[standwithdaanes]

having a process for people who have done morally horrific things to make amends, rejoin community, and do right going forward is actually fundamentally crucial for the left. having a clear and accessible pathway for people to be socially (if not interpersonally) forgiven is how you get people radicalized against capitalism and imperialism and white supremacy and patriarchy. its how you turn "these people think i am a bad person" into "these people think something and someone coerced or forced me into doing bad things, and these people want to help me do something about that."

if you want more revolutionaries, you must have a system to turn guilty, traumatized, angry bystanders and collaborators into revolutionaries. and I say a system and process because its not "oh the drone operator said they were sorry and felt bad so its all good now :)" there is no shortcut here. but it is absolutely necessary. no revolution is comprised of morally pure people. in many cases, the most devoted revolutionaries are the ones who know exactly what it is like on the other side.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

if you want to see how fast something can change from a "right" to a "privilege" in people's minds, try suggesting it should be extended to children, immigrants, and prisoners

[anarchistmemedistro]

[ariaiscursed]

[antarctic-arcanine]

If I ever share anything that was AI generated it is purely by accident. I hate that it's getting harder and harder to tell and it makes me want to never use the internet again. It definitely had its faults, but man I miss the internet of the 2000s so much.

[friend-of-giants]

To add, if I ever reblog art or photos or something that's AI generated, please tell me. I will gladly delete it. It really is getting harder to tell the difference and it won't be long before it's truly impossible to know.

At least it was easy to tell by looking at the hands and fingers 🙃

[k-writes-again]

Been wanting to write more but i dont like the words im finding.

Struggling to find the ones that make me feel adequate. That feel adequate to how everyone else processes this change.

What do you do when grief fled long ago?

When grief feels like the memory of a hole, one where you know where it is, and it will be two months from now.

When you don’t want to be here, but there is so much that needs doing between here and there.

This is at least the third year of springtime months being filled with grief, healing, depending on other’s care.

[whereifindsanity]

[alchemist-project]

coffee and sunbeams

[penandinkprincess]

listen it's especially important to me because i WAS a kid on the free lunch program growing up, but it's actually UNBELIEVABLE to me that there is ANYONE who isn't in favor of "kids get to eat at school no matter their household income"

i know i'm speaking to a panel of like-minded individuals here on the blue hellsite when it comes to this, but i just?? i truly don't fucking Get It???

it's just wild to me that there are actually people who AREN'T on the side of, "yeah, i want all children to have access to food at school if they need it"

like? being on the opposite side?? is straight supervillain shit??

GOD FORBID i spend $14.70 a month in taxes to make sure a child has at least one reliable meal a day (preferably two--shout out school breakfast program, those french toast sticks always fucked severely) even if that isn't the case at home

"but what if their parents can pay for it and just aren't?" then they're bad parents and that child still deserves to eat??? hello??

[quotefeeling]

“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t happened yet.”

— Unknown

[perfectfeelings]

“You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.”

— Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere

[closet-keys]

people arguing against abolition saying "you expect an unarmed person to deescalate someone with a gun?" and it's like we are expected to literally do that right now only most of the people with guns who we have to deescalate are the cops, like shut the fuck up

[flowerytale]

Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters

[perfectquote]

“You cannot always be happy but you can always be brave. And that is the beginning of everything.”

— Unknown

[mahoganyamore]

it is warm, i am alive, i am calm and sad, i hardly know why

[k-writes-again]

I missed when words came like this

so page filling

so frequent

so strong

but I don’t miss the pain associated with their return

I don’t want to miss you

[k-writes-again]

I cannot beg you

I cannot

I will never beg someone to love me

if you have shown me

or told me

that you do not love me

that you cannot love me

not in that way

then I will not beg you to change your mind.

[resqectable]

“Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it everytime.”

— One For Sorrow, C.Barzak

[quotefeeling]

“I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.”

— Jenny Han, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

[poetry-siir]