I hate this so much, bats don’t have rabies more than other animals!!!!! I want to cancel them

Note: This move not only cuts out state access, but it undermines one of the most concrete changes that came out of George Floyd's killing here in Minneapolis in 2020, which is the BCA Force Investigations Unit, created to restore trust in investigations when law enforcement kills civilians.

Minneapolis Council Member Robin Wonsley told me Wed. every local official needs to oppose FBI taking over: "Definitely do not trust the FBI, that has given authority for ICE agents to terrorize our communities here in Minneapolis. There's no reason they should be owning the tragedy they caused."

this was easy to predict bc our government is populated by incompetent psychopaths who do each other quid pro quo favors in a ghoulish circular chain, more so than usual I mean.

i do not want the state to have the authority to kill people! not random mothers driving by! not people the state thinks look like they could commit crimes! not people who we think probably did commit crimes! not people who definitely, absolutely committed crimes! no one!!!

Whenever it's time to deny us healthcare or our bodily autonomy, they talk about taxpayers, how they're responsible to the taxpayers. But YOUR tax dollars are going to these guys so they can murder your neighbors! They're not just invading countries they're doing it ON YOUR DIME!

Why did I have this alarm set. I think the asteroid was actually bombed a long time ago. Thumb slip?

A faculty hierarchy primer: Graduate instructors: hybrid class, both students and faculty. Lowest paid by a huge margin. Lecturers/adjuncts: faculty who work on annual or semester contracts depending. Paid poorly, precarious employment often based on leftovers.

Literally how I have coped with whatever neurodiverse compulsions I have to be like why tho? Bc asking why gets you trouble. Saying yes gets you left alone.

Oh and just in case here is the typical administrative structure relevant to faculty at a uni but YMMV •President - Chancellor: usually peers, prez is political side chancellor is money side • Provost: Senior officer overseeing academics, reports to prez, in charge of the academic aspects

there's also a robust industry of consultants who tell these boards what a university "should" look like, which is a factory for separating undergrads from money

it doesn't help that most university boards (the people by whom the administrators are hired and to whom they're responsible) are usually staffed to the gills with the dumbest buisness fucks alive

I hope that mayors of majors cities, if not shaking and afraid of for the future of their elected status, are taking notes. I mean I know they aren’t but I hope they are.

If you’re not familiar with the faculty vs admin tensions/culture at a Uni, here’s the issue: academia is largely a profession where faculty are mostly independent. We have “bosses” in that tjeres laws & stuff to follow but we mostly do what we want within departmental/college standards

Deadass just delete the syllabus headings and readings and teach them anyway. People need to get comfortable with working the system

Had a flash of inspiration

these translated descriptions for tea perfumes in Taiwan are making me emotional

I know this isn’t very community centered of me but the worst thing in the world is when some crazy looking person at the post office walks up the window & says something like “I havent been getting my mail” & has no follow up for the worker to go off of. Literally pls don’t get in line before me!!!

Thinking about how Dilbert and Dogbert are also about to die

"How dare she teach my kids to care about the wrong people" is also the entire right wing war on education in microcosm

Every time I think about how kids are an oppressed class I picture what would happen if I was out in public and I saw someone hit their kid and then walked up to them and hit them in the exact same way, I would catch an assault charge and the parent would be universally considered the victim

its also considered radical to say that kids & families migrating across the us border deserve to be safe healthy & together. Dehumanizing the Other so brutally you don’t care when Palestinian children are assassinated for target practice or intentionally starved to death is an apparatus of war ofc

Like it does feel insane to argue AGAINST the idea of "protecting children", but the amount of rhetorical effort to reasonably convey, that the problem isn't the surface definition but its engineered theft and transformation into a bigoted dogwhistle, is virtually impossible to overcome on purpose!

100% and one key way we know that is that the worst people on earth think she's a terrorist

Like ofc kids need to be raised & protected but the culture & the law reduce them to property without the bodily autonomy & right to safety of a dog. The ability to firmly call this out as bad ideology & then enact radically kind ethics is pretty amazing. This is also why Mr Rogers was so amazing

Idk if this is corny to say or whatever but Ms Rachel is a radical human rights activist. Her work to advocate and create conditions for the dignity, rights, and respect for children as fully realized human beings In her discipline/practice as well as her politics is admirable beyond words Idek

chat I found out today I’m dummy chopped

This is the state of expensive/overpriced “ethical“ fashion atm if you were wondering

This morning while walking the dogs I heard a dad say “hey buddy we need to get pants on and change your sweater because you’re getting your hair cut today” and his son replied “nooo…I don’t want to be cut” 😭😭🥰

these entitled mutts behaving like they’re not the reason I had to wash the quilt in the first place

Why didn’t I follow my plan in college to repatriate to a EU nation. It’s not perfect but my taxes wouldn’t be used *as much*** to murder people and invade sovereign nations to extract natural resources. I’m so scared for Canada, Greenland, NYC, LA. They don’t have limits.

the only silver lining is that maybe someday these ppl will see consequences at the Hague. I doubt it though and clearly so do they. The world is run by venal cowards. But we knew that already I guess.

The United States is a terrorist organization.

Ppl think we don’t fight bc blocking and muting actually work + a lot of us are retired posters and can’t be bothered

There’s a lot I do not like about living in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area but one thing I do like is how rain is a valid excuse for not doing anything

It’s very funny that I decided to make perfume my special interest again like 2 months ago and I’m being served content like this, the algorithm gods know me so well

Somebody make this look like he’s in a blurry cyclone or w/e thank you

Every time I see a clip of Zohrans inaug speech I become a blurry critical mass laser eyes spongebob meme from all the libbing out dopamine

Im very proud Ive curated an online squad of bad bitches who relate to the same content I do

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

The dogs beg me to go on walkies at like 4pm bc of the position of the sun. Okay little ones let’s go! But then they get depressed bc they don’t get to eat directly after like they usually do when we go to the dog park later In the evening. They’re both moping…Truly an object lesson on petards…

I think my downstairs neighbor, who to be fair have a sound bar that gets so loud it shakes my floor, hate when I marathon STTNG so bad bc coincidentally it’s always when I do that they start blasting smooth jams instead of their regular tv

“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism” mamdani plagiarizing piss pig grand dad when he tweeted at that one fash who complained she was cold that he had all those blankets in the communist compound w the kurds

I’m libbing out hard

While we’re confessing i Have a pair of $500 Labucqs that I will own for the rest of my life and that I will take to be resoled as needed, which is how it’s supposed to be. I also have a handful of second hand luxury pairs of shoes either In great shape or in need of a brief cobbler spa day.

It didn’t even occur to me that shoe makers are one of the classic Marx examples of how we became alienated from the means of production lol

Oh no, did the scary socialist pay for handmade shoes that are priced on the labor and materials that went into them?