arundhati roy is an Indian leftist activist and author, and this is a criticism of Gandhi and Gandhian politics. this context is important. she’s lived through the failure of gandhi-esque politics.
[ID: Tweet by M (@nuhhhnsense): “Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation.” - Arundhati Roy. This quote knocked like 16 years of liberal pacifism out of me in one go. End ID.]
ID: A screenshot of a Reddit post, with text above it reading: “"Well I’m healthy so I don’t need to mask!” Things that happen to healthy people:“
Below is the Reddit post, posted by Hiddenbeing on r/covidlonghaulers titled: "Why don’t governments warn public about long covid ?”
The post reads: “I keep seeing new people joining LH communities in 2024, they have never heard of long covid and had no idea it could give you severe permanent/chronic symptoms. I didn’t know what long covid was either in 2022 even though first wavers already struggled in 2021. All I was warned about is that I could die if I had commorbities and old. Had I known it could destroy my life I would have taken more precautions.
Now these people are in their 20’s, vaccinated, they caught covid once or twice and are now bedridden with neuromuscular disorders and vascular issues. There are no warnings about long covid outside of our communities. People really have no clue that you could be young, fit, healthy and still end up permanently disabled.”
shoutout to everyone trying to tell people the truth about how bad covid is in the face of vibes based unmasking.
do y'all remember when not wearing a mask was something liberals were self righteous about? till mr. blue maga took his mask off. dear lord.
was this the pandemic we were promised? dr. fauci said we could return to life as normal if we got below 10,000 cases a day. we are now at around a million. I couldn’t tell you the last time cases were that low. years ago? were they ever?
if you honestly and respectfully ask someone why they are wearing a mask, everyone I know who wears one has an answer ready to go based on data. everyone I know not wearing a mask has not even really made a decision, it’s literally 100% vibes.
you are not immune to propaganda. join us in taking precautions and protesting the death cult of capitalism. don’t you want your kids, your nieces and nephews, your students to live good lives? it’ll be a lot harder if their t cells and their vascular systems are fucked from covid. I just want us all to be well and to make it. 💗
ID: Two screenshots of Instagram posts by mask_kink666. The first screenshot is of a post with a screenshot of a study labeled: “Estimated cululative excess deaths during COVID-18, World” with a subtitle reading: “For countries that have not reported all-cause mortality data for a given week, an estimate is shown, with uncertainty interval. If reported data is available, that value only is shown. For comparison, cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths are shown”
Below is a graph, labeled with the amount of deaths going up to 35 million, starting at Jan 1, 2020 and going all the way to Apr 14, 2024. The death toll is shown to be constantly going up with a line edited in around 2022, labeling the time before 2022 “Pandemic” and the time after 2022 “Not pandemic?”
The confirmed death toll is noted at 28.5 million. The source is “The Economist (2023): WHO COVID-19 Dashboard. Edited below is text reading: "Nearly half of all covid deaths have occured in supposedly non pandemic years”
The second post is also a screenshot of a study. It’s titled: “Comulative global incidence of long COVID. The graph goes up to 400 for Cululative long COVID cases (millions), and the data is collected from 2020 to 2023. In 2020, "65” is the recorded number. In 2021, “211”, in 2022, “337”, in 2023, “409”.
Again, a line is drawn through the data around 2022 labeling the side starting at “2020” “Pandemic” and at 2022, it’s labeled: “Not pandemic?”
Below is text reading: “Half of Long Covid cases have come in supposedly non pandemic years.”
Hi so yes icon comms are open, this is my first time opening commissions to the public or to anyone using actual money and I’m really nervous forgive the rustiness of everything.
I’ll give out the QR code to those who are interested, and i’ll try setting up paypal, and a kofi as well soon…
i thinkit would be cool if there was an omegaverse but for salmon instead of wolves. Like when the time comes certain members of society get really juicy musclewise and get yiffy fangs and are suddenly compelled to return to the neighborhood they grew up in and 96 hours later show up barefoot in full starvation mode and ravaged by walking through interstate traffic to fuck whoevwr smells the best in the local burger king. Then afterwards they die and disintegrate to be eaten by seagulls in the parking lot
this was going to be a very different text post before i pressed enter too soon, but you know what, nevermind. shout out to everyone. don’t we all deserve it
i think it’s cute when americans talk about being from the ‘great state of connecticut’ or like 'the great state of wisconsin.’ not when it’s texas or new york or california obviously because then there’s the fear that they’re being serious. but when americans adopt that really earnest tone and are like 'god bless the great state of delaware’ in response to a picture of a seagull swallowing an entire ziplock bag full of cheese-its. I think that’s very endearing
My brother recently bought a house in the rural outskirts of his city, and apparently it’s a real fixer-upper, but that’s always been the kind of thing he loves doing. So he has a truck now (to haul stuff for all the repairs he’s doing on the house). He’s already fond of flannel. He bakes his own bread.
And now a cat has turned up, so he has a cat.
With Christmas rapidly approaching, it’s dawning on me that my own brother is, in fact, Hallmark Christmas Movie Small Town Man.
If he shows up to Christmas dinner with a bewildered hedge fund manager who got stranded in his town and fell in love with him over an ice sculpture carving competition or some shit, I’m gonna have to stage an intervention.
it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of “I’m a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS” girl no it doesn’t. that’s meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation
I’d say that rejecting biological determinism in favor of space gas determinism isn’t the slay the astrology queers think it is but if I’m being completely honest I fear that many members of our community haven’t even really rejected biological determinism so much as sprinkled a layer of glitter on it
do you think the dc universe has a news site like the onion that’s just like…
“meddling parents still alive, preventing bruce wayne from adopting yet anther orphan”
“new study shows that 87% of all americans class superman as american citizen despite being born on a different planet, but only 49% avoided eye contact when asked about why martian manhunter doesn’t count”
“area woman thanking her lucky stars that batman and superman fell out on the same day she was due to go to boss’ niece’s bat mitzvah”
“arkham guard astonished by trip to iron heights, only now learning what locks are for”
“area man pretty sure he should be making more than $60k a year if his boss has 10 billion dollars to waste on robotic exosuit”
“breaking news: lex luthor sues superman for loss of earnings, claims that continually losing fights to him is negatively affecting his work ethic”
“Hub City mayor declares state of unemergency after two hours without a violent crime”
“grown man who dresses in halloween costume every night thinks clown his biggest problem”
“disappointed child realizes Booster Gold at birthday party the real one, not just a guy in a costume”
“drunk Aquaman rampages through ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ ride”
“new Teen Titan not attached to any Justice League member wonders why they’ve been issued a uniform with a red shirt”
“Earth totally not a tax haven, say Green Lantern Corps as they assign eighth lantern to same planet”
“’no one knows how to stop him’ says armed police officer as non-powered clown-themed supervillain begins 82nd massacre this year”
Halfway through these I forgot that these were supposed to be Onion headlines and not actual headlines for the DC universe.
do not. respond to my doylist criticism with a watsonian explanation.
just because i don’t see an explanation in the notes yet
‘Doylist’ and 'Watsonian’ are basically two different lenses to use when analyzing a story. A Watsonian approach comes from within the story, exploring and explaining it in the way a character would in-universe, hence the name referencing John Watson. Doylist (as in Arthur Conan Doyle) is analysis from an outside perspective, treating the story as a story written by someone and focusing on more meta aspects.
If someone asks, “Why did [Character X] say [Y],” a Watsonian explanation would focus on the in-universe factors: the character’s backstory, motive, personality, beliefs, and so on, all things that someone within the story could perceive. A Doylist explanation might focus on thematic relevance and highlight authorial intent; why did the author choose to write that?
Both forms of analysis are valuable, and ideally, a story should hold up to both internal and external scrutiny, and those analyzing a story should recognize and use both perspectives. The reason a Watsonian explanation can’t be used to counter a Doylist critique (per the original post) is that it fails to recognize the core of the critique. A post about how strange it is that an author chose to write something a certain way cannot be countered by providing the in-universe explanation, because those are the exact choices the Doylist lens is criticizing. In the same sense, you can’t counter a Watsonian critique by explaining authorial intent or some such. (Authorial intent is not authorial success.)
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ID: grainy image of a white woman glaring at someone in a beanie and hoodie who has their back to the viewer
You know you’ve fucked up when you go to a doctor and the thing you have wrong with you has been named after an occupation that isn’t a thing anymore. Like imagine a doctor looking at you and going “yeah you’ve got ox-drawn ploughman’s disease. We don’t even test for that anymore. Yeah the reason you’ve never heard of it is because the last known case was in 1927 and happened to some guy who was like 98 years old and didn’t believe in modern medicine of the time. What the fuck have you been up to.”
all this talk of people who like winter are sickos no actually people who like summer are insane Well i think the whole beautiful world is worth loving so jot that down
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and then they proceeded to be the worst at their jobs for the next 20 years
No no, you don’t get it. Jesse and James are the absolute best there is at their jobs, but they have no idea what their jobs are.
They think that they’re thieves, agents of an elite criminal group led by Giovanni, stealing rare pokemon and advanced technology and such. And there might have been a time this actually was their jobs. In the first season or two, they frequently get angry phone calls about how they’ve fucked everything up, or get their expense account cut off because they have literally never turned a profit on their criminal enterprises and constantly procure and then lose/destroy expensive and elaborate devices.
But then the world came within a hair’s breadth of being destroyed, several times, and Jesse, James, and their weird cat rescued everybody. As terrible as they’ve always been at criminal endeavors of any kind, when the apocalypse approaches and they’re forced to step up, they’re really fucking good at saving the day.
And Giovanni is over here like… if the planet is destroyed, or time/space becomes unrecognizable, or civilization collapses, there’s no way for me to run a profitable criminal enterprise anymore. I need this planet, because it’s where I keep all my stuff. And I don’t pretend to understand the why of it, but these couple of bumbling nutcases that I should have fired years ago seem to be an important component of that? Somehow? So you gotta stop thinking about them in terms of acquisitions and start considering them… loss prevention. As in, even if you waste a million dollars a month on giant cat-faced robots and a vast array of fancy ball gowns and they never turn a profit, they are preventing all of your assets from going away at the same time because of something you can’t do anything about.
And that’s the great secret behind Team Rocket. These guys aren’t thieves, they’re professional superheroes (sponsored by organized crime). Of course, nobody ever bothered to tell them that.
“To protect the world from devastation…”
Plus, as is frequently pointed out: Jesse and James are good at every other job EXCEPT Team Rocket. They’re actually smart businesspeople and run successful food and merchandise stands and are great salespeople.
Hell, even in Team Rocket situations where they’re not chasing after Pikachu they’ve done better.
It’s just their Achilles Heel is one damn OP rodent.
Pikachu Proximity Intelligence Chart
pretty sure giovanni keeps them on so he can commit insurance fraud by giving them tech insured for way more than what was paid for it so when it inevitably gets destroyed he gets a nice check.
I absolutely love this theory. And I especially love that Giovanni opposes the other villains because the world is where he keeps his things, and he likes things.
i still think about that post that talks about the prevailing powerfantasy for fiction made by trans women about trans women is “the trans woman is happy and accepted”
like, goddamn…
Please. Love the trans girl in your life. Tell her that she’s enough, and that you’re here for her. Hold her and let her feel like she belongs somewhere and has friends, REAL friends, not because she’s useful but just because you like who she is. Please, take care of her before it’s too late.
My sister is doing pet play with women on roblox and I don’t have the heart to tell her it’s probably a kink for the others involved
No, I can’t emphasize enough that she’s totally clueless about anything that could be weird about it, she just thinks it’s funny. I had to sit there with a straight face as she told me about how she made this girl eat off of a plate on the ground (in roblox) and sleep in a dog bed (in roblox) whenever she misbehaved and go “oh haha that’s so funny” and pretend like everything’s normal.
maybe
how old is she
She’s in college, she isn’t like, a child
she looking for another dog?
NO
Hey is your sister single (obviously not counting her harem of dog girls)?
No she’s straight (but says she’d go gay for Taylor Swift) and has a boyfriend, sorry petplay girls
Volunteering to stand in as this person’s sister during this time of need
I have a name
This post really makes you take a deep breath and ponder…
I swear to god if this blows up enough that it gets reposted on other social media and my sister sees you all wanting to be her roblox dog…
this will be 100k notes. I feel it.
Sorry liberals, despite 400 tags saying “posts that have 100k to me,” we’re capping out at a nice cool 11k. My white ass is not making it onto tiktok, no robot lady is going to read this text, and my sister is not seeing it. Thank you all for playing
i genuinely think ocd is incredibly underdiagnosed bc i will see people posting what are obvious rituals, compulsions, intrusive thoughts, spiralling, hyper morality, etc and its like Have You Considered This Might Be An Issue
it isnt actually good or normal to have moral dilemmas every day about which posts you reblog. it isn’t actually good or normal to check and recheck every message you send “just in case” you sent porn instead of a ‘hi how are you’. it isn’t actually good or normal to believe that your day will only go well if you have a specific keychain or whatever with you. like i’m not going to diagnose you but i do think some of you need to look into obsessive-compulsive disorder beyond “ha ha funny man wash his hands” portrayals.
Things I really should talk to my therapist about but will forget because of my executive dysfunction despite my awarness of said dysfunction
“everybody hates me” factoid actually just a statistical error. The average person doesn’t hate you, especially not your friends. You, a person who sits in your room experiencing self loathing every day, are an outlier adn should not have been counted.
This is sweet but I really thought it was going to end with someone named “Haters Horge” who spends every second in a cave halfway across the world just loathing you for no reason and they were the statistical outlier
i absolutely set people up to infodump at me, it’s one of my absolute favourite ways to learn things! you mean i get to LEARN NEW STUFF from a FRIEND who is INCANDESCENT OVER SHARING? sign me up FOREVER.
Lavish CEO’s Wife, sobbing hysterically after CEO assassination: I don’t know I don’t know I guess he killed millions of people for our money??? I don’t know I don’t know!!!
Wild that you can use a system to kill millions and that makes you money but you kill one guy with a gun and that’s a crime.
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i love all the sociology that has erupted from this
Actually your society is the freaks for shooting everything that moves and burning half your “nature reserves” every year so that upperclass dandies can eat leaded pheasant. North Americans are the well adjusted ones here, your country has become a desolate suburban lawn in island form
my opinion as an american is that we spend way too much time trying to save african megafauna and nowhere near enough time making fun of the english for turning an entire island–which was once a hazelnut food forest–into a goddamn lawn.
bill bryson once actually wrote down in a whole book and got published that the english were superb gardeners and i about threw the book out the window i was that outraged. the english!!! the fucking ENGLISH. them? that’s who you want to laud? the english
the
THERE ARE A GRAND FUCKING TOTAL OF ZERO STAPLE CROPS ORIGINALLY OR EVEN PRIMARILY CULTIVATED BY THE ENGLISH. NONE OF THEM. NOT POTATOES NOT WHEAT NOT TURNIPS NOT RYE. THEY GNAWED THEIR ISLAND DOWN TO A NUB FOR NOTHING. THE WOLVES AND BEARS ALL GONE FOR NOTHING. THE WILDCATS AND BIRDS AND MUSTELIDS AND INSECTS, GONE IN THEIR THOUSANDS, FOR NOTHING. FOR SOME SHEEP. FOR
THEIR MAIN AGRICULTURAL EXPORT IS FAMINE
anyway the english approach to agriculture, biodiversity, and environmentalism is roughly on par with a dog’s approach to someone else’s homework and everywhere in the world that has inherited their cack-fisted disdain for nature has suffered immensely. i can’t overstate enough how bad things have been and still are.
please make fun of them. it’s the least they fucking deserve.
I believe the English phrase is “odd duck.” Yes. Jan Kargad was an Odd Duck. He was born in 1922, right after Georgia joined the Soviet Union, in a commune outside of Batumi. But this was not a normal commune no. His parents were strange people. A small group of Dutch fuckers, very protestant people, started a winery in the countryside where they could read their bibles. You would think they did not get along with the Marxists, but you would be wrong. They loved work. The bible loved work. There was no problem.
Well, that is not entirely true. Jan was a bit of a problem. He was born with a “weak constitution.” We do not know what that meant exactly, but farmwork would give him seizures and very high fevers. He was not a good child for farm work. So, they taught him arithmetic. Young Jan was in charge of counting grapes and bottles of wine and so on. Maybe the Apparatchik did not mind a child doing all the counting, maybe he was bribed, maybe he did not give a shit. I do not know. But Jan was in charge of all the counting and, what is the fucking word- logistics. Yes. Logistics. And he was very good at logistics.
There are theories as to his upbringing yes. Studying the bible alongside Marx and Lenin and so on. But I do not believe this. In Chechnya in those days many studied the bible and Marx like Jan Kargad, but we did not become like Jan Kargad. I think perhaps it was the fevers. One sees things with a fever when it is bad enough, yes.
Kargad also studied the capitalists. He was very good at this. He read Adam Smith, but also Issac Newton, the South Seas bubble, and most famously the Tulip Panic. They say his journals were filled with pressed tulips. He was a bit of a, what is the fucking English word- pervert. A pervert for organizing things and numbers and so on. Jan Kargad loves logistics like a man loves his wife, and tulips are a symbol of this for him. They became a microcosm for him. You see how the bud unfolds into many petals, its is very similar to how capitalism unfurls into its many aspects in the world. But, I am getting ahead of myself.
One day, after all of his schooling, Kargad has a terrible fever, more terrible than any fever he has ever had. This is in the early 1940s some time. After this fever he becomes strange. Well, stranger than he already was. He speaks of men with golden dog masks, their necks chained to the sun, tulips growing from their eyes, all of that shit. He never goes outside again. He becomes fearful of the sun. He does not let it touch his skin.
He writes intensely for the next three years. I have seen his original notebooks and they are stained with sweat. This man is not well, but he writes. He does not get help, because he is very good at analyzing agricultural output. I believe it grounded him some how, to spend days without sleep, reading spreadsheets about grapes and wheat and so on.
He is no longer christian. He throws out all of the crosses in his home, and replaces them with grape-cutters. They are similar to a sickle, but with a long handle, for reaching up and cutting off high bunches of grapes. He becomes obsessed with this idea of the grape cutter, and he begins to paint. And this is where many first learn of him. He influences a group of artists who become famous in the southern soviet union, though they are occasionally derided as being “mystical.” I personally? I love the drawings. Many figures reaching up to pluck grapes from the sun. It becomes the central theme of his work.
Here people discover his strange writings. But first he is considered a strange mystic. His early writings are still very christian yes, and this influences how he is read in the west. Many think he is speaking of hyper-economics or whatever fetishistic bull shit the americans are calling it. But I do not think so. His work is very soviet. There are stories yes, of good soviet men drinking coffee and loving spreadsheets like a man loves his wife, and in this they become a little bit like Jan Kargad. They are –you do not have an English term for this– cutting grapes from the sun. But this is not a serious phrase you understand. These men are perverts.
AITA for divorcing my vampire husband because he lied to me about his human job?
I (542 vampire) and my husband (260 vampire) have been together for a little over two centuries. There’s a saying in the vampiric community that it takes a century for a tryst to become an enduring partnership and another century to become soulmates. I thought that was true and that Matthew (using his real name because fuck you, Matthew) and I would be together forever…until this week.
First, let me explain a few things to the mortals here. I don’t mean that negatively – I came here specifically to get the opinion of those with a finite lifespan. However, I want to be fair to Matthew as much as possible and some of his decisions are very immortal-minded.
Both Matthew and I are vampires who have chosen to forsake some of our powers in exchange for the ability to daywalk. We made the transition together on our 100th anniversary almost 115 years ago. It wasn’t an easy transition for me. I was very dependent on human blood and I spent the first twenty years in almost constant sleep as my body adjusted to running off of less lunar magic and more solar magic.
It really felt like I was losing everything. My body got physically weaker and my powers began to disappear one by one. It felt like every time I woke, another part of me was missing. One day I could turn into a wolf, the next I could barely turn into a vapor. I could command a legion of undying servants, and then I could barely convince the mailman he didn’t see me levitate down from the second floor.
Matthew, however, took to daywalking like a werewolf to a sheep farm. He barely seemed to feel the pain of losing his power, maybe because he was so much younger than me. Whatever the case, he was out all the time once he stabilized. He would be gone for days sometimes and when he came back it was with fantastic stories about the humans’ new inventions or the new structures being built in whatever town we were in.
If transformers G1 took place in the 2020s the autobots could do a video like ‘showing the aerialbots things they’ve never seen before’ and it would be stuff like 'the ocean’ 'forest’ 'human TV’
Ppl in the comments would be like 'how have they never seen any of this before’ and Jazz (runs the Autobot tiktok) would be like well they’re new and ppl would be like 'ohh they just got here from Cybertron??’ and he’d be like well yeah that too but no I mean they were just imbued with life and free will by vector sigma last week ’…….. Say WHAT’
They show the Aerialbots the infinite chocolate post and after about twenty minutes of debating it one of em is like 'so what’s chocolate?’
Jazz posts a video of the Aerialbots gathered around Teletraan’s screen like 'they’ve been staring at it for almost an hour’. This is on the screen
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