I hate being so political, but only 70 people have signed and thats a disgrace, if something like this can happen in canada, then it can happen anywhere http://www.petitiononlinecanada.com/petition/tell-harper-to-allow-trans-people-to-fly-on-airplanes/758
And now I hate Canada.
Cases where people do go to trial may end with the decision that the mental illness was a mitigating factor and should be considered in sentencing, but people still do time. Sometimes in psychiatric institutions, sometimes not. Their terms of parole may also include mandatory medications and counseling; in some cases, a court order can compel someone to take medication for life or face being put in an institution again. This is ‘getting off scot free,’ according to people who think they know what they’re talking about when it comes to mentally ill people accused of committing crimes.
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I’m going to say this once and only once.
Not everything needs to be dubstep.
ONCE- AND ONLY ONCE- AND ONLY ONCE- AND ONLY ONCE- AND ONLY
NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT
“not everything needs to be-“
.
WUB WUB WIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWIWI WUUUB WUUUUB
[a screencap of netflix recommending other shows that are like dexter, such as community and arrested development]
at this point i’m pretty sure netflix honestly thinks that “tv show” is a genre and all tv shows are the same thing and if you like one tv show you will like all tv shows because their comparisons are just so consistently bad
“I’m a Canadian.
We’re a quiet bunch; prone to enjoying hockey, drinking stronger beer than our friends south of the border, and lovers of fries smothered in cheese curds and gravy.
We also, apparently, have an inferiority complex when it comes to being evil dirt bags, because we’ve decided to pass our very own version of SOPA up here.
Only better*
Meet Bill-C11. Formerly Bill C-32. (I think they thought if they made the number lower people would care less about it?)
{…}
But, as innocuous as it sounds, C-11 does a whole lot that SOPA did with a few extra twists you might not find in the Wikipedia write-up.
Like your PVR? You can’t keep it under C-11.
Like ripping CDs to your iPod? Say bye-bye.
Hey, do you want to be able to unlock your $500 smartphone and take it to a provider less dedicated to violating your wallet? That won’t be allowed either.
Did you get accused of internet piracy but no evidence has been presented and a trial date hasn’t even been set? Under C-11 your ISP will now be forced to terminate your internet access.
And people say that governments can’t be bought.
{…}
There are only 14 days left people. Get active.”
Send a letter to your Member of Parliament now. The letters are prewritten, you just need to click send.
http://www.ccer.ca/letter-wizard-enter/
Come on non-Canadian people, please signal boost this for your Canadian friends.
help us polite canucks please :)
it frustrates me how awareness of vitally important disability issues, concepts and human rights violations is so unlikely to spread beyond the disability community
like, it’s gr8 that tumblr is there to defend me if someone says ‘oh my god, I’m so OCD!’ in my presence— but you know, that’s a minor annoyance. even last semester, when my lab instructor repeatedly said ‘don’t do that, that’s just retarded’ in reference to various mistakes that I myself was liable to make— okay, I admit it contributed to me skipping lab several times and instead cowering miserably in the student lounge, but I still don’t need the entire nation jumping on it.
but if in future I am consistently and arbitrarily denied employment because I flapped my hands and used the wrong tone of voice in an interview— well, that’s discrimination. and I’m already going forward in life with the knowledge that I MAY NEVER GET A JOB.
and the kind of pervasive mistreatment that occurs invisibly in institutions but also permeates the culture at large, that robs humans of their dignity and autonomy, that infantilizes and degrades every single day: nobody’s talking about that. except us.
i mean i’m not an activist i am shit at anything remotely socially conscious but idgi what is this lip service even about if no one pays attention to cases of serious bigotry and abuse
i mean gr8 all i see is a lot of people talking amongst themselves about how we can’t call people stupid and crazy without regard to WHAT HAPPENS TO THE ACTUAL STUPID AND CRAZY PEOPLE (LIKE ME AND MY FRIENDS)
There is no singular, universal woman’s narrative. There are as many stories and experiences as there are women.
Natalie Reed, Talkin’ ‘Bout My S-S-S-Socialization (via kiriamaya)
Well fuck, I’m a roach.
(charlzr)
White people say [“It’s not fair, if white people can’t say n*gger, black people shouldn’t either”]. And yet, why do I never hear: “It’s not fair, if white people make more just because their skin color, shouldn’t Black people receive equal pay too?” “It’s not fair, if men own 99% of the world, shouldn’t women get property too?” “It’s not fair, if Black people get pulled over dwb, shouldn’t white people get pulled over for no reason too?” “It’s not fair, if white people can breath around the cops without getting shot, shouldn’t people of color be able to as well?” I don’t really hear anything along those lines by people who cry it’s not fair that they can’t say a historically scarring word while some black people still use the term. Never heard them say anything like that. So they can kiss ass and shut the fuck up.
