realism at work. no, in fact, i would rather have the dissolution of the united states, a blowjob, and a suit tailored just for me in a lightweight italian wool.
Uh huh … it’s just the last time you guys didn’t vote for the least awful option we all had to endure Trump so we get nervous when it sounds like you’re going to do it again… Please don’t do that again….
you are trapped in a little black box with the windows painted over
do you understand that the two party system is not going to be replaced by something better if biden doesn’t get the votes, it will be replaced with a dictatorship that doesn’t allow you to have a voice period. it’s going to result in a government that wants to do HERE what israel is doing right now, which they are publicly saying they want to do and have plans for, and there will be no holding democrats accountable because dems and the courts will be stripped of as much power as possible.
if you’re upset about what netanyahu is doing the answer is not to let another far right fascist control the most powerful country on earth.
you are like a little yapping chihuahua to me. all it took was one mention of the president’s name and your mouth is already filled with pavlovian slobber. i just made a post wishing for president biden to commit suicide and you want to utilize that very post as a platform to try and get me and, i imagine, the thousands of others who agree with the sentiment to vote for him. what’s wrong with you? i genuinely wonder whether you believe on some level that what you just wrote will be mind-changing or whether it’s just the output of a liberal compulsion towards idealism. but i suppose the tactical inefficacy shouldn’t surprise me, since you’re suggesting a vote for the democratic party as an effective manoeuvre against fascism and genocide (in the states, at least!) i’m bored. it’s been seven years of this exact rhetoric (“vote blue so that america is not cast into a hell of trump’s creation!”) and, hurrah, the american people have obediently voted democrat both elections around! we have thusly been living in the status quo you’re fighting to maintain for seven years— is this what your success looks like?
any proponent of democracy would understand the basic concept of exerting voting power: “i refuse to vote for the democratic candidate so long as they are aiding and abetting a genocide abroad.” the democratic executive and legislature has willingly acted against the will of 80% of its voterbase, and you beg that we bail them out, because the miasma of your realism has so invaded your senses that you cannot even imagine a slight tactical shift on the part of the democratic party. the dotardly corpse running the show at present has lost us roe v. wade, and has, in fact, been committing genocide at home at the mexican border. your suggestion that we must abide by a system of choosing between “less genocide” or “more genocide” is puny, unstudied, and doomed in more ways than i can count.
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
An actual World Heritage Post
how does this post not have a million notes but anyone online can quote it
In the context of Palestine, abolition hinges on the understanding that a reform of the Zionist state cannot possibly solve the problems created by Zionism, it only helps maintain them. Seeking to reform the Zionist state assumes that Zionism’s initial impulse—which is premised on settler colonialism and necessitates land theft, dispossession, displacement, human and cultural genocide—is acceptable, but that something went wrong, somewhere down the line. For instance, a reform limited to the West Bank and Gaza implies that al-Nakba— Palestine’s catastrophe—did not start around 1948, but in 1967. Ending the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip would not dismantle Jewish supremacy in those parts of the Palestinian homeland first occupied in 1948; nor would it address the Right of Return of Palestinians displaced from those cities and villages occupied in 1948, without which the Zionist dream would not have materialized. Indeed, the “peace process,” with its endless round of futile talks, is an illustration of the attempt at “reform,” rather than abolition. What that process has led to is an entrenchment of dispossession, now subcontracted to the Palestinian Authority. Instead, one must ask: “When was Zionism not a supremacist ideology privileging some people over others, based on perceived ethnicity? When did Zionism not necessitate the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people? Was there ever one brief moment, from its inception to the present day, when Zionism was not violent?” Zionism cannot be reformed; it must be abolished.
Nada Elia, Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/nationalism, and Palestine
You know I find it funny as an aroace person when I’m told I haven’t ‘met the right person yet’, because it insinuates that people only fall in love or come to like 'the right people’.
People fall in love with absolute pieces of shit all the time. They fall in love with people that don’t love them and with people they will soon no longer love.
A lot of people that love hardly ever fall for the 'right person’. So why is it me that hasn’t even fallen for the 'wrong person’ that has to find the 'right person’.
I’m a bit tired of people calling asexuality ‘not a big deal.’
Here’s the thing, I never thought it was a big deal either. I didn’t have a big angsty coming out about being aro or being ace. It was difficult in a sense to think of the future I’d imagined for myself not coming true, but I didn’t mourn that future. I was happy that there were others out there feeling what I was feeling and going through what I was going through.
But it’s become a big deal. It’s become a big deal because as I have grown older, I have realised the future is still fucking blurry. I have no idea what to expect from it. Society was not built for those who do not or cannot follow its rules. I’ve realised just how MUCH people say aphobic stuff on a daily basis. I feel constantly othered by comments that carelessly remind us we are out of the majority. That remind us again and again that we are NOT the norm and will never BE the norm. I rarely see myself on TV and in books and in movies. People feel weird about it, so they just never bring it up like an unspoken secret. I’m constantly doubted and told I’m mistaken about my own identity, which causes anxiety and self doubt so many years later. People make a variety of assumptions about me and tell me it’s 'sad’ and I’m 'missing out.’
It’s not just about 'not having sex.’ It’s about feeling like you’re the only one at a concert that doesn’t know the words. it about society making you feel like you’re just a little bit off. My sexuality/romantic identity doesn’t define me. I don’t WANT it to be a big deal.
But it is. It is a big deal because all of you make it a big deal.
Barbie moving back or just not feeling it when Ken tries to kiss her on multiple occasions. That right there. That’s when I felt so seen.
And throughout the entire movie, I was just dreading the moment where she’ll have to step back and realize that she’s had feelings for him this whole time ugh and that she’ll go back and they’ll live happily fucking ever after again ugh
But there was none of that. Just Barbie being her own self without a man, without a romantic relationship.
That right there. That gutted me because that’s been me my entire life and I thought that there was something wrong with me for not wanting a boyfriend and romance in the real world, fictionally it’s a whole other thing but this right here rung so so true to me because it felt so real and it felt like a healing salve to that ache society caused in me.
“i can fix him” i can jailbreak him and make him fully customizable
I can get into his registry and change her gender settings
or maybe she runs on linux, in which case you have to modify /etc/gender and then restart genderd (if using systemd, that’s # sysemctl restart genderd).
note that if you make this change, you might want to consider installing or uninstalling some of genderd’s optional dependencies
Or perhaps NixOS, where you can just configre her gender declaratively and run “nixos-rebuild switch” to take care of the exact files and services that need changing for you (with the option of overlays to change any details that the base configs don’t have options for)
I scrolled through the notes on this post and my favorite has to be one mockingly accusing Madeline Miller (a Latin and Greek teacher with a Masters in Classics) of needing to do research and she wasn’t a real writer like them.
Anyway when I read that line I immediately understood what she was trying to say.
Honestly, the first time I saw this tweet, I laughed my tits straight into the ocean.
I know what ‘olive skinned’ (and thus variations on it) means, but the author taking the time to have a little laugh, acknowledge that it’s at least a bit funny, and drop some knowledge is appreciated.
And a double thanks to the person I reblogged from for linking the articles.
The thread is perfect as it is, but just in case
Left: traditional extraction using a capacho basket, right modern extraction using a cold press. One is greenish brown and the other is green.
In case you want to see what the author meant about that not beeing what she saw.
new sorting algorithm called solitaire sort where your collection is sorted according to the rules of the game solitaire. it’s got crazy time complexity but its main benefit is that it’s fun
i’ve never once read advice from a “how to study” post and applied it in my own life. i have never consciously followed “rule #1: i know it’s hard but don’t procrastinate!!!” from tumblr user studyhard or whatever. i know in my heart that i will never follow anyone’s rules, guides, or advice when given in the format of a cute Post. because i am incapable of forming habits. sometimes i don’t brush my teeth at night because I get feepy. and whatever that’s about is between me and god
i want a chess set in which all the pieces are obscure polyhedra. watch as i move my small icosihemidodecahedron to g8 and promote it to great truncated icosidodecahedron. what delightful fun
i’ve never once read advice from a “how to study” post and applied it in my own life. i have never consciously followed “rule #1: i know it’s hard but don’t procrastinate!!!” from tumblr user studyhard or whatever. i know in my heart that i will never follow anyone’s rules, guides, or advice when given in the format of a cute Post. because i am incapable of forming habits. sometimes i don’t brush my teeth at night because I get feepy. and whatever that’s about is between me and god
how did a handful of people online manage to launder the position that pineapple on pizza is even like, particularly weird, into public conception? like what, is sea salt & caramel unthinkable as well?
just wait till i tell you about meat icing (bbq sauce)
how did a handful of people online manage to launder the position that pineapple on pizza is even like, particularly weird, into public conception? like what, is sea salt & caramel unthinkable as well?
just wait till i tell you about meat icing (bbq sauce)
I hate how oddly sexualized breasts are, and how oddly sexualized bedrooms are, and I hate how anything not inherently sexual gets sexualized, it was hot outside and me and my boyfriend were watching his friend repair his truck at my house and I had a shirt off and only my binder on since yk it was hot out, and the other guys also had their shirts off and it was considered fine, but when me and my boyfriend went to go relax in the ac in my room I changed from my binder to a sports bra cause my ribs hurt and kept a shirt off cause I was still sweating a lot and really hot, and my mom came in complaining about how I need to wear a shirt and how it’s weird to wear only a bra in a bedroom with your significant other even though she knows I’m ace and she thinks it’s weird since he isn’t ace and I have breasts and bedrooms are sexualized, why is it okay to not have a shirt as one assigned gender and not the other, why are certain environments more sexualized than others, it makes no sense especially since we weren’t doing anything sexual, neither me nor him made it weird, but my mom was making a huge deal out of having tits in a bedroom
maybe it’s cause I’m autistic or maybe cause I’m asexual but I think the oversexualization of literally everything is weird
aromanticism and asexuality are still treated as issues to be fixed in most therapy settings, at least in the western psychiatric institution. i cannot fucking mention my aromanticism or asexuality to a therapist or it’ll immediately become their primary concern and goal to fix. whether or not i have a partner/am trying to have a partner is actively being used as an indicator of my wellness, regardless of if i WANT one. i cannot have access to needed mental health ressources because of fear of conversion therapy. aro and/or ace conversion therapy is the norm in most psychiatric institutions and we are getting told by the rest of the queer community that our oppression isnt real and that there is no link between our struggles and theirs.
Video description: A TikTok that starts with an on-the-street interviewer, which is then stitched by a Black man standing in his yard with grilling stuff behind him. He has short natural hair, glasses, and is wearing a dinosaur button up. Username @/sciencewithtyus
Man: Hi ace man here. I actually do have some advice for straight men – don’t mind me I’m just outside, I’m getting the grill warmed up – But yeah I have some things I think I can contribute to this conversation.
Now, you might be wondering to yourself “what could an ace person possibly contribute to this conversation?” But in a similar way in which women understand the patriarchy in the way they’re subjugated under it more than men do, in the way that Black people understand whiteness more than white people can perceive it as a construct and how it’s been manipulated in a way to impose forms of power on a systematic level, ace people often have to unpack and disentange the way that what desire and sex means in society – and the way that often it can be compulsory in a way that it is assumed that we’re all supposed to participate in it. So that’s really important to think about what we’re going forward in this conversation.
I first want to say that I think it’s unfortunate because I feel like a lot of men have been sold this lie through western media – television and even some forms of even literature – that the quality of men’s lives are not of any value – of any substance – unless it’s on the condition of having some sort of romantic partner, or an individual of like, of substantial attractiveness. Which I feel like actually hurts a lot of people in the long term.
I find one of the major problems with advice that is given to straight men – and many other men around the world – is that it’s given under the expectation that it will accumulate or accrue some form of social capital, and I find that that’s incredibly dangerous for a lot of people out there, when it comes to this idea that you should do something only because it’s advantageous – but rather than the fact that you enjoy doing it.
You hear a lot of guys in, like, men’s advice columns or podcasting “women love guys that do interesting things” and I’m sure there’s definitely a sense of accuracy to that. But here’s the question, though: is that like – do you find that interesting yourself? Do the things that give you joy, and you will attract the people around you in proximity to the things that you share common interest with.
Don’t take ceramics because you’re trying to find your future partner, take ceramics because you think it’ll be an interesting class that you maybe will end up actually enjoying for a long period of your life.
So aside from the basics that I feel generally benefits a lot of men – like have decent hygiene, decent self maintenance – you know maybe have a hobby, one or two – once again it’s not a competition, do it because you like it.
There’s often one that I feel like is left out in this conversation, and that’s like, live a life of substance, live a life for yourself, live for yourself. Not for other people, or in the hope of doing something in an expectation of getting something out [of] it. Do it because you like doing it, and radiate that joy.
I also think, because of the way toxic masculinity is internalized in a lot of straight men, in the way I think loneliness plagues a lot of men, you have a lot of people out there who restrain themselves from doing things that they would actually enjoy, under the perception of the fact that they are alone, and that something’s wrong with them, or that they’re lacking in their life. If you wanna do something, do it. Don’t be afraid to do it by yourself. You wanna go to that concert? Go by yourself. You wanna take yourself out for dinner? Take yourself out for dinner. Live for yourself!
“Sex is what makes us human” is stupid. Almost every species fucks. Humans are the only species that jumps motorcycles over school buses that are on fire. Some other things too probably
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