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aaahahahahahahaaahh this month suddenly got COMPLICATED. o_____o

hey, just thought I should give yall a heads up:
we are deprecating gender
it will still be usable until the end of the year but in january it will enter maintenance mode and it will be taken offline in june

we need #carepunk more than ever at this point

being good to people needs to become seen for what it is: rebellion against a system built to reward assholes as much as possible

in 2021 the speed of meme-meta overtakes the rate of meme creation itself; image macros arrive in the browser already self-referential, appearing as cryptic jpeg artifacts zooming in on themselves like a mandelbrot set visualization, embedded captions describing the very pixels that they are formed from

random morning thoughts 

for some reason I've always assumed that "One Direction" is a "christian rock" band, but this morning I realized it might be based on a "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" quote, and if it is it's *seriously* badass and I suddenly have a lot more respect for them, but I'm reluctant to look it up in case I'm wrong (and they really are an Xtian rock band).

Research on Cops 

"... A related strand of research explores the influence of racial bias on police performance and decision-making, showing that officers apply lower evidentiary thresholds, (Gelman, Fagan and Kiss 2007; Glaser 2014; Goel et al. 2016) and a greater propensity to use force (Correll et al. 2007; Eberhardt et al. 2004; Legewie 2015) when dealing with nonwhite suspects."

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Research on Cops 

"... police work itself fosters authoritarian personality traits (Laguna et al. 2009; McNamara 1967; Neiderhoffer 1967). Police behavior has also been linked to aggressiveness (Hargrave, Hiatt, and Gaffney 1988), conservative ideology (Christie et al. 1995; Fielding and Fielding 1991) and substance abuse (Sellbom et al. 2007)."

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Research on Cops 

"Volumes of research in sociology, psychology and criminology have advanced a “rotten apple” theory of police misconduct (Bonnano 2015) explaining variation in police behavior with individual-level officer traits. For example, scholars have posited that police officers have distinct personalities characterized by, “machismo, bravery, authoritarianism, cynicism and aggression,” as well as bigotry (Balch 1972; Skolnick 1977; Twersky-Glasner 2005, 58) and
some argue that ..."

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imagine: a statue of vladimir lenin, but as a catgirl.

disordered food/eating 

oops I kinda forgot to eat

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