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back on my tumblr bullshit

—mothers

ijeoma umebinyuo // hyatt moore // class of 2013 by mitski // i, tonya (2017) // ? // gustav klimt // ? // lady bird (2017) // i remain in darkness by annie ernaux

I think it's important to remember, as a rule of thumb, if you take advantage of a social service, it actually makes it easier for other people who need that service to access it. Most of the time, when these services get cut, it's because politicians will look at usage and say "see, no one is really using this thing, we can afford to trim the budget for food stamps by at least half". Whereas if you decide to step up and use these programs, even if you feel like you "don't really need it", at bare minimum it's another data point advocates can use to say "hey, look, people are using this thing, this is an important service we are providing, do not cut our funding".

I work at a nonprofit, and it is absolutely wild explaining to folks that being part of a program that reduces their energy bill actually helps us get funding to help even more people get energy bill savings.

You aren’t taking resources from anyone by using programs you qualify for. You are making a case for those programs being important enough to continue to exist and (in many cases) grow.

We live in a world so controlled by the idea of resource scarcity that we reason "If I get help, that must be taking help away from someone else!"

THIS RIGHT HERE

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

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I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

  • The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world
  • Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)
  • Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.
  • The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system
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secretladyspider

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

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Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

[id: the first image is a tweet by Ryan Grim / @.ryangrim that reads: Ya know, if a country has so many people in prison that allowing them to vote could swing an election, maybe there are too many people in prison.

the second image is a tweet by Anthony Oliveira / @.meakoopa that reads: hi everyone - a government that denies its prisoners the right to vote is a government that now has an extremely vested interest in jailing its political opposition

thank you to coming to this, the literal first class of Civics 101 /end]

Ended up binging Wednesday on Netflix (after working 11hrs several days in a row at work haha-! I’m very tired.) 

So- here’s a doodle that I managed.

Also, I guess it’s my first artwork for the new year?

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HUGE shout out to purple for being the only color that has like no losers. Deep purple royal purple bluish purple redish purple pastel purple dusty purple lavender periwinkle violet like. Banger after banger after banger!!

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look at these. there r all absolute fuckin stunners:

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there’s got to be at least one trans woman named eve out there whose deadname is adam. and she’s the funniest person to ever grace this earth with her presence.

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hugs-to-a-knife-fight

I feel so appreciated :3

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WE FOUND HER!!!!!!!!!!!!

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chiribomb

GOD SAID ADAM AND EVE SO SHE WAS BOTH

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hugs-to-a-knife-fight

I said this same thing! Except I’m also bi so I add to it a little 😇

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dammitsammy

Oh hey idk why it says I deactivated. I just changed my name. Still here babes 😎

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hanging out with other autistic people exists on a scale from “instantly drift compatible” to “lithium and water”

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at the aut4aut hangout: i’ve known this person for five minutes and yet somehow it’s like we each understand each others’ entire lives. we have a perfect synthesis of interests and are bothered by all the same things

also at the aut4aut hangout: i’ve known this person for five minutes and yet i know with absolute certainty that there could be no person in the world i would get along with less. the way they stim makes me want to die and the feeling is mutual. we have absolutely zero opinions in common and both of us seem baffled as to how the other could even exist.

deactivationgocrazy-deactivated

"the education system traumatizes students it deems stupid" and "the education system traumatizes students it deems gifted" are two concepts that can and should coexist.

I think I've got a compromise

ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY ENID AND WEDNESDAY

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Im so dang curious why Enid's character was even made in the first place. They put so much effort into showing how opposite she is to Wednesday, and is probably even one of the first show original characters conceptualized when the story was made.

You cant not make someone who is such a huge foil for the protag a big character for the story, especially when you've got the "colorful character" and the showrunners insisting that the goal is for Wednesday to see a little bit of color in her monochromatic view of the world.