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i really am so crazy about how beautiful the lighting from distress flares is if i was a moth i would want to die in their light more than anything else in the world

I came out of Barbie with one single thought in my head and that was that I wanted Ken’s “I am Kenough” sweatshirt immediately

i would be so good as a court jester. you don’t even know. you can’t even imagine it. i already wear gay stupid little outfits and live to amuse other people. i just need the title. any sort of compensation. little bells, perhaps

I’d lose interest if I found out it wasn’t about horses too

I wish gay people were real :(

one of my favorite tropes has got to be the sentiment of “why are y’all like this, not me though, I’m normal <3” spoken by a guy who’s just as Not Normal as the rest of them, if not Even Worse/More Concerning

the only thing worse than having to do work at work is having no work to do at work. like why am i even here? to stand around and look pretty? im flattered but im fucking BORED

sorry ur boyfriend got brainwashed by the patriarchy. yeah he thought that it meant horses run everything. sorry.

@ditzy-rose You cannot just leave this in the comments you genius

Being obsessed with your own OCs but literally never creating any art or content for them is such a curse. You'll be like "this reminds me of blorbo from my head :)", and everyone else will just be like "? who thef uck"

has anyone here done the “guess that white man” quiz my score was absolutely devastating

here’s the link. reblog this and put in the tags how many white men you got correct 👀

[ID: A screenshot of a quiz titled "Name That White Man! underneath says, "Total points: 6/27". End ID.]

my younger self would think I'm so brave (cause I am)

ty for stealing this one much appreciated

people in the notes suggesting it was “improper” for the juror to do this or that it “introduced bias” to the court proceeding 🙄 the ice agent in question accused a moc of assaulting him / resisting arrest. how is the agent being a white supremacist not relevant. what universe are you living in

As a member of the world’s SECOND oldest profession, I assure you this is just one of many ways the justice system is systematically fucked up.

For anyone who wants to know how to fact check something you are told while on jury duty without getting fined:

First, you need to understand that the rule that jurors can’t just google things is coming from a good place. Like imagine that you are on a jury that’s considering, say, a medical malpractice lawsuit and one of your fellow jurors comes into the jury room and says to you, “I think the victim’s expert was lying because WebMD totally contradicts everything they said.”

And you might be like, “But WebMD is notoriously unreliable website and the expert you’re talking about is a researcher from Mayo Clinic.” But this person cannot be swayed.

Like, we can all agree that would be bad.

So even though these rules can contribute to unjust outcomes as in the case above (and seriously, the fact that the defense attorney didn’t fact check that is probably grounds for legal malpractice), they also prevent jurors from just looking up bullshit online and taking it more seriously than the actual experts the court has put on. And I think in the era of anti-vaxxers/QAnon/COVID denial/etc., we can all understand why it’s a bad idea to trust that people can tell fact from bullshit online.

So in light of this, how do you as a juror fact check something?

The key here is that you have to ask the court for information. Jurors can ask questions of the court during deliberations, so if something you said sounds off to you, you can ask for more information.

The key term you want to use here is “credibility.”

The job of a jury is to decide what are called “questions of fact.” Long before the trial even starts, lawyers will have hashed out all the “questions of law” — like, what the statute of limitations is; what laws, exactly, were allegedly broken; whether the court you’re in even has jurisdiction; stuff like that. Jurors are responsible for deciding which side’s version of the facts has more credibility.

For instance, if the prosecution’s witness says X and the defense’s witness says Y, the jury is responsible for deciding which is true, X or Y. And you do this by weighing which one is more credible.

So in this case, if the juror had known to, he could have told the judge, “In order to properly assess the ICE agent’s credibility, I need more information about his tattoo. I have doubts about whether he was telling the truth about it, which would impact how credible I would find his testimony. Can the agent please provide evidence that it really is what he says it is?”

There are a lot of problems with our legal system, and I think one of the biggest is that jurors aren’t educated about what they can and can’t do. Juries have a lot of power, if (and only if) they know how to use it.

Reblogging for that last post, because frankly, “what to do as a juror” is one of those things the schools should really be teaching us. Serving on a jury is one of the most powerful rights of citizenship and everyone should be educated in how to exercise it correctly.

“I’ll do it tomorrow” I said yesterday for the third day in a row

My kinda shit: When Person A put their hand on Person B’s cheek and Person B puts their hand on top while turning their head just enough to kiss Person A’s palm

it’s a mouthful to explain but man is it my kinda shit

Fever is a hilarious immune response. Our bodies tell the disease “hey, wanna see which one of us dies of overheating first? No? Too bad.” and honestly they’re not even the winners a decent chunk of the time but it works often enough that we never evolved it away or anything. Fantastic work.

this reply is killing me