One time in highschool our teacher said that it was never under any circumstances okay for a boy to hit a girl and I asked “not even in self defense?” and he said “no” so I pointed to the kid next to me and said “so if I just started whaling on this guy then he’d just have to take it? What the hell” and he was like “you two have had the same homeroom for three years do you not know his name” and I was like “that’s not the point right now” and Mr. K if you’re out there reading this I’m still mad about it
the argument actually took up most of the class after that but there was a point where he said “why do you want men to hit women so badly?” And I answered “I don’t want anybody to hit anybody, I just think assuming that no woman you meet could possibly hurt you is kind of insulting” and I didn’t WIN per se but you could kind of feel the air shift as the conversation went from “chivalry good” to “girls might WANT to kick your ass”
Anyhow it’s been like 15 years now but I still swear by “capacity for harm is not gender-specific”, “nobody should be hurting anybody”, “men can be abused too”, and “gender equality means accepting that women CAN hurt you” so suck it, Mr. K
so i’m currently working at a law firm and the other day one of the attorneys was talking to me and he mentioned that he’s “not very confrontational” and i was like you are?? a lawyer???
and he said “yeah but in court there are rules. i can argue with some shmuck in a suit in front of a judge no problem, but when i leave the courthouse and go home i’m not gonna argue with my wife about dinner. there are no rules in our kitchen. i would die.”
Remember: the more difficult you make it for them to realize a report is false, the more useless you make the portal.
if you’re spamming stuff like this make sure you don’t mention real individuals or institutions. absolutely make it difficult for them to determine if a report is fake or not
but at the same time DOGE very notably has been shutting down a number of essential programs because they have the words “transition” (as in, transition housing. Or transition planning, as well as all the ones serving trans people) and “equity” (like IRS programs that look at things like tax equity) or similar words in their descriptions
a lot of these sorts of reports aren’t going to be followed up by good-faith investigation—Trump, the heritage foundation (the people behind project 2025), and many other people in this administration or behind the scenes have publicly said they want to eradicate the department of education: they will indiscriminately fire people who get mentioned in these sorts of reports AND will likely not rehire anyone to fill those roles
and they’ll likely happily shut down entire institutions that are mentioned with no investigation wherever they have the power to do so (and even at some points where they obviously do not have said authority)
also they will likely use algorithms to determine who and which programs to axe—AI programs that trawl the replies to these sorts of forms. not people
the current government leaders have no interest in eliminating exclusively DEI initiatives. this is not going to be a surgical strike—there are going to be a lot of firings and terminations of programming that are blamed on “DEI” but are just intended to destroy public education (while scapegoating DEI for propaganda purposes)
so do NOT name actual places, organizations, or individuals in your responses
because these people are not doing any kind of due diligence, they don’t care who or what gets caught in the crossfire (is it really crossfire when the “crossfire” is the whole point? debatable)
your government is actively trying to destroy all public education: do not provide them with the excuse to do so
none of the people involved in this process give one shred of a damn about the truth. they are not going to “run down” these reports
so yeah—write something an AI can’t obviously recognize as fake. but write something that will make them look incompetent and ridiculous that if they try to use your response as justification for their actions
A coworker of mine shared a story that she interviewed for a place, they asked her if she could become and animal, what would she be. She said dog, because they are loyal, friendly, and protect their family. The interviewer said that’s wrong, because dogs are lazy. The correct answer was giraffe, because they reach high for leaves and that’s a sign of ambition…
human goes to very hot inhabited planet to visit alien friend . heatstroke. is sent to alien hospital. they wake up to alien friend clutching their hand going “oh my god I’m so sorry I should have known better than to invite you over I forgot humans can’t tolerate such high temperatures” and the human is like “my home country on earth is hotter. this one’s on my dumb ass.” and that’s how the alien learns what South America is
alien friend is disheartened to find out that carpinchos, while friendly and well-liked, aren’t domesticated
i feel like a lot of discourse around identities could just be boiled down to “you could not pay me to care about this”
therians? this doesn’t affect me in the slightest. weird transgenders? okay who cares. contradictory labels? none of my business. neopronouns? it takes 5 seconds of my time to google how to use a pronoun set this is like minimal brain work. bi lesbians? i don’t get how that works but the world will keep spinning. normalize minding your own business
maybe i just dont have roommates but showers have never just been about the washing to me. showers to me are when you go to water world and meet the water people and have a 2 hour long adventure
thinking about how for 15 months we watch people collect fragments of their loved ones in plastic bags because of israeli bombing shredding and vaporizing human beings, and only because one of those fragments ended up being an israeli hostage is all of israel up in arms and threatening more genocide. they never faced the ugliness of their own actions, the reality of carpet bombing indiscriminately, until it was one of their own returned in fragments mixed with other people, although she was given the dignity of a coffin instead of plastic bags divided into 70kg of viscera to define a person.
i agree that collecting people in fragments is enraging. i thank israel for reminding me precisely how angry i ought to be. every human life is equal so i will make sure to remain ten orders of magnitude angrier.
“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ‘70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. […] We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”
According to the company’s website, “Baking Pitchfest 2024” offers a product edition geared toward baking brands founded and owned by people of color across the U.S., and a bakery edition, which focuses on people of color-owned bakeries in the Northeast and Washington state.
“Half mentorship, half competition, Baking Pitchfest is an accelerator program designed to foster greater inclusivity and creativity in the baking world by providing equitable opportunities for People of Color entrepreneurs,” the website states, adding that winners will receive financial support, mentorship, and exposure.
But the initiative has generated outrage amongst conservatives online, who have blasted the competition eligibility rules as discriminatory against white people.
One X user critical of King Arthur Baking’s contest posted an email she received from the company in response to her complaining.
“Helping build joyful, equitable communities that celebrate diversity is an important part of who we are as a company,” the email states, later adding: “We love baking with anyone and everyone. Our simple expectation is that everyone show respect for one another.”
Time to buy more King Arthur Flour!
If you need more reason to support them, they’re worker owned.
According to the company’s website, “Baking Pitchfest 2024” offers a product edition geared toward baking brands founded and owned by people of color across the U.S., and a bakery edition, which focuses on people of color-owned bakeries in the Northeast and Washington state.
“Half mentorship, half competition, Baking Pitchfest is an accelerator program designed to foster greater inclusivity and creativity in the baking world by providing equitable opportunities for People of Color entrepreneurs,” the website states, adding that winners will receive financial support, mentorship, and exposure.
But the initiative has generated outrage amongst conservatives online, who have blasted the competition eligibility rules as discriminatory against white people.
One X user critical of King Arthur Baking’s contest posted an email she received from the company in response to her complaining.
“Helping build joyful, equitable communities that celebrate diversity is an important part of who we are as a company,” the email states, later adding: “We love baking with anyone and everyone. Our simple expectation is that everyone show respect for one another.”
Time to buy more King Arthur Flour!
If you need more reason to support them, they’re worker owned.
I recall that when the She-Ra reboot came out there were some complaints that it was irretrievably tainted by modern attitudes towards identity politics or had the wrong art style or what have you and that seems funny as the original show is so obviously a product of its time, not least the way they look like a Eurovision entry from the ‘70s.
Brazil is the only non-Muslim country to host the most Shi'a Muslims in the world
Brazil has the “most X-people outside of X-place” of like, most kinds of people tbh
Brazil famously has the highest amount of Lebanese people in the world, including in Lebanon itself
literally Brazil is always “the largest X nation outside of X”
Fun fact about why we have so many Lebanese people:
Back in the day, they wanted to immigrate to the US, but the ships dropped them of in Brazil and were like “It’s all America” and left, leaving the poor Lebanese immigrants stranded. The rest, as they say, is history.
im not even the type of guy to go “actually it’s frankenstein’s MONSTER” because a painting by rembrandt or picasso or any other artist is often called “a rembrandt” or “a picasso” as shorthand. so in this respect frankenstein’s monster can be considered “a frankenstein”
darling I love your 8 foot tall patchwork flesh creature, it really livens up the place. is that an authentic frankenstein?
it’s only a true frankenstein if it was produced in the frankenstein region of switzerland. otherwise it’s just a sparkling homunculus
i’m solid ms. jackson wooooooooooooooo i have congealed
never meant to be a liquid guy, took some hours to solidify
That’s mist Jackson if you’re gassy
My baby’s plasmama don’t like me / She thinks I’m airy and very unstable / Unable to support her daughter / But what ‘er ways of making waves / Are doing is going to ruin our state of matter / What matters to the mater is her daughter’s joy / And boy I messed up I’ll own up but / Mist Jackson my actions have slowed / You know I’m tryin to align my particles / Your daughter knows I’ll hold my shape and her heart an’ cells / I’ll never make her cry again / No cryogen is called for, Mist Jackson, I swear / She needs me I’ll be there - a crystalline square
Being on this website is fun because you can absolutely tell when a blorbo clicks in someone’s brain. You’re scrolling, and suddenly out of nowhere there’s like 12 posts about the same character back to back reposted by the same person, and you just know “oh. They’re a permanent part of their psyche now.” and honestly it’s a vibe go off king
Top 4 fellas get made into a limited batch of keychains! I won’t be able to make a ton of these guys until later, but I do plan to make more eventually…
Please reblog so we get a high percentage! And also spread the word about these things the faster they sell out the more I’ll make 👍
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