helen armstrong

A country that blows up foreign fishing boats for no reason is one that will shoot its own citizens for no reason.

This is also the basis of the good guy with a gun argument that I will never understand. I would never and could never shoot ANYONE for ANY reason, and to openly admit that you would is utterly insane and also completely accepted and normal in this (and only this) country

Like you really live in a world where it’s okay to shoot and kill someone for basically any reason as long as it can be justified in one’s mind in the moment

It just boggles the mind how people are okay with random police or ICE agents being judge, jury, and executioner for these situations. “What did she think would happen?” Are you people okay???? The level of anger and ignorance combined in the average Facebook commenter is unreal

Do you ever think about how different you’d be if you’d gone to one of the schools you dreamt about as a teenager? For me it was the New School and St Andrews.

Husbands on house hunters are obsessed with “just knocking down a wall”

Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.

“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”

We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

If someone wishes you "happy holidays," it doesn't mean they hate Christmas. They're simply acknowledging that there are *many* sacred observances that take place this month, including the anniversary of Muntadhar al-Zaidi throwing a shoe at George W Bush on this date in 2008.

Statement on the Brown University shooting.

Which this is, as far as Ilya and Shane go, imo

There’s nothing wrong with doing fanfiction plots it’s just that veterans of the trenches who’ve read lots of fic are gonna be able to be like “I’ve read this done way better” so if you’re gonna convert a fic to a commercial book and then TV show you better be doing it VERY WELL

A final heated rivalry point for the evening is you’re telling me that Kip works multiple jobs, spends time with his friends at the bar, is applying to an ART degree, and has like sixteen visible fucking rock hard abs???? complains about going to work early but spends 8 hrs at the gym per day

Heated Rivalry eps 1 and 2 are a fanfiction plot, obviously, but the characters are fun. Episode 3 was the plot of a worse fanfiction with tired characters and I’m like okay can we go back to my sad Russian boy now?

there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose

I can't read this string of questions without imagining them all being asked by Jonathan Frakes in a smashcut

a combination urgent care and taco bell

I'm at the combination

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead.

Idk, just spitballing here.

still true 📚

but i'm not entirely useless, i can tell you the inner workings of a hostel (no restaurants, communal fridge, dubious open condiments)

writing a book about people richer than you is googling "can a resort have multiple restaurants" and feeling humbled by the results

typed and deleted a very hot star trek take because i'm not ready for that kind of energy tonight

hegseth vows to do more murders

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

MARTIN LUTHER IN 1517:

Chidi from The Good Place: "Okay. But that's worse. You do get how that's worse, right?"

"the ballroom isn't being paid for by taxpayers, it's being paid for by corporations and billionaires!!"

it’s crazy that they put pon farr in the show. I would’ve thought the fandom invented it and made it popular so it was fanon but no, they like. They put that in the show.

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

Listening to a playlist I made and just absolutely jamming out like wow all of these songs slap