Synapses Fill With Mold

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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magicalpaz:
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“paddysnuffles:
“robphoton7:
“lotrlocked:
“ weaselle:
“ There was an arrest across the street from my place in Oakland one day – three cop cars with a bullhorn and guns out – and before I could even get out the gate there...
weaselle

There was an arrest across the street from my place in Oakland one day – three cop cars with a bullhorn and guns out – and before I could even get out the gate there were a couple people posted up and one of them was filming and another one was narrating in a calm but very loud voice, just

“HE IS COOPERATING! HIS HANDS ARE EMPTY! HE IS DOING WHAT HE IS TOLD TO DO! HE IS HOLDING STILL! HIS HANDS ARE EMPTY! HE IS NOT BEING THREATENING! HE HAS PUT HIS HANDS BEHIND HIS HEAD AS ASKED! HE IS NOT RESISTING!”

and that was something I hadn’t thought to do before. It certainly let the cops know what the narrative of eye witnesses was going to be. 

I especially liked “his hands are empty” because this statement would still be true and a witnessed reason the police should not become violent even if it turned out he had a weapon on his person somewhere.

lotrlocked

I see people in NYC stop and record a lot. Even if they are just being nosey, that’s still witnesses if shit goes down.

robphoton7

We must be vigilant.  The New Solidarity.  You might just save a fellow human being.

paddysnuffles

If you don’t feel comfortable with doing the narrating thing (which really is quite clever), even just standing around and blatantly staring actually legit helps immensely.

There are studies that show that even an image of someone looking can be effective to change people’s behaviours.

Sidenote: If you see a cop stopping an Indigenous person, the same protocol applies.

prismatic-bell

I did this in a parking lot when I saw a group of Black men and teens being harassed by a cop. Stayed in my car, but whipped out my phone and started to record, pointing out via narrative when I could hear the cop contradicting himself and changing his story. At the eight-minute mark, when I knew he was past the reasonable-stop guideline time (thanks, legal tips side of tumblr!), I flipped on my dome light.


Fam, what happened next was INCREDIBLE.


The cop had been gesturing in a wild way, almost flailing, like he was actively trying to get these guys agitated. He saw my dome light, saw a white face with a phone, and suddenly his hands came to rest on his vest. Within 90 seconds he’d packed his shit up and gone.

The most outspoken gentleman in the group came up to me and went “whatchu doing in there?” So I straight-up told him “it looked like you were being harassed, so I was recording.” The whole group recognized someone who was on their side, and started venting about the shit that had just gone down.


Turns out the asshole had had them stopped for a good five minutes before I pulled in. That means they were stopped, with no probable cause and a cop changing his story no fewer than three times, for AT LEAST THIRTEEN MINUTES. While chatting in a parking lot. One car had pulled in next to another that turned out to belong to one of his buddies and they were just shooting the shit when Officer Bacon came by.

Want to know the kicker here? One of the cop’s stories was that a group “matching their description” had been reported by the grocery store security guy for shoplifting. Black man, red shirt with a sports logo, jeans. Know what this convenient report didn’t mention?


HIS HEIGHT.


This guy was, without exaggeration, at least 6’10”. I assure you any report of him would have mentioned his height FIRST. And you’d best believe I pointed that out in my narration.


Cops WILL try shit. You CAN stop them. I did it and it was as simple as having some patience and a camera.

magicalpaz

Same for muslims!

Look out for your fellow marginalized people!

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cryptobranchid

i think one of the funniest things ever is how many rock and metal bands are just four or five identical white dudes with long brown hair parted in the middle. like they’ve gotta be cranking these dudes out in a factory at this point. they don’t even have to be in the same genre, you can find them anywhere. they’re like some kind of metal fungus.

cryptobranchid

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these are all different bands

cryptobranchid

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i would love to argue with this but you will never fucking believe what i look like

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dreamyintersexpuppy

I literally had my pussy sewn shut I deserve k cup tits as compensation

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right forgot most of my followers wouldn’t know this so

TW for medical trauma and child abuse

when an intersex baby is born and they have what’s called “ambiguous genitalia” aka they have an intersex condition which causes them to develop a mix of traits from both male and female genitals, doctors will just pick which one it’s closest to and without consent from the parents and obviously without consent from this living human person that just got born, perform a permanently scarring cosmetic surgery to force the baby’s genitals to align with societies perspective of either male or female genitals. these surgeries cause lifetime medical issues and sexual dysfunction and are only performed because our medical understanding of intersex people was written by a bunch of bigoted genicidal monsters. And yes it’s genocide they are removing our ability to conceive children in almost all cases of these surgeries, on top of generally erasing us from public view by hiding our own existence from everyone Including us from birth. these surgeries aren’t well known about because parents literally aren’t told (my mom only managed to figure it out cuz she overheard the doctor talking to a nurse about it when she came down off her painkillers) and scientific literature on it is not only hard to read it sounds like fucking nazi shit so obviously most medical establishments don’t want it in public view. I had one of these surgeries performed on me, I literally don’t even know exactly what it was cuz it’s not on my medical records anymore but I have the scarring and still have uterine tissue so in compensation for our current human society systematically mutilating my body and genociding people like me I think I deserve some banger bazhoingas i think that’s fair

dreamyintersexpuppy

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I hope you don’t mind me adding this @werewo1fbutch I wanted to offer resources in my original post but I’m still looking for my own so this is really appreciated

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raindrop-underscore

day 15 of posting my favourite bears in trees lyrics:


i want permanence in the little things //

while i leak rust from my broken jeans //

i want to feel chaotic //

but calm enough to hold you in the morning


Permanence

I Want To Feel Chaotic

permanence bears in trees bearsintrees bit bit brainrot dirtbag boyband i want to feel chaotic i dont know how nick and iain are such amazing lyricists???? like??? they singlehandedly have knocked all other lyrics off my top lyrics list and its hilarious bc i used to be a rock/ punk/ metal listener look what theyve done to me
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patternofdefiance

Thinking about BBC Sherlock and how it talks about light and stars, and this occurred to me.

The first mention of astronomy in the series is when John and Sherlock bicker about the solar system:

JOHN: But it’s the solar system!
(Sherlock briefly buries his head in his hands.)

SHERLOCK: Oh, hell! What does that matter?!
(He looks at John in frustration.)
SHERLOCK: So we go round the Sun! If we went round the Moon, or round and round the garden like a teddy bear, it wouldn’t make any difference. All that matters to me is the work. Without that, my brain rots.
(He ruffles his hair with both hands, then glares at John.)

Then, later in the episode, we are privy to this exchange:

SHERLOCK: Beautiful, isn’t it?
(John looks up [and sees an impossibly dense star field that you would never see in central London in a million years].)
JOHN: I thought you didn’t care about things like that.
SHERLOCK: Doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate it.

Not long after, when John faces down the Golem, this happens:

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John is covered, bathed in stars. (Note that even Sherlock is covered in starlight, albeit it against his will - no one’s immune to this extended metaphor, it seems…)


…I’ll leave you to your deductions.

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Originally posted by amazingday

Cause you’re a sky, ‘cause you’re a sky full of stars / I’m gonna give you my heart
Cause you’re a sky, ‘cause you’re a sky full of stars / 'Cause you light up the path
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Originally posted by marjieleee

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Originally posted by wordywarriorwrites