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hello. my phone recently broke and i need help with money for a new one. please consider buying something from my redbubble shop. i add new designs fairly often and there should be something for everyone. thank you so much.
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hmmm I’ve been debating making this public or not but I’m relocating all my lefty shit to a separate blog so I can make something that is eventually better organized and functions as an actually useful resource.
If you want the URL feel free to DM me, I’m not making the URL public bc I want to make a bit more distance between all that stuff and the twilight community and also bc some ppl in my inbox are not always very kind and I’m gonna like.... not open myself up to that.
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The only thing standing in between you and owning any sort of "parking enforcement device" is a $5-$15 tool. A "security torx" is usually just a 3/8" or 1/4" torx bolt with a hollow center (get just the bit for like 25 cents on eBay) and normal boots use tubular locks, almost always shitty cheap ones that can be jimmied by a $15 impressioning tool.
Learn about physical security, it's limits and weaknesses, and learn some simple lock-smithing/-picking. It will come in handy one day and beyond some advanced tools, most of it can be found very cheaply or even made if you've got a knack for simple metal working. Most locks in this country can't put up with a simple propane torch, let alone a bump key, rake, or jiggler.
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Claim: After the owner and CEO of the Permian Basin Superorganism Recovery & Containment Corporation (formerly Anodyne) completed the construction of a new home far enough away so as to be unlikely to face any negative consequences should an event like the 2007 disaster happen again, he immediately started pushing for a return to the company's earlier extraction and development activities because he fundamentally doesn't care about other human beings.
Rating: Mixture
What's True: He bought the land for his new house in Oregon 2 months after the disaster; it was completed 2 years and 3 months after the incident and he was recorded advocating for a reduction of restrictions 2 days later; since then he has repeatedly emphasized the safety and necessity of new developments and how advanced the PBSRCC's newer tools are, leading to the Cruz amendment on the 2020 CARES Act.
What's False: Who can truly know the heart of a man?
i realize this is about turning 30 but my brain keeps saying it’s about the Dust Bowl happening again but in the 2030s
Your political beliefs absolutely do reflect who you are as a person. End of.
I don’t think bombing civilians in war torn countries is an unfortunate necessity like it literally doesn’t have to happen and I don’t understand how people can be so indifferent about it if their team is doing it....you know 90% of the victims of Obama’s air strikes were civilians. And civilian means woman, girl, or male child under fighting age. Adult men weren’t counted towards civilian death tolls. So the actual civilian death toll is closer to 100%. Our military is literally a terrorist organization and nobody cares as long as the president is a decent orator. All of those people are just as real as you are. A million innocent people have died as a result of the Iraq war both directly and indirectly and only a handful of us seem to lose any sleep over the fact that this terrorism is done in our names witn our money. People talk about them like they’re cockroaches. It makes me sick to my stomach
honestly, just seeing all the issues with legalization wrt marijuana (e.g. poor Black people still getting arrested for growing weed and white capitalists making huge amounts of money with marijuana dispensaries) should give people a little better idea of why almost all sex worker led organizations around the world advocate for decriminalization rather than legalization. it’s also why harm reduction activists continue to fight for decriminalization of marijuana even after legalization is passed. the fight isn’t over with legalization. the fight isn’t over until the prison industrial complex is dismantled and capitalism is overthrown
and antiblackness is eradicated
Back in May of 2019 (Before she came out as trans), Abigail Thorn of Philosophy Tube made a video on Sex Work, and talked extensively about the difference between decriminalization and legalization, and how that impacts sex workers and migrant workers, and marginalized people in general.
She also touches on related ideas about how the law is unevenly and unfairly applied in her most recent video: Capital Punishment (& Prison Abolition).
The distinction was a real eye-opener for me, and it led me to the realization that a lot of things are completely “legalized” without ever being (officially) recognized as illegal in the first place (such as gender identity and disability, for example; “legally blind,” anyone? Why is the qualifying word to distinguish between functional blindness and total blindness “legally”?).
That’s one reason I want to expand the movement from: “Defund the Police” to “Defund Policing.”
Anybody else got like,, rlly random connections to famous ppl?? Like my older brothers were friends w Jennifer Lawrence when they were like 12 and I just found out I’m friends w the cousin of the girl who voiced honey lemon in big hero six like, idk what I’m supposed to do with either of these tid bits I feel like I was supposed to live my life in ignorance of them
the tags on this are so funny because they range from “my neighbor went to school with tom cruise” to “my dad is best friends with macklemore”
“At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to become a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would only hurt the Cause. I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business. I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face.
I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. “I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.” Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.”
-Emma Goldman
didnt she literally say “a revolution in which i cant dance isnt my revolution” ?
AFAIK, this quote is her retelling that story and paraphrasing her reply at the time (”If it meant that, I did not want it”). People who were present for this conversation repeated several variations of the quote, such as “A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having” (quoted in V for Vendetta), “If I can’t dance, I don’t want your revolution”, etc. but the exact words she said in that moment are lost to time
URGENT black transmasc needs to raise $3000 by March 10th 2021
210/3000
From the gfm:
“I currently am preparing to get surgery on March 12th, 2021! Although it was last minute and only 10 days away, I booked the soonest appointment because my insurance will be ending at the end of March, and I am unsure when I will have another opportunity to get the surgery at a lower rate.”
Ari only needs $725 more as of rn (March 5)
Op-ed: Trans Men Experience Far More Violence Than Most People Assume
However, what is far less discussed by the media or within the trans/LGB community is that other types of violence — the kinds of violence that affect thousands more trans people than do hate crimes resulting in murder — actually happen at least as often to transmasculine individuals as transfeminine individuals.
While trans women — particularly trans women of color — absolutely suffer one vein of violence (which all too often includes murder) more than other members of the trans community, the trans community as a whole faces many different kinds of violence at incredible rates that should not be ignored.
WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS, THANK YOU
While it is true that trans victims of murder are primarily trans women (and primarily trans women of colour), trans men face a huge amount of violence in every possible other form and it is about time people stopped shutting them up by saying that they ‘don’t have it as bad’.
Trans men need to be part of conversations about sexual violence. Trans men need to be part of conversations about hate crimes. Trans men need to be allowed to speak on all these topics without being dismissed.
The study is 10 years old and the terminology is outdated, but sadly this is still very true & the same goes for including every variety of nonbinary people in these conversations.
#50 PERCENT OF TRANS PEOPLE CSA KIDS??????????#AM I READING THIS GRAPH WRONG OR DO I KNOW WHY I AM WHAT I AM NOW
You’re not reading that wrong. These statistics are 10 years old and newer studies do show a decrease but the numbers remain staggeringly high.
Before any TERFs try to swoop in and claim that trans people are trans because they were traumatized as little kids, let me clarify:
Those CSA statistics includes teenagers and most trans SA experiences are recorded in the age range 11 to 17.
Most trans SA experiences are recorded when the transgender person was already in transition or representing in a gender nonconforming way.
Many of the perpetrators were dates or partners of roughly the same age as the victim.
So no, trans people are not trans because of CSA. Several factors have been identified that contribute to these higher rates:
Trans and gendernonconforming kids and teens tend to be more socially isolated and perpetrators of CSA tend to target socially isolated kids and teens that they have power over.
A significant number of trans people experience ‘corrective’ sexual violence by an established intimate partner. Basically, the partner responds to their coming out by crossing their boundaries to force them into a sexual gender role. Bullying of transgender teens is also more likely to involve some form of ‘corrective’ sexual violence.
Trans and gendernonconforming teens that start dating tend to view their transness as something that makes them less desirable or completely unfuckable. When they do find a date or partner, they feel lucky that someone would date them at all and are afraid to establish boundaries because that might mean losing their one chance at a normal relationship. Trans teens are also more likely to date potential partners that behave in domineering and disrespectful ways (red flags, basically) because of this idea that they’re lucky to be dating at all.
When trans teens do establish boundaries, they are often different boundaries than cis teens have. Things like ‘you can’t touch that body part, ever’ or ‘i always keep my underwear on’. These boundaries are violated more often than boundaries that cisnormative society considers ‘normal’.
SA also means being groped by people who want to know what genitals you have or what your chest is like. This is something trans people experience a lot.
The good news is things do seem to be getting better. More recent studies report lower rates, trans teenagers tend to be less isolated and less self-hating, which makes it harder for predators to target them.
But we still have a long way to go. That’s why our conversations about sexual violence must always include trans people of all genders and our conversations about transphobia must always include fighting rape culture.
ik other anarchists talk about it a lot but the lack of autonomy kids have is a fucking problem.
Minors are most likely to be abused by their relatives, but cant even leave on their own accord legally. Adults they trust can't even house them unless the kid(s) talk to child services, and go through the whole ordeal of reliving their abuse so adults they don't know can make a case. If the proof just isn't there, they'll have to go back home with their abusers, and most definitely recieve backlash.
If the court manages to find the relative(s) guilty, that child is either placed into a shitty system that furthers mistreatment, requiring them to uproot their whole lives for instability. Or maybe they go off on their own (some places 16 year olds can apply for emancipation), but they usually end up homeless because of age discrimination in the workplace and with rental properties, or they might get involved with people who inflict more harm to them.
All while recovering mentally and/ or physically from abuse. All while going to school, because it's illegal to drop out before a certain age.
Kids need and deserve adequate support systems and autonomy.
i dont actually have any sources, im just a volunteer for austin mutual aid hotels and see it happening. it's all in the signal groupchats but i can't screenshot that, so i know you gotta take this w a grain of salt coming from an anon and all. just thought i should try to let ppl know bc it's sketchy af
Thanks for clarifying, for the sake of visibility I’m just adding screenshots of the asks you’ve sent so other people can make calls. Thank you for letting me know! If you ever end up w further info on this that can be verified, I’d appreciate you shooting it my way. Again, thanks for elaborating.
Saw some folks doing the classic “haha hope everyone in the south dies from the ice” type jokes! If you are doing that, fuck you!
Anyway here’s a quick list of some mutual aid groups down south (primarily in TX)
Austin Mutual Aid (link is to their “Kick The Cold” efforts)
Dallas Stops Evictions (Housing justice union; getting in housed people into hotels and with hot meals/hygiene supplies/groceries)
ATX Free Fridge Project (free food around Austin, linktree in their bio)
Street Forum ATX (Austin; trying to get people clothes/blankets/sleeping bags/etc)
DFW Mutual Aid (Dallas-Fort Worth; link tree in bio)
Feed The People Dallas (Dallas mutual aid)
Southern Solidary (New Orleans based; trying to get resources for unhoused people during the freeze)
Please add more if you can!!! There are many more I haven’t listened and am not familiar with!!!
For visibility, I want to attach these asks I received. I am not able to provide any info beyond these messages.
I can’t verify this info myself, I don’t have any personal ties back to Austin Mutual Aid, and as said in my reply to the first ask I can’t find any info on this. But I figured I’d share them, and if anyone else has info, please do follow up. I don’t want to be discrediting any mutual aid funds when unwarranted, but I figure the topic should at least be made visible so anyone with more info can add on.
Sorry to all the Jasper stans not really but Jasper was so unnecessary as a character 😬 Meyer wanted a southern gentleman as a cullen member? Emmett is from rural Tennessee (also works with him and Alice becoming The Twins ™️ because they both have black hair and would realistically both have southern accents). 'But they needed a vampire to have intimate knowledge of newborns for Eclipse!' Carlisle spent years with the Volturi... He not only has knowledge of newborns but newborns with crazy ass abilities and had seen the volturi kill a fair few vampires, I don't think there's anything Jasper could've told them that Carlisle didn't already know. Hell Jasper wasn't even an incredibly empathetic person... Why would he have empath super abilities? You know which cullen WOULD have super empath power?? Esme. The ability to calm anyone down in distress? Diffuse fights by settling people's rage? Everyone feeling safe and comfortable around her? Yeah that all sounds like something Esme would have the power to do.
