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"Dems aren't doing anything!"
Listen man, you need to read the news. Actually seek it out and read it. Preferably local or state news if you have it.
My congressman and Senators are the most boring moderate white guys to ever moderate white guy.
And they are out there every single fucking day raising hell like I haven't seen in ten years.
They're boycotting the joint address. Trying to block every piece of legislation and every nominee. They're trying to get into federal buildings to see what DOGE is doing. They're holding town halls every week. They're holding job fairs for laid off feds and connecting them to resources.
These boring white guys are getting up in republicans faces during hearings and screaming at them red faced with righteous fury.
My guys ALONE are doing a fuck ton.
Do you even know who yours are? What they're doing? Or do you just want to be angry?
And for those who don’t know where to look, Ariella Elm has been collecting wins and Dems fighting EVERY DAY SINCE THE INAUGURATION https://open.substack.com/pub/ariellaelm?r=25ocek&utm_medium=ios
And she’s noted, a lot of their best moments ARE posted, they just aren’t going viral
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I swear the human pain response is so fucking maladaptive. "Oh, yeah, being in pain for an extended period of time can provoke a system-wide inflammation response which both slows healing and causes additional pain in parts of the body unrelated to the original injury, so taking painkillers may actually make you heal faster" who designed this bullshit?
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Trump is all like "Australians sell their beef to us, but they won't buy any of ours 😡"
Which.... yeah? Of course???? Why would we import external beef from so far away when we produce more than enough to meet our own needs??
Not to mention that USA still has both mad cow disease and foot and mouth disease, but Australia doesn't -- AND America has increasingly lax commercial-level health and safety standards, meaning the risk of pathogens like MCD/F&M spreading through the US are significantly increased, and we don't have either here in Australia, so of course we don't want to import beef from a country that could conceivably spread the diseases to us???
But even aside from that. There are not that many Australians. But there are a lot of Americans. AND Australians eat an average of 23.4 kilos of beef per year but we produce 2.2 million tonnes. We produce WAY more beef than our population eats. So of course we don't import much????? And of COURSE it's not from America, which is both significantly further away than our current importers (primarily New Zealand and Japan), AND which has significantly lower health and safety regulations than we do????
Meanwhile, Americans average aprox 37 kilos of beef per person per year, but produces around 12.4 million tonnes. USAs population is 12 times larger than ours but only produces 5 times more beef than we do, AND consumes more per capita than we do. Of course USA imports large quantities of beef. Because their domestic production doesn't meet their domestic demand. Meanwhile Australia's production vastly outweighs our domestic demand, so of course we don't import American beef?????
Thats...... that's how imports and exports are supposed to work???? You export excess of what you have to someone who has less of it, and in turn, they export to you the produce/products that YOU don't have. This is fucking basic??????????
"Waahhh, Australia won't import American beef 😭😡" yeah???? Of course we don't????????
PLUS!!!!! Overall, Australia imports 34 billion dollars worth of stuff from America per year. Meanwhile America only imports $16 billion from us.
Putting tariffs on a country that imports more from you than they export to you is uhhhhhhhhh, FUCKIN' STUPID. If america tariff everything we send to them it's on all of $16b worth of stuff. If we tariff everything of theirs then we'll be slapping taxes on more than double what they can tax us.
Trump is such a fucking moron.
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Republicans: we can just have Elon Musk go to Wisconsin and give everyone money. He'll give them a million dollars. It's all legal as long as we hold power forever and can stop anyone from doing anything to stop us. All of Wisconsin is bribed, nothing can go wrong now
The invincible Susan Crawford:
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Hello to all Australians seeing the post! It is currently the 28th of March 2025, and the election has been announced for May 3rd!
If you are eligible to vote, make sure to check if you’re enrolled to vote and ensure that you’ll be able to vote!
This is a very important election so we’ve all got to do our bits!
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Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that gaslight gatekeep girlboss meme, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you think modern feminism has been co-opted by corporations. But what you don’t know is that that meme is not from Instagram, it's not from Twitter, it's not from Tiktok, it’s actually from Tumblr. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in January 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, "today's agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss." And then I think it was a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e, wasn’t it, who reblogged it with an image of the phrase edited over a piece of "Live, Laugh, Love" wall art? And then gaslight gatekeep girlboss showed up in the feeds of eight different Twitter repost accounts. Then it filtered down through Instagram and then trickled on down into some tragic “alt side of Tiktok” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that meme represents millions of notes and countless Tumblr users and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from Tumblr when, in fact, you’re wearing the meme that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”
UGH is is literally so much to ask that I have time and money to learn how to tailor clothes and embroider and knit and make cakes and bake bread and do makeup and hair and nails and do all my own diy projects around the house and
like I know this is probably so hard to make but my brain says I could do that and I need to do that
btw since this I have been beautifully and painfully trying to learn to cook, crochet, sew, paint etc and oh boy am I mediocre at a bunch of things but I’m having fun
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I love nonfiction that I simply cannot relate to at all. "it's easy to get addicted to buying fast fashion! I used to spend thousands of dollars on it a year!" okay. you're a space alien.
"survey finds that the average person in the UK only wears a piece of clothing 7 times" what are you talking about. what are you fucking talking about. who are these people and in what world are they average.
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why does this have 32k notes? it’s just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. it’s just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain
no one tell him
This is it, lads. The post that started us on this path 9 years ago.
I sure hope no one told him.
Its that time of the year again. Praise
I’m not like, super religious but I do celebrate the major holidays (an ides’er and greason’s tumblric)
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I refuse to let this be lost in the tags
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listen, the point isn't that the appalachian mountains are old in a vague sense. like, the age of the appalachian mountains doesn't exist in a vacuum. the point is that they're older -- in some cases by orders of magnitude -- than things that are often perceived as timeless.
like, yeah, obviously mountains are old, everyone knows that, that in and of itself is not the interesting thing. the interesting thing is that the rings of saturn -- which are, in popular imagery, associated with the unending vastness of space and, by association, the endlessness of time -- are in the neighbourhood of one-tenth the age of the appalachian mountains.
the interesting thing is that we're walking around on structures that are older than bones, which are so established in the public consciousness as a permanent and unchanging aspect of the world that it can be literally difficult to conceptualise life before they existed.
it's about context, dude. like we think of the Atlantic Ocean as being a major and permanent element of the world, which, to our scale, it kind of is -- it started forming almost two hundred million years ago, which is, on a human timeframe, basically eternal. but that's less than half the age of the appalachians. there are two things (an ocean and a mountain) that are symbolic of eternity, and it can be incredibly fascinating to engage with the idea that, when Eternal Symbol 2 formed, Eternal Symbol 1 was already hundreds of millions of years old. it's like realising that a 90-year-old man was already a full adult when a 60-year-old man was born even though they are, now, both "old" people.
it's about opening up your perception of history. like that thing about how Cleopatra was born closer to the invention of the Zune than to the building of the great pyramid. like, if the vast majority of what someone knows about history occurred in the past 2000 years, it can be a little mind-blowing for that someone to realise that "Ancient Egypt" alone had even more history than that.
and that's the thing that's interesting about the age of the appalachians. hearing "the appalachians are older than the rings of saturn" can reshape someone's perception of time.'
and if you don't find that interesting then, like, idk man, go eat a hot dog and think about feather dusters or whatever it is you do