cold is the water.....

"ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY" ~ Wendell Phillips AND                           "THOSE WHO EXPECT TO REAP THE BLESSING OF FREEDOM MUST, LIKE [PEOPLE], UNDERGO THE FATIGUE OF SUPPORTYING IT." ~ Thomas Paine

[quakerjoe]

[anythings-a-sweet-if-you-eat-it]

boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture

interesting take from a fictional 14th century monk: torture is bad because it's basically sex

[porterdavis]

[yobaba30]

[progressivepower]

How can you support this _____ http://news.usaunify.org/TTbmb5

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[doberbutts]

My dad is Deaf and has been since before he met my mother. He had multiple different devices to monitor my sisters and I growing up- including a noise detector that would vibrate the bed or the couch and say exactly which room the loud noise was being made in. As a child I remember understanding that he could not "hear" me if we weren't looking at each other, and that I had to speak clearly in order for him to understand. He tells me as a toddler I used to ask him to get on my level, put my hands on his face, and ask him if he could understand me- and only once he verified would I say or ask anything. He used to leave me a signed note every day before school when I was in high school, giving me a different blessing and a couple bucks to buy a snack.

But also- hearing children of deaf adults (CODAs) are often more empathetic, more accepting of others' differences and challenges, more emotionally mature and able to read others' body language and visual cues, with experiences more similar to bicultural and bilingual children of the same age, because being raised Deaf while hearing is a look into two very different worlds. Not that I think anyone should need to prove their worth, but the statistics show the exact opposite of these doctors' expectations of Deaf parents. Deaf adults more often than not raise intelligent and well-structured kids that connect more readily with others, there is no additional risk of neglect more than any hearing parent.

[funny-tik-toks]

[juicetrump2]

Climate change driving more rains that lead to deadly flash floods, experts say

Over the last month, states across the country have experienced record rainfall and flash flooding

[comtedemoney]

JUST LIKE THE SCIENTISTS AND THEIR MODELS PREDICTED.

[depsidase]

[pendragonsandbuckleys]

You come to help? I’ve got 35 bags of piggy-poo to pick through.

SILENT WITNESS | Series 26 Episode 1.

[destiel-news-channel]

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'JK Rowling posted upskirt photos of a woman on Twitter' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]

No one doing this should be allowed to call themselves a feminist.

JK Rowling deadnamed and posted 'upskirt' photo of trans woman on X

The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in

[solarishashernoseinabook]

Let's not beat around the bush: Children's author JK Rowling sexually harassed someone. In some jurisdictions, this would count as sexual abuse. JK Rowling has committed a sex crime against a woman and fell back on the old rape apologist standby of "she was asking for it".

I hope your nostalgia is worth it

[depsidase]

[thebibliosphere]

The great thing about having an ADHD therapist who also has ADHD is that they really get where you're coming from and are able to put real emphasis on the emotional and traumatic aspects of having a neurotype like this, instead of always trying to push you toward productivity and how to be less annoying to neurotypicals.

The less great thing about having an ADHD therapist who also has ADHD, is that they have ADHD and will sometimes forget you have an appointment because it had to be scheduled for a different day than normal, and any break in the precariously structured weekly routine is like watching Godzilla plow through a town made of popsicle sticks.

[gilgameshhimself]

(Getting swindled by a genie) it’s like talking to a fucking tumblr user with you

[higglety]

the genie: how dare you say I'm fucking a tumblr user

[miametropolis]

and what if I told you nine was less afraid of love than ten. what then.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

for a moment i lived in a beautiful world where doctor who didn’t exist and this was simply a seven-ate-nine joke too layered for me to understand

[goth-queen]

[atlas-lunedesaturne]

A Zine I Made / Dreamland by Glass Animals / Zine / Cool Knife Bro by Crywank, Guard Petal / void-adjacent by June Henry x2 / Locals (Girls like us) by underscores, gabby start / Redecorate by Twenty One Pilots / Goodbye, My Danish Sweetheart by Mitski / Make of It by Half Alive / Body by Mother Mother / Body by SYML / Sailor Song (Original Version) by Gigi Perez / This Charming Man by The Smiths / Placing The Blame by Self / Real Men by Mitski / Goodbye, My Danish Sweetheart by Mitski / Twin Size Mattress by The Front Bottoms / Northern Attitude by Noah Kahan, Hozier / fish tank by June Henry / The Line by Twenty One Pilots / Zine / Cool Knife Bro by Crywank, Guard Petal / Representative by Everybody’s Worried About Owen / Northern Attitude by Noah Kahan, Hozier / Like Real People Do by Hozier / @elodieunderglass / feeld by Jos Charles / Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately by Jackie Sabbagh / New Person, Same Old Mistakes by Tame Impala / Scrawny by Wallows / Zine / Tall Cans by Pigeon Pit / Redecorate by Twenty One Pilots / This is Home by Cavetown / I’ll blame my hometown by Luvleelou / Zine / New Person, Same Old Mistakes by Tame Impala / A Bracelet I Made / Zine / @infectiouspiss