#Traffic Violence

[infamousbrad]

[coulsonlives]

Holy shit

Can I just say

I am so

motherfucking tired

of these exorbitantly huge

vehicles with front hoods/grilles that are as tall as my head

These need to have the shit taxed out of them and heavily regulated instead of being subsidized as farm equipment and being given out like candy, people are basically like bugs on a windshield if they get hit

[punk-hunki]

Fighting for a better society feels impossible in this country.

A 16 year old kid was killed while riding a bike on Friday and once again the driver left the person to die in the street. Where is the Mayor?

It feels impossible to wrangle cars out of this selfish country's hands.

[comingsoon2aroadsideditchnearyou]

They're just salty I decided to get forcibly rendered into a soup-like homogenate by the rusted-out buick skylark down the block instead.

yes i go out of my way to drive safely around bicyclists, no i dont care about their human lives, i know the fucking perverts are desperately slavering to be slammed and crushed by the beautiful steel of an automobile, trembling and hot with death-drive that only the merciless fenders of my foreverially dealerplated altima can answer, and i simply refuse to give them release.

[kiranherbert]

Better Bike Infrastructure Saves Lives

[galaxystt]

"Sometimes you just gotta cut their throats."

[comingsoon2aroadsideditchnearyou]

"GET OFF THE ROAD!", you say?

Well if it's called that, then why are you droaving a cahr on it instead of roading a skapedord like me is? Checkmate, loser.

[ananiujitha]

And of course, most crosswalks are at intersections, so they aren't the safest places to cross.

Ok so what is jaywalking then

[ooooo-mcyt]

Lizzie and Scott are both sacrificial lambs, but like.

Lizzie is a sacrificial lamb in the sense of. A wounded animal fighting against its bindings, because it isn't fair for its life to be reduced, time and time again, to what cleansing flames can offer other people.

On the other hand, Scott is a sacrificial lamb in the sense of. An animal who follows you and lays down in your lap as you prepare to slaughter it, because it's accepted that it's only worth is in the gain of other people.

If this makes sense to anyone.

[teaboot]

i dont understand how people call you "basically a cop" when the most power you have is to tell someone to leave.... like?? you cant arrest people you cant detain them the most you can do is call the actual cops which...... literally ANYONE can do that like????

p much. Usually don't have to tho, people usually listen when you're calm and respectful- more than half the time I'm on the phone it's for an ambulance

People aren't kidding when they say it's basically babysitting

[remma-demma]

I’m actually scared of alienating some of my followers and moots with all the trans discourse I’ve been steeping quietly in and contemplating, but… I’m trying to not let being scared shut me up about this. That, in and of itself, is erasure and silencing.

Fuck staying quiet. Trans men and mascs deserve a voice, and we, as a group, are not oppressing or invalidating anyone else by using that voice. (Obviously there are shithead exceptions!! Anyone can be an asshole.)

I really hope that if I ever speak about any of this in the future, that people recognize that it’s not ever, ever trans femininity as a concept I have an issue with. It’s people who

- try to divide the community

- are reinventing gender essentialism from the ground up but make it trans

-police other people’s identities and decide for them what oppression they must face because of a tiny set of superficial traits

- simply. Don’t understand what intersectionality means.

- disregard and invalidate anyone who doesn’t fit a very specific (binary, rich, white, abled, flawlessly passing) idea of what it means to be trans.

None of those things are specific or exclusive to one identity. There just happens to be a community of transfems who are currently espousing many of these ideas as gospel. They are understandably defensive because of real actual transmisogyny they face. But other trans people are not your enemy. Accusing anyone and everyone who tries to point these flaws out as radical transmisogynists is simply not true. Pointing out bigotry is not bigotry in itself.

I don’t want the trans community to constantly be at each other’s throats. We each have to sit down and think if we ever catch ourselves blaming an entire other marginalized group for our issues. That’s just fascism babes.

[infamousbrad]

Jason Slaughter, of the excellent "Not Just Bikes" YouTube channel and "The Urbanist Agenda" podcast, just dropped an episode of the latter and it completely ignored the backlash he's gotten lately, from urbanists in the US and Canada, about his "just give up and move somewhere where cars aren't mandatory" attitude lately. But I think, accidentally or not, he explained it:

He's been hit by a car while walking in a crosswalk, with the light. And he and his wife lost a good friend who died, because the car that hit her, where she was legally allowed to be, was a giant SUV.

I also have been hit by a car, while up on the sidewalk. My second orthopedic surgeon looked at the damage to my knees and was able to tap exactly the spot where the bumper hit me, and even after bilateral knee replacement I'll never walk as well as I used to be able to. (After two surgeries, ten months' of expert physical therapy, and three years in the gym I can walk up to a mile, but it'll never not hurt.)

And I've buried not one but two friends who were run over by cars. I only literally just, in the last year, found out how uncommon that experience is, I thought that by the time you were a grown-ass adult my age, everybody in the US, Canada, or Australia knew someone who'd been killed by a car, or at least permanently injured. And looking back on it, I begin to understand in hindsight just how much more anti-automobile radical I got each time.

From where I sit (or occasionally stand or walk), the rest of y'all are just whistling past the graveyard, full of stories about why it won't happen to you and still just accepting the fact that you live and work in places you won't let your kids walk as if that had always been normal.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I made an illegal u-turn to get on some kind of exit ramp, kind of accidentally cut someone off but they just pulled around me and sped away. A little further down the road I come upon that same person pulled over by a traffic cop, see their hand sticking out their window pointing at me, then the cop gestures for me to pull over also. I thought I was gonna get a ticket but the cop just wanted to referee while we fought to the death.

[zzombiecleo]

on shadowrot and the overlap between violence and love

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[ollieseastone]

Shiny duo Wicked AU where Pearl is Elphaba and Gem is Glinda is this anything?

[pearlescentmoon-enjoyers]