These Florida kids are not fucking around.
The kids’ response to the shooting has been something truly incredible.
Normally, it’s always been very young children and it’s only their parents that can speak about it. The narrative gets controlled, the conspiracy theorists talk about how it’s all an act, so much bullshit.
But these are kids who are active on social media, incredibly close to voting age, and they’re demanding their voices are heard. Every single thing that downplays, dismisses or conspiracies the shooting has been subverted by their efforts, and they’re not letting adults who’ve never lived what they lived through control the narrative.
“It was a conspiracy!” “No, we have video evidence of it happening.” “Shouldn’t you be calling 911 instead of making videos?” “We called 911 so many times they told us to stop.” “But he was a troubled child!” “We were ALL troubled, that’s no excuse.” And it just goes on like this.
Honestly, I’m so proud of my fellow Floridians.
I said to my husband the other day that “This one feels different”, referring to this precisely.
The whole energy around it feels different. These kids are not having this bullshit, and while they should not have to stand their ground and fight this battle, goddamn it they are going to. If the adults won’t, then goddamn it these kids will draw a fucking line and say ‘no, no more, this is bullshit’.
I don’t know what it means, or how it will play out long term. But there’s a sense around this whole tragedy that this one is different, and I hope, maybe, that means some actual change will come.
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i really super hate when historians shit on certain roman women (especially livia) and call them overbearing because they supposedly used their “excessive influence” on the men in their lives to have political influence because like
1. take your sexist ass somewhere else
2. women literally could not be actual politicians in rome so how else do you want them to be involved in politics, chad
3. do you really think letting men solely run ancient rome is a good idea? does that sound like a good idea to you? you really think dumbasses like mark “i’m gonna sneak into my bf’s house through the ceiling after i get banned from it” antony and clodius “let’s start a gang war” pulcher should have been left to their own devices? these men thought most of women’s problems were caused by their uteri sneaking into their arms and shit like that, and you want that to have sole rule in a major military power? smh
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Translation: Racism will not magically disappear “when all the old people die out”
“Social progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability” - Martin Luther King Jr.
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the tilting of the manhole cover back into place is what makes this video
leave that sewer goblin alone
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IT’S OFFICIAL. There will be a national school walkout on March 14th. This walkout demands action to finally be taken on gun violence. No more students deserve to be gunned down because lawmakers don’t wanna do anything about it. We are the generation that’s being affected the most by these weak gun laws, and WE are the ones who should be protesting about it. One student dying because of a gunman is one too many. SPREAD THE WORD, this applies to ALL students!!
@weavemama What if our spring break falls on that day? How else can we pitch in?
There’s another walkout date on April 20th! For the 18th anniversary of Columbine.
OKAY!!! REALLY QUICK CAUSE YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS!!
#1: YOUR RIGHTS DO NOT END ONCE YOU WALK INTO THE SCHOOL! You need to take a good long look at your rights and civil liberties because they will be called into question. I would strongly advise contact an ACLU representative and asking them about this so you are prepared to defend yourselves from a legal stand point because the shit is going to hit the fan and it’s going to hit it hard.#2: DO NOT RISE OR RESPOND TO THREATS! There will be threats. They will threaten to put you in detention, call your parents, expel you, get rid of your extra curricular activities, et cetera. Anything they can to control the situation before the media gets involved or the school board. You must have solidarity within your participants, lock arms, form prayer circles, sit down and do not stand. Do whatever it takes to show a non-violent, passive approach to show that it is your intention to disrupt and draw attention to the problem without being physically confrontational.
#3: SELECT A SPEAKER! Sooner or later, camera crews are going to show up. This is where messages get mixed and it becomes very easy to loose track of your goals. Draft a short speech, under 30 seconds, and select a speaker for your school who will address the media with the concerns of the student body and the demands you have before you will return to school and your education.
#4: TAKE YOUR EDUCATION INTO YOUR OWN HANDS! This is not a chance to take advantage and get some time off school. The media WILL USE THIS as an excuse to discredit you. If you can, get teachers on board who will provide you with a curriculum that you can continue to work on from home. Do NOT GIVE UP YOUR EDUCATION! Refuse to participate in a government funded system of education which denies you basic safety.
#5: If you can, GET YOUR TEACHERS INVOLVED! Is there a teacher your trust as a group? Is there a teacher who would offer their support, voice and guidance during this walk out? Get them involved. I know it’s not fair, but teen voices are underrated and overlooked. Having an adult head the operation or at the very least being willing to speak out IN YOUR FAVOR ON CAMERA will go a long way to adding legitimacy to your cause! Remember, their lives are in danger too, and more than once a teacher has put themselves between the shooter and their students. Ask them to be a part of this if you can.
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Anonymous asked: Anyone else seeing some very disturbing parallels between the sixties when white women would cry rape to have black men beaten/ killed and these white girls claiming to have been attacked while trying to see black panther? This isn’t just annoying white people, this is an act of violence
it’s VERY disturbing and the worst part of it is that most of these posts/tweets claiming these things are by automated russian bots made to do that because they KNOW shit like that still works. it’s not just people being racist, it’s a part of a campaign of strategically stoking racist stereotypes they KNOW work.
Hades - The archetype of Scorpio
Pluto in the birth chartTo have Hades as part of ones psychological nature can be very enriching. Hades the recluse is a source of creativity that can be expressed through the arts, often in visual arts.
Hades the reclusive is however, a “missing” part in many people, who do not value opportunities to be introverted in they way that this archetype can be. Introverts can live an interior life in touch with their own subjective reactions to outer experience. A type of introversion as Jung described may be experienced as inner dialogues, visions, or bodily sensations.
The Hades child enjoys their own company and wants to spend time by by themselves- or perhaps with an imaginary friends. From nursery school onward the individual is intruded on by others needs for him to be more social” - extracted from the writings of Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
The Roman correspondent for Hades is Pluto, whose name means “wealth.” This indicates the buried treasures existing in the depths of the psyche and experience of this realm of the underworld. We have an invisible connection to the underworld, which is Hades himself.Another epithet for Hades is Eubuleus:16 meaning “good counsel” or “benevolent counselor.” The epithet refers to Hades’ wise counsel: images and feelings that rise from deep inside — even though they may be labeled as irrational. This process reminds us of Hades’ instinctual wisdom about the cyclical nature of life, the sense of “gut knowing,” being uncompromising and blatantly honest — all the qualities that Pluto evokes.” - Brian Clark
“Death is always immanent. He required no cult worship from mortals, because he already possesses the riches of the depths of experience. The final act is always his, in any event.”-Iona Miller Collected Works
art by Tim Bagshaw
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