“tumblr’s the only social media without algorithms!” “you can still be anonymous on tumblr!” “tumblr’s so nice because you don’t have to show your face!” WRONG tumblr is special because you can have 3000 followers and still get an average of seven likes a post. i’m doing stand up comedy at a packed venue and one person is laughing
“aroaces can still date!” like okay?? then have you ever considered that allos can still want to be single as well but i guess ppl don’t talk about that for some reason.
I think we're genuinely witnessing the final desperate death rattles of race/ethnicity based nationalism, but it's a long and annoying and violent death rattle.
Technology has made the ability to physically change which place you live (transport), access information about how to speak a language used in a place (language-learning resources), communicate with people in a place even before speaking a common language (translation resources), communicate with anyone in any place (social media, e-mail, calling), set up a new place to live (IKEA, flatpack furniture, new homebuilding tech), and more all significantly quicker, cheaper, and accessible!
More than any argument about "ethnicity" and "people who look different", the core thing that creates race is that for thousands of years, you usually lived nearby to the person who shot you out of their uterus, other people shot out of the same uterus, etc. This creates ethnicity, race, nationality, etc. Now that's not as true anymore. Certainly, race will continue to exist for a few hundred years, but more than that? I'm a half-korean, quarter white australian, one eighth latvian one eighth polish person. What race do I belong to? If I have genetic progeny, what about them?
I think genuinely, housing is the only material fact about the world that lets ethnic nationalism hang on. If a place is good, and people want to go there, if we can't house them all we have to come up with some method of deciding who gets to stay and who has to leave/stay out (which ethnic nationalism is a very efficient way of doing).
That technology kind of racketed up to 100 from my perspective when people were building quarantine housing as quickly as possible during the pandemic. Unfortunately, racism will continue to exist until it gets good enough to basically render "er durr housing" arguments obsolete. (and for a good while after, but it'll lose most of its steam by then, in my opinion).
hmm housing is definitely a big problem, but borders seem a bigger issue; so many people are emotionally invested in stopping people from moving.
It makes sense, though, that people would oppose immigration. There are a lot of things the typical uninformed voter “knows” without actually knowing anything about it (like education, transport policy, energy and housing policy etc). However, anti-immigration is one that when you strip out the emotional investment in their arguments, you still have a pragmatic point underneath.
Immigration drives down wages, and I’m a bit tired of people pretending it doesn’t. If we expand immigration to include departmental outsourcing to other countries* (as is enabled by technology) you lose whole departments of businesses. Immigration has deleterious effects on the average person in the way the current economy is structured.
It only makes sense for the average worker (acting in a self serving manner) to support immigration when they own the means of production and aren’t working in wage labour (and hence don’t form competition for a wage).
I will say we have an ethical duty to accept immigration, including but not limited to those fleeing conflict zones caused by wealthier nations. I don’t think that makes a good argument to the regular working class person skeevy about immigration who has seen their real terms living standard go down significantly over the last 20 years (even if it is much above those who are trying to come here).
I would LOVE for us to be witnessing the death rattle of ethnic nationalism, but I don’t think we are. Not until immigration becomes a net positive for the average person again.
*If we strip out the emotional angle of “they’re coming here to take our jobs and women” we end up with more simple questions of labour supply, and so I feel justified bringing up outsourcing.
I think the link between immigration and wages is not simple: it’s going to differ by industry (immigration drives up demand!) and we see examples of countries with low immigration (China) that still have wages suppressed below countries with high immigration (Australia); one might equally say that high birthrates drive down wages, but that is something nobody opposed to immigration ever says.
If you call pedophilia a kink please unfollow me and never talk to me again
Isn’t it disgusting that 23 people just unfollowed me
Unfollow me too
this goes double if you call paedophilia a disability. unfollow me twice
and if you call pedophilia an “orientation” or in any way compare it to being LGBP+ you can unfollow, delete your blog, and set yourself on fire.
I just lost 50 followers.. bye
clearing out the trash
GO ON AND S M A S H THAT UNFOLLOW BUTTON
BUHBYE U McNASTIES
I’ve seen this circulating forever and genuinely thought “no way do I have any of them following me” until this week when it turned out I had all these fuckin “MAP” (pedophile) followers sad to find out I’m an “anti” (normal person)
Please leave and also please get guinea worm.
GET THE FUCK OUTTA MY BLOG
I reblogged something similar to this a while ago but again:
if you support pedophilia,
kindly get the fuck off of my blog.
Thanks.
I reblog these regularly.
STAY OFF MY BLOOOOOOG
Shoo fly, don’t bother me👋🏾
Pedophilia is not welcome in the LGBTQ+ community nor are MAPs or pedophilia apologizers welcome on any of my blogs. If you support pedophilia, unfollow me. My blog is a safe space but I will not tolerate the sexualization of children.
I’m reblogging this here because I want this blog to be a safe space for people to enjoy.
Anyone who supports pedophilia or is a pedophile in any way, shape or form REGARDLESS OF ANY REASONS/EXCUSES, please kindly get the fuck away from this blog, just unfollow me straight away. I do not tolerate your kind here, and you should be ashamed of trying to justify the sexualisation of children even for a S E C O N D.
Also just to clarify this one specific point: Pedophilia and pedophiles are NOT AND WILL NEVER BE IN OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY
Edit: Before I forget, if any of you are in any way, shape or form, a pedophile, turn yourself in at your nearest police station because you don’t deserve to roam free on the streets.
I may have just started this blog but this will not STAND
Seriously though, if you think you are welcomed on this blog, you’re not. Sorry, but you make me feel unsafe so..
GTFO OF MY BLOG IF YOU DO!
I just can’t scroll pass without reblogging!! IF YOU SUPPORT PEDOPHILES/PEDOPHILIA OR IS A PEDOPHILE PLEASE GET THE FUCK OFF OF MY BLOG!!!!!!!!
everyone more sincere than me? cringe. everyone more cynical than me? asshole. i am the one true perfect middle point of world-weary and skeptical yet open to wonder and beauty
no but you can FORCE it away. use ublock origin and copy paste the blacklist i made into the filters to be able to remove the bullshit AI overview that google forces. it also removes youtube’s forced ads (at least until they fix it)
I finished reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time in my life. With all of *vague gesture at everything* this going on.
I Am Not Okay
You have to understand. I watched the movies maybe once as a kid when they came out twenty years ago. I’ve somehow avoided learning like anything about these books my entire life. Literally everything about these books was a complete unknown and surprise to me. Totally blank slate going on. I barely even knew how it ended.
Holy shit.
Frodo didn’t complete his task. Sam literally carried him up Mount Doom. And when he got to the end, he couldn’t throw the Ring away.
But for Gollum biting it off with his finger, it wouldn’t have been destroyed.
So Frodo’s journey saved the world nonetheless.
And it broke him.
It was too much for him to bear. He could no longer live in the Shire or live in Middle-Earth. He wasn’t of the world anymore. He had to go to the Undying Lands.
He took on the task that no one else would. He saved the world. Everyone got a happy ending. Aragorn became King, Sam rebuilt the Shire, Merry and Pippin became heroes. They all lived in renown.
But Frodo had the hardest task of all. No one else would do it. A simple hobbit who came by the Ring by chance. Not a King, not an immortal. Not a wizard. No power save his will and his friends. And he did it and saved everyone.
And he never got to rest. He never got to remain in peace. The task destroyed him. It was too much.
But there was no other way. Nobody but a simple hobbit could bear the ring all the way to Mount Doom and resist its power so long. Not a man, not an elf, not a wizard; they would have succumbed. Gandalf knew this, which was why he chose the hobbits in all his designs.
It’s amazing that one of the precedent setting works in the fantasy genre holds up so well because it subverts what ultimately became the genre’s core tropes. The hero was not the King, or a chosen one. In fact, the hero not being the King was a key point that allowed Aragorn to distract Sauron and allow the task in the first place. The hero was someone unassuming but courageous, who did the thing because no one else would, even though it was just by chance he came upon it.
But Frodo couldn’t resist the Ring completely. He wasn’t superior to anyone else in that way. And in the end it left him broken. The burden crushed him. No one else could do it, and in the end, he couldn’t either. He wasn’t so special that he was invulnerable.
I’m not okay. Holy fuck you guys.
It’s been a week and I’m still not over this, I’ll never get over this.
Something that I’ve been thinking about, as I struggle with depression and anxiety and *another vague gesture at everything* is that LOTR does not criticize Frodo for being broken. It does not shame him or deny him what he needs.
The task was too much and it broke him and that’s okay. His friends nonetheless take care of him and let him go with understanding. The book doesn’t treat it as a bad thing.
This seems to be a theme throughout the books. The characters rest and heal. They spend time recovering in Rivendell, Fangorn, Lorien, Ithilien. It’s treated as good and necessary. They don’t heroically endure endless torment from the second they set out until they’re done.
And in Gondor’s march from Minas Tirith to Mordor, Aragorn recognizes that some of the very few men he’s taking with him don’t have the heart to go to battle against the Enemy. And he says that’s okay. He gives them other tasks the they can do. They hold other strategic points. They aren’t shamed for not going all the way, or kicked out, or told that they aren’t manly or whatever. Their limitations are recognized and respected. The task was too big and it was okay that they couldn’t do it.
I don’t know man. I’ve held on through some absolutely crazy shit. White knuckled through mental health crises when my doctors were begging me to take a break, to go to the hospital before I hurt myself. My therapist has tried to slow me down and tell me that I’ve been going through it and it’s understandable that I am feeling some kind of way. Even one of my colleagues remarked that I’ve had an absolutely fucking wild career and that I’ve seen more as a lawyer of seven years than she has as a lawyer of forty. But I’ve gotten it into my head that I have to be strong, I have to be independent.
Fuck me, man, I’m currently white knuckling through life and hanging on by a fucking thread. A few weeks ago I was about an hour away from checking myself in to a mental health facility until my best friends swooped in to help me. And then I went right back to work.
And then I read this book. This fucking brilliant and beautiful book written by a man who had seen the horrors of war and spilled it all over the page. And I read it for the first time as an adult with full understanding and experience of what it all means. And it hits me like a fucking truck.
And it says that you can’t endure everything. That at some point you need to rest and heal. That if you take on too much you will break. And that all of that is okay.
How am I supposed to move on with my life after reading this?
Vandalism doesnt change the system, it just slows it down and costs money. And no costing money won’t change things either. It just goes on the national debt.
The crew finding out about the hacked governor module is actually so wild
Imagine you discover your roomba has free will and has just been watching shows while still doing its job (for some fucking reason) since before you bought it??
REMINDER: luigi mangione has been accused of killing the CEO, not convicted, and the evidence presented is extremely questionable. luigi mangione is NOT the claims adjuster until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law, and the widespread presumption of his guilt makes it much more likely he will be falsely convicted.
I watched this as a kid and internalized it for forever
Lilo and Stitch really said “This is my family. I found it, all on my own. It’s little, and broken, but still good. Yeah. Still good.” And i still live by that
a family can be your gay uncles, the best disney prince, and your parole officer
i think a really funny project that a statistics professor could have their class do is like. put a bunch of random, patently untrue demographic statements into a hat. “the most popular tv show among white men ages 24-27 is Bluey.” “the majority of business majors are middle children.” “bisexual women love hot chips.” and each student picks one out of the hat and you gotta like. design a whole study and survey a group of people to specifically achieve that result. you have to prove it true. by whatever means necessary. you have to construct the most biased study possible and wrangle in your exact demographic to make that statement a statistical reality. i think people would learn a lot.
CLARIFICATION: students would be forbidden from recruiting participants with any communication that contains more than 1 demographic qualifier!!
e.g. they can put out an ad for “female study participants” but not for “bisexual women who like hot chips”
this forces them to design a screening process that narrows it down to their desired group. “yeah sorry the survey takes 2 hours, and it’s right during lunch, but we do have an unlimited supply of hot chips you can eat.” and then occasionally a beautiful butch woman walks by the windows idk im still brainstorming
i think a really funny project that a statistics professor could have their class do is like. put a bunch of random, patently untrue demographic statements into a hat. “the most popular tv show among white men ages 24-27 is Bluey.” “the majority of business majors are middle children.” “bisexual women love hot chips.” and each student picks one out of the hat and you gotta like. design a whole study and survey a group of people to specifically achieve that result. you have to prove it true. by whatever means necessary. you have to construct the most biased study possible and wrangle in your exact demographic to make that statement a statistical reality. i think people would learn a lot.
CLARIFICATION: students would be forbidden from recruiting participants with any communication that contains more than 1 demographic qualifier!!
e.g. they can put out an ad for “female study participants” but not for “bisexual women who like hot chips”
this forces them to design a screening process that narrows it down to their desired group. “yeah sorry the survey takes 2 hours, and it’s right during lunch, but we do have an unlimited supply of hot chips you can eat.” and then occasionally a beautiful butch woman walks by the windows idk im still brainstorming
pros: you get to feel clean. you get non greasy hair, non oily feeling skin, it just in general makes you feel better, more energised, refreshed.
cons: there are so many steps. oh my god are there so many steps. before getting into the shower there are steps. during the shower there are steps. and once youve gotten out of the shower? guess what!!! more fucking steps!!!!!!!! UGHHHH
I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been
The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”
my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”
Ancient Shitposting
Now on the History Channel
‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC - 43 BC
Reblogging again with a more serious addition:
This is why fascists spend so much time trying to create this false understanding of the past that makes modern people seem uniquely unintelligent or uniquely crass and that “civilization is falling apart”. Fascists say shit like “Our ancestors used to build monuments that would last centuries meanwhile people my age are hooking up on Grindr” as if the Romans wouldn’t have LOVED Grindr.
It’s refreshing to know that people don’t really change and we’ve always been like this.
I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been
The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”
my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”
Ancient Shitposting
Now on the History Channel
‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC - 43 BC
Reblogging again with a more serious addition:
This is why fascists spend so much time trying to create this false understanding of the past that makes modern people seem uniquely unintelligent or uniquely crass and that “civilization is falling apart”. Fascists say shit like “Our ancestors used to build monuments that would last centuries meanwhile people my age are hooking up on Grindr” as if the Romans wouldn’t have LOVED Grindr.
It’s refreshing to know that people don’t really change and we’ve always been like this.
whenever i think about how crazy social human beings are, i lose it. cutting us off from other people is literally defined as torture. we grow attached to inanimate objects and treat them as friends. we deliberately seek out other species of animal and try to make them our friends, and that’s why we have pet stores and livestock and working animals. we are so full of love! we are uniquely full of love
i do want to mention that skarsgård nailed it as murderbot. the facial expressions are perfect. every interaction with a real life person is excruciatingly awkward. body language is hesitant, and avoidant and just generally uncomfortable. that look of absolute horror when the team asked to talk to murderbot in crew uniform instead of its armor? the visceral disgust when it’s forced to say the word ‘sex’ out loud? the way its speech is either halting and nervous, or too-fast and not following the conversation queues from the rest of the group? perfection.
