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HEY YOU.

look at these two gorgeous women

happy pride to the foundations of our community. ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Decided to try my hand at sculpting again

100% Polymer clay and acrylic paint on a wooden base. :)

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I wish I had had an attorney like you when I was a child victim of sexual violence. I was so afraid to be honest with my attorney because my dad was in the room the whole time and he would rage at me on the way home from meeting with the lawyer about letting anything I described to her happen to me, so I clammed up after the first meeting. How I was treated in court was so much more traumatizing than the abuse even was.

This. This is why, number fucking ONE, it's separate the juvenile from their parent.

At their absolute best, the parent can assist the juvenile in the meeting and help them remember the concepts I'm communicating. This can definitely be accomplished by bringing them in later on.

Most commonly, the parent provides pressure for the juvenile to say certain things and act a certain way. It's an inhibition on attorney/client confidentiality.

At worst, it just reinforces the inescapable trap the kid is in already.

I admit in my career sometimes I've taken shortcuts, especially if we're at the court date and things have to happen Now. I try to be diligent, but real life be real life.

But, jesus fucking christ, anon. I've tried to avoid saying this on here because I think it sounds egotistical as shit, but I wish you had someone like me too. I've had too many clients who've disclosed. I haven't been able to protect them all. In fact, who really knows what kind of difference I made, at all? Sometimes it just seems like I'm doing the expected gestures and making the expected arguments.

Look, at some point, we become adults, and it's not that we stop deserving protection, it's that we agree to take up the mantle of protector. In our system, no one wants to personally do that with a child who's been victimized. It's always easier to play a side role and make it someone else's problem. I can look myself in the mirror because I can always say, with my clients: it stops here, it stops with me. It's my problem. I'll make it my problem. I might be a nothing-special white child of suburbia who had a normal-ass childhood with no real qualifications besides law school, but I'll make it my problem.

I would have made it my problem.

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Happy pride month !! 🗣🗣

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why is lake superior so dangerous? i cant find anything online that will give my access (not american!)

it's the largest freshwater lake on the planet by surface area, you could lose a couple of smaller countries in there and not even notice. (vs Europe)

on top of that, it's a Northern lake, so the water never really gets warmer than 50 F (10 C) even in the heat of summer, and it's famous for sudden violent storms that destroy ships and buildings alike. this thing has a MASSIVE body count because it's also a major shipping thoroughfare.

tldr it wants to eat you so so bad

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just saying i prefer my food-based crimes to be more "heisting $1 million worth of syrup from the Canadian Maple Syrup Reserve" and less "corporations giving toddlers listeria for fun and profit"

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men will be in a mental state so utterly bleak and hopeless and confusing that they should probably be hospitalized and will be like “damn. I’m going to watch a Clint Eastwood movie and thug it out”

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sorry i was researching the author of a victorian book about raising children and now i'm fascinated by her. clear my schedule we're talking about lydia maria child.

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i think i would like my people to be smarter and my tech to be stupider. is this anything

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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

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Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Gotham City Breakout

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🤭 I'm a girl but with a little 😏 extra something 😉

Can you guess what? 🤪

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crazy that gravity falls was like, hey what if we made twin brothers, and one of them is the worse one. he gets bad grades, he likes to punch his problems, everyone thinks of him as “the other one.” he’s engulfed in a shadow that’s shaped like him. he doesn’t even have his own name—it’s derived of his brother’s name, the only one his parents planned on having and using. everything about him is derivative—imitative of another person (his twin brother) (the one everyone likes and wants) and is disapproved of for that reason (he isn’t just “bad at this thing,” he’s “not as good as his brother”). and then he ruins his brother’s science fair project (the one next to his own—no one noticed it because it’s not good, it’s almost stupid next to a “perpetual motion machine” made by a high schooler) (he tried to fix it) (he doesn’t know how; he’s not as smart as the guy who made it) and he gets kicked out. the potential of the money his twin could’ve made is enough to throw him onto the street, and he can’t go home until he makes that money back (the money that was never gained and therefore was never lost. he never had a chance of making enough). he took every job he could (his brother went to school). he got banned from multiple states (his brother bought a house). he traveled internationally and went to prison and had people try to hunt him down and kill him because he couldn’t make enough money (his brother’s house has three basements. he made them himself, as secure as can be). and when his twin finally summons him for help, things go wrong (he messed up this machine like the last one) (he doesn’t know how to fix it. he isn’t as smart as the guy who made it) (he tries to fix it) (he was never any good at reading and these blueprints are impossible, coded and fragmented and in a science that he didn’t know existed) (he tries to fix it). the townspeople ask who he is, and he doesn’t even say his own name (it was hardly his to begin with). and he invites them to a house that isn’t his to show off experiments that aren’t his because he needs to make money that can’t be his. everything he does for the next 30 years is in his twin’s name, for his twin’s sake. he had two funerals for himself and it isn’t even his body in the casket; he had to wear his brother’s name to both of them. if he had died before he fixed the portal, that funeral wouldn’t have been for him. we meet him as a funny and unique character, but in-universe, he’s only ever been defined by someone else.

and then they went, this is entirely in the background btw. most of that is going to be revealed in one episode and won’t be addressed again. he’s a primary comic relief, even. I’m ill about this.

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editing is just you vs. past-you in a duel of questionable comma placement and emotional instability

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There's a reason I have an extensive collection of CDs. And no Spotify.