Failure is a Teacher

Elijah (call me Eli) | He/Him | 20s | Terfs/exclusionists/racists/pedos/bigots fuck off | BJJ Blue Belt | Cardholding member of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles | 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

[1five1two]

Carved ripples on granite. Shen Lieyi.

[cornona]

ice is just going to keep killing whoever the fuck they want in the streets of every neighborhood broad daylight with impunity and ppl are only gonna care if the victim is white huh. like im not surprised you crackers never give af when black and brown ppl are victims of anything but i had a glimmer of hope that because this time it was the OraNgE ManN’S gEStApO you’d give a fuck when we get killed this time. but of course that was fucking foolish of me to even consider the notion of

[cornona]

three people murdered in cold blood in one week. three human lives cut short. three hearts stopped. three pairs of lungs forever emptied. three pools of blood. three families destroyed. in ONE WEEK. three wrongful public executions in one week. but nobody looks twice once they see tears on melanated skin. no one remembers their names. no one talks about their energy, their occupation, their sacrifices to their communities. nobody wants to listen to what their families would give to have their son back, their brother back, their father back. three times in one week you’ve ignored us. nobody cares. because to you, that’s just what happens to them, and it’s gonna keep happening, and you guess you just better get used to it. i’m fucking nauseous. fuck every single one of you. you don’t give a fuck. nobody talk to me today or ever again maybe

[cognitohazardous]

kung pow penis was invented by a particular blogger to annoy a particular reactionary chud, neither of whom are on the site anymore. and yet the tool, once so singular in its application, remains to serve future generations.

[yuutaguro]

[papamin au 🐅] and we’re airborne!! ✈️

[muirin007]

This is one of the funniest scenes in gothic literature and the fact that this is verbatim from the novel is incredibly underrated.

[creatingblackcharacters]

‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ trust me, if white people know you aren't safe to be racist around, we'll notice! Your ACTIONS will speak for you!

[patrochillesvibes]

[not-muse]

[rj-anderson]

I know this is from Australia but when I first saw the words “Victorian man” all I could think of was this:

[cockyhorror]

To be fair imagine you just arrived in 2018 from Victorian England and discovered Take On Me, what are you supposed to do, not blast it loud enough for your family to hear it all the way back in 1876?

[captain-price-returns]

whoopsie

[kropotkindersurprise]

[strangetikigod]

[genderoutlaws]

two of my trans friends from the US who applied for and got refugee status in canada have informational PDFs they wanted me to share for anyone interested in applying for refugee status as well, since there's been a lot of misinformation around online suggesting it's an impossibility. it's not effortless and they've had to work with a lawyer, but 245 people from the US successfully got refugee status last year, which was an increase from the year before.

i can put ppl in contact with said refugee friends and or answer questions through them to the best of my ability, but the basics they wanted me to pass around are the claims process flowchart and the refugee claim orientation guide. (please let me know if either link isnt functioning) and the general info that you're more likely to get approved working with a lawyer in your province of choice and slowly building a case than doing an at border crossing application.

[iero]

T-shirt that says "I'M SORRY FOR THE PERSON I BECOME WHEN I'M OVERHEATED"

[zmpl]

before we start posting that july is gay wrath month let’s consider that july is disability pride month first and foremost. the “be gay do crimes” memes can wait

[arqueete]

obsessed with this sign i saw taped up outside the bat room at the zoo yesterday. the enthusiasm, the hand-written note, the bat drawing.

[northern-punk-lad]

Being prime minister of the uk has a higher regret rate than being trans

So the solution is to ban prime ministers

[northern-punk-lad]

[renstrapp]

Keep Venezuela in your thoughts ❤️‍🩹

Venezuela was hit by two earthquakes yesterday, a 7.2 and a 7.5. Many parts of the country have been reduced to rubble, and areas of Caracas have been flattened. Their infrastructure has already been under immense strain. Here's how you can help:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-relief-for-venezuela-earthquake-victims

https://thehouse-project.org/products/support-the-house-project-make-a-difference-today

[aorish-deactivated20251222]

Recent discourse reminds me of that cult indoctrination trick that's often used to weed out more difficult marks early on, where they tell you all that you aren't allowed to eat rice on Tuesdays and then if you protest they go "wow SOMEBODY likes rice a little much huh" as if you're the fucking weirdo who cares too much about how much rice is consumed between Monday and Wednesday instead of them.

And this forces you to decide whether your autonomy matters to you more than the approval of the group - while they'll still act like you're on thin ice either way, if you give in at this point they know you're theirs forever, because now they've established a foothold, you've shown a moral weakness, which they will brand you with so it can be used against you in the future ("hey RICE-addict here doesn't want help break into the city records office") to force you to double-down and isolate you further.

And if instead you do decide to push back further, after your abrupt departure from the group ("You're seriously leaving us over RICE?!? Seriously?") and subsequent ostracism, you can then be used as a demonstration to the others who were more pliable, of how the outgroup is full of people like you who are obsessed with violating the No-Tuesday-Rice rule to the point where they'll abandon all their friends, who cared so much for them, so it clearly isn't an arbitrary restriction, you're the kind of monster these rules are intended to protect them from, thus all the other wise and esoteric precepts of the charismatic leader are implied to be equally justified.

[doomhamster]

This isn't just for cults either! Shitty partners, bosses, friends - they all do variants of this where if you kick back the first time they make an unreasonable request, it proves you weren't ever committed since you'd let such a small thing ruin everything. And of course, if it's the third or the tenth unreasonable thing they ask of you, it's SUCH A SMALL THING to be a deal-breaker at this late point in your relationship!

[queerintheuk]

Just met a trans man who's going on T because he specifically wants to be bald and i'm afraid to say i think i'm just never gonna meet anyone cooler than that ever again

[demonprince26]

He worked very hard for this and deserves more credit.😤So many Bill’s.🤣