Love how much is illuminated by landlords making a meme which equates the idea of tenants rights w like being murdered by the fuckin red guards

can u draw. gale tummy. to defeat the woke ?

Yeah sure. I’ll even draw him with his hair up which i don’t see too often. Probably due to woke

x I plead the fifth

Not all heroes wear capes

I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

alternatives to “i want to die”:

i want things to change

i want a different life

today was a shitty day/week

i don’t want to live like this

i want to be somewhere else in life

i’m not where i want to be yet

+ much more

REBLOG IF YOU HAVE STRETCHMARKS

This way people can see they’re not alone. I have them and this would help me see that.

The fact that Microsoft Word has to be a subscription is upsetting. I already paid for it why do I have to pay again

i know we've all made 8 million posts about this but like. they really took a character that sacrificed his own happiness multiple times, was suicidal for years, placed everyone's needs before his own and canonically wanted to retire, settle down and just live a normal little life but believed he could never have it......and they killed him in the end. a character that people saw so much of themselves in. a character that people loved so deeply for 15 years.....and they killed him and proved him right. what the actual fuck.

I feel like people don't understand what fetishization really means & it has a lot of well intentioned lefty types like afraid of being attracted to people

ok I know in the city showdown metropolis gets the reputation as the golden city vs gotham's "rent is $200 a month but it's fucking haunted and the joker blows up a school bus every other week". but consider for a minute how weird it is that metropolis citizens are so upbeat given the frequency with which gigantic intergalactic threats hit their city. like you can buy a gun and arguably have a chance against someone like the riddler in a 1v1 match. but if fucking mongul decided to end your life you'd be vaporized before you could even think. living in metropolis is like living in a bright but fragile glass house where, with alarming frequency, villains powerful enough to be an existential threat to humanity come down from outer space to crush it. and that's not even getting into the fact that even the "regular" criminals like mannheim are usually armed with literal alien weapons - like tf are you supposed to do against a mugger who has a plasma gun that looks like it's from the 31st century?? - or the fact that lex luthor's insidious influence puts advanced military grade weapons on the streets. and instead of being nihilistic, metropolitans are almost annoyingly unbothered by it, even to the point of optimism.

what i'm saying is, gotham's creepy, but in a way that is almost predictable - the gothic architecture and the unfriendly citizens and the street level, twisted criminals. metropolis SHOULD be in a state of terror, but it's sunny and everyone there is smiling. that dichotomy is arguably creepier to me.

just a reminder to COMPLETELY boycott Eurovision this year; Azerbaijan and Israel, despite committing genocide, are STILL allowed to compete & have NOT been banned. by refusing to ban both countries, Eurovision is profiting off of the genocide of Palestinians and Armenians.

do not listen to the artists. do not pirate or stream the artists' music, and this applies to ALL the artists who are competing and performing this year. do not listen to the songs on ANY platform, do not give them ANY attention.

write to your broadcasters and tell them you REFUSE to watch the channels until they recognise the Armenian and Palestinian genocides & that you find it disgusting how they are allowing Eurovision despite Azerbaijan and Israel's entries.

do NOT give eurovision OR the competing artists ANYTHING but silence.

boycott ALL of eurovision.

Getting into an extremely popular and mainstream superhero was the best decision I've ever made because I truly get to see my guy everywhere. Just saw a batman birthday cake at the grocery store and my brain immediately got flooded by serotonin. I love it

i'll go first my parents almost named me felicity. which would've been so cool but i definitely would've been like 5x crazier if i was named that

A follow-up to my Sauron's hair color poll