have i been forgetting to post after writing the posts? maybe. have i discovered that saying “i want to commit white-on-white crime” is the best vocal stim for some reason? probably

it's weird how people will be like "but we need Suburban Lawn so kids can play outside!" as if basically every kid isn't bored to tears by being confined to a yard that's nothing but flat grass.

like have you talked to a kid, have you spent time with kids, do you remember BEING a kid? "playing outside" isn't about Throwing Ball 1000 times it's about squishing mud, using sticks as swords and guns, making potions from plants, catching bugs, climbing trees, and building forts from brush and branches.

A highly manicured lawn has nothing to offer the senses and brain of a developing child. If there are no "weeds," what are they supposed to gather to make into potions?? I'm not even joking, what do you, a child, DO in a yard without wildflowers and mud and dead branches. I feel like my brain wouldn't have developed correctly if my outdoor space growing up wasn't full of chicory and asters and dandelions.

At least video games offer some dim imitation of a variety of stimuli

Good news for all you pronoun haters! If you despise the way the woke sjws are changing your beloved english words, there are whole new words that YOU can use to refer to people! Why get mad at the they/thems when you can use your new, sexy, untarnished xe/xir! Why even use that icky singular “you” when you can call everyone you speak to fae!

Seriously tho, I love all y’all neopronoun havers, please send me your fave neos

Shoutout to the guy in my art class who said he'd rather be a fascist than a communist for pointing out to me how fucked up capitalist brainwashing is, I hope he becomes okay after we graduate and not some fucked up alt-righter

Loving the energy. It’s like a spiritual successor to that post that’s like “if the communists get what they want the game of golf will cease to exist”“Promise”

Also, to my dad who loves golf, I’m sorry you gotta take one for the life of the fucking planet, I’m not giving you grandchildren if you can’t give up golf.

Love this!

Now if a huge group of people want to cover golf courses with cardboard and wood chips, then cover that with compost and plant seeds :)) and get rid of the golf course all together :)

(ID in alt)

Both me and my computer are finally feeling up to posting again, sadly a bit too late to celebrate queen Lizzy’s death. Get your tea ready, this one’s a doozy.

For those of you who might find it weird to celebrate a death, let me make one thing clear: I don’t even wish death on my enemies, I am an advocate for reformative justice and I have faith that people can change. But there’s no fucking reason to be sorry about the queen’s death. She died after a lavishly rich life at nearly 100 years old, it’s natural and normal, and there is no cruelty in not mourning.

The reason I’m celebrating is because she was a bad person. Even before we get to the colonial shit, she vetted over 1000 laws during her reign so that they would serve her interests more. She took extra taxpayer money to fund her own endeavors despite having hundreds of millions to her name. Taxpayer money that should have gone to welfare programs to help lower poverty in her country. Taxpayer money that could’ve gone so that disabled citizens of the UK wouldn’t be dying while waiting for government benefits. Taxpayer money that allegedly went to covering up p*do allegations against her son. She was racist to Meghan, and didn’t even let poc work for her early in her reign. She had disabled relatives that were falsely reported dead and did not get support from the royal family. She and her family are a remnant of the days of monarchy that even most conservatives agree were gross and bad for the people.

And then you get into the even more heinous colonial shit. When young queen Elizabeth was granted her title, she was in Kenya, as a part of endorsing and whitewashing violent colonial structures in Africa. You can’t feel sorry for someone when you can find pictures of the people tortured under colonial powers that she allowed to continue. Even after the traditional British empire dissolved, capitalist neo-colonialism along with puppet leaders continued to destroy African populations.

And I know that to most of my followers, this is preaching to the choir, many leftists already know this much and probably more about her and her reign. But this is also for centrists, liberals, and conservatives that don’t understand the harm she has done. It doesn’t matter that ‘someone died’ or ‘this is British culture’ because it has done so much harm.

You can legit find conservatives saying with conviction that the British Empire “civilized” the world. Who think that the art and architecture of colonized cultures pales in comparison to the mere train stations the British brought, who think that after the UK “left” the colonies the natives destroyed their own countries, who think that spreading their religion is civil even if it means bringing war and torture and destruction.

Which is why I’m putting conservatives in the tags, so more people can hopefully see and understand. Even if most of them won’t change their minds and there are probably very few conservatives on tumblr of all places. I may be naive, but I choose to have faith in conservatives to realize the white supremacy inherent in revering the queen like this.

Unfortunately recently my computer has been unable to charge and I’ve gone through some ✨trauma✨ but I should get more regular with posting soon

https://libcom.org/library/what-wears-us-down-dual-consciousness-disability-work

“What might be classified as ‘standards of excellence’ or ‘achievement’ may simply be the ability to endure an intense escalation of rote, physically and psychologically draining tasks as means of preserving one’s job against competitors.”

The social class of “disabled” is used not only to oppress those impaired who cannot work, but to encourage those who can to sacrifice their own bodies for “independence” and “productivity” by provoking pity for the disabled.

The creation of disability as a social class exists with two functions: to gatekeep which impaired people have access to resources (thus forcing many of them into the workforce where their health is even more at risk) and to discipline the working class, both employed and unemployed, with the threat of obsolescence.

People will say to stop blaming capitalism for individuals needing to work 3 jobs to survive, they’ll scream and piss and cry about how people need to get real careers, meanwhile shit like this is happening to FORCE people into multiple jobs.

The ruling class don’t care about you. They care about capital. And one thing you should know about capitalism is that it needs people unemployed (which could leave them starving and unhoused) in order to keep their power. If there are too many people working and getting good wages, then your bargaining power is higher. But if more and more jobs are taken up by people who are already working but can’t survive, each minimum wage worker has less power, and there are less workers to come together and use collective power.

i need you to understand that the ruling class hates you and wants to hurt you as much as they possibly can

What good is the concept of justice when most people use the word as functionally synonymous with "vengeance"?

There’s nothing like starting a semester of school to stop you from procrastinating reading your theory (by using it to procrastinate school work)

holy shit I just realized I hit over 100 followers, thanks everyone!

shit like this is what makes it hard to identify as a Christian sometimes. Because the historical baggage is THIS.

“Every time someone in Canada sells property and wrings their hands in glee over all the money they’ve made, they are participating in the Doctrine of Discovery. Every resource development, every pipeline – that’s all based on the Doctrine of Discovery.“

letter from a mother of a gay man. sent to ONE magazine, 1958.

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This post was flagged as adult content and the original poster was deactivated so I'm bringing it back.