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[clementimetodie]

Since I'm apparently feeling political today, I don't think the right would be as opposed to taxes if tax revenue weren't so mismanaged

[tojisun]

the divas won’t stop yapping

[tibli]

Regardless of how you feel about the action, the assassinations of Shinzo Abe and Brian Thompson have got to be some of the most materially effective assassinations in recent memory. Shit changed almost immediately in response.

Usually, changing societal problems isn't so simple, and one has to dismantle those issues piece by piece, over a long period of time.

But sometimes, one influential person's murder makes all the other people in the same position scared and so they start immediately trying to fix their bullshit so they don't face the same fate.

[blmpff]

NET SIRAPHOP and JAMES SUPAMONGKON (8s) cr

[jackmkelly]

katherine plumber my love my light my darling my angel

[ruinix]

Still rocking that peacoat, shirt, and beanie, huggy 🥹

(Vancouver Canucks @ Buffalo Sabres, Arrival, November 28, 2024)

[anghraine]

jenndoesnotcare replied to this post:

Every time LDS kids come to my neighborhood I am so so nice to them. I hope they remember the blue haired lady who was kind, when people try to convince them the outside world is bad and scary. (Also they are always so young! I want to feed them cookies and give them Diana Wynne Jones books or something)

Thank you! Honestly, this sort of kindness can go a really long way, even if it doesn't seem like it at the time.

LDS children and missionaries (and the majority of the latter are barely of age) are often the people who interact the most with non-Mormons on a daily basis, and thus are kind of the "face" of the Church to non-Mormons a lot of the time. As a result, they're frequently the ones who actually experience the brunt of antagonism towards the Church, which only reinforces the distrust they've already been taught to feel towards the rest of the world.

It's not that the Church doesn't deserve this antagonism, but a lot of people seem to take this enormous pride in showing up Mormon teenagers who have spent most of their lives under intense social pressure, instruction, expectation, and close observation from both their peers and from older authorities in the Church (it largely operates on seniority, so young unmarried people in particular tend to have very little power within its hierarchies). Being "owned" for clout by non-Mormons doesn't prove anything to most of them except that their leaders and parents are right and they can't trust people outside the Church.

The fact that the Church usually does provide a tightly-knit community, a distinct and familiar culture, and a well-developed infrastructure for supporting its members' needs as long as they do [xyz] means that there can be very concrete benefits to staying in the Church, staying closeted, whatever. So if, additionally, a Mormon kid has every reason to think that nobody outside the Church is going to extend compassion or kindness towards them, that the rest of the world really is as hostile and dangerous as they've been told, the stakes for leaving are all the higher, despite the costs of staying.

So people from "outside" who disrupt this narrative of a hostile, threatening world that cannot conceivably understand their experiences or perspectives can be really important. It's important for them to know that there are communities and reliable support systems outside the Church, that leaving the Church does not have to mean being a pariah in every context, that there are concrete resources outside the Church, that compassion and decency in ordinary day-to-day life is not the province of any particular religion or sect and can be found anywhere. This kind of information can be really important evidence for people to have when they are deciding how much they're willing to risk losing.

So yeah, all of this is to say that you're doing a good thing that may well provide a lifeline for very vulnerable people, even if you don't personally see results at the time.

[ranger-rai]

What about the Meowscarada line?

A bit newer in the Service Pokemon Comminity, but incredibly helpful all the same, Meowscarada is excellent at attention to detail.

Their dexterity, graceful movement, and "Magic Tricks" makes them excellent as a Service Pokemon for children with disabilities.

They can keep on schedule and timing well and are entertaining enough to encourage children to take medicine and can push wheelchairs and help the limited mobile individuals get around with ease.

They enjoy things being just right, and they enjoy looking presentable and stylish, and they tend to bring that over to their trainers, meaning they can help individuals feel a sense of normalcy and community.

Aside from having help, people with disabilities want to also feel normal and involved in community and Meowscarada is great at making the care they give so seamless that people, especially kids, end up thriving in their current state.

[princessnijireiki]

matter of fact everyone who donates to AO3 who does not AT MINIMUM match that donation to the fucking ACLU or legal defense aid esp for immigrant populations in america right now is a class traitor. perish

[grayrazor]

“As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth’s final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.”

— Secretary General Pravin Lal

[bigmeandragonlady]

My commissions are open on vgen (here)!

In addition to rendered pieces, I also offer Hairstyle sheets- which are a collection of 4-8 hairstyles on a headshot of your chosen character.

Do's

Original character/Fanart

Mild to moderate gore

Suggestive/artistic nudity

Don't's

Heavy gore or body horror (ex: guts/bones on the outside)

Porn

Real people

Full anthro/furry/mecha

[is-this-really--life]

I honest to god think some people on this website figured out they could be as right wing ancap misogynist as they want as long as they put pronouns in their bio and avoided certain words and phrases. Maybe throw in some politically correct buzzwords here and there and hate on both sides a little. Ancap libertarians do that anyway.

It's all "leftist infighting" until you realize it's not.

[bigeyedchangelingchild]

So, the current 338 projection has the NDP falling to 6 seats, and I didn't think much given that like I do think the NDP has major problems, but I saw the BC projection of only one seat, and it's only showing as lean, and I'm getting suspicious. So I looked back and the last time the NDP got less than 10% of the vote (the current national projection) was the 2000 election, in that election the NDP got 8.51% of the popular vote and 13 seats, including 3 in B.C.

Now obviously a lot has changed since 2000, for example that was when there were two conservative parties before they were united. There's also a very different electoral map. But I think there's more than one seat in the lower mainland that are comfortably NDP with well-liked MPs.

I'm bringing this up because people are thinking about strategic voting, but the assumption is a vote for the Liberals is a vote to keep the tories out, this isn't always true, and the 338 projection for seats, from what I understand is only estimating based on the regional and national trends, they don't have specific polling by district. So for example, a district like Vancouver Kingsway, which has Don Davies, who is as far as I know well-liked, he won with significant margins in every election he's been re-elected in. 338 projects it as Liberal likely.

My guess is that people in tighter races are the ones changing most, and extrapolating that evenly accross B.C. or even the lower mainland is warping the view of these comfortable NDP seats.

[beaft]

being rich/famous is truly like having a devil's bargain where you get everything you ever wanted at the cost of slowly becoming more and more evil

[faeryaesther]

Ee Wei's training cut from BAM's Sudirman Cup's vlog

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