This is fantastic!
I am sure some Republican came up with the yacht tax. Vote for Biden, he will not cater to the rich.
A hero without a cape
Her name is Theresa Kachindamoto, and she is a senior chief - political leader of a region with a population of about 900,000 people.
She didn’t run for election; she was appointed, without her knowledge, while she was living and working in a completely different part of the country. She just received a call one day telling her to come back to her childhood home, because she was in charge now.
So she did; and when she arrived, she discovered widespread sexual abuse of children. She browbeat 50 uncooperative local leaders into accepting her decision to annul all the marriages. She then fired four of them when they continued to allow children to be married off in their areas. She still faces widespread opposition from parents who consider it their right to sexually abuse their daughters if they want to; but Kachindamoto very evidently does not give a fuck, and is continuing to use political and legal means to protect children in the region.
She’s not just an anonymous do-gooder; she’s an effective political leader despite incredibly difficult circumstances. Theresa Kachindamoto.
[Image Description: a twitter post from user Al Jazeera English @ AJEnglish that reads “This woman has broken up 850 child marriages and banned sexual initiation camps in Malawi”
Below the text is a picture of Theresa Kachindamoto. She is a dark skinned woman with short hair. She is outside and smiling. End ID]
got worried checking the dates on this post and seeing 2016, knowing how risky this kind of political activism is
good news: Kachindamoto is still in office, and last year (2024) she received honorary doctorates from 2 universities and was given the African Genius Award 🙏
believing in science 🤝 hating when science is right about me personally
cant believe my psychiatrist prescribed me “don’t look at your phone for an hour before bed” to help my insomnia and now I sleep normally. fucking heartbreaking
i thought of this post three days before making it btw bc i couldnt use my fckin phone to post it while cooking up jokes in bed. what if i had forgotten it forever. what if i couldn’t feed my followers. has my psychiatrist considered that. dr. choudhary is awfully silent rn
we joke about Tumblr making your brain unable to interact with regular humans, but today I used the phrase “very slow tigers are chasing me” and no one, NO ONE, understood what I meant.
Tumblr is a giant step towards achieving a Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra level of communication.
You don’t get to hide this gem in the tags sorry
Yeah I mentioned the leopards eating peoples faces party to a friend once and the whole conversation immediately derailed. I hadnt even realised I said something weird at first
What. I thought that was a common political metaphor in the US
I once described damage to a lock due to someone repeatedly not putting the key in it correctly as “Sherlock thinks you’re an alcoholic” and the person I said it too understood completely and we were both very embarrassed.
Only one person in my dnd group is not on tumblr so it’s not uncommon that we have to explain things to him
Most recently was how the Pacific is the most fuckable ocean
[Shaka. At dashcon]
