Saying “the McDonalds flag at Guantanamo Bay is flown at half mast in order to honor the anniversary of 9/11” out loud and then immediately dying of a stroke
So apparently King’s Cross Station announced they’d be doing nothing for “back to Hogwarts” Day in July and warned Harry Potter fans to not crowd the station, and announced it again a week ago, but nobody saw that so thousands of adult Harry Potter fans crowded a real ass train station real people use to board real trains and counted down for a celebration that never happened.
I highly recommend seeking out videos of it if you’re some kind of petty person who thinks watching a large group of ardent adult Harry Potter stans being disappointed is funny (I am, I am that petty)
Making fun of adult Harry Potter fans is misogyny now. If you tell someone wasting everyone’s time at a train station to read another book you basically want to strip women of the right to vote, it’s the same thing!
i genuinely don’t think the haitians eating pets lie is something that should be laughed off bc the rhetoric literally rooted in some of the worst acts of colonial violence known to man but i just know liberals are going to try and meme it away. this isn’t a funny haha republicans are so stupid thing this is a hey they are trying to justify a resurgence of specific atrocities against this specific group of people
The attacks that took place on September 11, 2001 left much of the US population more stunned than bellicose. Yet politicians had prepared a flood of new legislation and military interventions in advance for precisely such an opportunity. They initiated a new round of colonial wars and crackdowns on domestic dissent.
More than a million people died as a consequence of the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the resulting turmoil. The rise of the Islamic State and, later, the disorganized withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan showed how little these operations achieved their professed objectives. Yet by creating this disaster, George W. Bush managed to ride the coattails of war to another term as president.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli government has pursued a similar course, taking advantage of the opportunity to destroy Gaza and butcher tens of thousands of Palestinians. This will not make anyone safer in the region—neither Palestinians nor Israelis nor anyone else. It is calculated to create an ongoing crisis that will keep the most chauvinistic Israeli politicians in power at everyone else’s expense.
Today as in 2001, our leaders will not protect us, but they can get us killed. Stop the genocide in Palestine.
yeah okay computer object heads robots with emotes androids humanoid robots are nice. but what about robots with no distinct human-like features. what about robots with no way to showing their emotions. what about robots that can only convey that they like you by the sound of their fans kicking into overdrive. what about robots that only show their liking of you by the fact that they load webpages and pictures faster. what about robots playing crackling songs through their speakers for you. do you see the visiom
>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it’s all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what’s going on
>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members
>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that’s going on
Yeah, there’s a surprising amount of people who just…don’t interact with the union they are in at all. At all. And then complain when shit gets voted in they didn’t want.
Maybe get involved. Show up to shit. Just a thought.
It is genuinely comedic that the USAmerican psyche was so irrevocably distraught, after its century of flattening cities whole, by the loss of two single buildings.
It is genuinely comedic that the USAmerican psyche was so irrevocably distraught, after its century of flattening cities whole, by the loss of two single buildings.
i love making tumblr posts out of something i just said on discord. if i ever dm you a joke and then you see the exact same thing on tumblr worded differently know that i was using you as a test subject. you are a little rat in a sterile environment and i am a lab coated scientist recording your response to the stimuli in isolation, nodding and going I See. quirkier punctuation would elevate the joke beyond its current comedic potential, i think. run the experiment again in a broader environment igor. we must create the Perfect Joke
So, I come here to promise that I won't try to flee again when that Allen guy says "hi" to me but I also would like him to not say "hi" loudly out of nowhere. He scared me.
(jokes and references to one of the drawings aside, what you do is crazy good)
I’m going to save up for a new motorcycle by running a scam where I bet straight dudes at bars twenty bucks that I can get a girl’s number in under five minutes and then politely walk up her and say, “I just bet that asshole twenty bucks that I could get your number. I’ll split it with you if you pretend to laugh like I just said a good pick up line and then write a fake number on my hand.”
Like, I never understood those kind of bets in those shitty teen movies. Everybody loves being part of a scheme, man. Use your head.
If anyone ever does this to me I’ll call them out on being a con artist.
Joke’s on you, buddy. That’ll only have consequences the first, what, couple dozen times? I can take a punch.
But then eventually, I’ll have money for the bike, and whenever I get called out, I’ll just speed off, and, sure, maybe I crash and die in a gutter and the police can’t figure out why I have hundreds of fake phone numbers stuffed in my jacket and it launches a huge investigation that becomes sort of a local legend, but you know whose problem that is? Not fucking mine.
Because I’m a slutty motorcycle ghost, and who’s gonna’ stop me then? The ghost cops? Nice try. Everybody knows cops can’t become ghosts because they just go straight to hell. It’s basic math.
Moral of the story, don’t be a con artist or you will die in a horrible accident and become a lonely ghost.
First of all, don’t you ever accuse me of having morals, narrative or otherwise, ever again.
And second, where did I say I’d be lonely? I’d be a ghost on a motorcycle. That’s the sexiest thing that there is. You look me in the eyes and tell me you wouldn’t bone Ghostrider. Look me in the goddamn eyes.
We need to lay more blame for “Kids don’t know how computers work” at the feet of the people responsible: Google.
Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.
Tech literacy didn’t mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.
Linux is a very good and powerful alternative.
reminder: you cannot Personal Choises your way out of an Intentional Structural Problem
Fun fact! School Chromebooks block Linux. It’s not an easy alternative. You are missing the point
there should be a new move in chess where if your bishop goes to the enemy backline the bishop turns into a Nun and has to be a girl for the rest of the game and its really embarrassing for the bishop
her moves would change actually because when she runs down the fianchetto to attack she would actually be really shy and her hips would swing a lot and her and sometimes she would tug her nun skirt down so that the knights cant see the
Psychological care and health care is a human right.
Children should never be denied mental health care by their parents and schools should be monitoring and supporting children’s mental health from a young age.
We need to step in to protect children’s mental health if their parents won’t.
Last year, I was talking with my mom about parenting and she said “well at least I never made you feel like I didn’t love you”
I proceeded to tell her about a time when I was a kid and she was yelling, screaming, and throwing things, and I said “I love you” in that small timid kid voice and she said
“well I don’t love you right now”
Our relationship was never the same after that and she didn’t even remember that it happened.
I haven’t been on tumblr for quite as long as a lot of people but over several years I’ve noticed this interesting gradual sorta,, shift in the general culture? that it went from this mostly depressed, nihilistic outlook where people would regularly joke about hating themselves and being hopeless and depressed, to a wave of vehemence of “STOP hating everything actually the world is Good and you deserve love!!!” type posts, to now, where those aggressive ‘PSAs’ have faded away and instead I regularly see people romanticizing simple things like stars and hot tea and rainy mornings, and waxing poetic about their friends, and just trying to put love out there. and I don’t know exactly what that means (someone who knows more than me could probably say something smart about generational expression and trauma or popular perception of mental health and whatnot), but I do know that it makes my heart very full to see people learn to love the world and themselves by extension, and a whole userbase adopting healthier coping mechanisms, and therefore teaching the younger users to do so as well. I might just be following different people, but I really do think we’ve grown. everyone has grown. five years ago it wasn’t unusual for the next post on my dash to be a scathing commentary on why nothing matters or an anon ripping into someone they barely knew or someone complaining about how pathetic their interests are. now I have mutuals who get excited and spam reblog art of cows and friends I see tagging each other in pictures of frogs and strangers writing paragraphs about how much I matter. it makes me happy. idk. just an observation I wanted to make. I think people are good and everyone’s just trying their best at the end of the day
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