They're building a forced labor concentration camp for homeless people in Utah. And there's still people saying those of us who recognise reality are hysterical and insane. There's no line that can be crossed to make them admit it IS that bad, serious, and unacceptable, is there?

I'm literally seeing people on reddit right now being like "This is such an exaggeration, look at their website, they make it sound like it's going to be nice and helpful"

The propaganda for nazi camps made them sound lovely too. The reality is going to be very different. We will only know the true horror that happened in these places decades from now.

It feels like such obvious, blatant propaganda that people cannot be truly believing it. It just feels like they're accepting it to quiet their consciousness and continue business as usual.

I hope you don't mind me adding call scripts and email templates for Utah residents and other US residents to utilize in contacting their representatives (both State and Federal) about this. I don't have a large following yet, so I am hoping more people will see it if I add it onto an existing post.

Here is an article that discusses the matter, as well as two additional bills that would push for forced labor as a result of homelessness in other states (I will add an additional reblog at a later date to add script options and more in depth information about those bills later on, if that is all right with you, otherwise I will be making a new post for those later on)

Find your Utah Legislators

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Call Script/Email Template for Utah State Legislators:

[If calling] Hello, my name is [blank] and I am a constituent calling from [address]. [If you want to hear back from their office, you may also provide your email address. Not all offices will email you back]

I am reaching out today to demand that [Representative/Senator blank] use their position as an elected official to create and support legislation that fights against the 1,300 bed work camp that is being built in our state. This project is incredibly costly, and it serves no benefit to the economy or the people of Utah. All it does is limit the freedom and rights of the [Representative's/Senator's] constituents, put an unfair cost onto our communities, and show that our state is incapable of taking care of its own. If the [Representative/Senator] wants my vote in any future elections, they will work to protect evidence based housing first projects and the right of Utah citizens to avoid unlawful incarceration, regardless of what unenforceable Executive Orders demand.

[If calling] Thank you for your time and consideration. Have a good day.

End script.

Call Script/Email Template for contacting Federal Level Legislators:

[If calling] Hello, my name is [blank] and I am a constituent calling from [address]. [If you want to hear back from their office, you may also provide your email address. Not all offices will email you back]

I am reaching out today to demand that [Representative/Senator blank] strongly speak out against Utah's efforts to create labor camps to forcibly incarcerate the impoverished and homeless, and work to pass legislation that prevents any future camps from being created in the US. Projects like that are pricey, and they do nothing to actually address issues that contribute to housing insecurity. If you want my vote in the future, you will fight against such barbaric practices.

[If calling] Thank you for your time and consideration. Have a good day.

End script.

Posted on October 30th, 2025

These are great, thank you. Anyone who lives in the US should be doing anything they can against this right now. The Utah camp is explicitly designed as a pilot project, they want to expand this into a federal country wide thing.

shocked I haven't seen anyone else mention it bc this detail was bugging me the entire movie, but "l'éveil appel" doesn't mean "Eve's apple."

it means "wake up call."

once i master my adhd and stop believing that i’m waiting for my life to begin and accept what i cannot change and finish cleaning my room and stick to a productive schedule and drink enough water and meditate and organize all the important papers in the paper pile and start being consistent and say the nice things to myself and gain confidence its OVER for you bitches

I feel like all the "they broke weird al" "weird al got serious we're so cooked" comments about the killing in the name cover are missing the point. that is not a broken man. comedy is politics. comedy has always been politics. weird al has been satirizing politics for a long time because he knows the court jester can say to the king what other people can't. by doing a serious cover of an explicitly anti-establishment song that his gen x and millennial audience knows by heart when he's built his career on parody, he's saying this can't be satirized anymore and he's saying it in a very deliberate way that his audience will understand. those aren't the actions of a broken man, they're the actions of a man who is trying to tell you something. are we going to listen?

So difficult to withhold the eyeroll when people say things like, "My body was designed for this" wrt childbirth or whatever, because even if I accept the premise that our bodies were designed, I have to imagine mine was designed with the most basic function of breathing in mind, and yet I had childhood asthma and would have died without intervention so idk if I'm trusting my "designer" with something as physically traumatic and historically deadly as childbirth

When I criticize jk Rowling do not assume I always hated Harry Potter. I knitted hogwarts house scarves. I got my first binder to dress as Draco Malfoy for Halloween. I reread the books multiple times. I read probably every pottermore article there was at the time.

I’m not here to validate your smug feelings about not liking a children’s book series 20 years ago. I’m here to discourage others from spending money on it and to give myself and others words and space to work through some feelings. I’m a trans person that made Harry Potter one of my cornerstone interests. One of my favorite things. I’m not some cis person doing cope.

Harry Potter was a big thing. Like. Big in a way that’s difficult to fully understand. It still is. If you were caught up in it during your formative years it’s normal to need to process all of the horrid things now associated with it.

Having to burn down the house you grew up in is going to be hard even if it turns out that the house was always rotten from the inside out. Even if it turns out that the foundation was made of straw. But the destruction and deconstruction must happen if one hopes to move on and move forward. That’s why I talk about it at all.

A few years back, I had a conversation with a friend about gender. We both felt so constantly frustrated that we have the same gender identity (agender), but get treated so drastically different in local queer spaces because we have different birth assignments.

We talked for a good while about how fucking alienating it is to try and relate to each other and talk about shared experiences as agender people, while other trans people keep trying to lock us into the boxes of "AFAB agender" and "AMAB agender," as if we're entirely different species with nothing in common. It was a big part of why we both stopped hanging out in local queer groups, and it really sucked.

Anyway I think about that conversation a lot.

tarot reader: draws the tower me: thats bad isnt it tarot reader: draws the tower again me: uh oh tarot reader: draws boeing 767

i used to buy into that online leftist black-and-white Glorious Revolution stuff and what i remember about my mindset at that time. stresses me out tbh. i couldn't see the viability of anything short of full-scale revolution so i constantly felt helpless. i viewed the revolution as necessary to address any and all societal problems, but i was also, privately, terrified of it. i didn't want to die for the cause, but i told myself that if that was what happened when the revolution came it would be worth it, that my blood could move us that much faster toward perfect socialist utopia.

in this mindset, the only useful thing i could do was die. i didn't want to. i wasn't generally suicidal (although i do consider this mindset a form of... abstract suicidal thought). but i believed my life was the only meaningful thing i had to offer.

now i'm a member of a community who values me and values my contributions even if i can't contribute as much as i'd like -- a community that emphasizes that every single good deed matters, every compassionate act changes the world. a community where just showing up is enough.

now i know that i can change so much more while i'm alive than i'd ever be able to as a corpse on a battlefield. i know that if i keep showing up, i will find or someone will show me a way to make a difference. i know that i am valued as more than a hypothetical martyr in some grand final battle. i know that i am missed when i'm gone. i know that the actual work is done by regular people with a goal in mind, and i know that that work is unglamorous. i know the unglamorous work is often the most meaningful and the most fulfilling.

the "revolution or nothing" mindset is rendering my generation hopeless. a very loud portion of gen z now believes the only contribution they have to offer is their life. this belief effectively nullifies a person's capacity to create meaningful change; any action they could take while alive is not worthwhile because it won't fix the world's myriad problems in one fell swoop -- better to burn it all down and yourself with it.

if they weren't actively fucking over the rest of us to feed their own suicidal hopelessness, i'd feel sorry for them.

there's a phenomenon i've observed wherein a person stews in their own misery, hopelessness, anger, fear, to the point that they can no longer fathom that something might exist outside of that, and so they reject any effort to improve their situation because they no longer believe it can be improved.

i am not blaming the people who are in this place. it's a terrifying, dark place to be in, and when you're there it really does feel like it's the only thing that exists. this is the place where people kill themselves.

i think, though, that this phenomenon, scaled up to apply to politics and activism, undergirds so much of what we see from the left now -- the world is dark and terrifying, and in the 24-hour news cycle, social media doomscrolling era we live in it's so so easy to only see the bad, and when you surround yourself with other scared, overwhelmed people, it can form a sort of 2014-tumblr-depression-tag echo chamber where that hopelessness is glorified and lauded and propped up as Correct And Enlightened.

and then they commit hate crimes about it and my sympathy shuts all the way off.

Boosting signal

The Bears of Comănești 

“Every winter, between Christmas and New Year, in the north-eastern regions of Romania, the annual Dance of the Bears takes place—a ritual that symbolizes the death and rebirth of time. Men and women of all ages dress with bear skins and dance to the rhythm of flutes and percussion to drive away evil spirits and welcome the New Year.”

messages from Home Alone (1990) that haven’t aged well:

messages from Home Alone (1990) that HAVE aged well:

This is the folk music version of that LAN party where they duct taped a guy to the ceiling.

My rule of thumb with cooking and picky eaters is that I'm fine with people being picky, but I'm not ok with people lying about it. So if you've got a long list of things you can't or won't eat, give me the list, and I'm fine with cooking by it. Like literally just write a google docs with all your Yucky Ingredients on it and I can find a way to cook with whatever's left that isn't on the list.

But if you go "no I'm fine with anything it's ok I'll eat it :)" when I ask you what you will and won't eat, and once the food is on the table then you go "ew yuck it has Bad Ingredient, I can't eat this :(" I'm going to beat you with a frying pan.

many people know loons from heated rivalry, but now laser loon is the symbol of the resistance here

This one I found on Reddit is my current favorite. Get 'em, bird.