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God I love flesh eating plants

Horned butterwort, a carnivorous plant

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Not calling myself autistic, hiding my autism, it won't stop people from labeling me. I'll still be labeled, those labels will just be more inaccurate and probably insulting.

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On the subject about parents needing to control their child's reading and invade their privacy in order to "protect" them from "inappropriate material:

Until I was in....college? At least? The vast, vast majority of the books I read were either a) assigned by my school or b) (the vast majority of my reading) provided to me by my mother.

My mom is a librarian. She filled our rooms with books, picked especially for us. She pointed out books on the shelves in our home library (separate from our bedroom shelves) that she thought we would like. She bought us books for birthdays, Christmas, and just stacks of recommendations. She once paid me $10 to read one of the Cirque Du Freak books because she said I needed "to be exposed to bad literature."

She respected my privacy in room, didn't go through my belongings. She explicitly pointed out to us that she wouldn't know if we took a particular book of the shelf, as long as we returned it, if we didn't want her to know we were reading it. She purposely brought us books that she didn't care for herself, because she thought we might find them valuable or enjoyable.

And if we wanted to read something she thought might upset or disturb us, she would explain why. She wouldn't stop us from reading it - just ask us to check in with her, to talk through it.

And so when I read something that upset or disturbed me, I would go to her. She would listen and talk through it with me.

If she said she didn't think I would like something, or that a book might disturb me, or that she thought I should wait until I was older, I listened to her.

She didn't need restrictions or control to protect me. Because she proved I could trust her.

Controlling kids is never about "protecting" them. It's just about control.

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today we visited the memorial to the victims of communism in ottawa, and I want you all to know that after the house of commons gave a standing ovation to a ukrainian member of the waffen SS, the controversy surrounding that led them to remove the plates from this memorial because hundreds of the supposed victims of communism were nazis. and just in case you were wondering, they haven't put anything up since, leading to this beautiful sight:

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Incredible Violence can :3

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Yea..

I feel like I lost the ability to scream a while ago

Idk why but it is what it is

i think my mental health would be way better if i was able to scream really loud every day

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The lesbian dream (moving with them) turning into a lesbian nightmare because his fucking parents don't understand what trauma does to people

Literally got drained of my emotions, libido and happiness

I wanna scream at them, make them understand what they're doing to their child

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August 3, 2024 - Antifascists quickly organized to defend a hotel housing asylum-seekers in Bristol, that was targeted by the far-right during the 2024 anti-refugee riots in the UK. The antifascists successfully defended the hotel housing refugee families from the drunk Nazi mob for more than twenty minutes before police bothered to show up. [link]

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"If you saw someone stealing food, no you didn't"

Poster spotted in Manchester, UK

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Granarchy 1: They grow up so fast. Thanks @astrmastr for the killer name!

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they should create a body that functions and a mind that isn't failing

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blocked someone for having "strong opinions" on how much they hate tofu . she isnt a joke to me thats my fucking wife youre talking about

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