The next time you’ve got a friend over, set an example and put your phone on the table, visibly there but not too far away, to let them know that you’re intentionally present, not distracted, your attention is undivided and you want to be fully focused on being right there to spend time with them. Don’t mention it or draw attention to this, you’re not doing this to be preachy or wanting praise, you just want to be a good friend and you value your friend’s time. Ideally, your friend will either notice this or even pick it up without conscious notice, and set their own phone aside on the table as well.
Then, when your friend takes a minute to go to the bathroom, grab your phone and take a photo of your friend’s phone sitting on your table. Do not touch it, and put your own phone back exactly where it was immediately once you’ve got the picture. Carry on with whatever you two were doing.
Once your time is up and your friend has left for home, wait for a good 15 minutes or so, for them to either get back home or be well on their way there. Text your friend, “hey, you forgot your phone”, and send them the photo you took of their phone on your table. Set a stopwatch running from the moment your friend sees the message.
Measure how many seconds it takes for your friend to process this and tell you to go fuck yourself.
people who unironically use multiple exclamation points in texts are the cutest fucking thing omfg. even mundane things are made cuter like “just got on the bus!!!! will be home soon!!!” like yeAH UR ON THE BUS U BIG CUTIE. I WILL SEE U AT HOME. LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING THE STREET.
i’m sorry how do you “find out” your bf is a trump supporter. when i’m getting to know someone I always want to hear their political opinions lol like I can’t imagine being in a relationship with someone who never shared that? how do you discuss the news??
they don’t! politics only exists during election season and then only symbolically for most of these people!
apparently a clown code is a series of ethical guidelines for proper clown behavior, NOT a clown-specific equivalent of thieves’ cant, which i have to say is a LITTLE disappointing
A 22 yr old in my org got drunk tuesday night and kinda shit on the fact that I’m running a community cleanup for our chapter. Said something along the lines of “i didn’t join up to pick trash.” Which really bothers me and it took me a while to figure out why. The whole point of the community cleanup is that we’re returning to the neighborhoods where we knocked doors for A4 to help clean up their streets and provide material improvement for free in an effort to build inroads with those neighbors.
Like… if your socialism doesn’t include picking uo trash, I’m guessing it also doesn’t include doing the dishes, babysitting, or anything else that is important but not prestigious. Idk man, fuck off with that shit. You’ll pick up trash and you’ll like it until you understand why picking up trash isn’t anyone’s job but your own. I hate that attitude. If helping and doing activism was always fun and visible and impressive, everyone you know would already be doing it.
The first thing the new york chapter of The Young Lords (Puerto Rican American communist civil rights group(Worked alongside the black panthers))did upon forming their group was reach out to their community in east harlem, they asked their community what problems needed to be addressed and consistently the number 1 problem brought up was the trash.
In their chairman Felipe Luciano’s words, “So we’re on 110th Street and we actually asked the people, ‘What do you think you need? Is it housing? Is it police brutality?’" Luciano says. “And they said, ‘Muchacho, déjate de todo eso—LA BASURA!” [Listen kid, fuggedaboutit! It’s THE GARBAGE!] And I thought, my God, all this romance, all this ideology, to pick up the garbage?”
And so the young lords responded to their communities needs and they picked up the trash. This was at a time (1969) when there were literal tons of garbage lining the streets, trash collectors would pick up some garbage every now and then but would leave most of it behind, they also refused to sweep the streets, and only allotted 6 big dumpsters in that entire 40 block area. This was due to racist/classist stances held by the almost exclusively italian american trash collector union.
The young lords stepped up in this situation, they go and ask for brooms and bags from the trash collectors union and get refused and insulted. They go back later and steal the brooms and bags, and get started cleaning their neighborhoods. This is a band aid and it doesn’t fix things but it does show their community these people care, these people will listen and put in the work, these people are our people, it was the basis of community organizing, building trust and responding to people’s actual needs.
While this did help and build trust the problem persisted and so the young lords came up with a program they called the garbage offensive (or maybe the trash offensive i forgot). They started sweeping all of the trash onto the side of the street and waited for the trash collectors to come by, when they refused to pick it up, the young lord would pile that all into trucks and haul it off to 3rd avenue in Manhattan(a much richer whiter area that gets high traffic). They dumped the trash into the middle of the street (not just bags of trash, we are also talking furniture, broken sinks, etc.) and then hauled off and they did this almost daily. They forced people to pay attention. The whole community started to get involved in this, kids, young men and women, and older community members too. They all started to join in on dumping the trash in the richer parts of the city to make people care and pay attention.
These protests got larger and bolder, they would sometimes pile up the trash high and then light it on fire, over turn cars and make a party out of it sometimes too. Police were called and showed up and attacked as they do but the protests persisted.
The Young lords published their demands and sent them out in a press release and their demands were listened too. In that years mayoral race every single candidate had to address the trash problem and promise solutions.
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This is an important lesson that direct action often pushes reforms, if we want reforms the best way to get them is to act and make the state react to us and catch up with our demands.
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Their demands included increased sanitation workers, hiring black and puerto rican sanitation workers, increased dumpsters, increase in pay to sanitation workers, end having to pay off your sanitation workers to ensure your trash gets picked up etc. Many of these demands were met and in the coming years the trash does end up getting picked up regularly and the problem does get dealt with.
The Young Lords end up going on to do so much more. They occupy hospitals, steal supplies from the government, and try to build towards a revolution in america. But it starts here, it starts with the trash it starts with all the small menial hardships. We can talk about revolution all we want but if our neighborhoods are unsanitary, our neighbors hungry, our needs uncared for nothing will come of it. The revolution you want to build however radical you are must start rooted in your community, their wants and needs. And part of that is picking up the trash, starting a community run daycare, and all the little unglamorous day to day struggles that weigh people down.
Thank you for this addition! I’m going to read it to the volunteers who come out to trash pick with us today 🤘
Man: What’s a matter girl, you had a little bit too much corn?
Pig: *very long disgruntled groan which rises in pitch*
Man: Is that a yeah?
Pig: *shorter groan*
Man: Okay. Here I come, I gotta get the intoxicated pig… Look at this pig…
Pig: *quiet snort*
Man: Hey!
Pig: *snort*
Man: Are you messed up, girl?
Pig: *short snort*
Man: Never seen a damn pig… Look at that, that one here’s fine, that one there is fine, this one here is turned belly up
Pig: *snort snort snort snort*
Man: Hey you
Pig: *snort*
Man: Whoa! Whoa! Shit! [Unintelligible] HOWH! Come here girl!
Pig: *grunt grunt grunt*
Man: Holy hell, fuck…I didn’t mean to do that
“Whoa! Woah! Shit The Bed Almighty!” Is my new favorite expletive
and if anyone’s wondering, the man (from Cecilia, Kentucky, USA) had emptied a broken deer feeder full of accidentally fermented corn into a field where no animals were supposed to be. the pigs broke out of their pen, got into the corn, and the one you see here seriously overindulged
they observed her overnight and got Animal Control to do a check-up on her. she’s fine
so yes, you you can enjoy the video without worrying about Drunk Pig
one of those horny games where you have to do puzzles to get sex cgs, but the puzzles are just really fucking hard and you have to look up a walkthrough which is deeply embarrassing
the girls make fun of you for being bad at the puzzles. you have to beg them for clues.
I feel like someone is standing next to me talking about how I’m dead
The chemical they put on ants and all the other ants think they’re dead that’s what happened to tumblr except the chemical is unmarketability
tumblr may have censored porn but check this out
i hope Elon musk KILLS himself and DIES a thousand DEATHS. and i hope every other billionaire a very merry DIE DIE DEATH KILL MURDER DEATH KILL
tumblr on top
tumblr doesnt censor porn. what are you talking about??? i went to block someone the other day (because a friend said they were posting a bunch of weird ads) and when i clicked on the Tumblr, the first thing i saw was uncensored hardcore porn
and the porn bots did yall forget about the porn bots
porn isnt censored?
porn is supposed to be censored
But the bots have a fucking mission to post as much porn as possible
oh i see
but my point is that porn isnt censored
It’s because back before they banned porn that like the main thing Tumblr was known for
Most people didn’t care about the art, fanfiction etc we have they were just here to goon
an interaction im very tired of in online autism spaces. aka when you don’t have a special interest / when your special interest isn’t [character] or [fandom]
Wow uh. I did not expect this to leave my mutual circle. Anyways here’s an overview of identifying columns. Use it to annoy your sister when watching anime by pointing out the types of columns in the background!
actually while ime still awake take this,,, I did more bunnysuit but for @kyoukorpse bc he got too many ideas on his plate so I told him I’d do this heehee :3
that quote like “god gave us transness for the same reason he made grapes but not wine; yeast but no loaves — so we may partake in the divine act of creation”
- Julian K. Jarboe, quoted in Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery
Here’s where they originally said it! And, with an icon I drew! We went to school together, I owe them a lot.
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