casper-ghostly:

Anyway, daily reminder from a culturally isolated Romani person.

Gypsy does not mean wanderer.

It literally means ‘people from egypt’ or similar, as europeans believed Romani people were from Egypt. It has become known similar to nomad due to how our ancestors have been forced to be nomadic due to racism and ostracization, but it is a SLUR.

Romani people are STILL being forcibly sterilized.

Romani people are STILL being forced into ghettos.

Romani people are still facing violence and danger in countless European countries- and recently, I’ve seen the beginnings of the extremes in the United States.

Have a little fucking respect and DON’T USE A SLUR THAT’S BEEN USED FOR CENTURIES AGAINST US.

And for the love of whatever’s up there, ESPECIALLY do not use it to describe your witchcraft. It is playing on the ‘magic gypsy’ trope, and is EXTREMELY insulting.

non romani people, please reblog this.

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shamebats:

oxyconundrum:

““When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.””

— Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via jillymomcraftypants)

In 1978, when she received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, Lindgren spoke against corporal punishment of children in a speech entitled Never Violence! After that, she teamed up with scientists, journalists and politicians to promote non-violent upbringing. In 1979, a law was introduced in Sweden prohibiting violence against children in response to her demands. Until then there was no such law anywhere in the world.

What a legacy. We’re so lucky to have had her.

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eldritchdraaks:

hybbat:

sometimes-i-just-climb-things:

aquietquixotic:

ghost-cassette:

the-real-skeletor:

The super bowl or whatever I’m not american

Oh NOBODY’S going to be horny after this

Amazing tags

my ankle is so fuckin horny tho

A victorian

Every reply this is is another punch in the gut

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corporationsarepeople:

mugiwara-lucy:

Yeah I said something similar yesterday but we can NOT let what happened to Renee Good cloud what happened to everyone else at the hands of these SS Demons!!!

Because we can’t disregard one person if we’re for human rights!

ICE investigates no violent crime. They exist to pursue misdemeanor offenses. Yet they cosplay like they’re Meal Team Six on the world’s most dangerous missions.

They should not even be allowed to carry guns. There is no reason for it, except to terrorize people.

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memeuplift:

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emptyjunior:

emptyjunior:

my dad (Maori) works on a ship with all Maori/Tongan/Samoan fisherman- and one Aussie guy called Jake.

And that wasn’t done on purpose just sort of how it ended up, but Jake recently got an injury so they put him on a Different boat just for a little bit (a sit in the wheelhouse and scout type of boat, instead of the main fishing one) and he only got back to my dad’s ship today and he was apparently like Shaking. He was Traumatised.

Dad said Jake kept pulling him aside and going “They were all yelling on there, but in a MEAN way” “They didn’t clean… Like at ALL”

Jake experienced what a boat full of old school Aussie fisherman is like. That is the norm Jake. You just happened to be on the all Island boy boat on your first go out. “It was time for dinner and they had FROZEN nuggets” Jake that’s what they have on ships that are out at sea for months at a time.

On my dad’s boat they are eating fresh fish and coconut milk Ceviche. They’re grilling steaks on an open bbq on the deck that probably is not regulation. All the guys have their own special knives to prepare sashimi every couple days. Everyone is happily doing their own work so they can clock out early and set up a movie on the deck. Jake did you genuinely believe that’s what every boat was doing.

Local Australian man is fed fresh juices and smoked fish for first time- refuses to go back to beef jerky boat life

jake that first night when they served a freezer tray tv dinner and not an overflowing plate of fish that’s probably going for conservatively like $40-$80 bucks a kilo but the guys decided Eh we’ll catch more let’s just fry it up:

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fish-to-male:

queenofnots:

Green sea turtle no longer Endangered

These gentle, 400-pound giants are splashing back from the brink of extinction.

Popular Science

Guys…🥹

I don’t know about anyone else but these sorts of headlines frequently make me highly suspicious so I did some follow up research after reading the article. I am happy to say that Green Sea Turtles no longer being counted as endangered is not due to the IUCN or any government shifting the goalpost for what can be considered an endangered species. The only update is, as the article states, an update in surveyed population numbers. Notably the article itself states that the current Green Sea Turtle numbers are not currently at what they historically were when the species was thriving, but this change in status over a relatively short period should absolutely be considered a significant win for conservation efforts and indicates a larger more grounded hope in our ocean ecosystems ability to heal.

Fighting for a better world is worth it and it is not too late.

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bornresilient:

Luigi Mangione related tags/searches have been BANNED

These are the only banned tags/searches I can find so far out of 50+ but it’s still five too many. Everything else is currently not being censored.

If you use any of these tags in your post your post won’t show up under any search or any tag. The only way to see that post is to either follow you and see it on the dashboard or be on your blog and see it there directly.

Nothing warrants this censorship. People are not using these tags to condone violence.

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naamahdarling:

mxjackparker:

mxjackparker:

Trans and intersex people in the UK need you to be loud and angry about the new “deception as to sex” guidance released which makes trans and intersex people legally guilty of rape if we don’t disclose our gender identity and/or the sex we were assigned at birth to sexual partners.

This is particularly going to harm trans and intersex sex workers, who often have a higher number of sexual partners who we might keep our trans or intersex identity from for our safety.

Sex Deception Guidance: The Impact on Trans and Intersex Sex Workers

To summarize this guidance in the simplest terms, it treats a trans or intersex person not disclosing their gender identity and/or the sex t

Jack Talks About Sex Work

“To summarize this guidance in the simplest terms, it treats a trans or intersex person not disclosing their gender identity and/or the sex they were assigned at birth as a form of deception which negates consent.”

Keep reading

To the people who insisted this article was exaggerating or that this wouldn’t really be a problem, I want to point out that we’re now seeing the results of this change in guidance come through the courts and it’s exactly as disastrous as expected. You won’t hear about every case, only the ones the papers decide to publicize, but the danger this puts trans and intersex people in (especially trans women) is extremely real.

Thornaby transgender woman guilty of sexually assaulting man

Ciara Watkin lied about being a biological female when the pair had a sexual liaison, a court hears.

BBC News

They made her sign the SOR for this, which is absolutely reprehensible.

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tomhoppusdelonge: