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moonbowphobia:

@orange-side-please-appear​ & @janus-come-back-to-us​ look guys its you!

would love to see my paras as vocaloids in project diva

love me some project diva

What happens when the public loses faith in the Supreme Court?

I’ve been really wrestling with the legitimacy of the Court since the draft was released (and especially after reading this gutting of the Court as an institution by Ian Millhiser), and just generally having some big lawyer feelings this week.

In his takedown, Millhiser notes that “[t]he Court, in other words, simply does not deserve the reverence it still enjoys in much of American society, and especially from the legal profession.”

And like… yeah. Point taken.

I think for me one thing that is difficult to reconcile with my reverence for the Court and its decisions is the way that the Court historically - with some notable and significant exceptions - always seems to be below the rise of the moral arc of the universe unable to see justice on the opposite side. It only acts in hindsight, once history has laid bare the moral clarity of any particular issue. Rather than interpreting the Constitution as a just document that secures the rights and freedoms of this nation’s citizens the Court time and again determines that the Constitution has no morals and protects nothing and no one – until society collectively insists it must.

A good example of what I mean is the Court’s decision in Trump v. Hawaii, which you may know of as the Muslim travel ban case. In that decision, Chief Justice Roberts writing for the court took the opportunity (in order to try to cut the legs out of the dissent) to expressly overrule Korematsuv. United States, the heinous 1944 decision that upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Back when Trump v. Hawaii was decided, I noted my discomfort with the decision:

In today’s decision, Chief Justice Roberts writing for the court notes the factual differences between Korematsuand the Travel Ban—the ban does not directly apply to U.S. citizens and is not “solely and explicitly” based on race—but conducts no serious analysisto tell us why these two cases are legally different.  

What should the standard of review have been for Korematsu?  How should the law have applied to those facts?  In the hindsight of history, that case was, as the Court puts it, “gravely wrong.”  But it is the Court’s job to explain to us why it was legally wrong.  

DoesTrump v. Hawaii provide us any guidance as to how the Constitution should have legallyprotected Japanese Americans in 1944? Or is it just saying that nowin this point in history we all know that was morally wrong? Given how common it is for national security to be used as a justification for Constitutional violations even those secured under strict scrutiny, the weak-sauce overrule of Korematsu leaves us with no guiding legal principles here and the strong likelihood that Constitutional rights will again be violated in the name of national security. I have a problem with this.

It’s not that the Court has become political - I think that charge is incorrect. To the extent that the Court is political, it is because politicians in the Senate have made it so under Mitch McConnell’s dictatorship. The Court is doing what it always does… which is to say it is viewing the Constitution on the wrong side of the moral arc of the universe waiting for the obvious moral clarity with which to rule long after the harm has been done.

I think these are fair criticisms. But I think the linked article has a point too. The problem with all of this is that without the role that the federal judiciary plays in the balancing of our government - a role that has no enforcement mechanism but for those provided by the executive and legislature - there is no check whatsoever on the other branches of government.

Maybe the legal profession does need to view the Court with considerably more skepticism than it does. But I worry about where we wind up when American society’s mistrust of the Court empowers politicians, and the executive in particular, to ignore its rulings. The only thing more anti-democratic than the Court is a fascist executive that won’t listen to it.

This is a rant. Please feel free to ignore.

For mother’s day this weekend, we’re going to Temecula because my niece is playing in a soccer tournament there. We are spending the night there for a little mini getaway for mom, just making a weekend of it. For those who don’t know the area, it’s kind of a low-key winery area and it has a very cute ‘old town’ street area.

My sister tasked me with finding a place for a nice dinner on Saturday night. My brother-in-law immediately texted me offering to assist and then lamented it would be hard to find a place to get reservations for 6. This was late Monday night.

On Tuesday afternoon, I started searching the wineries and old town main street for something fun for a nice dinner. Most of the wineries were already booked, but I got a couple of reservations for outdoors at a couple slightly more casual gastro-pub type places on or just off main street. I sent my brother-in-law the two options and asked him to let me know what he thought.

He never responded. Today I was doing just a little more checking just-in-case, and sent him an option of a nicer Italian place that doesn’t take reservations, but I thought my sister might like, still in the cute downtown area.

Instead of responding to any of my Temecula options, he sent me a link to a restaurant in a strip mall in a town 15 minutes down the freeway because we stopped there once and liked it. And when I responded that I was looking for something closer to Temecula, he was like “whatever you want is fine with me.”

And like…

First of all, that’s patently bullshit. Because he’s always the first person to complain if he doesn’t like a place or get irritated if we don’t have reservations and have to wait a long time or whatever.

Second, why offer to help if you’re not actually going to help? I’m 90% sure he didn’t even look at the two places where I have reservations.

Third… we’re trying to make this a cute weekend away, dude. Why would we drive 15 minutes away from our hotel, away from the cute town we’re staying in, so we can eat at a strip mall at a restaurant we’ve been to before?

I’m just… I fucking HATE picking the restaurant.

biglawbear:

absolutely-not-emo:

skepticalfrog:

seeing “balanced” takes on abortion makes me want to state for the record i love abortion. I love it. Unapologetically. I love all my friends who have had abortions and all the reasons they’ve had them. i love people who treat abortion flippantly I love people who have a lot of emotions about their abortion. I love people who will have only one abortion in their whole life and people who will have many. abortion is great, no caveats. Its not a moral quandary. if someone doesn’t want to be pregnant they should have safe access to rectifying the state of their own body

I checked and OP is a guy and I just wanna say that abortion is incredibly traumatic and when you say shit like “I love people who treat abortion flippantly” you’re actually just reinforcing the harmful idea that people are getting abortions just for the fun of it. They’re not.

Abortion is a medical procedure. You shouldn’t “love” abortion any more than you should “love” knee surgery or organ transplants. It should be morally neutral — no one is a bad person for needing/wanting a knee replacement, but no one LOVES it either.

If y’all would stop treating abortion as if it’s a team sport, so much of the stigma about abortion would go away. Normalize it without weirdly fetishizing it. “I love abortion” comments are just insensitive to the very real trauma most women have about their abortions.

It’s really weird that you say you support abortion rights and then parrot right wing myths about abortion

Women who have an abortion do not experience any higher rates of trauma. Much less “most women.” In fact, the science says that being denied an abortion is more likely to result in trauma.

less than 1% of women regret having an abortion and 99% are satisfied with their decision. 84% of women had “positive feelings” or none at all about their abortion. The most prominent emotion experienced by recipients is “relief.”

In contrast, knee surgery has regret rates of about 18%

Saying that the “majority” of women are “traumatized” by abortion is a right wing lie

You stand up,

You believe

You can be all what you wanna be,

As the final moment is closing in on you

[Lily La Roux - Make History]

the-hilda-librarians-wife:

sleepyclockwork:

space-sheep08:

Thank you @morerevenge for tagging me ! <3

Posting the last 4 albums I listened to, you can find the link to make your image Posting the last four albums i listened, you can make yours here!

I’m tagging @toobookishtohandle@adorascrellin@sleepyclockwork@gothic-buffy ! (You don’t have to do it f you don’t want to ofc, it’s just for fun !)

Thanks for tagging me @space-sheep08 (I hope I’m doing this right- but I’ve currently been listening to a variety of different albums!

Abba is really nice, my favorites are “lay all your love on me, Dancing Queen, and money money money.”

Mitski! A lot of her songs SLAP, but “Washing Machine Heart” gave me a sorta Halloween vibe “I bet on losing dogs” was sad, yet comforting… it helps me fall asleep.. and you can’t tell me you didn’t sing along to “strawberry blonde.”

Cavetown! “Devil town” ABSOLUTELY SLAPPED, the fast tempo and the overall tone that reminds me of Halloween too, while also walking down a street while everything around is frosted (not snowed, but frosted. Like a late autumn day.) “boys will be bugs” is a good beat to listen to when you want to draw, and “lemon boy” is a good song to just vibe with and just chill. Also “Meteor Shower” is one of my absolute FAVORITES, it’s so pretty!

Jack Stauber! His music in general is odd but in the good creative kind and a very nice beat to listen to in the background, especially “Oh Klahoma.”

I could honestly go on but imma pass the thread over to some other friends of mine!

@the-hilda-librarians-wife@waddles-ex-machina@blueberrybounty have fun!

Ooohh thanks for the tag and the chance to talk about music that I love! Okay

Volume I by AViVA is like, the absolute owner of my heart. It might only lose to volume II, but I can’t put it here because even though we have some of the songs the album itself hasn’t really been released yet. Absolute queen

These! Infections of a different kind and a different kind of human if I’m not mistaken. I’ve been kind of addicted to AURORA lately, her songs are just so beautiful

Lastly this one. I just really like Celtic inspired music, alright? Their version of Bhean Phaidin is just

I’m tagging @mr-hyde-and-mr-seek@uiharu-and-companyand@hildas-wanderlust in case they want to talk about their music as well :D

Ty for tagging!! ^-^

Death of an Optimist by Grandson

i am BEGGING you to listen to grandson, literally every song is amazing!! They are so under recognised. I listen to this album almost everyday since its one of two i have downloaded.

OK Orchestra by AJR

They are /also/ amazing, honestly some of their songs had to grow on me but i ended up liking them all in the end- although Neotheater is my actual favourite album of theirs :)

Splittsville by Teddy Hyde

I listened to this because i love Teddy’s Taxidermy and Channel 01 Clown and theyre apart of the same album- idk what it is ab them but it just makes my brain go brrrr

Hawaii part ii by Miracle Musical

I’ll be candid- half the time idek what im listening to bc its all random songs that show up in youtube mixes dbkdsk but im glad ab that bc then i find stuff like this!! All of the songs of this album are bangers and also great for just spacing out

I guess ill tag @randomwords247@pikablobannnnd@cactincactout ?? If they wanna participate :3

jeansvoid:

Yo question,

I know Procreate allows you to export videos of your process,

Or like process stuff in general

Would anyone be interested in those from me?

Thanks for the responses! They are all so kind aaaaaaaa

I’ll probably post some of the Procreate process vids soon, though if yall prefer something else let me know!,,

Amphibia x Pokemon

brothebro:

A Lambden commission for @stinastar​

fedonciadale:

At the beginning of the books Catelyn Stark has an ambiguous status as the Lady of Winterfell. There are some tasks that are her everyday duties and there is the unofficial place she has as the trusted advisor of her husband and later her son.

It is a very interesting position because it is only partly official - as the lady who runs the household. Her role as advisor is something she earned through her skills and her wits but also a role that she can take because the men around her allow her to give advice to them. Catelyn is in a strange place in-between. Her advice is often valued, if not every time. She has developed quite a skill to wait for the right moment and the right wording that will give her advice maximum impact. She even gives advice without being called upon, so she has the feeling that it is not only her duty but also her right to give advice, for her voice to be heard. It gives Cat a certain level of agency, that of a highborn lady. She certainly has not the same level of agency as a lord, but she is important in her own right - not only because the men value her advice more often than not but also because she claims counselling as her right.

Keep reading

[ID: “Gemstones may be the traditional vessel for holding magical energy, but never underestimate ceramics, especially if you want the magic to cause an explosion.” End ID]

[ID: White Text: “Wow! How many cats do you have?”

Yellow Text: “Actually, though they look like cats, those are not cats.”

White Text: “What are they, then?”

Yellow Text: “Why don’t you ask one for yourself?” End ID]

[ID: “When I sit upon the throne, my first decree will be to make the practice of the magical arts illegal, but only on Tuesdays.” End ID]

[ID: “Why did I steal the wool of ten thousand sheep? To knit a sweater for my pet dragon, of course.” End ID]

ifihadmypickofwishes:

Was reminded courtesy of a well intentioned comment by a professor about the importance of “doing things that make us uncomfortable” that NTs just cannot grasp what it means to be the only autistic person in the room. I am uncomfortable all the time. I’m surrounded by people who are wildly unpredictable, loud, and confusing. They get angry at me seemingly at random and also for facial expressions I can’t control. I have to somehow analyze other people’s reactions, predict their future reactions, and still say something coherent and on-topic. I do this every day, for hours at a time.

NTs can come back and talk to me about “doing things that make us uncomfortable” after they do something similarly counterintuitive to their entire brain for a week.

Hey uhh not to argue on your vent post and I mean this as gently as possible but this kind of reads to me as a similar sentiment to “drinking water/exercising/whatever else won’t cure my depression Karen” /nm

I think doing things that make us uncomfortable are important for everyone. Being neurodivergent doesn’t change that, it just means that maybe your challenging thing looks different than another person’s. It’s good for me to do things that challenge my social anxiety (which is really intertwined with my being autistic). But I don’t need to “put myself out there” the same way a kinda shy neurotypical person might. Instead, I make goals with my therapist like, “If my roommates are in the kitchen during dinnertime, go make dinner instead of waiting for them to leave” or “go out to see people on purpose, for non-work reasons, at least once a week.” These things are well within many people’s comfort zones, but not mine. These things are uncomfortable and often really scary for me, but doing them is also really important.

I can’t for the life of me remember where I first read this, but the usual model of “comfort zone” is pretty incomplete and limiting. It can be helpful to instead picture a circle with three rings. The inner circle is green. That’s your comfort zone. The outer circle is red. That’s your danger zone. And the middle ring is yellow, and makes up your growth zone. The idea is to push yourself into your growth zone, because ultimately, that can expand your comfort zone. It can give you practice for difficult things, or help you develop new ways of accommodating yourself when you need to, or show you that you will be okay after the scary difficult thing. All of those are good. If you’re getting into your danger zone, it’s time to step back, but to return to your professor’s point, it is important to explore your growth zone (and then reward yourself with some quality time in your comfort zone).

Everyone’s growth zone looks different, and that especially goes for neurodivergent people. But it sounds like you’re already exploring your growth zone, OP. You’re going out, going to classes, interacting with people even though it’s hard. You’re doing well. You’re being brave. You can be proud of yourself that you are already exploring your growth zone all the time. What’s most important is that you’re working with your zones, not some ideal. Meet yourself where you’re at. You’re doing great.

TLDR: Doing uncomfortable things is important for ND people just as it is for NT people, but we might have a different comfort threshold, and that’s okay. Work with yourself where you’re at.

Have I run out of things to say or am I just tired?