The salt impersonated
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I made a ko-fi!
https://ko-fi.com/achillesmonochrome
I know I don’t have a big following, or I am an author with that many readers, but it cannot hurt having it, right?
For now, I don’t have plans of commissions or anything (as far as I know, no one is interested anyways) this is just to help me out if you want, no pressure.
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A Toronto police officer who pleaded guilty to neglect of duty for failing to properly investigate a woman’s complaint about threats made by her ex-boyfriend before her murder will remain on the job.
Const. Sang Youb Lee will not be dismissed from the Toronto Police Service (TPS) and will instead be demoted, according to police tribunal documents outlining the decision made by Peel Regional Police Supt. Taufic Saliba, who heard the case.
Lee was facing possible termination in connection with his actions while investigating a domestic violence report from 23-year-old Daniella Mallia on Aug. 15, 2022 – three days before she was found fatally shot in an underground parking garage in North York.
According to the agreed statement of facts submitted at the tribunal, Lee and his partner Const. Anson Alfonso, who worked at 32 Division, met with Mallia, who informed them her ex-boyfriend had been harassing and threatening her through text. […]
“Officer Lee misapprehended evidence presented to him. Accordingly, though he had grounds to arrest the ex-boyfriend for uttering threats, neither he or his partner arrested him. Instead, officer Alfonso called ex-boyfriend and warned him to stay away from the victim. Also the officers told the complainant avoid contact with her ex-boyfriend and cautioned her accordingly,” the documents said. […]
Tagging: @politicsofcanada
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Hewoo! This is my first post on Tumblr ~
This drawing was a gift/request for someone on a PJO server I’m part of >7< they wanted to see Percy in this beautiful skirt! <33 -
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Here’s the thing: imagine if we fixed the housing market, so that the price of housing only increased to match inflation. That would be great, right? Except, homeowners typically spend $2000-$10000 per year on maintenance. So homeownership would go from an investment to an endless money pit, just like renting. The idea of a house as an investment, a house as a way to build wealth, requires that housing prices increase faster than inflation forever, which means that the burden of housing costs on working people must keep increasing forever, and the number of homeless people must keep increasing forever.
The housing crisis isn’t just a result of greedy landlords and investors. It’s an inevitable result of social policies that encourage people to treat their houses as in investment. Because once a homeowner internalizes the idea that their financial future depends on housing prices going up, they start favoring policies (such as NIMBYism) that make housing prices go up.
Conversely, if we want to end homelessness for good, we need to accept that housing is someone we’ll all have to continuously pour resources into, because buildings are complex physical objects that break a lot.
The reason I say this is because every time I read an article about the housing crisis, they always say something along the lines of “The housing crisis has robbed people of the opportunity to build wealth via homeownership!” without acknowledging that the housing crisis is what created the opportunity to build wealth via homeownership
What gets me is that “this is not an asset, it will not increase in value, do not expect it to or base any plans on that happening” is what we already say to people who are buying cars (or bikes or other personal transport). We already have a model for “owning something that has ongoing costs and doesn’t increase in value, but it’s worth it for its uses”. There’s no reason we can’t view housing like that as well.
(via sandsbuisle)
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The amount of creativity I possess when I have absolutely no time to do anything with it is astounding.
The lack of creativity when I have nothing going on is disappointing
(via cornybunbun)
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I can only imagine how Jewish people must feel when culturally christian wankers say shit along the lines of “oh new testament God is loving and forgiving, not like old testament God who’s evil and violent”
People who say this clearly never actually read the Bible and/or excuse Jesus’ violence by considering it “justified.”
Jesus was actually a bit of a dick.
And the Temple tantrum didn’t go down the way you think it did.
I really, REALLY want progressive Christians who are/think they are/want to be allies to Jews and root out antisemitism in your Christianity to read the excellent write-up in the second link. The link takes you to an off-tumblr blog that appears to be run by @blessedarethebinarybreakers.
(via athingofvikings)
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Demisexuality’s most common misconception
I think the funniest misconception I had heard about demisexuality, is people saying “Oh, but that’s normal!” when they heard you need to have a deep connection before you feel attraction.
“Oh, so it also took you 2 years of knowing someone before you were attracted to them?”
This is really the part I don’t think people get; is not even the longest it has taken me to feel attraction to someone. I think the shortest time has been 6 months, and that happened over a decade ago so who knows if that could ever happen again.
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Anticapitalist dick sucking
I want to know the argument now, for totally safe for work reasons
The argument basically goes “if you and another guy were trapped on an island, with Coconuts being the only source of food. and the other guy immediately gathers up, and hoards all of the coconuts, and says that if you want some (so you don’t die) you have to suck his dick.
Is that fair?”
With the obvious answer being no, and that you would just take the coconuts you need to survive, and if the guy insists that you suck his dick for them, you just beat the shit out of him/kill him until he complies.
It’s an allegory for capitalism as an economic system, with the island being the country/the world, the coconuts being money/products that cost money, the dick sucking being dick sucking and/or work/labour, and the guy hoarding coconuts being billionaires and shit.
And showing that, if you apply the same answer you would have to the coconut dick sucking analogy (of fuck you I’ll take what I need to survive, and beat the shit out of you if you insist I need to suck your dick) to the real world, you wouldn’t support capitalism, and would support a revolution and all that.
That’s how I understand it anyway
(via sandsbuisle)
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I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.
w-what if potato is actually lucky
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