When I go to Texas to see my folks I often have super-vivid dreams, which I think is down to the fact that I take antihistamines, because Cedar Fever. I was in Texas for three nights, and those three nights got progressively more disturbing: the first night I dreamed I was in a car chase, the second night I dreamed I was a secret agent helping people escape from a cult compound, and the third night I dreamed I was a serial killer whose murders had just been uncovered, thought I hadn’t yet been caught.
I woke up from just having framed someone else for all the murders and literally lay in bed for about ten minutes thinking, “Okay, that was a dream, but I have killed people in this life. Have I left behind too much evidence? What happens if someone finds out?”
I have not killed anyone, ever, even by accident. And yet, the dream was so real that I literally could not envision an existence where I was not a murderer. Which, I cannot reiterate this enough, I am not.
By comparison, last night, my first night home in Chicago, I dreamed that scientists had bred cats with prehensile tails. The delight was unfathomable.
fun (horrible) fact: the northwest passage is kind of a thing now like @marjorierose says but so recent that people were writing songs about the futility of finding it in,like, the 1980s.
OH MY GOD??? that’s so upsetting. like, humans have finally found mastery over their environment by ruining everything only to realise this will ALSO ruin ourselves.
Reblogging to add that Stan Rogers’ “North-West Passage” was such a popular song that some of the CBC radio shows I listened to as a kid had the rule “we take song requests but not for “North-West Passage,” otherwise we’d be playing it every day WE WILL PLAY IT WHEN APPROPRIATE, LISTENERS
If an ~anti kidnapping PSA~ is based on the idea that sex traffickers all want to go snatching up random middle class women, it’s almost guaranteed to be bullshit clickbait
Traffickers (and also serial killers) almost never go snatching Suzy Q. Whitegirl, suburban wife and mother of two, from the whole foods parking lot, because Suzy is guaranteed to have family and friends who would very notice something was wrong, and report her as missing. Additionally, and most importantly, Suzy is going to be seen as a sympathetic victim by police and the wider community, so grabbing her is going to get the entire damn police department, local news, and possibly national news hot on your ass. Kidnappings like this are incredibly rare for this reason, but they’re the ones you hear about because they’re the once where we’ve collectively agreed the victims are actually worth giving a fuck about.
Traffickers know this, so they prey on women who are already isolated, and won’t be seen as important and sympathetic victims even if someone does notice their absence–and playing on social prejudices is how this is usually done. Snatching Suzy Q. Whitegirl means you’ll get all kinds of hell and investigation, but manipulating and then kidnapping someone like an undocumented woman who’s afraid that trying to get help will get her deported, or a Black trans teenager who got kicked out by her parents, or a homeless indigenous woman struggling with diagnosed but untreated bipolar disorder + a criminal record related to sex work and self-medication with drugs/alcohol; that gets maybe a few fading “missing person” signs hung around the rough part of town, and cops making “lol dead hooker” jokes down at the station.
I’m not trying to guilt or yell at people who share those posts, but supposed “advice” that ignores one of the main ways predators operate and pick their victims isn’t actually advice, it’s just clickbait advertising that preys on women’s fears, while continuing to ignore the women who are most at risk.
Elk-tooth jewelry totally used to be a Thing, and I only know this because a few weeks ago I watched an old movie in which the private-detective character, fairly late in the story, borrowed a police officer’s elk-tooth watch fob and put it in a fire to demonstrate that Teeth Don’t Burn and that’s why the dentist was killed and his x-rays stolen (because the victim of the previous murder had been his patient and he might have identified him by his teeth.)
Reblog to spread this. This isn’t something to keep silent on.
I would never want somethin like that to happen! Hell, i condemn it. But … I try to at least keep myself informed a little bit. Are there any good sources for this?
Sources above are accurate and working. I have listed the above sources in chronological order, as well as adding sources I have found. The sources found by fandoms-of-a-tired-ravenclaw are marked with an asterisk (*)
This article links to many, many other articles and pieces about the camps, some of which are governmental sources. All the links work. One wants you to make an account to access it, but I have it saved. PM me if you want to see it.
Internet Sleuths Hunting for China’s Secret Internment Camps, The Atlantic.com- (Sept. 15, 2018) – This article talks about the treatment the Uighurs get in the camp and talks about the risks some Chinese people are taking to find out the truth. It also goes over some of the solid evidence debunking Chinese claims that the camps do not exist, eyewitness accounts aside.
The goal has been met, but the fundraiser ends October 31st, 2018.
Date Sourced: September 24, 2018
As I’ve posted things on here before about Chinese minority ethnicities, some of them traditionally Muslim, it seemed this was something I should also include.
This Meeting received a few lines from Preserved Fish & Ruth, his
Wife, Shewing their free Consent that their Son Benjamin Should
proceed in Marriage with Priscilla Arthur and likewise a
Certificate from the Monthly Meeting of Friends held at Newport
the 25.7 mo. 1739 Shewing his clearness on acco’t. of Marriage &
orderly Conversation.
hi. bro. were you trying to kill me with the ‘tag as many people as there are words’ rule
It is an ironic circumstance, that men often receive the pleasures of life when they are least positioned to enjoy them; thus the Marquis de Lafayette, in the flourishing of his fortune and with an overladen table, received an abounding Nantucket cheese for lighting up the streets of Paris with whale oil, and was only inconvenienced; this was mighty bad timing; had but a crumb of that monstrous cheddar been lowered down to him in his prison-cell, that poor Frenchman would have wept! – and just the same, the fine cheese laid before Ahab at table could have been vermescent hard-tack; it penetrated him mechanically, but that inward Bastille of the heart received no provision.
t-tagging…..i……….can’t do 113 people…..please do this if you want to.
I tend to write stuff out of order, but I think this was the last bit I wrote before I hit Post: “How’d you get in? I locked, bolted, and chained that door myself. Oh, and Lohmann’s younger now.”
I don’t think I know seventeen people on this hell of a website, and the last sentence isn’t as funny without the previous two.
I think Inspirobot just invented Superman and Batman comics.
As someone who changed his name just for fun when I thought I was still cis, i promise most people are ok with accepting a new name, even if you lie and say it’s a nickname. I promise. It’s really easy to just casually go “hey I wanna go by Bob now, it’s an old nickname I wanna bring back” like. Just start introducing yourself to new ppl, no one knows better. and if someone accidentally deadnames you just go haha no I go by my nickname now.
It sucks that ppl treat nicknames as more sacred than trans ppls choice names but still.
If ur cis u can totally rb this to help ur fellow trans friends out thanks
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