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i hate you summer i hate you heat i hate you sweating i hate you burning sun i hate you warm weather i hate you climate change

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It will get cold again eventually. The summer will not last forever. I’m not doomed to live in this unbearable heat for all eternity. <- said while gripping the countertop so hard that the tile is starting to crack

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We've lost the plot here if you think agriculture is a useless degree in the era of climate change, or that english is a useless degree when the wide consensus is that many Americans are functionally illiterate.

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some fandoms need to see this

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Pondering my orbs.

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Oh ok so it turns out ive been borrowing grief from the future ! it turns out ive been preparing to lose the things i love rather than basking in the light of them while they last. Maybe i should nt do that

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honestly at this point you can just assume that all of my political opinions arise from being completely fucking feral with stress & Joker-pilled over funding cuts to research and USAID.

everyone can either vote blue or kill themselves. those are the only two morally acceptable options. leave my cancer research funding alone, or die.

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Two Democrat politicians have been shot in Minnesota in their separate homes.

Democratic state representive Melissa Hortman has died alongside her husband, Mark.

John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette were both shot multiple times and are currently in and out of surgery.

The attacks are, unsurprisingly, being treated as political motivated assassinations.

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me every day without fail: I'll do [chore] when I get home

me when I get home:

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Cant have fucking shit in Detroit

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it pisses me off SO bad how transphobes have so effectively used sports to launder transphobia and misogyny to people. like does nobody remember like ~5-10 years ago when it was a MAJOR feminist talking point to argue for desegregating sports and going by skill level instead of gender separation??? and now, because so many cis people hate trans people so violently and think we should be excluded from all aspects of public life, you’ve got a whole bunch of women who call themselves feminists laundering misogynistic talking points about how “women are just inherently weaker and worse at athletics than men :(( it’s just biology and women are inherently inferior :(( this is definitely not misogyny that’s unsupported by science, women are just weaker and worse at things :((“ like girl open your ears and listen to what you’re saying!!

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We need to revive the movement of women keeping their last names when they marry men.

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this is why you will never catch me in the anti-college movement

white people need it to know things

Anti-intellectualism will truly be the death of us

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i'm bisexual and tired. rb if you're bisexual and tired.

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Protests against ICE deportations that have engulfed San Francisco’s streets this week took an antisemitic turn when Manny’s, a local Jewish-owned event space, had its windows smashed and walls defaced with slurs including “Die Zio.”

Owner Manny Yekutiel believes the protests against ICE are “necessary” because ongoing deportations are “stoking hatred” and “we need to stand with immigrants.” While Yekutiel says he will continue identifying with left-wing causes, he also said the attack on his business makes the protests concerning for Jews.

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I don't know how people came to think that "the banality of evil" means "evil people are people too".

That's also true but it's not what the banality of evil means.

The term was coined by Hannah Arendt in her report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the "final solution" in the Holocaust.

It describes the way in which the Nazis at large and Eichmann in particular have turned the horrendous act of mass murder into just another job, disconnecting themselves morally and emotionally from their actions.

Before the death camps and gas chambers, Nazi soldiers simply shot Jews into mass graves by the hundreds of thousands. It was a lot cheaper and faster, but it caused great psychological distress for the murderers who pulled the trigger.

The leadership's solution was a massively upscaled version of the "gas vans" they used to mass murder hundreds of thousands of Germans with disabilities and mental health issues.

Shooting bound civilians in point blank range over and over is something you can't just pretend you're not doing or is no big deal. But if you're just the guy who sorts people into groups. Or just the guy that funnels them into a room. Or just the guy who opens a cannister on the roof. It's much easier to distance yourself from what you know is happening.

The same principle applies to much lesser evils, like soldiers operating drones from a distance, or insurance workers denying coverage for life-saving treatment.