A live broadcast captured the moment a cat jumped on an imam, who was leading a nightly Ramadan prayer in Bordj Bou Arreridj, Algeria.
Imam Walid Mehsas was praying Taraweeh, a nightly prayer occurring every evening during the month of Ramadan, when the cat jumped on him and climbed on his shoulders.
i dont think you guys know how much this blew up in Arab/Muslim communities, its at a point now where people are drawing this man and its kinda like a wholesome meme
going through the hades 2 stuff and im sorry but i just have to ramble a second because look at Hephaestus
he’s not just a wheelchair user but also an amputee. an above knee amputee. wheelchair users are already next to nonexistant in video games but amputees exist in this really…disheartening? spot where they’re pretty much just reduced to “person with a cybernetic limb” - it’s always just somewhere from “just a cool visual design” to flat out “superpower”. I can’t think of a video game amputee that is actually disabled by their limb differences - I’m all for futuristic worlds where prosthetics and other disability aids are far advanced from what they are now, but that’s not really what’s implied by these designs. They’re just… Cool designs that in no way reflect on the real-world experience of being an amputee.
Look at Hephaestus, though. Look at that prosthetic. Whilst stylised it very much looks like it functions like common mechanical knees - knee bends when thigh is lifted, knee straightens when thigh is lowered. He’s a wheelchair user as well as a prosthetic user - every prosthetic user I know is also a wheelchair user as a prosthetic is not usable in every occasion and also cause exhaustion and pain if used constantly.
Whilst we can’t see much of his wheelchair the position he’s sat in and the wheels very much evoke active wheelchair to me - this carries on to very specifically the thickness of his arms. Whilst a lot of Hades designs are muscular Hephaestus has very noticeably thick arms - which makes sense, as active wheelchairs require a lot of arm strength.
Just overall this design is making me want to cry - he’s not just an actual wheelchair user in a video game, he’s a realistic depiction of an amputee, a disability usually brushed over in order to give a character a fun design quirk and nothing else. He’s fat and he’s hot and he’s a realistic depiction of an above knee amputee. Oh my god. Oh my god?
people always say autistic people think in black and white, but then they *teach* us in black and white. good girl, bad girl. good (normal) behavior, bad (abnormal) behavior. you have to be consistent with these kids
my therapist gave me a feelings chart and when I circled more than one told me to choose one feeling. in social skills group, they were always asking questions like, “is talking about airplanes expected or unexpected behavior?” and “it depends” was not the right answer- talking about airplanes is unexpected, inappropriate, abnormal, bad behavior (at least when you are one of Those Kids. when you like things too much you aren’t allowed to like things anymore)
here is your behavior chart, you either get a sticker or you don’t. here is your anger scale, you aren’t allowed to say you don’t know. we need an answer that fits into a graph because we are graphing your anger. here is a social story where everything is so simplified it resembles real life about as much as stick figures resemble people. here are your right and wrong answers and you play, move, think wrong
special educators are some of the most rigid people I’ve met. you have to follow the program. it has to fit on this chart. you have to be consistent with these kids
Friendly reminder to not punish yourself for creating.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?
I have a tendency to beat myself up whenever something I make doesn’t meet my expectations (which is always). The result is that finishing something = bad feelings: I am effectively punishing myself for having created something. The natural reaction to this punishment is an aversion to creation, meaning that my perfectionism is harming me, not only by causing me to despise what I do make and by impeding the creative process, but by attacking even my desire to create.
I love how we’ve lost the plot so thoroughly on what “pov” means as far as a TikTok/reel/whatever and now it’s functionally the same as rod serling saying “imagine if you will”
i am not a smart fellow but i am wise enough to not ask for context to this.
I think adults need summer vacation. Like let’s just close down all our jobs for three months and play outside. Please. I’m so tired.
Love to see this post getting notes again. None of us are ok.
i may just be french but do americans really not get paid summer vacations? you don’t go to the beach with your kids? “There is no federal or state statutory minimum paid vacation or paid public holidays” am i reading this right? like i’m not trying to rub anyone’s face in it but you’re just stuck in the rat race year-round until you’re old and that’s normal and accepted??? in the 21st century???
working at a grocery store this is something i was so worried would happen, i cant stop someone from trying to feed themselves.
but it literally hasn’t happened. people steal fried chicken and pack steaks into a duffel bag. or they have me write on cakes for their coworkers birthday and run out the door with it. they eat chicken and dump the bones on a shelf they pay for the rest of their “groceries”.
i’ve never once seen anyone steal bread, or fruit, or vegetables, or cold chicken
Same
We have free purified water but no they steal soda
so you’re saying it people are trying to feed themselves
How dare poor people eat things they enjoy rather than bland staples, the only thing they deserve
A little disappointed that this didn’t become a site-wide week-long discourse topic/meme fodder because it’s a discussion we’re way overdue to have
Like, let’s set aside the practical concerns, like how “unhealthy” food has more calories while taking up less bag space, people can’t survive on nothing but bread and water, many poor communities are food deserts where fresh food isn’t even available to steal, and many people (including the explicitly unhoused man in the meme) don’t have a way to prepare frozen chicken. Let’s set all that aside, because poor people aren’t required to justify every single action to you specifically
Instead let’s talk about the sheer undisguised hatred of the poor on display here. “The fried food at the grocery store is for me, because I’m a good special boy with money, if the filthy poors want to steal they can steal the dried gruel powder because that’s all they’re good enough for. Or they can have meat, I suppose, but only if it’s frozen meat that they’ll have to go heat up themselves to prove to me that they’ve earned it. And make sure they grab some raw vegetables that they’ll have to chop and cook themselves too, that’ll be a good use of their bountiful time and energy. If they wanted not to be miserable, they should have tried not being poor, like me!”
There is literally no justification for this shit. If you believe that stealing bread from a chain grocery store is a justified act that hurts no one, why the fuck would you feel different about steak? Why are you even thinking about this shit? Why are you sitting around fuming at the thought of poor people having anything that makes life worth living? What does it fucking matter to you?
How can you be heartless enough to look at a society where people have to steal in order to feed themselves and their families, and your biggest concern is about policing what they steal?
“They only steal the expensive stuff, then they go and PAY for the cheap stuff???”
Gee I wonder why that would be…
I wonder why you’ve never seen someone with no house steal raw chicken before. There are just some mysteries that can truly never be solved
For the record, I was homeless for a while - or at least, I lived in a motel by the highway. And luckily I had access to a mini fridge - and it was the kind of motel where people just *lived*, which I discovered when they served Thanksgiving dinner in the lobby to everyone and asked us if we’d like to come down for it. (I cried. A lot.)
That mini fridge was a miracle, but I didn’t have anything like a hot plate or a way to prepare food - just a pot for coffee/hot water. Mostly what I ate was peanut butter and jam sammiches, apples, and lunch meat and cheese if I could get it, because it was expensive. I never got to the point of stealing… but it wasn’t because I thought I was too good to steal. The smell of the fried chicken in the grocery store deli was murder. I just didn’t think I could get away with it.
If I didn’t have that mini fridge or a way to keep my food cold and safe… yeah, I’d probably be stealing that fucking chicken.
So as a retail worker who has five years of experience, I’d like to put my two cents in. While most people advocate stealing if you can’t buy food(which I do understand and completely empathize with), you must remember that you aren’t just stealing from the corporation, you are in fact stealing from the employees themselves. So many times I’ve asked for overtime and have been denied it bc our shrink is too high. Ever wonder why there aren’t enough cashiers? Cutting hours bc we need to recoup on our shrink. Also, on another note, the things I see people usually steal are high value electronics(like $70 fans, tvs, earbuds), makeup, and like $50+ toys. So while I empathize, please don’t steal. You are literally taking money out of employees paychecks, and depending on the corporation itself, you could actually get them fired for not catching when people steal.
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@flower884 and everyone else in retail, I’m sorry, but you’re misassigning blame here.
The people stealing from your corporate overlords aren’t the ones choosing to understaff your workplace, cut your hours, pay you empoverishing wages much less than true value of your labor, nor fire you because they think the store’s shrink is too large: Your corporate overlords are the ones doing that and they blaming John val John hoping you and everyone else believes them so you don’t organize and demand concessions: and you’ve swallowed that pill like a potassum supository.
You’ve been in retail for five years; do some fucking organizing, form a union, fuck your boss’s wife, and don’t be the snitch that gets John 6 years hard labor for stealing some bread to feed his family.
It’s not that hard*, just do what Chris Smalls do: he led a win against Amazon. FUCKING Amazon. Successfully unionizing, or even failing to unionize but scaring the shit out of the corporate overlords that you might succeed will have a lot larger, more positive effect on your material conditions than bitching on the internet about poor people wanting necessary or nice things they can’t comfortably afford.
*Don’t misunderstand me, it’s hard work, organizing. Chris Smalls fought for over two years and a wrongful termination to acheive the win for fellows, but you’ll more likely to find success in unionizing even against the most notorious union buster than you are to baulk even one person from theft of either necesity or pleasure on the basis of, in my opinion, a critically flawed moral argument**.
**I view the so-called property rights of corporations as illegitimate***, so ‘stealing from a store’ is to me morally nonsensical even as I’m forced to recognize its legal reality. The point of this footnote being that I don’t think there is anything morally wrong with freely taking what ought be freely available to you, and you’d never convince me against 'shoplifting’ using a moral argument, least of all the consequencialist one you’re making because, as previously stated, you’re misassigning blame. Again, unionize and fuck your boss’s wife, yeah?
***As a property abolitionist, I also view a lot of 'property rights of individuals’ as illegitimate too, but that’s outside the scope of this discussion.
Also; what? It’s very sweet, actually, to steal a cake for your coworker 💖
Also-also, corporations have a budget explicitly to handle stolen product. All the poor people stealing food so they can not starve are not running them dry to the point that they have to fire employees. If they were at that point, they would already be shutting down so they didn’t go bankrupt.
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i worked at ross dress for less for a year or two. they checked our bags at the end of every shift. a girl was fired for allegedly stealing some makeup.
they made us do half an hour of cleanup after we’d all clocked out or we’d be penalized for not ‘clocking out on time’ but also ‘not finishing facing’. half an hour of work at minimum wage was about 3$, multiplied by 5-8 employees per shift, multiplied by about three shifts. per year. forever.
they’d hammer on and on and ON at us about loss prevention and shrinkage, while skimming off 45$-72$ from their own employees in wage theft. every day. plus the hours of free work managers put in. but whenever we were denied raises or bonuses or pizza rewards or whatever it was always because of ‘all the shrinkage this quarter’ and they’d blame thieves, for their shitty secondhand crap they bought in huge remaindered job lots anyway.
my manager cried in her office once, for a company that extracted hundreds of dollars worth of free work off its employees every month, and then blamed the poor for our abuse.
you’re not being overworked and underpaid because your grocery chain is being robbed blind by filthy savages and fucking walmart or wherever needs to pinch some pennies. your bosses are fucking you over specifically because they can.
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As a retail worker, if you blame other poor people or homeless people for your low wages, you’re a fucking bootlicker riddled with propaganda.
A corporation is not a person, the people stealing even expensive things are living, breathing people.
You want to know why people steal non-food items? Because we live in a society that operates on profit. Electronics like TVs and Headphones, expensive jewelry, shitty brand expensive clothing, etc. Are all valuable items that can be sold. That money can go to fresh meals, phone bills, campsite fees or hotel fees, or a common one is Fines, because it’s rare to be homeless and not have a cop cite you some bullshit, hundred dollar violation for something like sleeping on a bench, or your car having a missing brake light, and thats if you’re lucky and said cop doesn’t beat you or steal what you have on you.
Corporations are not people. Corporations are a infinite money glitch cycle so some rich fucks can horde money like fucking Smaug and convince the employees that oh we could pay more if Homeless Susan didn’t steal that $25 package of diapers.
If you are a retail worker, you are closer to being that homeless person stealing a bucket of security cameras than to even your District Manager, and yet the rich have you convinced that you are somehow better than your fellow humans.
As a retail worker, you are not allowed to be punished if someone steals in front of you and you don’t stop it. In fact, and actual retail workers will tell you this, we are advised to literally let people walk out because if we jump in we could open the Store up for lawsuits or workman’s comp claims, so they’d rather eat the shoplift than pay for the medical bills of an employee who got hurt.
And even if you get a talk down from your manager, I’d say that’s better than living with yourself knowing you just helped the Cops arrest a starving person who was just trying to get some food, clothes, or money so they could live another day.
Corporations aren’t humans, they have no loyalty. That homeless person who just stole a flat-screen is more likely to give you support if you can’t pay your rent and find yourself evicted, than a Corporation. A Corporation will not show you the loyalty you show it, a Corporation will throw you on your ass if your performance suffers due to illness, disaster, grief, disability etc. Because a Corporation is. Not. Human. And they will not be there when you fall.
Don’t let the King convince you that the peasants are holding him back from paying you better. The only thing holding him back is greed. You will never see a share of his gold that you protect so loyally.
fuck it guess i’ll throw my hat in the ring
i work at autozone, and i’m assigned to part sales, which means i’m almost always at a register at the very front of the store. sometimes i’ll do other jobs when it’s needed, but for the most part, i am at a register, so i get to look at everyone entering and leaving the store. which means that if anybody steals anything, i get to see that, too. autozone of course doesn’t sell food, apart from some snacks up by checkout, so anything that people do steal are tools or car parts or fluid.
and when i see somebody pocket a pack of headlights, or a wrench, or a bottle of brake fluid?
i keep my fucking mouth shut instead of being a class traitor.
seriously, nobody WANTS to steal things, more accurately nobody wants to be in the position where they have to steal things. we don’t even sell stuff people need to live, and i still shut up about it, because i don’t know what they’re going through. especially because while you don’t need to to fix your car to survive, you do need it to have a half decent existence out here, and if it’s got an out headlight you’re gonna get pulled over by the state funded terrorist group patrolling the streets and at best they’ll suck away half your paycheck in fines, at worst they’ll just shoot you dead on the spot when you reach for your id.
“well then don’t drive it!”
they need to get to work, don’t they? what happened to getting a job?
“well then walk to work!”
lol, lmao. it gets to -3 fahrenheit in the winters here and sometimes it’ll rain so hard the sidewalk floods, and in the summer you’ll fry like an egg.
“well then bike to work!”
again, unsheltered
“well, take public transit!”
don’t have any
“well what about the employees when they steal?”
most places don’t dock hours for shrink, if they do, fuck em, unionize.
also, back to the topic of food theft, if you think people should only steal fucking gruel and oats, go fuck yourself. being against people who can’t afford it taking the stuff that’s actually half enjoyable to eat is the exact same shit as telling poor people who have a few luxuries to just sell them; you think enjoying life is something you should only be allowed to do if you can afford it, just fucking say that. people will take soda and prepacked food for the same reason they won’t sell their playstation for that food, it’s fucking depressing to live with the bare minimum.
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No fuck the small businesses. They’re some of the worst offenders because Walmart has people actively watching for blatantly illegal behavior. Small business owners think they’re too small for it to matter.
Ma and pop stores are the worst about issues like understaffing, wage theft, overworking, and overpaying because they have to compete with places that out price them like Walmart. The small business owner I currently work for is every bit as selfish as Jeff Bezos. He just operates close enough that the community thinks he’s different.
Cashier at the grocery store was blazed out of his goddamn mind. This man was so high he kept forgetting to speak the first half of his sentences. Nothing but respect for our soldiers.
i love mario sunshine i wish i had the coordination or the brain power or the strength to play it at any level above a baby baboon slapping random buttons in the promise of a sweet treat
They call me aristotle the way i. nope. no they don’t. he did not do that shit
imagine ur mortal enemies with a vampire and they just fucking. take a nap until you die. 100 years later they wake up like “i win” how embarrassing,,,
The best revenge is living well……..
i think the best revenge in this case would be killing ur vampire enemy
Ok but imagine ur an immortal vampire and your worst enemy is a world renoun author who’s been dead for 500 years but people still quote him. Like imagine if ur mortal enemy was william shakespeare or dante aligheri. Like you cant even kill them by any means. Everybody loves them but you remember them and you hate them but everyone disagrees with you
oh god,,,, that’d be my worst nightmareeee. yeah ur right the best revenge is getting so famous that u become immortal and then ur vampire enemy can never escape u
Things That Happen In Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Without Context
A vampire comes out of a horse. This vampire is Jack the Ripper
The Sixth Sense was spoiled for most Japanese Audiences
When the most powerful being in the world ascends to godhood the first thing he does is turn his hand into a squirrel. This squirrel kills multiple Nazis.
The spiritual energy of a man’s soul decides to trap him under a radio tower
A different vampire comes out of a different horse. This one is a unicorn
A gay priest blinds himself so he doesn’t turn into a snail
Jesus Christ’s corpse is incredibly important and also in America for some reason, I haven’t gotten that far yet.
The mafia is incredibly gay
The protagonist drinks piss, which impresses all his new friends.
No one in the show particularly likes the author’s self-insert character. His house catches on fire because he was too busy gambling.
One of the villain’s first on-screen actions is killing a dog
Vanilla Ice kills multiple main characters
One of the most terrifying abilities is magnets. Another one is mold.
A huge number of characters are named after musicians and songs. One might assume these musicians don’t exist in the universe of Jojo, but Weird Al and Michael Jackson both are confirmed to exist, which is especially interesting because there is a stand named after a Michael Jackson song.
Can we stop with the “do you want a man like this in the women’s bathroom then huh? [picture of a passing trans man]” stuff.
Because it ignores and downplays the violence trans men face in bathrooms it frames trans men as a threat to cis women.
Also just the whole thing of framing someone who looks like a man/masculine as being a threat is just . Weird. Non-passing trans women aren’t a threat either.
Transphobes have made it very clear they want to ban trans men from both the men’s and women’s bathrooms. They don’t want us in either.
the whole “i don’t want someone who looks like a man in the women’s restroom” thing is what they use against trans women to ban them from women’s bathrooms. So maybe trying to switch that around by saying “erm actually do you want this other person who looks like a man in your bathroom. Checkmate!” Is weird!
I will probably reblog this every time I see it on my dash because it’s absolutely stunning
This is literally insane. How did you have the patience. Tell me your secrets o’ art god.
ok!!! :0
Part of me is like “neat. Reblog,” and part of me is like “I understand now why impressionism took off, because there’s a 0% chance the artist wasn’t like ‘fuck this shit’ by the halfway point.”
The important thing is that Marcille did not learn to blaspheme against the natural order to save her girlfriend. She just happened to have studied the art of spitting in God’s eye for wholly unrelated reasons, and when the opportunity by chance arose to employ that skill in service of girlfriend-saving, she was ready.
You’re told to go through the red door so you walk into a room with two doors across from you, one is painted red but is labeled ‘blue’ and the other is painted blue but labeled ‘red’.
fucking christ alive just tell me to kill myself instead of making me embarrass myself in front of my mutuals. i dont know. i dont know. help. pisses my self
“you shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds you” if you insist on treating me like a beast then you can’t be shocked when i play the part
“you shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds you” then you shouldn’t have had a hand as warm, impersonal and unpredictable as the meals you saw fit you give me. how was i supposed to know the difference.
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