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You know that Ada Limón poem where she’s like “i can’t help it i love the way men love”? my dad recently confessed to me that he became a shoemaker because they buried my grandma shoeless

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Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds - Ada Limón

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slamminscreendoor
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itsmebrook
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oldtrainticket

stop making fun of bad people for being fat or having small dicks or being socially awkward or whatever else you seem to think is a fair target. none of that shit has anything to do with why theyre bad. i don’t care if a nazi has a stutter or a terf has thinning hair or whatever. at best youre missing the point, at worst your comments are gonna hurt vulnerable people more than they will ever affect the shitty person you’re mocking. why are you so attached to these bullshit standards anyway?

OP is addressed to the people doing it, but im reblogging for the bystanders: reminder that these people aren’t on your side just because they say bad things about bad people, and disagreeing with them doesn’t mean you’re siding with bad people

There is a second part to bodyshaming that I feel also needs drawing attention to, so I made a slight addition to the picture:

the problem with body shaming isn’t just calling certain traits ugly. The problem is that you associate, or reinforce associations, of morality to these traits.

Making fun of a rich person for being fat isn’t just wrong because you shouldn’t be calling fat people ugly. It’s wrong because it’s reinforcing stereotypes about fat people being gluttonous, associating fatness with being exploitative and cruel.

This is coincidentally also why any body positivity movement focusing on broadening the category of “beautiful/normal” fails because being considered beautiful isn’t the fucking point, it’s that you should be treated with dignity regardless of your physical appearance, disability, etc. That these traits are morally neutral.

There’s a long tradition of associating “ugliness” with evil and we’re not gonna reach any kind of liberation as long as we participate in that.

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mattefier-deactivated20221118

When I tell you I screamed, I actually screamed 😭😭😭

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rook-the-painter

the Kings and I getting ready to play some D&D

In an apocalyptic scenario, I’d spend my last moments alive watching this.

i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising" one of the tags responding said "this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.

There's a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.

For anyone who still isn't getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There's a difference between whom you're helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you're choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don't have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don't like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you're serious about leftist organizing.

I vote we stop calling it inflation at all. Seize the language. It's price gouging, not inflation. Inflation is a nebulous concept that invokes feeling of being too complex for the layman, a struggle as old as economy itself against a beast no one has ever truly slain.

Price gouging is the truth of it. And it makes it very clear who is to blame, and what must be done to end it.

Can confirm this works wonders. Australia is in a cost of living crisis rn and the two major supermarkets are a big part of it, as they pretty much have a duopoly on not just the grocery shopping market, but a bunch of others considered to be essential (things like fuel). They are trying to blame their price rises on inflation, but the media recently started reporting it as price gouging (which it is), and it got the average person pretty worked up, better than blaming inflation did.

It's price gouging, not inflation.

If you want to feel infuriated just look at this Reddit thread. Hundreds of comments supporting outdoor cats and insisting that only crazy Americans keep their cats indoors.

Comments basically boil down to:

  • tHe Uk Is DiFfErEnT!!!11
  • there are no predators in the UK
  • cats need to roam/hunt
  • "I've only had 3 cats killed by cars so it's fine"
  • Americans are stupid

I hate UK outdoor cat culture so much 😬😬😬

As someone who's had both outside and i side cats depending on the area I lived in:

People need to learn that not everyone lives in a car nation. A lot of us live in smaller villages/suburbs. No wild animal will get them.

City people have inside cats, obviously, for obvious reasons. Those shouldn't be let outside.

But for some reason people act as if the entire world looks like LA in terms of cars and Australia in terms of dangerous wildlife that can attack your cat.

the post is about you lmao

Cool. And people are allowed to have different opinions as not everyone lives in area's that are risky for cats. Farm cats and village cats just aren't at high enough risks to deny them their natural want to be outside.

Currently have an inside cat. She has no desire to go outside and even if she had, she couldn't.

Not everyone lives in the USA or USA jr (the uk) so having places set up that arent car focussed or have risks in nature (coyotes, wolfs etc.) That could harm their cat.

There is nowhere in the world that is 100% safe for cats to free roam. Cars are not the only thing they are at risk from. Domestic cats are also invasive in every single country and cause massive amounts of damage to native wildlife. There is nowhere in the world where cats can free roam without causing problems.

*This* is why I always say it's stupid how people always make the outdoor cat argument about the safety of the cat. Outdoor cat people get to feel like they have the high ground when they live in a "safe" area if everyone always focuses on the "lol your cat's gonna get eaten by coyotes/run over by a car" part and not the "cats are an invasive species almost everywhere in the world and outdoor cats have driven several bird species around the world to extinction" part.

I also feel the need to point out as always that letting your cats outside is a great way for them to contract FIV by fighting other cats. Unless you already have an FIV positive cat on your home, there’s no way for your cat to get FIV unless you let them outside

and if it's not bad enough that "domestic cats, considered a global invasive species, kill 1.4 to 3.7 billion birds in the lower 48 US states each year alone" (source: X), the current strain of bird flu (avian influenza type A, H5N1) is now infecting cats:

within days of exposure, they're developing "severe neurologic signs and dying. It definitely seems that cats are especially sensitive compared to many other species" (source: X)

add together the vast destruction they cause among wildlife, the diseases they spread, and the dangers they face outdoors, and there's no good reason to let domestic cats outside (unsupervised, at least)

For anyone wondering, Blockhead and conehead are terms used to describe the skull shape of golden retrievers. This baby is a blockhead but to anyone unfamiliar, it sounds like the reddit op is asking if this puppy is going to be an idiot.

Goldens have two main head types, Block and Cone (sometimes called slender but I digress). Blockheads have the big blocky heads and coneheads are more pointy. Two examples below.

As far as I'm aware, its just an aesthetic thing and has no impact on their health.

TLDR: your mama so blockhead she minecraft steve

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