waters so amazing because you can drink it really sloppy style and like spill it all over yourself and it doesnt even leave a stain. you dont even have to wash it out/ . because its already washed
yet another massive w for water, the greatest fluid in the universe
This is why I hate the like, casual ha ha aren’t men awful jokes that people like to casually throw around.
Like, men are victims of the patriarchy too, and loneliness and isolation is what brings out the worst in people.
I’m not saying you have to be nice to or defend wretched men, but don’t treat them as wretched just because they are men. Treat them as wretched because they are wretched.
For decades stoners were renowned for their aesthetics. For their blacklight posters and lava lamps, for their airbrushed dragon murals and electrical shock orb thingies from Spencer Gifts. Then they legalized weed and every weed store became the flattest, emptiest minimalist void imaginable. They’re putting a weed store in a former Rainforest Cafe and they’re tearing out all of the rainforest decor to make it just a big empty space with walls painted the blandest green they can find. They tore down paradise and put up a place where a business major tries to tell you CDB oil can cure cancer
as a child of divorce few things are as funny to me as the concept of alimony like you have to pay your ex-wife recompense for the crime of being a fail husband
rejection sensitivity is so fucking lame. like boo hoo look at me i felt mildly ignored for 30 seconds and already started planning my own funeral liKE BITCH CHILL it was never that serious
The Italian police raided some of LVMH’s Dior suppliers that make luxury handbags.
Italian prosecutors found Dior paid $57 to produce bags retailing for $2,780.
Italian prosecutors in Milaninvestigated the LVMH subsidiary Dior’s use of third-party suppliers in recent months. Prosecutors said these companies exploited workers to pump out bags for a small fraction of their store price. Citing documents examined by authorities, Reuters reported last month that Dior paid a supplier $57 to produce bags that retailed for about $2,780.
In probes through March and April, investigators found evidence that workers were sleeping in the facility so bags could be produced around the clock, Reuters reported. The probe also said safety devices on gluing and brushing machines were removed so workers could operate them faster.
The probe also extended to Giorgio Armani contractors. Armani paid contractors $99 per bag for products that sold for more than $1,900 in stores, according to documents seen by Reuters.
The prosecution said violating labor ruleswas a common industry practice that luxury giants relied on for higher profits.
“i hate small talk. you are a stranger. why the fuck would i want to talk about the weather with you”
i may be a deeply introverted and asocial individual, but even i recognize how many relationships have started with a single innocuous question, forged in the fire of an ember lit by humoring it with an answer.
humans make small talk, because small talk can grow.
“can i borrow your red?” without even thinking, you hand over a crayon. your peer smiles, missing the same tooth you are missing. you smile back, and you both talk about the tooth fairy. tomorrow, you each ‘buy’ one another’s drawings, one fresh new quarter each.
“what’s that on your keychain?” you look up, the face of a fellow teen peering over the back of the bus seat. you hesitate, suddenly worried you seem less mature than others in your grade, but you tell them it is something called a neopet. next week, you have accepted their friend request. you draw them art of their new shoyru, and they explain some basic coding to you to make your skeith’s custom pet page 'pop’ more.
“woah, what’s with all the bananas?” someone chuckles as they take notice of your shopping cart. it is a bit silly, but you explain you’re trying a new recipe, but are sure you are going to get it wrong many times, so you are doubling up on all the ingredients. the stranger admits they’re not a great cook either. they tell you a story of when they set their dorm room on fire. you have also set something on fire, but it wasn’t a dorm room. you playfully hint it was not an accident either. you recognize mischief in one another’s eyes, but also, that it is something more than mischief. a year from now, while the two of you are no longer strangers, you will be standing side by side in the streets with your fists in the air in the name of one, tears in your eyes long before the canisters fall.
“i don’t understand the appeal of this newfangled thing, do you?” as you glance to the bar TV to see what they are referring to, you tell them that you do. as luck would have it, you have a walked a path in life that lead you to understanding it. you offer to explain it, for it truly is not as strange, or even as newfangled as one would think. it has been five years, and while it’s not all you do together, every friday you see one another for drinks. they are someone else, but the someone else is them, and they are happier than they have ever been. as are you. this particular friday, you have a ring in your pocket. part of them knows you do.
“how about this weather, huh?” for a moment, you do not look up. you do not speak. you are looking down at your plate. you are at the table of acquaintances, in their very own home. well, on their patio, rather. they are not your friends, per se, but you know their names and the creases on their faces. your face has creases too. it has been thirty five years, and that is a long time to see the same two people sit at the same two stools every weekend, only for one day, one of the stools is empty. however close or distant, everyone knows, and everyone feels the absence. and some have invited you over for dinner tonight. the wife is quite the cook. finally, you respond.
“sorry, what was that?”
“i said 'how about this weather,’ it’s been so nice lately, hasn’t it?”
though your heart and bones are aching from the rain your joints now just know is coming, you smile.
“yes. yes it has.”
“i said 'how about
this weather,’ it’s been so nice
lately, hasn’t it?”
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
The company isn’t boasting about using cheap/unpaid/forced penal labor.
It’s a project offering voluntary employment opportunities with fair trade wages to incarcerated women, allowing them to amass decent savings and avoid recidivism (i.e., having to return to prostitution, drug muling, and the other poverty-related crimes as soon as their sentences are up, because they’re right back in poverty where they started).
No, it’s not the all-or-nothing Tumblr justice solution™ of magically abolishing the PIC overnight, but it’s a significant improvement over the literal slave labor most corporations employ, while raking in the entirety of a prisoner’s surplus and setting them up for recidivism.
Y'all….this isn’t slave labor the way the vast majority of prusin labor is. They have a 30 hour work week and pay their employees a LIVING WAGE. Also the company was founded after talking to women in prison about their lives and needs
This! Is Why! You Read! The Entire! Fucking! Article!
This really is one of those things that, on the surface and without searching for further context, comes across as absolutely fucking abominable. But it’s women helping other women to make the best of a horrific situation they can’t fix.
The fact that these women are incarcerated is terrible, but what she’s helped them accomplish and the way she’s helped them improve their situation is so wonderful
[medieval guard voice] you used to be able to look mysterious travelers in the face to figure out if they looked like anyone on ye olde conspicuously placed wanted posters. not any more though. because of cloak.
a lot going on w this whole boxing drama but have to say JK Rowling having made an enemy of the entire country of Taiwan is a definite highlight
best as i can tell 90+% of people weighing in on this on twitter not only don’t understand how chromosomes work they also just don’t know shit about boxing
@fluffyblue-multifandommess Wait, why Taiwan? Isn’t the athlete this whole BS controversy is about Algerian?
ok so what happened is as follows:
in 2023 the IBA disqualified 2 boxers, Imane Khelif (Algerian) and Lin Yu-Ting (Taiwanese) on the grounds that they had failed ‘gender eligibility testing’.
the Olympics Committee has (I think?) recently broken ties with the IBA citing various ethical concerns so both athletes were re-evaluated and allowed to compete
the current controversy is mostly focusing on Imane Khelif bcos she basically one-shotted another boxer but people, including JK Rowling, are also saying that Lin Yu-Ting shouldn’t be allowed to compete
this has resulted in a lot of very angry Taiwanese people (rightly) calling JKR a racist who can’t tell Asian men and women apart. tear her apart guys!!
Also terfs are tying themselves in desperate knots as they frantically argue that a person born with a vulva but with elevated levels of testosterone has to be classed as a man without even once tasting the hypocrisy. Like hey terfs do you see how your worldview is built on quicksand and patriarchy
the thing about her having elevated testosterone is actually hearsay. the IBA have confirmed that the gender eligibility test that she failed wasn’t a testosterone check so there’s no publicly available evidence as to her testosterone levels. it might be that she was found to have XY chromosomes but that’s not been reliably confirmed either.
but yes people are now arguing that the only thing that matters for 'biological sex’ is your chromosomes even tho literally no biologist in the world would agree with them.
in the name of factual accuracy: both women are cisgender. Imane Khelif might be intersex which is not mutually exclusive with being cis. u can tell your dad Algeria has no legal recourse for gender transition lmao!
Not to mention that her boxing record for her entire life is very much open and public information and she never once competed in a mens tournament. She has always fought in the women’s tournament. She has lost 9 times to women in the women’s tournament. Even if she hadn’t, it wouldn’t matter.
She is a woman, has always been a woman, and until she decides to become a transman, she will always be a woman.
As a reminder, a convicted child rapist is competing in the games, and instead of even pretending to care about that, TERFs are pitching a fit over women boxers punching their opponents
^ yeah. the thing w the IBA shouldn’t have happened and the IOC has done the right thing by not releasing any information about either athlete’s medical situation. i sincerely hope neither of them gives into the pressure to 'prove’ that they’re really women.
lotta fucked up shit that can happen to the human body but the fact that you can catch strep one day as a kid just wake up with OCD from it is nuts. and then they had the gall to name it PANDAS???
Actually, I think the medical community could get better at recognizing that all sorts of infections can set of long lasting or permanent autoimmune fuckery in people who are predisposed. That includes neurological symptoms. It doesn’t only happen in kids and it doesn’t only happen with things that are trying to look like human proteins, it can happen due to cross reactions and stuff too.
When you have severe enough autoimmune fuckery you find out really quickly that any infection of any kind, or even a severe allergy attack, can mean new lasting symptoms in any bodily system or new chronic pain. Lots of well known viruses or bacteria that are “so common tho” can trigger a permanent worsening of symptoms, or new symptoms.
We’re starting to see this happen a lot more visibly with Covid and long covid, but that kind of reaction has always existed for people with a trigger happy immune system. Ms cfs fibromyalgia and etc are all now understood to be complex reactions to herpes family viruses which had previously not been understood to cause life long debilitating symptoms that were anything more than cosmetic or a bit of -sometimes severe- surface pain.
A virus I caught in my 20’s made me develop narcolepsy! And some vaccines cause this too, in some vulnerable people, because they are designed to cause an immune reaction! [you should still probably get vaccinated for whatever you can, this is not an anti-vax argument, just recognize some people can’t.] This shit has been happening to me through my life and worsening any time I am exposed to specific pathogens! I promise it isn’t just kids. And we should study it more.
The thing is, youth liberation cannot be achieved without the end of capitalism and the liberation of workers. We cannot expect to gain our human and civil rights by working with the bourgeois system, because the bourgeoisie relies on the dehumanization and subjugation of youth to have the workers feel like they still have some kind of property. Your rights under capitalism are directly tied to your ability to produce capital. Since children cannot produce capital, and teenagers are not guaranteed the fruits of their labor, they are subjugated by the adult bourgeoisie. Hell, even CPS exists to pacify the youth (feeling like there’s a way out of abusive situations) and adults because CPS protects their “rights” to abuse kids. Calling for expansion of CPS is capitulation and will inevitably be weaponized against parents who treat their kids with respect. The best solution is securing the right for youth to leave of their own free will and have a place to go, which can’t happen as long as housing is commodified under capitalism.
If we are to fight for youth liberation, mere protests and petitions and (anarchistic) individual action will not do anything because the current system hinges on the oppression of children and workers. The solution is to ally the revolutionary struggle for the working class and the struggle for children’s rights. It is no coincidence that socialist countries like the Soviet Union and the DDR advocated for the protection of children from violence and recognition as people, or that their education systems were largely more democratic. Youth alone are not a big enough sector of the masses to make a real change, and real change cannot exist within the current system, so the best course of action in terms of youth liberation is to align with the revolutionary movement.
In Marx’s time, women’s liberation was unheard of, and yet he championed it as a goal of socialism. The DDR decriminalized homosexuality 20 years before West Germany did. Now that youth rights are the new frontier, there is little doubt in my mind it will be the (revolutionary) socialists who lead the way.
well maybe if adoption was more accessible to single parents and lesbian couples, witches wouldn’t have to go haggling for people’s firstborns
*Historian voice* in a monarchy with a small central government and little to no welfare provisions for its predominantly rural population, witches resignedly became both social service and foster parents; confiscating children from parents willing to barter them away for a prince, or a particularly interesting lettuce. In this essay I will
Did you know a wild hog can be so hearty that it can take multiple high-powered rifle shots to bring it down? Did you know hogs can breed at such a rate to be so pervasive and omnipresent in an environment that they can threaten entire ecosystems? Did you know that bad code can act in a similar way— Causing problems down the line that are hard to identify the root cause of, and once you do, debugging that bad code can take hours, if not days of work? Did you know that, when asked by my boss what I was doing that had been taking up so much of my time these past few days, ‘wrangling my hog’ was a really bad answer?
First, after an aggressive war on Gaza City and its revival, we were displaced from our 3-storey house in which I and my family of 3 members live.
My father’s family consists of 8 members
My grandfather, may God have mercy on him, was martyred by occupation aircraft on 12/14/2023.
The one who was martyred while he was leaving the house to check on our house next to him, which could not be reached due to a brutal enemy who does not differentiate between anyone in death, went out to check on our house, which we were not in because of my displacement to Rafah, me, my father, and our families due to the intensity of the fighting in Khan Yunis, and after that A few days ago, our store in which my father and brothers work was bombed by occupation aircraft. He was working to gather his strength from it and meet the needs of our house, which no longer exists due to the bombing. We ask you to help and contribute, even if just a little, by donating to us so that we can compensate for a little of what we lost.
If you do not understand the words well, because I am not very good at English, but I ask you to help me with money so that I can compensate for even a little of what I lost, and I am very grateful to you, my dears😢🥺😢🥺😢🥺🥺😢
Big fan of angels being autistic btw. “How does an entity like that have a neurological condition” Well they can act like that. Angels having traits that read as autistic. Incomprehensible being trying for their best mimicry of human behavior. You understand
First day on earth pretending to be a Normal Human. Eye contact is weird when you only have two of them. Trying out physical sensations. Touching things with different textures. Picked a leaf off a bush and ate it. People are looking at me weird. Sorry. Say something normal. Do you know when the bus gets here
Second day as a Normal Human. Not used to standing still because I’m usually a four dimensional shape turning within itself. I understand the bus schedule now. Blessed someone’s baby today. Trying out smells and tastes. Went to a bakery. People are looking at me again. Loudly announced I love bread
Third day as a Normal Human. I thought I understood the bus schedule but it’s not here. Got in an argument with a street preacher. The bus is here. Went to a coffee shop. Really enjoying smells and tastes. Blessed someone’s dog. I think I’m doing a good job
We really going to ignore the fact that he donated once and is just using the same screenshot over and over?
Edit:
To clarify, I have no issue with someone donating. I’m pro-choice myself. The issue is he donates once when he says he’s going to donate each time, just so he can virtue signal about how he refuses to engage with someone.
Furthermore, I have issues with him replying to any criticism with this. You can criticize the smug pride in not engaging in debate and beating your opposition, yet he’ll assume you’re pro-life as a result.
He’s being a smug prick who is playing you all like a fiddle to get jerked off and you’re all falling for it.
If this is the hill you want to die on, Spidey, go for it. I’m quite happy with the idea of someone donating money to Planned Parenthood, and since I don’t know or care who he is, the virtue signalling is lost on me.
That aside, being suspicious of everyone for any nice act all the time is mentally exhausting so miss me with that.
… I literally say I have no issue with him donating money.
But he’s saying “I’m going to donate every time” and then he posts the same donation page. So rather than do what he says, he’s donating ONCE and using it to as an own against other people while using it to get ass pats from people who agree with him.
That’s literally the same screenshot, two hours apart.
This is like “man pledges to build house for every homeless person evicted from X location” except he builds ONE house and takes the same picture of it over and over again, yet claims he’s built 100 houses. It’s deceptive and he’s doing it to milk people for social praise.
The goal wasn’t to help people, because if it was he’d actually donate every time. It was to get ass pats.
Shut up
also
fuckin roasted
imagine getting called out by Alex Hirsch. I would evaporate tbh
This absolute fucking son of a gun, I swear on me left bum-
I have become a regular at the local cafe. I sit at the lunch counter with my laptop to write. The workers keep me updated on all the tea.
Barista: Oh god here he comes.
Me: who?
Barista: White Ferrari guy. Hes banned from the other cafe. All he ever does is tell the same stories about the pyramids. Or ghosts. Or his car. Don’t make eye contact with him. If he talks to you he won’t leave you alone- Hi hello welcome!
I almost immediately accidentally made eye contact with him. He practically beelined to the chair next to me, and stares at my notebook. The vibe is immediately strange. I understand why he was banned from the other cafe.
White Ferrari Guy: What’re you writing?
Me: (fuck it) I’m developing a script!
WFG: A what?
Me: A script. I’m developing an alternate script for the international phonetic alphabet. My goal is to make it one grapheme represent a single syllable, rather than one grapheme per phoneme. I’m happy with the consonants, but the vowels still need work. I’m experimenting with kerning based on Georgian script-
I look up, he is staring past me completely dead-eyed. He could not be less interested in what I’m saying. He leaves about a minute later.
[sheathes this notebook like a katana] your autism is weak, old man.
this will be a bit of a long post but i ask that you please please read the full thing if you want to know more about Sudan- i feel like not enough people ACTUALLY know what’s going on in Sudan. a lot of people have a vague idea that a ‘war’ and genocide is going on, but it’s important to know the specifics as well.
there is extremely little coverage of Sudan from non-Sudanese sources, and even those that DO cover it often paint it as a war between two different generals for power over a country- and to a certain extent, without context, that IS what’s happening. for those unaware, the two 'warring factions’ in Sudan are the official Sudanese military- the SAF (Sudanese Armed Forces) and the RSF (Rapid Support Forces).
in April 2019, during the Sudanese Revolution, Islamist dictator Omar al-Bashir was deposed by the SAF in response to a mass wave of revolutionary organizing, protests, and sit-ins. Immediately after, the TMC (Transitionary Military Council) was established, with SAF general inspector Abdel Fattah al-Burhan being appointed as the chairman. for a brief time, protestors engaged in negotiations with Burhan, and many believed that he was being ernest in his promises of a true civilian democratic government- but it soon became clear to protestors that he was not actually taking their demands seriously, so demonstrations once again intensified. on June 3, 2019, it was under Burhan’s command that the Khartoum Massacre was committed, killing 118 protestors while they were participating in a sit-in at the military headquarters in Khartoum.
as the next few months went by, agreements came about to dissolve the TMC and form a Transitional Sovereignty Council based on a draft of a constitutional declaration. it was supposed to be that a military official would be the chairman for 21 months, then transitioning to a civilian chairman for the next 18 months- but Burhan staged a coup in October of 2021, and dissolved the council and effectively turned the Sudanese government back into a military junta, which was the cause of further protesting.
i want to emphasize the crimes and horrors of the SAF because they are often forgotten in these discussions due to the absolute atrocities committed by the RSF. there is no good guy here- both the SAF and the RSF are vying for dictatorial power. so let’s talk about the RSF.
headed by genocidal war criminal Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known more widely as “Hemedti”, the RSF formed around 2014 due to reorginization of the Janjaweed militias- which were the militias that formed across the Darfuri regions of southwestern Sudan to suppress demonstrations against Bashir’s oppressive and racist regime which carried out the first genocide of Massalit and other ethnically non-Arab peoples across Darfur in the early 2000s. so to be succinct- the RSF has direct roots in dictatorial suppression of Sudanis protesting against ethnic cleansing, genocide, and oppression.
for around a decade, the RSF and SAF were different factions of the Sudanese military- both have their roots and a pattern of supporting dictatorial violence and anti-Black genocide. and, on April 15, 2023, these two dictatorial Arab-colonialist powers began fighting out of the blue. fighting has been most intense around Khartoum, the central state and capital city of Sudan, where now an estimated 35% of its residents have been forced to flee, with the rest trapped in the middle of an active war zone.
the RSF has been actively continuing the genocide of non-Arab Darfuri Sudanis that its predecessor the Janjaweed committed 20 years prior. they have been consistently launching attacks against Massalit villages in Darfur and El Geneina. Recently, they have completely ethnically cleansed several Massalit villages, killing hundreds in each one of them. in addition, they are committing so many other war crimes, like sexual violence, blocking access to humanitarian aid, occupying civilian homes and kicking the residents out, along with blatant ethnic cleansing campaigns, mass murder, and targeting of civilians.
but don’t think that this is a 'civil war’ as many are calling it. a civil war is an internal dispute, but this is far from that. both the SAF and the RSF are supported by external powers, namely the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Russia, who all provide funding to these groups IN EXCHANGE FOR SUDANESE RESOURCES LIKE GOLD AND OIL. this is, ultimately, not just some random war between two different military groups- it is a war funded by and for foreign colonial powers who have a vested interest in colonizing Sudan for its resources. as an example- the UAE’s- and especially Dubai’s- infamous gold and jewelry industry, is only made possible by the fact that the UAE illegally smuggles 80% of Sudan’s gold- they fund this by sending weapons AND SOLDIERS to the RSF. Several of the gold mines in Sudan are owned and operated by the Russian government.
all of this, both the 'internal’ AND the external, colonial aspects of this war and genocide, has led to the world’s current WORST humanitarian crisis. not only do LOW estimates place the total murdered in the past year at 150,000, but out of Sudan’s population of nearly 47 million, over half (25 million) are in severe need of humanitarian aid, and of those 25 million, over half are children. fighting between the RSF and SAF has lead to severe blockage of aid, and the UN’s initial proposed budget of $1.5 billion in April of 2023 has not only not increased to accommodate the severe worsening of the crisis, but ALSO has not even been funded 20%.
2.5 MILLION PEOPLE ARE EXPECTED TO STARVE TO DEATH IN SUDAN BY THIS FUCKING SEPTEMBER. THAT IS LESS THAN 2 MONTHS AWAY.
additionally, due to both western colonization and the Sudanese governments’ deliberate cutting of internet access across the entirety of Sudan, there is a huge lack of the proper infrastructure for generating awareness and spreading videos and info from on the ground in Sudan. this means that not only are people unable to effectively crowdfund support to leave, but they are also barred from accessing social media to spread awareness, and they’re unable to contact loved ones outside of Sudan most of the time.
also, Sudan is HUGE- in order for displaced people to escape fighting, they usually have to walk, on foot, for hundreds of miles, often across literal deserts, with extremely little access to water. there has also been a surge of internally displaced people dying due to illness and scorpion stings in displacement camps. 70% of Sudan’s hospitals have stopped functioning entirely. and even if they DO make it to a neighboring country, most of the options there are just as bad, if not worse- Egypt is extremely anti-Black, and doesn’t allow work permits to most Black refugees, meaning they are relegated to being houseless and jobless if they go to Egypt- and westward in Chad, there is also crisis with food and resources, so the government of Chad quite literally can not materially support anymore Sudanese refugees. In South Sudan, there is also conflict, war, and crisis, and in Ethiopia, where the genocide is taking place in Tigray, the government is extremely hostile to Sudanese refugees. there are currently more than 6,000 Sudanese refugees stranded in the forests because of the hostilities they faced while in UNHCR camps.
and everyday that we’re not doing something, this genocide, war, and humanitarian crisis is getting worse. doing something starts with being educated. i urge y'all to look more into this, don’t just take what i’m saying and roll with it- truly learn and listen to Sudanese activists on this. i highly recommend following these accounts on Instagram:
I worked at a McDonald’s as a cashier in high school and it was during a time when they changed their POS system (point of sale, not piece of shit) so everything was now in a slightly different, less logical place, but I was working 20ish hours a week so I picked it up really quickly
Anyway I was out with my friend in the next town over and we went to a McDonald’s because she really wanted an ice tea and we go through the drive through. The man greets us out of the little speaker and asks for our order and she says “Hi! Could I get a large sweet ice tea please?”
Silence.
Longer silence.
And I knew in my heart what was happening.
So I leaned over and said, “It’s on page two of drinks, under juice, then the third one down.”
Another much shorter silence.
Then:
“What the - how the hell did… Uh. I mean. Thank you?”
And it’s been literally ten years but I’m still riding the high from that.
Ninety percent of most magic consists of knowing one extra fact.
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