God Damnit

22 Canadian gay for gals I had a plan for this blog at one point...

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

it's really funny how the entire world basically just blew the fuck up six short years ago and nobody wants to admit that that may have had some lasting consequences lmao

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

like so much of Everything today is premised on the idea that the earth-shattering catastrophe which happened within living memory of everyone older than a third grader has had no meaningful material or psychological effects on the general public and i don't think that's good, lol.

"(some of) the top-line economic indicators (sorta) recovered (in most places) so everything is fine and we don't need to talk about it" is not a sustainable framework for interfacing with reality

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

"why is everyone so angry and paranoid now?" "why is politics so dysfunctional now?" "why is [x] [y] and [z] now? blah blah blah"

2020:

[imp]

*learns basic social skills well into my 20s that most people know by the time theyre like 11*

[hellsite-yano]

having strict parents will do that to you

[tdwhisperer]

Having autism will do that

[probably-lucifer]

Having ADHD will do that to you

[1337n00b-deactivated20210119]

Being LGBT will do that to you

[hero-in-high-tops]

[jvlianbashir]

my friend's discord server has a "proof of touch grass" channel where they post pics of them doing regular activities outdoors/in public. i think many online spaces could benefit from such a thing

[weaselle]

when i was super depressed - like struggling to eat anything barely able to get out of bed to pee depressed - my good friend asked me every day to send her a picture of me holding a leaf and a picture of a meal i was eating and it helped me significantly

(also, she was never judgey - if my meal was a single potato chip she would simply say good job eating a potato chip today <3 )

which is to say, i agree proof of touch grass is a good idea for online spaces

[yadelah]

This kinda required my brain a bit

[hollanderthoughts]

Wait…. 😳 there’s a way out?

[hollanderthoughts]

Fuuuuuuck me. It’s through? And that’s the only way? Fuuuuuuuck dude

[paper-mario-wiki]

hey here's a website for downloading any video or image from any website.

works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.

[paper-mario-wiki]

for anyone wondering about privacy and whatnot, i'm happy to say that the developers are pretty committed to have 0 trackers and 0 data retention. you can read more in their "about" section, but here's the basic important stuff:

[wukker]

COBALT MENTIONED OUTSIDE OF TWITTER???

[paper-mario-wiki]

^ (one of the lead devs that made cobalt)

thank you for your thingy, it's real useful 🙏

[stimman3000]

“oh you wouldn’t identify as transgender if you hadn’t been exposed to other trans people and learned what being transgender was” you’re right! i’d identify as suicidal

[unknought]

social contagion is good actually

[tanadrin]

“better for people to be miserable in the right way than happy in the wrong way” is the inescapable conclusion of a lot of social conservatism

[gowns]

[my-winter-friend]

Yeah yeah sometimes the curtains are just blue… but I’m your English teacher. I’m teaching you about colour symbolism in a unit about reading between the lines. Why tf would I pick a story where the curtains are blue just for shits and giggles. CONTEX PEOPLE CONTEXT.

[my-winter-friend]

I saw a video of a 70 year old man at the protests in Minneapolis, out there in the cold frustrated and angry. Saying essentially “how is this happening”.

As an outsider (🍁) looking at the situation in the states I can’t imagine what it might be like. But I’m so proud of the people who are out there standing up against it.

I’m so proud of Minnesota and Minneapolis. It’s started with their George Floyd protests and now they’re doing incredible things to resist ICE.

If you’re out there wondering if any of this matters. If anyone sees. We see you. Your neighbours see that you’re not giving in, you’re not giving up.

And it reminds us of why we liked you in the first place.

[trauma-tits]

[my-winter-friend]

Looks similar! Maybe! Either way it’s impressive.

[trashcritter]

That’s my fucking city!!!!!

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

[mynowherenothing]

[led-bloody-zeppelin]

[aforlorngazeintoyesterday-deact]

[clownkiwi]

[trashcritter]

That’s my fucking city!!!!!

[linguine-martini]

[trashcritter]

That’s my fucking city!!!!!

[my-winter-friend]

For whatever it’s worth… the world is seeing this. We see you. We see Minnesota. We see Minneapolis.

And we’re so fucking proud of you.

We saw you rising up for George Floyd and for black lives everywhere. And we see you now.

Small things won’t break into our news, won’t jump into our algorithms. This is big, this is important, and we see it.

I’ve never been a big tourist for the US cities, but once this is over I’m coming to Minneapolis I want to meet the people who saw how crazy this administration is, and said hell fucking no.

[liberalsarecool]

Abolish ICE. They are openly executing citizens.

[animentality]

[the-beaches-band]

[saltybenchday]

ICE has executed a man in Minneapolis today. The video is horrifying. There were five ICE ‘officers’ against one man who was on the ground and they shot him repeatedly. This was caught on video and I watched it.

They will try and spin this. They will say he was armed (which is his legal right). They will try and say he was a paid agitator or part of some horrible left wing terrorist organization.

DONT LISTEN.

This was an execution clear and simple. Whether or not he was armed has nothing to do with it, he was subdued on the ground when he was shot.

I truly don’t know what the country/world is hearing from Minnesota right now but I’m fairly certain it’s not the whole story. We are angry, we are afraid, we are helping our community in unprecedented numbers, we have been peaceful, we know our rights and have followed the law.

Fifty THOUSAND people were in the streets yesterday with almost no police presence and the whole thing was peaceful and lawful and filled with hope and love.

The thugs hate that and they are scared so they decided to execute a man in retaliation.