Millions of thoughts at my fingertips

"You get scary strange. You could be like a mad scientist. But you're not."

[profeminist]

“Fuck #Ice shoutout to my Mexicans , pass this shit”

-  Fabio Ochoa @QuePasaWindow

[lavendelundrot]

All the people in the notes saying “they aren’t protected by the Constitution,” know nothing of our laws and constitution. The Constitution does not state anywhere that it’s protections fall only on us citizens, ( in fact if states wanted they could open up voting for non-citizens ) and this is the opinion held by the supreme Court in multiple cases.

( this article also talks a bit about rights https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/t-he-constitutional-rights-of-noncitizens/ )

Just because you don’t like foreign people doesn’t mean they don’t have rights. Even if they didn’t you should still have enough of a heart to care for others.

[lavendelundrot]

Hey! This is the link to the cards, a good resource for anyone who needs them or wants to provide them to their community. https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards

[profeminist]

THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT! Nice work @kropotkinisrecruitin! FOLKS PLEASE SHARE!!!

https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards

[sunnsummoner]

I think I might have died. I’m dead. They’re done with the writers room for season one and it’s Inej’s knives. I don’t know what to say. What comes next?!?! *screams for the next half hour*

@lbardugo

[astrodidact]

[altieracunningham-archived-deac]

Captain Marvel - Concept Art

[sarahseeandersen]

[kultklassic]

I just alternate between ‘maybe I’m smarter than I give myself credit for’ and ‘maybe I’m dumber than I realized’

[wriots]

Keanu Reeves: *exists*

Everyone:

[beardedchrisevans]

[everythingfox]

JENGA MASTER!

(Source)

[all-aboard-the-bane-train]

Sometimes absolute obliviousness is a useful skill. 

[threemushroom]

The best way to warm up your snake in winter is giving him a sweater. 

[js3639]

the four chrises

[systlin]

(2) Because despite how "unfair" people think it is, painting your door bright pink, leaving your kids shit in the front lawn, and not mowing the grass lowers the curb appeal of your ENTIRE neighborhood. My house won't sell as well because people take one look at your yard and are like "i don't want to live here". The HOA rules are to keep everyone's house value *up* so you don't get stuck with a house you can't sell because your neighbor is busy putting up inflatable dragons.

Okay, but like

If your neighbor likes inflatable dragons or pink doors, it’s none of anyone else’s business, and if they don’t want to mow their lawn then honestly I am 100% on their side. 

And sorry if this sounds harsh, but fuck property values anyway. 

[systlin]

For real though, I don’t give a shit if my neighbors set a car on fire in their front yard or paint their whole house bright neon pink. Ain’t my yard, not my place to tell them what they can and can’t do. 

And honestly I WISH more people WOULDN’T mow their lawns. 

And high property values are BULLSHIT anyway. 

[tractorgoth]

I would LOVE for there to be more community emergency funds to help your neighbors replace your roof and I really do appreciate that and want to make things look nice for my own neighbors.

But frankly a lot of the rules in HOA arrangements are classist garbage. You know who doesn’t have time to mow lawns? People with broken or no lawn mowers working double shifts. Single parents. Disabled people. Old people. You know who has dead cars sitting in their drives they’re hoping to fix one day? Poor people. People working side mechanic jobs to get by. You know who hoards shit and has tacky lawn junk? Old people who grew up with nothing who just want to have a little fun.

I may not like my neighbors’ plastic palm tree margartitaville but she’s 70 years old and she should be able to decorate her lawn however she damn well chooses. And I happen to like neighbors who brighten up my day with ridiculous house colors. And there’s no harm in kids being allowed to leave their bikes and toys out in their own freakin space. Yards are living spaces, not museums or public gardens.

[systlin]

Bingo.

“Oh, maybe that’s fine if you intend to stay there…”

I do. This is my home, not an investment property that I want to profit off of. What kind of person gets all worked up about kids leaving a few toys on the grass? Hell. I don’t care if the kids down the street leave their toys in MY yard for a day or so. They’ve got a standing invitation to eat raspberries off my bushes and watch my bees whenever they want. 

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Also if the property values are lower then working stiffs like me might be able to actually, y'know, buy a home.

The professional-managerial caste and the petit bourgeoisie can choke. “It’ll lower the curb appeal” my entire ass

[radicalcatgirlanarchy]

HOAs don’t exist to help the people living in the neighborhood, they exist to keep the “wrong sort” of people from moving in.

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

[v-a-s-t-deactivated20220306]

yeah and historically that meant specifically poc so like, HOAs are racist too

[ignescent]

yep.  by definition, HOAs are conformist - you can’t have your house look different from everyone else’s.  You can’t have vegetables in the front lawn, or interesting colors on your doors, or anything that might make you look like not one of Them™.   They can’t explicitly state ‘we only want middle class wasps’ but they can imply it /really/ loudly.  

[levynite]

america is seriously messed up

[wallflowersperk]

They also have the trouble of being cesspools for people who want to skim off the top and don’t actually DO SHIT for their neighbourhoods or housing areas. The HOA in my area got into legal trouble yeaaaaars before I started living here and we are paying the price for it. 

Fuck HOAs, man.

[ampervadasz]

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I realize this is a cast iron gate but I’m choosing to believe it’s a magic protection ritual

[princecharmingtobe]

It IS a magic protection ritual, and it summons an iron gate to protect you from intruders. 

[rando-posts]

“I cast Iron Gate!”

[diary-of-a-teenage-blacksmith]

As a blacksmith I have been called a wizard by several small kids

[chrissiezullo]

Scrapper Valkyrie commission 🗡

[micdotcom]

Several Missouri cops have resigned after their town elected a black female mayor 

The city of Parma, Missouri, has seen mass resignations among the local police force after the city’s first black female mayor, Tyrus Byrd, was sworn in on Tuesday. Five of the force’s six officers handed in their resignations to the outgoing mayor — but they weren’t the only ones to quit on the new mayor.

[antilla-dean]

Beyond microaggressions.  

This is what black women have to deal with in any professional situation.  This is the most extreme, but we are constantly having to prove our competence.

[peroxidepirate-blog]

I feel for this woman. I really do.

But those cops who are such racist pieces of shit they refuse to work for a Black woman? Good riddance. Mayor Byrd and the whole community will be better off without them in positions of authority.

[lisafer]

Wait, it’s bigger than this. This mayor ran on an anti-corruption platform, and there were a total of twenty people who resigned from various parts of the city - city attorney, police, water supervision. It’s suspected that they were all linked to the previous mayor and were part of the corruption she was campaigning against. Citizens have been complaining for years about the corruption with the previous Mayor Randall, and it’s suspected that these resignations were from his cronies.

Which makes her the one of the most effective mayors in the U.S. simply by being elected.

[bilt2tumble]

Going through the records to figure out just how corrupt/racist/abusive they were before she stepped into Office and handing out indictments/canceling pensions is gonna be hard enough. But, at least, now she won’t have to fire their asses.

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

do you ever just know the answer to a trivia question and have no idea where the knowledge came from

[diafiend]

[tabletorgy-art]

we would have gotten 3 more episodes if Alucard wasn’t there to guide them….

[Alucard voice] we can do it in 33 minutes without glitches

[wallflowersperk]

Also @lucid-ink