smtimes i think about my bf too much and i feel like im going to throwup also hes literally laying right next to me but i feel like i need to be closer like i need to attach to him like a leech <- normal guy in love
“unfortunately I like men” What do you mean unfortunately?? Have you seen men?! I’m lucky to like men!! I love that I love men!! There’s so much fortune to be had in being attracted to men!!
challenge accepted? blackberry movie LETS GOOO okay so theres this guy i think his names mike i cant remember he makes this company called RIM (research in motion) but he has this communicator that is revolutionary its called the pocketlink but noone on his team is marketing theyre all engineers so they go to this guy jim who quits his job to go work for him now they have a killer product and a fantastic marketer so they go to at&t and pitch it at&t laughs at them and says it wont work mike says it will work with 500k devices at a time at&t says 10 so mike explains how the 500 000 devices will work and at&t gets a contract with RIM (mike's company) to buy a crazy amount of pocket links but pocket link is not a good name so when jim (whos pitching it) is asked for the name of the product can't think of a response he looks over at mike's blackberry stained shirt and says BlackBerry right so blackberry are doing fantastic selling hundreds of thousands of units got their own messaging program that is free while sms was costing 20c per message theyre flourishing media loves them. even obama gets one but THEN they reached the device cap 500 000 units on the network so they go to google, motorola , ericsson and they poach their top network engineers and pay them in stock (this is relevant later) so they get to work and they increase the bandwidth from 500 000 across all networks to 2 000 000 for each network (6 000 000 total) blackberry is booming theyve got customers all over the world its a status symbol its the most premium thing you can fit into your hand right then comes 2007. macworld steve jobs i think we both know what happens next the iphone comes all the major execs (like mike, steve ball(s) mer from microsoft and others) say its gonna flop within a year but it doesnt blackberry's next phone sells horribly the iphone has all their numbers and then the SEC comes in and investigates blackberry for fraud because that stock that it gave to the employees? there was no stock evaluated at that much at that time jim is sent to court and arrested (tho he gets out on a loophole and serves no jail time) and mike is broke and now instead of blackberries and everything else we have iphones and smasnugs and everything else
huh, that is very :3 indeed. pocketlinks wouldve been a sick ass name though, but he changed it to blackberry? justifiable to lock up the guy who changed that last minute
Sadly, it is true that today, 04/10/2024, KOSA has been introduced to the House BUT! That doesn’t mean it’s game over just yet!
Proof:
Friendly reminder that there is much less support for KOSA in the House than the Senate. And even if it does pass the House—God forbid, it’s not over until the President signs it.
Here is the phone number for the Committee that’ll be holding the hearing on April 17th (Use the top number), and of course keep calling your Senators & House Representative.
I know this is scary for a lot of people, but we have to keep fighting. Please spread this around & don’t give up!
Sadly, it is true that today, 04/10/2024, KOSA has been introduced to the House BUT! That doesn’t mean it’s game over just yet!
Proof:
Friendly reminder that there is much less support for KOSA in the House than the Senate. And even if it does pass the House—God forbid, it’s not over until the President signs it.
Here is the phone number for the Committee that’ll be holding the hearing on April 17th (Use the top number), and of course keep calling your Senators & House Representative.
I know this is scary for a lot of people, but we have to keep fighting. Please spread this around & don’t give up!
The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes
and we need that! keeps us humble.
Then I’m just like WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE AN ADULT
It goes the other way, too, because WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE A CHILD?!!
I’m 16, that’s like, barely a child
I’m in my 30s. You are baby
I’m older than both of you in a trenchcoat.
honestly one of the best things we can do for ourselves is realize that people of different ages than us can still be the same kind of person as us. it’s humbling and it gives everyone involved a sense of continuity, and it busts those stupid generational stereotypes media is so fond of.
One of my least favourite dialogue tropes is when a man tells a woman, “You can’t do that” or “I wouldn’t do that if I were you” and she says, “Why? Because I’m a woman and therefore too weak to handle this/can’t take care of myself?” or something to that effect and the guy replies with, “No, because everyone who tried that ended up with a bullet in their brain” or something equally reasonable and not gender-specific that paints him as the rational not sexist guy and the woman as an irrational paranoid feminist who searches for sexism in everything. This whole scenario is built on the idea that sexism is over and women’s fears and suspicions don’t have a leg to stand on. It’s also self-congratulatory pseudofeminism bc it’s supposed to make the viewer/reader/listener feel that in this specific work of fiction women are treated respectfully and as equal with men.
huh.. never thought of it like that
But, what if the male character isn’t sexist? I meam…their fictional sure but…I’m not sure how to phrase this
Its not a question of the character themselves- its how the writers are portraying them. The way this trope plays out, the whole moment revolves around the woman looking foolish for assuming that there is sexism happening. She is characterized as being irrational, jumping to conclusions, even insecure. While the dude is characterized as the calm, rational one.
It is a trope that specifically works by taking a woman standing up to sexism and saying “haha it wasnt actually sexist at all! Isnt calling out sexism foolish and silly. Thats what you get for assuming that men are sexist!”
I have the same reaction with homophobic jokes set up like this. Like the whole “you can’t marry a woman”, “why bc you think its wrong” “no we haven’t found you the right dress yet silly!” Or stuff along those lines.
It feels like someone setting up to punch you and then you duck and the person goes “haha, i wasn’t gonna punch you at all, why would you duck? You shouldnt just assume someone’s gonna deck you because they have their fists up.”
saw someone once describe those kinds of “jokes” as winding up they’re going to punch you and then laughing when you flinch.
my dentist thinks my chronic dry mouth might be due to sleeping w my mouth open and recommended an anti-snoring device and im like ok im game to try that but i do need to tell you that i already wear dry-eye goggles at night. this has no bearing on whether or not i can also use the anti-snoring device i just need you to know how ridiculous im gonna look
gonna style these 2 together and report back ig
Your dentist is trying to give you keymaster vibes
Endgame is you end up sleeping in one of those Dune suits so you don’t wither into a prune whilst unconscious
The problem with American politics is that the left supports Argentinian political parties? apparently?
Obsessed with the taurus symbol in her foot. Why yes, reading your horoscope and passively wondering if it’ll come true is just as bad as *checks notes* literal naziism.
Low key tho this sums up the problem with american politics but not in the way that the op of the tweet thinks it does. It sums up the problem with american politics in that there’s all these god damn centrists running around that think that Planned Parenthood and the Klan are both equally extreme.
The bombing hasn’t been scaled back at all. For example, a few days ago, Israel bombed Rafah for 7 hours. They’re also still destroying houses and displacing thousands every day. The Al Shifa Hospital massacre wasn’t that long ago either
• There will be a hearing on Wednesday (17th April) where KOSA, along with some other bad internet bills, like the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act could be pushed.
While the bill needs to be aproved by both the house and senate WE NEED TO MAKE SURE IT NEVER LEAVES CONGRESS.
SPREAD THE WORD !!
This isn’t my usual content (which I promise we will return to soon), but KOSA will prevent me from using recourses that I desperately need and will prevent others from using recourses that have honestly saved my life. I’d appreciate it if you all could at least share, and contact your lawmakers if possible!
• There will be a hearing on Wednesday (17th April) where KOSA, along with some other bad internet bills, like the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act could be pushed.
While the bill needs to be aproved by both the house and senate WE NEED TO MAKE SURE IT NEVER LEAVES CONGRESS.
SPREAD THE WORD !!
This isn’t my usual content (which I promise we will return to soon), but KOSA will prevent me from using recourses that I desperately need and will prevent others from using recourses that have honestly saved my life. I’d appreciate it if you all could at least share, and contact your lawmakers if possible!
I am not really trusting this. Truth is that gender is much more complicated than that and discluding a group can be harmful to many people. There are men who have experienced sexism. Im not quite sure im explaining well what im trying to get at here but this feels off.
I think you’re right to be suspicious of any categoricsl absolute Statement made about something as multifasceted as gender. For example, im sure there are trans men who have experience sexism directed at them for being perceived as a woman and sexism for being trans. By making a categorical statement like that you are either excluding them by saying “trans are not really men and therefor they cannot speak as men” or by saying “trans men are men, therefore any misogyny they experienced is invalid and they shouldn’t complain about it.”
Either one is a bad take. And the person who wrote this probably didn’t mean to say that. But merely by expressing it in that way, they show that they do not percieve trans people to be included in general terms like men and women, and so do not consider them normal.
That being said, the person responding is probably making an argument in bad faith. Like a reverse sexism/racism/“insert broad group here”-ism argument. .
But I think I get what you mean and I believe your instinctive discomfort with a statement like this comes from a place of broadmindedness and is correct.
February 28, 2024 - American military veterans burn their uniforms calling for a free Palestine, at a vigil for Aaron Bushnell in Portland, Oregon. [source]
heads up: this games charity bundle was finally approved on itch.io! it opens this friday, april 12th, and will run for a week. all proceeds will go to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.
you can check out the bundle on itch.io and follow @vgforpalestine on twitter for more updates!
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