Try and muzzle me sweetheart and you’ll be on your knees wearing the muzzle and whimpering for me to collar you
I think someone is about to lose their belly scratch privileges if they don’t behave. We wouldn’t want that now, would we? Wouldn’t it be so much nicer to get some nice belly rubbing instead of fighting?
It would be a shame for you to lose your tummy rubs, I know how much you like them. If you don’t behave tho mommy is gonna have to break you like she did @debian-official. Maybe you’ll also submit with being pressed against the wall and having neck kisses hmm?
Yeah, that would be quite sad. So, I’m gonna do the smart thing and choose not to fight. There’s nothing worth losing belly rubs over
my favorite thing is when murderbot has too many things going on and replies to a question with a canned buffer phrase. its so funny to me. you stressed out this poor robot so much it had no choice but to go into customer service mode.
I can’t believe I never considered this properly until now tbh. My body would be movie theater buttered popcorn and my blood would be an iced chai latte :)
Avatar the Last Airbender beautifully told the story of how imperialists lie and have to be called on it and yet somehow certain people missed that message and turned into fire nation apologists
you guys who weren’t here will never understand how fundamentally hilarious the rcdart drama was. like imagine waking up one day and suddenly everyone is talking about this one artist drawing captain america fucking weird and you look them up and get hit with these bad boys
and for the record… they chose this. this is how their OLDER art looked like
like. you couldnt PAY me to post this. i would not admit this at gunpoint
sorry but i dont think this post is complete without their attempts at drawing star wars characters
why do nice girls always go for the assholes i dont even like pegging
No. Just. NO. I am so sick of this bullshit stereotype being both perpetuated AND played out. No.
um
Saying nice girls go with the assholes is the biggest stereotype in relationships of all time
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We don’t go with assholes, we go with the people who give us attention at the right time and ignore us at the right time and it just so happens to be the people who don’t care about us and it’s stupid a/f
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Okay but like that’s the most true stereotype ever… so many dumb nice girls date douchebags lmao
ARE YOU SERIOUS
The problem is not that nice girls date assholes, it’s that nice girls *knowingly* date assholes and then have the nerve to complain and ask “why can’t I find a nice guy?”
And I will now stop before this becomes a rant.
You dont get this post do you? Lol
The comments are priceless.
So many people being clueless.
Douchebags always date douchebags. The kicker is douchebags have 0 self-awareness that they are douchebags so in turn they complain that “they can never find a nice guy/sane girl.”
Holy fuck man not you too
So many non-comprehending mother fuckers
Pure comedy gold.
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
This post is a perfect example of what people mean when we talk about how nobody on this godforsaken website has any fucking reading comprehension skills
With vanilla extract being a meme, I wanted to share some black history of Edmond Albius a black slave who revolutionized vanilla pollination.
He used a technique he learned of pollinating melons to polinate the orchids to create the vanilla beans. Vanilla was rare and a luxury mainly due to only being able to be pollinated by its natural pollinator in Mexico.
unfortanely, he didnt receive any money for his discovery despite being called the main man who revolutionized pollination, he died in poverty…
This is what I mean when I say that recreationally lying to kids is an important family tradition.
An old boss of mine was in the Navy, and as always they haze the new guy. Told him to go get a bucket of checkered paint from the quartermaster (I think it was; any mistakes in nomenclature are mine, not his).
The QM, tired of the nonsense, actually made one. He put a grid of cardboard in a bucket and carefully filled it with alternating paints, then removed the grid, leaving a bucket of black and white checkered paint.
I feel like if you come back with a bucket of checked paint, you should immediately be promoted to general. That takes moxie.
My mentor in the garage had a shop kid who was especially keen before I started working there. Guy was dumb as a rock, but just so enthusiastic.
One of our usual pranks on the new kid was to send them out for something that didn’t exist. So one day things are slow and R sends him to our usual parts store for left-handed wheel nuts.
Kid comes back several hours later, and goes ‘boss, I got your wheel nuts! I had to look all over town, but here they are!“
And sure enough, he’s got left-handed thread nuts.
Turns out, some equipment does have different directionally threaded nuts for each side of the vehicle. It’s rare outside of very high-end cars, and definitely not the sort of cars we saw in a little prairie town.
Somehow this guy found the only set of left-handed wheel nuts in town and brought them back. It wasn’t the last prank we pulled on shop kids, but damn did he make a point.
DO ACCEPT fun things: // 1. Homosexuality (in all its forms) 2. legal Marijuana 3. Prostitution 4. Abortion (all) 5. The Feminist Movement (including women in leadership roles in politics, and women in teaching roles) 6. Immodesty in dress and fashion 7. public transit 8. Premarital sex 9. unions 10. “Gay Marriage” 11. The adoption of children by Same-Sex Couples 12. Attitudes of tolerance 13. Atheism 14. Pornography 15. The formation and establishing of trans God 16. Public swearing 17. the public education system teaching science in the curriculum 18. The allowing of cunt 19. head 20. pride
Translation: Person behind camera; *knock down one card* “Go.” Other person;“Is your character mentally stable?” Person behind Camera; *Looks at card* “Yes” Other person; *Slaps down all but one card* “IT’S MOMO”
I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS. THERE WERE ONLY A FEW DOZEN NOTES WHEN I SAW IT LAST.
Sharing this kind of thing is really dangerous!! A woman might accidentally get pregnant and go to the store looking for the abortion cheese and she won’t find it because abortion cheese doesn’t exist!!! What is wrong with you!!! Misogynist freaks!!!!
Abortion cheese is real I get pregnant all the time just so I can eat some
Fuck are you talking about???? Think of all the women you could be giving birth to!!! If those babies could vote Harris would be in office. Fake feminist
I cannot believe there’s absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.
Exactly! It’s freaking annoying when I want to watch movies but I would have to subscribe to like 24 different services . Just to watch the shows that I like.
Oh and wouldn’t it be nice for cartoons? Just anything animated. I just wanna stream things without getting conned. Must I be cartoonless forever?
i like using streaming apps but there are waaaay too many and they’re all stealing my data.iwish there was a secure and organized way to have millions of shows and movies available one one app. but alas. we’ve truly gone full circle back to cable + now it spies on you. its a real shame. i dont want to fill my device storage with tons of boring and stupid cash grabs.
i know, it’s so annoying for everything to be paid nowadays, especially movies and tv shows. it would be perfect if i could watch them without getting infected by some virus or some shit. i’m fine with ads, they gotta run themselves somehow, but i want to watch stuff and .live! if they have to use different domains i’m okay with that too, because free media is .top dog either way.
for mobile users, it especially sucks, because you can’t just use websites and you have to not only pay, but you have to download a billion apps just to find what the thing you wanna watch is on. it doesn’t help that the streaming services take up...so much space. so much.
fucking love when I’m on a call with someone and they start to do a little errand or go somewhere else and they say “and you’re coming with me” like. absolutely I am let’s go on an adventure I’ve been spirited away
ooh ooh or when they accidentally drop the phone or something and go “i dropped you! :(“ like. that little glowing box you’re waving around does indeed house my soul!! it’s me!! you’re holding me!!!! and we’re going on a little trip together!!! delightful!!!!!!!!
i love the suggestion that the device they are holding is my corporeal form. very silly and whimsical
they inventeed a new science called “dont let the balloon hit the floor” scientests are being vaery careful and bapping that thing before it can fall jumping over the couch and shit
MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing
ALT
If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
In her unmissable 2023 book Doppelganger, Naomi Klein paints a picture of a “mirror world” of right wing and conspiratorial beliefs that are warped, false reflections of real crises:
For example, Qanon’s obsession with “child trafficking” is a mirror-world version of the real crises of child poverty, child labor, border family separations and kids in cages. Anti-vax is the mirror-world version of the true story of the Sacklers and their fellow opioid barons making billions on Oxy and fent, with the collusion of corrupt FDA officials and a pliant bankruptcy court system. Xenophobic panic about “immigrants stealing jobs” is the mirror world version of the well-documented fact that big business shipped jobs to low-waged territories abroad, weakening US labor and smashing US unions. Cryptocurrency talk about “decentralization” is the mirror-world version of the decay of every industry (including tech) into a monopoly or a cartel.
Klein is at pains to point out that other political thinkers have described this phenomenon. Back in the 19th century, leftists called antisemitism “the socialism of fools.” Socialism – the idea that working people are preyed upon by capital – is reflected in the warped mirror as “working people are preyed upon by international Jewish bankers.”
The mirror world is a critical concept, because it shows that far right and conspiratorial beliefs are often uneasy neighbors with real, serious political movements. The swivel-eyed loons have a point, in other words:
Once you understand the mirror world, you start to realize that many right wing conspiracists could have been directed into productive movements, if only they’d understood that their problems were with systems, not sinister individuals (this is why Trump has ordered a purge of any federally funded research that contains the word “systemic”):
This also explains why the “tropes” of right wing conspiratorialism sometimes echo left wing, radical thought. I once had a (genuinely unhinged) dialog with a self-described German “progressive” who told me that criticizing the finance industry as parasitic on the real economy was “structurally antisemitic.” Nonsense like this is why Klein’s “mirror world” is so important: unless you understand the mirror world, you can end up believing that “progressive” just means “defending anything the right hates.”
Historian Erik Baker is the author of a new book, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America, which has some very interesting things to say about the mirror world:
In a recent edition of the always-excellent Know Your Enemy podcast, the hosts interviewed Baker about the book, and the conversation turned to the subject of pyramid schemes, the “multilevel marketing systems” that are woven into so many religious, right-wing movements:
MLMs have it all: prosperity gospel (“God rewards virtue with wealth”), atomization (“you are an entrepreneur and everyone in your life is your potential customer”), and rabid anti-Communism (“solidarity is a trick to make you poorer”).
The rise of the far right can’t be separated from the history of MLMs. The modern MLM starts with Amway, a cultlike national scam that was founded by Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos (father-in-law of Betsy DeVos).
Rank-and-file members of the Amway cult lived in dire poverty, convinced that their financial predicament was their own fault for not faithfully following the “sure-fire” Amway method for building a business. Andrea Pitzer’s gripping memoir of growing up in an Amway household offers a glimpse of the human cost of the cult:
lots of my returning clients told me part of why they like commissioning me is because i keep communicating with them about their commissions while a lot of other artists made them feel anxious about whether their commission is actually being worked on or not so… tips for artist about how to communicate with your clients:
you dont have to give them an update of your wip everyday but everytime you work on it make sure to give a screenshot to send to your client. even if it’s not much, it still gives the client a sense of comfort knowing that their commission isn’t being forgotten
giving updates on wip also give your client a chance to ask for changes early on instead of regretting it later after the piece is already completed, especially since sometimes clients only have a vague idea of what they want and only realized what they really want after the wip give them the inspiration
if you find yourself unable to work on your commission for a while, inform your client immediately. give a time estimate if you can. from my experience reasonable clients don’t mind waiting, they just get agitated if there’s no contact at all
if you can’t actually do the commission it’s best to be upfront and offer a refund instead of waiting for your client to ask what’s up. taking initiatives cultivate trust that makes people come back to you to order more art. i know some people feel awkward and anxious about this but trust me it’ll be worse to string your client along than just admit to the truth.
as for people who commission artists: don’t be afraid to ask for updates of your commissioned piece if there’s been three weeks* without contact. you paid for it so you’re entitled to know what’s going on.
*non dm communications can be less frequent but you should still update your clients
It’s wild to me to see transvestigator conspiracy theories online that could be so easily explained by natural human variation. That woman has a deep voice? Yeah, sometimes they do. A woman has broad shoulders?? Maybe she plays rugby or hits the gym a fuckton. There’s a “bulge” in her tight pants?? Maybe her vulva is just fat. All the “markers” of trans woman that transvestigators use to harass any woman aren’t even things unique to trans women.
Transphobes talk about women like they’re Barbies. Have you forgotten the existence of cameltoe? Tiny boobs? Narrow hips? Broad shoulders? Why do you think choirs have altos and not just sopranos? What do you think female athletes look like? Do you think a woman that lifts weights and plays contact sports will look like a 90s supermodel? At what point in history did we collectively forget that human bodies have natural variability???
ilove having so many object show mutuals “do we think isoceles triangle has transsexual npd swag” i dont know what youre talking about but i agree spit that shit brother
I have been so utterly transfixed by this phrase lately.
I find myself saying this out lout whenever I feel stumped by any conversation. Any time a conversation gets kinda stupid and people start saying unnecessary things I immediately have a strong compulsion to say “uh… white person here. i jack off to goombas from the super mario bros games”
Look, I dont know a lot about saints and Catholicism, but I know St. Agatha is always depicted with her breasts on a plate, and that’s sure something
Just a few more. This is a big trend.
Things I learned from the comments
She’s a patron saint of rape and abuse victims
She took a vow a chastity
A low born guy demanded her to be with him and she turned him down
For this she was imprisoned and tortured. This is how she lost her breasts (details not required)
She was repeatedly raped.
The Catholic Church regards her as a virgin for her peity despite the rape. (No matter your views on virginity this is a pretty interesting statement)
She was sentenced to death to burn at the stake but was saved by an earthquake
In her holiday people make titty cupcakes
I didn’t know she existed and now I think she’s a pretty rad woman. I would hesitate calling her a protofeminist as some often do with amazing women in history but she is pretty cool. Also she’s still very relevant today as women are still treated the way she was.
other things i learned: damn historic artists drew a woman with her own tits on a plate with Cleavage and prominent nip nops???
When is titty cupcake day?
Today!
Get yourself a titty cupcake tomorrow
why did historic artists draw a woman with her own tits on a plate with Cleavage and prominent nip nops?
because boobs are cool, because bad women’s anatomy, or other?
The *fancy* reason is because she was healed by Saint Peter when she went to heaven/the art is meant to depict her soul, which would be unblemished by her torture.
But also probably because boobs are cool, at least for some of these.
Look, I dont know a lot about saints and Catholicism, but I know St. Agatha is always depicted with her breasts on a plate, and that’s sure something
Just a few more. This is a big trend.
Things I learned from the comments
She’s a patron saint of rape and abuse victims
She took a vow a chastity
A low born guy demanded her to be with him and she turned him down
For this she was imprisoned and tortured. This is how she lost her breasts (details not required)
She was repeatedly raped.
The Catholic Church regards her as a virgin for her peity despite the rape. (No matter your views on virginity this is a pretty interesting statement)
She was sentenced to death to burn at the stake but was saved by an earthquake
In her holiday people make titty cupcakes
I didn’t know she existed and now I think she’s a pretty rad woman. I would hesitate calling her a protofeminist as some often do with amazing women in history but she is pretty cool. Also she’s still very relevant today as women are still treated the way she was.
other things i learned: damn historic artists drew a woman with her own tits on a plate with Cleavage and prominent nip nops???
When is titty cupcake day?
Today!
Get yourself a titty cupcake tomorrow
why did historic artists draw a woman with her own tits on a plate with Cleavage and prominent nip nops?
because boobs are cool, because bad women’s anatomy, or other?
The *fancy* reason is because she was healed by Saint Peter when she went to heaven/the art is meant to depict her soul, which would be unblemished by her torture.
But also probably because boobs are cool, at least for some of these.
