Mak

Howdy! Writer, student, deconstructing Christian. Contact me for commissions. Most of the stuff I post is spontaneous. thanks for being here :)

[theconcealedweapon]

Let me get this straight. It bothers you when a group of people hog all of the housing and make it expensive? And you want the government to do something about it?

Then say that you hate landlords. Then say that you want the government to crack down on corporate landlords or people who own multiple homes.

Name a problem and blame the actual people causing it? You're a woke special snowflake who believes in big government and can't handle living in a free society. Name the same problem and blame a convenient scapegoat with much less power? You're a freedom loving patriot.

[fatrainbowcat]

Quick PSA cause I keep seeing it in fics and it trips my brain every time: Prosthetic is an adjective. The noun for what Jack Abbot has attached to his leg instead of his foot is a prosthesis.

Saying ‘he removed his prosthetic and laid down’ is the same as saying ‘he removed his red and laid down’. See how it’s missing a word? You either say prosthetic leg or you say prosthesis on its own 👍🏻

[daysanddangerousbits]

If you're in Maine or Philly or wherever the fuck Vance claimed DHS is going next, I BEG you to look at the rapid response and mutual aid networks and how they've been built in Portland, Chicago, and the Twin Cities, and start building your own version NOW.

Download signal if you haven't already. Pick a resistance pseudonym. Make a proton email that has no indicators to your real name. Start buying and printing whistles and whistle zines.

Organize your school patrols and foot patrols NOW. Talk to your community and your mercados and your Hmong and Somali grocery stores, ask them what support they need. Get "ICE are not welcome here" signage for businesses and homes. Familiarize yourself with the difference between an administrative warrant and a judicial warrant.

Learn how to take down a SALUTE report. PRACTICE salute reports. Learn, memorize, and embody radio etiquette for rapid response work.

Pick your lane: rapid response or mutual aid-- you can't do both, because rapid response often puts you in direct contact with ICE. They've been taking down plate numbers and leading responders back to their own homes here in the Twin Cities.

Remember that being under siege is a marathon, not a race. Try to remember that while your neighbors are being kidnapped in their underwear, from their own homes.

Meet your neighbors. Attend your city council meetings and demand separation ordinances NOW. Tell your congress people and representatives not to give ICE more money.

Prepare yourself to see high school children being stopped and harassed. 5 year olds being used as bait for their mothers. Old men being dragged out of their houses in underwear and Crocs simply because all of them are not white.

Be flexible, be ready to pivot on a dime as situations change. Be ready to be paranoid. Be ready to be distrusting of every Texas, New York, California, or Illinois license plate. Be ready to be suspicious of EVERY out of state license plate. Dark sedans and SUVs with extremely illegally tinted windows. Unreadable or missing plates.

No one will save you, save us, or save our neighbors but ourselves. No one is coming to help or protect us but us.

[daysanddangerousbits]

Signal for Beginners

MN Community Response Resources

ICE Are Not Welcome Here sign

Private Property Sign

Know Your Rights Sign

Judicial Warrant vs Administrative Warrant

SALUTE Report Graphic Rapid Response Patrol Handbook

Legal Observer Basics MSP Whistle Hub

Whistle 3D printing File

Talking to children about ICE actions

OG Whistle Zine in ENGLIGH || SPANISH

MSP whistles which also have zines in Somali, Amharic, Oromo and Mandrin

Hmong Whistle Zine

Karen Whistle Zine

[kawaiiabetic]

Hey, Angeleno here to add: look for or start mutual aid groups that buy out your vendors, jardineros, tradespeople, helping support the most vulnerable members of your community from making the choice to stay home and safe or provide for family. We’re still doing this here and it helps.

“ICE NOT WELCOME” signs are great for solidarity and breaking morale, but please make and help pass out signs stating a home or business is private property. Make sure your business has an area explicitly for employees only. What we’ve seen in the last week makes all this seem like sticking a post-it on a viper and none of us know where we’re headed now, but it’s easy to do and could make a difference. It’s made a difference here.

Stay safe and take care of each other 🫡

[tethered-heartstrings]

"stress" by yoan capote - made of bronze and concrete

[tethered-heartstrings]

[solarifle]

"we have to accept the fact that the r word is coming back" NO WE DONTTTT NO WE DONT

[puppy-mommy]

handing out flyers to transmascs about estradiol cream (can be used to keep your pussy wet and healthy but without triggering periods or having any feminizing effects) and transfemmes about Cialis (works even post-orchi)

[puppy-mommy]

and then telling both to start prep too

[houndmother]

new blog same sexual health advocate. since making this post i’ve switched from cialis to topical testosterone cream though.

[assignedmale]

[beardedmrbean]

[animentality]

[ponyoisms]

one hyperfixated tumblr mutual has the power of six hundred thousand ad campaigns

[shadeslayer]

look just gonna be really ndn about it for a moment but no one can claim to know the internal experience of animals. no one can claim to know the internal experience of plants. no one can claim to know the internal experience of the earth. theres a part of my heart that is always the girl telling my philosophy professor that we cant know the flower turning towards the sun is "purely instinct." and if u disagree then thats fine idc its just My Soulful Opinion in afraid

[shadeslayer]

its frustrating doubly to talk abt on here bc not only is everyone gonna laugh me out of the room like they did when i tried to bring up animism in my white philosophy classes but also like. i know people are gonna get mad like "oh so animals can have morals?" etc of like. look i Knowww and i agree that the anthropomorphism of animals by people is harmful absolutely! but this colonial empirical stance of that nothing feels emotion or has desires in this world except for human beings is so sick to me. what a terrible rotten world to live in where plants dont love the sun and love the shade and love the rain. "they dont have the brain synapses firing to-" 1) thats not all that emotion is oh my lord 2) constantly they are coming out with more science that proves that plants communicate with each other in Scientifically Proven ways. your need to have the world fit an aristotelian victorian bullshit diagnostic criteria is sick

[phinarei]

Yes! I'm Yurok so I always kind of feel like I'm going to get side eyed by people when I talk about this.

Look, I don't know if I believe in souls at all, but I do know that my dog gets embarrassed. My cats get jealous. The wasps in the back yard trust me.

I posted a comment about how plants have SOME kind of intelligence and listed some of the recent research. Someone came and replied that it isn't intelligence, it's chemical or electric signals. He said we need to "be more discerning about what we call intelligence." I have never read such white ass colonizer bullshit in my life.

What the ACTUAL fuck do people think human intelligence is? It is fucking chemical and electrical signals in the god damned brain. Animals' brains are made of the same exact stuff working with the exact same chemicals ours are. Why would those chemicals work differently in an animal brain?

And if it was all just chemicals, then those chemicals would always trigger the same response. Plants are capable of choosing to ignore those signals. Being capable of making a choice is SOME kind of intelligence and I doubt how much someone has if they deny it.

No, I don't think they experience the world in the same way I do. Our perception of reality is based on our brain interpreting signals. That is unique to every single living thing on earth so even other people are experiencing it differently. But they ARE experiencing the world in a meaningful way. And the fact that a lot of people don't think they do is very much a sickness.

And anthropomorphising animals really is dangerous, but that's not what I'm getting at. I'm not saying that they're basically people. I'm saying they have just as much of an inner life as we do. And that assuming that all that looks like is unthinking instincts is one of the most damaging things white Christians brought over with them.

[brightlotusmoon]

Telekinetic with ADHD surrounded by a debris halo of assorted small objects they've levitated around their head in order to have handy, but have since stopped seeing.

[dragonflea]

ADHD w interdimensional powers keeps putting stuff in pocket dimensions only to forget its existence five seconds later

[brightlotusmoon]

That's it that's me. I'm gonna write a story about that, yes, that's brilliant.

[lathea]

Are you gonna forget about it in 5 seconds?

[brightlotusmoon]

No, of course not, I could never-

What were we talking about? I saw a kitty.

[stevishabitat]

@foone spotted...

[foone]

That punk is everywhere

[lucidlymelanated]

Your 30s aren't too late. Don't let nobody tell you that stupid shit.

[aetherograph]

Your 40s aren't too late. Don't let nobody tell you that stupid shit.

[loisfreakinglane]

#as long as you're alive it's literally never too late

[felowtravler]

tw; christianity (church of christ), swearing

this is so random but we saw your post about being from the church of christ at some point

and all we wanted to say was holy fuck we understand and hope you're doing good, as someone whos still trying to escape this shit i am so so happy to see that leaving isnt some sort of instant death curse

sorry if this was uncomfortable for you or anything, just so encouraging to see others having an experience in that cult and surviving as i have genuine fear of getting out

thank you for making it through and whether you thought it would happen or not you have made us significantly more confident we can escape and live a full life without the church

/gen

-random 14 year old tumblr user

Hey, thanks for the ask, anon. Y'all've got this. My experience was pretty mild, all things considered, but I know there are extreme congregations and households. I'm sorry y'all are stuck there for now. But y'all can make it! The waiting can feel agonizing, but y'all're so close. Whatever happens, I promise freedom from harmful religious spaces like the CoC offers the security of love and gentleness, not fear and hatred like we're preached to expect. The world is beautiful and full of wonderful beautiful people.

And no, leaving isn't an instant death curse :) Thankfully many people in my family have made it out, and we're all alive and well. We live at various points of faith and religious associations, but none of us were struck down by God or our churches in our leaving.

If y'all have faith, I'm praying for the escape --- both for the courage and the opportunity. If y'all don't have an active faith, I'm cheering for y'all, here and in general. Y'all are strong enough to make it. Life is so wonderfully worth living on the other side, I promise.

[dirthymns]

the thing folks living in Christian dominant cultures gotta realize is that even if you’re not Christian, your basic understanding of religion and spirituality and morality is still being filtered through a Christian lens. your very concept of what religion is and does is filtered through that lens.

[evilwickedme]

This is what I call cultural Christianity, for those who are still confused

[hissorikos-menagerie]

“But everyone celebrates christmas.” No. No we don’t.

[queertillyarchive]

“Religion is based on complete blind submission and not asking any questions ever”

No. That’s Christianity.

“Religion is totally focused on the afterlife and getting into heaven and avoiding hell”

Nope. Christianity again.

“Religion is about pushing your beliefs on others and trying to get them to convert”

Still Christianity.

[bai-xue-lives]

Actually that’s even more specific - that’s Calvinism, which predominates in America. America isn’t just culturally Christian,it’s culturally Calvinist, which very specifically focuses on submission, the fear of damnation, and conversion. It’s also not just any old Calvinism, but a very rigidly puritanical variety thanks to our roots.

There are other culturally Christian countries, which are of other denominations and therefore have a slightly different bent. England is culturally Anglican, Germany is culturally Lutheran, Italy and Spain are culturally Catholic, Russia is culturally Orthodox, etc. However, even the cultural Catholicism of Italy is different from, say, the cultural Catholicism of Ireland.

So even here, we need to be careful not to filter other cultures’ Christianities through what is a very Americanized (via @queertilly) Christianity, and vice versa with other countries. Speaking as an American, even our concept of what Christianity is has been Americanised.

[damnfool-of-a-took]

^^^ that

[askadventuresoftheflies]

Question: what if you’re Jewish in America and don’t see religion through any of the lenses you’ve mentioned? Are there other false beliefs one can get through the dominant culture here?

[beeceit-deactivatingsoon-deacti]

Oh, definitely. I can’t think of any off the top of my head, though

[sublimepaperfury]

Picture a wedding. Any wedding even in a fantasy context. Let me guess, you’re picturing a woman in a veil and a white gown, some guy in robes officiating, and it’s probably taking place in a church-like building, right? Christian culture is pervasive like that.

[hugaddicted]

I once gave a lecture about “rituals”, and I asked the people who were attending how a marriage looks like in their culture. An adult woman answered “the bride always wears a white dress”. So I asked her which culture she was talking about. She kept insisting that that was the case in every culture, “even with atheists like me”, and that it wasn’t culturally Christian. Luckily there were several Muslims in the group that told her that that’s often not the case at Muslim weddings.

[terulakimban]

Other examples of “things we internalize” -I’m going to stick with religious ones: 

What’s today’s date? The Gregorian calendar is fundamentally Christian; it was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII as a reform to the previously-used Julian calendar (itself only in use today in Christian contexts). 

What does someone mean when they say “The Bible”? 

If you have the phrase “Old Testament” in there at all, congrats, that’s cultural Christianity in play. That phrase isn’t one that makes sense to us, given that we don’t believe there is a New Testament -the OT is also, historically, not the Tanach. 

When is New Year’s? 

The classical Jewish response to that would be “which one” -we’ve got four of our own. Other cultural new years take place around the year.

What does a religious service look like? 

What do people look like when they’re praying on their own? 

If your mental image here is someone kneeling, hands together… Christianity again. 

Do you find the concept of being culturally a member of a religion you don’t, as far as you can tell, practice or believe in, weird?

Yeah, that’s Christianity again -specifically because of its ubiquity. “Oh, I’m not Christian; I just do big family dinners on Christmas and Easter” is Christian, but somehow requires less explaining to most people than “I’m not religiously Jewish, but I still celebrate the Jewish holidays.”

Is there fundamentally a good-evil dichotomy? That’s another one that’s not really a classical Jewish approach. 

What does repentance/atonement entail -and what requires it? 

There’s a lot of stuff like this. In many cases, it’s about “what is the first mental image that comes to mind.”

[best-of-memes]

[afrocentricheavymetalgoddess]

The end where they’re two people fucked me up the most

[hillsofspices]

HELP 😭

[gingerswagfreckles]

Like how stupid are people. Women shouldn't be able to vote bc The Jews thought women should vote so it must be bad and a Jewish Plot. 23k likes. I hate it here.

[mockiatoh]

If you support feminism, Jews are regressive and patriarchal. If you support ‘traditional family values’, Jews are the threat pushing feminism to destroy the family unit. It is a deliberate lose-lose game.

[stele3]

This is white supremacy, btw.

I know people keep saying that about all kinds of shit, but this is Actual white supremacy. White supremacists believe that Jews are behind the feminist movement, the queer rights movement, the civil rights movement, immigration, and every other "bad" thing in America that diminishes the power of the white race. Jewish people are the ultimate evil, the masterminds behind everything white supremacy opposes.

If anyone tells you they discovered Zionists or Jews were secretly behind something, they're a white supremacist.

(Also, it's likely that a good chunk of the "likes" are bots. Remember that 51% of all web traffic is automated bots, and it's insanely easy to game the algorithms and boost white supremacist ideology.)