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Grey cat with a swollen eye wearing a cone and resting his sleepy head on a lap wearing black and blue star-patterned pjs

Everybody say “feel better soon, Li’l Banana”

It’s so funny when the vet writes a prescription for my cat using my last name. Like, what, you thought we were related? Do we look alike? This is just a little guy who lives in my house and eats my food! I call him Mr Banana but that’s not his real name or anything!

Oh hell yeah, an underrated classic

The number of sex workers I know with medical debt is ridiculous. Help a babe out!

See, this is why Yalom is making a comeback. Tell your therapist to get into existentialism!

This extreme aversion to in-person socializing does not afflict all people under 30 or only people under 30, and I know my perspective is skewed as a therapist, but the way this shit devastates people's mental health without them fully realizing it is killllllllling me.

And I will die on the hill that you need to learn how to respectfully hit on strangers of your preferred gender(s) in person, if not for the sake of your dating life and sex life, then for character. You HAVE to learn how to get rejected and how to reject others, it's a basic life skill!

I swore I would never be a middle-aged person talking about "kids these days" but oh my god PLEASE talk to each other in person sometimes, it is not actually optional to socialize in some fashion! That's literally how people become psychotic in solitary confinement.

This is SUCH a good example of what I was talking about in my video on why rich people are so lonely. This has gotta be the most extreme case since Louis XIV www.instagram.com/reel/DSAkum6...

Gooooooooof

Guys with sculpture avatars having a rough one today

Damn that looks amazing

Thanks for asking!

You would use the term incarcerated people. It’s less dehumanizing

You can easily explain to “the people” the different meanings and uses of these different terms. This idea that, if a term isn’t widely known, it must be elite-coded BS, is pretty ridiculous. Grow up and talk to your constituents like they can read.

It’s still perceived as biased because of its history in abolitionist organizing, but it’s frankly pretty neutral! Not a lot of social scientists who still see crime as a natural instead of constructed category.

The activist term is actually “criminalized populations/ communities”, though that’s more of a 1-to-1 with “criminals” than “systems-involved individuals”

I tried to get research colleagues to adopt that one, but it’s mostly been limited to academic research spaces.

The closest equivalent that Andy would likely prefer is “criminals,” but that includes quite a lot of people who have done a crime and never been noticed. Also doesn’t include those who may have been wrongly convicted and had their records expunged. I’d like to hear his suggestion.

Right. I’d like to know how else he’d refer to that same population. I’d guess he prefers “criminals” but that’s pretty nonspecific, given how many people commit crimes without ever interacting with a system.

Social research is always trying to define and redefine experiences and populations. This is mostly a good and useful thing! FTR, the preferred term is now “legal system-involved” or “systems-involved,” which gestures at the interplay with other systems of surveillance and control e.g. CPS, welfare

So, this is an already-outdated umbrella term used in policy research to indicate people with a range of criminal legal system involvement, incl. incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated people, people on probation or parole, and people w criminal records. It’s being replaced w “systems-involved”

I see it in policy spaces as an umbrella term for people who are incarcerated, have a record, or are on probation or parole. There’s been a movement away from “justice” as a neutral term though, towards “systems-involved,” which also gestures at psych/SUD incarceration, CPS and welfare programs

Understanding that MAHA is a border politics is very important, imo. The body politic and the body individual are both natural, "sovereign" spaces of national (white) power and must be protected by the full denial of porosity or constructedness

If this is a particular interest of yours, I’d give it a 4; otherwise, a 3

And even then, the struggle never ends

Damn, why is it always the coldest places that have the best social policy?

I was kidding but then I realized there’s an actual answer, and it’s the long legacy of chattel slavery

A quick note: everyone sending me this, as if I have *not* been sent it dozens of times over on all of the rat group chats I’m in, you can stop. we are well aware and figuring out next steps

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