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ceranchia apollina (ghost moth)

[midnightinshadow]

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[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[basedhighsenberg]

If they rolled out Covid 2: Scamdemic Boogaloo tomorrow and told people that Flock cameras were being used to assist with contract tracing and enforcing quarantines, 90% of everybody who is vehemently anti-Flock camera would about face overnight and accuse you of "wanting to kill meemaw" if you were still anti-surveilance state.

[catholicapothecary]

the amount in which the medical culture and community needs to change is enormous but the thing that stabs me in my soul is this “magic pill” facade that nearly everyone, but especially boomers, has internalized to a startling degree

[bees-mushrooms-roses]

Man, a bunch of couples we're friends with have gotten married and are having kids so fast (my husband and I included). Then we have friends who have been married for 10 years and haven't had any luck with having kids due to endo or other health reasons. I feel extremely blessed but things just seem unfair sometimes.

[expressions-of-nature]

by Nikolett Emmert

[morganathewitch]

Wood anemones in May, 2026.

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[disgruntledseagull]

Jail???

They should be shot.

[alraunahomestead]

The Newborn by Jessie Willcox Smith

[garmbreak1]

wow i wonder what the video shows

... yeah i can see why the cops don't want that getting around, holy shit

there's no way she didn't see what happened, right?

[the-grey-tribe]

Why the hell were there police and a guy already filming on the scene? Why the hell would you try to beat a guy up in front of police and on camera?

[isaacsapphire]

Is “the criminal is the White guy getting hit by brown guys” really is the default policy of the police across the pond or does it just look like that?

[samueldays]

Yes, UK Race Action Plans say something like that under a cloud of squid ink words.

There is an enormous markedness problem here that could get its own essay. This "anti-racist" Race Action Plan is favoring one race, Curse of Babel be upon them, their speech is confused.

The words I want to highlight as relevant to @isaacsapphire's question are "disproportionate" and "inequalities" and "Equality Impact Assessment". These are linked to the UK Equality Act which borrowed the US Civil Rights Act model of disparate impact: policies that are in principle race-neutral can still be illegal if those policies in practice affect one race more than another.

The theory behind this goes something like: after banning a "no blacks" rule, they don't want racists evading it with a "no people named Tyrone or Jamal" rule, that's de facto racism even if you can imagine a white guy named Tyrone.

But it turns out that violent crime rates differ by race, so the in principle neutral rule of arresting violent criminals is in practice something that affects one race more than another. The Equality Act has no common-sense exception for this, so there's an absurd contradiction written into law where it's illegal for police to enforce the law. Law enforcement would have racially disparate impact.

People tie themselves into knots attempting to justify and implement and resolve this, and one of the resolutions is for cops to lower the threshold to arrest whites and raise the threshold to arrest non-whites and try to get the arrest rates to even out by race. It's not quite the default policy, there's no single default under the cloud of jargon and contradictions and overlapping laws and court precedent that doesn't appear in the written law, but it is a common policy.

And to emphasize: what I linked above is not the Black-specific part nor version nor one of several race action plans. That is the single Race Action Plan for West Midlands (where Birmingham is).

It derives in part from the national Police Race Action Plan, where the National Police Chiefs Council say plainly in their anti-racism commitment that they want equality of outcomes.

They will be graded on a Police Race Action Plan 'maturity matrix' which is more of the same garbage. Fucked up, man.

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[bees-mushrooms-roses]

people who leave Jesus when they learn who Judas is

[riverwindphotography]

Happy faces :)

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[diversityland]

"Results from the study suggest whites are disproportionately portrayed as criminals five to eight times more often on police dramas compared to actual crime statistics for the city of New York, and exposure to police dramas leads to elevated perceptions of white criminality among non-whites.”