[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I dislike dogs, I think they're annoying and I generally dislike their personalities unless they're a) working (in which case I shouldn't interfere with them) or b) basically cats (in which case, just get a cat, they're far more physically pleasant to touch). I'm not afraid of them and I don't hate or resent their existence, they're important animals, I just don't want them around me.

But if a dog comes over and wants pets or play then I WILL pretend I love it and I will pet it so much because it's not the dog's fault that I don't like them. It wouldn't understand my rejection and I don't want to make it sad. Just because it's an unpleasant animal doesn't mean it deserves to be sad.

[thewelllitweenie]

There seems to be a deeper philosophy one could derive from this but as it is its solid.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Behaving with basic compassion for other living things regardless of whether they fulfil your own emotional and aesthetic preferences. The world makes me happy but the amount of happiness I bring others isn't contingent on them making me happy first. It's not a serotonin transaction.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

... Transactional Serotonin would make an absolutely fucking baller band name.

[catchymemes]

[dani-m-art]

When the wifi goes out

[lordofseagulls]

Lil Nas X should not be allowed to be this funny

[catasters]

[oysters-aint-for-me]

BREAKING NEWS: Area Cat Found In New Sleeping Spot

[oysters-aint-for-me]

“We’ve never seen him there before,” says one of the cat’s human roommates. “We’re shocked. This is the biggest thing that’s happened here since he caught and promptly lost that mouse in the kitchen last December.”

[oysters-aint-for-me]

Media response has been immediate and enthusiastic, with continuous coverage including more than 50 photographs taken of the cat just since this morning, when he was first found in his new sleeping spot in the closet curled up in a hamper of old scarves that didn’t get brought out for winter.

[toastbutteregg]

[virgoprivilege]

comedy peaked when jim henson decided that the best way to show a character being blown up or jumping was to just throw the entire muppet around

[virgoprivilege]

whats better than this

[raychleadele]

@enthusispastic

[trillanelle]

[natalieironside]

Reblog if you're a Millennian and do not ever want to be taught anything unless you told it on the cell phone

[captain-snark]

reblog if this is the first time you’ve heard of this movie

[pervocracy]

[judgejudyofficial]

thank god Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton came together to make a PSA about the dangers of fake news

[steveyockey]

*sees a take* oh wow that is objectively bad

*sees my mutual agrees with that take* actually it’s uhhh it’s a complex issue. there’s room for— there’s nuance

[archived-themagicalmysticalboy]

Paul justifying anything John says

[ilan]

this person is talking about the fucking beatles on an already kind of shitty tumblr post. where am i.

[gamora-borealis]

I THOUGHT THIS WAS TALKING ABOUT THE BIBLE

[meme-loving-stuck]

[fanonical]

Not that it isn’t cool that non-binary people (especially non-binary people of colour) are starting to get roles in kids cartoons (props to Steven Universe Future and The Owl House), I do think that it’s time we started asking for more than just a character who is played by someone non-binary and who is referred to by they/them pronouns.

Whilst us LGBT adults who are already well on our way to figuring ourselves out might be delighted to see the representation, I’m not sure how strong the value is to young children who know diddly-squat about the trans community watching these shows before and after school, or if the majority of them would even notice the usage of they/them (or, at the very least, the significance of it)

I think first and foremost trans representation in children’s cartoons has to be for children, and accessible for children, so it’s about time we start having characters who are introduced as one gender, but then realise they are another, characters who change their name based on gender, characters whose presentation changes over the course of the show, etc — think Star vs. the Forces of Evil if they’d actually gone with Marco being transfeminine like the fandom so desperately begged for.

Children need to be told that yes, boys can be women, and girls can be men, and both can be neither if they so prefer; I honestly think that honestly even a cis (or non-specified) character being a trans analogue is more important to trans children working themselves out than characters being canonically referred to as “they/them” which, whilst cool, essentially mounts up to being a “non-binary” on a fandom wiki bio entry rather than tangibly being representation for transgender children

[tami-taylors-hair]

LIL NAS X COVER OF JOLENE. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. 

[graduatedpillowmonster]

[mithli-archive]

american leftists seem extremely focused on anti imperialism (good) but rarely- if at all- discuss decolonization in their own fucking country, despite acknowledging that it is a settler colonial state.

[mithli-archive]

im serious about this though. as an urban indian, i definitely cant speak on this as much as a rez indian could. but i know from talking to rez friends i have and from what the american indian movement has screamed for over the years that we need land we can grow on, we need clean water, we need to allow the wildlife that once lived in this land to live here again (meaning you need to listen to us before building those high speed rails you all get so hard over).

you cant drool over the zapatistas while ignoring people in your own country who have a similar goal

[mithli-archive]

silly me I never provided things to read on the topic of decolonization! I'd personally suggest the following as "beginner level" essential reading to understand decolonization:

Discourse on Colonialism (Aimé Césaire) - this is more a focus on colonization, but I feel it's a necessary read in my opinion as in order to understand decolonization I believe it's important to first understand colonization.

Wretched of the Earth (Franz Fanon)

Decolonization is Not a Metaphor (Tuck, Yang)

also an "easy to process" read, to understand landback specifically here in Turtle Island, I'd suggest reading The Red Deal (there is a pdf, I don't mean the article with the same title)

[marxism-transgenderism]

Discourse on Colonialism (PDF, ebook, mobi)

The Wretched of the Earth (PDF, ebook)

Decolonization is Not a Metaphor (PDF)

The Red Deal (PDFs of Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

[whitepeopletwitter]

[feefal]

From small acorn into a wisened, old oak🍂

[lordandgodoftheobvious]

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[@CJPME:

Today, Canada is boycotting a major UN conference against racism - whose theme is “Reparations, racial justice and equality for people of African descent ” - because a declaration 20 years ago lightly criticized Israel. This is a disgrace. #FightRacism #cdnpoli Show this thread

[First tweet by @mbueckert:

No joke: the Trudeau government is boycotting a UN conference focused on reparations for the slave trade and colonialism because Israel was barely mentioned in a statement about racism 20 years ago.

[Second tweet:

An Israeli diplomat boasting that the “civilised” world (parts of Europe + US/Can) is boycotting a conference on reparations for slavery & colonialism really puts the racism out into the open.

[Image of a tweet by @EmmanuelNahshon.] [Image of @EmmanuelNahshon’s profile page to show his credentials.]

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