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This blog died tragically because it's complicated and can now be found at @squirrels-in-space. RIP in peace. fan studies, queer theory, social justice, chronic illness advocacy (i have fibromyalgia, chronic migraines, and ibs 🎉). mediocre gamer, knitter, and crocheter. champion garbage eater. i have a phd in English, but im stuck at home in bed because of illness. so if nothing else, im happy to give you advice about writing and grammar.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Elderly man kills wife because they couldn't afford her medicine #1yrago

William J. Hager of Port St. Lucie, Florida is a 86 year old man who confessed to shooting his 76 year old wife, Carolyn Hager, in her sleep, because the couple could no longer afford her medications, leaving her in pain and wanting to die.

America is the only industrialized country in the world without universal health care.

Mr Hager surrendered himself to the local law and expects to go to prison.

https://boingboing.net/2016/05/21/elderly-man-kills-wife-because.html

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This is the most accurate thing i have seen by far. Colin Kaepernick has done so much, risked his perfect life, his careers to bring awareness and there are still people saying he’s not a really good player that’s why he is still unsigned.

He knew this was going to end up this way, he was ready for this challenge and i am sure he doesn’t regret. What happened to him just proves one more time that racists don’t tolerate black people,who are trying to fight for justice. And this gives me even more strength to fight harder.

[sharkodactyl]

i never think that i am that angry of a person and then my earbud cord catches on a drawer and yanks my earbuds out of my ears and/or phone and then i know, suddenly, intimately, how we can commit acts of horrible violence against one another

[pankhearst]

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Edward Crawford, Ferguson protest hero in iconic photo, found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound

Edward Crawford, the man many considered a hero of the Ferguson Uprising after he was photographed throwing a tear gas canister away from protesters, was found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound Friday.

Pet the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Crawford, 27, was confirmed dead by his father and mother, who identified his body at a morgue on Friday. 

St. Louis police said Crawford had been complaining of distress to two women seated in the car, where he suddenly shot himself.

Crawford’s death came as a shock to his father, Edward Crawford Sr., who told the Post-Dispatch that he’d seen his son in good spirits two days before the shooting. “He was wonderful, great, always in a good mood,” the elder Crawford said. “He just got a new apartment and was training for a new job.” Read more (5/5/17)

[drunkvanity-deactivated20161113]

When I say the general term “girls” you best believe that AUTOMATICALLY includes trans girls.

[toadschooled]

The petulant frown of a plains spadefoot toad [Spea bombifrons] sitting on a road with no where to dig in Crowley County, Colorado. Image by Andrew DuBois

[mmmskulljuice]

[mediamattersforamerica]

Right-wing media have been pushing myths about ‘Obamacare death panels’ for years. This is what a death panel actually looks like.

[huntydraws]

Friends

[autspoon]

you know.. tbh? i take quite a bit of happiness from seeing disabled people starting to care for themselves… as in, just simple things, like rejecting the shame, acknowledging their needs, and recognising that sometimes you just simply need help..

and it’s just really nice for me to see hoh/deaf people finally going for sign language to get away from the oralism that was forced on them, or seeing physically disabled people starting to just recognise they need canes or wheelchairs, or seeing people get stim toys and just genuinely enjoying them..

and it kind of fills me with joy seeing people post photos of themselves, talking about just getting to be themselves… and just.. it makes me happy to see youth challenging the stigma and shame that has been pushed on disabled people.

it’s just so nice seeing people being able to be themselves and being able to recognise their struggles and needs openly.. and seeing people finally getting to find community.

[micdotcom]

Congress to rent Secret Service space at Trump Tower as part of security spending bill

Later this week, Congress is expected to approve a spending measure to provide $120 million to protect Trump and his family — that reportedly includes money for the Secret Service to rent space at Trump Tower.

According to the New York Times, an additional $23 million is earmarked for the costs of outfitting Trump Tower, the office and residential building owned by the president, with “the necessary equipment and personnel, as well as to rent space inside the building for agency personnel.”

The cash Congress is devoting to renting Secret Service space in Trump Tower also fans the flames of concern that Trump is profiting off the presidency. Read more (5/2/17)

[stimman3000]

[daniellebmcmanus-blog]

Ayyyyy

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I’ve been on the internet since 1998 starter pack

Reblog this if you are an old fogey online

Reblog this instead if you are a young whippersnapper

[in-sufficientdata]

Things this starter pack simply does not convey:

The unholy shrieking of the dial-up modem

The computer hanging up on the internet when someone called

How damn long everything took to load

Having multiple windows open in the task bar because there was no such thing as a tabbed browser

IRC bots 

The frantic search for the midi player when a  webpage started playing music

Putting videos on to download overnight

jpg compression on photos taken with the webcam

This: 

[lizardlicks]

How did you EVER have that much free space on your hard drive?

[note-a-bear]

This needs a trigger warning

[theoldestchorusgirlintheworld]

I think it’s really weird that the average person needs a home and a car and an education to effectively function at all in a capitalist society but those things are all such an exorbitantly high price that the average person would never ever be able to pay for them one lump sum and thus we decided that upon entering adulthood every average person would likely have to sign their life away to various powerful banks to pay for these things and everyone was just like “Ok, that seems legit and not fucked up AT ALL.” and now it’s such an accepted and normalized part of society that everyone looks at you like you’re dumb for thinking it’s weird. I just think it’s really fucking weird.

[cenkrett]

Did you mean: explicitly malevolent?

[leagueofderp]

*Violently presses button for ability that's on cooldown*

[daniellebmcmanus-blog]

Irl too

[landmerbabe-deactivated20190210]

i’ve been working 3+ years in a job during which i’ve seen hundreds of women’s bodies in a medical context

lemme tell you a thing

women are fucking hairy, ok? i’ve seen women covered with hair from their ankles to their armpits. women with super visible pubic hair that approaches their bellybuttons, regardless of race/ethnicity. we have hair absolutely everywhere and our public image as women is totally devoid of this reality. 

men really have no idea how hard women have to work to make ourselves hairless. it’s as unnatural for us as it is for them but this is something that doesn’t even cross their minds as they emerge from their caves looking like unwashed wookies not even aware of how much they’re just allowed to exist.

[blackstar]

once every few weeks i remember exactly how bad the narrator of fight club wanted tyler durden to raw him and wake up in a cold sweat haunted by the hordes of straight dudes who thought that this character was heterosexual

[blackstar]

straight dudes: boy, fight club sure does speak to our specific, heterosexual form of masculinity! what a classic!

fight club’s actual narrator: i am in love with a man

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Slammed In the Ass By The Alternate Personality I Created to Vent My Frustration With Consumer Culture and My Confused Sense of Masculinity by Chuck Tingle