sweet guardian angel of the beat

micah, 22, he/him

[theworldspins]

Kathy Acker

[dankmunchkin]

ur in their dms asking for nudes, theyre in my dms asking if we can be frog and toad together for halloween, we are not the same

[clankrnernes]

[argumate]

literally a quote from Marcus Aurelius

[hogcalling]

HAD to go and dig for the quote. “sex is the friction of a piece of gut and, following a sort of convulsion, the expulsion of some mucus.” marcus was just being reductive, but purrp takes his analysis one step further: he correctly identifies that sex is stupid

[argumate]

how can civilisation be in decline when social media abounds with philosophers greater than Marcus Aurelius

[birlinterrupted]

Joe Biden’s suggestion that police that terrorize black communities should shoot at limbs of unarmed people (rather than shooting to kill them) is basically arguing for the U.S. to (more closely) adopt the tactics that the IDF uses on Palestinian protestors and people are still trying to depict this as an party line issue (rather than one at the core of the U.S.’s existence)

[unbossed-deactivated20251218]

Police cannot maintain their dominance without the illusion of invincibility. They pray every day that you don't realize how thin that "thin blue line" actually is.

I'll bet tear gas manufacturers aren't "essential workers." Yet.

[zemestoun]

שיר השירים

[dankmunchkin]

muscle takes: the serratus anterior (“superhero muscle”) is the clear winner for hottest and best muscle, the triceps is a much sexier muscle than the biceps, and the sartorius (“seatbelt” or “honeymoon muscle”) receives a dual award for being both the coolest muscle and the most DTF

[0meadow-deactivated20200602]

When you think about it, the Grimes child’s gender is literally an attack helicopter

[dankmunchkin]

up late thinking about how : i and my friend were raised in the same pentecostal cult and are now both trans, our sets of parents who were previously extremely close dont talk to each other anymore due to cult drama, we’re both out and on HRT but neither of us are really on speaking terms with our parents, and neither of our two sets of parents knows yet that the others’ kid is trans. lawless situation with no fucking rules like what advice column do i write to

[femcassidy]

basically if youre in the place to educate yourself on these topics and you arent

a prison abolitionist,

a harm reductionist,

for decriminilization,

and giving the land back

i really do not think your assertions of “ACAB” or “be gay do crimes” or “revolution” hold much weight

[femcassidy]

this is getting a lot of questions that could be solved with a google search into any of these topics, so i just want to respond with my own that isn’t: if you advocate for abolishing the police force but don’t support prison abolition for [x] reason—what happens to prisons in a post-police society?

[femcassidy]

you might come up with several answers here.

shit, i don’t know. we need prisons as prisons are to A) withhold certain people from harming their communities, B) punish certain people, C) kill certain people.

uh, i guess i can kind of answer this. the criminal justice system still exists. why don’t we just leave those people in charge? they’re not cops! and we should definitely let people who have committed non-violent offenses go. drug charges are stupid.

ok, i feel a little more confident answering this. we need to change the prison model for the better and follow the example of countries with restorative justice practices. incarcerated people need better access to healthcare and education, as well as access to opportunifies post-prison so that they are less likely to face reincarceration.

wait. if we’re abolishing the police for upholding white supremacy and terrorizing marginalized communities, we need to abolish a lot of shit. restorative justice sounds cool, i agree with that guy above. but shouldn’t these efforts be run by the communities affected? wasn’t the problem a white supremacist state? wasn’t the goal community terrorism? wasn’t the power taken out of our hands, especially the hands of people being systematically criminalized? i think i have things to read about.

anyway, whatever your conclusion: here are some things to read about.

darkness matters: on the surveillance of blackness by simone brown

are prisons obsolete? by angela davis

the law is a white dog by colin dayan

gendering the carceral state: african american women, history, and the criminal justice system by kali n gross and cheryl d hicks

“indigenous space and decolonizing prison abolition” from the final straw radio podcast (this is an episode of a podcast featuring ni frontiers ni prison, an indigenous prison abolitionist group)

migra! a history of the us border control by kelly lyle hernandez

disability incarcerated by liat ben-moshe and allison c carey

queer (in)justice by joey l mogul, andrea j ritchie, and kay whitlock

crazy in america: the hidden tragedy of our criminalized mentally ill by mary beth pfeiffer

inventing the savage: the social construction of native american criminality by luana ross

criminal justice facts posted by the sentencing project

is prison necessary? an article featuring ruth wilson gilmore & explaining prison abolition to children who were very good at asking “but what about [x]?” questions

and here’s an FAQ about prison abolition by people against prisons aotearoa

and then another collection of links by the marshall project.

if you have trouble getting ahold of any reading materials i can usually find you a pdf if you DM me. if you need epub i can’t guarantee i can get one for you, but i can try.

[godlessondheimite]

neil gaiman and amanda palmer are like a couple that the baudelaires were supposed to live with but it would have upped the rating of the books to a disturbing R so they were changed to the Squalors instead

[erinkyan]

it would be cool if fat dudes without big beards were considered hot sometimes too.

[erinkyan]

I realized today that the main reason for the “hot fat dude must also include beard” thing is part of the whole “fat people are required to perform a higher and more perfect expression of gender”.

like usually this sort of thing is more easily identifiable in fat women, who have to be hyper feminine to be considered “attractive” by the mainstream.  but I sort of blinked today and realized, oh.  fat men must have beards to be attractive for the same reason fat men must wear suits and look dapper to be attractive, just like fat women have to have perfect eyeliner and wear cute pinup clothing.  higher, more intense expression of gender, executed perfectly and without flaw is required for fat people to be seen as attractive.

[dankmunchkin]

super super super grateful that theres presently zero risk that i would possibly get pregnant at this time

[unioncarbidesuperfan66]

anyway i said i would do this after the whole thing was said and done… when i was looking for advice i found like “paint your nails and listen to happy music” buzzfeed bullshit so

here is my short real life abortion and early pregnancy survival guide (pastebin)

other links:

How to Get A Safe Abortion, No Matter How Far Along You Are or How Much Money You Have

Check here to see if medicaid will cover your costs

Financial aid for abortions

prochoice.org has a list for each state of NAF funded clinics and free hotlines for information.

WomenOnWeb.org and WomenOnWaves.org will ship you an abortion pill if it is illegal to get an abortion in your country.

[cricketcat9]

For anyone who may need this

[friendraichu]

the og social distancing king

[kadywicker]

[jod13whittaker]

Shout-out to the month of April for lasting 3 days to make up for March lasting a full and frothy 74