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sick of “scottish independence” this and “irish reunification” that
theres 3 of us and 1 of england
i say we just kick the english out the uk
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the idealized version of my tomorrow self will fix this
#me#truth#humor#past Jen has actually been doing me a solid a lot lately#maybe it’s the new meds#it’s probably the new meds#thanks Abilify!
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Posts that would be found on the Sunnydale High meme account, in roughly chronological order:
#buffy the vampire slayer#btvs#btvs memes#buffyverse#buffy summers#rupert giles#principal snyder#school hard#jenny calendar#the dark age#humor#high posts#sunnydale high#go razorbacks!
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#meme#memes#dank memes#humor#shitpost#funny memes#dark humor#I don’t like how hard I laughed at that last sentence#high posts
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#white people twitter#tweets#truth#school#learning#education#the amount of time it took me to unlearn this#I was in graduate school and my professors had to keep telling us that we were allowed to talk in class#we were colleagues with each other now#we had earned the right to interact more casually#it was so much more effective for my learning styles#high posts
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#silent hill#pyramid head#monster fucker#silent hill pyramid head#truth#high posts#at least I’m not alone with you creepy bastards around
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hate when a batman artist isn't committed to bruce's lame bat schtick... give that man a bat insignia on the bottom of his boots rn
#humor#osha#batman#dc comics#high posts#re#reblogged in honor of my therapist#traction is key to any proper footwear
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when you download a pdf and it's called like 1328723486basdf12.pdf but then you gently rename it to what it's supposed to be. that's forming a bond with a hurt and wild mythological creature and reminding it who it is.
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*Stares directly into the camera*
#anti jk rowling#truth#humor#fuck jkr#trans issues#trans rights#trans rights are human rights#so you agree
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Honestly, if this is what it takes to get the anti-vaxx idiots to actually get themselves and their kids vaccinated, I’m all for it.
We all know it’s a joke. But they don’t.
It’s like putting your dog’s medication into cheese. He doesn’t want to take it, but he needs it in order to be healthy and thriving.
And if they find out later it’s all a lie? They’re already vaccinated. Their children are already vaccinated.
And that’s an absolute win, in my opinion.
#shitpost#humor#truth#vaccine#vaccination#vaccines#vaccinations#herd immunity#whatever it takes at this point#they won’t listen to the medical establishment#but they’ll listen to idiots on the internet#so we must infiltrate the idiots#be the change you want to see in the world#anti vaccination#anti vaxxers#so sick of this shit#honestly
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I get my media recommendations the old fashioned way: by watching someone I follow on here go on an unhinged reblog spree of media related content until I eventually decide to go "alright, what's all this then"
#humor#fandom#recommendations#tv show recommendations#book recommendations#movie recommendations#this is how I found out about young royals
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Whenever I see someone refer to "Victorian era-" for places outside the UK I'm tempted to start saying shit like "Han Dynasty era Rome", "Soviet era Australia" etc
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i think the fairy vs. walrus discourse is exactly what this website needs. instead of my entire dash vaguing about some new noxious intracommunity drama that has resulted in the creation of the most niche socialist ideologies known to man, it's all equally passionately vaguing about the relative verisimilitude of fairy folklore vs. personally targeted animal smuggling. we should all direct our penchant for getting in overly verbose fistfights on the internet toward silly bullshit more often.
#truth#humor#fairy vs walrus#hypotheticals#thought experiment#my favorite thing in academia is arguing about silly things that have no real bearing on the world#you can tell so much about a person based on their response to ridiculous hypotheticals
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Me too, buddy. Me too.
#meme#memes#comedy#humor#former PD#I was too kind to the people I’m supposed to be a dick to#now I’m here#helping the attorneys working to destroy them
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I was a proponent of defunding the police for most of my life.
Then I started working for a major metropolitan police department. I worked in a precinct for about a year before I transferred to the crime lab, where I spent another two years.
I was given the opportunity to observe the police department, its officers, its civilian employees, first hand. Every day. 40 hours a week. Sometimes nights and weekends. Sometimes nine to five.
I left the department. I am now a police abolitionist.
My partner (NB) worked for the same department for five years. First in public records, then on the street. They were not out and presented fem.
They left the department less than a year before I did. They are also now a police abolitionist.
I learned that people join the police department for a variety of reasons. Most of them (officers included) want to do good. They want to help their communities. They want to make a positive difference in the world.
But the American policing system isn’t designed to help people or fix things on a societal level. And the people who joined the department with good intentions and high ideals end up in one of three situations:
1. They realize they can’t change things from the inside, and they leave.
2. They realize they can’t change things from the inside. But they need the good pay and excellent benefits to provide for their families. So they keep their heads down, try to do as little harm as possible, and stick around just long enough for their pension and lifetime benefits to take effect (with my department, this was 20 years). Then they leave as soon as possible.
3. They adapt to reflect the morals of the department, becoming the very things they sought to change when they first joined the department. These are the ones that end up in positions of power within the department (lieutenants, commanders, chiefs, etc.)
There is no “fixing” the police. It was built on a faulty foundation, and continues to build upward. And the people in power (both within and outside of the departments) don’t want it to change. Because the current system benefits them, and people like them, immensely.
Abolition is the only viable way to fix things. Like demolishing a decrepit building in order to build something on top of it.
....really fucking fed up with the amount of people ive seen imply or outright state that anyone advocating for police abolition has never experienced violent crime.
guess what, some of us have and for many of us a huge part of the reason we support it is because of how absolutely horrible our experiences were.
things police have done for me when ive come in contact with them
tell me that a person strangling a coworker wasn't a reason to call and then refuse help
get pissed when i called back because someone was being fucking choked and they were forced to send someone out
get pissed and accuse the staff of purposely attracting problems after we installed a sharps container to reduce the used needles we'd been dealing with for months when they saw them after we reported another assault....
which took them an hour to arrive at and then they got pissed the victim had gone with paramedics to the hospital and we hadn't somehow held the person who did it for them
harass two witnesses to an assault because the were homeless
harass me because i carry narcan and they overheard me say i used it to paramedics at an overdose
see the shelter van in a parking lot and come in to harass the shelter workers as they helped someone
and so much more
there has never been a situation where police have helped me when i experienced violence and there are a ton where they have made shit much worse.
if the police disappeared and none of the money was redirected i would be much safer, let alone if the money went to organizations and groups who actually gave a shit about people beyond using them as punching bags
who would i call if i needed help? definitely not the people who've repeatedly harassed me, refused to help when needed, and take a fucking hour to show up when someone is being beaten.
probably one of the community groups that's managed to do a significant amount more with a fraction of the budget without guns or harassing victims.
#police abolition#truth#acab#former PD#defund police#defund the cops#broken beyond repair#doing what it was designed to do#I’ve got plenty of horror stories from my and my partner’s time there
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This is a big fucking deal that I think a lot of people fail to understand.
This is the first step in creating an educated population: opening access to quality, well researched, peer reviewed information. Making it free of charge.
Fun fact: you can also access most academic articles through your public library. If they don’t have the article in their collection, interlibrary loan exists. These services are also free of charge (thank you, taxpayers!).
And the best thing? Conservatives fucking hate this shit. So you’re not only learning new and interesting things, you’re also pissing off the people who actively want to do you harm.
Which is super fun.
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#jstor#prison education#jstor access in prison#truth#public libraries#free education#academic articles#educate the people#support your local libraries#learning is punk#education for all#as a former academic#as a former educator#never stop learning
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