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you can tell things are bad when this type of article is coming back...

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When you consider that Gollum is an extremely old man who's spent most of his life in solitary confinement with heroin being injected directly into his brain every day, he's really not that unreasonable

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Brian Yungen

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ladies and gents may i present you with my favorite photo of Ella Fitzgerald ft. that guy

homie was down bad, and can we blame him?

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Home 01

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an inexplicable edit i have in my camera roll that i must’ve made for a joke that i don’t remember anymore. but i think it stands on its own

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i am so pro abortion it actually makes me mad when a character in a show is revealed to be pregnant & she immediately doesn't get an abortion

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saw a pigeon scratching itself with its foot like a doggie at the bus stop today. delightful

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No, tumblr user, I don’t think the hatred of trans women is cemented on the hatred of men. I believe, god forbid, it might be based on the hatred of women.

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grabbing you by the shoulders and squeezing until i hear a noise. there's nothing inherently more queer about being coercively assigned female at birth. why do you dumb fucking dicks position coercive male assignment as inherently more regressive. why is your example of the straightest possible person always a man. why is your example of someone "claiming a niche microlabel to seem queer" always camab. i'll kill you

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"The rich won't save us, no matter how much we cut their taxes"

Sticker spotted in in Hillsboro, Oregon

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literally everything is unisex if u stop giving a fuck

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Your post about homeless shelters calls their issues "uniquely liberal". Can I ask what you mean by that? /Gen

To me, there's nothing more liberal than a finely tuned system of bureaucracy that is hand-crafted to seem politically neutral despite still negatively impacting our most vulnerable populations en-masse.

When you enter the shelter system, you lose status as a person and instead become a measurable outcome. The nonprofit complex (which most shelters fall under) is a massive industry with billions of dollars flowing in and out. Their continued existence & expansion- which could include hundreds of people's jobs- live and die on 2 things: 1) they must constantly prove that they are socially necessary, or that there is a high/growing need for them to exist, but also simultaneously 2) proving "positive outcomes" and making it look like they are helping people transition out of homelessness with a program that works.

Whether it DOES work doesn't really matter, and in fact, if it worked that might actually be worse for their business. I mean, if there's no homeless people, what happens to the shelter? Our jobs? Our funding? But it especially does not matter to the people at the top of these orgs; a board of directors who likely will never interact directly with the staff, clientele, or even site locations at any time. All they interact with are numbers, and every decision is based on what those numbers say. It doesn't need to work, it just needs to look like it works.

I'll give you a personal anecdote to highlight what I mean.

I recently briefly worked for a very large system that runs several HUGE shelters in one of the most homeless metropolitan areas in the country. It's a very liberal company that mostly employs people of color and trans folk (which I now recognize as a massive red flag lol they want our labor for cheap). They are focused on things like *equity* and *accountability* blah blah

Success in these shelters is measured in a very prototypical way; how many beds are we filling daily, and how many people are "leaving shelter of their own accord" (i.e. not being kicked out for violating rules, and presumably leaving because they have found housing)? Essentially: how many beds are we turning over each day? And the higher that number = positive outcomes.

But here's the thing. If someone "forfeits" their bed, they can be counted as a tally under that "left shelter of their own accord" category, even if they immediately just get back on the waitlist (and oh yes, there are wait lists) to return to the shelter. So what these shelters do is they maintain a VERY strict, convoluted set of rules around what it means to forfeit your bed.

Back 5 minutes past curfew because you're visibly transgender and had 3 Uber drivers decline your ride when they saw you? Forfeit. Late for curfew because the bus' wheelchair lift didn't work and you use a power chair? Forfeit. You ARE back on time, but your partner is seemingly AWOL (because, as we discovered later, he was picked up by immigration and disappeared for several days)? Forfeit for the both of you, because this is a couples-only shelter. Sorry. You can jump back in the list as a single, and return to shelter after sleeping outside for a few days, though.

(all of these are real situations I really encountered, and you can very clearly see the type of people impacted)

Any bending of these rules requires documentation (like for clients that work late, for example, giving proof of schedule) but that documentation needed to be renewed WEEKLY. Beyond being impossible for clients to keep track of, it was impossible for US to keep track of. We were so understaffed and on top of everything, we have to keep track of 200 people's work schedules? No. Of course stuff slips through the cracks- and that's a function of the bureaucracy too- making it such a fucking chore to maintain legitimately, that people are encouraged to fudge shit and lie.

And as a result of all these policies, you get a constantly turning conveyor belt of people "exiting" shelter and then re-entering it, both of which count positively for outcome numbers. Why WOULDN'T they make that cycle part of the routine? And they did- almost every client I worked with had accidentally forfeit their bed at least once. Some clients had done it dozens of times.

When it comes to nonprofits I always keep this saying in the back of my head; if you're not paying for a product, you are the product. Assume that bureaucracy will always bend in favor of the industrial complex, because you're just the product. You're just a number. You're just an outcome. And if that outcome doesn't look pretty for their bottom line, they'll force it to. All while smiling and preaching equity. Really, what's more liberal than that?

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THiNGS YOU NEED BEFORE YOU DO BDSM:

first aid kit

tourniquet

narcan

at least 8gb ram

childhood photo album

acetone

thirty decoy safewords (zero real ones)

headlamp

updated wills for all participants (preferably notarized)

getaway vehicle

a pack of cigs and a few beers

PSAT score of at least 90th percentile or higher

spare tire

working knowledge of microsoft excel and powerpoint

small bills, for the tip

an up-to-date road atlas

a drive to succeed and innovate in a fast-paced, forward-thinking environment

noise-cancelling headphones (one pair per participant)

bolt cutters

at least C1 knowledge of standard chinese

gamefaqs guide

permission slip signed by a parent or guardian

spare penis

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not to sound like a christian facebook mom but some of yall need to have grace in your hearts for the people in your lives or the people you pass once on the road and never see again like you literally need to stop assuming the worst of everyone and their intentions it is poisoning your brain. you can be careful and responsible without being a miserable person. it is possible i promise