform their cultural practices and protect their holy sites, as opposed to the current model where if they try to honor their dead on public lands they get violently removed.