berk-brain-rot:

icaruspendragon:

icaruspendragon:

so, i know that asexuals are people who feel little to no sexual attraction/urges to anyone or anything. but i want to know if there’s a word for someone who has sexual urges, but doesn’t want to act them out with anyone? like the thought of being intimate with someone just has no appeal and actually freaks you out a lot and anytime you’ve been intimate with anyone it’s just done nothing for you and actually just made you really uncomfortable.

hey 2015 me, it’s 2024 me. it’s aspec. the word you’re looking for is aspec. which is something you very much are. you don’t “grow out of it” cause it ain’t really one of those things you grow out of. sorry for all the years of confusion, but we get there eventually lmao

It’s a crime to not have this permanent context immortalized with this post

:

Some of y’all forget that bottom surgery and intersex people exist.

Amab ≠ penis

Afab ≠ vagina

There are people who are afab who have penises and people who are amab who have vaginas.

So please for the love of god stop saying afab when you mean ‘someone who has a vagina’ and amab when you mean ‘someone who has a penis’

transgirltrish:

kafkarockopera:

rumpykamon:

ripperblackstaff:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

echoesofanartist:

rainbow-femme:

I’m not bitter

I am bitter

Literally every movie adaptation ever: Henry Jeckyll is just a poor victim of his evil side Mr Hyde!

The Actual Book: Henry Jeckyll is a weird fuck who turned himself into a monster man because he wanted to indulge in doing horrible things without fear of getting caught

Add the phantom of the Opera !

If you allow me-

They did the mash….

karnalesbian:

lafortis:

karnalesbian:

learning that apparently several hundred people have been pronouncing ‘miette’ as 'mighty’ has actively worsened my day

you mispronounce miette?? you butcher miette name????

this explains an uncomfortable amount actually. jail for american education system for one thousand years

prinnamon:

prinnamon:

so embarrassing when i forget im checking someone’s blog and i start scrolling through and liking and reblogging shit as if it’s just my dash. it feels like wandering into someone else’s apartment and not noticing and making myself lunch

reblog if i can wander into your apartment (blog) and make myself lunch (like and reblog as if it’s my dash)

destielmemenews:

ALT

source 1

source 2

civilization-deactivated2030:

genderyomi-deactivated20240903:

me, collared and leashed: just so we’re on the same page im an anarchist and don’t believe in hierarchies. this is a temporary, voluntary union of egoists that will only continue as long as our desires are aligned

domme: puppies don’t speak

me: WOOF!

Im pretty sure this is how it happened to wolves too

massachusetts-official:

the-cimmerians:

Massachusetts’s Millionaire Tax Going Very Well, Thank You!

In 2022, Massachusetts residents voted in favor of a Fair Tax ballot measure to extra-super-duper-tax those earning more than one million dollars a year and to spend the revenue from that on education and transportation initiatives.

Naturally, there were the naysayers. Those who warned that all of the state’s rich people would move away to their very own Galt’s Gulch or whatever, if they were forced to pay a four percent tax on anything they make over a million dollars. The implication there, of course, is that raising this tax would, ironically, lead to the state collecting less revenue overall.

That didn’t happen! In fact, the state has already raised $1.8 billion in revenue so far for this fiscal year — which is $800 million more than they expected, and they still have a few months to go. The vast majority of the surplus will go to a fund that legislators can use for one-time investments in various projects.

The revenue has already been invested in universal school lunches, in more scholarships to public colleges, in improvements to the MBTA, and to repair roads and bridges. These are all things that will improve the quality of life for everyone, including the “ultra-rich” who happen to live there. The fact is, it’s just nice to live in a society that is more civil, that takes care of its people and its children and that fixes things when they are broken.

[ ]

Elizabeth Warren, Pramila Jayapal, and others have introduced bills in the House and Senate for a nationwide millionaire’s tax of two percent — two cents on the dollar for all wealth exceeding $50 million and six percent on all wealth over a billion dollars. This would bring in an estimated $3.75 trillion over 10 years, which we could use to improve the lives of all US citizens. We could have so many nice things!

It’s time to stop living in fear of what millionaires and billionaires — who have made their fortunes off of roads we’ve paid for and employees we’ve paid to educate — will do or where they will move if forced to pay their fair share. That’s no way to live. If they have some place better to go that won’t force them to contribute to improving their community? Let them. Other people will come along and be more than happy to pick up where they left off. But more than likely, they won’t do jack shit because they’re rich, and if they wanted to live someplace else, they’d be there by now.

Official Post of Massachusetts

massachusetts-official:

the-cimmerians:

Massachusetts’s Millionaire Tax Going Very Well, Thank You!

In 2022, Massachusetts residents voted in favor of a Fair Tax ballot measure to extra-super-duper-tax those earning more than one million dollars a year and to spend the revenue from that on education and transportation initiatives.

Naturally, there were the naysayers. Those who warned that all of the state’s rich people would move away to their very own Galt’s Gulch or whatever, if they were forced to pay a four percent tax on anything they make over a million dollars. The implication there, of course, is that raising this tax would, ironically, lead to the state collecting less revenue overall.

That didn’t happen! In fact, the state has already raised $1.8 billion in revenue so far for this fiscal year — which is $800 million more than they expected, and they still have a few months to go. The vast majority of the surplus will go to a fund that legislators can use for one-time investments in various projects.

The revenue has already been invested in universal school lunches, in more scholarships to public colleges, in improvements to the MBTA, and to repair roads and bridges. These are all things that will improve the quality of life for everyone, including the “ultra-rich” who happen to live there. The fact is, it’s just nice to live in a society that is more civil, that takes care of its people and its children and that fixes things when they are broken.

[ ]

Elizabeth Warren, Pramila Jayapal, and others have introduced bills in the House and Senate for a nationwide millionaire’s tax of two percent — two cents on the dollar for all wealth exceeding $50 million and six percent on all wealth over a billion dollars. This would bring in an estimated $3.75 trillion over 10 years, which we could use to improve the lives of all US citizens. We could have so many nice things!

It’s time to stop living in fear of what millionaires and billionaires — who have made their fortunes off of roads we’ve paid for and employees we’ve paid to educate — will do or where they will move if forced to pay their fair share. That’s no way to live. If they have some place better to go that won’t force them to contribute to improving their community? Let them. Other people will come along and be more than happy to pick up where they left off. But more than likely, they won’t do jack shit because they’re rich, and if they wanted to live someplace else, they’d be there by now.

Official Post of Massachusetts

studentofetherium:

hollowboobtheory:

hollowboobtheory:

you never truly appreciate good internet unless you have bad internet

if you have a solid, timely connection that isn’t blinking in and out right now, take a minute to really live in the moment. for me. because mine is currently dogshit

i once lost internet at home for a month. that’s completely changed my stance on physical media and downloads. people are too reliant on streaming. you need DVDs and CDs and mp3s and books and magazines and mkvs and whatever else. you will not always have perfect access to the internet. it’s a good idea to make sure that doesn’t leave you without anything

fandomrecycling:

rabidchild67:

anarchistmemecollective:

theresonlyzuul:

hyperactivehedgehog:

moki-dokie:

letmetellyouaboutmyfeels:

matronofthevoid:

darthsuki:

levynite:

jabberwockypie:

savethelesbians:

a-tired-humanist:

another-exclus:

a-tired-humanist:

lythelia-art:

another-exclus:

Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

But queer is more inclusive

And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.

It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you

It’s called economía del lenguaje.

It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.

Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.

Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.

“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”

Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?

I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.

queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid

every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.

I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.

baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit

every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.

terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.

we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.

I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.

It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.

The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.

yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.

They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.

facts facts facts

koobaxion:

The Wolf of Walgreens

underwhelmedandoverstimulated:

I actually wish that the whole soyboy food aversion thing had cought on enough to impact sales, so that companies would offer more soy free alternatives now that “vegetable oil” is soybean oil and I can no longer eat 90% of the things in the grocery store.

chthonicillness:

my teeth were perfectly designed to tear abd rend the soft white flesh of the gentle beast known as the mozzarella

kingofthewilderwest:

renthony:

missgreeneyartz:

raulziito:

itneedsmoregays:

Steven Universe: Eh, I don’t really feel like saying “girlfriend” or “wife”. Maybe they’re together. They have a special connection…

(gets violently shoved aside)

The Loud House/Craig of the Creek/The Owl House: Pfft, amateur. “My GIRLFRIEND Sam and I…” “I’m texting my GIRLFRIEND, mind your business.” “Luz’s new GF showed her…”

Can we not do this thing? Do you realize that Rebecca had to fight for what we got with Rupphire and literally risked her job? and Pearl and Rose. Like, there is no need to knock other shows down because of Lumity.

These kids today, I tell you what. In my day you had to bury your girlfriends under subtext and then end the series when the truth was revealed.

Risked her job, hell, it’s an open secret now that the Rupphire wedding (which, may I remind folks, was the first queer wedding in a kids’ cartoon, which is a BIG DEAL) is why everything about the rest of the series felt rushed. They had to scramble to tell the rest of the story because they took a gamble and the network retaliated by shortening their production time.

Rebecca Sugar and the crewniverse risked the entire show getting flat-out cancelled in order to show that wedding, only for people to say it “wasn’t progressive enough” and was “giving in to stereotypes” to put Ruby in a wedding dress. Never mind that Ruby kept getting dubbed over as a guy in localization, Sapphire was unmistakably feminine in every version, and putting Ruby in the dress was a flagrant way to say, “fuck you, you can’t pretend this is a straight couple; this is a queer couple and a queer wedding.”

Dana Terrace has said that The Owl House only exists with its intended queerness because of what Rebecca Sugar and her team accomplished with Steven Universe. Hell, there are multiple members of the Steven Universe team who went on to work on the other shows mentioned in the OP–Steven Sugar, for example, who is Rebecca Sugar’s brother and inspiration for SU in the first place (as well a background artist on the show), is currently an artist on The Owl House. There are people who got their start on Steven Universe who now only have the opportunity to tell more queer stories because of Steven Universe’s success.

I’m not even 30 years old yet and I’m still old enough to remember when being gay was fully illegal in the United States. Not gay marriage, but literally just BEING GAY. It wasn’t that long ago, and the fact that today in 2021 I can turn on the TV and watch gay cartoons intended for children? I never thought I’d see it. Fucking ever.

So let’s stop pitting queer creators and media against each other, shall we?

So often older shows that seem pitifully lackluster by today’s audience’s standards were hard-fought, BIG-ASS DEALS in their contemporary context. (And for the record, calling SU or something like Korra ‘older’ to me feels bizarre af, I’m 28, this is all new to me in some ways. This is all extraordinary and the opposite of lackluster.) What you’re seeing is an extraordinary amount of progress over the last mere ten years. Don’t knock it.

kingofthewilderwest:

renthony:

missgreeneyartz:

raulziito:

itneedsmoregays:

Steven Universe: Eh, I don’t really feel like saying “girlfriend” or “wife”. Maybe they’re together. They have a special connection…

(gets violently shoved aside)

The Loud House/Craig of the Creek/The Owl House: Pfft, amateur. “My GIRLFRIEND Sam and I…” “I’m texting my GIRLFRIEND, mind your business.” “Luz’s new GF showed her…”

Can we not do this thing? Do you realize that Rebecca had to fight for what we got with Rupphire and literally risked her job? and Pearl and Rose. Like, there is no need to knock other shows down because of Lumity.

These kids today, I tell you what. In my day you had to bury your girlfriends under subtext and then end the series when the truth was revealed.

Risked her job, hell, it’s an open secret now that the Rupphire wedding (which, may I remind folks, was the first queer wedding in a kids’ cartoon, which is a BIG DEAL) is why everything about the rest of the series felt rushed. They had to scramble to tell the rest of the story because they took a gamble and the network retaliated by shortening their production time.

Rebecca Sugar and the crewniverse risked the entire show getting flat-out cancelled in order to show that wedding, only for people to say it “wasn’t progressive enough” and was “giving in to stereotypes” to put Ruby in a wedding dress. Never mind that Ruby kept getting dubbed over as a guy in localization, Sapphire was unmistakably feminine in every version, and putting Ruby in the dress was a flagrant way to say, “fuck you, you can’t pretend this is a straight couple; this is a queer couple and a queer wedding.”

Dana Terrace has said that The Owl House only exists with its intended queerness because of what Rebecca Sugar and her team accomplished with Steven Universe. Hell, there are multiple members of the Steven Universe team who went on to work on the other shows mentioned in the OP–Steven Sugar, for example, who is Rebecca Sugar’s brother and inspiration for SU in the first place (as well a background artist on the show), is currently an artist on The Owl House. There are people who got their start on Steven Universe who now only have the opportunity to tell more queer stories because of Steven Universe’s success.

I’m not even 30 years old yet and I’m still old enough to remember when being gay was fully illegal in the United States. Not gay marriage, but literally just BEING GAY. It wasn’t that long ago, and the fact that today in 2021 I can turn on the TV and watch gay cartoons intended for children? I never thought I’d see it. Fucking ever.

So let’s stop pitting queer creators and media against each other, shall we?

So often older shows that seem pitifully lackluster by today’s audience’s standards were hard-fought, BIG-ASS DEALS in their contemporary context. (And for the record, calling SU or something like Korra ‘older’ to me feels bizarre af, I’m 28, this is all new to me in some ways. This is all extraordinary and the opposite of lackluster.) What you’re seeing is an extraordinary amount of progress over the last mere ten years. Don’t knock it.

macgyvermedical:

trans-girl-nausicaa:

Listen, I wanted to join the military too. I really, really did. But if your motivation for joining the military is anything except going somewhere far away and killing people, rethink.

If it is getting away from the situation that you’re in, if it’s the ability to serve your country full-time, if it’s camaraderie and wearing a uniform and the opportunity for college and/or job training, if it’s physical fitness and learning to live with other people who are really different than you, heck, if it’s fully paid-for travel and the ability to do cool things like respond to disasters and fight wildfires…

JOIN THE NATIONAL CIVILIAN COMMUNITY CORPS OR A CONSERVATION CORPS INSTEAD.

AmeriCorps NCCC is a residential, team-based national service program. It’s free. They provide all travel, lodging, food, and training. They even pay you a stipend. At the end you get money for college or job training. Almost everyone 18-26 gets in. If you want to be a team leader you can be older than that.

You travel around the country for 1-2 years with a diverse team doing anything from building parks to trail maintenance to serving with a food pantry to disaster relief to cutting fire line to building houses.

If you have any questions I was a team leader with this program. I am happy to answer them.

troythecatfish:

The world is waking up

husborth-deactivated20241109:

husborth-deactivated20241109:

husborth-deactivated20241109:

husborth-deactivated20241109:

husborth-deactivated20241109:

as someone who got 2 concussions this year and inhaled toxic substances at the workplace i can confidently inform you all that all characters in the star wars prequels are absolved of stupidity. they’re all dumb as a box of rocks but its not their fault that no one made them wear helmets in wartime. the introduction of SPOSHA (space OSHA) would reduce incidences of darth vader creation by at least one i just know it

“anakin shouldn’t have done that” he was huffing space gasoline at age 7 literally what did you expect. “obi-wan shouldn’t have done that” he literally goes through a window face first in episode 2. “padme shouldn’t have done that” she’s had a career since she was 10

OVER 20? i thought that shit was at 14 god’s honest truth. which is bad enough but WORSE? holy shit. you could fucking fly a jet plane through the holes in his brain, legend has it if you get a brain scan on that man the scarring on his frontal lobe spells out ‘HELP.’ fucking 20+? that live fast die young ass motherfucker. born with a job, broke both legs by 6, death NASCAR career by 9, logged his first kill at 11, married at 19, 20+ workplace electrocutions by 22. installs his first authoritarian government by 22. overachieving but in all the wrong fields only. i mean 20+? that man hasn’t walked in a straight line in years. holy fuck man. 20+? yeeeeeeeeeeesh. holy shit. fuck

i’ve crunched the numbers and analyzed the situations man and i tell you i ran this in the most favorable of conditions. assuming this boy turned 19 literally 5 minutes before AOTC picks up and Space Years can be substituted by our years, and by '20+’ we mean 21, this dude gets electrocuted every 7.4 weeks. dude…… like bro. like man.

HEY SO IT WASN’T FAVORABLE CONDITIONS APPARENTLY IT WAS FUCKING 30 TIMES FOR A RATE OF 1 ELECTROCUTION EVERY 5 WEEKS HAHAHAHAHAHA

xenasaur:

witzmaennchen:

ches-nogat:

xbuster:

This took me too long

Ü, very cool

シÜت - what you say when you were about to say “shit” and then noticed a small child in earshot

Shoot

otabekisautistic:

otabekisautistic:

otabekisautistic:

otabekisautistic:

sorry since realizing my gender i have zero tolerance for the whole “man hating” angle of being queer i hate i hate it i hate you. stop. you are hurting people.

i just. speaking up for trans men and getting hit with “imagine defending men” as a reply has enraged me deeply on this day

it’s very “yall only consider trans men real men when it hurts us.” we experience misogyny until we try to speak on it, and then we’re invading women’s spaces. we’re not men when we don’t pass well but we’re men the second we’re looking for queer community and are faced with “men and mascs not allowed” i’m tired

@bookslutskye’s tags:

literally this. when i replied to “imagine standing up for men” saying that trans men deserve to be fought for too, i got hit with “nobody says trans men don’t belong in queer spaces” except a lot of queer & feminist spaces, especially online, actively villainize being a man and dump you the second you transition. it’s gross.

imsoglitter:

Apparently there’s people trying to justify the (ongoing) exclusion era of this website by saying that the ace community is the source of no kink at pride discourse. Now I realize that my experiences aren’t necessarily universal, but given that every acespec person I’ve met irl is super into kink, and most of the ones I’ve encountered online are as well, I think that perhaps they are just making up bullshit again

baroquepopcorn:

elainiisms:

i want you carnally *shoves a knife into your abdomen*

alanaisalive:

Now that Eurovision is over, I want you all, especially the Americans, to take a good hard look at how the voting results turned out when people boycotted the event.

In the UK, the viewing figures were down about 2 million people compared to last year. Up to 2 million people made the conscious decision to not watch and not vote because of Israel’s inclusion.

The final results of the public vote, Israel came in first place in the UK and got 12 points. Because the only people watching and voting were people who backed Israel or at least didn’t care one way or another.

This doesn’t matter. It’s a music contest. The boycott was still the right thing to do because it is just a show at the end of the day, and the viewing figures have more impact than the results.

But it is also a good object lesson to show you what happens if you boycott a vote over something that does matter. Choosing not to vote in, let’s say, a presidential election will have similar results.

alanaisalive:

Now that Eurovision is over, I want you all, especially the Americans, to take a good hard look at how the voting results turned out when people boycotted the event.

In the UK, the viewing figures were down about 2 million people compared to last year. Up to 2 million people made the conscious decision to not watch and not vote because of Israel’s inclusion.

The final results of the public vote, Israel came in first place in the UK and got 12 points. Because the only people watching and voting were people who backed Israel or at least didn’t care one way or another.

This doesn’t matter. It’s a music contest. The boycott was still the right thing to do because it is just a show at the end of the day, and the viewing figures have more impact than the results.

But it is also a good object lesson to show you what happens if you boycott a vote over something that does matter. Choosing not to vote in, let’s say, a presidential election will have similar results.

ebugsdotjpeg:

keylethwasleft:

things to say to bugs when science finally unlocks the secrets of human-bug communication:

1. im not hurting you i am taking you to a safe place
2. do you eat weird crumbs cause i found some im willing to share
3. you can bite me if you want but id rather be no-bite friends
4. i like your big colorful eyes, very stylish
5. please dont crawl into my sleeves
6. (sings a duet with a cricket)

thebaconsandwichofregret:

theboyfallsfromthesky:

tiocfaidharlulz:

sithofren:

coto524:

coto524:

saethwr:

coto524:

as a welsh person i want you all to accept that W is a vowel because honestly it makes pronouncing acronyms so much easier. wlw becomes ‘ooloo’, wjec becomes ‘oojeck’, love yourselves and stop giving us shit when we tell you welsh has 7 vowels. english actually has 15 vowel sounds but because y’all only use 5 letters you have to rely on a spelling system devised by satan

and please, enough with the “keyboard smashing” jokes. not original, not funny.

“ #okay but can any of y'all even pronounce your own town names tho? #bye”

yeah, we can actually because the spelling is phonetic. meanwhile english folks have placenames like bicester or keighley or beaulieu, which you have to learn the pronunciation for individually because the rules are so inconsistent. i mean people can’t even agree how to pronounce marylebone but sure welsh place names are the weird ones

“#But are you aware your language literally looks like a potato rolled across a keyboard”

fun fact: for decades children were beaten for speaking welsh in school, even in areas where english was barely spoken, because the government decided in 1847 that the language made people lazy and immoral

fun fact: welsh orthography is actually easy to read if you take your head out of your arse for one minute and learn our alphabet - just like french, or spanish, or korean, because surprise! languages use different spelling systems that are not based on english. novel, i know - and in the 18th century, travelling schools were able to teach people to read and write welsh in a matter of months, so that wales enjoyed a literate majority, a rare thing in europe at the time

fun fact: the english have been taking the piss out of welsh for years, just like they’ve been doing for irish, and scots gaelic, and cornish, and british sign language, and a hundred and one other languages, because evidently the fact that the whole world isn’t anglophone and monocultured and Still Part Of The Empire is a problem, and something that needs to be corrected

(quietly cheers in support of the Welsh, and your language sounds beautiful, too)

drag them, wales!

Go Wales

the thing people need to get through their heads is what the original statement is:

W is a vowel, and LL and FF are single letters not two Ls or two Fs. Saying LL is two letters is as dumb as saying W is two letters just because it looks like two Vs.

We have a different alphabet, it just looks a lot like the english one.

ace-aussie-asshole:

vamptits:

memser:

vamptits:

they want you to make fried rice

who is “they”

the wok left

Thought this was a post from 2013. It’s from yesterday.

shencomix:

pinkpiggy93:

royalquirk:

thefaultinourchickennuggets:

maniron:

maniron:

I AM ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND AFTER READING THIS PLEASE READ IT

READ PART TWO AND THREE BELOW !!!!!

there is a VERY chaotic Cupid running around this village

^ that last comment 🤣

I never knew i needed this in my life, to believe there’s kindness that still exist in this world. Thank you God, i’m glad i lived

pigeonguy:

pigeonguy:

was trying to find body positivity posts for trans guys that look like me and couldn’t. so here’s a post for all the trans guys with wide hips and dad bods. you are hot, you are desirable, and you are doing great

huge thank you to all the positive comments on this post y’all are amazing :) please please feel free to add to this post <3 thank you so much folks y’all have made my extremely stressful week great 🥹

blueengland-ocposting:

LR2 M1 - I ALWAYS COME BACK

LR2 M1 - I ALWAYS COME BACK - Online Poll - StrawPoll

SCRATCH: Ugh…
BLUE?: Wow, you look awful!
AZURE: Kyu…
FLORIDA: What’s up? Did ya not get enough sleep?
SCRATCH: Mhm…
BLUE?: I have the perfect solution!

[Not BlueEngland tosses a bucket of water onto her. It’s cold, just like their soul.]

SCRATCH: Agh!!
AZURE: Kyu!!!
BLUE?: Now we can start!
BLUE?: Everything is set up and ready, just head into the room and try not to die!
FLORIDA: Yeah, let’s do it-
FLORIDA: Wait, die?

[Not BlueEngland shoves the three of them into the battle room.]

BLUE?: Have fun!

FLORIDA: Gh!
GOOBER: HELLO there welCOME to my SPECIAL FIGHTING ROOM

[It was hot, everything was on fire. Goober looked like they were dripping. It was gross and very uncomfortable to look at.]

SCRATCH: O-oh Arceus…
FLORIDA: Goober? Are you okay?
GOOBER: I’M FINE.
GOOBER: hello SCRATCH thAnks for MAKING ME LOSE BEFORE
SCRATCH: I- I’m sorry!
FLORIDA: Don’t apologise to him.
FLORIDA: We need to destroy him.
FLORIDA: Show him why he lost.
SCRATCH: B- but…
SCRATCH: It’s my fault he’s…

[Azure slaps her with his… shadowy… claw… hand thing? I don’t know pokémon biology.]

FLORIDA: Are you ready?

[Scratch looks unsure, before giving a heavy nod.]

FLORIDA: Good.
FLORIDA: Goober, your ass is mine!
GOOBER: TRY ME WATERWATCHER
SCRATCH: A- Azure, go!
AZURE: Kyu kyu!

theconcealedweapon:

fordtato:

noblepeasant:

shameless-shaman-main:

strengthins0lidarity:

zarosianzealot:

Sex work is real work and if you disagree, leave.

Y’all really out here getting cucked huh

Dude, he’s fucking the girl you jack off to. That’s the exact opposite of being cucked.

The comments are full of people going “it’s not like they’re having sex in these examples or anything” so I’ll go ahead and bite the controversy bullet and add:

Even if a sex worker partner is having sex with clients, it’s also literally just work. It isn’t morally wrong. There is nothing wrong with it if both parties in a relationship are aware of the work, and if everyone is being safe.

Sex workers who have sex are no worse or “dirtier” than sex workers who provide other services.

lakevida:

lakevida:

having a king bed sounds scary what if you try to put the fitted sheet on and get lost in there and die like a caver

hi this is andys roommate he got snatched up by a big hawk in the park and now hes gone forever do U feel good that this comment was the last thing he ever got to see on the computer

gailynovelry:

amaditalks:

mariacallous:

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The far right justices in question are Clarence Thomas (75) and Samuel Alito (73). The likelihood that both will be able to remain on the bench until 2029, at the earliest, is small, especially with the growing ethics concerns around Thomas’ financial improprieties and his wife’s association with January 6 that may push his retirement even though he is currently (very) resistant. Thomas and Alito are the oldest members of the Court.

Re-electing Biden substantially increases the chances of the loaded 6-3 court shifting to 5-4, moving control away from the far right bloc, by 2029.

But it also has to be considered that Sonia Sotomayor, even though she is only 68, may not be able to remain on the bench through the next presidential term due to health concerns.

The first Trump presidency and Mitch McConnell’s scheming loaded the court with three right wing ideologues who barely qualify to teach law at Regent University, let alone have lifetime appointments to our highest court.

It is crucial to remember that the impact of a presidency on the courts outlasts any other presidential legacy and can change the entire course of American life for decades.

Obergefell vs Hodges is one of the things that might be on the line in the future. If you don’t want gay marriage to have the same spotty rights as it used to — as happened with abortion without Roe vs Wade — then I recommend voting in your interest, even if it feels like there’s no moral choice on the ballot.

therustyskull:

ouijawaydidhego:

parentheticalaside:

lifesgrandparade:

Ah yes of course, like the all you can eat shrimp was simply too generous sounded like a fucking dumb explanation

Also their largest shareholder, a seafood distributor, maneuvered things so they became the sole supplier of breaded shrimp for the chain. Think of how much breaded shrimp Red Lobster buys.

One of the other fun tricks of private equity firms is to charge the company to be managed by them. Imagine if your boss charged you literal actual dollars to be managed by them.

It’s kinda funny how often people think there are machinations behind the scenes, but as long as there’s a good joke, they don’t look further. A big chain doesn’t go bankrupt because of a single $11 million loss due to a shrimp promotion. (Also, btw, they were forced to make that losing promotion permanent instead of time limited.)

Private equity has and continues to kill companies and livelihoods. The pacific northwest had an amazing chain of sporting goods stores called GI Joes that was founded as a military surplus store post-WWII and grew to automotive and sporting goods. They had the best bike center with full time techs and you could get a decent overhaul of your bike, find some camping gear and clothes while also picking up parts for your car. They got bought by a private equity firm, the “brand” got changed to just Joes and it failed, they dropped the automotive part, fired bike techs from their stores and basically ran it to the ground. I know the 2008 recession didn’t help but it was a successful company killed off for investors. The former management of the chain tried to resurrect the name but some other firm got the rights to it and the slogans and sued to keep it from returning, so like a lot of other brands, it rests in a graveyard and due to equity and trademark vampires, will never exist again.

adirtnap:

argyrocratie:

str-ngeloop:

it’s funny how people on tumblr will boldly proclaim things like “rome was a multiethnic empire”

arguably all empires are multiethnic; it come with the territory, literally so

biglawbear:

mariacallous:

The thing that gets me about people complaining about “vote-shaming” and about needing to be convinced to vote, both in general and specifically for Biden, is that so many of those people are committed to not accepting arguments in favor. You can point out Biden and his administration passing more LGBTQ protections, or the Inflation Reduction Act, or numerous other actions, and it’s never enough - nothing outweighs the negatives, in their minds.

And then when you point out the consequences and results of *not* voting for Democrats and Biden, it’s also not enough and you’re now shaming or pressuring people and not presenting a positive argument. It’s so convenient.

The reason republicans keep winning elections is cuz the right doesn’t need to be convinced to vote like this

The amount of single issue republican voters is bonkers. Abortion alone. Republicans didn’t vote for candidates expecting them to wave their own and make abortion illegal on day one. They turned out and voted for forty years to get conservative judges appointed to overturn Roe and it fucking worked.

Meanwhile you try to explain to leftists that Biden can’t just wave his pen and do everything and they get pissed and say he hasn’t done enough and ignore all the good he’s done and then they threaten to stay home

creamhearts:

why are yall so afraid to double text like ill be out here sending 9 messages in a row buzz buzz another message? its me bitch i just got a lot to say!!

bubblymooon:

mompleaser:

sorryhahaifellasleep:

moldavite-moved:

why is this about to make me sob

a poem i am sure everyone has seen but i’m still going to share anyway

as well as this other poem inspired by giovanni’s

and this beautiful tweet

sorry to bitch but every time i see these (certainly beautiful!) poems circulating online i get so frustrated that they’ve both been completely divorced from their original contexts. both of these poems were written by prominent BLACK poets who wrote them about POLICE VIOLENCE. these are metaphorical, it’s not just about bugs (though i do believe in pacifism for all things).

nikki giovanni is a black woman and educator who has written about black liberation, culture, and struggles for decades now, and also a mother, and rudy francisco is a young black man and poet. you’re meant to read between the lines of these poems, not take them at face value, with that context in mind.

these are not about spiders.

[ID: a green-ish spider against mostly black background. Beneath it, white text that reads, “i’m sorry for scaring you but i didn’t know being seen would cost me my life”]

[Text ID: “Allowables” / by Nikki Giovanni // I killed a spider / Not a murderous brown recluse / Nor even a black widow / And if the truth were told this / Was only a small / Sort of papery spider / Who should have run / When I picked up the book / But she didn’t / And she scared me / And I smashed her // I don’t think / I’m allowed // To kill something // Because I am // Frightened" -end ID]

[Text ID: “Mercy // after Nikki Giovanni // She asks me to kill the spider. / Instead, I get the most / peaceful weapons I can find. // I take a cup and a napkin. / I catch the spider, put it outside / and allow it to walk away. // If I am ever caught in the wrong place / at the wrong time, just being alive / and not bothering anyone, // I hope I am greeted / with the same kind / of mercy. // -Ruby Francisco” -end ID]

[ID: a Tweet from @/KaylaAncrum that reads, “I had a dream that I was commissioned to write a poem from a bug to god, and I do not remember any of the poem, except for the last line which was: I pray nobody kills me for the crime of being small.” -end ID]

junglejim4322:

junglejim4322:

The amount of people who feel the need to claim there was no antisemitism in palestine pre nakba/still isnt any are just rewriting history but also not seeing these people as humans because they can’t grapple with condemning genocide if they don’t paint them as magic perfect Arabs that for some reason never had the same issues all of their neighboring countries have + the entire world has (there is not a place with no antisemitism. That doesn’t exist.) you shouldn’t need to paint an entire group of people as morally pure to think they shouldn’t be occupied and slaughtered. People do this same shit with native Americans and pre slavery Africa as well where they will literally claim they lived perfect lives and had no issues before colonialism. Which ironically is just another way you’re erasing their history

Pretending people from third world countries are perfect moral beings who accept everyone and were corrupted by the white man is like some sort of new wave of orientalism

cryptotheism:

baeddelilluminati:

cryptotheism:

The fact that the homophobic term the Pope used is like, intercommunity Italian gay slang, adds a whole nother level.

Imagine if the Pope called someone a “passoid.” Holy Father who taught you that word.

we infiltrated the vatican

Another win for the LGBT community!