hrefnatheravenqueen:

Hey there US friends! If you’re voting using these machines (Hart eSlate) or similar ones right now or in the near future, make sure that the machine has NOT changed your ballot before casting it, ‘k? It’s apparently an already known problem, and has been for years, but has never been fixed.

Additional Source: https://abc13.com/politics/straight-party-voters-reporting-their-votes-were-changed/4556377/

jumpboy-rembrandt:

jumpboy-rembrandt:

au where kravitz and taako are open abt their relationship to magnus and merle, so kravitz is just like. regularly chilling in their dorm room. merle makes a bad joke and taako asks kravitz to reopen his bounty. kravitz deadpans that he gladly will, seeing as merle has in fact died sixty-eight times. the thb immediately lock eyes.

merle: wait wait wait i need to die one more time. please? just one more?

kravitz, fully aware of the temptation he has just created: of course you can. you just can’t come back.

Could you explain the whole “i don’t really have depression, i’m actually just a lazy piece of shit” = you’ve got depression, thing? It rang a bell for me and I’d like to know what you meant. Thanks :)

the-real-seebs:

thunderboltsortofapenny:

deebott:

roachpatrol:

one of the most insidious things about depression is it doesn’t ‘feel’ like depression. even when you have it, you know you have it, you’ve been diagnosed—you still find yourself thinking, no, nope, this isn’t it, can’t be. it’s like the mental illness equivalent of that knight in monty python that keeps going ‘it’s a flesh wound! i’m fine, really! this is just a scratch, i’ll be up in a moment!’ even after all his limbs have been hacked off and he’s lying there helpless.

one of the most common narratives around it is that no one realizes they have depression until they start checking off what they consider to be normal aspects of their lives—and personal character flaws— against the checklist for depression symptoms. really key symptoms include:

  1. lack of motivation
  2. constant tiredness, even exhaustion
  3. finding no pleasure or satisfaction in activities they used to like, or that they know should feel good
  4. not seeing the point of doing anything
  5. increased and even unmanageable anxiety and fearfulness

any one of these symptoms drains away your ability to do work, cope with setbacks, overcome difficulties, or stop procrastinating. multiple symptoms create a pretty perfect storm of intertia and anxious self-loathing. you stop doing anything because it’s hard to get going, unpleasant while you’re at it, and afterwards there’s no reward. why bother, right? and when you’re always tired you get conservative of what little energy you can manage, and when you only feel emotions on the ‘empty to miserable’ spectrum you get really aversive to making mistakes. the whole mess very quickly and very insidiously loads every single thing in your life with toxic emotional baggage.   

and then someone says to you— or you say to yourself, ‘stop being lazy’. and that haunts you forever. because you’re lazy! the work is so easy. everyone else does it. everyone but you, you lazy asshole, lying around all day not doing this totally easy thing that you should be able to but aren’t. you don’t have depression! of course not. mental illness is for victims, is for blameless innocent people who can’t be blamed for being so understandably sick. but you can be blamed. you have a character flaw, and it’s getting worse by the minute. 

and that is how people who have been diagnosed, who have been medicated, who have been through therapy, can still spend all day hiding in bed and chewing themselves up over their failure to just somehow magically be a good, healthy, useful person, instead of treating themselves to a sick day and saying ‘yup! it’s depression. i need to be kind to myself.’

Fuck this is so important and relevant

Nope reblogging twice in a row because u want to scream this from the roof and plaster it over the walls and never shut up about it

Yeah, it’s weird how a thing which is often characterized by feeling worthless or useless results in people thinking they don’t have it and are just worthless or useless.

neshtasplace:

karadin:

anti-capitalistlesbianwitch:

monstrouslilme:

beltaneborn:

madamehearthwitch:

constellations-and-energy:

Anyone else tired of the 3 guy 1 girl character setup in literally every movie ever?

It’s because at roughly that ratio is where men feel that men and women are represented equally.

There was a study done and when there was 1:1 male/female the male audiences felt as though there were more too many women. In general the men studied perceived things like 3 guys to 1 girl as more representative of the world.

That disgusts me.

There have also been studies in which it was found that men think women talk much more than they actually do – if they have to share equal air time with a woman they think they’re not getting a word in edgewise.

Imagine being so used to privilege and prioritization to think that the equal treatment of others is an unfairness to you.

a crowd scene that is 17% women is considered ‘too much’ when women are half of the population.

Ah! It’s back around! Please guys, look at all the pop culture you love and count, you’d be surprised!!

jujubiest:

They sent pipe bombs to Obama, Clinton, CNN, and a major Democratic donor. They marched through the streets chanting “Jews will not replace us.” They jailed and brutalized and outright killed Black protesters. They ran a woman down with a car for protesting their hateful rhetoric.

They threatened from the start to resort to violence if they didn’t get their way, and then got their way…and resorted to violence anyway. They are the purveyors of a body of politics that sees most of us as subhuman and undeserving of life, and actively works toward our destruction.

Remember that during this election.

This is not a matter of choosing the “lesser evil”. This is flawed politicians vs. actual fucking terrorists. This is human failings vs. inhumanity. This is not being progressive enough vs. silencing the opposition with violence.

No fucking contest. Get out and vote.

adobsonartworks:

staticonthesignal:

adobsonartworks:

I’m getting really tired of my political cartoons being right… I drew this back in May.

Nationalist =/= white supremacy.

Sigh…

In a perfect world, we could debate about the semantics over the word till the cows come home. But the fact of the matter is that when Trump uses the word Nationalist, he’s using a very SPECIFIC version of the word. Hell, he even SAYS “you’re not supposed to say this word” which indicates that the version he’s referring to is the BAD one. And given his history of overt racism, it’s DEEPLY troubling to hear the President of the United States admit that he is one.

So you know what, I’m REALLY not into having a debate about this. You and I both know what version he means and why this is a problem, otherwise you wouldn’t even bring it up.

And for everyone else, here’s a good article explaining it: “Donald Trump used a word he’s ‘not supposed to.’ Here’s why.”

heartsnbruises:

libertariansuccialism:

libertariansuccialism:

Every Republican is a little hall-monitor-ass wuss. Jesus, this guy didn’t get shoved into nearly enough lockers as a kid.

Like honestly, this is the most earnest, cute, delightfully juvenile, fun-for-the-whole-family, non-partisan sign vandalism I’ve ever seen. Who could possibly be mad at this? This fucking roaster is fuming mad about “political violence”. It’s fucking hilarious.

REPUBLICANS WHEN: *bombs sent to Democrats and critics of trump* “you know, they probably sent them to themselves for attention.”
*one of their campaign signs gets googly eyed* “POLITICAL VIOLENCE! TREASON! FIND THIS MISCREANT AND BRING THEM TO JUSTICE!”