as yet another expert-approved constructive and healthy coping mechanism fails to yield the results i’m looking for i am forced to consider increasingly specific scenarios as the solution to my issues. perhaps sitting in a dimly-lit bar hazy with cigarette smoke and loudly and sloppily playing piano while semicoherently sing-narrating about what a smoking hot piece of shit loser with problems i am will fix me.
I still spend days, weeks every year thinking about how this critique pre-dates the advent of Programming Socks™ and cat-ear headphones, and asking myself, “did the Hacker Aesthetic go from Unfortunate Sweatshirts to Neon Catgirlgender Fantasy because of John Waters? Did he do this???”
MOONSHOT? THEY’RE NOT RENEWING THE CANCER MOONSHOT INVESTMENTS??? Trump let it lag thru his entire administration (hello, where do you think he “found” all the money for his disastrous economy shifts), but since 2020 the Moonshot initiative has been hooked back up to its research funding lifeline.
To give some additional insight into how insane this is, no matter WHAT party is behind it:
Since 1937, the federal government has led a bipartisan and RIGOROUS effort to eradicate cancer. President Roosevelt takes action to establish the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and this is STILL center of US cancer research. This is the large bucket all the research funding is put in to distribute amongst research + trials.
The NCI has this to say about their establishment in 1937 (emphasis by me):
August 5, 1937—The National Cancer Institute (NCI) was established through the National Cancer Act of 1937, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its passage represented the culmination of nearly three decades of efforts to formalize the U.S. government’s place in cancer research. The act represents the first time that Congress provided funding to address a non-communicable disease. The act created NCI as an independent research institute within the Public Health Service. NCI became the federal government’s principal agency for conducting research and training on the cause, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.
NCI was tasked with assisting and promoting cancer research at other public and private institutions, particularly by providing funding opportunities to support promising cancer research. The act established the National Advisory Cancer Council, now known as the National Cancer Advisory Board, which recommended approval of first award for fellowships in cancer research shortly thereafter.
For nearly 90 years, there has been dedicated and earnest federal funding towards cancer research. During this span of time, the leukemia that killed my great grandmother in 8 months at 38 years old can now be treated and SURVIVED. Cancer is not a death sentence PURELY because doctors have spent nearly a century not resting until answers are found. This is not political, this is humanitarian. Our breakthroughs in America are shared internationally and our international peers share back with us. This funding should be beyond reproach as it goes to one of our greatest successes in the international medical community.
The NCI site has this excellent graphic laying out major points in their history:
seriously, click it and see how long it takes to scroll to the end of the history section. You will notice most presidents have tried to make a positive impact somewhere in the NCI, regardless of party. Cancer is not an option for political pissing matches.
Okay, so what is the Cancer Moonshot?
Moonshot is an initiative originally added to the NCI in 2016 that was a BURST of funding, research, and patient trials. This is a thriving research environment as lush as the amazonian rainforest. As VP, Biden led the way clearing a space for the Moonshot - - deeply motivated by the loss of his son to brain cancer. It is clear he has been determined to secure the Moonshot’s place in the NCI permanently in the interest of public health.
Here’s the NCI’s event marker for Moonshot:
January 12, 2016—During his 2016 State of the Union Address, President Obama called on Vice President Biden to lead a new, national “Moonshot” initiative to eliminate cancer as we know it. The goal is to double the rate of progress against cancer, achieving in five years what otherwise would have taken ten. The White House announced a $1 billion initiative to jumpstart this work.
Not only was there a surge in research, but there was a massive acceleration in our understanding of early detection in many cancers. Meaning we started catching it smaller, less invasive, and easier to eradicate (becoming CANCER FREE!!!!!! 🎉). If you wondered why you were hearing so many updates to when to get screened, this is largely the explanation. We started saving more lives!
It is a very robust and multi-faceted piece of our public health system that I am not qualified to speak on in every capacity, so I will leave you with a link to its info page. If you ever feel hopeless about cancer, I recommend looking here to find out how we’ve most recently began kicking its ass. There are some exciting international trials beginning that involve immunotherapy + vaccine-based care 🎉🎉🎉
I know this is a lot to read, but if you don’t want to read my words, then PLEASE consider reading the NCI’s words. There are very few organizations that have such impactful insights into life-saving efforts.
This is worth informing your vote. Turn away from anyone who minimizes how massively important it is to save lives in the present and future. Turn away from anyone who tells you to believe it is an unsolvable, therefore needlessly expensive, problem. And absolutely turn away from anyone who would devalue increased cancer survival rates to politically wound an opponent. That makes them an opponent to you, your family, and anyone impacted by cancer (did you know that’s everyone? You have an important and powerful stance here too!)
We’ve all gotten just a bit too comfortable being jerks to strangers on the internet I think
So I’ve hidden this reply, both because it’s obnoxious and because I don’t want the person who wrote it being harassed for it, but I need you to understand: I don’t know you. We are not friends. This is not fun or cute, we are not sharing a charming joke together. You are just being an asshole.
literally that is what the post is about, I am saying people should be less eager to jump on any chance to be snarky and rude to total strangers on the internet
1. The effectiveness of clever on other people is highly contingent on outside factors, over which you have no control and of which you may not have any knowledge; i.e., just because you intended to be clever doesn’t mean you will be perceived as clever, for all sorts of reasons.
This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read
This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so
Slutshaming women is not ok
Slutshaming Alexander Hamilton is totally ok
Tumblr logic
he cheated. on his wife.
he’s also been dead for several hundred years this is the funniest post ive ever read in my life
fave things about this post:
the idea that thousands of people are calling alexander hamilton a slut
calling any founding father a slut
the idea that people are SHAMING Alexander Hamilton for being Such A Slut he is being SHAMED for being such a naughty little tart, SPREADING HIS LEGS FOR EVERYONE IN CONGRESS
that this was probably prompted by people expression dissaproval for Alexander Hamilton cheating on his wife - that the OP thinks “slut shaming” and “Isnt it gross that he cheated on his wife” are the same thing
Alexander Hamilton has been dead for 210
210 slutty, slutty years
the way that this is presented in such a CHECKMATE SJWS way when they’re talking about a founding father who cheated on his wife and has been DEAD FOR 210 YEARS
the fact that the words “Slutshaming” and “Alexander Hamilton” have been used in the same sentence
i mean just apply what we’d traditionally think of as “slut shaming” to Alexander Hamilton.
His frock coat is too tight, his breaches are so short, have you SEEN how often he powders his wig??? I heard he gave Thomas Jefferson a handy behind the stables AND that he got fingered by John Hancock
i barely know who alexander hamilton is
date of origin: 2014
The Hamilton discourse extends beyond time.
No one is EVER MAD AT HAMILTON FOR THE REASONS THEY SHOULD BE:
He’s the reason we have CREDIT. SCORES.
FUCK that guy.
No one is EVER
MAD AT HAMILTON FOR THE
REASONS THEY SHOULD BE:
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
You have no control who lives who dies who tells your story.
Not the post predating the musical
I had the sudden vision of the post literally predating on the musical. The savannahs stretching out. A lone American flag in the distance. David Attenborough’s voice, booming over the landscape.
Behind a bush, a slutty Alexander Hamilton twitches his scandalous coat tail. He has spotted a lone Lin-Manuel Miranda.
The Lin-Manuel Miranda continues to rap, unaware that he is about to become Tumblr’s slutty founding father’s breakfast.
Sisyphus ultrakill is easily the hottest man in the game, we know he’s intelligent and resourceful (planned the uprising against heaven), charming and charismatic (his troops struggled to fight when he was killed), he figuratively (the man) and literally (prime) lights up a room, also he’s a bear
Representative Rashida Tlaib (the only Palestinian member of the US Congress) holds up a sign saying “WAR CRIMINAL” and “GUILTY OF GENOCIDE” as Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress.
“Netanyahu is a war criminal committing genocide against the Palestinian people. It is utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress. He should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court.
“Make no mistake: this event is a celebration of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. It is a sad day for our democracy when my colleagues will smile for a photo op with a man who is actively committing genocide. It is hypocritical to claim to be concerned about the massive death toll of innocent civilians, and then turn around and welcome the person responsible for these war crimes to our Capitol. Their silence is betrayal, and history will remember them accordingly. Our government must stop supporting and funding this genocide now.”
Sometimes I think about how Vanessa circus baby and Eleanor could have been really cool/way more interesting if Scott wasn’t terrified of writing women.
wolfertinger23 is NOT me and I can’t report them because I’m blocked and they have been reposting my old artwork. I’m so tired of people finding new ways to be annoying towards me.
Tumblr really is full to bursting of the fascinating category of people who will shout ACAB at the top of their lungs and despise the American prison system with dramatic displays of vitriol but when confronted with someone who did something they actually think is a serious moral transgression cannot conceive of ‘justice’ meaning anything except the offender suffering, preferably in dramatic and humiliating ways.
You see how the median opinion on prison rape remains shrugging and considering it part of the sentence, really.
Yeah, this really bothers me. I feel like nobody puts very much thought into their public displays of anger. I suppose that makes sense, but I wish more people understood that usually when they’re angry, they make poor decisions. I mean, what can you do, though. That’s a them thing.
Tumblr really is full to bursting of the fascinating category of people who will shout ACAB at the top of their lungs and despise the American prison system with dramatic displays of vitriol but when confronted with someone who did something they actually think is a serious moral transgression cannot conceive of ‘justice’ meaning anything except the offender suffering, preferably in dramatic and humiliating ways.
You see how the median opinion on prison rape remains shrugging and considering it part of the sentence, really.
Yeah, this really bothers me. I feel like nobody puts very much thought into their public displays of anger. I suppose that makes sense, but I wish more people understood that usually when they’re angry, they make poor decisions. I mean, what can you do, though. That’s a them thing.
Tumblr really is full to bursting of the fascinating category of people who will shout ACAB at the top of their lungs and despise the American prison system with dramatic displays of vitriol but when confronted with someone who did something they actually think is a serious moral transgression cannot conceive of ‘justice’ meaning anything except the offender suffering, preferably in dramatic and humiliating ways.
You see how the median opinion on prison rape remains shrugging and considering it part of the sentence, really.
Yeah, this really bothers me. I feel like nobody puts very much thought into their public displays of anger. I suppose that makes sense, but I wish more people understood that usually when they’re angry, they make poor decisions. I mean, what can you do, though. That’s a them thing.
Following the withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 Presidential Race, the DNC has nominated Jimmy “Pickles” Hoffa to run as the Democratic nominee for President
This is veryveryvery important. My wife was feeling down about herself the other night and asked me “why do I look like this?” And I immediately brought up a photo I had taken of a sculpture of Aphrodite I had taken at the Chicago MOMA. I said, “look at this picture. What does she look like?” And my wife very shyly answered “Me…” (Literally her body is IDENTICAL to the sculpture) so I replied “that is the Goddess Aphrodite. THAT is why your body looks like this.”
I very rarely reblog miscellaneous posts but there are some followers of mine who really need to see this.
Oh shit I’m crying thank you
Remember, a lot more of you have the bodies of goddesses than you might think.
the lack of knowledge ppl have abt animals is astounding to me. which is what the ungulate poll is teaching me. probably just bc i was always an insane animal kid and knew what a saiga was by age 7 but like what do you MEAN you think a dolphin is a fish HELLO???? is that not common knowledge?????????
what is a fish
i mean if we’re being technical about it they’re not WRONG you know like all mammals are fish if you try to define “fish” taxonomically. like im talking abt ppl not knowing dolphins are mammals but thats besides the point. fish is just a body plan, really, generally accepted as fully or semi aquatic animals with gills, digitless limbs, and a spinal cord. there’s two extant infraphyla of what we would consider “fish” which just so happens to also encompass every vertebrate as well. gnathostomata includes the class chondrichthyes (cartiliginous fish such as sharks and rays) and superclass osteichthyes (bony fish, which is the majority of extant fish, and every tetrapod, which means every mammal, bird, reptile, and amphibian). so like there’s no way to classify “fish” without 1. leaving out huge chunks of what we would consider fish or 2. including every tetrapod ever as well. so like yeah “fish” is just a body plan pretty much bc there’s absolutely no way to classify them taxonomically
ok but like. what IS a fish
all fish fall under infraphyla agnatha (jawless fish like lampreys) or gnathostomata (jawed fish). there’s a lot more than fish in those groups but all animals considered fish fall into these two infraphyla
high school teachers: if you don’t show up with a dress and full makeup or a fitted tuxedo to class everyday to college your professors will execute you
college professors:
I once had a professor SLAM a thermos down on his desk and say to us “there’s more pressure in my sinuses right now than there is at the bottom of the sea. This thing’s full of NyQuil. I’m going to drink it while I teach, and when your heads are replaced by swirling rainbows, I will cancel the rest of class.”
i do think its funny when biden evangelists say “not voting is how we got trump”. amiguito hillary clinton won the popular vote by a margin in the millions. its not the fault of the dsa or jillnie stienders or whatever that the usa is a joke country with a political system that was set up to cater to the interests of 18th century farmers and slaveowners
realistically what actually matters to the actual biden campaign is undecided voters in like six states but if youve like emotionally seriously invested yourself in usamerican electoral politics you cant just say “if you’re in arizona, wisconsin, pennsylvania, florida, nevada, or michigan VOTE otherwise do whatever who cares lol” because you have to pretend that the usa is a real democracy. very funny predicament to be in
ultimately communists aren’t even telling you not to vote, the point is that it is completely ineffective action. when you ask ‘why shouldn’t we vote? we can vote and do other stuff’ it is as if you had been proposing prayer as a solution to fascism and scolding anyone who said otherwise - even if your argument is 'there’s no reason not to try’, it implies an incredible and grave misunderstanding of what is and is not an effective means of political action. like… sure. go ahead and pray, to god or to Democracy, and buy fair-trade while you’re at it, but if we’re being honest, here, I think the defensiveness over it shows not genuine faith, but a desperation to engage with a system that clearly does not work, but whose alternative appears scary and unclear to you.
communists be like “aren’t you glad you didn’t vote (it’s an allegory of prayer to the status quo)” while they shuffle us all into a death camp
if I were being marched into a death camp I would simply Vote my way out. remember when the red army liberated auschwitz with incremental reforms
no but i remember that hitler was put into power because enough people voted for him soooooo
Hitler Literally lost the Presidential election and was later appointed chancellor by Hindenburg
I do think it’s funny that liberals are so abhorred by the notion of a one-party state while also their entire notion of political action is ‘make sure one party is the only one ever in power forever’. like obviously there’s an entire field of qualitative differences and the existence of class analysis between the liberal and communist positions on the matter but also like. it’s hilarious that their own argument is 'we need to flip a coin every few years to decide whether fascists are in power. and we need to make sure the coin lands heads every. single. time.’ and if you say that sounds unrealistic they start screaming and crying and blocking their ears
the dutch language loves its latin calques. for instance where english or french are happy to use light variants of “subiectus” for the word subject, dutch breaks the latin word down to its raw components (ie. “something that is thrown under”) and translates those, resulting in “onderwerp”, literally “under-throw”. also this guy who looked at the words for mathematics and chemistry every other language used and decided hmm. mmmm no we’re not doing that
