[corporationkills]

my dad bought honey. but did not get the one shaped like a sweet little bear. why do men rob me of the few chances of true joy in my life.

[targent]

lol ppl who dont have brown eyes will never have "bro" on their drivers license...epic fail

[rowandriftwood]

ADHD is chanting “walnuts, walnuts, walnuts, walnuts …” under your breath 300 times, then getting distracted for half a second and forgetting to add the fucking walnuts to the banana bread before putting it in the oven.

[spookyadhd]

oh wow i didn’t know chanting something is a thing other people do to remember stuff

[lesbeet]

how about when you’ve been chanting the thing for too long and your brain tunes it out so you forget to do the thing while literally verbally reminding yourself to do the thing

[missmentelle]

Pretend, for a moment, that you’re an 18-year-old teenager from a family living below the poverty line.  One day, you make a silly mistake and get a ticket for it. Nothing major - maybe you rode the subway without a ticket or smoked too close to the entrance of a building. Maybe you were loitering. Either way, one thing is for sure: you definitely don’t have the money to pay the ticket.  So you don’t.  Eventually, you miss the deadline to pay your ticket, and you get a letter in the mail that says you have to go to court. But your life is chaotic, and a court date for a missed ticket is the least of your concerns. Your family moves constantly, which disrupts your life and puts you behind in school. You have one disabled parent and one parent who is always working, leaving you to raise your younger siblings by yourself. You have no means of transportation. There is rarely any food in the cupboards. The utilities are constantly getting shut off. The week that you were supposed to go to court, your family gets another eviction notice, your cousin ends up in the hospital, and your parent finds out that their disability payments are being reduced.  So you miss your court date.  Since you missed the court date, you automatically lose your case - now you have no hope of arguing your way out of the ticket, which you still can’t afford to pay. You can do community service hours instead of paying, but you don’t have time to do that, now that you have to work part-time and odd jobs on top of everything else to keep your parents off the streets and your siblings out of foster care. You know that you probably won’t finish high school on time, let alone fulfill your hours. You might be able to explain your circumstances to the judge, but you have no idea how to go about doing that now that you’ve missed your court date, your literacy skills are years behind thanks to your constant game of school roulette, and even though legal help is available to you, you don’t know how to access it or if you can afford to do so. But that’s still the least of your concerns - since you missed your court date, the judge has also charged you with failure to appear. 

Which means you now have an active warrant out for your arrest.  And just like that, you’re now a part of the criminal justice system. A silly mistake that a middle-class teenager could have solved with Mommy and Daddy’s chequebook in a single afternoon has caused you weeks or months of stress and headaches over a process you don’t fully understand, and has ended in criminal charges. Instead of having a funny story to tell over dinner when you come home from college next Thanksgiving, you are now facing additional fines (that you still can’t pay), the possibility of a couple of nights in jail, the possible suspension of your driver’s license, and the possibility of being taken into custody any time you interact with the police. The next time your parent comes home drunk and violent, or someone breaks into the house, you think twice about calling the cops - you now have to decide if every emergency is “worth” the possibility of being hauled off to jail. And in the meantime, the circumstances that caused that first mistake haven’t gone away - you still don’t have the money to pay for the subway, you are still more likely to live in a house filled with smokers, you still can’t afford quit-smoking aids, you still live in a chaotic household that deeply affects your mental health, and you still don’t understand the legal system or who you’re supposed to talk to for information and resources. So while those other teenagers get to go through life believing that they were “good kids who sometimes made silly mistakes”, you now get to go through life thinking of yourself as a criminal. And that might be the most damaging thing of all. 

When I worked with homeless teenagers and young adults, I saw this process play out again and again and again and again. The kids often considered themselves “criminals” or “bad kids” because they had arrest warrants and criminal records, but few of them had ever actually committed a serious or violent crime - the vast majority were simply unlucky kids who did something stupid and didn’t have the skills or resources (or wealthy parents) required to get them off the hook. I had classmates in my upper-middle-class high school who did far worse things with far fewer consequences, because Mommy was a lawyer or Daddy was an RCMP officer, and some of those kids grew up to be lawyers or police officers themselves. The kids I worked with never got that opportunity. Second chances cost money, and the difference between a “crime” and a “mistake” has less to do with the offense, and more to do with the circumstances you were born into. 

So when we’re talking about crime, punishment and who is “worthy” of being helped, maybe keep that in mind.

[iammyfather]

And depending on the state, this could count as two strikes on the three strike system. if the fines go long enough to be “Felonies”, you could get picked up for underage drinking and face life in prison.  Extreme case but the way the system is structured not impossible.

[godloveyell]

Don’t forget how several places make it illegal for convicted felons to vote. Yet while imprisoning and disenfranchising vast swaths of the population, prisoners are still counted as part of the population can be used in drawing up districts. By creating a sizeable population that cannot vote and also can be used to work virtually for free, we’ve effectively managed to rebrand the 3/5ths compromise.

[ohevoyev]

true performance art.

[okayysophia]

[princessnijireiki]

true incels are literally indistinguishable from satire bc they really all do talk Like That but once again, just to confirm:

[cinnamon-rell-deactivated202204]

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[cringeassremakingnaenaebaby-dea]

if you can’t eat cilantro bc it “tastes like soap” thats literally just your fault and no one should have to cater to you thats a personal issue

[dreaminterlude]

[weirdness-is-good]

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

do people that say shit like “ooh nobody reads anymore, they only use their phones and computers” think that computers and phones can only display pictures and make sounds 

like do they think words can’t be displayed by computers 

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

what’s this post say, my phone can only display pictures and make sounds

[powerfulwizard]

You know those movies about those little nerd boys who get with really hot girls, and those girls eventually learn to settle for a little nerd boy because he’s kinda nice sometimes? Propaganda.

[castlesbyrs]

You know those movies and shows where the little nerd girl has to change absolutely every aspect that makes her, her, starting by her appearance, so she can get the really hot boy, while when it’s the other way around the girl just settles with the nerd boy? Propaganda.

[wildlyunlikelybabe]

The message?

Men are to be accepted as they are, women are to change or to settle.

[traumatied]

“I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for the wounds without reopening them. To name the pain without inviting it back into me.”

— Lora Mathis, If There’s A Way Out I’ll Take It (via wordsnquotes)

[futuremoji]

Your third most recent emoji will reveal your aura

[sadsickloudmind]

💖

[i-am-a-fish]

everyone who reads this post will get some big spicy joy within 24 large minutes (hours)

[i-am-a-fish]

everyone who reads this post will get some big spicy joy within 24 large minutes (hours)

[curseworm]

if ur constantly eating food you hate trying to be ‘healthy’ youre probably doing more harm to urself in the long run than you wouldve if u ate a variety of foods that u enjoy but that dont necessarily match up with whatever the new health food craze is

[curseworm]

food is so deeply influential psychologically like… duh its the basis of life a lot of our brains developed to help us Obtain Food. if you hate green smoothies but youre choking them down 3x a day cause u think itll make you magically healthy… the dread and disgust you feel while preparing and consuming this meal you hate is going to have an influence not only on your mood for the rest of the day but on the way your body processes that smoothie. if youre making food into an ordeal you must endure rather than something you enjoy and look forward to youre just shooting yourself in the foot and no amount of spirulina or whatever will make up for that

[eclogues]

fuck therapy i’m becoming a knight

[fatpikachupics]

hey, bro? are we vibing? are we connecting on the spiritual plane, bro? your aura is striking. can i kiss you deeply, dude?