“equal opportunity slut”

does anyone know what the first step of unlearning shame is. please say it’s substance abuse

From my latest article: putting a government contractor like Elon Musk in charge of government spending is a recipe for corruption

If tumblr dies DM me for my full home address and we can have a barbecue

you've heard of "quiet quitting," now I'd like to introduce you to the next level, The French Work Ethic:

say what you will about california but i love that we have an official state slug (banana slug). more states should have official state slugs.

BEHOLD the majesty of california

Fun fact! These little guys have one of the broadest vertical natural habitat ranges because they snooch snooch snooch up to the top of very tall redwood trees and they dig dig dig dig down into the ground

i think ive been meek for long enough when am i inheriting that shit

we're going to have an OLDER BROTHER summer. we will be drinking MONSTER. we will be LIFTING WEIGHTS. we will be ignoring our MOM. we will be surviving off of CHIPS and NOODLES. we will NOT be SHOWERING. we will only be putting on AXE DEODORANT. we will be bothering PRETTY WOMEN and getting REJECTED. OLDER BROTHER SUMMER !!

thinkig about when the 2000s olympics was in sydney and these two comedians introduced an unofficial mascot called fatso the fat arsed wombat which looked like this

and everybody in australia just started acting like he was the official olympic mascot to the point where ppl were winning gold medals and bringing a plushie of him up to the podium

and the olympic committee got so mad about it they had to implement all these bans to try and preserve the integrity of the games or whatever but literally nobody else gave a shit so he just kept . showing up everywhere

I just generally think that if more "mental health advocates" actually experienced institutionalization at a psychiatric facility they would stop advocating for people to be put in them. Far too many of them are actively as bad as asylums "back in the day" and the ones that are better aren't THAT much better. As it turns out, robbing someone who is already going through severe mental distress of their autonomy and shoving them in a place filled with strangers who treat them as a potential threat and are constantly monitoring them is not actually conducive to mental healing.

Sometimes the goal is to keep somebody alive. I absolutely believe the mental health system in America needs work, and it is able to be abused, and it would be ideal if we could come up with a system that doesn't further traumatize the mentally ill while receiving treatment. But in our current system, sometimes mentally ill people have to go someplace they can't hurt themselves or their loved ones until they can be properly treated. It's not malice, it's just genuinely better a person sit in the box and feel paranoid and scared and alone for awhile then have to deal forever with what happens if they don't get treatment. People want you to live, they want you to be intact, and they want you to be able to live with the actions your body took while your brain was too sick to guide it.

Actually I believe that people should have the autonomy to handle themselves and their lives the way they want regardless of how that makes anyone else in their life feel. Enough with this patronizing attitude.

"In our current system" are we incapable of autonomy and thinking and acting for ourselves? Of conceptualizing new and better alternatives? There are ways of preventing someone from harming others during a mental health episode, but all of them require actually working with the mentally ill individual and giving a damn about what they think, feel, and want.

Same with suicide prevention- there are so SO many ways you can prevent suicides that don't involve imprisoning a mentally ill person. But again, they all involve allowing someone to make their own decisions and direct their own care. Sticking a scared person in a box and telling them they can't leave until they get treatment is an excellent way of turning someone into a very good liar who tells you what you want to hear and then is never honest with you again out of fear of getting shoved back into that box. It actively discourages people from getting treatment because they are scared of having their autonomy robbed from them again.

quite literally me when i am lying

transcript:

woman: why are the heard and mcdonald islands, which don't export to the united states, and are quite literally inhabited by penguins -- why do they face 10% tariffs? did you use AI to generate this?

man: [extremely nervous and suspicious laughter] ehehehe..... no.....

do i really have to be alive every day

got my hands on a field guide of californian bugs and i found that there's this one bee species in southern california that looks like this

(Actual bugs under the cut, CW for insects)

Credit for idea @blimbo-buddy

The White House bragging about how many different countries have reached out to negotiate in response to the tariffs reminds me of that part of Disco Elysium where you have the option to put a loaded gun in your mouth and threaten to pull the trigger as a negotiating tactic. It is certainly one way to start a conversation!