[give-me-context]

I’m reading a book called “The Privileged Poor” about low income students at Ivy League schools and one of the students they interviewed basically said “being around wealthy people compromises your morality” which is such a based take.

[allthesepurplelights]

[spitzonthefritz]

this is going around twitter rn but im also super curious: please tell me your top four comfort movies that you’re always down to watch bc my friend thinks mine are ridiculous and now we’ve realised everyone’s version of “comfort” is hilariously different

[gretchensinister]

Y’know what…

Yeah. I want my tax dollars to pay for the healthcare of the person who started smoking and kept smoking because they think it looks cool and doesn’t give a shit about all the warnings. I want my tax dollars to pay for the healthcare of the person who destroyed their liver because they just love drinking and didn’t stop even if they weren’t addicted. I want my tax dollars to pay for the healthcare of the person who never drinks water, only regular cola. I want my tax dollars to pay for the healthcare of the person who missed the trampoline when they jumped off the roof to impress their friends. I want my tax dollars to pay for the healthcare of every single person who had to have a surgeon remove something without a flared base from their assholes. I want my tax dollars to pay for all the kinds healthcare needed by all the kinds of people who decided to have sex without any kind of barrier. I want my tax dollars to help fix the teeth of meth users. I want my tax dollars to help everyone who’s been noncompliant with the doctor’s recommendations, everyone who’s been a hypochondriac in the ER, everyone who let things get bad before getting help.

Everyone is deserving. 

[digitalbath]

it rly pisses me off how there is almost never a distinction put between white western christianity vs christianity among nonwhite peoples (namely colonized people) like between the disrespect white christians have for nonwhite christians and the dismissal of their unique practices and cultural religious differentiations and the way white nonchristians demonize nonwhite christians as if they have the same ability to Oppress them (esp wrt groups like fucken wiccans or whatever who arent even oppressed at fucking all lmfao).. its just. Annoying

[digitalbath]

white person who was raised as a christian n decided to become a neopagan after following witch blogs on tumblr n probably has the g-slur in their own url: *walks up to some mexican catholics who practice christianity bc their ancestors were threatened with death if they refused to adopt it* i just hope you know how vile and evil your religion is and how much it has hurt people like me :/

[give-me-context]

cloak culture... cloak couture...

[cshelf]

The BuzzFeedification of Mental Health

Did you know that the founder of BuzzFeed predicted that we'd all be yelling at each other about ADHD 25 years ago (kinda)?

and while we’re on the topic, this, this, this, this, aaaaand this

[give-me-context]

wait that’s my emotional support parasocial relationship with someone from tinder who i added on snapchat but never talked to whose stories and vibe i love from afar

[larval-tear]

i dont want to pandemic

[larval-tear]

i want be held by women

[pitbolshevik]

so untrue worstie i hope you die

[slavichorror]

mean lesbians & evil bisexuals we need to unionize

[ryuutchi]

Please read this thread again any time you think atheists aren’t culturally Christian.

[give-me-context]

Dug this out my notes app but this is a Very Jewish take on god I wrote when I was 16 and trying to explain to my synagogue class what god felt like to me. I don’t stand by the “him” because I meant it as shorthand, but I pretty much stand by the rest of it

[mybodywakesup]

[anildodivdodili]

i hate when ppl say like ‘so and so has the range’ because the only actress who actually has the range is tatiana maslany

[glumshoe]

Me: “Here are some free masks if you didn’t bring your own.”

Father: “We can’t, we have medical issues.”

Son: “What? No we don’t.”

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

Hey so fun fact, the ADA does not protect your right to go inside a business/building without a mask during a pandemic. If you’re disabled and unable to wear a mask, the business or organization must do their best to provide an equivalent service - say curbside pickup of groceries or a food order, or providing the same information on paper for a nature center. They do not have to let you inside.

As a disabled person who educates on the ADA, this abuse of disability law by abled people who clearly don’t give a flying fuck about disabled people and our civil rights infuriates me. If your center requires a mask and they won’t (or can’t) wear one, kick them out.

[sunshineghost-deactivated201508]

cool fact for people who have a problem with looting:

cops in america are legally allowed to take people’s property (including large sums of money) purely because they feel like it. it’s called civil forfeiture and there are literally thousands of cases of pigs taking people’s property. that is looting.

[badinfluencer-deactivated201708]

i watched this happen to my roommate after the cops kicked our doors in at 6 AM on a weekday for a no-knock raid that, surprise surprise, didn’t turn out anything. they opened his wallet in front of him, took out about $300 and told him that since they had no record of where it came from on premises, that they’d have to take it from him. they took this man’s rent money right in front of him while he was in cuffs and told him “too bad”. 

there was also a friend’s car in our drive way that had broken down so they left it over night. the doors were locked and the windows were up, and since the owner wasn’t there, they decided it’d be cool to just bust in all the windows to perform another fruitless search. 

[youthxcrew69]

In Philly it’s been a HUGE and MASSIVE problem with cops taking people’s bank accounts, cars, electronics and pretty much anything worth any amount of money under a law that lets the DA seize property they think is related to a crime. “Related’ is a vague term though. They once forced a women and her grandchildren out of her home to sell it at auction because her son was found by police with $20 worth of weed.

(Depending on the property in question it can go under Civil Property Seizure or Seize and Seal, they’re not the same law but they work the same)

They don’t have to prove it’s related to a crime before or after, and even if the person suspected of the crime is cleared at questioning or acquitted at trial, you have to go through a MONTHS long process of court appearances (you can’t miss one or be late or you lose, no rescheduling) in hopes that they MIGHT get their stuff back. Most don’t.

Most people don’t think it’s worth the expense of days missed at work and a lawyer to get back a couple hundred dollars or whatever else the police stole. The city makes MILLIONS of dollars each year off this, around $6-10 (The DA doesn’t provide figures)

[so-treu]

but tell me more about “good cops.”

[antlering]

because i hate the civil forfeiture system, the NYPD civil forfeiture system keeps no tally of its forfeitures because it would crash their system to compute it, and there may be only one backup of the whole system. a system that seized (an assumed) $68 million in property just in 2013.

[augustds]

For the 75th anniversary production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, she loves her and he loves him!

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Oklahoma! was revived by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with LGBT+ Casting. “This revival made the musical’s primary romantic couple, Laurey and Curly, lesbians. It made the comic sidekick couple, Will Parker and Ado Annie, gay men (with “Annie” renamed “Andy”). It’s not just the two romantic couples in the show who have been reimagined. Laurey’s starchy yet sometimes playful Aunt Eller will be a transgender woman (portrayed by a transgender female performer). Ali Hakim will be a bisexual man who has a great fling with Ado Andy, but winds up married to a young bi woman named Gertie Cummings (who also fell in love with Curly). The director, Bill Rauch, felt Jud needed to stay a troubled straight man who, with no changes to the book, is angry that Laurey prefers a woman instead of him. “We wanted also to make sure that the world was not just LGBTQ-inclusive, but that it was clear that this was a community that was thriving, because there are straight allies. They are choosing in this small rural corner of Oklahoma to make a community that is inclusive and that is loving.””

Major changes to a show must be approved by the copyright holder. "Ted Chapin protects the catalog of Rodgers and Hammerstein with great ferocity, and at the same time, he understands the way great classics remain relevant is through thoughtful expansion and reinvention and experiment. So, I was really, really honored — not only to get the permission in general, but the fact that this is the 75th anniversary of ‘Oklahoma!‘ 

The story of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning Oklahoma! centers around Laurey and Curly, who are in love but are too stubborn to admit it to one another. A troubled farmhand, Jud, will do everything in his power to make Laurey fall in love with him instead. "I think this casting really excels in the love song ‘People Will Say We’re In Love,’ a beautiful love song that Laurey and Curly share, but their fear that people will say we’re in love takes on a completely different resonance and a completely different depth when it’s sung by two women, and the courage that it takes for these two people then, you know, finally when they sing, ‘Let people say we’re in love.’ The audience just cries and cheers, because it’s an affirmation in a completely different way.

Sources: x / x / x ll Official Production Page

[lilbittydragon-deactivated20241]

let this become a trend

[carrigerpigeon]

@gailcarriger 

[gailcarriger]

I was SO FLIPPING PRIVLEDGED to see this. I drove 7 hours into another state for it. It was beyond brilliant. Everyone should see it. It should tour the world. It’s basically life changing.

We cried.

The whole audience.

From a dance number.

In Oklahoma.

So. Good.