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[thehumanarkle]

Oh, I am so looking forward to reading this.

#comic book covers #suicide squad dream team #variant cover #dreamer #harley quinn

[thehumanarkle]

My cousins Jana is 2 years old and Juwana 5 years old are happy because they will eat eggs after 30 days 💔

Do you imagine how much time it need to light the fire and fry the eggs

We cook in the open,Please keep sharing and donating

Every $5 can make a difference, helping us flee to safety

#reblogged #palestine #mutual aid

[thehumanarkle]

Over the years people who've heard my voice before they ever saw what I looked like tended to think I was still a teenager well into my 30s.

Are you often mistakenly perceived as looking older or younger than you really are, and does it bother you?

-Older, and it bothers me

-Older, and it doesn't bother me

-Younger, and it bothers me

-Younger, and it doesn't bother me

-I don't consistently get mistaken for another age but it would bother me

-I don't consistently get mistaken for another age but it wouldn't bother me

-Results

#reblogged

[thehumanarkle]

I'd make a joke about how we're not too far off from people yelling "groomer" if a 60-year-old starts dating a 40-year-old, but this is Tumblr, that's probably already happened hasn't it?

I wish age gap discourse hadn't spiraled the way it has because I want there to be a safe space to say "Men in their 40s who date 25 year olds aren't predators, they're just fucking losers"

#reblogged #misuse of the words predator and groomer #age gaps #infantilizing adults #this myth about the brain not being fully developed until 25 is also part of why Season 3 of Star Trek Picard was so rough

[thehumanarkle]

The realization that capitalism is bad should be the start of one's political awakening, not the end.

There's a kind of anti-capitalism which, failing to recognise capitalism as merely the latest form of human inequality and domination, seeks refuge in everything believed to be pre-modern (the patriarchal family, 'national culture', tradition). In the process, it becomes reactionary and loses sight of the larger struggles of history. More often than not, the past is a creative invention of the present. And it will not save you.

#reblogged #capitalism #fascism

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Hello 👋, My name is Amjad and i am from gaza and i am trying to have my family in a safe place from the war in gaza our lives are in real danger because of the war in gazamy little angel's life is insecure and my heart is broken because i can't afford him safety.I'm really sorry to interrupt your day But if you can help me just by sharing the campaign link it would be so great. I appreciate any assistance

I reblogged directly from your page. Good luck. I am so sorry your family is going through this.

#asked and answered #gaza

[thehumanarkle]

مرحبا اخي حسين انا امجد المغربي من غزة

انا عملت حملة مشان اسافر على مصر انا و زوجتي و ابني

رابط الحملة هيو

بتمنى انو تكون سبب لاني اقدر اجمع المبلغ الكافي للتنسيق للسفر ان شالله

و شكرا مقدما

Hey guys, I was able to speak with Amjad here to verify that this fundraiser of his is completely legit!

Do not hesitate to donate!

#reblogged #palestine aid #go fund me

[thehumanarkle]

This is beside the larger point, but it is kinda funny how I came to start eating health foods on the regular just 'cause I like some of it stems from the "idea that "healthy" food must inherently taste bad[.]"

I'd spent my whole childhood and early teen years being told by family and movies & TV how bad health food was, and young me always kinda wondered if that was actually true.

So one day, I find out a health food store is being built in my neighborhood and I decide that once it's done I'm going to try something in it and find out for myself.

I forget what all I got, but I do remember that in addition to actual food I got some root beer that was made with cane sugar instead of the processed kind you get in grocery store root beers. And I liked it.

Kinda says a lot about me as a person that one of my first acts of teenage rebellion was to go to a fucking Sprouts(1). *lol*

1: I don't actually remember what the name of the store was. It may have been a Sprouts, I don't know. I haven't lived anywhere near where that store was since 2007.

I know this is a tiny part of the wider problems born of diet culture, fatphobia, classicism, and racism but like god the idea that "healthy" food must inherently taste bad has completely ruined us as a society.

#reblogged #tangent #health foods #question authority

[thehumanarkle]

And both have obsessive fan groups in America whose names rhyme; Weeaboo and Tea-aboo.

other things Japan and England have in common:

conquering and subjugating the islands in their immediate vicinity

going to war with their mainland neighbors

long-running influential television series where a lot of the action takes place in random quarries

an ancient and vaunted theater tradition

really good curry

weirdly stratified social order thats kind of broken down in recent centuries but isnt totally gone

completely impotent monarchy that nonetheless still manages to exist and be important to people

does suspicious things with beans

largely endorsed

#reblogged #japan #england #commonalities

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In the best interactions I had with cops they were pretty much useless and standing around like lawn ornaments.

We don't need them.

....really fucking fed up with the amount of people ive seen imply or outright state that anyone advocating for police abolition has never experienced violent crime.

guess what, some of us have and for many of us a huge part of the reason we support it is because of how absolutely horrible our experiences were.

things police have done for me when ive come in contact with them

tell me that a person strangling a coworker wasn't a reason to call and then refuse help

get pissed when i called back because someone was being fucking choked and they were forced to send someone out

get pissed and accuse the staff of purposely attracting problems after we installed a sharps container to reduce the used needles we'd been dealing with for months when they saw them after we reported another assault....

which took them an hour to arrive at and then they got pissed the victim had gone with paramedics to the hospital and we hadn't somehow held the person who did it for them

harass two witnesses to an assault because the were homeless

harass me because i carry narcan and they overheard me say i used it to paramedics at an overdose

see the shelter van in a parking lot and come in to harass the shelter workers as they helped someone

and so much more

there has never been a situation where police have helped me when i experienced violence and there are a ton where they have made shit much worse.

if the police disappeared and none of the money was redirected i would be much safer, let alone if the money went to organizations and groups who actually gave a shit about people beyond using them as punching bags

who would i call if i needed help? definitely not the people who've repeatedly harassed me, refused to help when needed, and take a fucking hour to show up when someone is being beaten.

probably one of the community groups that's managed to do a significant amount more with a fraction of the budget without guns or harassing victims.

#reblogged #police

[thehumanarkle]

I guess she counts as I think more people know her as a YouTuber than a musician (the one on the right in the thumbnail).

enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

#reblogged #savannah #the queer kiwi #her or probably some vaporwave artist maybe #Youtube

[thehumanarkle]

Sometimes I think some of my family members forget that I'm not a child anymore. They will often treat me like I have no clue what I'm talking about on political stuff because I'm younger than them.

I'm literally in my 40s and I minored in PoliSci in college.

#vent #personal #politics

[thehumanarkle]

The President and the Police

It is curious to me that people who are (rightly) outraged at the police being sent against the college protestors and want to reflect that in their voting in the next election are focusing on the office that has zero power over the police, and not the offices that actually control the police. (This is especially aggravating because we've been talking about the police a lot over the last four years, and so if people actually wanted to change things you would think they would have figured out basic things like "who controls the police.")

The President does not and never has controlled the police. Anywhere in the US. Policing is a local matter. The vast majority of law enforcement is done by the city police (employed and governed by the city), county sheriffs and their deputies (employed by the county), and state police (employed and governed by the state). The laws and regulations and policies are made at the local level. So are hiring decisions! If you want to change things--and God knows the police are corrupt and violent and bigoted and awful, and DESPERATELY need to be changed--you can't do it through which presidential candidate you vote for (or don't vote for). You do it by voting for your local elected officials: town mayor and city councilmen (or whatever the exact positions are in your area), your county sheriff, and your state representatives. And then following up by doing things like attending city council meetings and raising the question of police reform--and talking to your neighbors and people in your community and building a coalition of people to work on alternatives to the police and convincing people to try some of them. If you live in a city that has a protest that the cops have been called to, please call your city government and complain. It won't magically change things but it'll be a little bit of pressure in the right direction.

The President does have some control over Federal law enforcement, but that's the FBI, DEA, ICE, and other more specialized groups (like the military police and Fish and Wildlife enforcement officers). And God knows that they could desperately use reform as well! ICE in particular should be abolished. So yeah, your vote for President will affect those organizations. (Trump, of course, loves ICE and wants to expand its powers and reach.)

But if you are rightly concerned by police response to the protests, and want to use your vote to do something about it, you need to be thinking locally.

And good news! Local elections have far fewer people voting in them, so it's actually much easier to affect things at a local level than it is to affect national affairs.

I know this, because I've seen it happen in my community. I am a supporter of an immigrant rights group in my community, and a while back our little local police department hired a guy who had been fired for racism by the biggest city in the region. This is extremely common; most trained and experienced police would much rather work in larger cities which pay better. So a lot of small towns and county sheriff's departments have trouble getting "qualified" people who want to work there, and regularly hire cops who are only willing to move to rural areas because they've been fired for cause and no larger police department will touch them.

But in this specific case, the local immigrant support group was watching, saw he'd been hired, and swung into action. They encouraged their members to call the city council, and go to city council meetings, and write letters to the editor, and after a couple of months of this the city council conceded and got rid of the guy. If you get a group of people together to make a concerted effort, you can make a difference in the policing in your local community.

But the President can't do jack about it. So don't blame him, blame the people who actually hire, train, and write the policies for the police. Who are all local people living in your area!

#reblogged #police #just because your hatred of biden is valid doesn't mean it can't cloud your judgement #local elections

[thehumanarkle]

Shameless Cashgrab Season 10 Wrap-Up

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Not a lot of thrillers in this set called Cold War Thrillers.

This season I learned that apparently a lot of fans of actor Tom Courtenay watch my show. ;) If Season 11 flops I may just start a show where I cover every Tom Courtenay movie I can get my hands on.

Countdown Voice: Tin Lizzy (https://bsky.app/profile/tinlizzy.bsky.social)

Season 10 title card by Alex Hales (https://www.behance.net/alexhaless1) Season 11 title card by Magdalen Rose (https://linktr.ee/themagdalenrose)

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[thehumanarkle]

dont forget we're also boycotting eurovision for armenia. even if israel would be cut out tomorrow, azerbaijan is still there.

#reblogged #eurovision #boycott #armenia #azerbaijan

[thehumanarkle]

#reblogged #israel #palestine #us politics #anyone paying attention knows that jews who criticize israel will be targeted disproportionately. it was never about combating antisemitism

[thehumanarkle]

Also, if you can't be arsed to fill in a bubble on a piece of paper twice every two years, why should we expect you to be able to handle a violent revolution?

Maintaining fire arms, sharpening blades, and avoiding getting shot or run over by tanks are all considerably more emotionally and physically tasking than going "Ugh, fine," and casting a ballot for a person only slightly less asshole-ish than another person at periodic intervals.

"Voting doesnt work because not enough people in my country will vote for MY version of communism. We need a violent overthrow of the government to MAKE this happen"

#reblogged #elections #ideological purity #“yeah the world may burn but at least i won't feel icky.”