angelicdewdrop
i kinda wanna be around some more
angelicdewdrop
The symmetry of this turn in the air!
Yellow Warblers (Setophaga petechia) are small, agile birds known for their stunning ‘circle flight’ during nest-building.
These little guys perform a semi-circular flight to mark their territory.
the expanded cover of mitski's new album "nothing's about to happen to me" via apple music
yeah you can get cancer-in-a-stick just about at every store and gas station when youre of age but hrt is scary and experimental and new and older than fucking microwaves you cant have that
People love to say things like “Hiding Anne Frank was illegal, turning her in would have been legal” without like fully grasping the modern implications properly. You have tons of folks like “if WW2 happened today id have __” that do not realize what is happening around them.
We have this idolized AND sanitized version of what happened then, and so we do not recognize it when it happens now.
Resistance fighters assassinated nazis and blew up weapons and infrastructure and destroyed records and forged paperwork and raised secret funds and smuggled people in vehicles and yes, hid them in their homes.
“Well it’s sad he got sent to an ICE camp but he faked his permit :/“
Whoever helped him fake his paperwork did what fighters in ww2 did. People who cut through chain link fences do what fighters in ww2 did, people who blow whistles chasing after ice cars do what fighters in ww2 did, people who destroy arms factories and cop city cranes do what fighters in ww2 did, people unmask agents do what fighters in ww2 did.
People are doing it now! They’ve been doing it now! You keep saying “oh if this happened here__” it HAS! It IS!
What are you doing about it?
The under-16 social media ban is a great big effort in kicking the can down the road.
Like ohhhh kids don't know how to engage online safely? Hmm instead of, say, educating them about online safety, or what social media is and how to navigate it, let's just ban them from it until an arbitrary age and call it job done!
And then when the fresh new 17 year-olds jump onto social media for the first time, and have no idea how to be online safely or navigate social media? Well that's their problem! They're old enough to be online, so they should take some responsibility--back pats all around, good job everyone!
There should be dedicated How to Internet classes in school starting from kindergarten, if parents will be putting an iPad in front of a toddler to keep them occupied, then kids NEED to be educated about how to be online!! Kids should be taught how to use computers, and how to spot scams, and that what you see on an influencer's feed is all curated and deliberate.
caption by @/ashleytheebarroness on tiktok: People reach for the Gestapo comparison because it sounds extreme and foreign. It lets white Americans pretend this kind of policing came from somewhere else. But ICE looks closer to slave patrols because that's our history. Local enforcement. Racialized suspicion. Vague authority. Taking people first, justifying it later. Gestapo is a warning. Slave patrols are a mirror.