someone: prohibition in the united states was largely ineffective, cost millions, tried to force a religious belief on the entire country, only ever resulted in the increase in consumption of alcohol, as well as the increase in police violence, and ultimately failed
people: okay yeah that’s true
someone: the war on drugs is the exact same thing except this time because of the militarization of the police and private prison interests, is much, much more deadly and specifically exists to justify and widely reinstate slavery within the united states
people: what? but drugs are #bad, and we can’t let people use them. obviously this is the only way to deal with this situation
someone: prohibition in the united states was largely ineffective, cost millions, tried to force a religious belief on the entire country, only ever resulted in the increase in consumption of alcohol, as well as the increase in police violence, and ultimately failed
people: okay yeah that’s true
someone: the war on drugs is the exact same thing except this time because of the militarization of the police and private prison interests, is much, much more deadly and specifically exists to justify and widely reinstate slavery within the united states
people: what? but drugs are #bad, and we can’t let people use them. obviously this is the only way to deal with this situation
how do you not include one of the most infamous scenes of all time
The number of people who conveniently forget that not every piece of media is to be taken 100% seriously, and that sometimes things are done as joke that are making fun of the thing the moment a piece of media isn’t American is… interesting.
Like, just the people going “have they never seen a woman?” “Do they know how physics works?” Like yes, obviously this poor stupid professional animator make anime and that must mean that he(because NO WOMAN would draw anime that sexualizes women) is some pathetic shut-in loser.
It could never be that they are doing something ridiculous on purpose for comedic effect.
This is making the rounds on BlueSky, but I haven’t seen it here yet.
Twitter is rolling out a “Recreat this with Grok” button directly on images now when you open them. Also, some people have experience their artwork getting labeled as ‘made with Grok’
I understand why some people have tried to stay but, please at the very least start transitioning your work to other places so at the very least you have a exit without hurting your finances too much.
Twitter is only going to become more hostile towards artists. It’s full of poison and it’s only a matter of time before it fully erodes.
i heard some people claimed their art was by grok to get around this
finding enough plastic in human brains to make a spoon is certainly a shocking headline but I just don’t have it in me to be shocked anymore. not only can I see the evidence of spoon brain all around me I can literally feel it in myself
FYI this study has already been debunked by the scientific community! The methodology used is known to be bogus and misinterprets normal fatty tissue as high in microplastics — the brain is around 60% fat — because the authors are not experienced in the field. I do not believe there is an official retraction or update yet but here is some informal correction from actual micro/nanoplastics researchers. Yes, microplastics are everywhere, but it makes zero biophysiological sense for it to be amassing in your brain the way that paper suggests, particularly when that is not happening to the major filtering organs like liver, kidneys and the lymph system.
i think the secret to asking Smart Person questions is to take a dumb question and keep making it dumber until you can’t anymore
Interesting theory. Do you have an example?
Okay but if it doesn’t work you cant make fun of me
Step one: Get stupid
Which foot does my left shoe go on?
Which shoe is the left shoe?
Which side is left?
What is “Left”?
Does “Left” exist?
Step two: Double down (Concepts get too simple for normal words so longer words are needed)
Who decides whether something is on the left or on the right?
If I say something is on my left and six people facing me say it’s actually on the right, is it left or right?
Can the objective value of two subjective realities outweigh one?
Can one subjective experience with no objective value become more reliable than another if it gains prominence?
Does believing in a subjective truth make it real?
If a single subjective reality becomes accepted among the majority, should I align my perspective to that reality to facilitate the mechanics of the universally subjective experience?
Step three: Apply it to real life
If we agree as a society to adhere to a system of universal subjectivity in pursuit of productivity, prioritizing function over experience, are we admitting that we value efficiency of labour over comprehension?
Step four: (Optional)
Put left shoe on right foot as a public demonstration against capitalist greed
jesse. bi lesbians are problematic jesse. i saw it in a carrd jesse.
yo mr white i think you’re spending too much time on twitter bitch
jesse. im gonna need you to dni jesse.
yo mr white i thought you were supportive of all identities bitch
jesse. i am supportive of all identities jesse. i love queer people jesse. i just dont understand bi lesbians jesse
yo mr white i think you’re being an exclustionist right now bitch
jesse. my twitter moot says bi lesbians dni. jesse that means you’re identitty isnt valid jesse
yo mr white. saying you support all queer labels and identities while also setting specific labels aside that you deem problematic isn’t supportive whatsoever and all that you’re doing is allying yourself with conservatives bitch
Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.
USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don’t get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don’t get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.
Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.
If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.
i’m so fucking sick of people taking aspects of historical gay sexuality and saying “but what if i made it squeaky clean and sexless so i can have it” sometimes not everything is for you babes!!! sometimes you don’t get to have everything!!!
“what’s the hanky for ppl who don’t wanna have sex or do kink or any of that” there isn’t one!!! it’s called not wearing a fucking hanky!!! because it’s not fucking for you!!!!!
My fellow American hobby bakers, demoralized by egg prices and scarcity and how you will make the American apple pie or the chocolate chip cookie, fear not. I have spent many years turning regular baking recipes vegan for my corrupt and traitorous sister who last week ate a salmon cream cheesed roll. There are many, many substitutes for eggs including but not limited to:
Mashed banana: best added to compliment flavors of whatever it is you’re baking (peanut butter, chocolate) make sure it’s MUSHY and ripe
Apple sauce: again, best with complimentary flavors (cinnamon, brown sugar) use unsweetened and have the rest as a snack
The big boy champ, ground flaxseed: flavorless, though it does darken your batter/ dough a bit. Bags found next to cornstarch and almond meal, etc. Instructions on how to use right on the bag! Make sure to let the flaxseed water combo sit in a separate bowl until it has the consistency of mucus 👍
Now with all of these you MUST add a bit more leavener, they don’t have the lil bit of lift eggs give, so make sure you add a touch more baking powder. Sort of ok for brownies and cookies if you want them a bit more dense but KEY for cakes, quick breads, muffins and other things like that or she is gonna be SQUIDGY 🫡
I’ve got one that works very well in most cookies, cakes, muffins, quickbreads, and similar. It came out of the Student’s Vegetarian Cookbook circa 2004,and I’ve been using it when baking for friends who are vegan, have egg allergies, or just when I’ve run out of eggs ever since.
Ingredients (per egg you’re replacing)
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 tbs flour (gluten free flour blends work just fine)
3 tbs water
Combine dry ingredients in small bowl. Add water. Stir well and not be alarmed when it fizzes up. Add it to the thing you are baking immediately – do not make in advance.
there’s an extremely niche plot in romance fiction wherein our invariably heterosexual leads fall in love after a night of passion leads to an unplanned pregnancy and they’re now bound together by an impending child. I cast no judgment on anyone who enjoys this, but since I’m an evil gay and this is my personal nightmare scenario I want to see a zany romance novel premised on the opposite resolution: a couple falls in love while on a whirlwind roadtrip to obtain a legal abortion
“oh but along the way they realize they actually do want to raise the child together and ultimately keep the baby” no actually they successfully get the abortion and then they get chili dogs or something
neither of them want kids and it’s not because they’re immature or selfish or afraid of commitment or irresponsible or whatever, they just don’t want to be parents and that’s not a flaw they overcome. obviously they have other issues because there has to be some kind of arc to this story but deciding to keep a pregnancy that was unplanned and unwanted isn’t the solution.
some of you are very determined for this to not be a romance, to which I politely say shut the fuck up and get out of my sandbox. these idiots are going on an abortion roadtrip and they are falling in love on the way so help me god.
I genuinely am floored by how hard of a time people are having with the very simple premise “two characters go on a roadtrip to get an abortion and fall in love with each other”
each other. each other each other each other. a person who is pregnant and the person who got them pregnant fall in love with each other on the way to terminate the pregnancy.
there’s something about all the “okay, but what about this unexpected twist!” replies that is pinging weirdly on my brain and I think it’s like…
the point of the ‘twist’ in storytelling is that you’re maintaining interest or raising the states by subverting a baseline state. taking something expected and doing the unexpected with it.
but the scenario as OP describes it, where two people enter in a romance but don’t want and take steps not to have kids, is… not a baseline. this doesn’t happen in media. in all standard instances it’s either they aren’t in love OR they are in love and decide to have the kid. the notion of people wanting to be romantically involved but not wanting kids, the notion of seeing abortion as desirable/necessary healthcare, that already IS the subversion.
the original premise doesn’t need to be spiced up with an Unexpected Twist because it is the unexpected twist. and it’s not going to be boring or played our or cliched until there’s a dozen stories like it and the idea of un-dramatically going to get a healthcare procedure done with someone who loves you is normalized.
i hate to go ummmm, actually - but, ummmm, actually, the movie you’re looking for is Obvious Child with Jenny Slate.
SPOILERS AHEAD
She’s a comedian, he is a good boy, they have a one night stand, she gets pregnant but she doesn’t want the baby. They start spending time together and are really into each other. She realizes that he is a great guy and that they want to be with each other. She gets her abortion on Valentine’s Day, and even though he is not happy at first, they both realize it’s for the best and he accompanies her on the day. By the end, they are together (maybe for now, maybe forever).
It’s a great comedy and the two leads have great chemistry.
where’s the road trip
In a just world with good health care, the road trip isn’t necessary
Like “going on a road trip to a pharmacy” shouldn’t be a thing. If they have time to fall in love on the way to the abortion provider, medical treatment is too far away
(Though i concede roadtrip tropes are fun)
okay, in a just world that’s true. in the world and country where I actually live, many people do not have easy access to abortion services. in the US there are in fact many people who would have to drive pretty far to get an abortion. hence the plot I’m pitching here.
Where’s the OP of the “no make up” post. We have found someone who has suffered as they suffered.
there’s an extremely niche plot in romance fiction wherein our invariably heterosexual leads fall in love after a night of passion leads to an unplanned pregnancy and they’re now bound together by an impending child. I cast no judgment on anyone who enjoys this, but since I’m an evil gay and this is my personal nightmare scenario I want to see a zany romance novel premised on the opposite resolution: a couple falls in love while on a whirlwind roadtrip to obtain a legal abortion
“oh but along the way they realize they actually do want to raise the child together and ultimately keep the baby” no actually they successfully get the abortion and then they get chili dogs or something
neither of them want kids and it’s not because they’re immature or selfish or afraid of commitment or irresponsible or whatever, they just don’t want to be parents and that’s not a flaw they overcome. obviously they have other issues because there has to be some kind of arc to this story but deciding to keep a pregnancy that was unplanned and unwanted isn’t the solution.
some of you are very determined for this to not be a romance, to which I politely say shut the fuck up and get out of my sandbox. these idiots are going on an abortion roadtrip and they are falling in love on the way so help me god.
I genuinely am floored by how hard of a time people are having with the very simple premise “two characters go on a roadtrip to get an abortion and fall in love with each other”
each other. each other each other each other. a person who is pregnant and the person who got them pregnant fall in love with each other on the way to terminate the pregnancy.
there’s something about all the “okay, but what about this unexpected twist!” replies that is pinging weirdly on my brain and I think it’s like…
the point of the ‘twist’ in storytelling is that you’re maintaining interest or raising the states by subverting a baseline state. taking something expected and doing the unexpected with it.
but the scenario as OP describes it, where two people enter in a romance but don’t want and take steps not to have kids, is… not a baseline. this doesn’t happen in media. in all standard instances it’s either they aren’t in love OR they are in love and decide to have the kid. the notion of people wanting to be romantically involved but not wanting kids, the notion of seeing abortion as desirable/necessary healthcare, that already IS the subversion.
the original premise doesn’t need to be spiced up with an Unexpected Twist because it is the unexpected twist. and it’s not going to be boring or played our or cliched until there’s a dozen stories like it and the idea of un-dramatically going to get a healthcare procedure done with someone who loves you is normalized.
i hate to go ummmm, actually - but, ummmm, actually, the movie you’re looking for is Obvious Child with Jenny Slate.
SPOILERS AHEAD
She’s a comedian, he is a good boy, they have a one night stand, she gets pregnant but she doesn’t want the baby. They start spending time together and are really into each other. She realizes that he is a great guy and that they want to be with each other. She gets her abortion on Valentine’s Day, and even though he is not happy at first, they both realize it’s for the best and he accompanies her on the day. By the end, they are together (maybe for now, maybe forever).
It’s a great comedy and the two leads have great chemistry.
where’s the road trip
In a just world with good health care, the road trip isn’t necessary
Like “going on a road trip to a pharmacy” shouldn’t be a thing. If they have time to fall in love on the way to the abortion provider, medical treatment is too far away
(Though i concede roadtrip tropes are fun)
okay, in a just world that’s true. in the world and country where I actually live, many people do not have easy access to abortion services. in the US there are in fact many people who would have to drive pretty far to get an abortion. hence the plot I’m pitching here.
Where’s the OP of the “no make up” post. We have found someone who has suffered as they suffered.
Conspiracy theories about “sissy hypno” are so funny to me like. Just imagine the world presented here.
It is possible to be mind controlled into completely derailing your life by videos of pink spirals on the internet.
This is the primary source of trans people.
For some reason, this is only used to make trans people.
Nobody, not one person, is exploiting this for any other end, for some reason.
Like. If this was a genuine way to influence people, literally all porn available anywhere would be telling you who to vote for in american elections and buy products.
I do like the implication that if provably successful behavior modification via subliminal pornographic messaging existed it would primarily be used for brand loyalty.
Because that’s actually 100% true, that is pretty much what most US evil boils down to and is structured around.
“You want to suck A NICE COLD COCA-COLA WITH ICE THROUGH A STRAW.”
the wheel trend is so much better than the uquiz one. no more favourite lyrics from songs that tell you a little too much about how spotify-poisoned op is. you click the button and now you’re assigned water deer. just like in real life.
each of the main three sentences in this post prompted an entirely distinct strain of person to send me death threats when it escaped target audience and that’s kind of impressive even by my standards
I think people have truly lost any ability to be patient with storytelling.
‘I don’t understand this’ They’ll explain it if you wait.
‘I don’t like how this episode left things hanging’ There’s a continuation next week.
‘This character is flat’ Wait for them to be fleshed out.
So many of the complaints I see about shows lately are people being confused by things THAT THE SHOW WANTS YOU TO BE CONFUSED BY THATS THE FUN OF MYSTERY AND FORESHADOWING YOU ABSOLUTE GOBLINS THE MAIN CHARACTER IS ALSO CONFUSED AND THEYRE GONNA DO A BIG REVEAL AND EXPLANATION LATER IF YOU WOULD JUST FUCKING WAIT
Somebody actually made something close to a full decision tree map for Slay the Princess.
1. Can’t wait to see how much messier this gets in a week. This doesn’t even include optional or exploratory dialogue! 2. See, this is why we didn’t build a timeline for you to jump into.
officially-cool youtuber Tech Tangents was working on an old Tandy machine and discovered the most hilarious quit menu in all of software, buried in an obscure astrology program for DOS:
THE “MAYBE QUIT” OPTION!
For too long, computer programs have been asking if we’re sure we want to quit, and only giving us a binary yes/no option. Finally we can leave whether we quit or not up to fate.
And yeah. When he tried it out, it failed to quit a few times and then quit. It seems it just flips a coin when you select it and either quits/does nothing based on it.
the way the ipad has undone literal decades of tech literacy is actually unforgiveable
and I truly do mean the ipad having an effect on EVERYONE, not just kids or the elderly. the technological trend to rely on a dedicated app on a touch screen mobile device for seemingly everything has been active sabotage to your own technological freedom, perpetuated by corporations.
like do you have any idea how many people don’t even know that adblockers exists? That you can download other browsers?
Ever think about the active verbal campaign against Android devices? Like “haha funny,android cameras bad and android tablets are ugly!” Even among the popularity of touch screen mobile devices you have people talking about how iPhone and iPad are better than Android to the point where it has ruined Android devices. This is to close off your tech environment!!! You used to be able to sideload anything you want on Android, and pirate programs, customize the data you are willing to give out, debug mode your own device, and way way more! Now unless you have a rooted phone and some PC knowledge you’re stuck in yet another closed tech environment controlled by marketplace apps riddled with ads and malicious data practices.
you’re right to be this upset, especially when this stems from companies making money off this kind of manufactured struggle.
If you weren’t someone who knew file storage solutions imagine how easy it would be to fall victim to some silicon valley ass app advertising some garbage like
“Can’t get all your files in one place educators? Try ProjectStream! Keep all your class files in a remotely accessible server with built in AI assistant! 99.99 per month or 599.99 per year!”
The obfuscation of basic computer functionality is basically a predatory market all on its own, actively hindering the lives of people everywhere in every field.
If you’re finding that this is you: just get some Windows XP or Windows 7 era shitbox machine and poke around it. Try to install Linux on something. You’ll probably fail but it’ll teach you a lot about the underpinnings of computers. And most important: if you don’t know how something works, or if you’re curious, or if you’re confused, look it up. Figure out how to formulate a good search engine query and wade through the crap in the results. (Skip any AI generated result entirely: the sources will be further down in the results and it’s better to get things from the source).
Just… experiment. Poke around. And, most importantly, remember it’s not your fault that you don’t know things. The industry is actively hostile to users.
the way the ipad has undone literal decades of tech literacy is actually unforgiveable
and I truly do mean the ipad having an effect on EVERYONE, not just kids or the elderly. the technological trend to rely on a dedicated app on a touch screen mobile device for seemingly everything has been active sabotage to your own technological freedom, perpetuated by corporations.
like do you have any idea how many people don’t even know that adblockers exists? That you can download other browsers?
Ever think about the active verbal campaign against Android devices? Like “haha funny,android cameras bad and android tablets are ugly!” Even among the popularity of touch screen mobile devices you have people talking about how iPhone and iPad are better than Android to the point where it has ruined Android devices. This is to close off your tech environment!!! You used to be able to sideload anything you want on Android, and pirate programs, customize the data you are willing to give out, debug mode your own device, and way way more! Now unless you have a rooted phone and some PC knowledge you’re stuck in yet another closed tech environment controlled by marketplace apps riddled with ads and malicious data practices.
you’re right to be this upset, especially when this stems from companies making money off this kind of manufactured struggle.
If you weren’t someone who knew file storage solutions imagine how easy it would be to fall victim to some silicon valley ass app advertising some garbage like
“Can’t get all your files in one place educators? Try ProjectStream! Keep all your class files in a remotely accessible server with built in AI assistant! 99.99 per month or 599.99 per year!”
The obfuscation of basic computer functionality is basically a predatory market all on its own, actively hindering the lives of people everywhere in every field.
If you’re finding that this is you: just get some Windows XP or Windows 7 era shitbox machine and poke around it. Try to install Linux on something. You’ll probably fail but it’ll teach you a lot about the underpinnings of computers. And most important: if you don’t know how something works, or if you’re curious, or if you’re confused, look it up. Figure out how to formulate a good search engine query and wade through the crap in the results. (Skip any AI generated result entirely: the sources will be further down in the results and it’s better to get things from the source).
Just… experiment. Poke around. And, most importantly, remember it’s not your fault that you don’t know things. The industry is actively hostile to users.
Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.
me when we start eating billionaires and i have to kill gomez addams
Gomez and Morticia, telling us where they store the spare guillotines so we can go after Jeff Bezos after we finish with them.
Look, I know we don’t want to admit that our heroes can be flawed, but this isn’t just people baselessly picking a rich person and saying they’re a billionaire.
Don’t hold back. Gomez will respect the revolutionary fire burning in your heart!
The Addams would bring the guillotines for the other billionaires, give away literally all their money and then still ASK for executions because it’s been so long since they had a good beheading in the family
honestly, you’d break his heart if you said you WEREN’T planning on sticking his head in a guillotine. morticia, too. they’d be upset at the special treatment, too, but mostly they really want to be executed gruesomely as they stare lovingly into each other’s eyes as their heads are separated from their bodies, and we need to respect that.
ALT
Gomez would wonder why you stopped at beheading when there’s so many other fun options. Drawing and quartering, breaking on the wheel, being dipped in boiling oil, being thrown off a cliff. His personal favorite is impalement, but he finds that brazen bull thing intriguing.
But if you absolutely must insist on beheading, he only insists that it be by something more stylish than a guillotine. Perhaps the classic headsman’s axe, for that vintage touch - he’s got a whole collection of them to choose from, all razor sharp and ready to go. Or if you’re feeling more avant-garde, a plane propeller.
See I would keep them alive to help because of their expertise on the matter. I certainly don’t know what I’m doing. But I also strongly disagree with Forbes on their net worth. I think they give away and spend too much of their money to actually be billionaires, much the same as Dolly Parton. Parton certainly makes enough to be a billionaire, but the thing is she gives it all away and spends it all and so she’s never reached billionaire status. The Addamses spend and give away money like its water, and not on yachts or anything, on random people that come into their lives. So by that behaviour alone, they can’t possibly be billionaires–though they likely have enough coming in per year to qualify, they spend too much of it by the end of the year.
If anything was going to convince the Addamses to start saving up more to reach billionaire status, it would be so they can qualify for the beheadings.
also while im waiting for my tea to steep, since im petty, and they cant fire me any more than they already have i can tell you about the Button That Makes You Lie To People because i CANNOT stop thinking about it and its driving me fucking nuts
i worked at a fancy gourmet coffee shop, but not everyone who came in knew that or cared, so we’d occasionally get ppl who got all their coffee knowledge from starbuckses. starbuckae? starbukakke
anyway sbux has this thing where they’re literally just wrong about what they call some drinks. for example, a cappuccino is traditionally a double shot of espresso with milk foam, like a few sips of drink, but at starbucks the smallest possible “cappuccino” is 8oz and espresso with that much milk? is really just a bastard latte.
but to explain that to someone who doesnt know better takes time, and there a line forming, and a latte… is close enough to what someone who thinks of a cappuccino as a 16oz drink is expecting.
so if someone asked for a “large cappuccino” we were instructed to go “okay :)”, plug in a large latte, and then, before they could see, scroll down to the secret buttons, the forbidden buttons, the deceit buttons, and press the one called “cappuccino”, in “quotes”, which would not only put a cappuccino on their receipt, but would send a message to the barista, across the room, who would then make a latte, see the pink “cappuccino” indicator, and go
“large cappuccino? :)”
and i just, like, that’s just, i love how, food is made up and not real
I got too excited while playing chess and told my opponent that I was going to slit his throat and slaughter him like a hog. something to work on for next time
in retrospect, this actually got me laid so maybe take notes
This week, over 350 rabbis, together with some Jewish creatives and activists, took a full-page ad in the New York Times to oppose Trump’s plan for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza.
Is there a word for that like, “bright darkness” you get in winter?? When it’s been snowing or it’s supposed to snow past sunset and the sky isn’t Dark Enough. One of my favorite things
Thanks to @raindropwindow and a handful of articles, it’s called snow albedo, skyglow, snowglow, or just light scattering! It’s the result of moon- or artificial light reflecting off ground snow, low clouds, or ice crystals.
