Refugees are welcome here

*puts my cigarettes out on you*

*wuickly smokes it all before you can reach me*

oh a wise guy huh? *rolls up my sleeves* why I oughta…

*wuickly rolls your sleeves back down before you can hit me*

Casual cruelty has become so ingrained in a lot of people because we live in a society that is structured in a cruel way. To be quite honest you are obligated to consider the harm of your words and actions no matter your personal hardships.

no im fine im just imagining a world where advances in technology were pushed by collaboration for the betterment of the world instead of driven by competition for increasing profits

yknow it's a real shame that romans didn't have access to australia specifically for augury reasons. i really wish i could have seen a roman augur have to deal with australian birds. like imagine trying to properly interpret an omen from a fuckin. cassowary

loving that the general consensus here is that "the omen when you see a cassowary is that you are about to die of cassowary"

talks to a girl and is immediately hit with an 105 degree fever nausea chills etc has to lie in bed all day wiping sweat off my forehead with a silk handkerchief and writing about my illness in my diary like a malnourished victorian man

honey that’s not the girl that’s your moderna booster

obsessed with body neutrality… like people are just the weirdest animal we’re just walking around earth with individual deep inner worlds and maybe I do have dark spots and acne and scars but why should that bother me? they’re literally just things that happen to people

the thing that a lot of western leftists seem to struggle to even consider is that there is a long long history of resistance and insurrection and social change that has nothing to do with the united states or europe or christianity, that you can’t cast an entire country as a purely good or bad actor without erasing the existence of dissidents within that country with their own values and beliefs that you don’t have the context to understand as an outsider. you can’t just invert everything in the dominant narrative that you’re familiar with (usa bad, enemies of usa good) because then you’re still operating under the assumption that everything is about you

fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism

disabled people should not have to pay to live their lives like everyone else. and in the case of insulin, disabled people should not have to pay to Not Fucking Die

if i was in a book i'd be considered bad representation for all communities im part of

when you enter a grocery store for 'a few items' thinking 'you don't need a cart' that's the devil speaking

glad this post is popular with everyone's moms

Ppl will be like “end the stigma around mental illness uwu” but still judge you if you’re unemployed or single or not completely self-sufficient or healthy or perfectly groomed or still live with parents and don’t see the hypocrisy in that whatsoever