Rose's Garden

31. She/they. Queer. Polyamorous. Left as fuck. Eat the rich. Icon by rouge-the-bat

[innerchildabortionclinic]

can we stop pretending liberal politicians actually have a strategy involving gaining conservative voters? it's just an excuse to not go further left to protect their pockets.

[penny-anna]

what the hell is going on

[penny-anna]

i believe in you Binface. you can do it. this could be your moment.

[penny-anna]

Please god it would be so funny

[penny-anna]

there is no downside to voting for Count Binface. its not taking away from other candidates bcos they aren't any and the more votes he gets the stupider Farage looks.

[penny-anna]

for people out of the loop:

Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, a far right party who are currently in the process of a serious bid to become the UK government. they are just straight up evil.

Count Binface is an intergalactic space warrior with a bin on his head. he likes to run as a novelty candidate in general and mayoral elections. a big thing he likes to do is run as a candidate against the incumbent prime minister:

(Also pictured: Boris Johnson, Elmo)

Anyway, in brief:

Nigel Farage is currently in the midst of a big scandal about his finances

He has decided to deal with this by 1) making a show of nobly resigning from parliament and then 2) immediately running in the resulting by-election

He has stated that he is letting 'the people' judge his actions and implied that if he wins that will prove that he has been exonerated in the court of public opinion

His goal was presumably to get a big resounding win over the other parties, proving that The People still love him.

the other parties have thus far decided that this is a 'vanity election' and, well, there is one very easy way to ensure that he will not beat any of them, and that is simply not to play.

and as a result the only person who has so far confirmed they are running against him is Count Binface. no matter the outcome this makes Nigel Farage look like, u know, a fucking clown.

[butterflyslinky]

So what happens if Count Binface actually wins? Does he join Parliament? Does he have to take the bin off his face?

[penny-anna]

I've seen some people saying he would have to give up his title but it would seem that is no longer the case as of 1999; so, no, he can keep his ceremonial bin if he wishes.

Important to note also that Count Binface is the alter ego of comedian & political satirist Jon Harvey who seems to be an intelligent individual with reasonable politics. As I said no real downside.

[penny-anna]

The no hats rule clearly does not apply to him. He is not wearing a hat. It's a bin.

[shabby-blog]

His political pledge

[r4-kingofcamelot]

apparently current poll estimations put him at 18%. Which tbh is still pretty good for a guy with a bin on his face.

From what I understand he does this both to prove what british democracy allows you to do, and to keep other politicians humble.

Personally am rooting for him as that would quite possibly be the last nail in the coffin of Reform UK and almost certainly of Nigel Farage. It’s hard to come back from loosing a political popularity contest to a guy who wears a bin and whose political manifesto revolves around moving one hand dryer. and who’s whole campaign is ‘at least i’m not that guy’.

And yeah theres basically no downside for the people of clacton voting for him. he’s a political satirist so has a good understanding of politics and would be able to run the place. Although his manifesto is lacklustre it’s 1. far less hateful than reforms and 2. achievable. And of course, at least he’s not farage.

idk how fucked a country is when this guy is the most reasonable candidate but oh well.

[shittysawtraps]

you do not, under any circumstances, “have to hand it to jigsaw”

[technicoloryuri]

look you heard the creepy doll, he's either getting my hand or we're gettiing left in the torture chamber.

[captain-price-returns]

mecha hitler is now “vital for national security”

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Tumblr being the "piss on the poor" reading comprehension site makes sense when you realize that 79% of adults in the US are functionally illiterate. Same goes for Twitter and TikTok.

that's a real high number, sport. where'd you get it?

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

hey anon

please tell me you didn't google "US literacy rates" and then make the funniest possible mistake one could make in that situation

[sacredheart-stigmata]

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot to death in Houston, Texas, USA, by ICE agents earlier this week, on July 7th. Araujo was 52, and was in the process of completing his citizenship authorization in the United States. He was family man who was deeply dedicated to his wife and three children, and supported his coworkers at their construction company without fail. He was assaulted by ICE during a traffic stop and, according to ICE, fled while using his car as a deadly weapon, justifying his murder. As there is currently little to no civilian footage of the murder and ICE has complete control of the narrative, holding ICE to the fire will be exponentially harder than the murders of Renée Good and Alex Pretti.

May Araujo, and all others terrorized by ICE and the United States, find peace and justice

[Image description: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican man with short black hair is smiling and standing behind a kitchen counter with a cake on it which has candles in the shape of the numbers 52 on it. He is in a living room. /End ID]

[heathermooch]

PSA‼️ Meta is now without consent allowing anyone to create deepfakes and generative AI of anyone’s photos. ‼️PLEASE SHARE FOR PEOPLE’S SAFETY

I think this is it, this is the last straw. This should under no law be allowed to be OPT OUT. I don’t think I am exaggerating by saying this will have an insane detrimental effect to everyone, but especially teens and underage users. No explicit consent is crazy for something so vastly dangerous to everyone’s privacy. Fuck Meta in its entirety, and I hope they get subpoenad by congress and sued into oblivion in every single country. I can’t believe a company could stoop this low, this is inhuman.

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[helenvaughans]

why are the most powerful people in the world all such whiny fucking babies now

[juunipupu]

Knight and Midsummer eve (happy pride 🏳️‍🌈)

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

my family has had some pretty interesting encounters with psychics/mediums that seem genuine in the past, but nothing will ever be funnier to me than the last guy my mom talked to who was so definitely bullshitting, because she said "I was hoping to hear from my husband" and the guy went "he said....it's okay to Move On" and like. every single person my mom has recounted this too has been like "He Would Not Fucking Say That". as if this was an ooc fanfic about my father. it's just so fucking funny. fake psychic dude take your shitty headcanons about my ghost dad and LEAVE!!!

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

like, my parents were legitimately insane about each other. I cannot stress how much he wouldn't say that. I have to assume his ghost was standing right next to this fake psychic yelling "WHAT THE FUCK!!!!" when he told my mom to move on lmfao

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

actually. funnier to imagine he was a Real Psychic who was just trying to put a move on my mom and didn't think the ghost would do anything about it and now is now dealing with a violently angry haunting for the rest of his days lmfao

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

this psychic for the rest of his life all because he tried to hit on some dead guy's wife in an elevator

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

Ghost Dad: WE LITERALLY CHANGED OUR VOWS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T LIKE "TILL DEATH DO US PART"

Psychic: he says you need a real man. a tangible one. a man visible to the average eye.

[thequeeninyellowlace]

Psychic: I also choose this guy’s still-alive wife.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[bigboyhammerhead]

i will never be active on facebook as long as i live why was this the top comment. girllllll. GIRLLLLLL.

[lamafeeling]

Amazing life long lessons like, let me check: slaves actually want to be slaves and have no direction without it

[yayculture]

let's all have fun because it's better than not having fun

[rabbitkinglune777]

she's learning to do his hair!

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

Things that ARE covered by your Wizard Insurance:

Top Surgery

Bottom Surgery

Witch Encounters (one per century)

Killed By Greg

Middle Surgery (✨ New! ✨)

[random-meme-bot]

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

Oh for Gandalf's Big Naturals- Fine! 😡

Dental (✨ New! ✨) (first 1,000 teeth ONLY)

[fallenangelvictorious]

Obsessed with these tags, you are so right bestie

[creekfiend]

its really darkly funny that so many public figures keep dying "of cardiac complications after a brief illness" like wow y'all are Never ever going to say the word COVID huh.

[cosmictuesdays]

They used to say "complications from pneumonia" instead of AIDS.

[tpwrtrmnky]

"Egg" and "poor innocent gnc cis man being attacked by the evil trans women" aren't the only options btw. Sometimes people just, get this, choose to have their enormous online presence remain closeted.

It's actually really weird how easily online queer spaces seem to forget that the closet is a thing.

[tpwrtrmnky]

This might come as a surprise for those who use the internet as their primary outlet for queerness but some people are online to do their jobs and don't want to be out at work.

[tpwrtrmnky]

The more of an audience someone has, the more understandable it gets if they share absolutely nothing about their personal life, queer identity included. "You should experiment with new pronouns and see how you like it" is a sensible suggestion to make in a situation where you're surrounded by people who either don't care or can be trusted to be supportive, but if you've got a six-digit number of capricious strangers screenshotting everything you say in public, you quickly learn that vulnerability and openness has a cost to it.

[peanutscomics]