Manifesting this tomorrow
georgia is currently separated by 33,300 votes from flipping blue.
33k votes.
i have TEXT POSTS with more people on it than that.
this is RAZOR FUCKING THIN. oh my god.
Was Arthur Weasley Really so Clueless About Muggles?
I highly doubt it.
He worked for the Mis-use of Muggle Artifacts Office at the Ministry. I’m aware that they prioritized enthusiasm and a tolerant attitude above all. However, it is likely that he had 5 years of Muggle Studies under his belt before working there, with at least an Exceeds Expectations grade at OWL Level.
Upon meeting Harry Potter he asks him “what exactly is the function of a rubber duck?” It’s a ridiculious question, considering that wizards probably had inflatable bath toys too. So why ask it?
Mr. Weasley has just arrived in from work and laid eyes on Harry, a troubled boy and his son’s best friend. Upon greeting the boy, he realizes notes that all the attention is making him uncomfortable. He deduces he is staying with them because his home situation has deteriorated.
He takes all of this in his stride and asks a question he knows will make the Boy Who Lived laugh. Afterwards, he asks him countless questions about electricity etc. Of course, he has a real desire to learn how airplanes stay up. After all, aerodynamics are complicated.
Arthur is a man who has raised seven children. He is no doubt employed the tactic that many parents use with young kids; asking rhetorical questions and/or playing dumb so that they can gain confidence and enjoy sharing their knowledge.
More advanced tactics are seen throughout the later books. In Goblet of Fire, Arthur pretends to be struggling to light the fire and pitch the tent. Hermione stays with him to help. This is good, because it allows Arthur to keep up a running commentary on Ministry officials that pass by.
In Order of the Phoenix, Arthur Weasley pretends to be struggling to use the underground and make change with Muggle currency. By asking Harry for assistance with these small tasks, he is providing a much-needed distraction in the run up to the hearing.
He does all this without drawing attention to himself. His first priority is to help the children in his care feel more comfortable.
Arthur Weasley is an amazing man, who does not get the recognition he deserves.
Headcanon accepted
Holy shit.... Never Again Action (the group who started #JewsAgainstICE) had an ICE detention truck drive through them while they were shutting down Wayne Detention Center in Rhode Island this evening (August 14th).
Like they were holding the line across the entry gate and refusing to let night shift guards in and a massive truck just, fucking, drove up to them then slowed as the protestors got up from where they were sitting, alarmed, then the truck accelerated into people.
It doesn't seem like there are any serious injuries. The people who were around the truck after it stopped accelerating into people were pepper sprayed.
EDIT: Wyatt ICE Detention Center, not Wayne
SOURCE: Never Again Action's twitter livestream of the action and the car attack
The truck was driven by an ICE guard.
As this information is publicly available, the law in the US does not consider this doxxing, which is why it was on twitter on the first place. Here's the guy.
Its the same people. If you can stomach working for ICE its because you're a right-wing fascist. Same tactics, different day.
Fun fact, y’all!! Jewish protesters have been surrounding and shutting down ICE detention centers for weeks now, and we’re getting absolutely NO media coverage. None. In the slightest. And by jewish protesters I mean THOUSANDS OF US HAVE BEEN PROTESTING FOR NIGHTS ON END AND OVER 250 HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AT THIS POINT AND WE ARE GETTING ZERO COVERAGE. This is probably the biggest protest movement in american jewish history and it’s getting no coverage. We got hit with a truck DRIVEN BY A DETENTION CENTER GUARD and pepper sprayed and many people ended up in the hospital - one man in his sixties has a broken leg and a potentially broken back because of it. PLEASE REBLOG THIS. THOUSANDS OF YOUR JEWISH SIBLINGS ARE TRYING TO SHUT DOWN THE CENTERS AND WE’RE GETTING ZERO COVERAGE. PLEASE PLEASE SPREAD THIS AROUND.
America, August 17 2019
Today I learned
Free Audiobooks and Ebooks on OVERDRIVE.
Free Graphic Novels (DC, Marvel, Image, etc), Music, TV shows, and music on HOOPLA.
Free music that you can KEEP on FREEGAL
You are PAYING for all this with your tax money - USE THEM. Most likely systems will have all 3 or 2 out of 3, so if you aren’t sure call your local library’s reference/information desk and how you can get set-up or started.
Hey, highkey from a library worker:
Overdrive has a new mobile app called LIBBY I find it easier to use. It’s the same content as Overdrive just better for mobile. Overdrive and Libby both let you send items to your kindle as well.
Can confirm Overdrive is amazing.
I work in the largest library system in my state (17 branches in total).
I use it not only for ebooks, but movies as well.
Other FREE resources to check with your library for are:
- Freegal Music (download and keep music, including current music)
- Hoopla Digital (borrow ebooks, e-audiobooks, e-graphic novels, stream movies)
- Kanopy (stream movies; also available on Roku!)
- Axis360 (usually hot or just released ebooks)
If you don’t have a library card…
GET ONE!
If someone says libraries are a thing of the past…
BOOP THEM IN THE NOSE WITH YOUR KINDLE!
Don’t discount libraries as “quiet” places.
THEY ARE ALIVE!!!
THEY ARE LOUD!!!
THEY ARE YOUR DOORWAYS TO KNOWLEDGE!!
no need to give your money to any of those places, go to your library!!
kanopy is great!
My girl siobhan, formerly of anglophenia, currently of college humor, is an angel and a blessing
As a bi woman I feel personally attacked by Hozier’s music, because I am torn between:
1) wanting to worship women like he does in his songs and never sleep with a dude again;
2) wanting a dude to worship me like Hozier does the women in his songs; or
3) wanting to go to Ireland, lie down on a fairy mound, and hope that Hozier comes and spirits me away to the land where he and all the fae women he worships live
I’ve never related more in my life
Hozier: Plays™
Me:
it’s always amazing to watch adults discover how much changes when they don’t treat their perspective as the default human experience.
example: it’s been well-documented for a long time that urban spaces are more dangerous for kids than they are for adults. but common wisdom has generally held that that’s just the way things are because kids are inherently vulnerable. and because policymakers keep operating under the assumption that there’s nothing that can be done about kids being less safe in cities because that’s just how kids are, the danger they face in public spaces like streets and parks has been used as an excuse for marginalizing and regulating them out of those spaces.
(by the same people who then complain about kids being inside playing video games, I’d imagine.)
thing is, there’s no real evidence to suggest that kids are inescapably less safe in urban spaces. the causality goes the other way: urban spaces are safer for adults because they are designed for adults, by adults, with an adult perspective and experience in mind.
the city of Oslo, Norway recently started a campaign to take a new perspective on urban planning. quite literally a new perspective: they started looking at the city from 95 centimeters off the ground - the height of the average three-year-old. one of the first things they found was that, from that height, there were a lot of hedges blocking the view of roads from sidewalks. in other words, adults could see traffic, but kids couldn’t.
pop quiz: what does not being able to see a car coming do to the safety of pedestrians? the city of Oslo was literally designed to make it more dangerous for kids to cross the street. and no one realized it until they took the laughably small but simultaneously really significant step of…lowering their eye level by a couple of feet.
so Oslo started trimming all its decorative roadside vegetation down. and what was the first result they saw? kids in Oslo are walking to school more, because it’s safer to do it now. and that, as it turns out, reduces traffic around schools, making it even safer to walk to school.
so yeah. this is the kind of important real-life impact all that silly social justice nonsense of recognizing adultism as a massive structural problem can have. stop ignoring 1/3 of the population when you’re deciding what the world should look like and the world gets better a little bit at a time.
Empathy and universal design are for more than just people with disabilities.
Also, I love this quote: “it’s always amazing to watch adults discover how much changes when they don’t treat their perspective as the default human experience.”
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