10 Things I Hate About You (1999) dir. Gil Junger

Jake and Logan Paul are the Wario and Waluigi versions of the Da Vinki twins.

More than 1000 people have been killed in a horrific 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand, and the devastation is enormous. To help survivors:

World Central Kitchen are en route to the affected areas.

MSF/Doctors Without Borders also have teams on the ground to aid the injured.

i miss this ipad baby....

Fantasia (1940) dir. David D. Hand, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson

The Passenger (2023) / Brokeback Mountain (2005)

yeah ive got experience in handling international relations. ive got mutuals from all over the world and they even reblog posts from me

this is why discourse needs to start with listening and learning, why online discourse is often so terrible, and why we see people falling prey to terf pipelines.

if you see things you instinctively disagree with, it’s SO important to understand why you disagree.

because when you explore the why, you will sometimes find that in your efforts to find the words to describe your discomfort, that you were right to disagree because someone who is more educated on the subject matter has articulated the why in a way that helps you understand that discomfort.

but you will also sometimes find that someone who is more educated on the subject can explain why your disagreement is actually an internalized bias that you had a blind spot to and weren’t aware of it until it was laid out for you in a certain way.

by nature of the internet, you will see a lot of things you both agree with and disagree with. and it’s incredibly easy to create an unintentional echo chamber where you only see things that support what you already know and believe. when something that is foreign to your current understanding of the world enters your perception, it is a shock to see. and that shock can often lead to an instinctive response of defending what you already know. this is how we get bad faith discourse.

not enough people are willing to examine their discomfort and create potential learning opportunities for themselves because they are too comfortable in their understanding of the world. but it is crucial to occasionally step outside of your comfort zone in order to continue to grow as a person.

if you see something by you don’t understand it is worth taking the effort to dig into it and take the time to understand why. do research, ask someone you trust. actively seek education constantly. we all need to constantly be learning in order to better ourselves because that’s the only way that we can make the world a better place for all of us.

My favourite QRT from that first tweet:

JOHNNY BERCHTOLD as RICHARD BECK REACHER, 3.08 "Unfinished Business"

If you're in the UK and you're worried about benefit cuts, I know how you feel. I'm anxious, upset, and desperately angry. I'm sure a lot of you are too.

Scope, a UK based disability charity, outline the cuts and explain them here. This is kept up to date as things are discussed and changed by the government. They have a petition here.

Scope also offer advice and support for disabled people, and have a helpline for this. More information here.

Sense, another UK based disability charity, have a template to email your local MP. This is available here, and can be customised to add your personal story and why you're worried about the cuts. They email it on your behalf, so you don't need to worry about finding their email address and emailing it yourself, you just fill in the form! If you can, please share this with friends and family! The more people email their MPs, the more impact it will have. Support from Sense is available on their website.

I am embedding all links below for accessibility.

I will continue to update this as and when any more information or support comes to my attention. I'm sorry that we are having to fight this. I hope that we are successful. ❤️

The government is also running a consultation on its "Pathways into Work" (vomit) initiative. You can find it here.

The consultation mentions repeatedly that they are not asking for opinions about the benefit cuts specifically and are going ahead with those anyway, so the other links on this post objecting to those measures are still really important and worth following. Writing in on the consultation itself is a good additional thing to do!

insane. insane for this.

SARAH SNOOK photographed by Jesse Lizotte for Vogue Australia

i love not talking #theobserver

thanks tumblr, maybe i will try ringworm if you dont have anything else