vivere volo

the thing about “suspiciously similar aesthetic” is why stuff like astrology being a “queer” thing bothers me. social media allows this scene-specific stuff take on an air of community-level importance, because we continue to interpret small scenes on social media as all part of an interconnected “community” when really, everyone extremely keeps to themselves and dislikes any of their contemporaries who don’t have a similar aesthetic. anyway this tweet puts into words something i’ve obviously been yelling about for a while, which is this distinction between “things groups of friends say are gay” and “things that are actually important to the ‘gay community’ as a whole”

Spideytorch fandom:

“Huh, that’s weird” you think to yourself.

You land on them. They seem nonplussed by their predicament.

I have severe executive dysfunction. I've been dealing with it by having myself do one small task a day. So far it's helped a lot. By doing it this way my brain doesn't freak out trying to tackle everything at once.

I got my inspiration for it from this Donald Duck comic:

Aang: I recall yes

Sokka: can I have it

Aang: …what?

Sokka: can I have his firebending. just for like ten minutes

Aang: what no

Sokka: why not I wanna prank zuko

Aang:

Aang:

Yesterday (Wed. Sept 11) the first court hearings in these tent-courts began and journalists were denied access. The judges will be conducting between 200 and 250 hearings a day over video teleconference and immigration lawyers are already reporting technical difficulties. Immigration courts are normally open to the public but reporters and general residents were all barred from entering. 

This bit of information is also interesting: 

These tent courts weren’t even needed!

According to the article above:

The city had offered to lease Homeland Security an air-conditioned, 21,000 square-foot office building for 18 months for only $1, but Homeland Security officials declined the offer, they said, “because of the importance of having an operational hearing facility within the following two months to ensure timely hearings for migrants.”

Brownsville, Texas literally offered to have these cases in a normal, air-conditioned building but Homeland Security declined and chose to spend $25 million dollars erecting these tents over the summer. 

Now why would they do that? Well these tent courts were explicitly built on Homeland Security land - meaning they set the rules on public access AND there’s a serious lack of jurisdiction over these courts. The cruelty is the point. 

I’d also suggest everyone read the article that accompanied these trial photos: HIDDEN HORRORS OF “ZERO TOLERANCE” — MASS TRIALS AND CHILDREN TAKEN FROM THEIR PARENTS

Some excerpts:

On April 30, Torteya was on duty and was informed that he had 41 “illegal entry” cases — about six times more than usual. Accompanying each of these immigrants’ criminal cases was paperwork from the U.S. Attorney’s office with a label at the top reading “Attorney General Zero Tolerance Initiative.” Attorneys and staff from the Federal Public Defenders were ordered to represent this startling mass of defendants who would go into court at 10 a.m. The public defenders had less than two hours to speak with all 41 people. That worked out to just a few minutes per defendant.

Soon, this scenario was being repeated daily in Morgan’s court, with the added feature of people telling the judge that they were afraid to go back to their countries — and that the U.S. government was taking away their children.

Each day was the same. The courtroom was filled with exhausted immigrants, with hands cuffed and shackled to their waists, their legs in chains — dozens of defendants stumbling, shuffling, clanking, and clanging in tandem. “Raise your right hand,” Morgan commanded as a translator spoke Spanish into their headphones. The shackled defendants struggled to comply.

…

On the second day, he was more laconic and direct, explaining that the government had made “a decision that there is to be zero tolerance.”

It was unclear if the silent defendants had a clue about what the judge was referring to.

Each day, the proceedings continued with the judge offering defendants the chance to take the microphone and address him before they were sentenced. As the week wore on, several did.

One man told Morgan that he wanted to apologize for entering the United States illegally. But he’d done so, he explained, because “I have been kidnapped twice. I have a vegetable business. In my country, I can’t work. That’s all.”

“I can’t do anything about it,” Morgan replied. “Coming in illegally is just going to make a bad situation worse.

A very small, very young woman with chiseled features and disheveled hair spoke. She had been apprehended two days earlier after rafting across the Rio Grande near a county park with big trees and picnic tables that abuts the international line. She wept as she told Morgan, “I’d like to apologize, but the circumstances in my country made me do it.” She said she’d been almost raped and killed there, and she had come to the U.S. for protection and to see if she could help her sisters escape the danger.

I am perfectly happy working 8 hrs a day because I don’t have to:

grow my own food

find my own clean water

heat my house