a ‘hot minute’ can be both a very short period of time, and a very long one. however, a hot minute in the past (“It's been a hot minute since I've seen you!”) is most often a long duration, while a hot minute in the future (“I'll be with you in a hot minute!”) is most often a short duration. this suggests some very strange things about the temperature of time.
ok repeat after me: gluten free is not "diet culture". gluten free is not meant to "take the joy away from carbs". gluten free is a diet that allows people with an autoimmune disease to eat without inflicting further damage upon their bodies. we don't have to be condemned to eat the most disgusting and basic shit ever because we have celiacs. we deserve options too.
This 100%. I used to work at a gluten free bakery a couple years before gluten free stuff became widely available and we had people crossing state borders to get the first bread they had been able to eat in 10 years. We made a 5-year-old kid with celiac and multiple allergies their first ever birthday cake--it had no gluten, eggs, dairy, corn, or red food dye. And we had dozens of people who came in daily specifically for treats--turnovers, cinnamon bread, cupcakes, cookies--none of which was "health food". It just happened to exclude an ingredient that their bodies couldn't handle. I have never been more proud of a job than I was there, because we got to make so many people happy with something they loved and never thought they would be able to have again.
an animal ate all of my boyfriend’s decorative cabbages and he’s reacting really okay and proportionally
2024 Schinako Moriyama memo pad
the leftism leaving people's bodies when they continue to hound someone over behavior that was accounted for, apologized for, and corrected years ago - people got on board for prison abolition then said "and let's replace that with perpetual ostracization and shame to the point where they can no longer function in society :) this is better because We, The Community, are pushing them toward suicide"
every time I read a take that's like "hey actually offender registers are a good thing" or "lock this person up and throw away the key" or "this person did this thing ten years ago and even though they served their time in prison I think they should still be punished societally" I become acutely aware of every hour that I spent studying the criminal justice system during my law degree.
rehabilitation and reintegration are, for the majority of people, not only possible but also desirable, and shame is a direct inhibitor to both of these.
people need to acknowledge and take accountability for their actions, yes. they need to understand who they hurt, and how. they need to understand any underlying problems and causational factors for their offending or actions. they need to understand the impact of their environment and social circles on their offending. those are all big steps and they take a lot of self-reflection. but they're all possible, especially when we make rehabilitative programmes available to people.
the core purposes of criminal justice should, theoretically, be rehabilitation, restoration, and reparation. but many people are far too focused on revenge and punishment for it to work that way. this leads not only to offenders being over-punished, ostracised, and institutionalised (making reoffending far more likely) but it also does absolutely nothing to help victims! we have to change the way we collectively view crime and justice if we want to improve outcomes for everyone.
a lot of punishment-focused systems could and should learn a lot from indigenous systems of justice such as tikanga Māori, where the focus is more on reparation, understanding, accountability, and restoration. (tikanga Māori approaches actually now form part of NZ's criminal justice system wherever appropriate, because they actually fucking work). but there's a whole other discussion re: incorporating indigenous forms of justice into a colonial system rather than replacing the whole system/enabling indigenous people to carry out their own customary practices instead of binding them to the colonial system/etc that I'm not going to get into here.
FLAPS AWAY BASHFULLY
Hedgehog-shaped jar, Neolithic period (3500-3000 BCE)
Courtesy Alain Truong
I feel you, Neolithic hedgehog. I feel you.
thank you yes, I did need this today
Absolute unrestrained glee.
@cryptidofstars added some good context here, tysm and that goes in the post now :)
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i aint the snuggest bug in the bed
and yes scott coming out reduced me to tears bcuz one thread in heated rivalry that sort of hold it all together is the simple marvel of society getting better over time. yes of course scott came out because he had finally achieved his lifelong career goal and so no longer had a reason to be scared of derailing that, yes he looked around him and saw he was the only member of his team with no family to celebrate with and wanted to change that, but i also think it's clear NONE of this would have happened if his team won five years earlier. the US supreme court legalised gay marriage just a year and a half before. it genuinely make me super emotional how much progress has been made even over the course of my young life and this is why you see so many big name older gay celebrities gushing over the show. i mean this completely sincerely it encapsulates how far we've come in terms of gay rights in a really poignant way.
Today's bug thing is this Valentine's Day worm cake by vegantreats!
