random acts of chaos

 beth / berkeley, ca / bipolar disorder, fibromyalgia, pots, arthritisl/she her pronouns,/ intersectioal feminism, disability rights. anon is on - send me something fun 😺

[osointricate]

Women over 30 just getting real fuckin weird because we’ve realized that the lie we’ve been told about how we have to be in our 20s our whole lives is fucked up and fuckers can’t stop us we’re too powerful

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

my mum told me when you hit 40 you basically ascend and give not one single fuck

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

Five (5) more years until Ascension.

[naamahdarling]

Oh, it's so true. I thought I was out of fucks before 40, but lo, I found new depths of fucklessness. Amazing. Awesome. 10/10.

[randomactsofchaos]

Wait until you get to 50 - I ‘ve scraped the bottom of my fuck barrel and that puppy’s dry as dust

[fluffgawd]

Pls teach your son how to apologize.

[90svigilante-deactivated2018022]

Pls teach your daughter to not measure her strength by how much pain she can endure

[kropotkindersurprise]

June 22 2019 - A fascist trying to pick a fight at Bologna Pride gets more reaction than he bargained for. [video]

[sugary-bowl]

Exit, pursued by bear.

[niggazinmoscow]

It’s the circle where people pretend the American Dream is real so want the aesthetic that shows they worked their way out

[afrodesiaq-deactivated20250629]

so when i was a teenager, i was homeless, and also did a lot of activism surrounding the issue of homelessness among queer youth. occasionally some newspaper or magazine etc would do an article about this activism.

there was one time that stands out to me in particular because a fashion magazine had done an interview with me and subsequently sent folks to do a photoshoot to accompany the article. they had a stylist they sent down to select clothes for the photo shoot who, i am dead serious, was picking out clothing they thought fit The Homeless Teenager Aesthetic. artfully pre torn and frayed $250 jeans (studded, for extra Edge, with a skull design. in rhinestones.) a $70 tank top with Graffiti Print Design. (the clothes did, in fact, still all have price tags on; i gathered they had some sort of policy around keeping them in Like New condition for… return? reuse on different photoshoots? i wasn’t really clear on what happened after they had served out their life making real homeless teenagers look fake homeless.)

i tried explaining that this was Kind Of Silly and didn’t actually look anything like the clothes i wore, since what with the homelessness and it being chicago and, uh, cold, i preferred my clothes as hole-free as possible for as long as possible in order to be alive.

but they were very insistent. people will expect you to look the part.

and, you know… subsequently go out and buy the expensive clothing that tells them exactly how to look the part, from the comfort of their cushy homes.

[sabertoothwalrus]

this is exactly why the “distressed” fashion trend bothers me so much. They’re charging extra for t shirts with holes in them and unraveling sweaters. They’re gentrifying poverty tbh

[teaboot]

Better than that. If you’re poor, you NEED to not look poor. Your clothes need to be up to date. Clean. Well-maintained. You need to avoid scuffing them or staining them, because if I show up to work or an interview with holes over my knees and a moth-eaten sweater? Unprofessional. Sloppy. Careless. A slob, with no ambition or respect. But if you’re rich? Who cares. You can own one pair of suit pants, a pair of jeans, slacks, chinos, leggings, leggings, overalls, and pre-torn jeans. An outfit for every event. You can WEAR distressed or sloppy clothes and not worry about coming off as undesirable, because that’s not a problem for you. You can look as dirty as you want in your free time, because you have a secure and stable income that isn’t threatened by that. Poor people need to look rich in order to be respected. Rich people want to look poor because it says ‘look at me, I have the luxury of experiencing life hands-on, I don’t need to maintain my appearance because I can replace jeans like Kleenex"

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

Biggest fucking mood.

[sinnahsaint]

They’re also meant for hiltops, not small rooms. Cant get the right reverb with all that echo.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

they’re also meant to make you fight the english. don’t forget that part.

[fool-errant]

My fav bagpipe player was a dude who would go out to the middle of a soccer field near my college apartment on Sunday. No one was using the field and he’d just be out there playing his heart out and the sound were just spread out over the plains. I’d be working on art for class so I’d open the window and listen. I still have fond memories of the day a kid biked up to the edge of the field, ran over to the bagpiper and the music stopped for a moment and as they talked. I couldn’t hear it but I had assumed the worst, that someone had decided to tell him to stop playing. Instead after the pause the musician seemed to nod, readjusted his bagpipes and started belting out the Star Wars theme. 

[budgiekazoo]

[angry-cajun-lady]

Holyshit that is the most interesting thing I’ve heard in awhile

[froborr]

Holy shit yes

[towritelesbiansonherarms]

years ago me and the boys went to our pals for new years eve. We get there and he’s like ‘we’re going next door’ and we were all ‘okay’ 

So.. it’s getting close to midnight and we’re chilling with these people we had never met and the older bloke goes ‘well it’s time to get ready’ and we were all ‘wat?’ 

dude comes back in the room carrying some bagpipes. turns out he used to play the bagpipes in the army. So midnight comes and this dude is out in the middle of the street tooting away. it was glorious.

[teasugarsalt]

Think I'll hire myself out as a Nice White Lady

Let people of color rent me for an affordable fee to deal with White Nonsense.

A few services: 

Caucasian Shibboleth: I’ll ask the same questions, drop off the same applications, and jump through the same hoops as you would, but a white lady this time.

Sympathy For the Devil: I will accompany you to a place of your choosing and face your foes with whatever combination of performative empathy and baffled optimism gets you out of the situation fastest. Yes, I do cops!

And of course…

The Nuclear Option: That’s right, I will cry. White Lady Tears working for you!

$10/hr+travel if I’m only helping you avoid inconvenience. Travel only if I’m protecting you from assault.

[catsoverloaded]

Beauty�

[arsanatomica]

Our bones remember the struggles we went through. And we are not voiceless after all.  Other places to see my posts: INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / ETSY / KICKSTARTER

[justsomeantifas]

Iraqi Christians face genocide at home. Now the Trump administration wants to send them back.

ICE officials arrested dozens of Iraqi Christian nationals over the weekend in the Detroit metro area. Families worry loved ones will face a death sentence if they’re returned to Iraq.

“Chaldeans have been targeted by ISIS and subjected to genocide, as have other religious minorities,” said Representative Anna Eshoo (D-CA), who is herself Chaldean Catholic of Assyrian descent, in a statement. “Their deportation represents a death sentence should they be deported to Iraq or Syria.”

[justsomeantifas]

And now one year later…

My dad is Assyrian/Chaldean and when the news broke last year that Iraq was no longer on Trump’s Muslim ban list we quickly learned that Iraqi nationals were now subject to deportation. Previously there were protections in place, especially considering the violence, discrimination, & you know literal genocide experienced by Kurds, Chaldeans, & Assyrians if they were to be deported. The raids happened in Detroit - another obvious move. The Assyrian, Kurdish, Chaldean population there is huge because literally all of them come through Detroit when they come to the US and most just settle there. The raids targeted those who had PRIOR felonies - most were non-violent, many were from years/decades ago, and they had served out their punishments. THIS IS RETROACTIVE PUNISHMENT and, in Jimmy Aldaoud’s case, it was a retroactive death sentence. 

[murdershegoat]

be wary of those who are so eager to punch nazis but are never as eager to protect those targeted by them

[doggie-girl-deactivated20230214]

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

Republicans in Florida will see the poor and people of color driven back off the voter rolls if it’s the last thing they do. On Tuesday the state’s House Criminal Justice Subcommittee passed along a new bill that would reverse much of the progress made by a widely popular amendment that restored voting rights to felons last November. 

Prior to its passage Florida was one of the four states in the country that denied felons the right to vote and it was also coincidentally the first to institute a poll tax which this new thing sounds a lot like and clearly is. […]

It’s about punishing them for being poor

[nikadd]

a trilogy

[mustardpha]

[kaijutegu]

nobody’s perf-

oh.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[jehovahhthickness]

[okayysophia]