Still gay

yo they / them or he / him Diagnosed: ADHD, BFRB, Currently in therapy working on figuring out the other shit (see mental health story) Struggles: dissociation, narcissism, derealization, lack of focus, boredom, recession, ect Partner with BPD. Who I love more than anything, but its hard sometimes

[dyken]

doodled these

words by Danusha Lameris “Feeding The Worms”

[pippenpaddlopsicopolisthethird]

The holy grail of searching through academic literature is coming across a string of publications that are like:

Here’s An Idea. Smith et al. 2016

Terrible Idea; a comment on Smith et al. 2016. Johnson 2016.

You’re Wrong Too; a response to Johnson 2016. Nelson 2016.

Guys Just Stop Fighting, None Of Us Know What’s Going On; a Review of the Current Literature. McBrien 2017.

[zinjanthropusboisei]

Not even an exaggeration.

[invaderxan]

[understands]

[jumex]

We need to give talented women the space to be insane

[aidashakur]

[cop-disliker69]

The fucked up thing you learn about law is how often judges are just like “yeah thats wrong and should be illegal, but if it were, it’d be really impractical, so we won’t be doing that.”

Like they don’t treat law as sacred at all. They are fully internalized in their role as bureaucratic paper-pushers.

Like when they have to come up with a defense for why it’s okay for prosecutors to threaten you with 40 years to force you to plead guilty and accept 3 years, they just come right out and say it: “95% of our cases are resolved this way and if we had to give a jury trial to all of them, the system would grind to a halt, we don’t have enough courtrooms, judges, jurors, or prosecutors for that.” And that’s just accepted. No philosophical defense of the practice is attempted, its not even seen as necessary. The impracticality of giving everyone a trial is all the reason they need to just not do it.

[comingoutofthecauldron]

to summarise what’s happening, the queen was exposed for lobbying the government to hide her private wealth, and shit is sort of starting to hit the fan.

for those of you who aren’t familiar with how uk parliament works, there are several “formalities” that exist within the legislative process which involve the monarchy - for example, every bill must gain royal assent (i.e. must be approved by the queen) to become law. you might be thinking: wait a second, the monarchy is unelected, that doesn’t sound very democratic. and you’re right! this is an argument that’s been ongoing for years, but mostly it’s been ignored because until recently these formalities were seen as harmless (it’s incredibly rare, as in it hasn’t happened in centuries, for the monarch to refuse to pass a bill that’s gone through parliament into law).

this scandal, however, has brought into light the reality of what these formalities actually mean for uk democracy. see, there’s this fun little thing called “Queen’s consent”. essentially, this is where the government asks the queen’s permission for parliament to be able to debate laws that affect her, and it happens before the debate takes place (rather than royal assent, which is the final stage of the legislative process). it was this procedure that the queen used back in the 70s to conceal her private wealth from the public and save her own arse by having government ministers alter a transparency law. no one has ever paid much attention to it, primarily because most people didn’t know it existed until now.

it seems, however, that the queen has repeatedly used Queen’s consent to privately lobby the government. the guardian’s investigation found that the queen used Queen’s consent to vet over 1000 laws, along with evidence of her lobbying for changes to at least four draft laws, though she might have interfered with way more. the laws she’s interfered with range from wealth and taxation laws (shocker), to laws regarding the nhs and even animal welfare. if it’s still not obvious to you why this is a problem, let me explain:

Queen’s consent is democratically dangerous enough as it is, seeing as its existence basically allows the monarchy to alter and even put a stop to legislation that has the potential to limit its power. the way that it’s being used is worse. the sheer breadth of policy that the procedure covers means that the queen, as we’ve discovered, has access to basically all legislation created by parliament, regardless of whether it affects the crown.

tldr: the queen is using parliament as means of maintaining her wealth and power, and Queen’s consent is an inbuilt tool within our democracy that facilitates that. This Is A Problem.

[comingoutofthecauldron]

an update: the guardian just reported that using Queen's consent, the queen successfully lobbied to be exempt from race and sex discrimination laws, and those exemptions remain in place today.

essentially, this means that the royal family can discriminate against employees of colour (and women employees) without facing any legal repercussions, and employees cannot take complaints to the courts if they experience discrimination. as well as this, employees of colour were banned from assuming senior positions and could only be employed as "domestic servants"; even today, there are no senior employees of colour. the queen reportedly went to great lengths to cover up this lobbying, and the royal family have refused to acknowledge the ban nor clarify if/when it ended.

this is the danger of Queen's consent. this is direct evidence of the queen abusing human rights using this procedure, and it's barely front page news. this is the opposite of democracy.

[advanced-procrastination]

“We cant raise minimum wage bc rent will increase”

Stop using the passive voice. Say what will actually happen. Landlords will increase rent — a voluntary action, not a natural result. The fun thing about voluntary actions is that they can be legislated against. What IS a natural result is that when landlords raise rent, their tenants’ wages automatically devalue. Again, the solution here is to stop the voluntary choice from being a choice at all.

Landlords choosing to increase rent is the problem, not a natural result of the solution.

[jenniferrpovey]

Reasonable rent control would solve a lot of problems.

[parakeet]

im eating the gemstones in the museum gift shop i like the taste

[parakeet]

[exitwound]

when whitman said “i contradict myself. i am large… i contain multitudes” and wilde said “what are you? to define is to limit” and sumney said “i insist upon my right to be multiple”

[existential-celestial]

and ashbery said “accept yourself as numerous”

[soracities]

and when mahmoud darwish said “I am besieged by contradiction” and when lewis carroll said “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times since then”

[virginiaisforhaters]

Nadine Abdel-Taif, 10, whose home in Palestine was destroyed by Israeli bombing

[politijohn]

Share of total wealth held by Americans except the richest 10%:

Share of US wealth held by just the top 1%:

10% of Americans control 70% of wealth. The top 1% own more than the bottom 90% COMBINED.

[nedsseveredhead]

Thank you for engaging in the mortifying ordeal of being known so that I may partake in the euphoric experience of knowing you.

[follettina1111111111]

[lesbianshepard]

do you ever see paleolithic art and go “oh fuck that’s good” like they hadn’t developed agriculture or the wheel but god damn could they paint horses real good

[lesbianshepard]

look at this pretty accurate horse art. this is from chauvet cave and is between  31,000 to 28,000 years old.

[tlirsgender]

The stages of hunger while nd are

Hm I'm hungry

Forgets about it

Everything Is Bad. I'm gonna attack someone. Shut up. Die

Hm I'm hungry

[Eats something] oh shit I'm cured

Multiple times every day

[tlirsgender]

"How do you forget you're hungry" I'm just that powerful. My mind will omit anything including things I'm currently experiencing

[samitch]

The other day I was feeling like super tired and I was just like idk why I have no energy??? and then my friend suggested I eat something bc I hadn't eaten all day and I realized I had completely forgotten about food and that you could eat to get energy... eating just never crossed my mind until he mentioned it lol