if the ground was made of my mouth, i would climb into myself

A small creator who is encouraging people to interact with/share their stuff, trying to make their art/writing/etc known because they want a livable wage when they have NOWHERE ELSE they can turn to anymore and are trying to succeed in an internet that makes it near impossible for them is -never- gonna be the same thing as a celebrity shoving adds into your face to buy their newest clothing brand.

Don't encourage capitalism but do encourage the artists and writers that provide you most of their content for FREE and just want to pay bills like anyone else and already deal with being buried in the algorithm or having their art stolen and reposted.

1. Bushveld Rain Frog

Very angry, very small, very cute

2. Amazon Milk Frog

A friend, would make a wonderful therapist, soft

3. Bumblebee toad

Very good at walking, rad colouring, cute red feet and underside

Just to summarize: the “air freshener” “law” is an excuse, it was written to give cops a legally justified “reason” to racially profile black people. I can guarantee you that if you look at the number of people who have been pulled over for “air freshener violations,” it will be overwhelmingly, disproportionately black people. So let’s dispense with that bs “argument,” okay? It’s a slicker version of stop-and-frisk.

And why on earth was Potter training anyone if she couldn’t even tell the difference between a gun and a taser after 25 years on the job? Okay, and just for the assholes (aka racism deniers) out there who will still cling to the lie that she made a “mistake” because she was under stress, can you imagine trying that same excuse on a Top Chef tv show? “Hi, judges, I’ve been a master chef for 25 years, but when you guys said we need to cook our best steak dinner, I got nervous and grabbed the chicken breasts. Oopsies.” It’s like a firefighter who doesn’t know the difference between a water hose and a can of gasoline. I’m tired of these flimsy excuses from the police. Cops constantly train with their guns, presumably they have to re-qualify on a regular basis, they put their guns on and take them off every day, they’re around other officers with guns all day every day, DO NOT TRY TO TELL ME THAT COPS DON’T KNOW WHAT A FUCKING GUN LOOKS AND FEELS LIKE. I’m exhausted with the, “cop mistook a phone/empty hands/other common object for a weapon” bullshit. Can we all just admit that is a fucking lie? And to answer my own question, Potter was “training” other cops how to be racist cops. Periodt. You don’t need competence to go out and racially harass black folks. That’s why her boss was backing her up.

If you’re white (or not black), please stop equivocating. Stop constantly making up excuses for obvious racists. It is and was a case of racism.

Lastly, I’m sick of the white euphemism, “officer involved shooting.” What kind of bullshit is that? Just call it murder. Or at the very least, manslaughter. If I “accidentally” shot someone, you better believe the police would immediately come and arrest my black ass. And news outlets wouldn’t be calling it “an Odin involved shooting,” they would say I fucking shot somebody. It’s called accountability. Funny how the passive voice is most often reserved for cops and white people.

This is why it’s always a little puzzling for me to hear people write off specific non-binary genders as “microlabels”. You clearly wouldn’t call binary genders like male or female “microlabels”, so why would you call non-binary genders like agender, androgyne, bigender, pangender, genderfluid, or any other “microlabels”? It’s the same concept.

Imagine how you’d feel if you were forced to use a vague umbrella term like “binary” to refer to yourself instead of male or female. Imagine if everyone kept telling you that you were only calling yourself a man or a woman for “attention” or to “feel special”. Bare minimum, you’d be annoyed. “Just call yourself binary, microlabels like ‘man’ and ‘woman’ are divisive! You’re making a mockery of the rest of us!” I doubt you’d enjoy people regularly saying this kind of thing about you.

So, hello. I'm using my platform here now to inform about what's happening in my country. I'm from Cali, Colombia. The city that's been burning for 5 days now and being massacred by its own government.

We need your help to spread awareness on this. As of yet, there hasn't been a lot of international news coverage about it, and our own news are too biased in favor of the government to be of any help.

How did it all start?

On April 28, a national strike was called for people to raise their voices against a tax and health reforms proposed by president Iván Duque, during an economic and social crisis exacerbated by the covid-19 pandemic.

Among other things, this reform wanted to tax us for funeral services (during a pandemic). They also wanted to increase the price of food and water, when most of the population has a salary that does not allow a family to live with dignity. Moreover, another nefastous health reform has yet to be taken down.

But the response of the national government to these protests has been to deploy military forces against the civilian population. A violent, disproportionate, and arbitrary action that incurs in serious human rights violations. My city, Santiago de Cali, has been one of the most affected places. During the night hours of the last few days, in different areas of the city, the police and the mobile anti-riot squad (ESMAD) have burst into peaceful demonstrations attacking with firearms, tear gas, and leaving a balance of dead and wounded that has not yet been counted. They have also captured many demonstrators, some of whose whereabouts are unknown.

Siempre con el pie firme y cabeza en alto!

Fuera la hijueputa corrupción y represión, fuera Uribe fuera Duque!

Rezo por aquellos que han perdido la vida a manos de quienes se suponen que nos cuidan y por todo el dolor y agonía por la que están pasando

Los están matando! Paren la violencia policial

LA VIOLENCIA POLICIAL NO SOLO OCURRE EN ESTOS UNIDOS, OCURRE EN TODOS LADOS Y PARA COLOMBIA ESTE CUENTO NO ES VIEJO

You hurt me my dear Colombia. Always with a firm foot and head held high!

Out with the fucking corruption and repression, out with Uribe out with Duque!

I pray for those and their families who have lost their lives at the hands of those who are supposed to care of us and for all the pain and agony you are going through. I pray for those who are brave enough to go to the streets, risk their lives and confront the fucking police. I pray for those who want to save Colombia and make it free from killers like those fuckers in the government. May God bless you all!

They are k*lling them!

They are k*lling innocent people walking down the streets minding their own business

They are entering houses and k*lling people

Throwing tear gas at kids

They’re burning houses with people inside them

They are taking people into trucks and beating them like gangs till dêãth

They are r*ping woman

THERE ARE 89+ WHO HAVE DISSAPEARD

THEY ARE K*LLING YOUNG POEPLE

THIS IS GENÖCIDÉ

Let me get a little bit personal here.. my father and many friends live there and I cannot describe my preoccupation and frustration towards their lives. I had a serious phone call with my dad and I begged him to please not go to the store and buy fish because I’m so fucking scared that a cop will come and shoot him in the head.... I’m crying while typing this because never in my life I thought I would be worrying about stuff that I’ve only seen in movies. (Not even in movies this horrible shit happens) This is serious and I pray for all of you reading this to never go through this.

They are not cops, they are murders!!!!!!

POLICE VIOLENCE DOES NOT ONLY HAPPEN IN THE UNITED STATES, IT HAPPENS EVERYWHERE AND EVEN WORSE! AND FOR COLOMBIA THIS STORY IS NOT OLD

Please PLEASE share this - this is a critic situation Colombia is going through. It’s a violation to the human rights and freedom of speech of the people!

This is a cry of help towards the UN!

WHEN IN THE US THERE IS AN AVERAGE OF 3 POLICE KILLÎNGS TO INNOCENT PEOPLE AND/OR OF RACE A WEEK - COLOMBIA HAS 10 TIMES THAT IN THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME AND I DONT SEE THE WHOLE WORLD REVOLTING FOR IT!

Just because EEUU is one of the biggest parties in the world doesn’t mean that worst wars are being fought out there!

Sadly you are not living in LatinoAmerica... you are surviving

PUT AS MUCH ATTENTION TO THIS AS TO THE KILLINGS IN THE US.

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