It took me this long to realize that the reason Edmund wants Turkish Delight so badly is because sweets were rationed during the war and I’m not gonna lie, if i hadn’t had chocolate in 6 months and someone said they could get it to me I’d just be like who do you need dead
Why do police have quotas? If a doctor went around intentionally sneezing on people to get more patients, that would be seen as a travesty to their profession. But police, can sit around and wait for someone to turn on a red light or commit other mundane ‘offenses’ because they have quotas to meet. Quotas are all the proof we need that policing is not a public service vocation; it’s a business and a subsidiary of Wall Street.
— Enrique Molina (via rubiewooo)
The Guardian has launched a massive campaign this week urging dramatic action on climate change with one very simple action point: keeping fossil fuel in the ground before we roast ourselves to death. The campaign centers around an email petition asking the the world’s two biggest charitable funds to move their money out of fossil fuels…
We don’t do advocacy here at The Daily Banter, but for this we’re making an exception. Sign the petition here…
“However, long before the mythical Hades was ever conceived, in more ancient, pre-patriarchal times, Persephone was Queen of the Underworld and was another form of Hecate. Originally, the Triple Goddess was…