Wendy The Author/jan Wensi

She/her, sometimes she/they. I think too much.

[fruitcakei]

Hey people - you know how you can *really* help right now? Contact your reps and make sure they know how pissed you'd be if they allow Trump to continue his war after Friday! I mean this so seriously, if he's allowed to continue his war we may be so much more screwed than y'all realize. I know people say this a lot, but genuinely, now's the time if you care at all for the future.

Details here, skip if you don't care:

In the US, a president cannot continue hostilities past 60 days without congressional approval, and the deadline for the Iran war is Friday. After that, he has to pull out or continue an illegal war. He's pulling every last loophole he can including provoking China so they'll attack our military and he'll be allowed to continue this war. We can't let him. We don't have the resources anymore to handle a conflict with China. Plus, if Trump has to back down or continue an illegal war, it'll bite him in the ass hard. If he's allowed to continue... I have to be honest, it poses the risk that Iran really does give in, and if Trump wins any of his demands, especially many of them, non-Trump Republicans will lose the primaries and we'll all lose the election in November. I mean it when I say we may not have another chance to save our country.

[nerianasims]

Getting people who simply will not vote to vote is the biggest and most important challenge Democrats have. I don't mean far leftists -- forget them, they're a tiny percentage of the electorate. I also don't mean voter suppression. I mean people who simply will not get off their asses to vote, which is the most popular "party" in the U.S.

I've turned Republicans into Democrats. I've gotten far leftists to vote for Democrats. I have never gotten anyone who was just like "meh don't feel like it" to vote. So obviously, I haven't got a clue how to do it. It's going to take some serious, huge sociological studies to figure out.

[animentality]

[thelongestrose]

Supreme Court Deals Crushing Blow to the Voting Rights Act

The Callais decision gives Republicans a green light to decimate minority representation in Congress. The gerrymandering push could start im

The Supreme Court all but eliminated the Voting Rights Act today by raising an absurdly high barrier to bringing VRA challenges to electoral maps. There's effectively nothing left of the Voting Rights Act. This is what the Supreme Court, and the entire US government, has been for its entire history - a tool for entrenching white supremacy. This is the best liberal "democracy" has to offer. It truly is socialism or barbarism.

[thelongestrose]

I do have to hand it to the US Democrats - I did not know it was possible to be a more ineffectual party than the fucking SPD

[egregore-engine]

Watching older people struggle to use the McDonald’s kiosk genuinely makes me sad. It’s ever increasingly clear that technology literacy courses provided on a state level as a public service are necessary to assist people with the rapidly changing technology landscape. Society changes fast and rather than abandoning people to individualized solutions we need a socialized response to helping people adjust.

[egregore-engine]

I can’t imagine how it must feel to be an older person not used to internet technologies in the age of the internet. It’s not a coincidence that older people are the vulnerable population targeted for scams and whatnot via technology. Yesterday I received a phishing text that was so convincing, terrifying, and urgent, I almost clicked it until I double checked the URL. Technology literacy is a social need.

[animentality]

[etrianodysseyobsession-hd-deact]

How’s it feel to be the funniest person on tumblr?

[hustleinatrap]

save for yourself and for future generations

[msillzie]

reblog to save a life

[jaeswavy]

For any lovelies with graduations coming up 💕

[racist-sundown-site-deactivated]

You all deserve to look bomb as hell at your graduation 😘

[cawareyoudoin]

Aww, that’s so cute :)

[kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd]

this video starts circulating every year around graduation season and it makes me really happy

[reveriereversed]

Super useful tip for people with large heads too!! Thanks :D

[wizardpotions]

You all need to understand that autonomy and especially bodily autonomy NEEDS to include being allowed to do things that are bad for you. True bodily autonomy includes being allowed to do things that are risky, drugs, cosmetic procedures and the like. Bodily autonomy needs to include being allowed to get high or smoke or get a BBL. The important part is education about the risks

[evilwizard]

*moving expired potions from the shelf labeled Healing to the shelf labeled Poisons*

[evilwizard]

*moving expired Poisons to the shelf labeled Potential Mountain Dew Flavors*

[briannyssey]

im such a fan of how Andor painted revolution as a movement of a million shitty, desperate, deserving-better people throwing their bodies on the gears, the machinery, and the levers of power. One way out and it might not even be your way out. Maybe there was never a way out for you. But you helped carve the way for everyone behind you, and isn't that worth everything?

[fanfiction-obsession]

Hey so obviously I support people nominating Heinz Doofenshmirtz for tumblr sexyman 2026 but also if anyone wanted to join me in nominating the man in the yellow hat (Ted Shackleford) from Curious George that would be fantastic (I just think he’s neat.)

Reasoning:

- he’s a good father

- he’s an anxious mess (said affectionately)

- he works in a museum

- he falls apart the second a single attractive person speaks to him (relatable)

- He has a big heart

- his hobbies include playing the tuba, sandcastle building, and “frog impressions”.

Anyway, this has been my argument for Ted Shackleford (Curious George) as Tumblr sexyman 2026 thank you.

[rouge-the-bat]

btw if youre a radfem/separatist/exclusionist, i have this really useful info for you xoxo

[aronarchy]

[image ID: Facebook post by Songbird Schwarz

I often think about how gross it is the way we’ve normalized kids hating school. Like to the point of fear and avoidance. “Lol he’s pretending to be sick to stay home.” “She was so happy it was a snow day she jumped for joy.” “Hahaha he’s hiding under the bed to avoid going.”

It’s… It’s not funny. It’s actually really gross the way we make kids sit a desk all day to be force fed dry as hell information and make them ask if they can use the bathroom, for 7-8 hours a day. 5 days a week and then go home with oppressively unfair amounts of homework.

And then we laugh - we LAUGH - at how much they hate it. It’s become a cultural touchstone. To shake our heads and chuckle while kids try to scheme ways to get out of it.

That’s… That’s bad.

And then we ask adults to do the same with work.

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[axolotlofficial]

You want safe schools? Ban teachers from restricting bathroom access, using collective punishment, yelling at students, confisticating books, or banning items that are not actually harmful, grant any student with prescribed medicine the legally enforceable right to keep their medicine on their own person at all times during school hours(principals or school officials are not allowed to keep it locked up in their offices for "safe keeping"), abolish zero tolerance policies, make it easier to walk or cycle to school. All of that, or even any one of those things, would do so much more to actually protect students than phone bans.

[secedenconquer]

At a certain point of coming of age you realize how stupid, pathetic, and riddled with mental issues grown-ups are, and how horrifying it is that they can just freely spawn little minions completely economically dependent on them to play tyrant towards for 18+ years.

[maddys-kreative-korner]

Realizing some people genuinely do not realize abuse and harm towards children is not always intentionally done by some evil loveless person who does not care about the child at all. Sometimes its done by people who love you and are genuinely trying to protect and help you and were taught that this behavior IS helpful and loving and going to make things better for you.

We need to recognize that we are ALL capable of doing that. Of thinking we are doing the right thing whilst we are actually causing someone real genuine harm or even trauma.

If we think these things are only done by "evil" people we fail to recognize it in our OWN behavior and thus the cycle of pain only continues.

Realized this when I tried to present a project proposal about raising awareness for how child harm and abuse is actually a lot more prevalent if not literally inescapable in our society one way or another and a large number of people tried to refute me and I didn't get it. I had real scientific evidence up on the screen for how behaviors a large number of adults participate in, are actually abusive because they cause lifelong damage to a child's mental health, development, and self esteem that will stay with them for the rest of their lives even in less extreme examples.

These behaviors are normalized in our society despite causing genuine harm. These behaviors are abusive even if they are not commonly recognized as such yet. But this causes people to think certain behaviors towards children are okay when they are genuinely harmful. That potentially, at some point in our lives we may have said something to a child, a child we may care very very much about that could have genuinely seriously hurt them. Not because we are EVIL but because we are human. But it's still wrong and bad. And we need to recognize that we are capable of causing genuine harm and even trauma to another person without meaning to or realizing it because if we do not and think our actions are always in the right we WILL end up DOING THAT. You NEED to question your societal biases in order to AVOID hurting the people around you, especially people you care about.

But the average person believes in order to do abuse or damage on that scale you need to be an EVIL person. Which is why when you try to discuss that children receive abuse intended or not from a large number of adults in their life, people will jump on you and try to argue about how GREAT their childhood or childhoods of others they know were or how GREAT they treat their own children and you're just being pessimistic there are not evil evil bad child abusers everywhere in our society.

You're right there isn't.

Most of it is just normal people

who think they are doing the right thing.