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HoLy FuCk
1) I LOVE HIS ACCENT. IT’S BEAUTIFUL.
2) PLEASE WATCH THIS. I LITERALLY HAVE TEARS STREAMING DOWN MY FACE. YOU WILL NOT REGRET THIS. JUST WATCH X’D
oh my god I cannot breathe
I literally choked at the end.
“…I’m not sure-”
i’m in tears rn this is the funniest thing i’ve seen all year
#f42069 and #b4da55 are fantastic colors that go so well with each other
Watermelon candy instinct
[hevay breathing]
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Here’s a Vox article on it, written August 29, 2019.
It really is disturbing how aggressively journalists use the passive voice in contexts that relieve perpetrators of violence of any shred of accountability
It reminds me of the break down of grammar on sexual violence transforming “Jack beats Jane” into “Jane is a battered woman” where by the end of it Jack isn’t even part of the situation at all and the harm inflicted is just part of Jane’s identity rather than something inflicted onto her by someone else.
They took “Thomas Woodworth, a Captain at a for-profit ICE facility, drove his personal vehicle, a 2012 Chevy Silverado, over a crowd of Jewish people protesting ICE concentration camps” into “A van tried to drive through a group of protestors.” By the end of it, Woodworth isn’t even mentioned– a van driving (itself?) into a group of people is just something that happens to protestors, it’s just something that happened, like a force of nature.
Is there any way to more distance Woodworth from accountability for this act of violence?
it’s always amazing to watch adults discover how much changes when they don’t treat their perspective as the default human experience.
example: it’s been well-documented for a long time that urban spaces are more dangerous for kids than they are for adults. but common wisdom has generally held that that’s just the way things are because kids are inherently vulnerable. and because policymakers keep operating under the assumption that there’s nothing that can be done about kids being less safe in cities because that’s just how kids are, the danger they face in public spaces like streets and parks has been used as an excuse for marginalizing and regulating them out of those spaces.
(by the same people who then complain about kids being inside playing video games, I’d imagine.)
thing is, there’s no real evidence to suggest that kids are inescapably less safe in urban spaces. the causality goes the other way: urban spaces are safer for adults because they are designed for adults, by adults, with an adult perspective and experience in mind.
the city of Oslo, Norway recently started a campaign to take a new perspective on urban planning. quite literally a new perspective: they started looking at the city from 95 centimeters off the ground - the height of the average three-year-old. one of the first things they found was that, from that height, there were a lot of hedges blocking the view of roads from sidewalks. in other words, adults could see traffic, but kids couldn’t.
pop quiz: what does not being able to see a car coming do to the safety of pedestrians? the city of Oslo was literally designed to make it more dangerous for kids to cross the street. and no one realized it until they took the laughably small but simultaneously really significant step of…lowering their eye level by a couple of feet.
so Oslo started trimming all its decorative roadside vegetation down. and what was the first result they saw? kids in Oslo are walking to school more, because it’s safer to do it now. and that, as it turns out, reduces traffic around schools, making it even safer to walk to school.
so yeah. this is the kind of important real-life impact all that silly social justice nonsense of recognizing adultism as a massive structural problem can have. stop ignoring 1/3 of the population when you’re deciding what the world should look like and the world gets better a little bit at a time.
Empathy and universal design are for more than just people with disabilities.
Also, I love this quote: “it’s always amazing to watch adults discover how much changes when they don’t treat their perspective as the default human experience.”
an addition…
-maximus
and people say black cats don’t take good photos when clearly they take The Best photos
Oh hey you know what's still universally good
Crop tops
This statement is gender and body type invariant
Don’t even trip when you get cut off or cut someone off. Keep that “it was nice while it lasted, but it was nice to know you” energy & move on.
It took me a bit to realize this wasn’t about driving
KASJSJSHSJSJSK
DUDE IS NASTY
The fact that y'all made a while diagram eye 💀
okay but is he any different from any other male lead? thought this was a Hollywood casting problem not a leo dicaprio problem
You're reading the graph wrong, those are his girlfriends, not his co-stars
good omens + text posts/tweets
WE CAN BEAT IT TOGETHER
Holy shit.... Never Again Action (the group who started #JewsAgainstICE) had an ICE detention truck drive through them while they were shutting down Wayne Detention Center in Rhode Island this evening (August 14th).
Like they were holding the line across the entry gate and refusing to let night shift guards in and a massive truck just, fucking, drove up to them then slowed as the protestors got up from where they were sitting, alarmed, then the truck accelerated into people.
It doesn't seem like there are any serious injuries. The people who were around the truck after it stopped accelerating into people were pepper sprayed.
EDIT: Wyatt ICE Detention Center, not Wayne
The truck was driven by an ICE guard.
As this information is publicly available, the law in the US does not consider this doxxing, which is why it was on twitter on the first place. Here's the guy.
Its the same people. If you can stomach working for ICE its because you're a right-wing fascist. Same tactics, different day.
Fun fact, y’all!! Jewish protesters have been surrounding and shutting down ICE detention centers for weeks now, and we’re getting absolutely NO media coverage. None. In the slightest. And by jewish protesters I mean THOUSANDS OF US HAVE BEEN PROTESTING FOR NIGHTS ON END AND OVER 250 HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AT THIS POINT AND WE ARE GETTING ZERO COVERAGE. This is probably the biggest protest movement in american jewish history and it’s getting no coverage. We got hit with a truck DRIVEN BY A DETENTION CENTER GUARD and pepper sprayed and many people ended up in the hospital - one man in his sixties has a broken leg and a potentially broken back because of it. PLEASE REBLOG THIS. THOUSANDS OF YOUR JEWISH SIBLINGS ARE TRYING TO SHUT DOWN THE CENTERS AND WE’RE GETTING ZERO COVERAGE. PLEASE PLEASE SPREAD THIS AROUND.
we're all really just looking for that other dumb fuck we share our single brain cell with
new soulmate AU
"oh you have to study? guess it's my turn to go outside and steal traffic cones. I'll get you the prettiest one I can find."
#inconspicuous winking
few things I love about this scene:
* Aunt May mouthing “WHAT THE FUCK” as she hides her face from Tony with her tastefully falling curls
* Tony winking up a storm as May’s peripheral vision is obscured by her own tastefully falling curls
* Peter being able to see both adults trying to be sneaky
hot girl summer is over it’s scary woman winter
lest we forget feral girl fall
lesbians will be like “oh my god theres this cute girl and i want to ask her out im so nervous do you think this is ok” and send you a picture of the word “hey” in the typing box
The Muppets (ABC) S01E04
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