*makes A Minor Mistake In Speech Or Writing* Haha Sorry I Havent Slept In 150 Hours And Im On Experimental

it's fucking insane that we have a whole system of national and international charities and NGOs and government bodies and treaty organisations all devoting themselves to children's rights work while simultaneously being completely unwilling to name the problems they're fighting against.

imagine if every feminist organisation on Earth was unwilling to say the word "misogyny". imagine if the NAACP refused to address racism. that's what it's like.

everyone from the Children's Commissioner for Wales to fucking UNICEF is out here like "we are here to protect children from harm" and won't say the words "adultism" or "ageism".

they run campaigns to get children's rights taught in schools and deliberately never talk about the fact that the reason schools aren't already doing that is because authoritarian institutions have a vested interest in people not knowing their rights.

they petition governments to outlaw beating children and then spend half their public messaging falling over themselves to apologise to parents for implying they might be doing something wrong instead of saying "yeah, actually, we have a problem of systemic parental violence against children and parents who commit and defend that violence are, in fact, the enemy."

it's like they think children's rights and dignity are threatened by some unknowable force of the universe at large instead of by observable systems of power and privilege perpetuated by actual real-life people. and anyone who notices this ends up going crazy feeling like the guy who got out of Plato's cave but couldn't convince anyone else the shadows weren't reality.

queer people of all kinds. i am looking you in the eyes. do not fucking kill yourself. are you listening to me it will be okay. it will get better. i am shaking you by the shoulders do. not. fucking. do. it. you have so much to keep going for and so many people who love you. the cost of the present will not outweigh the life ahead of you. i love you. chin up or down keep walking you'll get there. we will pull you back up onto your feet should you fall. i love you

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

Americans when their home town is divided completely in half by a giant sea of useless asphalt that you can't cross without a super expensive and obscenely loud piece of heavy machinery that spews toxic fumes

welcome to my puddle of water themed birthday

You just wrought a giggle from my body lol

ther segregating myf uckin boneS!

I have too many bones

A message pig approaches your door displaying the message “we are under attack”, calmly followed by a second similar pig with a more frantic font which reads “send reinforcements”

this came to me in a dream

'tells' of someone lying are the vast majority of the time just signs of stress or anxiety, such as self-soothing behaviours. it should be obvious why the claim that these behaviours during a police interrogation are proof of guilt is incredibly dangerous