The Melodramatic Misadventures of the Misinformed

without hrt christmas is just cismas

this pun works so beautifully well i cant believe the english language allows us to do this

The situation on Manus is absolutely horrific right now.

For the past five years, hundreds of refugees have been illegally detained by the Australian government in brutal offshore processing centres on Manus Island and Nauru. This is part of the Australian government’s policy of denying entry to all refugees who attempt to reach Australia by boat, which is in breach of our country’s responsibilities under the UN refugee convention.

The centre on Manus was closed at the end of October after being deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea, and the detainees were moved to new facilities. Around 600 hundred men refused to go. Unwilling to exchange one prison for another, for the last three weeks they have carried out a peaceful protest from within the decommissioned centre, amid dwindling supplies, worsening conditions and lack of running water and electricity.

After suffering a number of attacks by PNG police, military and immigration officers, the refugees were today violently removed from the centre. They were assaulted, threatened and had their possessions maliciously destroyed.

And the Australian government, of course, is continuing to blame the refugees themselves for daring to assert their basic human rights.

Our government wants to sweep this all under the rug. So does the Opposition. Don’t let them get away with it. Spread the word. Call or write to your local member. Donate to advocacy groups like the Refugee Council, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and Gifts for Manus and Nauru. Maintain your rage.

(via JazzTrombonist)

I’ve been a changed person since I found out that all of Santa’s reindeer are gals

they’re wHAT NOW

gals, theY’RE GALS

male reindeer shed their antlers at the end of mating season (early December), while females keep theirs during the winter

and what do Santa’s reindeer have?

ANTLERS

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*male celebrities worrying about getting their career ruined*

all of us:

“Sending love to anyone who had to put on someone else’s clothes & agree to answer to a name that isn’t theirs in order to go home today. Sending love, as well, to everyone who isn’t welcome home because they refuse to do so.”

-   💀 Red Durkin 💀‏

“Sending love to anyone who had to put on someone else’s clothes & agree to answer to a name that isn’t theirs in order to go home today. Sending love, as well, to everyone who isn’t welcome home because they refuse to do so.”

-   💀 Red Durkin 💀‏

ok legend….

CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT HOW THE RIGHT WILL KICK AND SCREAM AND CRY AND PISS THEMSELVES OVER THEIR SUPPOSED FREE SPEECH, CALLING OTHER PEOPLW SPECIAL SNOWFLAKES AND MAKING FUN OF SAFE SPACES? SO HOLD UP. SEVEREAL OF THESE SNOWFLAKES GOT MAD, AT A STICKER, A FUCKING STICKER PEOPLE,, SO MAD AT A STICKER THEY LITERALLY CALLED THE POLICE, AND TRIED TO ARREST THIS WOMEN,,, NAH DOG BUT LEFT LEANING PEOPLE ARE THE SENSITIVE ONES OHHHHHKAYYYY DUDE

hey so I looked it up and she was released on bail, so that’s good. also, the police were trying to argue that she should be charged with DISORDERLY CONDUCT for this and the ACLU was just like… no.

now she has a sticker that says fuck (the sherif’s name) too LOL

Love it

there’s something endlessly hilarious to me about the phrase “hotly debated” in an academic context. like i just picture a bunch of nerds at podiums & one’s like “of course there was a paleolithic bear cult in Northern Eurasia” and another one just looks him in the eye and says “i’l kill you in real life, kevin”

my brother is teaching his cat how to high five by giving her a treat every time she successfully taps her hand to his hand, which is all well and good, but now she thinks that she is entitled to food every time she high fives someone.  i can’t eat in the same room as her anymore because she’ll just bap my hand rapid fire and then go nyoom straight in for my pizza like no Kelly that’s illegal go finish ur own dinner

“No Kelly, that’s illegal.”

So, a while back, I was using clicker-training to teach my cat Taz tricks. She learned very quickly and it was a good experience all around, but we had to hide the clicker.

Taz had learned that the clicker meant she got treats. So she would find it, carry it up to people, step on it to make it click, and then SCREAM AT THEM to give her the treats she was clearly owed because the clicker had made a sound.

Cats

Pavlov is rolling over laughing in his grave.

#im you but more specifically adapted for aquatic life

not to be a bitch but how abt instead of making jokes abt how republicans “abolished gender” as a joke, we talk about how this was a direct action of transmisogyny to dehumanize danica roem

well christ who had rob corddry down as the male comedian with the most searing public take on louis ck

Guys, please be careful to vet that what you choose to signal boost is actually accurate. I’m seeing a lot of well-intentioned posts today about Net Neutrality that are likely to do just as much harm as good due to misinformation in them.

For instance, we are not all suddenly shouting that the sky is falling because the FCC has PASSED the bill abolishing Net Neutrality and the changes are to be put in place some time this month. As claimed by one post I just saw with over 5,000 notes already. This is simply, unequivocally NOT true, and it can actually get in the way of the call to action that very post made, asking people to call and email their congressmen, because a lot of people who see that might think “what’s the point, if its already passed?”

It hasn’t. Chairman Ajit Pai of the FCC unveiled in April his proposed plan to strike back the Net Neutrality regulations Obama’s administration passed in 2015, and which have since 2015 been upheld by the courts in the face of Republican opposition’s attempts to claim they overreached. What has people shouting the sky is falling NOW is because yesterday (November 21st) is when the date of the official vote on this proposed plan was announced. That date is December 14th.

Which means there IS still time to affect the outcome of the vote. People are pessimistic about the chances of this vote because the FCC board is held by a Republican majority at the moment, but make the passing of this bill seem toxic enough to other Republican interests and there is still a chance to keep it from passing. 

Which is still a hell of a lot better than assuming the bill has already passed and that there’s really no point.

We have until December 14th to kick up enough of a fuss that the Republicans on the FCC board think twice about voting for this bill. And even after that, there are still legal recourses. The courts have refused to uphold other bills Trump’s administration has attempted to pass as overreaching, unconstitutional, and/or in opposition of the true will of the people - just as the Republicans attempted to do back in 2015 when the FCC under Obama passed the Net Neutrality laws in the first place.

This does not mean be complacent. This does not mean assume enough other people will raise enough of a fuss without adding your voice to the mix. It simply means THERE IS STILL TIME TO ACT. The sky may be falling, but until it finishes falling, there’s still a chance to catch it instead. 

We have until December 14th to kick up enough of a fuss that the Republicans on the FCC board think twice about voting for this bill. 

there IS still time to affect the outcome of the vote.

thank you

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This website is complete shit

“the everything”

green day releasing “back in the usa” and blatantly criticizing donald trump through the music video really makes me think of how this has all happened before with american idiot/george w bush and how this new song (even the title itself) LITERALLY sounds like green day cracking their knuckles and going like “bitch have you guys learned nothing since the last time we did this”