you do know that when jewish and romani people say “never forget” we mean “learn about the holocaust so you can recognize the warning signs of facism and genocide” not “repeatedly bring up the holocaust whenever anything bad happens and exploit our pain and trauma to make people care about your cause” and when we say “never again” we mean “take action to prevent any stage of genocide on any scale by any means, hold collaborators responsible and don’t be complicit” not “only care about genocide when it’s too late”, right? or did you think it was just a fun catchphrase?
Realizing this guy
is going to help raise this guy
“I’d spent so long trying to fit in, trying to be someone I wasn’t, that I had no idea who I was any more.”
— Dorothy Koomson, The Rose Petal Beach
get you a man who despite having a grumpy disposition is genuinely kindhearted, loves his parents, is good with animals, refers to lakes as ‘baby oceans’, and once jumped out of a plane after his girlfriend while screaming ‘fuck!’
me every night before going to bed (real)
In the wake of the Facebook outage let’s not forget the whistleblower story that should have been the main thing hitting headlines today - detailing, among many issues, the fact that Facebook chose profit over the safety of people and led to the escalation of the January 6th insurrection
Somehow this meme just keeps getting more relatable...