watched a broadcast of a police “chase” today where the dude drove the speed limit and obeyed all traffic directives except for yielding to cops. they tried to pit maneuver him twice and he just took himself over the median and turned around to follow traffic the other way. the cops ended up spike stripping one of their own SUVs while trying to stop him. when he finally stopped he just sat in his truck, unarmed, with a big tank of nitrous doing whippets for several hours while the cops desperately wracked their pig brains for a tactic that could stop a dude from chilling in his truck.
this was a situation that could have been resolved with a taxi and a tow truck and like, a court summons after running the plates. cops aren’t here to solve situations, they’re here to justify their obscene budgets and military equipment by making every situation an excuse to wage chemical warfare on anyone who doesn’t allow them to define the situation.
they shot pepper bullets into his cab. he sat in his truck. a gaggle of them crept up to the passenger side and tossed in a tear gas canister. he tossed it back out the driver side and kept sitting in his truck. the cop negotiator brought water for the guy but then rather than actually give it to him to demonstrate even an ounce of good faith he threw it on the ground like 10 feet away from the truck as the most obvious bait. they brought in SWAT! fucking SWAT and their shitty SWAT monster truck, for an unarmed dude sitting in his truck. it was only misdemeanors until the cops showed up and made everything about them which made the dude’s every attempt to leave into a felony because it’s happening around a cop.
and all the while the news anchor is like OH YOU DON’T WANT THESE PEACE OFFICERS EXPOSED TO FURTHER RISKS, YOU DON’T WANT THEM CAUGHT IN CROSSFIRE (from who?? other pigs?? they’re the only ones with guns!). HEY COP CORRESPONDENT, WHAT IF YOU USED A FLASHBANG ON THE GUY. god, when even the cop correspondent is like “uhh we’re not doing that” you know you’ve said something sick. i cannot emphasize enough how much of it was just the dude sitting in his truck. the pigs solved this real brainscratcher of a conundrum with more tear gas because that’s the only verb they know.
abolish the police!
this is what i can find for a source
seems like op was p accurate, the source article in the description has very biased language - “low-speed chase” u mean just driving???? took them 4 HOURS while he was parked.
“The Irish government is offering a €325 weekly basic income trial for
artists which will last for three years. As part of the trial 2,000
artists will be randomly selected from all of the applicants. The
government definition of artists is broad and covers any creative or
interpretative expression, including: visual arts, theatre, literature,
music, dance, opera, film, circus and architecture.
The trial hopes to minimise the loss of skill and experience from the
arts sector whilst also recognising the value that artists contributes
to society. In addition, the trial is aiming to prove that a basic
income enables artists to focus on projects without their projects being
impacted from the stress of needing to look for work in other sectors
to sustain them. Artists who receive the payment are also free to obtain
additional work if they please without affecting the payment, however
the payment is taxed so additional work may change their tax rate…
The policy was announced by Ireland’s Minster for the Arts Catherine
Martin who is a member of Ireland’s Green Party. The Green party are one
of three parties in a coalition government in Ireland. When launching
the policy Martin said,
“I believe that this scheme is the start of a fundamental change in
the way Ireland supports and recognises her artists and arts community.”
Martin went on to say,
“This pilot scheme represents a groundbreaking opportunity for us to
explore how the role of the artist in Irish society can be protected
and nurtured so we can continue to be inspired by great art for
generations to come.”” -via The Good News Hub, 4/30/22
also there’s no pithy, Tumblr-friendly way of simultaneously saying ‘Rishi Sunak being a man of colour doesn’t let him off the hook for the crappy Tory policies he’ll undoubtedly install’
and ‘the left needs to make sure that their criticism of Rishi Sunak does not veer into racism because directing racism at Tories does not make said racism acceptable’
and ‘Britain having its first British Asian PM is a big freaking deal and is going to be significant to Brits of colour across the political spectrum’
and ‘the fact that Rishi Sunak has not been elected by the general public in such a time of political upheaval is just plain appalling, ‘mandate from the people’ my arse’
I love the concept of Tooks. “Everybody in the Shire is very very businesslike and respectable and has no use for adventures except for this one entire family of mad lads who also run the municipal government”
The decision by the kings of Arnor to name the Tooks rightful thanes of the Shire was actually a 3000-IQ play by the Witch-King of Angmar to keep the Tooks far the fuck away from him
i don’t want to be rich i don’t want to be famous i don’t want a million tiktok followers or what the fuck ever i just want a one bedroom apartment in a walkable community with neighbors i could borrow sugar from or bring cookies to when i bake extra and a job that i enjoy and that helps someone and pays me enough to afford my silly little one bedroom and groceries and something fun too at the end of the day and enough free time to sing and dance and read and write and spend time with the people i love and maybe have a dog and some plants to water and a shelf of books to read and a thrift store where i can buy weird clothes and faded denim jackets like i am not asking for anything big or grand or exciting i just want peace i want contentment i want just a little love how the fuck is this too much to ask for
[image description: a typographic poster depicting a sketch of a sad frog sitting looking over some lily pads. the text reads “I hope you heal from the things you don’t talk about.” end ID.]
They had not been seen together in the museum galleries for quite a while. Monet’s “Women with Umbrellas” are once again side by side in the Impressionist gallery.
AND THEN THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER THE END!!!!
ok every time this post comes by i resist geeking out on it but NO LONGER so these women are probably the same woman and that woman is monet’s wife camille doncieux. he painted her a LOT. but fun fact: monet had this asshole friend named ernest hochede, and ernest racked up some debts, and like an asshole he basically just fled the country, leaving his wife alice and their six kiddos behind. monet immediately got alice and kids to move in with him, camille, and their two kids. at this point, monet, alice, and camille became my favorite probably historic poly threesome. they lived together, taking care of the kids. they were so poor that alice and camille took turns wearing the nice dress so they could go out with monet. when camille got uterine cancer and began dying, alice helped monet cope and took care of things while he painted camille over and over. when camille died, alice is the reason monet was able to survive. when ernest finally died, monet and alice married, and remained married until alice died. at that point, blanche, the oldest daughter, took care of monet until he died. anyway, the point is, the umbrella ladies are probably the same ladies, but as far as i’m concerned, there WAS a historically queer poly family in that household and they were wonderful.
