my cat eats strawberry leaves

hewwo! my name is dyvyn

[slutdge]

"make an account to-"

[soycrates]

Gentrification creates a stifling homogeneity in urban areas that makes it less suited for the everyday lives of the lower class and more suited towards the leisure and tourism of those with expendable income.

An old, decrepit laundromat gets replaced by an upscale bakery? And people are mad? It’s not that the poor hate organic vegan cupcakes, it’s that most of us don’t have a way to do laundry in our own home.

Run-down corner stores replaced by hand-made designer clothing boutiques? We don’t hate your eco-fabric shawl, but I can’t eat that for dinner after work like I could have a can of beans I grabbed from that corner store when I don’t have time to take the bus to the real grocery store after work.

What gentrification brings in and of itself is not typically bad, it’s that gentrification brings institutions of leisure and pleasure and makes it so that the poor have to go farther out of their way for basic necessities. It turns low-income living spaces into local tourist attractions. It can even create food deserts by putting restaurants, grocery stores, etc. in that the majority of the lower class cannot afford.

Imagine if someone totally renovated your house and turned it into a mini theme park - they took away your sleeping space, where you prepare food, where you clean yourself and get ready for your day, and replaced it with things that will please people who are visiting, who have their own homes they can go back to, who are here not for their entire life but just as a distraction from their otherwise mundane existence. It’s not that you hate theme parks, it’s not like you’ve never been to a theme park and vow to never visit one again. It’s just that you need to live! To survive! And the leisure of those who have more than you should not invalidate your existence.

[soycrates]

I am glad this has made the rounds. Some people feel a dense misunderstanding or misinterpretation concerning gentrification, and I think it helps to hear a description/explanation of what gentrification is from those who are both affected by it and educated by the culture from which it hails. I and many others enjoy some of the delights of gentrification while simultaneously having their livelihoods threatened by it. 

[smoothjazzdigit]

Have you guys seen that clip

Go off Kermit

[juliathefacesofevil]

we're just normal men

[oddjoblin]

Why the heck is this dude trying to confirm if the frog puppet is hetrosexual???

[karnalesbian]

assessing the situation before he shoots his shot

[defilerwyrm]

Happy Pride to Kermit the Frog, questioning king

[probuccalfat]

these women did wonders for the “i’m single and i like it that way” community… i’m having a sexy ass life!

[unfuckablebogtroll]

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

[dotty-literati]

Alright, time to bust out this outfit for the summer.

[babyanimalgifs]

Little fish eats his foods 

(Source)

[bunigojade]

[aflo]

this is so sad he doesn’t even know there’s a double barreled shotgun pointed at him

[identifying-fish-in-posts]

Pacific spiny lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis)

[gummi-stims]

🩷🧡🤍Lesbian flag challah bread from lav.bakes on tiktok!🤍🧡🩷

[my-dailydreams]

[natalieironside]

Shout out to trans women who aren’t computer scientists or musicians or avant-garde artists or whatever.

Shout-out to tgirls who work at Taco Bell. Thank u queen, society would collapse without you

[snkrfnd]

Over twenty years ago my big brother got me a job at a Taco Bell in the St. Louis suburbs-West County. He warned me that it was the “gay Taco Bell”, but since I was coming from the “gay Howard Johnson’s” I wasn’t shocked. It turns out it was the black trans women Taco Bell complete with black trans women in management. And they’d worked out an arrangement with the local teen Narcotics Anonymous group so that twice a week we would shut down the drive thru and the dining room and exclusively serve 60+ teens in various stages of recovery. And many of the women I worked with were in various stages of being out or transitioning and they were from all generations from teens to over 50. One woman I worked with had a regular corporate job presenting as a man 9-5 Mon-Fri and then came to Taco Bell and worked 6pm -2am Friday and Saturday night so she could be herself surrounded by other black transwomen in those stolen weekends. And we had customers come from all over the metro area because they knew they could be themselves in the dining room. I only worked there from 1999-2001 but for young me, this was a vital, formative experience. Some of the girls came from north city all the way out to the “gay Taco Bell” on Manchester in west county because they heard it was safe to work there. Like- I know times have changed but they haven’t changed much in 20 years. I’m still convinced that for lgbt youth, finding a job at your city’s version of the “gay Taco Bell” is key to survival.

[natalieironside]

Thank u for sharing this with us

[lleyksie]

brown bears ʕ⁠·⁠ᴥ⁠·⁠ʔ

[athanza]

From Veronica Tucker via Pinterest

[drpepperwhoree]

remember that pride is still a protest

[skipppppy]

So can non-disabled people stop doing that thing where they act like it’s morally righteous to force yourself to work while you’re sick and assume taking sick days automatically equates to laziness. Any time now. That’d be great

[skipppppy]

The leader of the scout group I help out at approached me out of hours while I was walking to work to tell me that people have been talking behind my back because I missed more sessions than I attended this term (on account of having Covid twice) and was like “We all show up when we’re sick because we take responsibility” and I felt really shitty and guilty and cried the whole workday then I got home and told my mum and she was like “So they want you to throw up on the kids? That’s dodgy. They don’t even pay you. Stop going” and a wave of serenity hit me like a bus

[distinguishedenthusiastcatt]

In Pride month, I think it's important to remind you of this iconic dialogue. You don't have to talk about who you are if you don't want to❤️

[ms-demeanor]

What is your current least favorite part of the human body? Mine is sinuses. Fuck 'em.

[cipheramnesia]

the whole nasal region can go fuck itself

[nudityandnerdery]

From the media that brought you "Millennials are killing [insert industry here]" articles for years and years and years, now we have....

"Hey, Gen Z, we're gonna relabel vacations into something else now and tell you how you really should be wary of taking vacation because it might impact your financial future."

This is a goddamn dystopia, we know this, right?

[rabid-transcendentalist]

[melbournetrains]

hot take: public transport shouldn't be free

[melbournetrains]

it's not about paying for pt. i think pt should be accessible to anyone and everyone.

however we need a way to track patronage. free pt doesn't give us any insight into how people are using the service, because nobody touches on

queensland's 50c fares are great because it's next to nothing for most people and it still incentivises people to touch on, thus logging the trip and providing valuable insight into our network's characteristics for organisers

it's not whether pt should be self sufficient or whatever (it shouldn't), it's a public service and it should match the needs of the public. it's just one of the best ways to find out what those needs are is to have people pay just enough to make it worth touching on

[melbournetrains]

who says there would be AOs and fines 💀

but also! ridership is not the same as patronage. we still need a way to figure out where people are actually going, and how they're going there, not just how many people are using the system.

also worth noting the distinction between PSOs and AOs. PSOs are from victoria police and aren't there to check your ticket. they still harass minorities (raises hand) but they can't detain you for fare evading. AOs are from the operator and it's their job to harass people into paying fines. they're particularly evil because they're not actually cops and get compensation out of your fine. both are evil, but one is more evil than the other. AOs also probably wouldn't exist in an affordable pt system!

[melbournetrains]

peer reviewed, this is good

[rabbitindisguise]

What if someone has 0 money though? You can have tap cards without requiring payment. I mean people do that with libraries all the time- you have a card and it allows you to access a service that can be tracked. Deeply confused why paying is absolutely essential to tracking people when you can just fine people that amount for not tapping instead (like mandatory voting laws).

Or hell do the cart thing where you need to have a coin to make sure they bring back the cart and put it away. They pay that amount but it gets refunded when they tap off so they never lose money once they put that small amount on the card to start with.