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Darned bushes yelling at me again - she/they - 26 -

[deanky]

I don’t want to get my hopes up but it would be really funny if he died.

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

like to charge reblog to cast

[butterflypeaflowertea]

you're laughing. trump and melania literally have covid and you're laughing. AND I'M LAUGHING TOO

[neopets-hentai]

HERE WE GO BOYS!

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Braid: Kenney can't pay down debt on backs of the disabled

Don Braid: It’s absurd — not to mention heartless — to save money by redefining people with disabilities to meet fiscal goals

There’s surely enough worry and fear in Alberta today without the premier throwing an almighty scare into some of Alberta’s most vulnerable people.

Jason Kenney now says eligibility criteria for AISH will be examined because there are just too darned many people with disabilities on the program — nearly 70,000.

This cadre of Albertans has grown much faster than the province, he says.

“Initially, AISH was a program designed for the severely handicapped,” Kenney said Tuesday.

“But the population of people qualifying has been growing far, far faster than the overall population, and so they have to look at issues like that — what are the criteria, how do we define severely handicapped in this day and age?”

The “severely handicapped”, it seems, should somehow limit themselves to growth plus inflation.

We might ask how far this thinking will go.

Will the province decide to bring in new criteria for, say, knee replacements?

A lot of people are waiting in line. And, really, how do you define a knee in this day and age?

That won’t happen, of course. But it’s just as absurd — not to mention heartless — to save money by redefining people with disabilities to meet fiscal goals.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[cheltrei]

The cruelty is the point

[olcarcajou]

It’s not that King Kenney has burned billions of dollars on stupid oil industry bets, and it’s not that he’s continued to make those stupid bets even after oil was at negative dollars, and it’s not that he’s earmarked millions for a literal anti-oil inquisition, it’s not that every minister now seems to have an army of well-paid PR staffers picking fights on twitter.

It’s because some snake, some real bastard of a human, had the arrogant temerity to be born with rheumatoid arthritis so now they’re living the high life on a disability payment. 19200 per year, a Kings Ransom reall, just to hang out and be in excruciating and debilitating pain all day.

AISH payouts amount to abouuuut 112000000 per year, which is ballpark 1% of the 8+ billion King Kenney blew threw in the last -year- on oil industry bets and tax cuts. He knows full well that he isn’t going to “find some savings,”

He’s throwing vulnerable people to the wolves by accusing them of theft and penury, even while he loots the province.

[seliphra]

I’d like to add: As it is, AISH is fucking hard to get on to. I applied back when I was too ill to work and it was so complicated and difficult with so many hoops to jump through that I gave up, lacking the energy to be able to finally get onto it. 

After these cuts, it’s going to be neigh on impossible. Maybe if Kenney hadn’t made so many tax cuts to billionairs and the oil industry, which is now collapsing spectacularly, we wouldn’t be selling off our national parks, cutting AISH, and firing 20,000 teachers, and managing 0 additional budget for schools in the province to handle COVID-19 reopening. 

[whitepeopletwitter]

[rootbeergoddess]

This.

There are so many rich people who get to try a new hobby every day while the rest of us are struggling 

[sovietnam]

[incendavery]

flock together; love each other (part 7)

(more protest pigeons)

[gahdamnpunk]

So they’re saying 12 months were never necessary in the first place? 🧐

[crownmalone]

They screen all the blood first anyway.

Especially after the debacle where they shipped HIV+ blood to Latin and South America knowingly.

This is just codified discrimination with no scientific basis. Fight back.

VOTE.

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

all r/relationships posts are either:

"My [26F] husband [43M] has suddenly started [doing blatantly abusive thing]. Am I in the wrong?"

"My [37F] husband [39M] and I have been together for 8 loving years. But three months ago, he learned about Chris Angel, and he's now decided he wants to spend his life performing motorcycle stunts in front of penguins. I don't want to crush his dreams but he's used up all of our life savings. Advice?"

"My [34M] wife [32M] has always had natural brown hair. Last week, she decided to dye it blonde. Should I file for divorce?"

[zampl]

4. “My [42F] daughter [14F] told me today that she’s ‘depressed’ and ‘needs help.’ Should I ground her?”

[silly-slacker-person]

[attractthecrows]

let's not forget "my(30F) FIL(61M) and my husband(34M) are blatantly planning for my death in childbirth"

[dankmemeuniversity]

[ahsoka]

Star Wars cast members who have openly expressed their dislike for Reylo

Mark Hamill

Daisy Ridley

Adam Driver

John Boyega

Star Wars cast members that Reylo's started a hate campaign against

John Boyega

[qrgirl-deactivated20220303]

the space race may be the funniest point in history period and i'll stand by that. the US is like "yes whoever gets into space first will prove once and for all that our economic model is superior and that we are, in general, the superior country of superior and smarter people." then the soviets just went and did it and the US freaked out and needed to cover their ass so were like "WE MEAN THE MOON, WE MEAN THE FIRST TO LAND ON THE MOON."

[fanderburker]

[skluug]

yeah its cus walking on the moon was cool as hell and all this other boring shit sucked ass

[togglesbloggle]

When I was a freshman in a red-state college, I had a professor who taught Newtonian physics with a super thick Russian accent.  The student body was unusually conservative for a state college, so there was a sort of general bemusement about learning physics from a Russian, but even back then the Cold War was far enough in the past that not even the red tribe was inclined to stir up trouble about it.

He was aware enough of this to get off on trolling the class, though.  Whenever some force diagram in a homework assignment needed to be weightless, instead of being some generic spacecraft it would be “Mir” specifically.  And he’d always use ‘cosmonaut’ instead of ‘astronaut’, that kind of thing.

One day about halfway through the semester, he’s doing this with in-class examples on the board, and one of the students finally gets up the guts to troll back a little.  So this kid shouts from the back of the auditorium, “Hey professor, what’s the difference between a cosmonaut and an astronaut?”

And this beautiful man spins around on one heel to face the class, whiteboard marker triumphantly over his head, clearly having been waiting for this moment the entire semester: “Cosmonaut go to space first! Ha!”

[18kgold]

Utah BLM protesters could get life in prison for splashing paint

Demonstrators allegedly caused thousands of dollars’ damage and charges include gang enhancement: ‘It feels retaliatory,’ protester says

The felony criminal mischief charges are more serious because they carry a gang enhancement. Prosecutors said on Wednesday that was justified because the protesters worked together to cause thousands of dollars in damage, but watchdogs called the use of the 1990s-era law troubling, especially in the context of criminal justice reform and minority communities.

Once again, I fucking hate the way people even slightly outside this shit will talk about it. “Troubling”??????????? This is not ‘troubling’, this is appalling! 

[note-a-bear]

Casual reminder that “gang affiliation” charges are a remnant of various slave code era laws against people congregating.

It’s used for everything from railroading protesters (see above) to punting kids into prisons when they’d otherwise get a fine or possibly a low level misdemeanor.

It’s a naked intimidation tactic and it goes hand in hand with Trump and the DOJ identifying ‘ANTIFA’ as a terrorist org.

[childish-himbino]

a video of me aggressively photographing mushrooms went viral on tiktok and tbh this is how i wanna be remembered.

[im-not-trash-im-compost]

Audio transcription:

Person filming: " having gay friends is all fun and games until they need to take a picture of a mushroom"

Person kneeling desperately to take picture of mushroom while friend films: "UUUUGH it's a bunch though! It's a family Megan!"

[bear1na]

The Last Airbender: Ang by Daniel Warren Johnson *

[sheepgirlwizard-deactivated2025]

a lil controversial but people should spend less time dunking on TERFs and spending more time uplifting and supporting trans women