trash_pandicute

She/her. History buff, professional procrastinator, activist, anti-joke enthusiast, pun aficionado, murderino, cat lady. Views and posts are my own.

[trash_pandicute @indy_lover]

@SuperTroopers off-site!

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

When President Clinton banned assault rifles in 1994, mass shootings dropped by 43%. After Republicans let the ban expire in 2004, they increased by 243% — please don’t tell me bans don’t work, because I don’t want to hear it.

[Vivian @suchnerve]

Wikipedia is one of the most reliable sources of information on the Internet, thanks entirely to its culture of cutthroat oneupmanship: The way the editors gain and maintain clout is successfully fact-checking other Wikipedia users.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

I love how when Trump goes five days without openly violating the U.S. Constitution we just all assume he passed away

[ellie ⸆⸉ !! ✭ HEARD MAROON @winestain3d]

next time i’m being delusional i will remember travis kelce and i will continue

[Bryan Behar @bryanbehar]

Is this how all totalitarian takeovers happen?

Every day, a wannabe dictator chips away at our laws, norms, and guardrails.

And every day, your friends accuse of you being hysterical and overreacting.

[swiftie wins @swifferwins]

travis really said “let me plant an easter egg of my own here…” 😂

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Guns are a uniquely American problem.
The rest of the world has mental health issues.
The rest of the world has ideological & philosophical division.
They have social media, pot, porn, cellphones & video games.

What they don’t have — is more guns than people, they don’t have more than 500 mass shootings in less than a year, they don’t have a populace paralyzed with fear that their child will be next. That THEY could be next.

At least, not until they arrive here.

After a British gunman killed 16 people in 1987, the country banned semiautomatic weapons like those he had used. It did the same with most handguns after a 1996 school shooting. It now has one of the lowest gun-related death rates in the developed world.

In Australia, a 1996 massacre prompted mandatory gun buybacks The rate of mass shootings went from once every 18 months to only one in the 26 years since.

Canada also tightened gun laws after a 1989 mass shooting.
So did Germany in 2002, New Zealand in 2019 and Norway in 2021.

Meanwhile here in America… since the Columbine massacre, there have been a total of 428 school shootings in the United States.

Since 1999, 390,000 students have experienced gun violence at school.

Since Sandy Hook — mass shootings have nearly tripled.

Each day 12 children die from gun violence in America. Another 32 are shot and injured.

Firearms are the leading cause of death for kids and teens in the US.

This. Is. An. American. Problem.
There are more civilian owned guns in this country than there are civilians.
It’s not the pot, the porn, the video games, it’s not the wrong kinds of locks, or too few “good guys with guns”, and it’s not the mental health issues.
Nearly every other country on earth has those things. And they don’t live this way.

It’s the guns.

[brandon* @brndxix]

japan famously agreed to be struck by two atom bombs

[Michael → building chrome extensions #47 of 100 @_alphashark_]

@swifferwins Its wild how a simple gesture can change everything. That friendship bracelet moment was pure fate. Sometimes, taking a chance is all it takes to turn dreams into reality. Love stories like this remind us that life is full of unexpected twists.

[swiftie wins @swifferwins]

i cannot believe travis kelce walked into arrowhead stadium on july 7, 2023 with a friendship bracelet and a dream of talking the elevator lady into letting him introduce himself to taylor and now he is MARRYING HER

[ʚїɞ 𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚊 ʚїɞ @tupelodorothea]

idk about y’all but i knew they were getting married the second this happened

[kris🦋 @perfectlyfine89]

Taylor: “says her boyfriend”
Travis: 👀

[Wizardhead @wizardhead]

@SandyofCthulhu

[Vonn @itsthewealth4me]

Critical thinking

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

It's Game of Thrones and it's not really an argument. This show was a cultural juggernaut, every week the whole internet watched together, it was endlessly quoted, children were named after the characters, and no one brings it up anymore because the last season was so awful.

[divvy 🧸🌷🐝 @santoshdragon]

Do yall see how every single person you know irl is totally happy and fine using ai and you sit there feeling like a weird woke chronically online freak for feeling differently because you literally read about how it’s using up the water and killing people and animals

[eric63 amg biturbo 4matic @EricMTerrill1]

can i say something? i get that vampires don't have a reflection, that makes perfect sense honestly. by why's their clothes also got no reflection? is their clothes vampires too?

[TheNCSmaster @TheNCSmaster]

“MEANWHILE, AT THE LEGION OF DOOM!”