ordered pizza from a small local place and they didnt actually cut it so i’ve chosen to revert to a wild animal and begin ripping it apart instead of just using a knife to portion slices
absolutely visceral experience. food is so much more satisfying when you have to fight it. i may be feral
i am not proud to say this but that pizza lasted fifteen minutes. i normally am not that gluttonous, but this goes beyond glutton. there was gluttony and wrath. a whirlwind of sauce, cheese, and pepperoni, all atop a flatbread that was shred apart by my own hands due to the neglect of another
in that moment i was wild. i was free. i understood the simplest joys in life. the joy of eating and manifesting my own destiny
been reflecting on this all day and the unsliced pizza experience honestly ruled. i think everyone should try it sometime or another. you have not truly lived until you just absolutely obliterated a pizza in such a feral manner
is this you
yes
run
My best friend and I have this tradition we call “chicken dinner” where we get a rotisserie chicken, lay it on a tarp, start on opposite ends of the tarp, and on the count of three we both run at the chicken and start ripping into it with our bear hands. We will be on our knees fighting for the best pieces of meat, ripping into the chicken with our faces, and it is the most viscerally delicious chicken I have ever had in my life. Grease gets everywhere. We have to do this outside. We have to tie our hair in buns beforehand.
You have never known the joy of food until you are lunging at your friend to rip the best part of the chicken out of their hand, rolling around on the tarp, stuffing it in your face before they can retaliate, and you realize “holy shit did I just growl?” And then you realize they are doing it too.
The chicken gets decimated. It’s absolutely destroyed. We aren’t allowed back inside until we have been hosed down. It’s the best.
One thing that’s vitally important to remember is that feeling “weirded out” is not a form of harm. It is a completely normal part of socializing. It is the feeling of encountering something unfamiliar. In order to be a kind person, you must learn to how to distinguish between “harmful” and “weird.” And then you must accept the weird.
so, today we, russian queers, may become “extremists” by decision of russian supreme court and thus our existence will be silenced and erased. any queer activism will be impossible for us. I don’t know what to do anymore. I was heartbroken when they passed the laws about “gay propaganda” and transgender people, now I’m just numb. I don’t want to escape. I just want to live safely in my own country.
“Yes,” said the angel. “But then you were turned into a beetle, and we believe in keeping things tidy.”
“I have a human soul!”
“A beetle soul, now, actually. Which means you go to the beetle afterlife.”
“You can’t do this to me! How will I ever get to see any of my loved ones again?”
“Maybe they’ll also be turned into beetles. You never know.” They tried to brush the glittering shell soothingly. “Look on the bright side. You were crushed so quickly after you were turned into a beetle that you didn’t have any time to commit any beetle sins. That means you get to go to beetle heaven.”
The beetle turned tiny interested glittering eyes up to the brilliant face. “Is that good?”
“Oh yes,” said the angel. “Beetle heaven is very exclusive.”
look the Spotify CEO is an evil sociopath like 99% of CEOs but… Spotify Wrapped just releases the last week of November, specifically on Wednesday
That’s why it was on the 1st in 2021 and it was the 30th last year and the 29th this year
it is not a massive anti-Palestine conspiracy (I don’t think, anyway)
in this one instance, it’s a coincidence that the CEO is a specific kind of evil sociopath and Wrapped, which I guarantee he had nothing to do with because massive projects like Wrapped are worked on by teams of people many levels lower than CEO, released today
[image description: screenshot of tags that say “Why Wednesday? Too many cool things happening on Thursday?”]
God, there’s actually an answer to this and I’m so sorry — historically and generally speaking, social media platforms are most active on Wednesdays. Spotify wants folks to share their Wrapped, might as well launch on the day statistically more people are around! From a tech perspective it also means they’re not launching the very first day of the week and can QA a bit more before launch, and they’re not immediately signing off for the weekend, have to work for the weekend, or have to hand off the project to the weekend crew. Community management during a major launch is all 8 hours of your day.
Also lack of competition; movies release Thursday/Friday as do video games, albums and books tend to release Tuesdays now.
The fact that the post that claims Spotify Wrapped’s release was an anti-Palestine conspiracy has like 50k notes makes me want to cast myself into the sea. It’s so, so easy to check this shit, y'all. Just google “spotify wrapped [year]” and you can see that it releases on the Wednesday of the last week of November; there’s always a ton of media coverage, so even if Google doesn’t spell it out for you, we can put our thinking caps on and surmise from Teen Vogue publishing “Spotify Wrapped 2020 is here!” on December 2 2020 or whatever means that’s when it came out.
Spotify has almost ten thousand employees. Do you know how little contact the CEO at a company that large has with the team working on Wrapped? The only thing he knows about Wrapped is that it’s happening, I guarantee it.
There are real painfully evil things happening in the world. There’s a new one every day with this horrible conflict. Reactionary spreading of disinformation like this is very bad whether it’s conservative talking points or progressive ones. Don’t get sucked in.
Hey, I know it’s fun to make fun of Henry Kissinger. But you know what’s even more fun? Donating to organizations that help undo some of the damage that Kissinger inflicted on various countries. Here’s a couple of links!
Cambodian Children’s Fund (I donated $50 to this one- that’s enough feed 26 families by providing 5 kilograms of rice each month!)
FAFG (This is a charity that helps Guatemalans find loved ones who disappeared during the Guatemalan Civil War.)
The Halo Trust (This charity is dedicated to removing landmines in Angola. Since 1994, they’ve destroyed nearly 100,000 landmines!)
Remember, NSFW is not an abbreviation for nude that somehow has more syllables. It’s shorthand for “If my boss happened to look over my shoulder when this was on my screen, would there be consequences?”
This is subjective, and depends on the boss and the job, of course. But many, many images that contain zero nudity are still very much NSFW (and sometimes, images with nudity aren’t!) Consider this.
just goes to show how young the population of the internet is nowadays. nearly everyone that was into the internet for real in the early 2000s knew this kinda stuff
I am super against light pollution, and have been for decades
but I am also super annoyed by the way it’s framed as “without light pollution you can see how beautiful the night sky is” way more prominently than it’s framed as “hey, did you ever stop to think of how much energy/resources/money are literally wasted by having so much light shine up into the sky?”
so people get the idea that light pollution can only be remedied by eliminating all night-time light, which would make being outside at night very inconvenient, instead of by making night-time light shine only on the ground where, y'know, the people who need it are
The mildest example of what OP’s talking about in Dunedin, Aotearoa:
This is just with the streetlamp equivalent of using lampshades. Imagine what truly directional city lights could achieve?
Reblogging this again cause light pollution actually have negative health affects on humans and wildlife. We weren’t meant to live in a world constantly bathed in light.
this shoudl be an internaitonal holiday. we should all have the day off tomorrow to get fuckin wasted / play a nice board game because henry kissinger died
i learned that with the passage of the CARES Act, menstrual products are now considered eligible expenses for your health insurance, FSA, HSA, and HRA funds. (x)
if there’s any time to switch, it’s NOW!
invest in yourself by buying chemical-free and eco-friendly menstrual products! just show a screenshot of your order confirmation and you will be reimbursed for your period-related purchases!
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i know it seems like reusable menstrual pads = big investment since theyre costlier than disposable pads but trust me, its worth it. ive been using cloth pads for over a year now and i no longer get any rashes nor feel any discomfort down there. moreover, i only end up using one pad for the whole day and one pad for the whole night. its the best thing you can do for yourself and the planet!
reusable pads are honestly life changing. when im about to have my period and im going out, i just use cloth pads and i feel confident, comfortable and secure knowing that im period ready
idk if other companies do this but i also want to share that if you email cariona to ask for their current patterns, they’ll send it and you can pick your patterns. here’s my liner stash:
Seriously get these it’s so worth it
i was so envious of people who could use menstrual cups because they are such a good investment and it cuts down on waste but like, i can’t use them because i get such bad vaginal pain and a lot of tampons make my cramps worse so even the thought of trying a cup was impossible. and the reusable pads just seemed so expensive. and what if i didn’t like them??? well, i found some that were on sale (a set of 6, i don’t remember the price a the time) and i figured it wasn’t that much and if i didn’t like them i didn’t like them. i fucking love them! i actually just bought a second set of 6 because i was still using a couple of disposable pads. yes, it is a lot of money UP FRONT for them, but they will very quickly pay for themselves within the first year of use. and there is always the option to do what i do and just watch for sales and slowly build your supply up. and they last for like 5 years, in which time you could spend way more on disposable products. things i love about them 1)they hold so much more than i thought they would! even with my last two periods being heavier than normal i still only had to use two or three disposable pads, and i probably didn’t even need that last one 2) they don’t fold over on me and then stick to my skin/hair and therefore not being affective and also kinda painful when i try to fix it 3) i can reposition them if they are too far back!!! a problem i have always had is i tend to put pads on too far back for whatever reason, but with these and i can just pull them into place if they aren’t quite where i want it. 4) rinsing them out by hand feels powerful for some reason. nothing like seeing the water run red with blood to make me feel like i’m cleaning up from some epic battle i’m winning. 5) my cramps aren’t as bad? don’t know if this is because of the pads themselves, or if it’s because of my weird periods lately, but i swear my killer cramps have not been as bad and i feel like i can actually function. i really think that they are worth every penny (for me) and i think that if you are thinking about it then you should at least get a few and try them out, you can always stock up on more later.
Yeah, actually… my period pain got milder. There’s been some research about the absorption of the chemicals in plastic pads making periods worse
Gonna chip in here with I swapped to reusable pads during lockdown cause I bleed a lot and get through a lot of pads. (You know how there’s like “night time” pads? I used 4 of those a day, for 5 days, for a cost of like, £8?)
I took the plunge and got a pack which had like, 1 ‘light’ 1 ‘normal’ and 1 ‘night’, and ok I had to go back to their website and buy 5 ‘night’ ones.
But I only use those 5 night ones for my entire period. There’s a bit of washing involved but I was spending like £100 on sanitary pads a year (minimum) and I spent £50 once over a year ago and that’s it.
I don’t get the chafing I used to, cramps aren’t as bad and I swear I can’t smell it anywhere near as much. Also no ‘crinkle crinkle’ of wrappers, no trying to find a bin… If you can’t take the plunge on a cup (I tried, did not work for me) then reusable pads are fantastic.
Seriously though, I can’t use a cup but reusable pads are a game changer!!
I have tried cups, a no go for me, but I love the reusable pads! They are so comfortable.
Seriously. Cloth pads are the single most comfortable way to handle menses. Usually the top layer is way softer than disposables and you literally just chuck it in the wash when you need to clean them. Usually my cycle is heavy, painful to the point of vomiting, and tampons and cups just make all that nonsense way worse. I started using the reusable pads years ago and honestly it changed everything. My cycles are lighter, less painful, and I don’t fly through my supplies like I used to! If you menstruate definitely give them a try.
Apart from all of the above, the (lack of) smell! I started to use cloth pads because of many reasons, but one of the biggest perks for me is that I don’t get nauseated by the sickly smell of the perfume they put in the disposables, every time I go to the toilet. Blood doesn’t have much of a scent, it’s the chemicals in the disposable pads that make them smell bad and the perfume, in my opinion, just makes it so much worse. All of that is gone if you use cloth.
I feel like I should try this now cuz cups are….. Not working.
Another vote for these!! My periods used to be so damn MESSY and since I started using reusable pads, they’ve been mostly mess-free.
Denying a trans reading of Scott Pilgrim not because I don’t see it but because if Scott was an egg and Ramona was a trans woman then there’d be no fucking way she’d be adhering to the prime directive this fucking hard whenever he says some egg shit. Scott would talk about his hair or go on about how he wishes he was a lesbian and her face would contort like a deflating basketball from the relatable cringe of it all
Kim: you can’t say anything. you know how this works, she has to figure it out herself.
Ramona: you don’t understand, she’s been so bad lately. I don’t know if I can take this any longer.
Scott, entering the room: hey have you girls seen my big jacket, the one that doesn’t make me hate myself so much? wonder why it does that. anyway, I’m gonna go play DND with Roxie, she said it was girls only so Wallace couldn’t come but for some reason she invited me anyway, lol. I’m thinking about playing a cool knight lady, just for variety. anyway bye!
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ANYONE that pirates adobes 500 dollar programs should be ASHAMED!
NOBODY should EVER take this base64 string (aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZvbGRlci9NQTB4aElZSSNQX3BqNl82SkxkaFdCcl9odllqSm13) and put it into the converter at https://www.base64decode.org/ to get all the major adobe programs for free! that would be a crime!
ANYONE that pirates adobes 500 dollar programs should be ASHAMED!
Shoutout to all the people of Ohio who just passed abortion, contraception, and reproductive rights of all people into constitutional law by a fucking 12+ point margin despite the state legislature desperately trying to do everything they can to fuck up the vote. I’m so proud of y'all!!
This is why they gerrymander.
This is why they want to convince you that voting doesn’t matter.
MAN 1 (in a high pitched, whiny voice) Look what you’ve done to my peonies!
WOMAN (angrily) They’re marigolds!
MAN 2 God! I think she’s right! They are marigolds!
MAN 1 I may not know my flowers, but I know a (yells in her direction) bitch when I see one!
It’s back!
I looked this up because I had to know what it’s from. It’s a film called The Gay Deceivers (1969), and it’s about two straight men who, seeking to avoid the draft, claim to be gay, but then have to keep up the pretense when the army places them under surveillance.
The man in the red cardigan in the clip was played by Michael Greer, who was openly gay himself - unusual for the time. He actually worked closely with the director and rewrote much of the film’s dialogue to reduce the homophobia and make it more realistic. As a result it’s quite progressive for its time, having a gay character, played by a gay man, living in a happy same-sex relationship, which is more than a lot of media offers us today.
Plus the clip is delightful.
I just looked it up on wikipedia and fucking
The twist is that even after the pair is caught, they are not inducted into the military. The Army investigators assigned to watch them are themselves gay and are trying to keep straight people out of the Army.
the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i went nonverbal, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy… until. he tried to ask me “you okay?” but the way he chose to do that was by sending “👉🏼👌🏼❓” and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again
games having fascist or orientalist or conservative themes in the narrative is honestly worse than movies or tv imo because its asking you to actively take part in it, to identify with it without question because ‘its just a game’. and the game in question is a survival horror where youre a civilized white person stranded in some forest or jungle and the cannibalistic ~natives~ are out to savagely murder you so you must make improvised weapons to mow them down en masse because you are playing as that protagonist and its just what you do to win the game
and then you wonder why the 'gamer’ community is so vocally misogynistic, racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc
It’s the other way around. Because the “gamer” community is vocally misogynist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc. (popular) games are Like That. You don’t get turned racist by a racist game just like you aren’t turned gay by a game where your male PC kisses a guy. But you sure buy racist games if you’re already racist!
You’re underestimating the effects that military propaganda games where you’re an American soldier killing waves of generic brown terrorists can have on desensitizing generations of impressionable kids in middle school to state violence and the justifications of imperialism and war. Bringing up some made up scenario of a game turning someone gay is a completely false equivalence because being gay isn’t an ideology that someone can be indoctrinated into by propaganda . Be serious. A 12 year old isn’t born racist, they’re conditioned into it and popular video games can be a big part of that conditioning that only reinforces itself as they grow older and keep playing these types of games
We all understand the concept of propaganda until someone suggests video games can be it
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