nuisancehelicopterIt all began when momo got kaidoh’s bandana dirty and was a dick about it.
saki-yama-hime
wonderwonderhowido
Devil+Baby
50-shades-of-otp
My aesthetic: that tiny smile that shows up on Tsukki’s face when Yamaguchi finally manages his serve
mercuryfish
angryonabus
amurderof
Gnomeo and Juliet AU where they’re humans living in 14th century Italy
The Lion King but they’re all Danish royalty
swirlyswirls
animenostalgia
penguin-cafe
rossettichristina
dorothyisunderwood
i feel like why the aziz ansari case is polarising and why so many men as well as women (many of whom have previously been supportive of #metoo) are adamant that it wasn’t sexual assault is because if you accept that coercion is not consent, then a lot of men have to accept that they have inflicted non consensual sex acts upon women/people. and if women admit that coercion isn’t consent than they have to accept that they had non consensual sexual acts inflicted upon them.
and whilst explicit and repeated consent is important, the focus on “no means no” has left some people acting like ten no’s and a single defeated yes means yes. also that due to societal conditioning or pressure, women or more vulnerable people may not say a clear and firm “no” but rather a quiet and placating “i’d rather not” or “if you don’t mind can we do something else”
cath-sith
executeness
I say this every time I argue for raising the minimum wage. I never hear anyone else say it and I’m glad I found this.
If you build your business and your bonus on the backs of others who you don’t pay a living wage you don’t deserve to be in business.
this is making capitalists bleed from the ears keep reblogging it
Since I tend to get into this with people who argue that robots will replace minimum wage workers if they get too expensive, I like to lean into the robot metaphor.
If you have a machine performing a valuable talk for your company, the upkeep of that machine is part of your operating cost. You have to pay to power it, to upgrade it, to fix it when it breaks. And if you can’t afford the machine, the manufacturer doesn’t have to do business with you. They’re free to take their service somewhere else where they think the price is fair.
For humans, a living wage is the operating cost. If you can’t afford to pay your worker enough to live nearby, feed themselves, and get basic health care - all of which are things they need in order to be able to work for you - you’re failing to pay for the cost of their service.
The difference is that humans have to eat, like, all the time, so they often don’t have the option of taking their business somewhere else if the price isn’t fair - even insufficient food and shelter is better then starving on the street. But that means those people are not really able to act as agents in a free market, and it’s easy to exploit them under the guise of “the market setting the price.” People can’t act like reasonable economic agents when they’re desperate. As for as I can tell, that’s the whole point of having a minimum wage.
Keep reblogging this, it’s making capitalists mad and reaching out to the working class
rossettichristina
jamyesterday
This is a big fucking deal.
Comparing the growth of other Kinds of nonprofits, the researchers believe
they were able to identify the causal effect of these community groups
Every 10 additional organizations in a city with 100,000 residents, they
estimate, led to a 9 percent drop in the murder rate and a 6 percent drop in
violent crime.
In a criminology field that has produced some eyebrow-raising ideas, this
one is actually not so surprising. That national finding echoes local studies
of some individual programs, like one run by the Pennsylvania
Horticultural Society that converts abandoned lots into green spaces and
that has been linked in Philadelphia to reduced gun violence.
The research also affirms some of the tenets of community policing: that
neighborhoods are vital to policing themselves, and that they can address
the complex roots of violence in ways that fall beyond traditional police
work.
“It’s absolutely consistent with what I would argue is probably the prevalent
theory of policing among the major cities today,” Richard Myers, the
executive director of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, said of the new
research.“Any time people’s basic needs are met, violence goes down - that’s not new,” said Noreen McClendon, who directs the nonprofit Concerned Citizenes of South Central Los Angeles.
in other news, water is wet
Okay, not to be snippy, but I really do hate these kinds of comment in response to something like this which is a very serious work of scholar activism that was not “water is wet” and I think it’s both disrespectful to the intense, complicated work that Dr. Sharkay is doing and also…It’s just not the case that this is “obvious” to the broader public or to people who have opinions about criminal justice considering that, compared to the studies on broken windows policing, the role of community organizations actually has been under-researched and, of course, because the DOJ is focused on creating more punitive policing strategies while cutting funding to Community Development Block Grants.
And also, I just think it’s important and valuable to make sure that we’re actually accomplishing what we’re trying to accomplish. It’s important to have somebody out there taking a step back and running the data and making sure we’re not all wrong about our assumptions.
Because we’ve been wrong before! The DARE program was working off of what “everyone knew” about holistic, non-punitive strategies preventing drug abuse and only after intensive evaluations was it revealed to be entirely ineffective…some studies showed that it make kids actually MORE LIKELY to abuse substances. The data on single gender education is genuinely complicated and it may actually make girls more vulnerable to sexist stereotyping. “Food desserts”, a concept that so many interventions and studies were based on may not actually exist. It’s really good to look into our assumption and make changes if we need to.
queenofthenorths
sashayed
thornescratch
skywalker rolls up to the battlefield with no armor in sight. he doesn’t need it. everyone’s faces melt indiana-jones style when they lay eyes on his killer maison margiela F/W ‘16 velvet turtleneck jumpsuit with matching custom leather boots, belt and single glove by louis vuitton. weep for your fave
stop
“Are you wearing the Ch-”
“Chanel boots? Yeah, I am”
antique-romantic
