#when possible

[bloodbrown]

Happy Froggy Friday! Good girl Juniper got a little bit of time outside the enclosure. If angels could be green, I would assume that Juniper came from heaven, because she's so sweet and gentle.

[tastelinos]

napping in a patch of sun on the floor with a friend after mac and cheese is good

[ahdor]

there's something about cuddling, kissing and fucking that truly let's you forget about everything

[lixzwithapen]

[oiktoorus]

next growing pains chapter is going to be a DOOZY it is going to be LONG

[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

[nyaa]

[whumpfish]

Since we're talking about populations being ignored in the interest of grand ideas, consider the following: Amazon and meal couriers deliver to more than just the idle rich and the unthinking middle-on-down class. They deliver to disabled people who can't leave their homes and need groceries or don't have a caretaker home to help them with meal prep and want hot food. If you erase Amazon and courier services instead of advocating for the unionization of the employees of those businesses, more will be sacrificed than the luxury of free shipping for those who could stand to pay $5 for regular mail or home meal delivery for those who could stand to drive 5-15 minutes to get it themselves.

I used DoorDash a lot before my current dietary restrictions became a factor because I have ME/CFS and my caretaker works full time to support me, so if I wanted a sandwich and could not prepare one, if I wanted any meal and could not prepare one, guess what? DoorDash. That was how I got my meals when I had no one to help me prepare my own.

I cannot stress enough how draining a grocery store run is for someone in my position (yes, even with the Go-Kart), or for people with many other disabilities. It saps all my energy for the entire day. I cannot go grocery shopping unless I plan to do literally nothing else that day, including anything more complicated than microwaving leftovers or opening a cereal bar for meals. I plan my runs carefully, but even then, I can't always have the energy to do it when the appointed day rolls around. I've used courier services for that, too. And Amazon.

And I'm one of the lucky ones who sometimes has days when I can go get groceries, one of the lucky ones who has a car of their own. There are plenty others who are not so lucky, and I do not and cannot condone dismissing their needs (or mine for that matter) to score moral points on the internet.

These services are necessary, and there are no comparable alternatives. Suggest one, support unions, or at least look around to make sure you're taking the entire issue into account before prescribing for the public. I am not the first nor the only person to point this out, even on this hellsite. A simple search would have provided this information.

You can stand up for workers without demonizing the work they do.

every so often im struck by the memory of one of my college professors getting very angry with our class (art history of pompeii 250) because when she excitedly detailed the ingenious roman invention of heated floors in bathhouses via hearths in small crawlspaces, we asked who was tending the fires. she said "oh, slaves i suppose. but that isnt the point". and we said that it actually very much was the point. she had just told us that in roman society there were dozens of people, maybe hundreds, who spent every day of their enslaved lives crawling in cramped, hot, smoky tunnels to light fires to warm pools of water (which they were not allowed to swim in). how could that not be the point?

she wanted us to focus on the art, on the innovation of heated plumbing, on the tiles and decorations of the bathhouses, and all we wanted to do was learn more about the people under the floors. and she didn't know anything more about that. in fact, she said she thought we were focusing too much on superfluous details.

it feels almost hokey to put too fine a point on the idea im getting at here but i will anyway: There are a lot of people who are still under the floors. all these beautiful, convenient, brilliant innovations of modern society (think fast fashion, chatgpt, uber, doordash) are still powered by people working in inhumane, untenable conditions.

the people who run these systems want you to focus on the good - who doesnt love warm water? - but if anything is going to improve or change in our lifetimes, you need to examine these things with an attentive, critical, and empathetic eye. and for fucks sake stop ordering from amazon

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[qiinamii]

one braincell transfer (divided by four)

[nori-kakyoin]

megan thee stallion wearing a bruno bucciarati inspired dress the the crunchyroll anime awards

[kocho15]

Safety.

[axeofsuns]

It's very important to recognize that when tried you arent thinking rationally and the best way to handle things like that Is to write a note to work on it handle this when you Are thinking rationally and then have a good cry about ot

[platoapproved]

louis + cruelty