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chaya | a tired jewish girl who likes girls

[fomysquad]

How do we ensure public safety w/o police? Check out this list on alternatives to policing

Alternatives to Police (PDF) by Rose City Copwatch (2008)

Alternatives to the Police by Evan Dent, Molly Korab, and Farid Rener

The Avant-garde of White Supremacy by Steve Martinot and Jared Sexton

Broken Windows is On Hiatus: Community Interventions We Can Enact Now for Real Justice by Hannah Hodson

Can We Build an Anti-Policing Movement that Isn’t Anti-Police? by Radical Faggot

Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community by Steve Herbert

Feeling for the Edge of your Imagination: finding ways not to call the police

A New Year’s Resolution: Don’t Call the Police by Mike Ludwig

Not Calling the Police by Prison Culture

Origins of the Police by David Whitehouse

The Other Side of the COIN (PDF) by Kristian Williams.

Policing is a Dirty Job, But Nobody’s Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free World by Jose Martin

Policing Slaves Since the 1600s by Auandaru Nirhan

The Shanti Sena ‘peace center’ and the non-policing of an anarchist temporary autonomous zone: Rainbow Family peacekeeping strategies (PDF) by Michael Niman

Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People by Sam Mitrani

We Don’t Just Need Nicer Cops. We Need Fewer Cops by Alex S. Vitale

What Does It Mean to Be Anti-Police? by Alex S. Vitale

Where abolition meets action: women organizing against gender violence (PDF) by Vikki Law

[killcopscopskill]

Reblog this every time it’s on my dash idc

[bogleech]

Conservatives have so much fucking nerve talking about how “ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS ARE OUT OF CONTROL” when absolutely no-one feels inconvenienced by them or has ever even encountered them in their personal lives unless they’re the CEO’s of a megaconglomerate bitter that they couldn’t rip up a national park and buy like their fifth house boat

[zenosanalytic]

Yeah, it’s literally the Kochs saying “It’s so UNFAIR that when the oil pipelines we own but don’t maintain bust and flood a town with toxic sludge, that WE have to pay to fix it.” and “An employee we forced to clean chemical storage tanks without the proper gear for 15 years developed cancer, and they’re allowed to sue us over it? TYRANNY!!”

[thehumanarkle]

How is it never occurred to me to put it like this before?

[lesbianrey]

its because republicans/ceos have convinced a large majority of americans that corporations are not only living entities that need to be protected but also that they’re even more important than people

[antoine-roquentin]

Even the fruits and vegetables are wrapped in plastic so that the sensors can read them, inculcating a culture of convenience and waste.

The whole pitch of Amazon Go is that it is so convenient and quick, so easy to buy more than you need, so useful to give Amazon ever more detail about your most personal habits. Manoj Thomas, a professor of marketing at Cornell University, tells the Star: “We know that when people use any abstract form of payment, they spend more. And the type of products they choose changes too.”

But this convenience has a cost, not only to your wallet and your privacy, but also to the climate and the oceans – because everything in the store, even the oranges and vegetables, have to be individually packaged and labeled. The artificial intelligence and machine learning, all those sensors on the ceiling, may figure out that you have picked up a tomato, but it can’t figure out what it weighs.

If you read The New Plastics Economy from the World Economic Forum, you find that by 2050 oceans are expected to contain more plastics than fish (by weight), and the entire plastics industry will consume 20% of total oil production and 15% of the annual carbon budget.

If you read David Roberts’ truly scary recent article about climate change, and realize that plastics are essentially solid fossil fuels, then you have to make a direct connection between climate and the manufacture of every plastic bottle and plastic-wrapped product you buy.

[prettylittlesuffermachine-deact]

i have done fulfillment for amazon and everything has to be in individually packaged in a plastic bag and it is infuriating it is so wasteful

[ultraviolet-techno-ecology]

Plastics as a whole need to be abolished yesterday. There are almost no applications which cannot be recreated using other materials. Although we culturally see plastic as a cheap disposable substance - the disposable part has been an absolute lie on behalf of the industry. 

[d-archive1948-deactivated202303]

Cape Town, a city of 4 million people, is running out of water in less than two months, and I’m alarmed since as a geography major in most of our courses we keep going over the consequences regarding shortage of water around the world. 

Biggest consequences are, a massive influx of refugees in hundreds of millions if not close to a billion (since the areas that are depleting on freshwater are also the most densely populated), and a potential of a World War over water.

(Here’s a map showing the depletion/stress on Freshwater from 1995 to 2025)

If we can’t handle 5-6 million Syrian refugees right now, how are we going to handle hundreds of millions of refugees? Especially when nations are not going to be willing to cooperate with on another since they’re busy fighting one another to maintain their freshwater.

The future is bleak my friends. 

[cinemagorgeous]

By artist Amir Zand.

[whenharrymetsallys]

[absolutniemand]

In Germany we don’t say “I don’t care” we say “Das ist mir Wurst” which roughly translates as “This is sausage to me” I think that’s beautiful.

[lannisterapologist]

no you don’t understand we actually do say that

[the-lonely-scottish-guy-deactiv]

i crashed my car into a bridge

THIS IS SAUSAGE TO ME

[inkcaviness]

We also say “That’s not my beer” for “That’s none of my buisness” and I think that’s beautiful

[generationiii-blog]

is germany even real

[kkatkkrap]

My roommate dated a German.  When I was making dinner one night, he asked my roommate, “this food… does it taste?”

At our confusion, he explained that in Germany, food either “tastes” or “does not taste”.  Which he then said he supposed said something about German food.

[balrog1911]

To be fair we do say “it tastes good” and “it tastes bad” and many variations thereof, but when we want to be succinct, then yes, it just tastes or doesn’t taste. 

Other fun turns of phrase in German include:

“Ich versteh’ nur Bahnhof” = “I only understand train station” for when you’re confused

“Hast du Tomaten auf den Augen?” = “Have you got tomatoes on your eyes?” for when someone’s not seeing the obvious

“Auf die Schippe nehmen” = “Take someone on a shovel”, basically means to take the piss out of someone

“Du gehst mir auf den Sack” = “You’re walking on my sack” for when you’re pissed off

[quasikool]

the world is beautiful

[apfelgranate]

also there’s  two more variations of “Du gehst mir auf den Sack.” (btw by sack we mean testicle. yeah.)

“Du gehst mir auf den Senkel.” = “You’re walking on my shoelace(s).”

“Du gehst mir auf den Keks.” = “You’re walking on my cookie.”

ALSO WE HAVE THE WORD “DOCH” (basically means yes, but in response to someone saying no) AND IT IS A FUCKING TRAGEDY THAT THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE HAS NO EQUIVALENT

[wonderfulnonsense]

I MISS ‘DOCH’ SO MUCH you basically have to settle for “does so” or “yes it does” or something not half as succintly defiant I also miss “aneinander vorbei reden” = “to talk past each other”, meaning when people are completely missing each other’s points / talking about two different things. It’s such nice imagery.

[sherlylikeswaffles]

And we call stupid people “Hans Wurst” = “Hans Sausage” (no matter if you are boy or a girl)

Yeah, if we are surprised we say “Holla die Waldfee” = “Holla the forest fairy”

[rebecca2525]

Seriously though, how do children grow up without “doch” und “trotzdem”?

[kiwithetraveller]

Holy mackerel I love this soooo!!

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Ende, Gelände! (literally: End, terrain) — That’s it! End of discussion!

[mymbleslatest]

Moomin Begins a New Life # 6

[piribolygo]

[moonlightingwhore-deactivated20]

cutie

[jacquelindeleon]

Working in my sketchbook for the first time in the new studio! I’m planning on making a lot of changes to my online shop and patreon soon! We are working on getting orders out and packing zines while moving into our new studio! I’ll be uploading a lot of vlogs this month of the whole process! . #sketchbook #illustration #jacquelindeleon #artistoninstagram http://ift.tt/2nBNidi

[fireafly-deactivated20180716]

“I carry the fruit of early summer in woven wooden baskets to put into iced water, garnished with basil and rosemary.”

[antiporn-activist]

You say “All women are beautiful” but what you probably mean is “All women have value.”

And the reason you’re mixing up those two words is because you’ve been raised to believe that only beauty can confer value on women.

[politicalsci]

[yidquotes]

The Talmud, the compilation of discussions of Jewish Law, gives examples of bad prayers, improper prayers, which one should not utter. If a woman is pregnant, neither she nor her husband should pray, “May God grant that this child be a boy” (nor, for that matter, may they pray that it be a girl). The sex of the child is determined at conception, and God cannot be invoked to change it. Again, if a man sees a fire engine racing toward his neighborhood, he should not pray, “Please God, don’t let the fire be in my house.” Not only is it mean-spirited to pray that someone else’s house burn instead of yours, but it is futile. A certain house is already on fire; the most sincere or articulate of prayers will not affect the question of which house it is.

Harold S. Kushner

[maaarine]

“Do you ever get over having to come out?” (x)

[thefilmstage]

“Personally, it has taken me 47 years to stop calling people who are mean to you ‘in love’ with you. It took a long time because I think that as little girls we are conditioned to believe that cruelty and love somehow have a connection and that is like the sort of era that we need to evolve out of.”

This is why Uma Thurman is angry.

[maaarine]

“Thurman says that in “Kill Bill,” Tarantino had done the honors with some of the sadistic flourishes himself, spitting in her face in the scene where Michael Madsen is seen on screen doing it and choking her with a chain in the scene where a teenager named Gogo is on screen doing it.

“Harvey assaulted me but that didn’t kill me,” she says.

“What really got me about the crash was that it was a cheap shot. I had been through so many rings of fire by that point.

I had really always felt a connection to the greater good in my work with Quentin and most of what I allowed to happen to me and what I participated in was kind of like a horrible mud wrestle with a very angry brother. But at least I had some say, you know?”

She says she didn’t feel disempowered by any of it. Until the crash.” (NYT)

[maaarine]

Cape Town faces Day Zero: what happens when the city turns off the taps? (The Guardian, Feb 03 2018)

Jonathan Watts:

“The government has struggled to keep pace. Plans to make the city more resilient to climate change by diversifying the water supply with boreholes and desalination plants were not due to kick in until after 2020.

But the climate has moved faster, bringing a drought so severe it would usually be expected only once every 384 years.

What was the biggest reservoir in the system – Theewaterskloof Dam – has mostly evaporated or been sucked dry.

One side of the lake is now a desert. Devoid of life, this is a landscape of sand dunes, cracked earth and dead trees. (…)

In Cape Town itself, the population is jittery. “We’re scared,” says Amirah Armien as she queues to fill a couple of bottles at the spring beside Newlands Brewery. “Water is life. What are we going to do without water?” (…)

The crisis has exacerbated prejudice and division. One homophobic pastor blames the drought on gays and lesbians.

There has also been sharp criticism of the government, and feuds between the national and provincial authorities over the handling of the crisis. (…)

It is also far from clear that drought is a social leveller. Wealthy homeowners have drilled boreholes and invested in water tanks so they have an independent supply.

Joggers who go out at 5am say they can hear the “phut phut” of sprinklers being used to water lawns before most people are awake.

Some residents have called environmental groups to complain their neighbours are filling swimming pools. (…)

“We had hoped that rainfall would replenish the dams, but it hasn’t happened. What this signalled to me what that climate change is reality. If you doubted it before, you can’t now.””