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[savouryduck]

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[cartoonscientist]

no but social media sucks because a post will come up on someone’s dash saying “really sick of seeing men wearing pink shirts” and be like “what’s wrong with men wearing pink? I think we should normalize it!” and then it turns out they were vaguing about a local hate group only in their county that wears pink as a group signifier but the first person had no way of knowing that because it got recirculated out of context and like, neither of these people did anything wrong but now they’re fighting

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Kuzu let Anzu out in the hopes that his presence would serve as a discouragement to Glimmer and Skippy (it did not) and we started talking about aliens with a hypothetical non-reproductive “chaperone gender” that serves to suppress sexual urges and allow people to do things other than fuck. Basically the reverse of the Ooloi from Xenogenesis. If Omegaverse were good this is what Betas would be. Idk if they’d be a human sex or a mutualistic parasite that’s biologically distinct but culturally human. Either way a shortage of them leads to societal collapse. Assassinate your enemy’s betas and send them spiraling into chaos. OR sabotage them by providing a counterfeit beta to disrupt their ratios and leave them vulnerable. They should let us write Star Trek.

[tanadrin]

imagining a guy from like the sixteenth century both astonished at how much less violent and disorderly our society is than his and also that we didn't achieve that mostly through torture and executions. like even if he had qualms about those things he might feel he was forced to admit that if you could ensure they were abused only minimally they might be a necessary evil to discover, punish, and deter violence. and yet his assumptions about not only what works to discover and prosecute crime but how to deter and to prevent it are simply incorrect, to say nothing of the broader factors in how things like judicial torture were inevitably deployed. in the sixteenth century the understanding of how and why people commit violence was simply very bad! makes you wonder what assumptions of ours about violence and crime are going to look very stupid 500 years from now.

[dogpuppy]

[t4timekeeper]

ACCIDENTALLY LEFT MY MACERATED APPLE SYRUP ON THE STOVE AND IT CARAMELIZED I GUESS?

[t4timekeeper]

it was super thick and dark and golden and bubbly so i took it off the heat. happy accident.

[t4timekeeper]

tastes delicious so good. idk what to do with it though

[t4timekeeper]

thank you for your recommendation! with brief consideration, it has been disregarded.

[phantomrose96]

Hey kids, you need to start worrying a little less about getting “#mogged” and a little more about getting “#smogged”. This is an Air Quality Index public service announcement.

[beardedmrbean]

bosohurricane

[jovialgnomejpeg]

[anarcho-gamerist]

[wanderingokali]

(click to enlarge the image, she's a big girl)

Omikti, the goddess of the valley!

She is known for her insatiable curiosity, her long antennae reaching over to plants and creatures within her habitat to form brief connections. The valley she travels back and forth through is aptly named the "Goddess' Passage", and although that's where she's been known to reside for all of recorded history, she says that she used to roam other lands, and will move again one day.

Miisumn, the tiny village which is built on her back, is about 300 years old, having been constructed a few decades after the people living in the area started communicating with her more often. Indeed, one can only hear her voice when touching her directly, and it used to be considered taboo to bother the goddess. As it turns out, she's just as happy when people do come up to her! Since then, she has greatly enjoyed getting to try out people things, and apparently appreciates trying out many different foods.

Bonus : The various plants that grow on her. Many are local to the mountains, a couple are imported crops. The mushrooms are endemic; they feed on her magic energy. She doesn't care, she has enough to go around.

[savouryduck]

doing an astonishing job of avoiding work today

[beardedmrbean]

[toastycyborg]

I scrolled past this without second thought. Paused. Thought, wait, I've never seen a crane on the road. Scrolled back up. No answers. Typed this response, then noticed the book's author. What a whirlwind

[orcboxer]

Basically they bring it in piece by piece and assemble it on-site, using a smaller mobile crane (trucks with crane attachments) and once the crane itself is assembled, the top part can use hydraulics to climb up and down its own mast, so it builds itself taller like this

There is however no explanation for BJ Nomnom

[thedreadvampy]

The thing about abolitionist discourse is that because of global hegemony we've smashed together multiple distinct geneses of policing from different parts of the world and different social contexts. For example:

The police in France were formed in the late 18th century from military brigades and revolutionary militias in order to assert the new laws of the revolutionary government (policing as the enforcement of the state)

The roots of policing in America were formed out of 18th century slave-catching brigades (policing as enforcement of racial and social hierarchy)

The police in Scotland and then England were formed at the turn of the 19th century in order to 'keep the peace' through preventative violence in increasingly urbanised and alienated areas. (policing as enforcement of property rights)

A lot of police forces in the Global South were established in the 19th-20th century by colonial powers (policing as a means of suppressing uprising)

And like. Of course these histories are in conversation with each other and police forces worldwide absorb each others' ideologies and learn from each others' strategies. For example the American military taught the Israeli military which taught the American police. The British police were a model for many countries building more established state police forces. You know it's all interconnected. And all police serve the interests of capital and state power (all cops are, by definition, bastards)

But they do serve those interests differently and occupy different positions culturally depending on the history and context. For example, the American police often seem to think of themselves as a wing of the armed forces, the French gendarmerie literally are historically a military police force, and the British police was established as very deliberately distinct and distant from the army (NB it's also only in the last 50-odd years that militarised riot squads have been part of normal police practice afaict, so at a time when American police were conducting military operations against protesters, the British police were more on the interpersonal violence end, with counterpopulist action coming more from the army or intelligence services)

Like I'm by no means an expert but it's one of many places where it feels like there's a tendency to pick up and carry over political theory without reference to context. Normally this happens with American theory (and that does happen here too - I hear a lot of leftists in Scotland say 'policing was formed out of slavecatching patrols' and I'm like yeah in the American South. In Europe it largely came out of state militaries, local militias, bailiffs or mercenaries hired by local governments. The Scottish established a formal Edinburgh constabulary in 1611 and the French in 1667; the Carolina slave patrols are recorded from like 1704 so that isn't the underlying influence. The English started off copying French policing in the 1790s and then the English model is a lot of what was absorbed into the establishment of Northern American policing.) but in this case I would also say we take a lot of French thought into the critical framework and like. Different model of policing again. Older and more tied up in use of state violence as a political tool cause the gendarmerie are a wing of the military.

and like Foucault isn't wrong. Davies isn't wrong. International abolitionist thought is important and applicable. But I think we miss some fairly significant nuance when we treat policing as one singular continuous history and not a lot of parallel semi-convergent developments.

[hollanderthoughts]

I want to be heard (doesn’t speak) I want to be understood (doesn’t explain) I want to be seen (acts like if a missing person was right in front of everybody)

[hollanderthoughts]

Oh no cock sucking for me thanks I just wanted to cry in this bathroom at the idea of it with you

[hollanderthoughts]

Why do you want to know this. What makes you think I’m unwell. I’m very well. Thanks for checking but I’m doing well. (Gripping the kitchen sink to stop myself from touching the hot stove.) I’m doing really well.

[hollanderthoughts]

“Homophobes think about gay sex more than gay people do” WRONG I’m winning I promise you I’m winning

[hollanderthoughts]

“What are you waiting for” there has to be a perfect moment where the door is open and my real life is on the other side waiting for me and if I wait long enough for just the right moment then maybe just maybe no one will hate me for going through that door. Maybe they’d even understand why had to do what I did to get there.