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Sophy || She/He || Im boat

[yanguang]

cow tools real..

[librarychair]

As much as I want to support ethical farming practices I will be buying the cheapest bag of frozen chicken thighs as much as the next frugal/poor person which is why animal welfare needs to be legislated, not left up to the invisible hand of the free market or some bullshit. Invisible hand of the free market finds itself around a lot of throats.

[overdose-art]

A SILK HERALDIC RUG, POSSIBLY KASHAN, CENTRAL PERSIA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

[frightfullytreeish]

reblog to slowblink at your mutuals

[d1ssimilis]

i basically assume that people don’t like me unless they explicitly tell me they like me and then periodically remind me

[morgenlich]

speaking of font legality i remember back when helvetica was like. Trendy. to use on #aesthetic things (and in general it is a well designed sans serif font! there’s a reason it’s ubiquitous), but despite using apple’s mobile products i’ve always been a pc person. so as an aspiring graphic designer i went looking to see how much a license to use helvetica would cost and friends. romans. countrymen. the walt disney company is only the tip of the copyright bullshit iceberg

[morgenlich]

and for additional context, helvetica was developed in 1957; microsoft has been around since 1975 and apple since ‘76

[coloronthewallzz]

She couldn’t have been that crazy I don’t think soooooooo….

[neshamama]

so weird leftists don't call out big food more remember when nestlé was responsible for over 10 million infant deaths in low and middle income countries i do

[neshamama]

report

[neshamama]

or the death and disease they have meticulously inflicted on the most vulnerable of brazil while undermining public health policy and education

[kingaufruhr]

I think too many people heard “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” and took that as “You can spend your money on whatever you want and it has no negative effect in any way” instead of “We need to do more than just be conscious consumers”

[ly-von-karma]

hi! it's been literally half a year and i haven't found a job that's 1) willing to pay a good wage without 3+ years of experience, 2) have a good schedule for students, or anything that makes it stand out. been looking for internships which I need 360 hours of as a prerequisite to graduate and get my stupid degree.

which, even if all according to plan and not failing a single class, i wouldn't get until the end of 2028 because fucking bureaucracy i guess. moronic.

on top of this, my parents are debating me having to pay for my last year, and given the fact the current minimum wage is 330 usd and that every tuition fee i'll have to pay for is around 1k usd (5 fees per semester), this literally is impossible. 10k usd is an astronomical amount of money.

so. it'd be highly appreciated if you could help me by commissioning me or throwing even a buck my way.

[stillnaomi]

it's hard to see how anyone who knows about corporations being allowed to spend endless billions promoting their preferred candidates could believe that the US is a popular democracy. and Citizens United is only the most blatant aspect of how the US system is rigged in favour of capital

[caspercryptid]

I would actually go as far as to say that MOST abuse is unintentional. I think most people will go through their lives without ever experiencing intentional abuse. People are abusive because they're selfish, because they're stressed, because they care more about what society thinks they should do than the impacts of their actions on their children and partners, because they think what they're doing is correct, because they've made it make sense in their own heads, because they think they can fix their victims, they think they can fix their relationships, they think they can stop you from leaving, they think they can make you a better partner to them, they think that means you need to do what they want. We've sort of constructed mental illness in a way that doing this shit to other people counts as a form of mental illness because it is anti social behavior in the literal sense— it is behavior that causes social harm.

I don't say any of this to excuse it. I think everyone needs to be more aware of this because if you think abuse has to be intentional you will never realize you are capable of abusive behavior. You will never realize you are being shitty to the people you love, because YOU know what you mean, YOU know you don't mean any harm. But you're doing harm. You need to pay attention to the impact you have on other people, and you need to do it all the time, Especially when you feel least capable of doing so. Sorry! You live in a society. Get your head out of your ass.

[wolfsteax]

I humbly offer this contribution.

[sophie-frm-mars]

The US is detransitioning prisoners and just announced that ICE can detain trans people on suspicion of visa fraud. The UK just banned all care for trans kids and is now conducting an "evidence review" into HRT for trans adults and now the biggest DIY HRT web resource just went down.

Trans people need to learn solidarity yesterday, we need to be ready to organise together and set aside anything that we need to in order to get our shit sorted out. Cis people need to take it seriously that the fascists are trying to completely extinguish transess from existence

[sophie-frm-mars]

One immediate step you can take if you're tech literate is try to personally back up as much DIY information from the internet as possible. We need to confront the fact that the internet is American dominated and primarily American-owned and in a larger sense owned and operated by capital primarily. For the informational resources of the internet to benefit human beings we have to deliberately make choices to structure it that way, and in the age of Palantir that largely means thinking about parallel informational infrastructure, setting up another internet or at least other communication systems.

If we want to preserve life saving information, information that aligns with reality over fascism information that is useful, beautiful and true to human beings and ugly and inconvenient to capital, first we have to make backups

[the-owl-tree]

i'll always make fun of how stupid the "born evil baby" trope is but truly it is such a wretched trope i hope it dies forever

[the-owl-tree]

it's like the perfect package of "child you are allowed to harm" and "easy way to not interrogate how commonplace child abuse is". thank goodness this child was simply born wrong, we never have to examine the conditions they grew up in.

[tethered-heartstrings]

"stress" by yoan capote - made of bronze and concrete

[em-iliart]

teeth studies

[amoebeau]

expecting soon