#safety and dignity

[humansolidarityday]

Urging global action and solidarity with people forced to flee.

UNHCR launches ‘Hope Away from Home’ campaign urging global action and solidarity with people forced to flee.

[sigmaelxgr]

Vorhim Kegran, Morag Tong agent

[deadpanwalking]

you actually...use chat GPT?

Are you the anon from a few months ago who was genuinely worried about GPT replacing literature, or the anon who got big mad at me for suggesting that it's better to study the mechanisms of AI and literature (respectively) before deciding what to be afraid of?

[bunnihearted]

it's insane to me that assisted suicide doesnt exist as a viable option anywhere. there should always be a way out. you shouldnt have to live w the stress nd fear that u have to go thru it alone; nd that the methods are all unsafe nd uncertain. a painless nd safe death should exist for anyone who wants it. no arguments.

[lem0nademouth]

sorry for not identifying as one end of a political horseshoe in my instagram bio but you’re gonna have to actually ask me about my values and morals and beliefs to know what they are

[milfzun]

Finished re-reading SVSSS eng translation 😭😭😭 there is nothing in the world more important than Binghe getting his Shizun kissies. Nothing.

[imethirdperson]

I say Ged is a variation on Odysseus

He's a mythical figure with songs sung about him. He's got a scar from a dumb accident that people can recognize him by. Tenar waits 20 years for him. Most obvious in the tombs of atuan. He arrives as a foreigner, manages to get help from a local young woman of power (Nausicaa/Tenar) who's desperate to impress him, ingratiates himself to her by telling her stories of his travels (like to Alcinous and Arete), all of this from her pov.

A lot of emphasis on the power of his language, mostly in the magic system. Ged is not a liar (as far as we know), but he's mercurial and shadowy, he's different in every situation as needed, he's hard to catch, he's ghostly---I mean that he's been to the underworld and talked to dead people, but also that he tends to disappear from everyone's lives. He embodies power, but a resourceful, down-to-earth highly rational and practical kind of power.

But in the most important point he's different from Odysseus: does he have home to return to? Does he even need one? Like Tenar too, you don't get the feeling that he's capable of nostalgia for any place; instead, it's like he is at home anywhere (that's the nostalgic quality of the earthsea universe itself) and the minute he spends two weeks in the same place, he starts to get the itch to go to sea and travel. But, importantly: like Odysseus, what he *is* desperate to return to is himself. Odysseus's return to Ithaca represents the return to the status quo, which necessitates violence and oppression, and hierarchies to maintain power after a massacre, because that's how that world works; all of Ged's returns are about coming to terms with everyone's equal powerlessness in the face of death, because that's how that world works. Ged returns to Gont having lost all his power and decides this is fine, actually

[artemisiatridentata]

Damn people are really on this site freely admitting their lack of critical thinking about the last 80-odd years of Palestinian and Zionist history huh. Do y'all think Palestinians had safety and dignity during the 30 years under Israeli occupation before Hamas was founded? No. It was and continues to be hell on earth, because of the violent actions of the settler-colonial state of Israel. Why the fuck do you think Hamas, al-Qassam, and similar orgs exist in the first place? They didn't spring up out of nowhere; they were formed by orphans and survivors of the decades of brutal, systemic violence inflicted on Palestinians by the Israeli occupation, in direct response to said violence.

And btw Palestinians have tried nonviolence; do none of you remember the Great March of Return several years ago? Israel murdered and maimed unarmed/peaceful Palestinian protestors. The gall of some of y'all to criticize the tactics colonized people use to defend themselves against an occupation... my god. As Arundhati Roy said, people have the right to resist annihilation.

[ivygorgon]

Credit Adam Ellis

AN OPEN LETTER to THE U.S. CONGRESS

Stop the attacks on trans people! Introduce and pass the EQUALITY Act now!

2,621 so far! Help us get to 3,000 signers!

I’m writing out of great alarm at the attacks on LGBTQ people in our country. I’m particularly horrified at how trans people—especially trans kids—are being targeted. I agree with President Biden—it’s the duty of national legislators “to protect all the people’s rights and freedoms,” and to “pass the bipartisan Equality Act to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity.”

Right now, there are hundreds of state bills aimed at denying the LGBTQ+ community the free speech, health care, civil rights, and public accommodation due ALL Americans. Together with encouraging hateful rhetoric and physical violence, this is akin to state-sponsored terrorism against a peaceful minority. Historically, we’ve seen this before. It is a precursor to genocide.

Have you publicly spoken against anti-trans and anti-gay state laws? What other actions are you taking to protect the rights and freedoms of their LGBTQ+ constituents? What level of tragedy will it take to change this?

Attacking marginalized communities is the opposite of what our country is supposed to be about. I expect to see you take strong action to oppose it. Thanks.

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[hexjulia]

dracula's castle as a tourist trap in every sense of the word. my beautiful vision.

[wonder-worker]

Elizabeth Woodville and her daughters being harassed by “repeated intercessions and dire threats” to leave sanctuary and submit to Richard III should be talked about a lot more than it is, tbh.

[joyboythehopepunk]

sovereign

people should have the right to self determine without interference from others. they should have the right to health, safety, and freedom.

the exceptions are harming another or obstructing another's ability to obtain health, safety, and freedom.

things which are inclusive generally do less harm. providing options and giving food, homes, healthcare, etc generally do more good.

restricting another's ability to vote, to decide what they do with their bodies (drugs, recreational or not, hrt/surgery, etc) and how to live their lives (ex: some states make it illegal to be self-sustainable/off grid) is harmful to humanity as a whole.

period.

any government that allows this sort of things is fascist.

a government is an organizing tool with the ability to mobilize resources on a grand scale. it is something that is supposed to better humankind and our relationship to the planet. to one another.

there being an upper class is not necessary. there being money is not necessary. we throw away half of what we make and even more than that is useless or made obsolete on purpose.

there are patents for technology that the government holds that would change the way society functions.

we could have something more akin to anarcho-socialism (?). i'm not huge on the political theory. it may be more like communism. if only humans could get their heads out of their ass.. and stop wanting to rule one another. or to subjugate one another over differences.

[careforacacia]

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i live with immeasurable grief and have to come to terms with not only the loss and destruction to my life but also the significant loss of my capacity, only ever being able to experience a mere shadow of what i was originally capable of; all of this because of harmful others who'll never know what i've lived through and shall never go without a day in their life

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[stoportotouch]

also i just figured out the historical context of molasses to rum being a waltz. in the mid-late 18th century the waltz didn’t have its 21st century connotation of being, like, classy and dignified; that was, as we already know from the show, the minuet. (and for rutledge specifically, since he’s a southerner, the cottilion.)

in the 18th century the waltz was not only undignified (a lady and a gentleman dancing in close quarters with his arm around her waist) but it was basically a peasant dance. rutledge isn’t so much evoking the dignity of the dance that it has in the 21st century but the the idea of it being something dirty, and that he feels is personally ‘beneath’ his own dignity.

[nineherbscharm]

we're just getting a second bernhart goetz huh

[ben-lyintous]

guuuueeeeess who faceplanted onto a slick wooden deck

in front of multiple people

and then had to take a bus home with mud all over her pants