#I'm sick to stomach

[basuralindo]

If you've ever wondered why people in Hawai'i hate tourists, try to wrap your mind around the fact that there are CURRENTLY, RIGHT NOW, tourists sipping martinis and looking at fish within swimming range of the fresh corpses of local people who couldn't escape the overnight destruction of their entire town.

Try to comprehend that there are fully functional, high capacity boats passing through the waters in front of an area full of survivors who are stranded and in need of supplies, refusing to help. They are hosting snorkeling tours.

Really think about, try your best to actually picture over two thousand people unhoused and in need of shelter, with nothing but the clothes on their backs and nothing to return to. Understand that the island, stolen land, is littered with hotels full of air conditioned of rooms with beds and showers and toilets, each fully equipped to host hundreds of families for weeks, turning these people away because they're booked up with tourists who refuse to leave.

And understand that these tourists were offered free transport to return home or be hosted on other islands. Free. Courtesy of local tax dollars. 4,000 wealthy tourists were offered free flights shelter on Oahu and begged to leave the island, BEFORE the survivors were given shelter.

And enough still insisted on remaining and carrying out their vacations that people are left without shelter and resources while they enjoy "their stay in paradise".

[Edit]: This current situation, and this type of tourist behavior is horrifying beyond words. In other circumstances, the tourism situation is much more complicated, and I need to ask that people do not add on to this post unless they are local.

[impishtubist]

I've never been explicit about this because I'm a Fandom Old, and back in the day it was simply understood that anything on the Internet was fair game to do with what you wish, but: if you see a story of mine out there and you like it, download it. Fuck if I care. Keep it for yourself, distribute it to friends, print copies for yourself and your friends, mail it to people, I don't give a shit. As long as you're not exchanging money, I couldn't care less. And tbh you should be doing this with all fanfics you love - print them, save them, put them on a flash drive or a hard drive or share them with friends, whatever. Fanfic authors these days are really fucking precious about their fics, but honestly we're probably going to start seeing queer art being disappeared (especially in the US under the next president) so do whatever you can to archive the things you love to read. Even if that means just printing them out and sticking them in a binder for yourself to read as a bedtime story.

[deadpoets]

DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) dir. Peter Weir

[norclaren]

Lando immediately spraying Oscar lmaooo 😭😭😭

Clip credit

[phana-banana]

Wow... this week sure has been a year, huh?

[shu-of-the-wind]

so today the supreme court decided to slap me in the face with a dead fish.

so the supreme court overturned chevron, which is an administrative law case that sounds really boring to read aloud. but this is extremely important precedent that conservatives have been trying to overturn since it got enacted.

basically, chevron as a legal decision that said that judges should play a "limited, deferential role" when they evaluate the actions of agency experts. basically it says, "judges don't have absolute knowledge of all things, and so they should be understanding and allow agency experts to have leeway in statutory interpretation so they can make decisions about things that they themselves are experts in." basically saying, "hey, judges don't know how to clean air. maybe the environmental protection agency should determine the best way to keep air clean."

which sounds pretty straightforward, except laws aren't straightforward like that, so this was a pretty big deal especially in terms of like...what's good for the environment. what's good for fishing rules. what's good for air quality.

chevron set out a legal test for courts to determine whether they should defer to agency decisions so long as congress hasn't explicitly discussed something to do with those terms. conservatives have wanted to overturn this for decades purely so business interests can operate without worrying about regulations.

and on top of THAT: the supreme court just allowed cities to enforce bans--with criminal consequences--on people experiencing homelessness sleeping outside.

i expected both of these overturns but it still SUCKS.

[asparklethatisblue]

I cannot even begin to explain the cognitive dissonance of having grown up hearing of how my family survived the holocaust, of how life is sacred above all else and any other commandment… and then watching Israel invoke both religion and the Shoa while committing such violence and invoking the very same stuff that makes me think there's little worse?

Join protests, donate, try to make sure things can't be swept under the rug. I don't know what we can do to actually stop the genocide, but we also can't stop trying?

Donate to MAP - Medical Aid for Palestine

Or if you want a direct way to help a family, my friend Ahmed has a GFM as he's trying to afford food and winter supplies for his family. There is barely any food to be found, and if there is it's expensive, and his brother needs a waterproof tent

[dindjarindiaries]

The streets are now saying (and by saying I mean speculating okay) that Pedro could have filmed for the Mando movie to do a funeral scene for Greef Karga. And now I'm going to sob

[lesbianmaxevans]

1.04 || 2.05

[samijey]

Jey Uso talks about the part Sami played in helping him transition to RAW

[marsarchy]

GUYS send me doodle ideas I need to practice

Anyway I watched one video essay on them and now I'm MISERABLE

[its-hai-time]

Don't forget your daily clicks

Donate to the Gaza soup kitchen

Crips for esims

Donate esims directly here

National Suicide Hotline

I refuse to let them claim me. I refuse to let them claim them.

[daydreamerwonderkid]

You know ... I did already make a joke post about how DC should give us an event dedicated to the Batkids beating Bruce's ass.

But with the way things are going so far ... maybe DC will actually deliver????

Cause the sheer amount of fucking rage Dick showed while pounding Bruce's face in for what he did to Jason ... ngl, that was hella delicious.

Crossing my fingers DC isn't gonna pussy out and have Bruce defeat all the Batkids again iswtfg

[menlove]

I love how paul can literally call john "pretty baby" in a song everyone and their brother acknowledges is about john and everyone still collectively goes "wow I love this platonic song to john lennon"

[yapperkin]

Well, fight or flight, I'd rather die

Than have to cry in front of you

Fight or flight, I'd rather lie

Than tell you I'm in love with you.

[disposal-blueeee]

VARGASTOBER - day 28 : fantasy