jemthecrystalgem

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scurvy has got to have one of the biggest disease/treatment coolness gaps of all time. like yeah too much time at sea will afflict you with a curse where your body starts unraveling and old wounds come back to haunt you like vengeful ghosts. unless☝️you eat a lemon

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NYT has been discouraging reporters from sharing photos of luigi mangione - not due to concerns for his safety but to dissuade sympathy - and refuses to post his alleged manifesto in full. and today, they published an opinion by bret stephens about how brian thompson is the "real working class hero" of this story.

reddit deleted luigi's account, which was completely innocuous and consisted mostly of him giving out advice in health subreddits. they're also deleting any post that includes his alleged manifesto and banning users for sharing it.

luigi yelled that this was "an insult to the intelligence of the american people" while he was being dragged by police and news pundits are framing it as a deranged and violent outburst. news media are picking apart details of his life to paint him as a cold-blooded and mentally ill individual. even something as innocent as playing "among us" with friends is being framed as some insidious look into an assassin's disturbed psyche, ffs.

news media are also capitalizing on luigi's supposed "bizarre and impossible to understand" politics as an obvious way to paint him as a scary individual when the guy is... a centrist, at most. whose views are similar to those of your average college-educated white guy.

multiple news media also keep harping on about how luigi comes from a rich family. an obvious attempt to break the class solidarity that's been formed around this case by continuously trying to tell us "oh he's not like you guys" while ignoring the now pretty well-documented accounts of his multiple health struggles throughout the years.

and all this, and he hasn't even been found guilty of the crime he's allegedly committed. luigi is, as of right now, still innocent until proven guilty. and the news are trying to tear him apart because they obviously fear the symbol he's becoming for low and middle class america.

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And we only know about this arrest because Florida law allows arrests to be public. Imagine what happens in other states we just don’t get to hear about.

This woman was arrested for WORDS.

We should rally for her as much as the guy who actually shot someone. Push back.

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every year around christmas me and my grandma play this fun family game called “maybe you want to put jesus in your room instead, sweetie? :)”. now, it’s important to note that the jesus referred to in our game is not actually the real jesus christ, but instead a wooden figure i made in 2011 that has an uncanny resemblance to the lord and savior himself

so what happens is that i place jesus in our living room, and my grandma smiles and asks me if i don’t want to decorate my room with him instead. i ask her in return if she thinks my jesus figure is ugly (which he is), but she reassures me that this is not the case. however, a couple of days later jesus mysteriously disappears from our living room, and appear in my room instead

now, the real jesus christ might have been able to perform a miracle like this, but please remember that the jesus in our story is only a figure made out of wood. he can not move on his own, so i think we can safely say that my grandma is the prime suspect here

the first year i would often confront my grandma about this, but she would always make up an excuse and never straight up tell me she moved him because he’s so ugly it’s an embarrassment to the family

eventually i grew tired of her lies, so now we only move jesus around in silence. one second he’s in the living room, the next he’s back in my room. in a way i think this adds an extra element of excitement to the holiday season, because you never know for sure when jesus is going to be moved again

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Happy December 10th!

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Happy December 10th!

+ BONUS:

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oh susan we're really in it now based on this

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Stardew Valley’s music sounds super menacing if you transpose it into a minor key.

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Sand art 🎨

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high drama happening at my window today

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Hold up I knew the suit guy was Adam Conover but nobody told me the other guy is Alex Hirsch

Does tumblr know about the animation union yaoi yet

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thats pretty reasonable i guess

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Interesting that I'm seeing people jump straight to "oh he's rich he doesn't understand what the victims of insurance companies go through" when like. This is a disabled person. This is someone with chronic pain.

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It seems like the guy who shot Brian Thompson (Luigi Mangione) also had a spinal fusion/surgery. 🤝

Luigi and I sharing the same type of spinal hardware is extremely moving to me. He was arrested on the 10 year anniversary of my spinal fusion. This guy understands and endures chronic pain in ways that many people never will. I hope he is pardoned. Packing prisons full of tortured souls never solved anything

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glad someone articulated it bc seeing these notifs in rapid succession filled with me with an unbridled seething rage