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Saw you asking about the waterlust tops for binding with chronic pain, I deal with chronic pain and joint issues too. I’ll let you know how it goes after wearing them around for a little while 🫡
Please do! My dms are open if you want to start a dialogue on it
so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what
The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it's rough
“The Roman Catholic Parish in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was just grafitted.”
Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.
I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.
Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.
Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.
Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.
They were CHILDREN.
They were murdered in cold blood.
I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.
Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture
People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.
Reblog this or just stop following me
I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.
I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.
This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.
They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.
here you can read an article about a survivor of the church and some of the things he experienced to help put into perspective how awful and just how recent it was
this is the memorial at the vancouver art gallery. 215+ pairs of children’s shoes (as well as stuffed toys and flowers) cover the steps…
just casually leaving this here for no particular reason
You know what? Fuck it I'm adding more context. Sesame Street has talked about the topic of death more than once and it's done with such gentle carefulness without watering down or censoring the heaviness of the situations. It treats heavy subject matter with respect and dignity and has been for DECADES. From the early 1980s:
To 2025:
Hell, they even cover the devastating heaviness of MASS SHOOTINGS without censoring or watering anything down.
They've been doing this for YEARS, and it's ALWAYS handled with dignity, respect, seriousness, understanding, and love.
Whenever I see people censoring words because it "might offend" someone or the big ad companies that are currently trying to run everything? I just want to say to them: "What? Is Sesame Street too mature for you?" Because really...what the hell are we doing.
I'm back with even more examples! Sesame Street once again to this day is out here handling extremely difficult subject matter with incredible care and respect. "We can't let kids learn about uncomfortable things!" Oh, really now? Even though they're things that happen in everyday life that they'll face one day at some point anyway? Interesting. Let's see what else this show has covered that people (for some reason) think should be avoided and hidden. Here's more on death of loved ones and greif:
Or how about when someone is put into the foster care system because their home isn't safe anymore and their needs aren't being met?
Maybe some discussions about group therapy/getting help and support?
Hey look! Here's a segment about gender expression vs taught expectation, including unlearning harmful biases and what to do when you hurt someone on accident because you didn't know it was wrong!
Look! The topic of race and diversity! The importance of unity and equity!
They even also have a more allegorical take on discrimination and being looked down on for who you are, featuring Big Bird. The conflict is about how he's not being let into a club because the one bird running the club personally decided he didn't want someone like Big Bird there.
Big Bird goes out of his way to keep changing parts of himself in order to "prove" he can fit into this club if he just changed enough. The truth comes out though, and there's nothing he can do to gain the approval of that bird. He will never be good enough in his eyes, and Big Bird starts to hate himself. His real friends see this finally put their feet down, emphasizing that you should never change yourself just to fit into one singular narrow idea someone else has.
There's A LOT of different situations this can be an allegory for. Racism, sexism, homophobia, basically ANY form of exclusion is put on full blast in this 15 minute clip. Sesame Street can be both blunt and allegorical when approaching difficult topics, and it NEVER misses or looses the point.
It does an exceptional job in both styles of representation WITHOUT watering anything down. The more sanitized everything gets, the more radical Sesame Street is suddenly considered, hence why so many "particular groups" want it gone. Hmmm! I can only imagine why that could be, in this current political climate! (I'm being sarcastic)
When Sesame Street is suddenly labeled as "questionable" or "politically/agenda motivated" content...it says A LOT about where we currently are and who gets to decide what's "best" for kids or not. Don't fall for the censorship and topic-dodging excuses that are covered by the "But think of the children!!!" movement. Never fall for it, because you know which side you're on if you do.
Sesame Street proves kids can be taught and trusted with learning about these topics when it's handled with the right amount of understanding and care. It shows what all this "controversy" is all really about. What it's always been about, actually.
Don't fall for it, always side with Sesame Street.
can we stop pretending that anyone assigned female at birth has some mystical connection to womanhood or lesbianism. it’s such a conservative outlook on identity i can’t believe we have to even pretend to entertain it.
I see a lot of leftists agog at the notion that Jewish communities are remaining “liberal” without joining their more revolutionary causes. At best they’re confused and irritated. At worst, they are using this as an excuse for anti-Semitism.
But here’s the thing. Historically speaking, Jews have been most safe under liberal moderate regimes. The far right and the far left have always targeted Jewish communities once they’ve been in positions of power. Even without gaining power, they’ve been likely to trade in anti-Semitic stereotypes, dog whistling, and fear-mongering.
So to the leftist (whether that’s Marxist, communist, anarcho-communist) groups out there, you need to clean up your own communities first. Jews have very little reason to believe that you have our backs. We haven’t done well when you’ve had any power. We’ve been murdered, sent to gulags, and assassinated. We’ve been scapegoated and had our ethno-religious expression punished and prohibited. Address that first. And maybe Jewish communities won’t be so wary.
I’m very much a radical leftist (somewhere in the vicinity of Rosa Luxemburg), but this is painfully true. Leftist communities have a huge antisemitism problem. I never go to political meetings, because I feel unsafe in those spaces, and I’m far from alone in that.
Leftists, clean your shit up.
These posts are from 2019.
I think it’s worth noting that the reason for this is that those who want radical change, one way or another, are those who are most susceptible to antisemitic propaganda. If ur happy w how things are you usually aren’t looking for someone to blame. If you want things to be different, then you’re more susceptible to the comforting lie of, “Rather than doing the hard work to dismantle the systems of power creating these problems, all you gotta do is get rid of the Jews who are secretly in control!” The sudden ease of the “solution” and catharsis of violence is more appealing to many than facing the cold truth that change requires real constant work to make the world better.
It is not nearly common enough knowledge that most Native tribes in the U.S. don't actually own all of the land within their reservation. There are millions of acres of reservation land that tribes don't legally own and they have no control over how that land is used. Like, there are a lot of different concepts tied in with the land back movement, but a major one is literally just getting reservation land back into tribal ownership.
So we know land back is Indigenous sovereignty Native agency and Indigenous stewardship yes. Land back is them respecting treaties they promised to respect ages ago but didn’t. Land back is them respecting the agreements they made with sovereign nations but broke instead. Land back is us going back to our ancestral lands. Land back is referring to Indigenous land by native names not colonizer ones. Land back isn’t a ethostate or deporting people Or whatever fever dream settlers have that’s cuz of settler colonizer projection and guilt.
“If you're American, you've almost certainly heard about how Indigenous reservations were and are located on whatever land the US doesn't want anyway. That they're just a way to whisk away undesirables until the land becomes useful to the US. That's the two-state solution.”
Two state solution is living side by side with people that tried to exterminate you with land theft genocide ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism When we say land back We mean all land stolen by settler colonizers Not just half of it to appease colonizers or respectability politics
“it’s worth mentioning that the proposal of a “two-state solution” is exactly what was offered to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas by European settler colonizers as a peaceful way to coexist.”
Land back. Indigenous 🪶 agency, sovereignty, and stewardship. All land back. Turtle Island, Hawaiʻi, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), Sisam Moshir (Ainu term for mainland Japan), Ryukyu/Luchu (Okinawa), Samoa, Guahan (Guam), Papua, Éire(Ireland), Alba (Scotland), Borikén (Puerto Rico), Maohi Nui (French Polynesia of Tahiti Bora Bora and Marquesan Islands,) Aotearoa (New Zealand), Palestine Etc. Etc. End to all settler states.
random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google
I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.
also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo
also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)
Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…
i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:
Search Engines
Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy
DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)
WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.
Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.
Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.
Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines.
Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted.
Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy.
Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.
Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden.
MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.
Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching.
Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar.
https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results.
https://www.mojeek.com/
https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites.
https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.
https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.
https://yep.com/ is a crawler
https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx
https://www.dogpile.com/
https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)
https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?
https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?
https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.
Other Searchers
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine
I keep getting recommended clips of this sci-fi show (it kinda looks like Star Trek) and apparently there’s an episode that talks about IGM within a species that is typically all male, with variations being ‘corrected’ after birth. From little I’ve seen, it seems to be handled fine enough? I haven’t seen the full show so I dunno
My issue isn’t with that, its that people in the comments often don’t seem to realize that its trying to tackle a real world issue (someone even tried to use doctors not telling a character about signs of IGM when they noticed it as a way to I guess say the plotline made no sene) and trying to point it out always gets a “chill its not that deep” response when it clearly is??
A lot of shows have plotlines that mirror real world issues. The entire discussion of whether or not to mutilate their child, and the realization that one of the parents went through IGM, and the whole “you had that decision made for you” narrative is very much a reflection of reality. Sure, bringing up Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer is sort of funny (at least until you consider that Rudolph is yet another story that reflects reality with the ostracization of children with noticeable physical differences, even if it is a bit dated with the whole “but you can excel BECAUSE of your difference” narrative) but that doesn’t mean the story doesn’t have any merit or parallels to the real world
Again, haven’t seen the show. I might watch it if it is actually good
The show you are talking about is The Orville, and the Moclan is the alien species that perform genital mutilation on their female population as a commentary on real life “corrective surgeries” forced on babies such as FGM and, yes, IGM.
Like i said in another ask, its been a very long time since I watched the show so i may not be 100% on the whole plot but one of the main characters Bortus and his husband Klyden (who is the parent that was also a victim of these surgeries and who was the most supportive of the surgery) had a baby together on The Orville during their expedition, but the baby is born a female and Klyden takes Bortus to court for not “fixing” their child. The entire episodes plot circles around the humans, who outlawed IGM and FGM centuries prior to this trial, trying to convince the Moclan Supreme Court that it’s inhumane and to let Bortus keep his daughter a female. I can’t tell you how the episode ended, but it was absolutely a reflection of real life, and if you watched the rest of the series (and the sci-fi that inspired it like Star Trek) pretty much every episode had a commentary on real life social and political issues, so for people to say its “not that deep” have clearly not seen the show.
Before I get started I want to say that to my knowledge I'm not intersex. I am strictly talking about the show as I am currently watching it for the first time and I just watched an at least one season later follow up episode to this. So in response to the point made by op the episode ends with the baby's planet of origin by species dictating in court that she has to have the procedure done. The parents fundamentally disagree about later telling the child that they had it done and raise her as a boy. There is a follow-up episode where she is very clearly displaying a lot of mental distress in a way that is congruent to how many people experience gender dysphoria especially during puberty. This I can speak to from experience. She tells them that she is a girl and the father who had the "corrective" procedure done is the most against the situation. They end up finding a way to have it reversed and she becomes a girl. The unsupportive father leaves and in a later episode we end up seeing her interact with other Moclan women and girls. There is a related but separate plot line that ties in and she has a dramatic experience that nearly kills her. The father who left ends up coming back and expressing that he regretted it being so unsupportive. The parent who pushed for her to make her own choice stood by her side the whole time and even got assistance from a female crewmate/superior officer who had a close mentor like relationship with the child and got help that he was unable to provide. It was a beautiful storyline that really hit some harsh but I believe necessary beats. I cannot speak to how this would affect intersex viewers or even transfeminine viewers as a trans mask but I feel like it was really well done in a way that shocked me for a Seth MacFarlane show.
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If this is legit, this is my boost.
Shoutouts to characters that don't know the facade isn't their real self. Shoutouts to characters who put up a front so long ago that they have now forgotten it's all an act. Shoutouts to characters who no longer know who they are because they think they're being sincere. Shoutouts to performers so good they fool even themselves. Shoutouts to characters who fall for their own lies.
everyone is talking about chris and theo beautiful siblingsm but what about theo and jee-yun evil toddler cousins............... they're going to take over the world
Counterpoint: combine the two theories. Chris babysitting Theo and Jee-Yun because that's his little brother and baby cousin. He keeps them safe but absolutely encourages chaos for the adults to come home to
This is, and I cannot stress this enough, extremely normal for literally any even vaguely creative person. I would argue even further that it's a sign of skill: you can prioritize ideas and sift through your thoughts for the best/most excitung ones. Many, many people never get to that second jar at all.
Thank you for this comment. It made the meme so much more uplifting adding that perspective.
"The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word 'fuck', the moon and the sea."
making the radical claim "11 year old children should be taught how to make extremely simple food" has resulted in people making arguments like "I wasnt allowed to plug in electronics until I was 16 and I think this is super normal actually" and "children dont know what ratios are so its unfair to expect them to be able to comprehend the idea of adding equal amounts rice and water to a rice cooker" and I gotta say originally I thought maybe I was being too judgy but now I feel very secure in my opinion because what the fuck
Children might not know what ratios are in the sense of 1:1 notation, but they are more than capable of understanding 'you have to use the same amount of water and rice otherwise it goes wrong'.
In addition to this, cooking is an excellent way to teach children scaling and ratio in Real Life.
"Children don't understand-" AND THAT'S WHY IT IS YOUR JOB TO TEACH THEM????? LIKE HELLO??? THEY CAN LEARN??????
Hate Hate Hate stories that reward characters for refusing to do triage. 'I refuse to choose only one to survive even if it means both die' [plot contrives for this to be the only way both survive] is so weak. Making difficult decisions with no good outcome is not a moral failing
#it's boring! make them make a choice and deal with consequences!#if you want to write a story that doesn't have those stakes then you literally don't have to introduce the stakes#you made those up. the circumstances which presented them with that difficult choice was your doing#if you're going to take them to that place then do something interesting with it! otherwise you can just not make them go there! @coquelicoq oh these tags are GOOD
It's bad when the narrative hands them a cop out that means they don't have to deal with the ramifications of their decision. It's cool when they have to come up with a third option on the fly by assembling whatever Chekovs Gun the writer has secretly been building without you noticing.
Yep, in The Hunger Games, Katniss assembles a third option using a Chekhov’s gun, and then that choice paints a target on her back for the whole rest of the series.
