30s, trans, polyam, pākehā (ie not indigenous; white), Aotearoa New Zealand. She/her. Nerd. Leftist. Secular humanist. Vegan. Disabled. Don't follow if you're under 18. HRT since 09/08/16. Trying to keep nsfw to the side-blog, lmk if I miss something or you need anything tagged.
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That’s not how slurs work but not like genocide supporters give a shit.
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When it’s evil to want to help sick children.
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I feel like we need to talk more about how fucking boring depression can be. I pick up a book and can’t read more than a few sentences, a chapter if I’m lucky, before I can’t focus. I knit two rows of something and then can’t continue. I scroll through all the different options of shows I haven’t watched without clicking on any of them. I hop from app to app looking for content that will spark literally any single emotion. It’s not even 10am and I already feel like I’m just waiting until it’s time to go back to bed.
I hate it I hate it I hate it
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I think people need to be more comfortable with illegalism and I’m not kidding. Of course the more legal something is, the safer and easier it is to do, but the more people who disregard the law, the harder it is to enforce. There are plenty of laws on the books that people just ignore and are never or rarely policed.
Becoming more comfortable with little illegal activities makes you more comfortable with bigger more important illegal activities. Additionally, it is crucial to build a wall of silence. Nobody talks everybody walks.
People who give out food without a permit, hold a march without a permit, grow a garden without a permit, are more likely to be people you could turn to to work with on preventing an eviction, or keeping people out of cop hands, or helping your friend Jane get crucial healthcare when it’s not legal in your state.
Communities comfortable with these acts won’t call the cops, and then nobody knows that it’s happening.
People have got to shift from both the idea that lawful = good/ illegal = bad, and that the illegality of something means that’s the end of it, and the only fight left is to make it legal again.
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Green Arboreal Alligator Lizard (Abronia graminea), family Anguidae, Veracruz, Mexico
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photograph by Laura Bok
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yeah i reclaim this slur you can tell by the way i only use it for other people and make fun of them when they get rightfully offended
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The Tesla logo looks like an IUD and broadly speaking serves the same function: nobody’s getting pregnant with that thing around
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reblog if you're a sick individual who's attracted to women over 30
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Submissions on the treaty principles bill are now open, so if you're a kiwi you really should make one to help keep the fight against the bill going.
The green party have created a guide on what to put in your submission: https://action.greens.org.nz/tp_subsguide
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One for the literal history books...
50,000 people 🖤🥝
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Pisses me off how good Shakespeare actually is. Like yeah he's actually that good. People hype him up like he's the best English writer ever, and yeah he's actually an S+ tier writer.
#I was having a conversation about this the other day#And landed in a similar place#Like yeah the reasons our culture places Shakespeare on such a pedestal are very nationalistic#And the propaganda value to British nation-building and myth-making of his status in literature can't be overstated#But even knowing all this and the history of his elevation to national poet as a means of legitimising the artistic value of English#And in solidifying anglophone cultural hegemony#He is also just that good
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