atheist-overdose:

I guess we’re also skipping the parts about tattoos, polyester, and shellfish.

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atheist-overdose:

I’m rarely a patriotic canadian, but this makes me proud.

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caturday:

I wonder who is in charge…..

unlikelywords:

If you’ve seen a better picture of a dog dressed as two dogs carrying a present today, I don’t believe you. Shades of the dog dressed as two dogs carrying treasure.

(Via @nellblock)

radicalsocialworker:

“Misery policing means that poor people must constantly defend themselves when it comes to everything they own and every place they go. Having any kind of technology seems to place someone in the ‘not poor’ category and that means that poor people with technology are forced to walk a fine line. They can freely admit that technology is part of their lives and they are yes, actually poor, and deal with the constant hassling from people who refuse to accept this and think it is their job to micromanage the lives of others. Or they can attempt to conceal their use of technology, which is personally inhibiting and perpetuates the myth that poor people are all alone in a desert with no method of communicating or familiarity with technology.

Acknowledging that poverty is not something that can necessarily be defined by the possessions people have is critical, and yet many people seem to have serious resistance to the idea. That includes progressives who don’t seem interested in interrogating their own ideas about what poverty looks like and what the lives of poor people involve; it’s present in the sneers implied in comments about homeless people having cell phones or someone ‘claiming’ to be poor and having a laptop.

At the same time, many progressives rely heavily on technology in their own lives, focusing on online organising and a high level of computer and Internet fluency. This creates a strange sort of double-bind; they claim to be advocating for the underclasses, yet do so in an environment the underclasses aren’t supposed to be able to access because if they do, they aren’t in the underclasses any more. Nothing about us without us? Not so much.”

(by Kory Ingersoll)

fuckyeahfeminists:

tranqualizer:

[image description: black and white photo of prison bars shot from an angle. text reads, “build communities not prisons.”]

Build communities, not prisons

(by S. hughes)