hello gay people . please read my jonmartin fic where they are classics majors (i promise i have more than two chapters this time)

Hale (@skiddykid)

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We need everyone's help right now to protect the rainforest and Indigenous People

The Amazon Rainforest is under a massive threat. I know you've heard this a million times, but this is different. There is a piece of legislation that will decimate the rights of Indigenous people of Brazil, who have been protecting the rainforest. It's unfathomably bad. It has majority support. And they're voting tomorrow. As reported here, the Bill allows "the Brazilian government to find energy resources, set up military bases, develop strategic roads, and implement commercial agriculture on protected Indigenous tribal lands, without any prior discussion with the affected peoples."

The thing you can do—and I know this sounds overly simple—is sign this petition—and tell your friends to do the same: SIGN HERE.

As reported here, the Bill allows "the Brazilian government to find energy resources, set up military bases, develop strategic roads, and implement commercial agriculture on protected Indigenous tribal lands, without any prior discussion with the affected peoples."

Again, this bill has majority support. You may be wondering, why will a petition signed by people who don't live in Brazil make any difference? Because it will give those opposing it political air cover. It will show the world is with them.

But we need a LOT of signatures.

Please do this simple act and spread the word.

cannot stop thinking about this skit from the new i think you should leave season

has anyone payed attention to the stuff going down in ethiopia or are we just Miscellaneous Blacks to yall

earlier today (june 2) addis ababa police killed three muslims after friday prayer as retaliation from the protests of last week. the protesters were speaking out against the demolition of over a dozen mosques for (what every sane person knows is) our prime minister's new city—sheger city—made only for people of oromia decent at the expense of literally everyone else.

ethiopians of every ethnicity (except oromia bc this government benefits only them) are protesting this city. this is not the first time the ethiopian government, specifically our [redacted] of a prime minister, has intervened in religious affairs. earlier this year, he tried to intervene in the ethiopian orthodox church. fortunately those efforts have seemingly paused (for now).

as expected, there aren't many sources on this matter that aren't in amharic and unfortunately i can't translate. here's what i have so far (source 1) (source 2) please lmk if you find anything else, i'll add it to the list

as of today (june 4) the number of demolished mosques has risen to 22. there is a complete news blackout, people are still being arrested or killed by police for protesting. my mom's been calling family to get updates but there isn't much information at the moment.

Ornate dagger with gold engravings and blued blade, Europe, late 18th century

from Czerny's International Auction House

[image description: photos of the weapon discussed in the original post against a black background. the first shows a close up of the dagger, focusing on the blade, which has a pale tip, but is mostly blue with gold engravings. there's another image of it, blade down, from more of a distance. its black engraved handle is visible. the last photo shows its sheath, which is dark brown with a silver tip and a gold base. end description.]

i'm choosing to build my basketball team aroubnd my buddy yggroth, who is 15 feet tall and weighs 800kg. he will be in charge of scoring. the rest of us will heal him.

it's actually really weird to me that a lot of adults don't seem to remember the worst bits of being a child. were you not horribly aware of when adults were talking down to you as a child? don't you remember how little autonomy you were allowed, even when it came to things that seemed pretty harmless? don't you remember the times when adults would seemingly be assholes to you for no reason? even if you had nice and reasonable parents, didn't you ever have teachers or other adults in power who treated you disrespectfully? didn't it sting no matter how people justified it?

especially when I was a teenager, it seemed obvious to me & to most of my peers when an adult wasn't treating us with respect. you could almost smell it, in certain classrooms. there would be this palpable, shifting undercurrent of teenage dissatisfaction whenever some teachers started talking. and it made a lot of the kids act out! which of course made the teachers try to exert their power, which never worked because nobody respected them, which made them get more draconian, etc.

as a teen, I didn't really get why my peers and I seemingly had a superhuman sense for when an adult was on a power trip. but now I think I get it. kids are systematically denied autonomy, respect, and consistently have the validity of their experiences denied. like, flat-out. they're a vulnerable class of people made even more vulnerable by their lack of societal rights. being disrespected as a kid is so frequent that I would say it's a defining experience for most children. is it any wonder they tend to pick up on when an adult doesn't see them as worth listening to?

so yeah, of course a ton of kids want to be treated "like an adult." to them, that's synonymous with being treated like a human being worth listening to. it's up to you, as an adult, to understand that wish for what it is, and behave accordingly. you don't gotta be a child psychologist. you don't gotta be perfect at it. all you have to do is remember how painful adult disrespect could be when you were a kid & do your best to act with some compassion.

The thing that I recall rankling me the most was, adults always felt entitled to skip the step where they got my agreement to, or even explained, the plans.

It’s not that “Get dressed in nice clothes, we’re going to a nice place to have dinner with  your great aunt who hasn’t been in the area for over a decade. She hasn’t seen you since you were a baby we want to make a good impression.” is an unreasonable request - it’s that “Put these on, we’re going out” isn’t even vaguely related. And then the adults would have the gall to be annoyed that two kids, to whom they have explained nothing, whom they shushed and yelled at whenever they tried to ask questions, are fidgety and upset at being hauled to a place-not-for-kids and expected to functionally be decoration.

No, kids don’t get complete autonomy. But just knowing things like Where We Are, What Is Going On, and Why Are We Doing This are both necessary for actual obedience and for learning and growth.

(But then, even in my 40s, I still have friction with my parents over how they will just Not Tell Me Things but don’t acknowledge that as being identical to Keeping Secrets.)

As someone who’s living with a middle school social studies teacher, all the posts along the lines of “why did we never learn about this historical event in school” just make me go “because your teacher was supposed to cover all of US history in one year, and they didn’t get to the Revolutionary War until Halloween because they were urged to slow down the progression of the lessons because a more senior teacher was running behind, and they didn’t get to the Civil War until Valentine’s Day because the school kept scheduling every special event during social studies because there’s no end-of-grade testing for that subject, and they didn’t get to WWI until May because they were sick for a few days and the substitute couldn’t do much more than babysit, and now they’re having to do the entire Cold War in two days, so that’s why you didn’t hear about the lesbian inventor of the circus peanut. They would have loved to tell you about the lesbian inventor of the circus peanut!”

Pay heed to Klaudia Amenábar's words! Don't let the executives weaponize fandoms. WGA Strong.

My guys it is starting to work, I've seen some people I know complaining about the writer's strike and turning against them because their favorite shows and/or movie got put on hold. Please do not be fooled like this, this is exactly what the corporations want. It can wait, I promise you will find other things to focus, but writers need this.

Reword every headline they put out. “Due to not wanting to give writers money, Marvel has shut down pre-production on…” You can end this strike any time you want to, pal.

"Marvel too cheap to pay writers, production shuts down"

"Disney too greedy to pay residuals, deletes shows/movies"

"Studios cut corners on safety, production values, writing, acting, etc. in order to make more money; won't share with anyone below CEO level"

This.

100% this.

kurt vonnegut wrote "so it goes" and didn't even care that it would live in the back of my mind for the rest of my life

kurt vonnegut: and Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. but she did look back, and i love her for that, because it was so human. so she was turned to a pillar of salt. so it goes. people aren't supposed to look back. i'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

me reading that at 15:

like it might just be me but i think calling anyone’s degree “useless” and “a waste of time” is fucking rude at best. absolutely unnecessary and it’s not just because i’m an english major that’s a fucked up thing to say about any field. there’s a reason all of them exist and the world needs professionals from the fields western society deems “useless” more than ever.

knowledge for the sake of knowledge, learning to really critically think, and collecting that knowledge to share with others will never be useless or a waste of time

glad we’re all having fun

asswipes really out there going "you should be working to decolonise your field bitch!" and then when you point out that you are, in fact, putting in an effort to facilitate exactly that, they'll just froth at the mouth and tell you you're being a sanctimonious cunt for saying that because it's never actually about the integrity of the field to them. it's always about them wanting to feel like they're better than the people working in these fields, no matter who those people are and what their reasons for doing so are.