I Think Ducks Are Pretty Neat

Wheeeeeee

[maximumhideoutpatrol]

I'm graduating from my community college after four years in a couple weeks. I started at a big state school right after high school (right after things started returning to in-person). I withdrew the following spring, took some classes at my community college the following year, failed almost all of them, worked in a public school for 6 months, returned to school the next fall, slowly stopped failing classes and eventually got back to the academic level (honor roll) I was at in high school.

But here's the thing, I'm not proud of myself. Every time I bring it up people seem to view it as some perseverance and great thing that I'm able to do. And I know that this is just me having bad standards for myself and that I should be proud. But I'm not!! I'm truly so ashamed, I'm pissed, I'm disappointed, I'm upset, and I feel like people are babying me when they say I'm wrong, and I'm honestly a little sick of it.

[niggazinmoscow]

THIS RIGHT HERE

[afronerdism]

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

[molothoo]

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

[scretladyspider]

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

[dantalaois]

[odinsblog]

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

[anarchistmemedistro]

not only can prisoners not vote they can’t vote after they get out of prison either

[kazz-brekker]

my actual favorite scene in wake up dead man is the one where jud is on the phone with the woman from the construction company and she asks him to pray for her, the sudden turn from humor to complete seriousness without it feeling like a tonal whiplash is really really good

[maximumhideoutpatrol]

I also loved this scene for that exact reason and because of how real it felt.

But it also reminded me of my own version of it, where my pastor (at the time) was in the middle of a scandal where she, who was married at the time, was (allegedly) sleeping with the youth director who she had been the one to hire, and also (allegedly) was signing checks so that the youth director (also a woman) was being paid as full time even though she had been only hired for part time. But in the midst of all of this unfolding she was also continuing her pastor-duties and visiting one of the congregation members in the hospital and retirement homes. (Which I found out about when she was venting to me and my friend who were 15-16 at the time)

[maximumhideoutpatrol]

Hilarious thing happened on my dash the other day

[ourdarling]

not to sound like the joker but im not fucking around when i say weird al covering killing in the name completely seriously and not changing any of the lyrics at all is a very scary statement about society rn......... a man who built his entire career on whimsy and being sort of family-friendly doing a sincere rendition of killing in the name by rage against the machine. we've awoken Serious Alfred. we're so fucked.

[maximumhideoutpatrol]

Raffi (ya know, the banana phone guy) also came out of retirement to release a new song for kids about the value of democracy (it’s called ABC Democracy and you should give it a listen). And that has the same vibe to me.

[nongunktional]

best typo ive ever made i think

reblog if you feep stupid

[nongunktional]

spose we're all feeping stupid today

[myassgoodbye]

“Yes but what gender is the tumbler? I can’t be seen drinking out of a MEN’S Arizona Cardinals Yeti tumbler!”

[status-quo-hater]

I need perisex people to understand that the 'corrective' surgeries done on intersex children are nothing like bottom surgeries for trans people. Not just because of the lack of consent, but also because it is literally not the same surgery.

[status-quo-hater]

Bottom surgeries for trans people are done with the intent to maintain function and sensation in line with what the individual wants, they are functional just as much as they are cosmetic.

IGM on the other hand is purely cosmetic. It is done for the comfort of the parents due to the violent biases against intersex people sterily written into medical protocols. Visibly intersex genitalia is seen as already being faulty and disgusting; therefore anything done to change it would be an improvement, regardless of the side effects.

[status-quo-hater]

I need you to understand how they speak about what they do to us.

[status-quo-hater]

I'm 20 years old and I'm new to official queer activism. I'm young. I'm uneducated about the medical field, something which deeply fascinates me. I have a deep respect for doctors and what they do. But I know this is wrong. I know this is wrong. I know this is wrong. I wish the world would listen.

[felix-01000101]

"...leads to great distress in the family" Pause. Why do the family matter?

"It is not a medical problem" Pause. Then why is it an issue?

[status-quo-hater]

Because perisex people's feelings matter more than intersex people's rights to keep our organs inside our bodies and our flesh intact.

[status-quo-hater]

I can understand why, so I'd like to explain.

In cases of ambiguous genitalia, these surgeries are required to issue a legally recognized birth certificate. Everyone must be sorted into M or F.

The thought of just.. not assigning a sex to a child & thus violating the sex binary, is more horrific to perisex cis people than the thought of literally mutilating that child.

This is what the core of medical intersexism is. An unwillingness to question the social construct of binary sex categorization.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It's also worth mentioning that there are a lot of cases of parents being straightup lied to, either told that the surgery is medically necessary or beneficial, or sometimes even lied to about what the surgery is via claims that their child has some unrelated health defect.

[ardentdelirium]

My intersex sibling was born in the 70s. The doctor told my parents they had to choose a sex and have the baby surgically altered before the family could leave the hospital.

[wizardarchetypes]

i love poison control. one time i was eating soup and i found glass in it (??? we to this day have no idea how) and i called them like "i might've swallowed a lot of glass" and they were like "without noticing?" and i was like "the pieces were small and i wasn't chewing because it was soup" and they said "oh what kind of soup?" and i said "butternut squash. i made it!" and they said, "did you...put the glass in there?"

[wizardarchetypes]

the melee hotline number was busy

[elektra-pop]

Just FYI, it's still murder when disabled people die by medical neglect.

Read that again.

[pocketdogs]

hey guys check out this fish i found on the sidewalk

[pocketdogs]

for anybody wondering if the fish is okay the answer is sadly no he was diagnosed with an extreme case of Silly

[enki2]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

And why did the value plummet, Marissa? Why did it plummet?

[red-mercer]

Would like to know how exactly she wouldn't fuck up Netflix or Hulu

[sreegs]

Yahoo thought Tumblr would be the next PDF

Yahoo’s grand plan for Tumblr was to turn it into a “next-generation PDF”

They didn't really get it.

[noctumsolis]

What does that even mean? PDF as in Portable Document Format?

[sreegs]

i cannot stress enough that i dont think yahoo even knew what a pdf was

[virdigrishammer]

you left out the best part of that article. the poor yahoo emplyees at those meetings were just as confused as the rest of us.

[brightmouth-deactivated20230417]

My spouse and I just had one of those “wait your brain works HOW?” exchanges, and now I am BURNING TO KNOW HOW IT WORKS FOR OTHER PEOPLE:

Fellow speakers of this feral bastard language (English), rb and tell me in the tags: what is the delineation for you, if any, between evening and night?

[djungelskogbear]

How never having seen a single Dan and Phil video feels right now

[maximumhideoutpatrol]

My sims census is now complete (with the exception of some info I can't 100% confirm on townies from the new pack) and now I'm not sure how to share my information (that literally no one asked for) with the public. The things I'm considering now are either creating another side blog specifically for sharing statistical Sims 4 information or making an alt AO3 account for the same thing. I'd love to hear thoughts lol

[lovers-and-dreamers]

going absolutely bonkers insane over these sesame street photoshoots

these are just functioning members of society. i love them so much. my babies.

[lovers-and-dreamers]

since you guys loved this post so goddamn much (6k?????????) heres some more for you to look at