i did want to take your hand

my name is bethany and this is just a reylo fanblog now

[cillianmurphy]

“Love is the one thing that transcends time and space.”

[dwight-schrutes]

my last two braincells making important life decisions

[movie-gifs]

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

[enemafrostofficial]

BIG DICK ENERGY

[sheabutterbitch]

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Here’s a free PDF of “Are Prisons Obsolete” if you are interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the prison abolitionist movement. This reading answers many of the questions you likely have regarding the call to abolish prisons and police.

One of the things I love about Angela Davis is that her writing style is so easily digestible, even when covering complex theory such as this. Do not be intimidated by the subject matter, it is fairly easy to grasp and I think everyone should read it.

[nintendogs]

audiobook version here on youtube

[vivienvalentino]

Bruce Wayne vs Joker THE BATMAN (2021, dir. Matt Reeves)

[amdeadinsyd]

brings me back to that post that said what if Joker was just a normal clown but Batman still beat him up

[babisaur]

new meme format!!!!

[the-soot-sprite]

The meme 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[milf-zone]

All police departments are evil but the NYPD is exponentially more evil than any other PD in the country.

The NYPD has an annual budget if $6 billion. A lot of this budget goes into excessive overtime. When you have such a large budget, it translates into over-policing and dramatically shifts the type of policing that happens. Cops will be more interested in issuing fines as opposed to spending time solving actual crime. This affects poor people and neighborhoods (often people of color) at a disproportionate rate. So over policing for revenue collection and under policing for serious crime ends up becoming a loop.

So when you hear that the NYPD needs an annual budget of $6 billion because “NYC has a high crime rate” just know that it’s like this on purpose. The NYPD drains tax revenue and distributes it internally through excessive overtime and uses fines and fees (officers literally have quotas) to justify it’s need for such a large annual budget.

If the NYPD budget was cut, I promise you they wouldn’t impose an 8pm curfew and have 8000 officers on duty collecting overtime. A budget cut for the NYPD means we could allocate much needed funding to help small local businesses hurt by COVID. We could fund programs on homelessness, mental health, youth services, combating overcrowding in schools and transportation.

If you live in NYC, I urge you to call/email the New York City Council and ask them to cut NYPD funding. This is your right as a tax payer.

The current chair of the Finance Committee is council member Daniel Dromm

Email: [email protected]

District office phone: [phone]

Legislative office phone: [phone]

[astoriachef]

Reply All did a great story about how this came to be. 

Part i

Part 2

[kallistoi]

an addition! defund12.org is a tool that allows you to send an email to ALL of your representatives (there are versions for NYC and other cities) with a script calling for defunding. 

[tinakris]

the witcher in green •

[brainstatic]

I don’t care what the Founding Fathers would have wanted, I don’t care if Jesus was a hippie or not, I don’t care what Marx prescribed. I can’t take living in a world where we’re all servants of long-dead men. You know what happens if you make a law the Founding Fathers wouldn’t like? Nothing, they’re dead and they’re never coming back. I’m genuinely envious of countries that can just make whatever laws they want without worrying about how 18th century agrarian noblemen would have seen it. Stop arguing that Jesus loved the poor too, what he loved or didn’t love is irrelevant, he doesn’t get a say in any of this. We could have a country that isn’t shackled to these ghosts if we collectively wanted to.

[lestrangely]

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by any invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter. Or at least most minds are…

[diamondeyes-deluxe]

Young girls are naturally inclined to witchcraft. You cant leave a young girl alone in the backyard for 5 minutes without her trying to make "soup" from some flower petals and sticks.

[shutyourmoustache]

Jeff Bezos and Amazon are a fucking blight upon the working class. He got rich by treating rank and file employees like hot garbage toiling under dehumanizing, backbreaking conditions for shitty pay. When there are this many random strangers across various sectors/departments of a single company sharing similar horror stories, that can’t be dismissed as just a few disgruntled ex-employees. Grievances like these are why I quit using Amazon. They made my life easier at the expense of thousands of hardworking people being mistreated and disrespected behind closed doors. (thread)

[penis-siz3-average]

If there is a hell we as a country will go there for allowing this and our criminal justice system to continue to exist.

[thesigilwitch]

I was just about to spiral into a bad panic attack, and my boyfriend goes "Stick an ice cube in your mouth." I'm not really sure where he got the idea, and I kinda laughed at it because I didn't see how it would help, but he was insistent. So I did it.

And now I'm on my second cube, because it worked.

[thesigilwitch]

He explained his reasoning to me when he got home.

1. I would initially think "what the fuck" and be distracted from the anxiety. (Correct.)

2. The cold of the ice would shock my system, bringing me back to the physical world and reality, drawing my focus to the cold in my mouth, and keep my brain away from thinking "I'm panicking, I must be dying." (Correct.)

3. He assumed I hadn't drank much water today and wanted to keep me hydrated. (Triple correct.)

[pigeonwithaknife]

It also forced your mouth to make saliva!

When you go into fight or flight mode, non-crucial body functions stop working so you have more energy to do what you need to do to survive (oooor to spiral into a panic attack). By forcing yourself to make saliva it helps calm you down because since fight or flight is an all or nothing response, they can’t happen at the same time.

Learned that from my old therapist, who would use it with veterans with ptsd

[queer-papayas]

I’m doing this right now and its working????

[autumnsnuggling]

THIS! Do this!

Anxiety is an emotional thing BUT there are feedback systems in place in your body that pay attention to physical states as well, which is why you then experience raised heart rate and so on when anxious. Eliminate or confuse one feedback system? Reduce anxiety.

Go be free!

[smute]

biting into a lemon also works

[k-phoenix]

Btw, this is part of Dialectic Behavioural Therapy, DBT for short, which was invented by a woman with borderline. It doesn't only work with panic attacks but also self harm, negative thought spirals, and sometimes even intrusive flashbacks.

Eating very spicey stuff works as well. I used to keep little packets of wasabi in my jacket, and that saved me more times I can count.

[driverdaily]

John Oliver mentions Adam Driver again on Last Week Tonight (5/17/20)

Choke slam me to hell, you nasty shed. Jam your mandible claw down my throat you irredeemable steer.

Quick side note here. A lot of you may well be wondering where I’m going with this bit. If you’re anything like my staff, you’re asking questions like, “Is this sexual or is this violent?” And then you’re unsatisfied when the answer comes back—yes. If you’re like my wife, you may be asking “Should I be worried about this?” with your concern only growing, the answer is “Only if you want to be.”

And what of Adam Driver himself? Is he bothered by this continued sexualization? He seems like a fairly private guy who’s generally uncomfortable with attention making what I’m doing possibly some form of harassment. He might actually have pretty good grounds to have me reprimanded legally, to which I say—DO IT. Slap a restraining order, you forlorn block. Beg me to stop, you menacing obstacle.

[reddit-tales]

What’s the dumbest thing you believed as a child?

When I was a pre-schooler, my mom told me that you weren’t allowed to ride a motorcycle or get tattoos unless your mother was dead.

One day, outside the grocery store I saw a big, tough looking dude covered in tats, straddling the loudest motorcycle ever. Damned it 5 year old me didn’t go up to him and ask, “Hey. Is your mom dead?”

Dude looked at me and said, “Yeah.”

And I was shocked that my mom was right.

[indicativeof-sideways-escalation]

That man was probably freaked tf out that some random creepy child came up to him unprompted and asked after his deceased mother

[ifonlymp3-deactivated20220624]

gonna fuck around and start saying i DO condone the actions of my problematic fav fictional characters

[countmalvolio]

[kaijuno]

[thatbassistbitch]

Jess I just have one question. What was the train of thought that led you to put these two images together

[kaijuno]

An artist never reveals their muse

[bbbbbbbbbbbbbbb-8-deactivated20]

the look™