The natural consequence of forcing everyone to live in a world of violence and suffering is to live in a world of violence and suffering. Eventually, even the most restrained and disciplined hand, having reached for everything else, will reach for the shovel. www.the-reframe.com/the-shovel-n...

We should encourage redemption. We should look for and hope for the liberation with least suffering. But so should your father, if he would be liberated from the natural eventual consequence of forcing everyone to live in a world of suffering and violence.

If your father decides to stop choking your brother, your brother is no longer being choked, and your father is no longer choking. So liberation might be achieved. We might hope for it. But there are other ways to achieve it. Liberation from choking is something we can achieve without your father.

Liberation doesn't require persuading abusers. It doesn't require an abuser's permission. It's what happens when people who are suffering a systemized culture of abuse free themselves from those abuses by freeing themselves from the system and create new systems and cultures that make abuse costly.

Liberaton makes abuses harder and more costly. It's something that activists for equality, humanity, equity, diversity, and freedom are far more interested in than redemption, because it doesn't require millions of individual redemptions to be worked out, one after another, in order to achieve.

What I'd like to note is that natural consequence is an intrinsic part of redemption, so if you help somebody avoid natural consequence, then you aren't making a path to redemption, and if somebody is seeking some sort of restoration without consequence, then redemption isn't what they are after.

I think that's why dying is such a popular redemptive method in movies. It's ultimate, but it's quick. Not so much work.

In our entertainments, the redemption is assumed. In our real life, also, I notice we want to assume the redemption; immediately jumping to reconciliation even before the repentance.

I don't know how you would feel if I said that you or your brother or whoever else who had resorted to the shovel to stop the chocking had become just as bad as your father, because hitting somebody to stop them from murdering your brother is not the same thing as somebody murdering your brother.

The worst outcome, incidentally, is watching your father choke your brother until he is dead, then watching your father turn to your sister, and then your mother, and then to you. This is why stopping your father is necessary, and the shovel might eventually, however regrettably, come into play.

Your father is choking your brother. What do you do? Well, if your father is choking your brother, it is necessary to stop your father. You'd probably stop trusting somebody who said it wasn't necessary; anyway, I'd hope so. There are a lot of ways to stop your father.

A daily reminder from our fave lil birb #ffxvi

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

I attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder

im getting posts from meteorologist talking about the winter storm and I cannot stop thinking about this image

Unless they are stopped, all the worst things that Trump and the Republican Party are going to do are in the future, not the past. This makes stopping them the highest priority for the future of human life on the planet.

Fe3h フェリクス／Felix He really suits winter. ※過去絵再掲

Buy the cheap 50lb bags of non-clumping litter and put them in your car over your rear axle wherever that happens to be. Do at least 100lbs. Your rear axle just doesn't have much weight on it compared to your front axle which contributes to fishtailing etc.

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you will have to pry the millennial “lol” from my cold dead hands. i don’t know how else to express minor despair. if i didn’t say “lol” after admitting i’m a husk inside, i’d have to develop emotional resilience, and i simply don’t have time for that

シ”ｮ🐦‍🔥、フェニケ”で兄さんが聞いたらびっくりするような内容の教団の古のなんかいかがわしさのある儀式やらされてて欲しい…… まずヴ兄の最初の感想は『（なんだ、その衣装は…？！）』っていうやつで、すごい閉鎖的で大昔に儀式作った奴らが明らかにフェニト”ミの美しさと荘厳さを誇示させたいが為だけの舞とか自慰とかいくとこを正装した代表団員達に見せるとか、フェニト”が男に抱かれるのを見て聖なる卵が作られる妄想をしましょうの会とか、そういうのどうかな…。シリﾉﾚあたりが抱く役やらされて欲し。下衆くて泥沼である程良い。最低だよ

無双ヒューフェル

MN does have Cold Weather Rule protections from Oct 1 to April 30, but customers need to set up a payment plan and keep up with it to access those protections. Utility disconnections can still happen in the winter. More here: cubminnesota.org/know-your-ri...

This is a trusted local org in MN with some good guidance for folks interacting with their utilities 👇

This is CRITICAL. I know you’re all putting your back into mutual aid & a thousand other great things, but if there’s anything left here, so many folks depend on these front-line lawyers right now.

Things continue. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

Cartoonists, I’d love to hear your stories! For local resources, please check out @defend612.bsky.social defend612.com

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

engagement this, unsustainable that. what about the pursuit of having the same weirdos show up to everything you post like this??

joshua rosfield if he slayed

Florida Passes Law Granting Viruses Personhood https://theonion.com/florida-passes-law-granting-viruses-personhood/

Swelling rage

Hello!! I participated in the @phoenixflare.bsky.social Secret Santa! This was so fun to work on, I haven’t done art in a long time so it felt really nice getting back into it ✨ The prompts I chose were Angel&Devil AU and Homiday theme 💖 I hope you like it. #PhoenixFlareSecretSanta

link animation #twilightprincess

🎄 happy holidays from the batboys

#sheith 😎☀️

it's his new phone lockscreen. hapidue / dimihapidue 🐻🐺🦁? #ratmom-von-esteban

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

boyfriend sweater STEAL. 🏃 dimihapidue ...hapidimidue...? uh. I forgot what I've been calling it. #ratmom-von-esteban

the horror of this is compounded by the fact that the whipple building sits on the same military fort where 1600+ Dakota, mostly women and children were held in a concentration camp in 1863, where over 300 died

“Chemical weapons are being used widely in the area” ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PICKUP

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

"okay boss, i booked a hotel right next to a university campus so it should be nice and quiet and not the sort of place with tons of of angry, energetic, protest-prone, creatively annoying college students nearby"

Grief. #ClairObscurExpedition33 #art

lrp I'm sorry to go in on this but no, not everybody has chatgpt open for quick research!!! i've done so much deep dives for my fiction it's not even funny. like, salt production, poring over 1.0 coerthas maps, watching french cooking tutorials. like. it's fun to learn things for fiction!!!

(jellyfish ch.11) “Do that again,” breathes Viktor, very much not laughing anymore. #jayvik

one of the things we've done with the extra money folks threw on the GFM this weekend was connect with some organizers who wanted ICE NOT WELCOME signs for businesses. A designer made 6 versions & we just drop shipped 1000 to St. Paul 💓

What if I add Sleipnir there ? Hm hmmmm... #ffxvi #barnabastharmr #WIP