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*NO TERFS/SWERFS or DDLG* Cis het girl (she/her), 23, white, Living in NS, Canada. Still learning and unlearning, aiming for intersectionality. If you need something tagged just let me know and I'll do my best. This is a side blog, if you want my main url just ask me off anon. I don't own the photo used as my avatar.

[reasonandempathy]

How to Ditch Amazon

Support your local libraries and the small businesses that are actually making the products you want.  Fuck Jeff Bezos and the systemic, universal worker abuse, gaslighting, and brutality they live off of.

[glamour-divine]

racist teens having their college offers taken away and racist adults getting fired from their jobs? we love to see it. face the consequences of your words and actions

[beaky-peartree]

you can’t claim to be a jewish or muslim ally while also saying shit like “all organized religion is evil” or “only vapid idiots believe in god”

[thebisexualblogger-blog1]

[gaylor-moon]

I’m gonna start a blog where I post nothing but this every hour of every day.

[trickster-archangel]

I’ll never not reblog this

[lets-do-get-help-deactivated202]

Weekly reminder that if you don’t support trans women or men you can kindly shove a cactus up your ass 😇

[weonsinnombre]

[abyss-in-machines]

We owe it all to them.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

What was the rationale for them trying to not have a public inquiry in the first place for the Nova Scotia mass shootings? You'd think the fact that it was the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history and all the suspicions that the guy was an RCMP informant would have been enough to make the need for one self-evident, not to mention that there have been public inquiries for much less serious incidents IIRC

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[thatfeministkilljoy]

The original explanation is that it might be too "traumatizing"

[wildlifer-deactivated20220928]

when i see someone on reddit or twitter or here on tumblr mention how they accidentally stumbled upon CSEM (Child Sexual Exploitation Material, commonly known as child pornography, but i encourage you to replace that terminology with CSEM!)-- which is not as hard to find as the general public would like to believe-- and freaked out, i understand. but when they say that they panicked and closed the tab etc and tried to forget about it, i'm sitting behind my screen saying no!! no!!!!

if you accidentally come across images of child sexual abuse online, REPORT IT! the child in those images is a real person and they are suffering. your report could save that child's life if they are currently being exploited-- and for those of us who have gone on to become adults, every time you help remove one of our images you are doing us a kindness you can't even imagine.

when i see that someone came across CSEM and didn't report it, i think about myself and all the other survivors out there who live with the knowledge that our material is out there online in a thousand redundancies, and EVERY. SINGLE. instance of that material being removed is a great, massive relief. the thought of someone seeing one of my images/videos and not taking action to remove it is so very disheartening.

if you come across CSEM, please please please report it. the child in those images would thank you. i am thanking you.

[teaboot]

Some rando: You should think about stopping your prescription

Me: My pills make me not want to die tho

They: You shouldn’t want to die, that’s not normal

Me: Yeah that’s why I’m taking my pills

[teaboot]

Again: But you aren’t the *real* you when you’re on your pills

Me: I’m the alive version of me

[teaboot]

An actual doctor, once: “Relying On A Chemical Crutch For A Hormonal Imbalance Denies The Fortitude Of The Human Soul”

Me: Cool so like I’m agnostic

[inner-muse]

They: “But you might be on pills the rest of your life!”

Me: “So?”

[illnessisnteasy]

Good! That means that I have a “rest of” my life to continue living!

Thanks to the pills.

[erinptah-admin]

Meanwhile, no person ever: “You should think about giving up your insulin/antiretrovirals/beta blockers/anti-rejection drugs/prosthetic legs/daily multivitamin, because using those your whole life is bad for some reason”

[teaboot]

Oh no, they do that too.

[living-deciduously]

I have a kidney transplant. A woman once told me she didn’t believe in organ transplants and that people should just die when they’re meant to. 

[teaboot]

Sounds like a great set-up for a murder

[teaboot]

People who are fully healthy, fit and neurotypical seem to think they are that way because they’re doing something right that the rest of us haven’t thought of, and not just because they got lucky

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

furthermore, neurotypical/healthy people are literally 100% dependent on the same chemicals and hormones as those of us on medication, it’s just that their own bodies are capable of supplying them without aid. if a neurotypical suddenly lost all their serotonin, they would ALSO be severely depressed. 

needing medication to find the equilibrium that healthy/NT people can supply themselves with doesn’t make you weak or a failure. honestly, let’s just be grateful that such medication exists rather than shaming ourselves for needing it.

[mindblowingscience]

A really good article about how the excessive focus on cleaning/surface transmission of COVID-19 has been vastly overemphasized to the detriment of preventing transmission from respiratory droplets/aerosols. In a similar way that a lot of the post-9/11 airport safety measures are 'security theatre' (i.e. they make us feel safer but don't actually make us safer), the overemphasized focus on deep cleaning/sanitizing surfaces has likely taken away from more effective measures to prevent COVID-19 from spreading, giving us 'prevention fatigue' from measure that don't even help much.

You Can Stop Cleaning Your Mail Now

People are power scrubbing their way to a false sense of security.

[fueltransitsleep]

Just want to emphasize this part because so many restaurants and bars are trumpeting how much they're cleaning while still having indoor dining

[catboyboy]

here’s a psa from ur local iranian-american, quit pronouncing “Iran” as “eye-ran”, it’s pronounced “ee-rahn”, and when one of us corrects you? fucking. change. start correcting yourself. I get the media sucks with pronouncing it right but at least make a goddamn effort, because it feels like no one really is. ive personally told ppl over 10 times and even then they didn’t get it right.

Pronouncing it like “eye-ran” leads to sososo many racist jokes, and they’re NOT harmless, they’re annoying and rude and overall really insensitive, and that can get to a person. please stop.

this is ok to rb, I encourage it if anything

[urfavhatesterfs]

YOU hates terfs

[dillyt]

[exigencelost]

If you are finding that prolonged isolation and confinement to a single living space are having a a severely detrimental effect on your mental and physical health, perhaps I can interest you in some PRISON ABOLITION

[wenchyfloozymoo]

[butterflyknyfe]

i wish the innocent black lives that were lost to police brutality were as defended as random white youtubers who wanna cry because they got called out for being racist and generally out of pocket 

[dankmemeuniversity]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Nova Scotia shooter case has hallmarks of an undercover operation

Police sources say the killer's withdrawal of $475,000 was highly irregular, and how an RCMP ‘agent’ would get money

The withdrawal of $475,000 in cash by the man who killed 22 Nova Scotians in April matches the method the RCMP uses to send money to confidential informants and agents, sources say.

Gabriel Wortman, who is responsible for the largest mass killing in Canadian history, withdrew the money from a Brink’s depot in Dartmouth, N.S., on March 30, stashing a carryall filled with hundred-dollar bills in the trunk of his car.

According to a source close to the police investigation the money came from CIBC Intria, a subsidiary of the chartered bank that handles currency transactions.

Sources in both banking and the RCMP say the transaction is consistent with how the RCMP funnels money to its confidential informants and agents, and is not an option available to private banking customers.

The RCMP has repeatedly said that it had no “special relationship” with Wortman.

Court documents show Wortman owned a New Brunswick-registered company called Berkshire-Broman, the legal owner of two of his vehicles (including one of his police replica cars). Whatever the purpose of that company, there is no public evidence that it would have been able to move large quantities of cash. Wortman also ran his own denturist business and there is no reason to believe it also would require him to handle large amounts of cash.

If Wortman was an RCMP informant or agent, it could explain why the force appeared not to take action on complaints about his illegal guns and his assault on his common-law wife.

A Mountie familiar with the techniques used by the force in undercover operations, but not with the details of the investigation into the shooting, says Wortman could not have collected his own money from Brink’s as a private citizen.

“There’s no way a civilian can just make an arrangement like that,” he said in an interview.

He added that Wortman’s transaction is consistent with the Mountie’s experience in how the RCMP pays its assets. “I’ve worked a number of CI cases over the years and that’s how things go. All the payments are made in cash. To me that transaction alone proves he has a secret relationship with the force.”

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada @abpoli @nspoli

[nbphosphophyllite]

I mean I was calling this when it happened. Where do you think you can get a cop car, cop uniform, and weapons all from the same place?