Crafter Extrodinare

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

(secret bonus: the other side of her tag)

it’s been a few weeks, I suppose we should check up on the AHSGSHGAFB?!

ajdhf.

well that’s just,,,

REXCELLENT

HELL

YES

HELL

FUCKING

YES.

HAIL TO THE QUEEN

LONG MAY SHE REIGN!

this year we’re doing a much-beloved character from classic literature, “Dracula with inappropriate straw hat”

thanks everyone, may your weens be hollow and your candy be many!

she’s… (WEXTER! here girl!) she’s a… a…..

she’s a T. Rex.

GOTTEM!

ERASERHEAD BABY.

ohshit

everything will be fine.

The better health commercials- "you can't escape your crappy job, try talking to us!"

That's not funny. Also isn't it sad that most people don't really seem to have close friendships anymore and that you're selling the friend experience more than a doctor one because you can't actually fix anything?

The progressive commercial- "you should go on vacation; what's a vacation? ... I don't know I've never been on one either"

That's not funny. That's fucking awful. Can't you see that's not a fucking joke??

The e-banking app- "how much did I spend on groceries this month? 500?? -hey dad can the guys stay for dinner? - NO!"

But then I realised what I was seeing in people's replies/tags/comments was beyond anything I could do to try to help correct the situation. Basically, most comments that were being made lacked any understand on even the most fundamentally basic level, so have this instead:

'it should have been the british museum instead' - bestie, do you think the british were the only ones with an empire? France had one too, and you're never going to guess what's housed in the Louvre. absolutely tone deaf to just think it was only one country who did colonialism and has a museum with colonial items in. please go look up what the hobby lobby is up to, or why they MET has been in so much trouble. the issue is everywhere, so every time I see this statement, I think the person who wrote it is an idiot.

'the british museum stole everything anyway' - the museum, as in the actual institution, has never stolen anything. I mean that seriously. a large part of its collection isn't even stolen because there are legitimate ways to accquire artefacts. strange, I know, but more people would know that if they didn't just parrot hot takes on the internet. this is not to say that it doesn't have stolen objects, it absolutely does, but how they got there is way more complicated. mostly it's rich old guys who did do a colonialism donating things to the british people on their deaths and the government going 'we need to put these somewhere' (again...simplistic/lacking nuance).

'if things are stolen from museums we can repatriate' - no you can't. funny thing about recieving artefacts is that you need provenance and chain of custody. those are legal things and you'll be serving the country or culture the artefact should be returned to much better by *not* handing them stolen goods with no provenance.

'uhh I thought these museums were supposed to be better at looking after these artefacts. clearly they can't' - yeah, no, see the first part of that is the racist myth that conservatives use to prevent any talks on repatriation, we all need to cut that shit out. the second part is because people have been getting more hostile towards museums, governments have been using it as an excuse to cut funding for them (you may think that museums, including the BM, are very rich...they aren't. their value is in their collections, they don't actually have much money at all) and when funding is cut, they're stretched thin. That's how what happened at the Louvre happened. The more arts and cultural institutions are devalued and defunded, the more likely it is that they will close and let me tell you, those collections will be sold and none of you will see those artefacts again. they sure as shit won't go back to their country of origin. they're more likely to be displayed in a billionare's 8th mansion.

Every major news outlet, including Fox and Newsmax, refused to sign Pete Hegseth's ridiculous demand for control over what they published from the Pentagon.

Many airports refused to air Kristi Noem's propaganda video blaming the govt shutdown on the Democrats.

Farmers are furious over the fallout from the trade war with China and now a huge bailout for their direct competitors in Argentina.

A judge in Chicago barred ICE agents from arresting people in court.

MIT, University of Pennsylvania, and a couple other schools have been the first to refuse the administration's ultimatum to either accept a complete govt audit of classes offered or lose federal funding, and we can hope others will follow suit.

The administration continues to lose legal cases regularly, and now the Attorney General of Arizona is threatening to sue Speaker of the House Mike Johnson for his continued refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva, who was elected to the House in a special election nearly three weeks ago. She would make the last signature needed on a House petition to push the Epstein case to the next stage.

Steven Miller is selling his house in Arlington, VA and moving, because people kept writing criticism of him in chalk on the sidewalks. Lol.

Trump’s approval ratings just reached their lowest point ever, and continue to crater.

Democrats continue to stand strong on healthcare and measures to stop the administration’s unconstitutional and illegal gutting of government services we the people pay for, like cancer research, housing assistance, and stopping discrimination in schools, employment, and other vital parts of public life.

It's no wonder so many people are profoundly lonely and disconnected from their communities when maintaining a social life in what little free time we have is incredibly difficult. If you have kids, a second job, a very long commute, or other responsibilities, it's nearly impossible.

United States Homeland Security is comparing catching human beings to pokemon. What timeline are we living in?

fresh, clean no-terf version for reblogs!

I don’t have kids

I don’t spend money on nicotine

I don’t gamble my money away on sports

I’m not reliant on a chat bot for all my life functions

notably, he's still facing second-degree murder charges, it's just the terrorism stuff that got dropped