i often wonder how many ppl from 2012 tumblr are still active on here

are u also still here, lurking in the shadows????

Me and the mutuals

Grackle with Chip - @shortlifelongart

Found this really scary new horror game yall should check out. It's called indeed.com and it has a sequel called linkedin

In case you want to be, check out this website

holy fuck that was an experience

i do not want to be accused of American exceptionalism any longer. the options on this one are a little different because i suspect no one has been to all 63 cities on this list but hey, i could be wrong. please be sure to put that in a post by itself and not the tags if that's the case because we need to have a discussion about your carbon footprint. no US cities are included, but there is obviously a none option.

take the global poll then

You discover that you have control over a certain thing, as determined by spinning this wheel. We're talking full-on magical girl/superhero/supervillain/your label of choice control.

Also I have realised once again that I need to stay tf away from Goodreads, because wtf is wrong with some people on there.

@tsarinajissa:

A wise choice by your wife tbh. I don't know what frustrates me more, people who have absolutely no reading comprehension (a frighteningly big chunk of the population), or people who just absolutely hate on a book as if they were personally victimized by it (this is not what a book review is). I've seen it happen especially often with queer lit, where people seem more ready to be affronted that the author does not cater to their specific preferences or experiences - not everything it about you.

Luigi Mangione's lawyer is SO good

like, she didn't miss a beat in the arraignment, calling out the police, the perp walk, the mayor...

I hope this trial is televised tbh. i will not miss a second of it if it is

ETA: ANNNNDDD calling out the mayor for not using the word "alleged".. YES!

I get SOO annoyed whenever people complain about the media using the word "alleged", especially when there is video footage of the crime happening... people complain that it's some sort of media bias, and not like... straight up a VIOLATION OF A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT if they don't say "alleged"

The presumption of innocence is a right. Luigi's rights have been violated repeatedly in this regard.

And possibly also his right to a fair trial, since they are creating SO MUCH bias against him

@arewestill

You're 100% right, and that's not even gaslighting. That's exactly the question everyone SHOULD be asking.

Do we know he did it? Absolutely not. And unless a jury reaches a guilty verdict, we are all supposed to assume he did not do it. That's exactly how the presumption of innocence works.

Everyone saying that we all know he did it is just doing the prosecution's job for them. We don't know that Luigi Mangione is the guy in the CCTV footage. The prosecution has to prove that he is, and if they can't, he gets acquitted.

And that's exactly why the media has to say "alleged". It wouldn't even matter if they had footage that clearly showed his face, because the media and the general public doesn't get to decide if someone is guilty or not.

And that's why it's so good that his lawyer has already called this out, because without the presumption of innocence, you can't have a fair trial.

In every court case, the burden of proof only falls on one side, and in criminal cases, it's always on the prosecution. So basically that means if you are on trial, you walk into a court where the assumption is that you are not guilty, and the prosecution has to convince the jury that you are guilty, while the defense just has to raise reasonable doubt.

Since the presumption is that you're innocent, if the defense can poke holes in the prosecution's case, enough that the jury isn't 100% convinced that you absolutely did it, they have to acquit.

But if you walk into a court where everyone already thinks you're guilty, it's going to be a lot harder for the defense to raise reasonable doubt, and the burden of proof is going to essentially be lifted from the prosecution, because they're just proving something that the jury already thinks is true.

So when the police and the Mayor of New York keep going out of their way to present Mangione as guilty in public (the perp walk, having 4 officers behind him at the arraignment, as though he's a danger to society, not saying "alleged"), they are convincing the public that he's guilty before a trial even starts, and it's going to be difficult to find an unbiased jury. If the jury is made up of people who think he's guilty before it starts, he doesn't get a fair trial.

So it's not gaslighting to ask if we actually know it's him... we don't know, and people very much need to keep remembering that.

None of us were eyewitnesses. The CCTV footage doesn't show his face. We didn't see the police find the alleged evidence on him. We haven't seen this evidence in person. We have not heard any sworn testimony. We have not heard a confession.

We very much do not know that he did it. People are literally only assuming he did it because they've been told that he did. They're accepting it without proof, and that's dangerous.

My New Year’s resolution generator for the Guardian. Post yours in the comments!

The responses to this post are true "how dare you say we piss on the poor" material.

Truly funny that for so many people, The Murderbot Diaries has become their version of Sanctuary Moon… used in all the same ways too

My New Year’s resolution generator for the Guardian. Post yours in the comments!