Amaros System

it/its system; transfeminized; 20s

[jadeseadragon]

Norman Rockwell (American, 1894 - 1978), Wet Paint, 1930, oil on canvas.

[agnesmontague]

[slaygentford]

guys having a cold this week has led me to reading a bunch about religion idk. but im curious about this population of tumblrinas

I consider myself

follower of an organized religion

"recovered" follower of an organized religion, now atheist or agnostic

spiritual -- there is one single organizing universal force

spiritual -- polytheistic, wicca...

spiritual -- "there's vibes out there but idk what"

culturally religious (whatever this means to you)

atheist

agnostic

more than one of these

other

Voting ended onJul 19

obv this is rough and informal but these are the categories that have come to mind after my silly little deep dives...

[lordofseagulls]

Lil Nas X should not be allowed to be this funny

[csny]

this is sort of sickening to me. can they swap

[memories]

I want to take a heaping batch of #gore and spread it all over me like I’m that peanut butter baby. You know the one.

[txttletale]

efforts towards a "positive vision of masculinity" or whatever are so funny because what these guys are trying to figure out is literally "what's a way of being a good person that's Not For Girls™"

[doubleca5t]

[storyweavingspider]

“Abolition is not about your fucking feelings”—Mariame Kaba

“Abolition is not a personal development project. It is not a self-help course that will lead you to spiritual enlightenment. Abolition is about materially freeing people. You don’t need a pure heart or to never feel any ill will towards people. Im a fucking bitch. I love reality TV because I like watching rich people be unhappy. All abolition requires is understanding that those instincts shouldn’t be the basis for social policy.” — A People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice, Katie Tastrom

[storyweavingspider]

“Abolition doesn’t just affect what we do instead of carceral systems, it affects our need for them in the first place. Instead of being reactionary, abolition focuses of being proactive and tries to prevent harm from occurring in the first place. The criminal Justice system theoretically only applies after someone has already been harmed, though it makes more sense (and usually fewer resources) to prevent harm than to let it happen snd then punish the wrongdoer…There will always be conflict and harm, but as a society we should work to minimize it instead of focusing on merely getting vengeance after the fact.

One of the barriers that a lot of people have with understanding abolition is that there is not a one-sentence answer to what will replace prisons, nor should there be. Abolition is a whole change of worldview. It moves us from “how do we replace prisons?” to “How do we create a world without carceral systems?” This requires not just tearing down structures, but also building resources that are more just and better suited to solve our problems.

One thing I learned in social work school was that it’s harder for people to work to a negative goal (“stop doing x”) than it is for them to work towards a positive goal (“start doing y”). So the best way to eliminate something is to increase other things that are incompatible or mutually exclusive. For example, if we want people out of coercive mental health treatment, one thing that helps is creating liberatory mental health resources.

The issue of abolition isn’t actually “How do we get there?” but really “Where do we start?” Lots of us are already doing work that is incompatible with the carceral state, but we need to make sure it’s grounded in abolition. In other words, we can incorporate abolition into our corners of the world. It’s not one of the other, it’s both/and.

The world we are in is different than the world we are creating. We will falter and make mistakes, as well as do things that aren’t mistakes but are the best alternatives out of bad options. While we need to be strict in our systemic analysis (i.e, look closely and critically at every aspect of the carceral system we live in), we need to be flexible and compassionate when we are dealing with each other as we work towards abolition by targeting systems.”

—A People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice, Katie Tastrom

[torstherapy]

[cryptotheism]

Imagine a bladeless knife with no handle. Now put the handle back. Now put the blade back. Yaaaay! everything okay! Yaaaaaaay!

[spaghettihell]

Reblog to hug prev

Please

[rioblitzle]

i go to the shop and I ask if they have any raspberries. they say no, they used to sell raspberries, but they haven't had any in stock in the last 15 years. I ask if there's somewhere else I can go to buy raspberries. They say no, with confidence and pride, they're the only shop around who has ever sold or will ever sell raspberries. Other shops might sell other fruit, sure, but they have a monopoly on all raspberries forever. I ask if they're possibly planning on them selling them again in future? they say they can't tell me that.

on the way home, I encounter someone eating raspberries. I ask and they tell me that they grow their own, they got some seeds from the shop back in The Raspberry Days and kept them. They take me to a field of many beautiful raspberry plants and invite me to pick my own, they're free for all the town to pick whenever they'd like.

someone comes up behind us. It's the shop manager, President of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa. he hatefully throws a bob-omb that blows up and kills both of us instantly for stealing 200 trillion dollars worth of potential Raspberry Shop That Doesn't Do Raspberries Anymore profits that they weren't making and then he turns around to the camera with a big thumbs up and says don't do piracy or something ok please

[theonion]

[theonion]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

good morning everyone it's time to be tortured to insanity and then of course tortured for being insane

[tpwrtrmnky]

Ok but when you say "restorative justice" do you mean "hegemonic power structures need to provide ways for people who've done bad things to reintegrate into society" or do you mean "you, personally, someone with no hegemonic power whatsoever, need to keep forgiving people who've hurt you forever" because those are like. Pretty different.

[satorugojowidow]

Which of the three remaining european countries in the World Cup colonized your country?

Spain

France

England

Remaining time: 6 hours 44 minutes