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It's not about pornography you idiots. It's about sex workers having the right to advertise and monetize this platform, and queer people's rights to exist in their own bodies.

Tumblr will continue to be dead, unless you demand they bring back sex workers to the platform. You want porn? Make sure we get paid for making it.

velvetys

When you see your pet and start petting their head and it’s randomly wet and you ask them “what happened why are you wet!!!!!!” And the pet doesn’t answer

niggazinmoscow

THIS RIGHT HERE

afronerdism

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

molothoo

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

scretladyspider

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated

dantalaois

odinsblog

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

bubonickitten

I’d also like to drop recommendations for The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.

They both tackle the historical evolution of modern-day mass incarceration (e.g. slavery giving way to convict leasing giving way to the modern prison-industrial complex & for-profit prisons) and how it relates to voter disenfranchisement.

embodiedfutures

We provide the New Jim Crow as a free PDF under our social justice resources alongside several hundred other racial injustice and prison abolition resources here.

seravph

THEY KEEP ASKING ME IF I WOULD DIE FOR THEM AND I KEEP ASKING WHY THEY WANT ME DEAD

dsmsix

job interviews

larkstonguesinaspicpart1

oh my fucking god i had a dream that paw patrol was getting harassed on twitter and as damage control they announced one of the paw patrol dogs was transgender and i thought it was real up until a few hours ago

I was going through a diary I began on day 00 of 2015 and for a long time nearly everyday involved if and being in love with this particular goon

wow i never answered this but i think i can guess who it was

dyllpiccle

Don’t let them bury me as someone I’m not.

guerrillatech

sedoretu

omg that’s not even all of it

ovenroastedtwerkey

Petition to fold Chile in half so it gobbles up the UK in one bite like Ms. Pacman

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what’s happening here

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evolution

pillowprincesslexa

Europe is currently being burned alive and people still think climate change is a joke. It’s warmer in North Europe than in the middle eastern deserts.

Nearly all northern countries broke their decades old heat records this week.

frogs-smoking-cigarettes

Its only in the low hundreds in farenheit??? In America we get that for like a month or two straight every year??? Y'all need to deal is it really normally so cold over there that yall can live with a little heat???

pillowprincesslexa

If you’re gonna have an ignorant American attitude then please only stay on American posts. No one in North Europe has an AC in their houses. Stores, animal shelters, elderly houses, no one has AC. the houses are designed to keep the heat in. The people are not accustomed to the heat. A sudden climate shift like this is extremely dangerous to older people and babies specifically.

There are programs being run to inform elderly people what to do to not die in this heat. There was a heatwave in the Netherlands in 2010 in which approximately 500 more elderly people passed away than normally.

adhoption

One thing people don’t often appreciate is that the southern US states are along the same latitude as the Middle Eastern deserts, rather than northern Europe. We’re not competing with Texas, we’re competing with northern Canada. If Saskatoon can’t handle Mexican weather, London can’t handle Middle-Eastern weather. It’s not built for it at all.

toebeens

very helpful and informative graphic

headspace-hotel

“Low hundreds” are deadly here too, it’s just that pretty much all American homes have air conditioning (even if it’s just those loud shitty microwave sized units you stick in your windows) because they’d be uninhabitable in the summers without them.

lung-pollution

Sometimes I catch myself reading a rly long paragraph on the this website n then I remember to stop

😡

And before anyone says shit about budgets:

thunderboltsortofapenny

Birds of Prey is now available streaming, time to make it into the cult classic it was born to be

bi-nick-carraway

So I'm on Barnes&Noble online shopping for a copy of The Great Gatsby with a fancy cover, as you do, and

SOMEONE WROTE A WHOLE ASS NOVEL ABOUT NICK??? AND I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT???????????

bi-nick-carraway

@fumkyfrenshfamtherfigure

the

WHAT

boimgfrog

YEAH!!

The synopsis reads, "Nick Carraway meets his mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Gatsby doesn’t seem to eat anything, and has an aversion to silver, garlic, and the sun, but good friends are hard to come by. Especially an interesting millionaire like Gatsby.

When Gatsby asks Nick to help catch a murderer, Nick just can’t say no. And, of course, Nick agrees to set up a tea date for his cousin Daisy and Gatsby. It’s harmless to reunite two old friends; until Nick realizes the truth he’s known, deep down, the entire time.

Jay Gatsby is a vampire."

bi-nick-carraway

That sounds amazing.

But also, i see your vampire gatsby and raise you