A bundle of love

Nico- They/He  The host of this system! Trying to get better and stronger!

[dicksmasher]

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[rottingfacade]

POV: you are an uber eats driver

[ratfuck]

A million angry, unemployed, fucking restless new yorkers vs 36,000 worn out demoralized cops

[anarchopuppy]

Keep the protests up until all the cops quit after one too many 84-hour work weeks

[demonius-darkblade]

It’s only a trickle but it is starting :)

[rednines]

Remember in like 2017 in France the cops were doing riot copping for like months straight and were BEGGING for a break like “boohoo we’ve shot all of our tear gas we’re out of supplies we’re tired please stop rioting we want to go home” like cry harder bitch how’s it feel to get defeated at the zad again by people who can’t even wash their own dishes

We can’t let them show us up like this

[naturalscienceforweirdos]

remember when greta thunberg came on the scene and the media made a folk hero slash joke out of her and she was all “you’re going to hail me for this and then take no action at all on climate change and that makes me so fucking mad” and then exactly that happened? cause I think about it a lot and I too am mad

[thecommunityoftrustworthysinks]

ace/aro people deserve to be able to make jokes about their orientations. ace people deserve to be able to joke about “why have sex when you can XYZ.” aro people deserve to be able to joke about “romantic attraction sounds like an anxiety attack.” ace/aro people deserve to be able to express their identities and lives through jokes and puns. as long as no one is being hateful (which is something everyone needs to watch for on all jokes anyway??), we are allowed to express ourselves. we are allowed to talk about our own lack of interest in something, which does not put any pressure on anyone else for having that interest.

we are allowed. it’s not cringey. it’s not homophobic. it’s our sexuality, our orientation, our space, our jokes. and we deserve the space to express that.

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

how do you get all the way through marine biology college or whatever and not realize the “sharks are smooth” guy is doing a bit

[dragongirltitties]

it’s because he isn’t doing a bit sharks are just smooth

[soulofthebloodofthewolf-deactiv]

honestly missionaries are evil. the idea of traveling the world to tell people Who Didnt Fucking Ask that their beliefs are wrong in the hopes that theyll adopt your beliefs seems sinister

[kittyinhighheels]

The Christians in the notes whining are so absolutely stupid

[ajunlost]

I don’t even want to talk about how they specifically target poor people and hold basic necessities over their heads in exchange for faith.

[cowboymalewife]

“I read about an [Inuit] hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ ‘No,’ said the priest, ‘Not if you did not know.’

‘Then why,’ asked the [Inuit] earnestly, ‘did you tell me?” -Annie Dillard

(edited to remove slurs/dated language)

[bullydyke-deactivated20210902]

My culture and our religious practices (Inuit) have been decimated by Christianity and I fucking hate pretending its a neutral thing.

[piya-re]

Christians in the notes still don’t get it. They’re saying that missionaries aren’t that bad bc they’re just trying to save all ppl and they’ve started quoting bible verses and whatnot but here’s the thing: I. Don’t. Believe. In. That. Like your beliefs and scriptures are non applicable to me (and everyone else who isn’t Christian, or at least abrahamic) bc we’re not christian and I literally don’t care if you think we “need to be saved from Satan” or smg bc frankly, it’s not your business and that “well meaning, innocent” intention is still forcing your religion onto us. OP is right. Missionaries are evil. Leave other religions tf alone.

[fernlets-deactivated20190714]

support aces of colour who are struggling to reclaim their sexuality while being actively fetishized, hypersexualized, and/or desexualized based on their race and intersections of neuro-atypicality, physical disability, etc.

[fernlets-deactivated20190714]

i’m op of this post (i’ve since changed my url) and the amount of bloggers who have reblogged this and tagged it with some variation of “thank you” shows you how important it is to recognize people of colour who are on the ace spectrum

[knifefightscene]

[stephenroot]

[fandomsandfeminism]

“What? Like, a disabled protagonist? How would that even work? How could someone with a disability be the hero in an action show?” local anime trash boy wonders while sitting next to his box sets of Full Metal Alchemist, showing no hint of irony or self awareness. 

[artifactoftoday-deactivated2018]

but is Ed really disabled? sure I get he lost his arm and leg

but he’s still able to move and do things perfectly

[fandomsandfeminism]

He has prosthetics. Having prosthetic limbs (that more than once break amd need repair) doesnt make him not disabled

[ladyloveandjustice]

It should also be noted that Ed:

-had to undergo very painful surgery to get automail

-had to relearn how to write because of his prosthesis (there’s a post going around showing he had to switch hands etc) and his handwriting is likely a lot worse due to that. This means automail isn’t super good for delicate work, unsurprising, considering what it’s made of. 

-experiences phantom limb pain and therefore other associated stuff (this was only really shown in the manga)

-cannot go anywhere too cold without changing his automail or he’ll get really bad frost bite and it will stop working

-cannot go anywhere too hot, period, because the metal attached and under his skin will overheat and he will be badly burned

-Reattachment is painful, but needs to be done frequently if he breaks or outgrows his automail

- it’s HEAVY so much so that the strain has the potential to cause stress on his body, enough that it’s even theorized as possibly stunting his growth.

-it requires regular maintenance or it will break down, as shown when he forgets to do that and it…breaks down

-when it does need to be repaired, it takes time to do that, during which Ed uses regular prosthetics (that usually don’t quite fit him).

-costs a lot of money (not a problem for Ed due to high state alchemist salary/having mechanics as surrogate family, but explicitly noted to being the reason why most people in the fmaverse stick to regular prosthetics along with the painful surgery)

So Ed can’t actually do everything perfectly and experiences a lot of extra hassle, problems and pain people without automail don’t have to deal with!  And any advantages he does have are more suited to fighting than day to day life (being able to incorporate weapons/fake out people who want to blow up his arm). 

Arakawa did her research and thought it through. Automail is by no means a magic cure that solves all problems associated with losing a limb.

[cruisinforarubberman]

I’m kinda sad these two might not count.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Why wouldn’t they? Hiccup is missing a leg

[cruisinforarubberman]

But he doesn’t struggle.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Disability isn’t defined by” struggle” or suffering. Having a useful prosthetic doesn’t make them not disabled. Get the fuck out of here with that. 

[ultravioletcrumble]

DISABILITY ISN’T DEFINED BY SUFFERING OR STRUGGLE

[lovethemfiercely]

I will also point out (quietly, because that last point was SO important) that choosing not to show it on screen does not necessarily indicate a lack of either adaptation or difficulty.  It might simply be none of our business.

[saturninefeline-deactivated2019]

Reblogging for that last comment…it’s really creepy how voyeuristic people act about it sometimes. Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean they’re not struggling…and their apparent struggle or lack thereof isn’t what “grants” them disabled status. It’s the fact of having a disability.

[barlowstreet]

Also that’s just… not true. Hiccup DOES struggle sometimes and there’s a couple instances of them showing it. The Christmas special Gift of the Night Fury (which I am not even kidding, is canon, they reference it in the third movie) shows him having trouble on ice (you know, metal leg) and the movies do occasionally show him having a little trouble getting around.

A struggle because of a disability doesn’t have to be the most extreme thing. It can be a little extra annoyance that just makes things a little harder, or makes someone not able to do things like others would. Like a movie not having captions so a Dead/HoH person can’t watch it.

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

“But they have functional prosthetics so are they really disabled?”

Do you know the definition of the word disabled. Have you ever looked up what a disability is.

What the fuck is even happening here.

[birger-wuvs-elsa]

Also, Toothless very much does count as a disabled character as well, since he legitimately cannot fly without a prosthetic fin on his tail.

Plus, in HTTYD 2, Valka proceeds to introduce her son to several dragons who became disabled as a result of injuries from traps: one with a torn wing, one with a missing foot, and another that’s entirely blind. Plus, there’s Gobber, who’s missing two whole limbs! He has a gangling walk from his peg leg, and has to deliberately switch “hands” with his other and cannot always be properly equipped. We need not get into Drago, but the point remains that Hiccup, Gobber, and these dragons very much are disabled characters.

One could easily call Sol Regem of The Dragon Prince disabled as well, since the burns on his face completely and utterly ruined his sight. He can go by smell and hearing only, which was the saving grace of two beings that he normally would’ve been able to kill within moments. Plus, there’s the ever lovely General Amaya…who is deaf and communicates predominantly by sign and lip reading.

Plus, there’s the ever famous Toph, who while she greatly improved her life when she mastered vibration sight, it’s still imperfect. She still would rely on her friends when she couldn’t properly see (read, during the airship fight during the finale, or when they were putting up Appa’s Lost posters). Plenty of other disabled characters were also shown there.

But nothing else I can say can better enunciate the point than: Disability isn’t defined by” struggle” or suffering.

[latent-thoughts]

Bless this post…

[aliceliddellsmirror]

anyone who says a disabled person doesn’t struggle, doesn’t know the fucking meaning of struggling. We hide more from the world than you could ever imagine. 

[alltheladiesyouhate]

headcanon posts that just show a fundamental lack of critical thinking about the source material are my least favorite thing but i never want to be the party pooper that’s like “uh thats factually incorrect” so i just sit here quietly seething abt it like some misanthropic evil grandma

[ouyangzizhensdad]

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

I’d take health care and no children in cages if it meant, like, fewer kinds of apple juice to choose from, idk.

[val-ritz]

Because this version of the post doesn’t have it: HE IS IN A RESTAURANT SUPPLY STORE. It’s not even SUPPOSED to have a fucktillion name brands!

[catchymemes]

[y0rkminster]

Not only did the husband end up falling in love with the peacock (named Chief), they ended up getting a chicken as well!

[hishap]

That ended more wholesome than I had feared and I’m glad

[senilthesynth]

exotic animals should not be pets 🙃

[imnotafeddammit]

Peacocks are domestic and extremely common ya city bitch

[weaponizedhorse]

when I lived in California as a teen there was gang of peacocks that beat the living shit out of my sisters cat

[greenleafsama]

Also if it’s being sold like that it’s more likely the animal cant go back into the wild and would need a person to take care of it. Birds that are rehabilitated mostly can never be wild again as they easily imprint on humans 🤷‍♀️

[kedreeva]

@senil888 @greenleafsama it… It’s not wild OR exotic. They are domestic game fowl in the US, the same as turkeys and pheasants. They’re farm animals at this point. Like chickens, just with different care needs. They’re sold at farm auctions and game bird swap meets alongside all other kinds of domestic fowl, and most of them aren’t even that expensive, like you can get a plain blue like that for $50-100 around here, which is the same amount I paid I adopt my cat. They’ve been bred so domestically and for so long that there are literally hundreds of color/pattern mutation combos. Do you even know purple peafowl actually exist? Bronze? Opal? Silver pied? Even most of those won’t put you out by more than $200 if you’re just looking for a pet. People pay more for dogs. Rats, mice, rabbits, and guinea pigs are considered “exotics” by vets, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t domesticated them.

Chief was almost certainly being sold because someone hatched him on purpose from their pets. Chances are good that if these two have a “local” livestock auction, they live in some approximation of “the country” rather than the city, so I’m guessing they are perfectly capable of keeping both of these birds just fine. Whether they do or not I don’t know, but even if they don’t, it wouldn’t change the fact that plenty of people on farms do.

Like me, for example. Here’s one of my purple kids looking for some attention. That’s their pen in the background. He was out free ranging with my chickens.

One of my ladies begging for a treat:

Here’s our pens:

Here’s a baby I was babysitting for a friend down the road that has them. Two of my other neighbors have them too.

Like. They’re galliformes, the same as chickens, the same as turkeys. They look fancy but I promise you, they’re not.

[hypermega-bummerboy]

@kedreeva You’ve established that they’re commonly raised on farms, but why? As far as I know, we don’t eat them or their eggs… Or do we? Or maybe they serve another purpose?

[kedreeva]

@crasher33 because it would be really silly of us to raise them in apartments.

we don’t eat our pet cats and dogs. we don’t eat our pet parrots or their eggs. surprisingly, not all animals are kept because they provide food. sometimes you’re just possessed by the long-standing human desire to contain an animal in your living space in the hopes that it will like you as much as you like it.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[starstuffandalotofcoffee]

Working America is the political organizing wing of the AFL-CIO (aka the U.S.’s biggest federation of workers unions) and has consistently since 2007 advocated for universal healthcare, along with other progressive causes such as increased minimum wage, and encouraged people (especially the working class) to vote for union-backed candidates. But lol guillotine meme I guess.

[apparentlyeverything]

the whole twitter thread is full of people sharing their screenshots of getting this text and being like “lol, guilllotines” and even when the volunteers humor them and try to get them engaged and thinking about specific solutions they won’t, it’s just people showing off that they don’t actually give a shit

[riarani-deactivated20250302]

Hi everyone,

As a union organizer, i want to echo what is said above and I want you all to know this isn’t funny. We’re just trying to do our jobs and (because it’s election season) are working well over 40 hours a week phone banking, texting, and wishing we could be in the field so we don’t have to deal with twitter-finger slacktivists.

We use a mass texting app and will opt you out if you waste our time with this shit. Some organizers will avoid opting you Demons out because they want to encourage the youth to vote and participate. Mutual aid and direct action are necessary, but trolling people who have a job to try and get people engaged to vote or phone bank for a certain policy isn’t activism, it’s just harassing us.

[anarchapella]

So, while it supports “progressive policy” the AFL-CIO is not an anti-capitalist Union. They literally had their shit torched by actual organizers over their continued relationship with the International Union of Police Associations. Stomping and lobbying within a system that runs on white supremacy and violence does not make you an organizer. Y’all are the ones texting us on phone numbers we didn’t consent for you to have. I’m supposed to feel bad for you because you spend 40 hours phone banking for “incremental change within the system”. You really don’t need to work this hard, just meet up w your local food not bombs in the park and feed homeless ppl for a few hours. Those few hours have reduced more harm than all the hours of all the phone bankers getting youth engaged to vote combined.

Also, if you want to actually organize workers just join the iww.

[sexhaver]

The AFL-CIO’s Police Union Problem Is Bigger Than You Think

Some of the most controversial cop unions are unaffiliated with national groups, while large and progressive unions include an influential p

“Having law enforcement units in other unions, whether it is AFSCME, UFCW or the Teamsters, has a very conservative impact on the union,” Fletcher said. “The law enforcement units tend to be very well organized and very conservative. They will intervene when there are union debates on anything that has to do with law enforcement, the movement for black lives or issues of immigration and detention.” 

[lookskindadeadinside]

#lmao trying to guilt trip people for giving the correct answer to a question asked in bad faith via a phone number you didn’t give them

[the-transfeminine-mystique]

“we’re gonna cold-text you without your consent in exactly the same way that every other worthless bloated SuperPAC does and when you respond with frustration at the system that keeps putting your number on contact lists that you did not sign up for and asking bad-faith questions about what you think should be done when they don’t actually give a shit because they already have their agenda mapped out, we’re gonna guilt you and ask why you hate union organizing”

[butchflirt]

As a union organizer, fuck the AFL and join the IWW

[contac]

[precioustranswoman-deactivated2]

There’s so much info about tucking and gaffs (less so) but to all new trans girls.. just get some cotton panties like boyshorts style and push it back gently.

 Like you might have to do slightly (slightly) more for tighter clothes or different fabrics but like… ya don’t need to tape yourself every day… or ever… and gaffs are good but unless you’re wearing something tight n thin cotton boyshorts or some other strong underwear will do the trick.

 Like all this info pretending like you need special gaffs, tape, to shove ur testes up into your inguinal canal, etc. is classist, physically harmful, and preventatively daunting information to be spreading without disclaimers like this.

[polyhedralprincess]

Idk if this has been said before but a long time ago another trans lady and I kinda realized we could just wear 2 pairs of underwear and call it a day without taping or anything fancy. Its definitely a cheap alternative and Ive been doing it for 6 years 👍

I wear jeggings to work and when im out and about and I never get looks or comments, idk if this is helpful to anyone tho 😅

[drumandbassdoll-deactivated2023]

to every transfemme person: please read this it will save you so much time, money, and energy

[low-or-no-dyspho-ria]

I had a friend who wore some layers compression shorts and called it a day

[hazelmagix]

I think yall honestly are so desensitized to black pain that yall dont realize how much of what you do actually hurts, like you're so used to the hypervisibilty of black people that you forget that..we are people with the same thoughts and emotions you have.

[hazelmagix]

you should reblog this actually.

[hazelmagix]

can yall stop fucking telling me you read this as back pain. shut up.

[hazelmagix]

like I promise you that shit ain't new. why cant yall keep shit to yourself like you see this is a serious post about me as a black person talking about how ppl ignore what they do affects black ppl bc of the hypervisbility about black pain; and yall are like haha read this as back pain like way to prove my damn point.