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  • I appear to have slipped into an alternate dimension

    So, okay… is this some kind of insanely strange parody? I mean… no, really. I’m really confused.

    I can’t tell if it’s meant to be a joke.

    Because they can’t seriously be reporting this as news.

    I mean, really, can they?

    I just… I’m really confused. Are we now going to start judging people on the actions of their ancestors? Because if we are, then most of the political class are going to be up shit creek with a complete lack of paddle. Most of them come from backgrounds that include, at the very least, slavery. And most of them it’s going to be a closer relative that last did something evil and unpleasant on a grand scale.

    Watching the media desperately, desperately attempt to vilify Corbyn is alternately hilarious and awful. I find myself grateful that finally Labour appears to have rediscovered its purpose, in that the people have elected someone actually left wing to lead the party, whatever the rest of the shambles of a party makes of that. But that the media in the UK is so dismal, that the papers are all so depressingly right wing, well, if it weren’t so funny watching them raid the bare cabinet and scrape up political nothings to make into ‘news’, well, it’d be depressing beyond words.

  • ask-an-mra-anything:

    thehightechpony:

    picturexthisx:

    prismatic-bell:

    frootofmyloins:

    apersnicketylemon:

    chickenslayer99:

    This is killing a human life.

    At 23 weeks chances are good that this fetus is being removed because it is:

    a) Already dead
    b) Suffering abnormalities such as it developed no brain, or had a serious genetic condition that would kill it quickly.
    c) Was actively dying (not dead yet but would be within a few days, 100% guarunteed, 0 chance of saving it)
    d) Was actively killing the pregnant person.

    Late term abortions, as shown here, make up only 1.5% of all abortions. The above four reasons are the only reasons such procedures are performed. Almost every abortion performed after 20 weeks is done on a wanted pregnancy. So you know what that means? You’re calling people who miscarried murderers. You just implied people who had a miscarriage or would have died murderers. How dare you call yourself pro life for that.

    Now for the fun fact: They used to use a different procedure for these abortions in which they removed the fetus intact and allowed these people to grieve for the intact fetus, have pictures, etc. Pro lifers decided people losing a wanted pregnancy should not be allowed to grieve an intact fetus and we were left with this.

    Congrats. Your movement is the reason they use this one now when people lose a wanted pregnancy late into the pregnancy. Your movement is intentionally making it harder for people to recover from the lose of a much wanted pregnancy. It’s your movement who left grieving people with this instead of allowing them something easier to deal with, something that would let them hold their deceased fetus.

    Congrats. If you think you were ‘saving’ something think again. You’re hurting born people. You’re hurting people who lose a wanted pregnancy by shaming this abortion procedure. And you’re movement is the reason this is procedure doctors are forced to use now. You’re probably an awful and mean person to tell people losing a wanted pregnancy that they’re killers.

    This is the post that made me pro-choice. Glad to see it still circulating.

    I lost a baby brother at something like 14 weeks because he’d attached to the uterine wall backward, and when he started kicking he tore himself away and hemorrhaged to death.

    You goddamn “pro-lifers” were ready to let my mother die with him rather than “killing him before God’s time.” He was already dead; it was a matter at that point of him bleeding out. My mother was bleeding with him. My mother was dying with him. And the hospital she was in? That fine pro-life hospital? Refused to let her transfer to another hospital to abort. She had a ten-year-old and an eight-month old at home, but making sure Joey didn’t die “before God’s time” was more goddamn important than making sure my mother survived.

    My mother asked the nurse if she’d take pictures, saying that the ultrasound images were really blurry and she’d at least like something to remember him by. The nurse, after Joey was dead and my mom was in recovery, threw pictures on my mother’s bed. This fine pro-life nurse gave my mother pictures of a baby that was jet black where he wasn’t blood red. He didn’t even look human. And she threw the pictures in my mother’s face, like it was her fault that there was a terrible, terrible biological mistake that made it impossible for her baby to survive.

    We wanted him. Not that the fact that you’ll notice he already had a name picked out would’ve clued you in. I would have had a baby brother just a year younger than me. My sophomore year in college I spent a lot of time crying alone in the student union, thinking it wasn’t right, it wasn’t fair, I should be taking my brother to dinner with friends or helping him study for his first midterms. I’m a big sister with no little brother to show for it, and there was a year that pain and loss came back eighteen years after the fact to wound me when I least expected it. There was a year when there were songs I couldn’t bring myself to listen to without crying because they reminded me of what I could have had. And I still wish, I still wish, they’d aborted him. Because the end result would have been the same. And my family would have been spared a world of pain believing we were losing brother and mother both. I was in ICU at the time after an allergic reaction that left me unable to breathe. How do you suppose my sister felt? Mother dying, sister dying, brother dead—just a matter of time on that one. Ten years old, watching her entire family struggling to breathe, struggling to live.

    And you motherfuckers would call my mom a murderer for this. And you cared more for a baby already dying than you did for the two already born who needed their mom. 

    Fuck you. You’re not pro-life. You’re anti-woman, anti-family, anti-compassion and anti-love.

    Someone on my FB shared this photo and I had to go sit in silence for awhile at the stupidity of her comment that went along with it. Most people don’t wait so late into a pregnancy and randomly decide ‘kill the baby’ because they want to. What the fuck is wrong with people.

    Why I will always be pro choice

    I’m absolutely crying right now

  • In a better world, where bullshit gets checked:

    bankuei:

    “Ok, so you thought the boy made a bomb.”

    “Yes.”

    “And instead of evacuating the school, you pulled him out of class,
    arrested in front of everyone, then interrogated him, on the premises
    without getting the children to safety?  So, we’re going to put you up
    for criminal endangerment of this entire school”

    “Well, uh, maybe we didn’t really think it was a bomb”

    “Oh, ok, so instead you lied to police and federal authorities in order
    to bring up false charges against a minor for… kicks? I mean, you’re
    basically picking between which charges you’d like to go up on here.  
    Let me know, so we can get the paperwork right.”

  • acanofwyrms:

    I started crying really hard when I read your post about national suicide prevention day.I’ve always had dysthymia with bouts of major depression and anxiety, but it’s been a lot worse lately even though I’ve graduated and have a job in my field. It’s a year-by-year position and I always worry I won’t find anything after this and that I’m not good enough. My cat was the biggest reason I never did it. I worry that people think it’s a silly reason to stay, so I appreciate you sharing.

    vixyish:

    seananmcguire:

    Nothing is a silly reason to stay.  Nothing.

    If you stay because you haven’t had a Pumpkin Spice Latte yet this year, or because there are lizards in the yard and you’re really invested in seeing them grow up, or because you like pie, or because your cat loves you and how can you let down something that loves you that much, you are staying for a good and valid reason.

    The path gets narrow.  The world gets narrow.  Sometimes it seems like going would be so much easier than staying, and so we need reasons.  Whatever your reasons, they are good, and they are valid, and they are important.

    I’ll see you tomorrow, okay?

    All the reasons to stay are good reasons. Every reason to stay is a good reason.

    Please stay, everyone.

  • eboniorchid:

    It’s been TWENTY YEARS since Hackers came out, y’all. Craziness! Look at them. They’re so young!

    And if you haven’t seen this movie because you weren’t conscious or nerdy-cool or alive in 1995, go directly to your nearest streaming or video download service and fix the glaring hole in your cult film repertoire.

  • It’s fairly frequently that I find myself thinking the world is completely screwed up… And then I see things like this on a washing up bowl and I know, for certain, that there’s something seriously wrong…

  • Eligibility Confirmed

    I am, apparently, eligible to take the NCLEX… the scary/terrifying, up to 6 hour, up to over 250 question, adaptive testing examination for nursing registration in the US. Whee.

  • 56blogscrazy:

    therestlessintrovert:

    B A E 

    Lol amber amber amber

  • shadesofmauve:

    clefunable:

    april-ludgate-karate-dwyer:

    pillow-princess666:

    nudityandnerdery:

    dietcokereba:

    queenspritzee:

    puke-ahontas:

    edgebug:

    sincerely, a person who has been on prozac for 9 years

    this is in response to some shitty stuff i’ve seen on my dash recently. it’s super simplified, so if you’d like to know some more indepth stuff on how exactly it works, google it—OR BETTER YET actually talk to a mental health doctor psychiatrist person wow

    Prozac has literally stopped me killing myself. I would be dead if it weren’t for antidepressants. If you spread misinformation I’ll come to your house and smack u into orbit.

    I’ll join you and steamroll people

    As someone who takes the highest dosage of zoloft (setraline) possible for my body in order to function as a “normal” human being, allow me to assure you that if I ever hear you talking shit about needing to take meds, I will pull your head out of your arse and smack it into the nearest wall.

    This is good, the one thing I’ll point out is that sometimes antidepressants will make you numb- it’s happened to me and my sister- but that’s a sign you’re on the wrong one. So if it happens, go back to your doctor and say you want to try a new one.

    Same with the Prozac.

    And the reason that some people think they’re “uppers” is because they do kind of give you back the energy that you would have naturally if you weren’t depressed. So like yes you are noticing a change in my mood/behavior, that is a valid observation. But its not because I’m on “happy pills” or w/e its because without my medicine I am constantly fucking exhausted and barely want to do anything other than sleep, and with my medicine I am like not quite as exhausted all the time!

    Also important: while very helpful, antidepressants are a treatment, not a cure. A depressed person on antidepressants still has depression. One of the things I really fucking hate is when I get upset over something that maybe I ‘shouldnt’ be so upset about and my mom or someone is like “Are you still taking your medicine? Do you need to go to the doctor and get a higher dose?” Like no I don’t trust me this could be a whole lot worse.

    i’m on lexapro and I honestly didn’t know any of this! People always told me they were mood stabilisers and I thought it was! Thank you to OP <3

    YEEESSS.

    “mood stabilizers”, omg no. Let me tell you, when I was deep in depression my mood was the most stable it’s ever been. Stable at awful. Anti-depressants opened the whole scope of emotional experience back up.

    BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY.