"don't post that, what if an employer sees?" personally i think employers need to stay the fuck off their employees' social media lmao

stop normalizing employers invading employees' privacy ❤️❤️❤️

He did it. He finally caught his own tail.

But at what cost?

Bonus:

If you wanted the rule of law to prevail, you should’ve voted for the former prosecutor over the convicted felon 🤷‍♀️ Blame 49% of the electorate who voted for the criminal, the 2% that voted third party, and the millions of lazy assholes who stayed home

I think that the flaw in a lot of revolutionary ideation is that it turns out that ordinary people are way more willing to accept absolutely depraved, utterly bloodthirsty acts on the part of those in power than most of us would like to think.

"Oh, the soldiers will refuse to follow those orders" No they won't.

"Oh, but if the people see the extent of the crimes they'll rise up" No they won't.

Actually disgusting. Hamas steals humanitarian aid, uses civilians as human shields, prevents civilians from evacuating. I don't understand how people can look at Hamas as 'freedom or resistance fighters' when they treat civilians so horrifically, Israeli and Palestinian.

That is nominally their own government doing that to them. Man.

Say it with me, folks: Hamas is a militant totalitarian theocracy. They are not "underdogs" or "freedom fighters," they are the autocrats in charge of the oppressing Gaza.

Any Israeli violence and oppression towards Gaza is secondary to the daily violence and oppression Gazans suffer at the hands of their own government.

Crazy to think about how big the world and how small the bugs are yet they still manage to find one another to have bug sex

Our first appointment of the day is a purebred dachshund named "Willy"

My in-laws had a weiner dog named "Willy" too. Turns out he only had one testicle, so he became "Willy the One Nut Weiner."

Please thank your in-laws on behalf of all the vet staff at the hospital he goes to

It is, because it's extremely hilarious to name your wiener dog after a weenis and I applaud every owner brave enough to do the correct thing

The vet hospital I work at has a dachshund patient named Dickie. This is enough to warrant a sensible chuckle all by itself, but it gets so much better when you meet him in person. Face to face you can see that his collar ID tag actully has his full name: Dickie Normus.

the problem with being a good person is that everyone falls madly in love with me

you're not a good person i saw you rip 5 scientists in half for trying to study you

starts talking about my emotional state with 2 degrees of abstraction instead of 7 and the sniper across the street who i pay to keep me in line fires a warning shot thru my little hoop earring

wait can someone explain what this means to me I really want to know

if i am candid about how i feel i will die like john f kennedy

I told Miyazaki I love the “gratuitous motion” in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.

“We have a word for that in Japanese,” he said. “It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.”

Is that like the “pillow words” that separate phrases in Japanese poetry?

“I don’t think it’s like the pillow word.” He clapped his hands three or four times. “The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.”

Which helps explain why Miyazaki’s films are more absorbing and involving than the frantic cheerful action in a lot of American animation. I asked him to explain that a little more.

“The people who make the movies are scared of silence, so they want to paper and plaster it over,” he said. “They’re worried that the audience will get bored. They might go up and get some popcorn.

But just because it’s 80 percent intense all the time doesn’t mean the kids are going to bless you with their concentration. What really matters is the underlying emotions–that you never let go of those.

— Roger Ebert in conversation with Hiyao Miyazaki

This illustrates perfectly my issues with the “every moment in every scene in every chapter has to advance the plot” advice for story writing. If there’s never a moment that’s just there, there because the story or the characters require it, if there’s never a chance to catch your breath and simply be in the story, can the story truly live? Or is it only a patchwork of moments?

"Your identity is valid but your past being raised as a man still matters"

trans girl whose memories from before HRT are a sort of unreal haze: uh huh. how interesting. sure. yeah. okay. cool beans.

What I do recall most vividly could by no stretch of the imagination be described as "being raised as a man" more like, tortured and abused on a daily basis till I was left totally numb enduring a wretched sort of lifeless life feeling completely alienated and estranged from the world.

"Your gay identity is valid but your past being raised as a straight person still matters"

not to be maya on side but please do not call someone or something “mayan” when talking about our people, culture, etc. “mayan” refers to our language family (a language FAMILY, in which there are plenty of unique languages). we are the maya, not the mayans. i am maya, not mayan. it is the indigenous maya community, not the indigenous mayan community. 

you can reblog this 😔

fuck i forgot to share that one photo of two dudes making out on the floor at a punk concert in yugoslavia with one of the top comments being: this isn't homosexuality, they're just drunk and the mood struck them

okay calling it a top comment was wrong lol there's 5 of them in total, but:

"this isn't lgbt at all, normal dudes, got drunk, the emotion struck them, they love eachother..."

This is just what you do with your homies

Absolutely losing my mind over this text I got from a client today

Wooooahdude I just found this out but you're heirloom tomatoes actually. Did you know this

Because you're so