quick bouncing slime (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ
I suspect humans are the only animals that know the inevitability of their own death. Other animals live in the present, humans cannot. So they invented hope.
I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (2020) | dir. Charlie Kaufman
wo2bzy1vl4-deactivated20220710
Gays when they bump into each other in public
Dragonlord, his great grandson, and a Dragon slime. These were actually part of a larger personal piece.
nonbinary-hawke-deactivated2021
"vote blue no matter who" rhetoric is there literal exact reason why there's no true leftist party in the US and why we've been steadily moving farther and farther right for fucking decades
nonbinary-hawke-deactivated2021
Republicans are openly fascist trash.
Democrats are quietly fascist trash who happily continue the efforts of Republicans and are very comfortable moving farther right with every election because they know they'll always get support because they're the "lesser evil".
nonbinary-hawke-deactivated2021
Democrats can say or do whatever the fuck they want because they KNOW they'll still get votes. The entire party is literally based around "vote for us because we're marginally less cartoonishly evil than the other guys" and we fucking fall for it every goddamn election.
Politicians exist to SERVE THE PEOPLE. They aren't fucking entitled to our votes just because they have a specific label slapped on them, and the idea that we should vote for someone just because they're a Democrat and might not be as bad as The Other Guys™ is just proof that our system is fucking ruined beyond saving.
nonbinary-hawke-deactivated2021
It's the same fucking cycle every goddamn election.
1) We get a Republican president who pushes openly fascist policies.
2) We insist that they're evil because they're a Republican and we can never put a Republican back into office.
3) Democrat nominees end up being just as bad but with better PR teams.
4a) We insist that it doesn't matter, that they're in easier to influence, that we can enact real change when they're in office, that we need to vote blue no matter who.
4b) Anarchist and socialist groups end up suffering during election year because people are too focused on rallying behind a politician who will never care about them.
5) Democratic president wins and quietly continues the Republican's policies, but no one cares because they have a great PR team.
6) None of the promised change happens because people become complacent with a "good" president.
7) American politics move further right and the cycle continues.
If I am ever in a coma, play this scene and I will wake up to laugh at Hannibal and pretentious ass soup.
nbc’s hannibal is an excellent comedy
Get to know Kamala Harris
- Pushed a law that forces schools to turn undocumented students over to ICE, separating them from their parents and violating human rights
- Laughed about putting parents in jail if their kids missed school, disproportionately harming single parent households, the poor, and families of color like this one, including homeless mothers
- Her office refused to address what the Supreme Court calls “unconstitutionally overcrowded” prisons specifically to perpetuate the exploitation of the mass incarcerated for slave labor close to $1/hour(she later claimed she didn’t know her own lawyers argued this.
- Declined to prosecute Steven Mnuchin after his bank’s predatory lending and foreclosure fraud broke the law “over a thousand” times and ruined the lives of thousands of homeowners, keeping him free to donate to her campaign and become Trump’s Treasury Secretary
- Spent years jailing disproportionately black nonviolent cannabis users while opposing taking cannabis off DEA’s list of most dangerous substances and literally laughing at the idea of legalizing it multiple times, even as her Republican opponent ran to the left of her on the issue. She then tried to pander by admitting to smoking herself despite prosecuting others, but got her story all wrong, and even offended her own Jamaican family to the point they’ve disassociated with her
- Used a technicality to stop the release of a man serving 27 years-to-life after being wrongfully convicted of possession of a knife under the three-strikes law she supported. When civil rights groups and nearly 100,000 petition signatures got him released after 14 years she took him back to court again for a crime he didn’t commit
- Opposed reforming California’s three-strikes law, which is the only one in the country to impose life sentences for minor felonies and incarcerates black people at 12x the rate as white people, three different times, even while her Republican opponent supported reform
- Appealed a judge ruling that the death penalty was unconstitutional and won on a technicality, resulting in continued executions
- When evidence pointed towards a black defendant being framed by police, Harris avoided DNA testing to keep him on death row
- Protected serial child rapists by refusing to prosecute in the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal
- Lied about her state’s solitary confinement to block a suit by inmates, claiming there was none in California when there were about 6,400 victims of the practice, which is considered torture
- Oversaw a state prosecutor falsifying a confession to get a life sentence and then destroyed the evidence, upheld a conviction secured by a prosecutor lying under oath, and oversaw the framing of another man
- Opposed legislation that would require independent investigation of fatal police shootings despite criticism from many civil rights advocates including California’s Legislative Black Caucus
- Opposed statewide implementation of police body cameras and ignored police brutality, multiple officers raping a teenager, and other officers sharing racist and homophobic messages, despite multiple requests from the public defender
- Refused to hand over the names of police whose testimonies led to convictions despite the officers’ arrest records and past misconduct
- Tried to deny a transgender inmate healthcare and endangered trans women by forcing them into mens prisons, leading to the rape and torture of at least one trans inmate
- Stood by silently as $730 million was spent on moving inmates to for-profit private prisons
- Delayed the confiscation of illegal firearms from dangerous people, then posed a “continued risk to public safety” by failing to implement changes state auditors recommended to fix this despite receiving $24 million specifically for this purpose
- Voted two different times to block federal funding for abortions
- Following the foreclosure fraud scandal she negotiated a deal great for banks but bad for the ruined homeowners, becoming one of Wall Street’s favorite candidates to fundraise for
- Voted to give Trump increased military spending two different times.
- Supports Trump escalating war in Syria
- Co-sponsored the bill that let Trump impose sanctions on Iran which violated the nuclear deal and lead to the currently rising tensions
- “Systematically violated defendants’ civil and constitutional rights” in crime lab scandal
- Kept her Orange County DA office from being charged for running an unconstitutional jailhouse informant program they tried to cover up.
- Oversaw San Francisco’s felony conviction rate rising from 52% to 67% in only 3 years
- As part of her tough on crime approach she assigned senior prosecutors to misdemeanors like graffiti and vandalism, tripling the number of cases brought to trial
- Mocks the activist call to “build more schools, less jails”
- Supports collecting and keeping DNA from people even if they’ve not been charged with a crime
- Defended the discriminatory practice of cash bail in court as recently as June 2016
- Supports Israel’s right-wing government and cozies up to AIPAC, co-sponsored resolution against Obama in support of illegal settlements, does not support Palestinian rights, and calls BDS “anti-semitic”
- Claimed to be unaware of sexual harassment and retaliation by her top aide over a 6 year span
- Sponsored a bill allowing for prosecutors to seize profits before charges are even filed and opposed a bill that would reform civil asset forfeiture
- Defended a prison’s religious discrimination in hiring policy
- Opposed calls to tear down 700 miles of existing border wall/fence
- Fought to limit amount of land indigenous tribes could place in trust and tried to take reservation land away from a tribe just to keep them from evicting a non-indigenous man who had lived there without paying rent for 24 years
- Is a latecomer in endorsing Medicare for All and already appears to be backtracking on multiple aspects of it
- Refused to review a case in which a pharmaceutical CEO killed his wife but made it look like a suicide after their son died under mysterious circumstances as well
- Refused to prosecute PG&E for its massive gas pipeline explosion and now its consultants are running her campaign
- Did not properly investigate the San Onofre scandal to protect her political allies.
- Refused to investigate Herbalife’s exploitation and fraud, receiving donations from people connected to the corporation
- Her associate operated a fake police force but somehow all charges were dismissed
- Refuses to support AB5 to give gig workers like rideshare drivers basic employee rights (her brother-in-law & niece are high-up in Uber)
- Opposed legalization of sex work, endangered sex workers, and oversaw people being charged for prostitution without even agreeing to sex
- Endangered the public by supporting legislation that increased the homeless sex offender population 24x in 3 years, then appealed a court’s ruling that it was unconstitutional. Her Republican opponent ran to the left of her on this issue
- Accepted thousands of dollars of campaign funds from Donald and Ivanka Trump multiple times
- Accepts donations from prominent charter school pusher and billionaire Reed Hastings
“You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up.”
The Matrix (1999)
Dirs. Lana & Lilly Wachowski
Deadly Premonition - Access Games. Set in the fictional, rural American town of Greenvale, Washington, the story follows FBI Special Agent Francis York Morgan as he investigates the murder of an eighteen-year-old woman, which bears similarities to a series of murders across the country
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Revolutionary parenting hack:
If your child is in the middle of some activity and clearly enjoying it (and wasn't supposed to be doing something else instead), DO NOT interrupt them and have them do chores that will "only take 5 minutes or so!"
You haven't asked them to do anything before they got out the Legos, started reading a chapter of their book or painting the complicated picture, or began playing their video game.
As a result of being repeatedly interrupted, they will learn that their presence in public space of the household=availability to do chores, so they will make themselves scarce so you can't find them and order them around. They will also become suspicious of your efforts to engage with them as they play, as they've learned that these pleasantries are a prelude to "Take out the trash", or "move your boots and vacuum the entryway, there's dirt everywhere ".
"But I need my children to help me around the house!", I hear you cry. I understand. Children should not be treated like royalty and left to their own devices 24/7.
An alternative is to give the kids a clearly delineated chore chart and stick to it, resisting the urge to add anything to it. There are some chores that are easier and quicker with two people, though. A (in my opinion) even better option is to divide the child's day into "on-duty" and "off-duty " time. When they're on-duty, you can interrupt them as before, but you have *consulted with your child beforehand * and they understand that during this time they can relax, but they must be ready to jump in and lend a hand.
That way they won't start trying to level up in their video game or break out the clay and make stuff. When they are off-duty, you leave them alone and their only responsibilities are to clean up whatever mess they make at the end of this time.
Also, if they are tearing around the house or whining about being bored, don't make them do chores so they will "have something to do"; this could make the child conflate extra chores with punishment for whining and make them reluctant to help out when you randomly tell them to at other times because they might think they're being punished but they have NO IDEA WHAT THEY DID. And IMO children should see chores as things everyone has to do no matter what, not punishments.
I may seem unqualified to offer parenting advice as I have no kids, but I was talking with my dad today and he said: "I wish you didn't hide from us in your room so much, but every time your mom walked by she'd give you a chore to do, so I can't blame you for that." A kid who hides in their room to play has an entirely different relationship to the family than the child who sprawls on the livingroom floor and excitedly describes the city they are building out of Legos.
And today, in times of Covid I play a complicated game of hide-and-seek with my mother as I try to do my online coding homework and apply for jobs. I am now attempting to turn my bedroom into my own tiny office because if I work in our home office, she'll find me and go "I can't attach this file to my email," and so on.
Children *have* to obey their parents when they are young. But true respect and honoring collective responsibilities is stronger than forced obedience. If you demonstrate to your children that you respect them and their time, they will reciprocate.
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Tl;dr if your child is "always hiding in their room", there is a reason for it and setting a regular routine and boundaries will benefit both of you in the long run.
The amazing concept art of Rado Markovic for The Last of Us Part II
Artbook: The Art of the Last of Us Part II
I know it’s hard for you to believe this right now, but trust me, by the end of this day, you and I are gonna be best friends.
