anxious-alto:

chilipowder9:

anxious-alto:

With the lack of SNAP benefits in the US hitting in a few days, welcome to No Snitch November. If you see somebody taking food? No you didn’t. Taking formula? No you didn’t. Taking diapers? No you didn’t. When the government turns their back on our neighbors, it’s our job to protect them.

actually? yes you did. yes you fucking saw the whole thing.

and your entire job is to suddenly decide that the nearby employee needs to help you RIGHT NOW with something. anything. get creatively stupid.

ask for help finding something you know good and well is on the other side of the store, ask for help reaching something up high (if you’re not super tall), ask for help understanding something trivial

as much as I dislike customers being shitty to employees just trying to do their job, politely keeping them occupied in case they’re a snitch is, in my opinion, your civil fucking duty, and I genuinely apologize for any and all employees I annoy in the near future as I do what I can to defend people who can’t afford food

10/10 addition to my post. Thank you.

veal-exe:

chilipowder9:

veal-exe:

some of you guys are going to have to start internalizing and accepting the fact that you will not be able to tell some indigenous people apart from white people at a glance, no matter what their ‘blood quantum’ [gag] is, partially because genetics is wild, and partially because there are indigenous groups that are naturally paler than whatever you’re thinking right now.

I’m not in the know like at all when it comes to indigenous things, may I ask why the “[gag]” with every “blood quantum”

Yeah no worries!

Blood quantum is a nightmare concept. It is essentially how much 'native blood’ you 'legally’ have according to the government.

It is not traditional, it is not cultural, it is not something Indigenous nations ever used to measure belonging.

It was created by colonizers as a tool of erasure. It literally exists so the government could mathematically subtract us out of existence over time.

Think of it like this;

instead of letting Indigenous communities define ourselves, the U.S. government came in and said, “Your Indigeneity is only valid if we can quantify it like livestock breeding papers.” It was meant to break apart families, stop us from passing on identity and land rights, and eventually reach a point where they could say, “See, there are no real Indigenous people left! So we don’t need to think about them!“

It weaponizes nebulous and often finicky genetics against culture, community, lived experience, etc.

It ignores the fact that Indigenous identity is about kinship, belonging, survival, language, tradition, and responsibility to our people.

Blood quantum turns those things into a number. A number designed to shrink until there is nothing left.

Many nations are still stuck dealing with blood quantum rules because of federal pressure and resource control, not because we chose it or approve of it.

And it harms us every single generation. It pits relatives against each other, creates disenrollment fights, and tells half of Indigenous kids they are somehow less real than their siblings because of paperwork.

It also lets the government give a 'good reason’ for why we shouldn’t have mixed race marriages or 'interbreed’ with other races, because then the blood quantum 'goes down’ and we may legally not be considered indigenous under the government anymore, which means they can deny us things like certain assistance programs, medical care, etc.

It’s literally government mandated eugenics.

In short, it is is a colonial tool invented by the government to eliminate us. Which is why I gag when I say it.

cnmcn:

skopostheorie:

Once I “made” a custom emoji for my mum by crudely drawing a hijab on it and now whenever she wants me to buy a coffee for her I get a text like this

absolutley enchanted by cobepee

melodiousvoid:

For anyone who doesn’t know, we grew up living off of Brian Jacque’s Redwall series, which we remember most prominently for 1) its depictions of hope in impossible circumstances, and 2) its vivid and enviable descriptions of the food served at feasts. Well, today, 10-15 years after consuming this entire saga, guess what I found at the library.

It has recipes for everything I ever wanted. Strawberry fizz, Blackberry and Apple Cake, classic Redwall scones. And as if that’s not enough, a note from the author himself:

With all the love in my heart,

leafstem:

marinella-ela:

lets lay down with baby

lets lay down with mama

lets lay down with mama

lets lay down with mama

temothylol:

cottoncandylesbo:

(alien being shown yaoi) and you’re saying, the men… have sex with each other? the men?

(alien being shown yuri) ohhh ya we do this shit too lmao

foxes-in-love:

ALT

janeeyrewasfaecoded:

You omit the Oxford comma and those last two items in the list start lookin kinda gay. Like why are you two standing so close together

scramratz:

There’s a non insignificant number of adults who don’t know you’re allowed to learn stuff outside of school.

tylostoma:

sometimes water tastes so good and you drink it in such a ferociously passionate way that you frighten yourself