Iris

[anarchopuppy]

Solidarity with children is often neglected or even made a joke of, so I wanna take a second and tell y'all what I wish I could go back in time and tell myself:

You're right. School is bullshit, homework is bullshit, waking up early is bullshit, going to bed early is bullshit. Some adults are just pointlessly cruel, even those in positions of authority over you. Sometimes adults are wrong, and, in fact, sometimes you are right

You were born with an innate sense of justice and fairness and adults have spent your entire life trying to beat it out of you so you'll shut up and do what you're told in an unjust and unfair society. Don't let them. Many of us have to take effort to relearn the wisdom you have right now, the ability to tell when something is bullshit even if you can't articulate why yet

You deserve happiness, fulfillment, and liberation just as much as any adult. Those first 18 years are just as important as any other time in your life, and it's time you'll never get back. Don't let anyone take them from you just because you're too young to fight back

Question everything, and never take "that's just the way it is" as an answer. Sometimes when things don't make sense to you it's because they just don't make any goddamn sense

Pick your battles, and be strategic. Don't take this post as permission to go starting fights for no reason. But remember that you have worth, and our society tends to not respect that. And you're right: that is bullshit

(also, read Anarchy Works)

[redshoesnblueskies]

also also, read The Teenage Liberation Handbook

[anarchopuppy]

Haven’t read it myself, but if it interests you then you can read it here for free in case paying for a book online and having it shipped to your house isn’t an option for you

[anarchoecology]

Also check out No! Against Adult Supremacy

[toseeafish]

for prior broken links here are other online places where i found them:

Anarchy Works

The Teenage Liberation Handbook

[quasi-normalcy]

It's even worse when you learn that one of the writers has a transgender son.

[quasi-normalcy]

Just Marlon Wayans bullying his son in public by presenting a hate crime as funny; this is the state of American comedy.

[quasi-normalcy]

Lol, yeah, "supporting"

[plaguedocboi]

I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.

[bogleech]

I always felt I couldn't possibly be upset about dying to an alien monster because proof of otherwordly life is exactly what it'd take for me to die happy

[longliveustherecklessandthebrave]

As a kid, I always sympathized with the monsters and felt terrible when they had to fight them. I never wanted the monster to die and always thought if they just talked to the monster in a way they understood they wouldn’t be fighting anymore, so I totally get where you’re coming from

[aralintheobsessive]

if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars.

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing!

[severmyneck]

grow native plants

its literally the only solution that matters

if you're growing butterfly bush (buddleja) in the pacific northwest fuck you. it's highly invasive here. rip it out now and replace it with native stuff.

i dont really know what hypothetical plants are butterfly heavy but would "poison" caterpillars? like maybe theyre incompatible and the adults just wouldnt lay their eggs on it for food because they don't recognize it. because its not a native plant. doesn't really matter though because if they cant use it for food they will starve which is effectively the same end result, death and less bugs.

[noneedtofearorhope]

im guessing they dont mean planting things to poison the cats, but spraying them with insecticides or something, viewing them as 'pests'

[mycotoxin]

Also, since it is very very hot rn (at least here in florida), IMPORTANT NOTICE

STAY HYDRATED HOWEVER WORJS BEST FOR YOU. I don’t care if it’s water, juice, tea. As long as you’re drinking something.

Water is not the only valid way of hydrating yourself, and it’s also NOT the most hydrating.

[sendme-2hell]

It’s always “phones are ruining our brains” and never “the virus known for post-viral cognitive decline, which causes short term memory loss, brain fog, and decreased spatial reasoning, that we let run rampant through our communities for years is ruining our brains”

[covid-safer-hotties]

Anti-homeless rhetoric & ableism

The Ugly Laws are still with us today.

Not mentioned in the article (which is kind of a weird oversight for Rebecca, honestly) is how masking rolls into the idea that the ugly laws are back.

[crimethinc]

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Helmets

https://cwc.im/helmets

This guide explores a wide range of protective headgear, detailing the advantages and disadvantages of each for different situations so you can pick out what's best for you.

The life you save could be your own.

[halfwar-halfpeace]

[neurotypicalabusesurvivor]

This is a friendly reminder that none disabled people often do benefit from the same accommodations disabled people benefit from.

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay I'll reblog that!!

[multishipperpirateking]

My dad used to work for Vodafone and likes to tell a story about when he was working on a voicemail transcription service.

And there was a woman there who was some form of disability advocate (it was the 90s so her existence in the company was a minor miracle) and apparently she completely blew his mind on that project.

See, he'd imagined that this service was exclusively gonna be for deaf people. Obviously very useful for the very small number of people who couldn't hear their phone, but why would you even own a mobile phone if you couldn't hear?

But she described to him all the times he might want to read a message instead of listen to it. Maybe he was in a loud football crowd. Maybe there was important info that he needed to copy down that was spoken too fast. Maybe he was holding his sleeping newborn (me) and didn't want his phone to be loud and wake them up.

This doesn't feel as revolutionary as all that to those of us that have only ever known phones with the ability 'send text message', but given the timing and placement of this conversation I wonder if this woman and this project is *part of the reason text messaging exists*. The first text (SMS) message was sent by Vodafone UK in 1992 - where + when this conversation was happening - and then for a long time it was supported exclusively for 'messages from the carrier', and this project was an early potential extra use of the SMS protocol.

So Yeh, building for disability is kinda handy..

[the-fallen-blue]

can you imagine how often you would use sign language if everyone knew it

[calameowri-deactivated20251204]

see the problem with saying "addicts could ruin your bathroom" as a defense for paid bathrooms is that

1 paying customers can also do that. they do.

2 employees can also do that. they do

3 addicts are human beings also and are not some unique unrestrained evil

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

Dude I went to college and there was graffiti on the bathroom walls and we were absolutely paying obscene amounts of money to use those bathrooms. Money is not going to stop someone from vandalism, and in fact it might make them feel more entitled to it.

[collapsedsquid]

The cost to connect each of the U.S. military’s Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS) one-way attack drones to space-based networks has risen from $5,000 to $25,000 a month, according to a new report. This is said to be the result of a switch from using the commercial Starlink network to its more secure government-focused cousin Starshield, which SpaceX demanded after extensive use of LUCAS drones in the latest conflict with Iran. [...]

“Within weeks of the United States launching its bombing campaign, SpaceX executives met Pentagon officials and argued ​the military had been paying about $5,000 for connection per terminal while effectively using a higher tier of service worth closer to $25,000,” according to Reuters. “SpaceX argued the ⁠LUCAS drones were operating under conditions that aligned more closely with its aviation tier subscription rather than a lower priced land or mobility service. Pentagon officials argued that the $25,000 price tag – a monthly fee – was designed for aircraft, not kamikaze drones that used Starlink connection for a matter of minutes ​or hours.” “The Pentagon, which was ramping up strikes on Iran, ultimately agreed to pay SpaceX’s proposed price increase,” Reuters‘ report added.

Low-cost drones

[covid-safer-hotties]

[crabussy]

hi trans kiwis and friends. if you haven't seen the news, they're trying to pass a frankly insidious bill in aotearoa to define the terms 'man' and 'woman' based on biological sex. this unsurprisingly reflects a lot of similar cruel efforts happening overseas at the moment. IT HASN'T PASSED YET, but I figured I should speak up about it because this is happening as we speak.

(screenshot from the linked RNZ article)

it seems very fucking bleak!!!! please don't lose hope! it hasn't passed yet and a lot of the shoddy bills suggested by the coalition have been shot down already. it's still worth knowing about. you don't have to share this post if you don't want to. I just know that a lot of my followers are kiwi. if there are any updates as to what we can do to push back against this, I'll make a relevant addition. kia kaha, okay? love you all.

[crabussy]

UPDATE: you can now very quickly and very easily submit a comment on the bill! these will be counted and considered in parliament.

it took me less than three minutes, and that's only because I wrote a whole paragraphs on why this is a stupid idea. all you really need to put is "don't pass this bill" if you want. it'll only take 30 seconds.

if you're able to and you want to, please consider reblogging! the more reach this gets, the better. thank you all so much [:

[oletwotoessal]

If you want some examples of things you can say to support your submission, a number of Senators in australia made some really great comments when a similar Bill was put forward in Australia proposed to amend the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 "remove references to 'gender identity' and insert definitions of 'man' and 'woman'" (gross).

in australia, a bill must pass through three readings before it can be made law. The first reading is usually a formality, to introduce the bill in its entirety. The second reading is where objections are typically raised, amendments proposed and debated, all the fuss and drama. The third reading is where the bill + any agreed upon amendments is voted on and, if passed, goes through the remaining formalities to become official.

a bill doesn't typically get rejected at the first reading (which, as i said is usually a formality). after one of the opposition senators who was introducing the bill gave his little speech to basically that effect ("boohoo you gotta listen to my Hate Speech and Discrimination Bill 2025, its only fair i let YOU talk about your People Deserve Nice Things and Basic Decency Bill 2025"), a couple of senators from our more left-wing parties gave these remarks

the bill did Not get its first reading, and that was that.

might be helpful to point to some of the points raised in the statements above, or even reference the Sex Discrimination Amendment (Restoring Biological Definitions) Bill 2025 being shut down in australia, as an example of the proper way to handle such blatant punching down at vulnerable individuals

[baltears]

drag queen and environmental activist pattie gonia is being sued by clothing company patagonia for "trademark infringement" over using a name that predates both of them by 500 years.

[joycomplexx]

by the way it's fine to like sexual content just for the sake of it. "we can't ban porn because other stuff will get banned" "sometimes nude art has value" "the government will classify queer people as sexual" this is all true but it's okay to just like porn. its okay to not want porn to be banned because you like it.

[avalonjoan]

This is like the “people use birth control medications to treat lots of other health conditions so it’s important we protect their access to it” argument. It’s actually okay for people to take a medication solely for the purpose of having sex without getting pregnant, and access should be protected even on that basis alone.

[slimegargoyle]

in the beginning, the trump assassination attempts were spaced by twenty four weeks. then twelve, then six, then every two weeks. the last one, at the white house, was a week. in four days we could be seeing a trump assassination attempt every eight hours until they are coming every four minutes. we should witness a double event within seven days,

[rosa-de-bayahibe]

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[earhartsease]

put that fool-of-a-president in a helicopter it's time for a water birth

[consistantly-changing]

[Image descriptions in order: two screenshots of tags which say #america is having contractions]

[#i know that the world must labor painfully before it births itself anew but can we please get a fuckin epidural or something]