I think what I love about Vontra is that you immediately pick up that she's an antagonist.

Spoilery bits below, mostly I'm rambling.

ok ok hear me out: when Roz is all covered in The Moss, she grows flowers in the springtime <3 (yes, this was just an excuse to draw her in a flower crown, but you KNOW im onto something here!)

Funny how life works.

Funny how life works.

Bummer, this one's dead.

Building community.

Nothing weird about you two.

Hey, they learned it from you, buddy.

My brother had the idea, I had to do it

Jakob Jensen, one of the animators of The Wild Robot is posting outtakes on Twitter. This is a cut line from Fink.

It amazes me how the National Park Service is the most vocal department against Fascism. Even the Democrats are a mumble when compared to these park rangers' adamant denouncement and exposing of this administration. Support our bravest federal workers who keep our world one worth living in.

Daisuke my beloved <3 he deserves so much better

Hope you like my design for him <3

- Paris Hilton

...WOW.

Why are people surprised that a 43 year old survivor of abuse and public humiliations might have learned some stuff along the way about how to be less shit as a person?

Oh right. It's the misogyny.

I realise that maybe a lot of people either don't know that much about Paris Hilton because she's not as popular as she was in the 2000s and also some people might genuinely be too young to know much.

So like as a brief recap, in the 2000s, Paris Hilton was a popular celebrity, though I mean popular in terms of saturation, as she was rarely spoken about positively. The general consensus about her was that she was famous for being famous and that she was just a dumb blonde chick from a rich family.

That's not true. By the time she was catapulted into international fame, she already had a successful modelling career and had appeared in a couple of movies.

What catapulted her was the reality show This Simple Life in which she starred and a sex tape of her and her at-time boyfriend Rick Salomon that was leaked a week before This Simple Life aired.

You may have heard that Paris leaked it herself; she didn't. It was a horrific act done to her. She's spoken about it many times and how it negatively affected her.

Because the reaction was not sympathy for what was done to her or anger at whoever leaked it, but most everyone decided it was really funny. And so we got an SNL skit about it; it was parodied to hell and back in countless shows and movies. As aforementioned, she was accused of leaking it herself for personal gain. She was slutshamed and countless headlines accused her of sleeping around when she wasn't.

Salomon himself went on to distribute his own version of the tape named One Night in Paris that was 38 minutes long in order to make money on it.

Paris didn't make a single cent on it. And the money she received regarding a lawsuit against Salomon (he'd also sued her and her family) she had donated to charity and asked that a portion of whatever profit he makes/made be donated to charity.

You might note that the Huffpost I sourced for that first part is pretty passive aggressive toward her; that's not unique to Huffpost

It also feels prescient to mention that Paris was 19 when the sex tape was made and Rick Salomon was 31/32. She has talked in recent years about feeling coerced to film the tape and that she was "tipsy and tired" during the filming of it.

So what really happened is that when she was 22 years old, a tape of her being taken advantage of by a man more than a decade older was leaked and the world reacted by laughing at her and insulting her.

Despite this genuinely horrific trauma happening to her, she carried on and levied the fame she had to launch her into a very successful career.

Part of that was through reality TV and when she was on camera for that, she created a character to step into and even changed her voice to fit. And everyone ate up that character and never considered that she wasn't like that in real life, and people still believe this. Her on the matter:

From then on, she was constantly mocked in popular culture, ruthlessly attacked by tabloids and publicly villainised even though her character was just a dumb rich girl. It was just misogyny.

In 2007, a Gallup poll showed that only 10% of USAmericans feel any level of sympathy towards Paris, who had only four years earlier had a sex tape of her leaked, and 63% were very unsympathetic to her.

Paris Hilton has also been stalked several times.

Beyond the sex tape, there's a string of similar incidents.

Worth mentioning that Banksy's version, which was done in collaboration with Dead Mouse, had titles such as Why Am I Famous?, What Have I Done?, and What Am I For?

Also that a spokesman HMV (one of the shops) was quoted saying:

Something tells me he wouldn't have said that if Bansky had targeted Justin Timberlake or James Blunt.

If you ask me, what Bansky did was lazy and misogynistic. Sure, the stunt itself and all the components involved are impressive. But they are ultimately in service of an unoriginal message about a safe target, and is just another part of misogynistic rhetoric against a woman who had become a public punching bag.

This isn't to say that Paris Hilton is innocent and never fucked up or ever made a mistake. She did, undoubtedly. She's spent time in jail for DUI, and was literally refused entry to Japan due to a drug-possession charge on her record. She's also said plenty of iffy things. There's worthwhile criticism you could make of her and how she acted back then.

But that's not what happened back then and what happened back then was misogynistic.

In recent times, Paris Hilton has turned her attention towards activism. She's specifically done a lot of work regarding the so- called "troubled teen industry".

And that's because she had been sent to several of them as a teenager. She talks about it in a documentary you can watch on YouTube. The worst of them was Provo Canyon School; she had been dragged out of her house in the middle of the night by two men while her parents watched on in order to get there, and while at the school, she underwent physical, psychological, emotional and sexual abuse.

She is doing very important work, and I think what happened to her very much underscores what I've detailed above.

She has also spoken about the abusive relationships she's been in throughout her life.

And considering everything she's been through and everything she's done, it's really not surprising that she's learned some things about what to do when you make a mistake and how to be a better person.

This is enormous. Please spread this news.

FOIA is the Freedom of information Act, which allows citizen oversight of government activity. It means you can request to see government records. This is so ubiquitous that all federal employees take yearly training about it. What this means is that DOGE knows they are committing crimes as they decimate the federal workforce and compromise its systems, and so they are now moving to exempt themselves from all FOIA requirements so no one can see what they are doing.

Meanwhile, Salesforce, who owns Slack, looking at transcripts:

He knows exactly how it's supposed to work, is the thing. He just made a critical miscalculation on the weight front. He is very new and physical existence is very complicated, he is doing his best.

idea: the joker, compelled even against his own interests to do whatever he thinks would be funniest. the joker may be a sadist with a really shitty sense of humor but even he knows a high-quality punchline when he sees one. his obsession with batman is rooted in batman’s unfailing ability to trick the joker into a better gag that gets him captured. the joker gets chased into a room with plenty of really great hiding places and escape routes, but also a slender pole in the middle of the room. he has to hide behind the fucking pole. he’s gotta. how can he not go for the hiding behind a pole gag. there’s three doors but there’s also a joker-shaped hole in the wall that will make it look like he broke through the wall. it’s a four-story drop into a bakery dumpster full of pies. the joker is obsessed with batman because deep in his heart he knows that batman is actually funnier than he is but instead he spends his time standing on rooftops in the rain being a stoic piece of shit. the joker is salieri, and batman is a mozart that decided to go into carpentry.

sorry to reblog this old jokepost with fanfiction chat but it’s my post and i do what i want

i am aware that recent therapyspeak joker developments may seem at odds with this but i need to explain to you my vision

first you need to understand that debate bro funnyman joker is also a good foil for batman. the guy who wants you to argue with him in earnest so he can say all the right things to sound like he’s not just an asshole, throwing keywords at you a mile a minute. the guy who can pivot when you make a good point and say you’re actually the idiot for arguing with a clown. that guy. right? meanwhile batman is the world’s greatest detective and that’s what makes him annoying. a good joker thinks he’s smarter than everyone else. he is begging at all times for someone to give him an excuse to pontificate on how society is the real sickness or whatever the fuck. people say he wants to make batman laugh but i think it’s better if he wants batman, a guy who makes deductions using facts and logic, to try to engage with him as an intellectual equal.

because the thing about batman is that it’s a ridiculous concept that forces everyone around him to play the straight man. there is a man here with pointy ears and everyone just has to engage seriously with that fact. can you imagine how much the joker seethes about this. he can never be more ridiculous than batman and the fact that batman has succeeded in making everyone engage with this seriously means the joker lost before he started.

but most importantly batman can just fucking deck his ass

batman is a very intelligent man who has decided that some people just need to get punched in the face sometimes. and aside from the fact that you cannot debate a fist, it is always and consistently extremely funny. it is funny the way indiana jones shooting the swordsman was funny. or it’s funny the way a comedy jumpscare is funny. or it’s funny like a running joke is funny. there is never a time when punching a self-important clown isn’t funny. the joker is doing his damnedest to find a better punchline than literally getting punched but good fucking luck.

civic duty

context: the heritage foundation is trying to launder data in support of doge by sending a survey to only their supporters and using blatantly leading questions. the survey takes less than 5 minutes and they don't verify your email

you CAN do it multiple times if you so wish

Link

[Text ID: "$3,267,000 to build a transgender healt guide website meant to "increase access to gender-affirming care," also known as mutilation." The three options below are "Not supportive" "Somewhat supportive" and "Very supportive." "Very supportive" is selected. End ID.]

PLEASE let me put your camera in my mouth i promise i wont bite you and chomp you and shake you and drag you to a freezing watery grave pleas please please i am just a friendly sea doggy i will only engulf your camera in my jaws and not anything else (lying)

FUCKING GETS YOU

This is funny and all but the actual context behind the second image is even funnier.

Please, for the love of all marine biology, watch the video!

Please, for the love of

all marine biology,

watch the video!

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

it's really weird having a first dog be blind and then getting a second who can see...like how was I supposed to be prepared for this.

this creature can perceive when I put the treats up on the high shelf. or when I hide stuff behind my back. I can't fool her!! she's always watching me and she shouldn't have this much knowledge!!!

I walk around at night and I shine my flash light directly into her eyes and I'll just be standing there staring at her weird blue orbs for like 5 seconds until I realize it's probably extremely annoying to her, because she has eyes!! I'll turn on the light in the room and she gruffs and grumbles like ?? oh right!! light wakes you up!! the fuck??

the absolutely wild implication of this, that god was previously playing fast and loose with his own acts of good and evil but then had to start being considerate about what he was doing because now mankind is watching and we know.

God's worst mistake was opening our eyes and mouths, for now we can turn to him and name his sins

one of the lines of all time

From dogs to gods in how many notes? This hellsite is like no other.