shiny-good-rock:

shiny-good-rock:

do you ever think about dead versions of yourself that are fossilized in someone else’s mind

i see that this one kind of fucked everyone up

queer-as-city-folk:

If for nothing else, I do truly believe that trains can go choo choo

steelycunt:

yippee i love being for whom the bell tolls 😁 #mybell

strictlyfavorites:

luulapants:

furryprovocateur:

furryprovocateur:

it really is insane how little you hear about “america has the world’s highest prison population by such a significant margin that it would be seen as excessively over-the-top if it was used in fiction”

before you say “4% isn’t that big of a difference between the US and China”

for anyone bad at math 1.4 billion divided by 340 million is about 4. we have a fourth the population of china but a higher prison population and a higher incarceration rate by far. this is just widely publicly available information that you’re supposed to just accept. it’s not supposed to make you go insane.

The US has the largest prison population AND the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world. The US is home to 4.2% of the world’s population but 20% of its incarcerated population. More than 0.6% of the US population is incarcerated.

Men make up 93% of the US prison population, but despite this, the US accounts for 30% of the GLOBAL population of incarcerated women.

Housing insecurity is the most significant predictor of incarceration with 22% of state prisoners experiencing it shortly before incarceration.

12% of state prisoners in the US were unhoused before their 16th birthday.

68% of US state prisoners were first incarcerated before their 16th birthday.

More than half of people in prisons and jails in the US have a mental illness.

Cognitive learning disabilities occur in state prisons at nearly 500% the national rate.

[all data sourced or derived from the Prison Policy Initiative]

snudibranchs:

pngblog:

The avoracious mold spores in my fridge when i have the audacity to eat the strawberries i paid for in a single day

bishopinblue:

POV you’re eating fries and there’s a lil guy who wants you to share.

dicaeopolis:

personally I don’t think if you’re a kid you should be using your real name on the internet. very easy for people to find out too much about you. instead you should spend years using a different made-up name that becomes part of your persona to an arguably even greater degree than your actual name and then when you grow up and find out you’re trans you have a ready-made name to switch to even if it’s probably like Leaf or something

dicaeopolis:

personally I don’t think if you’re a kid you should be using your real name on the internet. very easy for people to find out too much about you. instead you should spend years using a different made-up name that becomes part of your persona to an arguably even greater degree than your actual name and then when you grow up and find out you’re trans you have a ready-made name to switch to even if it’s probably like Leaf or something

annelidist:

annelidist:

annelidist:

i would die on the field of battle to protect the honour of the ds family of handhelds

that said. there exists no hardware on which a polygon could possibly look worse

oohhgghh thats the stuff right there

minnesotacore:

answeringmysister:

headspace-hotel:

queerism1969:

kentuckygender is when you aren’t a girl but you still are somehow a horse girl

Genuinely, I vibe so hard with Minnesota gender.

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion:

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion:

“ohhhh i’m an influencerrr” you are a shill. you are the fucking slap chop guy. sell me some oxyclean

at least billy mays had the dignity of snorting a huge line of cocaine and just yelling grinningly at us about Product. you are on instiktam.com doing a little dance like a circus animal. you are giving yourself airs over being a costumed street corner mascot for a car dealership. you don’t even have a close enough relationship to the product you’re pushing to call yourself a huckster. be ashamed

moony108:

i just invented a new emoticon. no one is ready for it:

Keep reading

str0kethebigtree-deactivated202:

theyre called lossy files cause theres a very small frenchman named fourier in the computer that keeps eating little chunks and pieces of the data cause hes a hungry little boy and eventually theres no data left over

gr8writingtips:

gr8writingtips:

just saw a post that accused someone of using generative ai to write an essay because ‘no one uses — instead of commas or semicolons’ and i’ve never been more offended in my life

ALT

i’m not as offended as i was when i read the ai thing, but i Am offended

stjohnstarling:

The posts on this website are consistently mildly entertaining. Keep it up. 👍

i-am-a-fish:

this post is currently common rarity. in 5 minutes though I’m going to edit this post to be shiny, limited edition foil. I’ll edit it back to normal one minute later so best of luck getting yourself a shiny copy

poorly-identifying-cats-in-posts:

poorly-identifying-cats-in-posts:

endless-torment:

poorly-identifying-cats-in-posts:

:

poorly-identifying-cats-in-posts:

you-peoples:

poorly-identifying-cats-in-posts:

the-you-cat:

poorly-identifying-cats-in-posts:

malamente-identificando-gatos:

poorly-identifying-cats-in-posts:

really afraid to post anything because what if the spanish doppelganger of me appears and starts speaking a little espanol tonight

tengo mucho miedo de mandar algo porque y si el doppelganger español de mi aparece y empieza a hablar un poco de español esta noche

you.

WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE

eternal agonies and endless torment

YOU CAN’T DO THIS TO ME

NOT YOU TOO

hzrnvm:

hzrnvm:

hzrnvm:

ok guys im gonna go to sleep early tonight so i can finally get good rest gnight :)

ⓘ Fact check: This user intends to go to their room and take apart their old Yamaha EZ-200 keyboard in their underwear.

Ok yeah i just have to fix it the middle D, D#, Db keys don’t work. that’s all. Just a quick repair.

ⓘ Fact check: Though the act was partially motivated by desire to repair, this user views it as having more of a sexual connotation.

ok honestly fuck you for real

ⓘ Fact check: lmaoooooo suck itttttt. you wanna fuck the yamaha ez-200. you wanna fuck the keyboarrddddd

hzrnvm:

hzrnvm:

hzrnvm:

ok guys im gonna go to sleep early tonight so i can finally get good rest gnight :)

ⓘ Fact check: This user intends to go to their room and take apart their old Yamaha EZ-200 keyboard in their underwear.

Ok yeah i just have to fix it the middle D, D#, Db keys don’t work. that’s all. Just a quick repair.

ⓘ Fact check: Though the act was partially motivated by desire to repair, this user views it as having more of a sexual connotation.

ok honestly fuck you for real

ⓘ Fact check: lmaoooooo suck itttttt. you wanna fuck the yamaha ez-200. you wanna fuck the keyboarrddddd

hzrnvm:

hzrnvm:

hzrnvm:

ok guys im gonna go to sleep early tonight so i can finally get good rest gnight :)

ⓘ Fact check: This user intends to go to their room and take apart their old Yamaha EZ-200 keyboard in their underwear.

Ok yeah i just have to fix it the middle D, D#, Db keys don’t work. that’s all. Just a quick repair.

ⓘ Fact check: Though the act was partially motivated by desire to repair, this user views it as having more of a sexual connotation.

ok honestly fuck you for real

ⓘ Fact check: lmaoooooo suck itttttt. you wanna fuck the yamaha ez-200. you wanna fuck the keyboarrddddd

that-stone-butch:

1909999111110000-deactivated202:

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3769:

better drape another layer of irony on that bad boy, you don’t want readers to think you’re being… *lowers voice* sincere

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3695:

meet other writers so you can procrastinate together

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3700:

make it worse. make it weirder

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3701:

you gotta show it, then tell it, then tell it at least three more times because media literacy is down the toilet these days

gr8writingtips:

if you advertise your book using an AI generated image i will automatically assume that the book and every positive review/comment about it is also AI generated and avoid it forever

gr8writingtips:

if you advertise your book using an AI generated image i will automatically assume that the book and every positive review/comment about it is also AI generated and avoid it forever

gr8writingtips:

if you advertise your book using an AI generated image i will automatically assume that the book and every positive review/comment about it is also AI generated and avoid it forever

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3708:

writing a single sentence is better than nothing. nothing is better than publishing a bestselling novel. therefore, writing a single sentence is better than publishing a bestselling novel

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3709:

if you HAVE to describe the love interest’s bright blue eyes AGAIN at least do it in a tiny font so no one has to read it

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3710:

don’t TELL readers what you just SHOWED them. you should actually SHOWER them and then TELL them it’s the last time unless they start contributing towards the water bill

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3713:

you should be writing so fast that the noises your keyboard makes blur together into one continuous drone

gr8writingtips:

teashadephoenix:

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3719:

your first drafts are for only one person to read. me. it’s me. i’m reading it right now and there’s nothing you can do to stop me

until you get to where I stopped, yeah. lmao good luck getting past the blank page nerd xP

ALT

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3722:

turns out if you want to get published you actually have to write something

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3723:

make your book truly unputdownable by supergluing it to readers’ hands

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3724:

if you rearrange the alphabet and stretch it out really, really far and duplicate some of the letters and stretch it again, then add some more letters and stretch it again, and repeat, and repeat, and repeat, at some point you’ll have a novel

intothedraft:

At some point between drafts 1 and 2 of Dying Screams, I realised the novel had very few men in it, other than the antagonists.

Twelve-year-old me decided this was a problem. I mean, most movies and books have loads of men in them! Boys, too! And all the good guys in my book, other than briefly-mentioned husbands and fathers, are women!

This was a serious problem that needed to be resolved.

Then it hit me. Of course. It’s obvious. All I needed to do was age up the protagonist, and she could have a male love interest! Perfect! That completely fixed the problem!

I’m not sure how twelve-year-old me would have felt if she knew the love interest she created simply to fix this problem has featured in every draft since, outlasting characters that at the time were her favourites.

And is now a girl.

prettytanuki:

cardinalcyn:

what the fuck is a tumbeast and why did it eat my perfectly good post

it was hungry and the post looked yummy

gr8writingtips:

nena-96:

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3731:

if you’re stuck in the middle of a scene with a lot of dialogue, say the last line aloud to the nearest person and write down their response

Yeah…I don’t think it’s helpful if I’m writing smut lol 😂

there are no genre exclusions under writing tip #3731

gr8writingtips:

gr8writingtips:

writing tip #3754:

remember that everything you write has to be perfect first time, and if it isn’t, you’re a terrible remember that everything you write has to be perfect first time, and if it isn’t, you’re a terrible writer 💖writer 💖

yes i did accidentally paste this tip inside itself and decided it’s better this way. i am not taking questions at this time

boogerwookiesugarcookie:

famouspainterwombat:

audio: in the hall of the mountain king

faerspell:

stele3:

stele3:

oblivionnecroninja:

stele3:

abwatt:

batboyblog:

saanphoenix:

captainjonnitkessler:

>Join a union

>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it’s all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what’s going on

>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members

>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that’s going on

Yeah, there’s a surprising amount of people who just…don’t interact with the union they are in at all. At all. And then complain when shit gets voted in they didn’t want.

Maybe get involved. Show up to shit. Just a thought.

This is also true of the Democratic Party btw. People are always complaining about what “The Democrats” should do, or aren’t doing etc etc.

but like literally in my early 20s I started going to my local party’s meetings regularly and with-in a few months they were like “hey you want to be on the committee to re-write our by-laws?” yes, yes I do thank you. “hey you want to get elected to be one of our representatives to the meetings of the state party?” why yes thank you so I got to go and debate the budget of a swing state Democratic Party.

I had to move for work not that much after that but like people I know from that have been delegates to the DNC, have elected officials come to their homes for events. Literally there’s a middle aged lady I know who when Hillary Clinton decided to run for President, Hillary started with a small tour on a van, she called it her Scooby Van, and her first stop in New Hampshire, with its “first in the nation” primary was to a bakery in my home town and the person she sat with at what was her first or second official campaign stop of her run for President is a lady I know who isn’t some super secret Democratic overlord or anything but a local lady who volunteers a lot.

Just the other day I got invited to meet my Senator (again) tomorrow I’m going to meet my state’s governor (again) because I volunteer, if I wanted I could likely get to be a delegate to the DNC

so many organizations are open doors that people just refuse to push and then are big mad it didn’t read their minds and do what you think.

I live in a town of 960 people, and four years ago I ran for an open seat on the Library Board; within three months I was chairing the board because the lady who was the chair had been doing it for 14 years and she wanted a break. Someone also threw my name in the ring to be on the school board; another candidate won the seat that time.

In my first three years on the library board, we

• a) lost a librarian to a car accident,
• b) hired an interim librarian,
• c) hired a permanent librarian,
• c) wrote an anti-censorship policy,
• d) balanced the library budget three years running,
• d) started a Friends of the Library group,
• e) organized our social media campaign,
• f) joined the statewide electronic catalog, and
• g) quadrupled our library membership.

So when I ran for library board for my second term, I got voted in with 100% of the votes cast… and I also won an open seat on the school board as a write-in candidate with 19 votes; and I lost an election to the Select Board (our ‘mayoral’ system is a 3-person board) by just 38 votes out of 450 cast.

So now I’m solving library problems on the one hand, and solving school board problems on the other hand. It’s an education in educational policy and finance — federal and state aid programs, local policy on athletics and sports and core education vs arts funding, union negotiations, and more. If I ever decide to run for select board again, I’m going to be much better informed and prepared to understand the issues.

Meanwhile…

Just yesterday, I drove through a town of 65,000 people. There was a group of people on a street corner holding up “pro labor” signs and “free Palestine” signs and “anti-war” signs, and “Jill Stein for President” (mind you, this is March 2025 – there isn’t a presidential election until 2028!) and “The Green Party wants your vote!” signs. There were maybe ten of these folks?

So when I got home, I went to their city’s “Boards and Commissions” website. They have 19 vacant seats on various committees and boards and commissions, including two (the Wetlands Commission [wouldn’t that be a Green Party issue??], and the Diversity Commission) that don’t have enough members right now to hold meetings under state quorum rules. And there are 85 people on other commissions and boards that are up for re-election this year, and more than half of them don’t want to keep running for these seats; they’d welcome a challenger.

In other words, the local community is STARVING for people to fill local government responsibilities.

Why are these people out here holding up signs for a woman to run for president in three years, when there are 104 seats in their own community government that are up election this year? Demonstrate to someone, somebody, anybody that you want to help solve community-level problems, and that you know what you’re doing… and there’s no holding you back.

This is why I’m so irritated by posts about how “the Democratic Party is shutting out progressives!!” Like — have you tried going to events? Volunteering your time? Fucking talking to people?

I’ve been on my HOA board and lemme tell you, it’s a thankless task. Yeah, there are assholes who want to fine their neighbors for having the wrong color of curtains, but there are also people who just want to take care of issues in our community. And JESUS the residents automatically hated us. Yelled, threatened physical harm, tried to sue us…but none of them wanted to actually join the board. It’s open to everyone! But no one else wanted to do it. They just wanted to rage against the machine, not do anything helpful.

To be fair, the single best thing a HOA can do is dissolve itself.

Please explain how a condo complex, where we all live in the same building that requires upkeep such as the roof, would make these kinds of repairs without the agreement of an HOA.

I joined the board specifically because the balcony decks were rotting. It was a huge issue that affected the entire building: being as we were all in the same building with the same exterior cladding, we couldn’t all just individually pay to fix our own balconies, it was a systemic issue of the entire building. It required that we get one huge loan, managed by the HOA, then take off the exterior cladding not just for that side of the building but three sides. Once we did so we realized that the original construction company hadn’t put in waterproofing…….IN OREGON.

Please do explain how we should or could have handled without the framework of an HOA.

And like, this is such a perfect example of people condemning a community organization that is open to everyone!

I see people on here declaring that HOAs are universally racist or have problematic histories and I’m like, “Yeah, so do unions!” The union movement in the U.S. was literally started because white workers didn’t like Black workers sharing the same benefits as them!

That doesn’t mean these community-based organizations aren’t open to change and open to your fucking participation!

If you don’t like how your union is run, PARTICIPATE.

If you don’t like how your HOA is run, PARTICIPATE.

If you don’t like how your HOA is run, PARTICIPATE.

Saying that the best thing a local, community organization can do is dissolve makes you sound like a libertarian. I thought this was the communist website, guys, come the fuck on.

As someone who spent the last two years organizing a public sector union, please for the love of god get involved. I’m not even joking. We had people angry at us for not being able to something when nobody had ever talked about it with us. Or people who opposed a union because they didn’t like the contracts agreed to in a different county. Which, again, could all have been resolved and avoided if people actually got involved and stopped just expecting things to happen for them.

dreadfulman:

It is genuinely fascinating how many feminist cis women, including those who are on paper openly supportive of trans people, struggle to actually think about trans men as a concept.

A few months ago I ended up having a very long talk with a friend of a friend. She told me that she’d never really spoken to a trans man before, the only trans people she knew were trans women. There was a point, after the third time I reminded her that I was a man, that she just sorta of slotted me into her mental box of “man”, and I could tell that happened because after that point she started trying to explain things to me as if I was a cis man.

I categorically do not “pass” and likely never will. I’m very short, my hips are prominent because I’m fat, I keep my hair long, charitably I could be said to have a baby face, I have D-cups and cannot bind due to spinal problems. To the majority of cis people I do not “look like a man”.

But for the rest of the conversation I had with this friend of a friend I had to keep reminding her of how other people are going to view me, because there was no room in her mental idea of “man” for a man who is not treated as one. This was not malicious on her part, she was very nice to me, and I believe her when she says she wants to support trans people. I do not think she was lying when she told me how horrified she was to learn about how her trans woman friends were treated.

She said she was envious of me going out alone and how I need to understand that’s a facet of male privilege and I asked her to look at me and explain why I’d be any safer. She was shocked to learn that I’ve been catcalled, been assaulted, that I regularly get spoken down to by cis men, shocked to learn I don’t have a single transmasc friend who hasn’t. She couldn’t understand that I’m going to be treated the same by misogynists as any fat cis woman who doesn’t wear makeup. There was no room in her feminism for trans men, because there was no room in her understanding of gender for men who are not cis.

We ended up talking about politics. She told me she was terrified of abortion being banned, and that this would never be a threat if men could get pregnant.

the-haiku-bot:

pusheenthenerdcat:

kalessinsdaughter:

cryptvokeeper:

jellybeanium124:

ismellpestilence:

cobra-creampuff:

the rich =/= someone who has something I can’t afford :(

the rich = the fucking rich

At this point “eat the rich” has become less about the inherent immorality of being a billionaire and has turned into “they have money and I don’t like them”.

Damn guys. I thought we were mad about worker exploitation and tax evasion, not guys who can now afford Teslas.

growing up, my dad made a point to distinguish between “the rich” and “the wealthy” and a mildly confusing thing to me is that “eat the rich” has always really meant “eat the wealthy.”

rich people have lots of money. they have a mcmansion, they send their kids to college without debt, they vacation somewhere overseas every year, but they work. these are your brain surgeons. lawyers who own their own practice and are absolutely rolling in it, A-list actors and other celebrity entertainers. but because they work and are reliant on income, unforeseen things can absolutely ruin their lives. in america, particularly, a sudden need for expensive healthcare can be life-changing. rich people are millionaires on the high end, and making six figs on the low end.

wealthy people have lots of money because they own things. they do not work. they can get away with absolutely anything under the sun. wealthy people are billionaires.

if you can’t distinguish between these two groups, you will continue to fall for going after the rich.

This is the problem with thinking in binaries, in black-and-white. You have only two categories to sort people into.

You’re either poor or rich

You’re either young or old

You’re either a woman or a man

You’re either white or a person of color

(I could make the list much longer, but you get my point)

And then you decide that one of those categories is good, and the other is bad. So depending on which group you’re sorted into, you’re now also assigned a value:

You’re either an oppressor or oppressed

You’re either a victim or an offender

You’re either deserving or undeserving

You’re either a legitimate target or untouchable

People yelling “eat the rich” at anyone who isn’t teetering on the brink of poverty, is just one of the many manifestations of this thinking.

Its been so weird to me understanding class dynamics here in the UK because people say “middle class” to mean, like, Ivo Graham level posh with family money and the rich are who the middle class mocks for being crazy wealthy.

In the states middle class often meant you weren’t on reduced price lunch.

“eat the rich” is meant to be the people who make hundreds of dollars every second by just sitting there, it’s so skewed because in the US having emergency healthcare and food is something you only get if you have family money or double income no kids so it gets perceived as some sort of privilege. Babes, it’s not a privilege to get your life saved and it’s not a privilege to be able to afford meals and it’s not a privilege to take 2 weeks holiday off work… It’s a human right you’re being denied.

In the states middle

class often meant you weren’t

on reduced price lunch.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.