YOUR HONOR IT WAS MILD COMIC MISCHIEF

like i just have no fucking patience for the way that as soon as we start talking about how JK Rowling is directly funding the oppression of trans people someone in the notes (who is almost certainly not transfem) comes back to respond with "well actually the books are bad too!" LIKE WE KNOW THEY'RE BAD. a lot of us did read them as kids and have realized how bad they are in retrospect. it shouldn't matter how good or bad the books themselves are. Rowling could have written the best book series on earth and i wouldn't have cared because she's still fucking funding a genocide against trans people. like sorry; our lives matter just a little bit more than what you'd rate her books on goodreads.

My longhouse is perfectly constructed. Every morning when I wake up in bed at the far end of my longhouse, I say my syllable. Then I spend all day sitting in bed. By sunset my syllable has traveled to the other end of my longhouse and back, and as it smacks me in the head, I fall asleep. My longhouse is perfectly constructed.

BTW, you remember the old “longhouse is perfectly constructed” post? I know it might seem embarrassing, but since making that post, my longhouse has been abandoned and ruined. It’s been 500 years since I made the post. These days instead of living in a longhouse, I walk around. Actually good for my ass muscle!

Invasive plants need to be understood as part of a much larger cycle of incredible violence against the land.

For context: erosion on that scale occurred as a result of our clear-cutting entire states. The land east of the Mississippi used to be covered in old-growth forest to an extent that we literally can’t imagine anymore, because most of us have never seen a forest over 100 years old. It turns out if you remove all vegetation from a landscape, you end up with a bunch of loose soil ready to move downstream. A fast-growing plant that covers everything in dense vegetation sounds like salvation when you’re surrounded by 40-foot deep gullies that get wider with every rainstorm.

A lot of the south too was covered in Canebreaks, basically bamboo forests like a lot of South Asia, I don't know the specifics of the ecology, but bamboo being a grass I assume is rhizomatic like other grasses and forms a big net of roots that prevent erosion. *I assume* (pleez ecologists weigh in)

This is a case study in how violence against ecosystems goes so closely hand in hand with violence against people. The violence against the indigenous caretakers of the land, and the violence against the enslaved captives that were forced to clear the Rivercane and work the cotton fields that would degrade the soil into nothing.

This painting was added in another reblog chain, it's good to have it on this thread

im getting sick of this.

When I was a kid watching tv was idiot coded and nerds read books, but now scrolling shortform videos is considered braindead behavior and watching tv means you're some kinda intellectual. You might think this shifting assessment of media's consumers might make readers into absolute super geniuses, but no. Only perverts read now.

The anti-vax and anti-science propaganda is very real - and also, frankly I think doctors and nurses would've had an easier time getting people not to fall for it if they spent less time treating people like fucking shit

This post is about a lot of things but it is especially about racism, medical abuse, and eugenics

To anyone struggling with depression, I just want to say, from the bottom of my heart, that what you're going through is dumb as fuck and not my problem.

There is a connection here with that post I saw the other day about how being performatively anti-AI can be a way to loudly declare one's commitment to "good values" without actually having to care about uplifting any marginalized communities