Don't let the bastards get you down

We have Kea, Kākā, Kākāpō, and Kākāriki (of which there are 3 species).

Kākā are more olive brown than green but are really neat and beautiful birds and are growing in numbers thanks to conservation efforts.

Kea are mostly green with red underwings and will pickpocket you, but then again so will weka. The bit about them stopping traffic is absolutely true - I have a friend who has witnessed this.

Kākāpō are, in the words of my ecology professor, “really bad at being parrots”. They suck, but endearingly so. They are so bad at being alive and climbing things and reproducing but you cannot help but love them. Again, they are green, but in a shambling moss pile sort of way.

Kākāriki are much smaller and are kept as pets internationally. The three kinds are the red crowned, the yellow crowned and the orange fronted. Of these, the latter is the rarest (currently critically endangered). All 3 are decidedly very GREEN, to the extent that their name means “green”.

There are also several other species endemic to various outlying islands. We have, in total, nine surviving endemic parrot species and several subspecies of those.

Fairly dry recounting of the sequence of allegations and their (so far few) consequences

More in-depth descriptions of the allegations from three women and Tyson's response (also 2018):

Prisons perpetrate harm, so they must be abolished.

"What about violent offenders?"...we heal the people who were harmed.

That's it. That's the answer.

But then what is violence really? Rape and murder and assault are physically violent. But is it not also violence when an asthmatic takes their last breaths because their insurance company rejected their prescription for a rescue inhaler? An old woman dies alone from dementia because they couldn’t afford an attendant in old age? Is economics not violence? Are policy choices that kill millions not also violence? Is it not true after all that those who burn crosses are the same that work forces?

One would argue then that the incentive system is the problem. What’s the incentive system for corporate murder? Capitalism. So if we abolished capitalism that would ideologically but not practically solve the root of the vast majority of the violent crime we deal with. Almost all of which is the result of structures of power inherent to capitalism and feudalism.

That leaves what I imagine one thinks of when they think of ontological evil, shit like Ted Bundy in real life or Hannibal Lecter in fiction. Well, banner it or not, under the current scientific standards used in most court systems, forensic odontology is no longer allowed. So if his trial occurred today, he would’ve walked. But he did confess to them, so we can use Bundy as an example. For one, he only got as far as he did thanks to the utter lack of care shown by local and state law in enforcement of crimes against women. Only sgywr many had died did police begin to act seriously. This is the case with many of these serial murderers. Second, when one reads interviews and case files into many of these murderers, one notifies disturbing trends of childhood victimization by parents or loved ones, generally dealing with economic or drug issues that were taboo to discuss or get help for. Another large percentage were dhuldren and teens who demonstrated antisocial characteristics and never received assistance in learning to deal with those feelings.

This suggests that economic violence plays a large part in physical violence, even when the link isn’t immediately evident. Political hierarchies create perverse structures of power that create cyclical violence where a percentage of victims become abusers who then commit violence on others ad infinitum. This is partially correlated by data demonstrating a statistically significant increase in reports of abuse and violent crime during economic recessions.

Abolition of power structures inherent and necessary to capitalism and its predecessors is an inherent pre requisite to prison abolition because once that occurs and is maintained, society can implement new systems of justice and mediation free of systemic signals.

Prisons perpetrate harm, so they must be abolished.

"What about violent offenders?"...we heal the people who were harmed.

That's it. That's the answer.

But then what is violence really? Rape and murder and assault are physically violent. But is it not also violence when an asthmatic takes their last breaths because their insurance company rejected their prescription for a rescue inhaler? An old woman dies alone from dementia because they couldn’t afford an attendant in old age? Is economics not violence? Are policy choices that kill millions not also violence? Is it not true after all that those who burn crosses are the same that work forces?

One would argue then that the incentive system is the problem. What’s the incentive system for corporate murder? Capitalism. So if we abolished capitalism that would ideologically but not practically solve the root of the vast majority of the violent crime we deal with. Almost all of which is the result of structures of power inherent to capitalism and feudalism.

That leaves what I imagine one thinks of when they think of ontological evil, shit like Ted Bundy in real life or Hannibal Lecter in fiction. Well, banner it or not, under the current scientific standards used in most court systems, forensic odontology is no longer allowed. So if his trial occurred today, he would’ve walked. But he did confess to them, so we can use Bundy as an example. For one, he only got as far as he did thanks to the utter lack of care shown by local and state law in enforcement of crimes against women. Only sgywr many had died did police begin to act seriously. This is the case with many of these serial murderers. Second, when one reads interviews and case files into many of these murderers, one notifies disturbing trends of childhood victimization by parents or loved ones, generally dealing with economic or drug issues that were taboo to discuss or get help for. Another large percentage were dhuldren and teens who demonstrated antisocial characteristics and never received assistance in learning to deal with those feelings.

This suggests that economic violence plays a large part in physical violence, even when the link isn’t immediately evident. Political hierarchies create perverse structures of power that create cyclical violence where a percentage of victims become abusers who then commit violence on others ad infinitum. This is partially correlated by data demonstrating a statistically significant increase in reports of abuse and violent crime during economic recessions.

Abolition of power structures inherent and necessary to capitalism and its predecessors is an inherent pre requisite to prison abolition because once that occurs and is maintained, society can implement new systems of justice and mediation free of systemic signals.

In the theme of a Dreamscape

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Did you know though that the uterus has important functions besides having babies? Those functions include hormonal, anatomical, skeletal and sexual.

The uterus works with the ovaries and tubes to produce health promoting hormones- which are estrogen and progesterone. This is why hysterectomy can cause impaired ovarian function or complete ovarian failure. Also, these hormones don’t just help the reproductive system but estrogen has been shown to regulate immune response and increases the brains serotonin. The uterus is the most powerful organ in the body. During sex it is responsible for the intensity you feel in an orgasm.

Ovary removal (castration) or impaired ovarian function has been shown to increase risk for heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, hip fracture, impaired memory and cognition, dementia, parkinsonism, mood disorders, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, adverse ocular and skin changes, sleep disorders, more severe hot flushes, sexual dysfunction.

The uterus has anatomical functions. It separates the bladder and bowel and keeps them anchored in their proper places. Hysterectomy displaces these organs causing dysfunction especially down the road.

Hysterectomy also destroys skeletal integrity since the uterus' ligaments are the support structures for the pelvis. Again, the RS is more than just “having babies” it interacts with the rest of your body and organs.

I know this is a “solution” for things like endometriosis but a hysterectomy with or without ovary removal is not a cure for endometriosis (endo) since endo implants / lesions exist throughout the pelvis. Many women still experience chronic pain even after this procedure.

I had a hysterectomy in 2019. They left my ovaries, but took my cervix without asking, beforehand.

I was NOT told these things. I did not give consent to part of my surgery, and I did NOT give informed consent to ALL of it - because I was not informed!

Don't get a hysterectomy if you can avoid it, please.

There are other options.

I'm nervous as hell for my future and it didn't have to be this way. Those fuckers lied to my face, brushed over the details, and they WILL do it to you too.

Isn't this thee cyberpunk dystopia or whatever everyone was afraid of 10ish years back? Human bodies being defined as "just parts" and categorized in 1) needed for survival and 2) no harm done in harvesting that organ/body part.

The failed Sex/Medical education and mis/omitted- information of women's bodies paired with capitalism will certainly work on that. We already have a "surrogate/incubator/egg" market. What's next? The uterus trans/implants everyone is talking about?

After this whole public efford to normalize porn consume for woman and desistigmatization of BDSM is that things turn upsidedown like this. Now you cant find erotic fanfiction of any fandom that doesnt contain sadomasoquism.

On AO3 I see so many E rated fixes tagged with rape, BDSM, chocking, anal (het), bukkake, “cock slut”, etc. And these aren’t necessarily pwp fics. It’s romance fics.

It used to be girls and women inserting themselves - as an original character or using the one female character there was - into “boy media”. And it still kind of is. Explicit used to mean they are aged up and/or have sex on page. The sex - for me at that time scandalous - was pretty “tame” looking back. More often the female orgasm would be clearly described. How the character enjoyed herself and felt loved and wanted. That used to mean explicit; definitely no safewords needed.

Now it’s piss play of two high school characters from riverdale; if one is lucky it’s consensual. A lot of stuff going around is “noncon” and tagged as such. So the writers are at least a little aware.

And on tblr and in fanfic community pairings like “x reader, x OC, x self insert” get bullied viciously in the name of #wokeness.

We can’t ignore that fanfic used to be dominated by “straight ships” or “self insert girl characters” cause girls and women in media didn’t belong unless they are useful for love plots. It’s normal women operate within those parameters. So there were massive amounts of girl x main male character or his antagonist. To justify the characters existence and story.

Then instead of having lgb representation in media everyone picked on them to stop “making everything straight” and to ship the two dudes as they are gay rep. I remember how “genderswap” was an offense worse than anything. One had to write 10 “representation fics” to make up for turning a male character into a woman.

So the “mlm craze” began and was criticized viciously after a while for being a “fetish” cause there were still heterosexual dynamics. Which isn’t surprising cause fanfic was still used by women to insert themselves. Now under the “woke gay cover”.

And now it’s only “allowed” to write any pairing if it’s “representation”, a revolutionary topic and an important piece of literature.

Where are the women supposed to go with their feelings? Write about girls? That’s “self insert”. Write about boys? That’s too fetishizing. Write about romance with no sex? You are a prude. Write “just” some stories? You are asexual or a prude. And certainly “something”- phobic.

Write about gay guys (using one as a self insert) or a straight pairing and fucked up sexual practice? You are “fandom legacy”. Now what will women go for I wonder?!

On a humorous note: I respect Gail Dines and her work. Pornland is an amazing book of statistics and research/insights.

But one could come to the same conclusion browsing through LiveJournal and ao3.

No matter what society is going through; one can always tell by observing what and how girls and women write about on websites created for non profit content.

What we are asking is for these people to stop pretending their PORN is a deep, thoughtful, artistic exploration of those topics tho like please

ur not profound for posting ur mother x daughter porn on tumblr and you aren’t making ideological breakthroughs, ur posting it bc it makes you hard and you wanted to spread the joy of getting hard at the thought of children being abused. and yeah personally i think if ur encouraging people being aroused at the idea of child abuse u can fucking die.

ur correct but also i wanted to add on, posting about it on an app with children is “acting on it”. it’s grooming them, normalising child/adult relationships and often making children pity pedophilic adults, not to mention exposing children to sexual content to begin with

also, even if the one posting goes his whole life without offending against a child, sharing around (fictional) CSAM shockingly, does encourage people to act on their fetishes. Many are only waiting for an opportunity, and regardless of them saying they don’t “plan” to act on it, that certainly doesn’t mean they would let an opportunity slip by. they absolutely pose a threat to women and children regardless.

people acted like it was the most unexpected thing ever- talking about his religous upbringing and how his father was a pastor, about how he had run for town office because he cared about the community, about how he attened black lives matter protests so there must be more to the story.