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heart-e tartan ruffle JSK (source)

[hotvampireadjacent]

As , the United States, potentially heads into another forever war I can only think of this quote.

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[glewmie]

[s0lve-et-coagula]

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[wolf-aid]

If a regional war breaks out between Iran and Israel, Gaza will be forgotten. We will continue to suffer this suffering and will not be mentioned in anything. We will be forgotten forever.

[wolf-aid]

The last days of my life are the worst. Iran is bombing Israel, and Israel is unable to do anything except bomb us in Gaza. This is clear injustice.

[wolf-aid]

I was very scared because the occupation forces shot at us last time, but we barely escaped. Please, my friends, the occupation forces’ planes are bombing as if they are doing nothing please donate

[wolf-aid]

My friends, the internet is hard to reach in Gaza. Please don't waste my efforts. We are close to 31,000. We will only have 500 euros left. Please donate to us and don't ignore me, please.

[wolf-aid]

Guys please we only have 90 euros left to get there 31000 please my dear guys Last night I did not sleep a minute because of the intensity of the bombing and also the poisonous insects. Please donate.

[demolitionmuses]

now feels like a good time to reiterate that Iranians have been martyred by america + israel already, both empires that possess nuclear weapons, and that Iran does not have nuclear weapons. so now is not the time to joke about america getting nuked-- any retaliation on Iran's part is justified and the only way we escape this situation, but Iran is not going to nuke us, because the entire premise that Iran has nukes is how america justified bombing them and also the exact same rhetoric we used against Iraq and how we killed my countrysmen when there was again no evidence of nuclear warfare. New York City is not going to get fucking nuked. go listen to a podcast or something

[demolitionmuses]

now ALSO feels like a good time to mention that israel has prioritized the killings of civilians, children, etc-- that has been its goal, america has defended and materially supported it. Iran has not been targeting civilians/settlers, it has in fact been targeting the people conducting this genocide. so you, some 20 year old in portland in a studio apartment, do not need to start doomspiralling about world war 3. world war 3 as a concept is our deflection of the fact that there are genocides and ethnic cleansings going on that do not materially hurt us in the imperial core. you are not going to be killed by Iran any more than america is already killing you and killing us. if you are afraid of retaliation, i understand, but now is not the time to start joking or seriously humoring the idea that some random people out in miami are going to get nuked by Iran. this self-effacing logic is demonstrative of american exceptionalism, and wholly unhelpful to the oppressed people of Palestine and Iran.

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Meat Purse 03 by Mark Ryden

[redstonedust]

it turns out a lot of people are actually on the same page about whether or not they'd work if they didn't have to earn money, we just all seem to have wildly different definitions of what counts as work. i'll see one person say "of course i would, i'd still want to create art and volunteer in my local community" and another say "hell no i wouldn't, i'd quit work and just create art and volunteer in my local community" and then they look at eachother like they said something incomprehensible.

[theinternetarchive]

spindle whorls of incised bone, iranian, early islamic period c. 700s-900s a.d.

[a-3asfoor]

it will pass ..

[jinxproof]

Vogue Italia (January 2021) ph. Johnny Dufort

[ladyoftheharbour]

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[viaka13]

a friend of mine has a decently sized personal bar and one night he realized that a lot of his bottles and mixers were close to empty, not enough to make any given drink with, so he mixed them all together and it looked like the dirty water from those big floor scrubber machines. Dark purpley brown and thick and he decided it was the Floor Scrubber cocktail and actually drank it. It apparently tasted very bland.

[thelorewriter-inator]

A collection of similarly interesting/disgusting drinks from the notes

[misamxsa]

very stupid aitsf au

[mummer]

Is it all about yaoi for you

Yes.

[honorarytheyfab]

(cw: sexual assault) the pedophile -as it is understood outside of academic circles- is a mythical creature. the idea that a complete stranger who kidnaps and sexually assaults kids is their biggest threat is absolutely insane; not one case of CSA (child sexual assault) in a hundred looks like that. CSA is committed almost uniformly by adults in a preestablished position of authority (such as family, family friends, clergy, or teachers) and in a way that a victim who doesn't know what sexual assault looks like will be left unsure what happened to them. without knowing concretely how sex and sexuality works, would you be able to tell the difference between molestation and the various other forms of unwanted physical touch and abuse kids are regularly subjected to? would it even seem that different? but parenthood and the submission of youth to adults as institutions are threatened by the reality of CSA. adults need to justify their ownership of children through an imagined outside threat constantly held at bay through their diligence. the truth - that putting yourself in such a position of authority over children directly enables abuse (including sexual abuse) - is thrown aside.

[watercolormagicalgirl]

i don’t know where the post this makes me think of is, but the general idea of it was that children aren’t properly taught how consent works, because if they did have a functioning framework to understand all the ways in which they’re exploited by adults—and continue to be exploited as adults, in different ways!—it would pose a serious threat to the social order, which is, i think, highly relevant here

[thelawfulchaotic]

When my clients say “but my mom hit me first!” and I have to say “legally, she’s allowed to.” As long as she doesn’t leave bruises, my old judge used to say.

“My dad made me give him my car. That’s mine, I bought it with money from my job.” And I have to say: “You’re a minor. Under the law, you don’t own property, your guardians do.”

When they say, “My mom is watching everything I do, she takes my phone every night, she made her boyfriend take the door off my room” and I have to say, with gritted fucking teeth, “You don’t have a legal right to privacy from your parent.”

You can enter into contracts, but all of them are voidable under grounds of infancy — except student loans, for some fucking reason.

You can’t leave. Your parents have the right to force you to come back.

This is not theoretical. I have seen every one of these things (except contract voiding) play out time and time again in a courtroom, with real life consequences: juvenile detention. Inpatient facilities. GPS ankle monitor. Community service. Kids are horrified to hear how little power and protection they have. And I’ve never gotten over my horror.

[luxlightly]

Student loans is not the only contract a child can enter but not void: Marriage is another.

My sister has worked in sex trafficking law for around 10 years and a the general pattern is "if they're an adult, they were trafficked by their partner. If they're a child, they were trafficked by their parent". And one of, if not THE biggest way children are trafficked(in the USA at least) is via forced marriage. Up and until 2019, this was legal in every state in the US. It still is in all but I think 8, as of 2025.

My sister drafted and fought for multiple bills to end child marriage in various US states and people fought TOOTH and NAIL against passing them. Because most states, while they allow child marriage, require the parents' consent. The child's isn't necessary, but the parents' is. The idea that parents will always have their child's best interests at heart and always have the last say in anything regarding the child's life is one that many people would not abandon in any way.

And, since a child cannot enter a legally binding agreement with a lawyer, they cannot file to get divorced, file for a restraining order, or go to a shelter for victims of domestic or sexual abuse. Running away from an abusive marriage makes them a runaway child that, legally, has to be returned to their legal guardian who, in the case of a child being married to an adult, is their abuser.