Margott Griffin

alwaysbuythebook:

alwaysbuythebook:

So in case anyone wanted more evidence of how government suppression of free speech is spreading globally, in the UK on Thursday evening (March 27th), twenty police officers broke into Westminster Quaker Meeting House in London and arrested six members of the group Youth Demand who met to discuss concerns about the climate and Gaza. The charge was apparently conspiracy to commit a public nuisance - this raid is a direct result of law changes in 2022 and 2023 designed to dramatically restrict people’s ability to plan and carry out protests. In addition to breaking into the Meeting House, there have apparently been twelve related house raids and three other arrests.

This is horrifying. It is happening under an allegedly left wing government (our current PM Starmer is Labour, but that name doesn’t really mean anything under his government). There is no harm caused in meeting to discuss ways to challenge the government, except to the government itself. Yet apparently, a simple meeting is enough to justify police armed with tasers and more than a dozen raids.

We are allowed to believe that change is necessary. We are allowed to discuss ways to make change happen - and across history, the most significant social changes have only been made possible thanks to protest.

Screw Labour and the UK establishment.

I want to add some more context about why this is so terrifying. The last time a Quaker Meeting House was violated like this in the UK was in the 1600s, to disrupt people who were exercising their right to freedom of religion. The state of free speech in the UK is apparently in a worse position than it has been for centuries - and certainly within living memory.

Our Meeting Houses are places of worship. They are places of peace and contemplation and it is so utterly disrespectful to break down our doors to stop people talking to each other. And I only know about this because I’m a Quaker myself, and I think it should be spread across the UK so people know how the state is actively working ageist us.

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Anonymous asked:

why do you and others like vaccines so much?

joshpeck:

not dying of preventable diseases is actually one of my favorite hobbies

astraldemise:

astraldemise:

astraldemise:

changing elves from being assholes with a superiority complex and recharacterising them as just sort of weird guys that have an entirely different set of social behaviours to harken back to the days when people thought autistic people were a kind of fae for having odd behaviours. the entire reason why they dont particularly enjoy gatherings of men or dwarves or whatever is because they tend to be loud and the average elven social gathering is just a bunch of them sitting in a room in silence ignoring each other

like theyre still kind of mean but its more of them being blunt and lacking empathy rather than being condescending or purposefully malicious

my elven ass after spending 45 minutes in the pub with my dwarf friends:

I GROW WEARY OF MIMICKING YOUR OBNOXIOUS MANNERISMS TO ACCOMMODATE FOR THIS ENVIRONMENT. I WISH TO RETURN TO MY CHAMBERS TO REST AND SO I MAY PLAY SPLATOON 3 ON THE NINTENDO SWITCH. WE SHALL GATHER AGAIN NEXT HALF MOON AND I SHALL TELL YOU OF MY VICTORIES.

them:

okay man take care

ALT

you understand my vision

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oneplusoneequalsfish:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

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caninecranium:

German Schandmaske (Mask of Shame) in the shape of a wolf’s head.

Source: 1, 2

“A German mask of disgrace in the shape of a wolf’s head, 16th/17th century. Forged iron. A mask made from riveted bar stock with pronounced teeth and ears attached by rivets. Two piece, hinged neckband. At the nape of the neck loops for a padlock. Length 40 cm. A mask of disgrace in the shape of a wolf’s head was placed on those pilloried for deeds of violence.”

About 20% of you think the wolf shame mask is sexy don’t you

You’re really lowballing that percentage, my dude.

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dragongirlsnout:

bigandgreedy:

i enter the shower. hours pass. i emerge from the shower, having mixed all of my soaps and scrubs and lotions and conditioners and shampoos and body washes together in the tub in precise alchemical quantities. i smell like 314 different herbs and spices. my hair will not need washing for the next 500 days. my skin has developed protective chitinous scales. i step out of the tub and immediately slip and fall on a stray puddle of mane ‘n tail and sprain my pussy

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apocalypse-angel:

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moniquill:

It’s not just to have a “do over” that doesn’t involve the original cast, it’s to cut them out of the royalties. Literally the entire point is to make sure all the money made by Harry Potter goes to transphobes or people willing to work with transphobes.

If you watch it, you are supporting bigotry, hate, and oppression. That’s just objective reality. All for a story that you probably have already seen in movie and book form.

#the last point is especially true since the old cast receives royalties for anything with their likeness on it#meaning the original trio still gets money for every mug with their 14 year old faces on it#if they stop making those and replace them with the new cast which they will the old cast gets cut off completely#which is again exactly what rowling wants because she cannot stand those ‘ungrateful brats’ as she would likely put it#and as she has last say in anything that gets made in harry potter paraphernalia this might also explain the decrease in faces on products

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I hate Rowling so much.

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dark-rx:

(via $4.6 billion and 40,000 jobs lost—thanks to the artistry of our politicians. : r/clevercomebacks)

Literally making it my mission to shame anyone I see going to the USA.

Given that a German tourist has been detained by ICE for the past month and prevented from returning home, I wouldn’t be encouraging my non USA friends to come visit here anyway

As a Nasty Canadian I would not put my foot in the US if they’d pay me. Legal visas are not legal, valid green cards not valid, anyone can be Hamas supporter, or, as some years ago an officer on the Canada-US border told my friend, whose car was searched for hours to find nothing: “WHY? BECAUSE I DON’T LIKE YOUR FUCKING FACE, THAT’S WHY”.

I’m an American living in Germany, with a German spouse; we were planning on visiting the US to see my family, especially my new nephew.

My entire family has told us not to come, because it’s not safe for us to do so.

people are traveling less within the country as well, also for safety reasons

My partner is supposed to go to the US basically every year for a business trip. There are literally discussions about if it is safe to travel now.

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starwarsheritageposts:

greencomputerslime:

THE WAY IT CUTS OFF AT THE END IS SENDING ME

star wars heritage vid

life imitates art

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