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Soon 🌼The first snowdrops and crocusses are blooming and I just spent half an hour lying in bed with the window open and listening to the birds sing. Theres still an annoying pandemic going on (I really really would like to go to the cinema again, to concerts, to meet my friends and to go to cafes…) but at least winter is nearly over.

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Even Tumblr has become a bit too much for me to handle lately. Too many bad things happening in the world. I'm going to be taking a break from Tumblr for the time being. Maybe a few weeks idk.

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These are links to find your representative in the US Congress and your US senators.

Also, there is a link to a pretty good template for writing about gun control. Obviously you'll need to replace or omit "Michigan" if you don't live there.

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

https://michigancoalitiontopreventgunviolence.org/advocacyaction/letter-templates/

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I say ‘no worries’ far too much for someone who is approx. 94% worry

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this might come across as anti capitalist but,,,,,, i want to enjoy life

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my singing voice is good for showers and mornings in the kitchen and drunken nights and lullabies for babies who need sleep and im okay with this

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food and rest isn’t earned. please stop beating yourself up and overworking yourself so that you feel you ‘deserve’ to eat or rest. it’s a basic necessity, you don’t need an excuse to do it. if you wake up late, or don’t do anything, guess what ? you still deserve to rest. if you slip up on your healthy eating and eat something unhealthy, guess what? you still deserve to eat. please take care of your basic needs.

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Arts and crafts are perfect for adhd folk bc there's an immediate and visual progress.

Cut fabric, sew it together. You just made clothing.

Put some beads on some twine. You just made jewelry.

You can see your productivity.

Chores are the opposite. Yes, your kitchen is clean now. But you'll cook again that evening or the next day and you'll have to start over. Yes, you vacuumed. But two days later it's dusty again. Laundry done, until next week.

Chores never end.

But arts and crafts, nobody can undo the thing you made. You can hold it up and say "look. I made this. I did the productivity today" and nothing quite beats that serotonin rush.

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The power of words.

Please,be kind #pascalcampion

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Taka-taka-taka

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BAD SHIT IS HAPPENING IN THE UK

As you may have heard, the UK’s Conservative government is pushing through a new bill that essentially makes any kind of protest illegal. Anyone participating in a protest that is considered to be “noisy” or a “serious annoyance”, including one-person protests, can fall foul of the proposed new law, and it includes a sentence of ten years in prison for damaging a statue or memorial. Essentially, police will have the power to break up any protest that isn’t you whispering quietly in a corner, which is to say, any protest that would be in any way impactful or effective.

They’ve pushed this bill through in the wake of a peaceful vigil for a woman murdered by a police officer that was violently broken up by police earlier in the week.

Needless to say, there are concerns. Not that they were enough to stop it passing, mind you, given that the Tories can push through any piece of shit they want with their majority; the first-past-the-post system of voting we have here in the UK favours them heavily, and it’s no coincidence that they’re also changing the voting system for the London mayor, for Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales, and elected mayors in nine English authorities to that very same system. It’s not great!

(There’s other bullshit in this bill, including things that criminalise an already-disadvantaged group in the Traveller/Roma community. They can now be fined and have their vehicles taken if they don’t possess a so-called “Traveller’s License”. It’s just all around a really shitty bill.)

The reason I’m talking to you about this, though, the very specific reason I wanted to make this post, is that the discussion around this bill is a fucking minefield for anyone who seriously subscribes to Tumblr’s classic black-and-white moral/political compass.

Everyone pretty much agrees that the bill is terrible and that it’s a draconian, authoritarian nightmare. However, there are all kinds of people arguing against it for their own reasons, which means that it’s not one of those cases wherein you can just look at the people who are arguing for or against it, see which of them best represent you and your ideals, and decide whether it is Good or Bad.

On one side of the fence, we’ve got people who are basically decent and who see this for the blatant attack on free speech that it is, a bill pretty transparently being pushed through by a government that is sensing just how hated and mistrusted it is and wants to squash any potential uprisings by the unwashed masses before they happen. So it’s Bad, right? It’s a Bad bill and you are Good if you argue against it.

But then, on the other side of the fence, we’ve got all of those people who were getting mad because they couldn’t go to the pub or get a haircut, who were angrily complaining about every lockdown and claiming that they were being oppressed, that their rights were being taken away because they were being told to stay at home. They also hate this bill, because they think this is about them. There’s swathes of these types on Twitter and elsewhere, saying things like “OH, IT’S DIFFERENT NOW THAT YOUR LOT CAN’T PROTEST, IS IT?? IT WAS FINE FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO SILENCE US UNTIL IT STARTED AFFECTING THE LEFT!!!” So they hate it too, because they think it’s just an extension of the injustice they’ve (allegedly) faced already over the course of the last 12 months or so.

So where does that leave you? If people like that are arguing against this bill, and they’re Bad, surely that means that the bill is Good and you should be arguing for it and against the Bad people. Right?

No. It’s a bad bill. It’s a fucking terrible bill and the most blatantly fascist thing the Tories have tried to do in the last ten years. As a long-term disabled person, I can tell you that they’ve been fascist as hell this whole time, but this is some mask off shit, as the kids say these days. Bad times are coming if this goes through and becomes law. It’s going to be difficult to navigate the protest against it, given that that protest is going to be riddled with anti-mask, anti-lockdown fuckwits who will no doubt make it very hard for the rest of us to be taken seriously, but we do have to protest.

God. Imagine thinking that our bourgeois capitalist Tory government actually wanted to put us in lockdown.

They’ve made a lot of claims about what this bill is actually supposed to achieve, from COVID safety to improving safety for women and girls, but considering that the bill talks about protests that are “noisy” or a “serious annoyance” and has fuck all to do with social distancing or masks or any other COVID prevention measures, and considering that you’ll go to jail for longer for hurting a statue than you would for raping a woman, I think it’s safe to say that they’re lying.

Protest. Protest against this fucking bill, and protest against Tory fascism.

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