Throwback to 2016 when I told my sister “they’re making another planet earth” and she just like. raised an eyebrow and said in this absolutely deadpan condescending tone “and where are they getting the dirt for it?” and I had to specify I meant planet earth the nature documentary not the celestial body
some of yall will be like “i dont care about your dreams, i dont care about your spotify wrapped, i dont want to hear about your interests, dont you dare talk to me about your trauma,” and its like. what do you even have friends for. bc it sounds to me like you dont give a shit about anything that makes them a person. what do you talk about.
you know what? i dedicate this doodle sheet to you, tumblr user heliacal-paladin. you’ve won
still couldn’t resist leaving some claws in
SHUT THE FUCK UP
STOP BULLYING ME
I feel like this post is gonna be a tumblr heritage post one day
oh no
It has; already appeared in 2 YouTube videos and one of my friends who has never used tumblr before knows of this post.
Roxy I’m sorry to say that I first knew you from Reddit and only discovered your Tumblr because amogus euthanasia was on every tumblr and furry subreddit
oh my god.
I have a morbid curiosity about what furries think of this post.
hey, i’m a furry! plenty of my friends are furries! we all think this post is super funny lmao
thinking of when I had a dream I was an aging white father of 3 kids and my weeping wife was begging me to not leave (I don’t know why I was leaving her) and as I walked out the front door of our suburban home I turned around in my khakis and said “I’m sorry, but I have to go now and….I’m never coming back. I love you” and then woke up like
Remember this viral post? Wanda and Jamal and her husband Lonnie are the most wholesome people, this story brought tears to my eyes originally and I am crying once more learning from Jamal’s social media that Lonnie has sadly passed away.
Rest in Peace, Lonnie :(
Whenever I lose faith in humanity, I remember these four lovely folks and feel a little better 🥺
i hate when people take a character and transfem her and then suddenly she’s super femme and girly and a makeup guru like lets be real she would fucking NEVER.
like if she’s some weird fucking guy, and then you transed her gender, now she’s a weird fucking girl. thems the rules
met a guy from saudi arabia last night at a bar, he came here with his sister so she could have surgery. he told me “i love your country for healing my sister. there are many wonderful things here, but there’s one thing you do not have. mercy” and then he asked if that was a boston thing or an overall american quality
“don’t worry about how other people perceive you” okay but like how they treat me is frequently determined by how they perceive me and I would prefer people be niceys to me
If you’re intimidating enough they will always treat you niceys
So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.
Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?
The answer is they wouldn’t. So that means this claim requires further investigation!
This project is called LIQUID 3, and it’s not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it’s meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.
Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:
Don’t have enough space to plant full trees, or
Don’t have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.
The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can’t wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.
The tanks aren’t just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there’s room, but where there isn’t room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn’t a replacement for trees. It’s replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).
Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it’s needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can’t sustain complex installations.
So yeah, there’s actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I’d take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I’d be delighted.
So you definitely don’t want to read the comments on this one, but there’s a new study out showing just how bad weight discrimination in the work force can be.
I like how they examine how the impact intersects with class and gender (just men and women, with 23000 ppl in their sample, I’m 100% sure there were trans ppl, unless they were deliberately excluded)
tw: o word, lots of fatphobia in the comments.
These results suggest that the aggregate costs of wage discrimination borne by overweight workers in America are hefty. Suppose you assume that obese women, but not men, face a wage penalty of 7% (the average across all such women in our sample) and that this is the same regardless of their level of education. Then a back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that they bear a total cost of some $30bn a year. But if you account for both the discrimination faced by men, and for the higher wage penalty experienced by the more educated (who also tend to earn more), the total cost to this enlarged group more than doubles, to $70bn per year.
Disco Elysium’s setting was formerly the site of a communist revolution that established the Commune of Revachol. It didn’t last long. The Coalition of Nations brutally put the communists down, divided the city among themselves, and enforced a free market capitalist system. The results are depressingly apparent in Revachol’s dilapidated district of Martinaise. “The literacy rate is around 45% west of the river,” Joyce Messier, a negotiator sent to parley with Martinaise’s striking union, tells our protagonist. “Fifty years of occupation have left these people in an *oblivion* of poverty.”
This state of affairs is overseen by the Moralist International, a union of centre-left and centre-right parties that professes to represent the cause of humanism, but whose primary concern is transparently the preservation of capitalist interest – a Coalition official happily tells us that “the Coalition is only looking out for *ze price stabilitié*”, arguing that inflation in Revachol must be prevented, comparing it to a heart disease that could block the “normal circulation of the economy”. The people of Revachol don’t matter. Their suffering and oppression is only significant as a necessary symptom of the system functioning as intended.
The most biting aspect of this critique of capitalist exploitation can be found in the cynicism of those who represent Moralism, or at least, its interests. The aforementioned Joyce Messier is its perfect embodiment. She does not believe in the facade of humanity Moralism presents to the world, and is under no illusions about what it has done to the people of Martinaise. She tells you how bad things are, freely admitting that the pieces of legislation put in place by the Moralist Coalition to govern Revachol are there to keep “the city in a […] laissez-faire stasis to the benefit of foreign capital”. This corrosion of belief via cynicism, this depiction of a system that continues to operate unimpeded despite few believing in it, feels all too familiar.
This critique of liberal capitalism’s hypocrisy, cynicism, exploitation and deep-rooted connections to colonialism, is particularly powerful in recognising the precarious position it finds itself in. It has reached a stasis that seems, paradoxically, both insurmountable, and on the verge of collapse. Moralism relies on this contradiction. It’s unofficial motto, “for a moment, there was hope”, underlines the degree to which its dominance depends on the preclusion of the idea that a better world is possible, that there is no alternative, echoing the End of History sentiment that created the (rapidly disintegrating) political consensus of our lived reality.
Despite growing dissatisfaction with the status quo in the real world, it has, indeed, proved difficult to imagine an alternative. The oft-repeated phrase attributed to literary critic and political theorist Fredric Jameson, that is is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is the end of capitalism, has almost become a cliché. However, the mistake Joyce makes, and one that we should avoid, is to assume that this means an alternative won’t emerge nonetheless.
[…]
In a world where everyone is encouraged to look out for themselves, Disco Elysium suggests we should remember the value of collectivity, camaraderie and community. The Deserter has forgotten that though the communism he identified with is dead, the values that brought people to its cause in search of a better world remain as valid as ever. Bleak as it is, those values exist in Martinaise. They exist in us. Their latent power has the potential to lead us towards better horizons.
saying you honest to god think scott pilgrim is a child predator, or worse, that the comic condones scott’s actions, is like one of the fastest ways to tell me you didn’t actually read the comic
like to be clear him dating knives is Bad, when you read the comic and go “what the fuck is up with this sketchy 23 year old” that is the intended reaction,
but like
everyone knows (even scott (as much as scott’s clueless ass can know anything)) that this is just a fake relationship scott isn’t actually invested in, just something he’s going through because of his whole arrested development thing
he never really shows any actual interest in knives at all, is actively disgusted by even the thought of intimacy with her
he ditches her for ramona without a thought the first chance he gets lmao
like yeah it is incredibly shitty and gross all around, thank you for noticing, that’s what the story wants you to notice because it’s part of scott’s character arc of “growing up” and “becoming less of a failure of a human being”
this isn’t a story about how dating highschoolers is cool and everyone should do it, and the reading that scott is a pedophile and the story condones his actions is just straight up not supported by the text,
idk what to tell you maybe stop treating characters in stories like they’re actual people you need to write a callout post about
he wants to be able to say he has a girlfriend but when she tries to kiss him he jumps back, this is volume 1 shit. why does he react like that? could it be because in that moment he is forced to realize he passively encouraged her feelings for him, and that makes him a sketchy older guy taking advantage of a young woman’s feelings? and he doesn’t want to think of himself that way, he’s a chill awesome popular guy!
also to add to this… it’s pretty evident that scott does not see knives as a real relationship, because to him knives is not really… a person. she’s a way for him to recapture the past, high school dating out of high school. the reason why he struggles to break up with her is because he has to acknowledge her as a full human being with thoughts and feelings of her own to do that.
i swear i’m gonna start writing a reading comprehension guide for this comic if people don’t chill this second lmao
i once played the asking game with my mom when she was talking to me about her diet plans.
why are you dieting? because i’ve gained loads of weight recently. who cares? everyone does. i don’t care. but i do. why? because i don’t want to be fat. why don’t you want to be fat? because it’s embarrassing and i don’t want to be an ugly pig. is being fat hurting you? not especially, but it’s not nice for other people to look at.
at this point i looked at her and said “don’t you think it’s sad that you’re spending your whole life putting these rules upon yourself, rules that naturally skinny people aren’t expected to abide by, all for the effort of trying not to be fat?” and she looked back at me with suddenly wet eyes and said, with an amount of difficulty, that yes, it is sort of sad when you think about it.
she’s been fat ever since i, her eldest child, was born. she was always super skinny in her youth, but pregnancy changed her body shape and her metabolism, and i only ever knew her as a very fat woman growing up. chances are, she will never be thin again. her lifestyle is no different to how it was before my existence; her body just works differently now. she sees it as a personal failure. she doesn’t eat her favorite foods anymore, doesn’t go out dating, doesn’t make friends, doesn’t go to events, doesn’t allow anyone to buy her clothes for her birthday because she can’t bear anyone knowing her size. she lives a lonely life, unwilling to do her favorite things. she elected for a gastric bypass surgery which, over the last few years, has introduced multiple complications that came very close to killing her, and yet she doesn’t regret the surgery because it helped her lose a few pounds. she basically does not have a stomach anymore and she still believes her fatness is because she’s been doing something wrong for the last 20something years.
diet culture is deadly not only because of the self-starvation and malnutrition but because it rips away pieces of your life that you’re supposed to enjoy. relationships and sex are only for thin people, a glass of wine and some chocolate at the end of a difficult day is an indulgence only allowed to thin people, cute clothes are only for thin people, family photographs are only for the thin relatives, riding a bike on vacation with your kids is only for families with thin parents.
doesn’t your soul ache? doesn’t it hurt you to see people doing this to themselves, to inflict this on YOURself? you can do all of these things. your life can be lived fully and joyously and with love, but you distance yourself from the things that make you happy because you feel like you aren’t good enough for them. it breaks my heart.
fatphobia is something oft inflicted upon people by others, but it comes from inside too. kill the part of you that thinks you aren’t good enough. your body is perfect already, my love.
*cracks knuckles* i’ve never been one to be unique, so i shall dabble in this as well
if this post gets to 20k notes by the end of november (see the impossible deadline?) i will finally get cracking on my novel and put it up on wattpad when its done
i love impossible deadlines, especially when i’m setting them <3
the thing about internalized homophobia is that its homophobia against yourself. the gay guy who posts about how marriage equality was a mistake, gay not queer, stop shoving it down peoples throats isnt an “internalized homophobe🥺😩🥹” hes a homophobe
sometimes i get mad at myself for being biseuxal <— internalized homophobia
i get mad at other people for being bisexual <— plain old homophobia
if you’re gonna have a big celebrity voice a character in your animated movie you should show it to a test audience and if they can correctly guess who the celebrity is you need to fire the celebrity and hire a real va
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