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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:
hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset
jan smit looking at jan smit looking at rocks
fyi, Jan Smit is the paleontologist who originally noticed high levels of iridium in the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary sediments (now known as the K-Pg Boundary) and hypothesized the Giant Asteroid Impact Theory as the reason dinosaurs went extinct!
and as far as I know he's still out there, looking at rocks.
i thought it was luis & walter alvarez who posited the asteroid theory? :O
they both came up with it independently at around the same time working from the same data sources, but the Alvarezes ended up with their name on the official theory!
Fucking wild to be teaching about Rosa Parks at the same time as a trans woman in Florida does an act of civil disobedience to use a women's restroom in the state capitol
As far as I know, she is the first woman arrested bc of this law. The law requires that the trans person be warned to leave the bathroom by a state official, and then if they stay they are guilty of trespassing after a warning.
So like, me, my gf, others just piss and nobody asks or tells, but this young woman sent a statement about the law to over 100 FL lawmakers so they would know she was coming, the cops were ready for her, she brought a reporter and went in anyway and spent the night in a men's jail. She is out on bail, and is hoping this will inspire change of the law. But if found guilty, and the law is upheld as constitutional, then she could spend up to 60 days in a mens county jail.
Rick Astley's father Ossie Astley celebrating "Never Gonna Give You Up" making it to #1 on the UK charts in 1987.
Hey. Look at me. Please leave yourself a note somewhere you'll see it later that says "it is going to take years if not decades to get the United States government to the level of functionality it had in November of 2024." If we elect a democrat in 2028, we are not going to be up and running by 2032.
Please make sure you have a reminder in your phone reminding you to not look at 2028/32/36 Democratic candidates and say "why are they not promising/delivering Cool Shit?" because you are going to understand that to get Cool Shit we must have competent people running a decently funded government, and we are not going to have that.
We are not getting UBI. We are not getting single payer healthcare. We are not getting free college or free preschool. We are not redistributing wealth on a large scale. We are not getting free internet. We are not getting ranked choice voting.
If we are lucky, we are going to get an IRS that can collect taxes, qualified schoolteachers, research grants, Social Security, and a government that thinks maybe it should be a priority for people around the worlds to not have AIDS, malaria or TB.
To be clear, I don't mean we should forget or take our eyes off the ultimate long-term goals of getting Cool Shit, but to get there, we're gonna have to support things like "half-measures" and "small steps" and "not tearing down people who won't get us all the way there" and "understanding that they are starting from the basement basically because every government institution is being decimated"
As someone who just spent the last four years helping unfuck the shit Trump did to it in the last term, we had EASILY another decade left to go to get it back to pre-2016 functionality. We were working so hard, and we really thought we'd have a chance if we had a Harris presidency to actually get things cleaned up and at least working okay.
and then the average american voter decided to throw a few thousand tons of kerosene and a lit match on top of all of that work, (and also my entire fucking life and career) because boohoo we didn't get instant fucking gratification
Forget the IRS, y'all are gonna be lucky to have potable drinking water in 2032. Or consistent access to routine vaccines.
Get your asses in the street April 5th, because guess what, voting was civic engagement on easy mode and if you want a even slightly functioning country you're gonna have to start in on doing it on hard mode. Join an Indivisible group, that's a good first step--but fucking remember, this mess is not fucking getting fucking cleaned the fuck up for the next ten to twenty years, easy.
I think it was about a month into dating my betrothed that I first turned to them and said, “You smell hungry, want to get some lunch?”
“I what? I smell hungry?”
“Yeah, like, the empty smell. Aren’t you hungry?”
They were, but it was hard for them to accept smelling a state of being. After a few weeks of me pointing it out right before they realized it themself though they asked, “What does hunger smell like?”
“Bad.”
“That’s not helpful.”
“It’s like… an emptiness that goes past the mouth? Bad breath is more upfront but hunger is like you’re smelling stomach acid, it’s all the way from an empty belly.”
They started smelling my mouth in exaggerated silly fashion but eventually they did start to recognize it.
They’re now very smug when they get to use the skill back at me and inform me that I’m hungry.
What does that mean!!!
Sheets, I mean this in the NICEST way possible:
Your writing style perfectly encapsulates the Tumblr vernacular and style about just posting about a thing where context may or may not reveal itself as you read the post. Your posts do that, and then as you get about the halfway point, it turns ever so slightly left into the uncanny valley, so that by the end, the reader is simultaneously confident that they just read a piece of surrealist fiction, and yet intrigued by it.
I myself finished reading this, and was at the same time going ‘that’s not a thing’ and ‘I wonder if I get really close to my partner, if I could smell his hunger’. And then in classic tumblr fashion, I scroll back up to see OP, and once again, it’s @foldingfittedsheets.
There’s another tumblr user I follow who’s similar, but slightly different, called @seat-safety-switch . The surrealist vibe definitely makes you wonder if these posts crossed over from social media in another universe where things are juuust slightly to the left. In this case, a universe where hunger has a scent.
It’s real, I live your world, I walk under the same yellow sun and breathe the same air.
But also you should look at the notes to see what else people can smell because the list is like: ants, blood sugar, pregnancy, and getting sick. It makes me look like less of an odd little creature if you see other people do it too!
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On it boss
Oh hey I love this song :3
ethics of making AI images aside, I do find a bit amusing the kinds of sob stories and mental gymnastics people make up to pretend like drawing is this super technical skill with an impossibly high barrier of entry when its like one of the first hobbies toddlers pick up
suddenly a lot of people think they got the next Lord of the Rings in their head but they were never able to turn their stories into anything tangible because the evil elitist artists are hogging all the talent and skill and they need a bajilion years of training or something as if one of the most popular manga and anime of the past decade wasn't made by a guy that draws like this
Have you ever looked closely at a car windshield?
The edge of the glass is painted where it is glued to the car but it has these small dots between the clear and painted glass.
These are there for a reason. When the sun hits the glass the painted areas and the clear areas will absorb heat at different rates. This causes the glass to expand and contract differently putting stress on the glass.
These dots help the glass to warm up more evenly over a larger area so the glass does not suffer stress that could cause it to spontaneously explode.
Fun fact: the Tesla cybertruck doesn’t have these.
Yes, the glass will spontaneously crack or explode in the sun.
Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now
He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.
For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.
Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.
He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor
Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going
For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.
He has yielded the floor at 25 hrs and 4 mins. His eyes are so wide they look like they’re going to bug out of his skull so I don’t blame him for stopping. He said to go out and get in some good trouble.
This is the kind of bullshit that I'm so sick of fellow leftists doing. I'm not saying never push for more, but there is a defeatist attitude in shitting on anything vaguely positive will not offering a single positive thought or alternative.
All it does it deflate energy, it serves absolutely no purpose that I can see.
Nothing about it being better late than never, let's see what other democrats will put out, not is being a good start but still pushing for more. No, just shitting on the effort and anyone who feels any kind of hope from it.
Do not let people convince you that resistance of any kind is futile. You can say it is not enough and you want more, but anyone who acts like this is a psy-op or a defeatist fool and should either way be tuned out to avoid being the energy vampire that they want to be.
If you were powerless, they wouldn't be scared of you and trying every trick in the book to strip your vote or buy votes, and they are.
And despite that, Susan Crawford just won in Wisconsin, despite Musk buying votes.
See, this person doesn't actually DO anything. "Organising with socialists" is not a plan, by the way. That means nothing.
I checked their blog, they hadnt been to protests, didn't have any bills or petitions they wanted someone to sign, had no action plans about resistance only ideas.
This is exactly the kind of person I mean. They have no action of their own and they will have a billion reasons why. They might use some form of marginalisation to justify it, a disability, their location.
They do not haveany plan, just a certainty that the Democrats are not the answer. They aren't going to pick up arms, they are not going to organise or join a group to try and change the system. They are just going to say that the Democrats are not the answer.
Do the Democrats fit MY personal politics? Lol. No. Not even Bernie fit me.
But they are the only party that does exist to oppose the Republicans. That's it. If you won't invest in them then you better have a better plan without them. And you don't.
All people like this do is say it isn't enough and they want more. They are energy vampires and feckless cunts who do NOTHING to advance anything and shit on literally any positive news for not being enough.
Have Democrats been effective? Lol, no. Again.
But will I celebrate anything they do to take some kind of accountability? Yes. Yes, I will.
I will also celebrate the irony of a man protesting the Civil Rights act being overtaken in his longest speech record by a black man who is pointing out the lack of civil rights in the current administration.
Is it "enough"? No. But is it NOTHING? Also no.
And I want leftists in the US to feel as energised as possible. Because we are the group that suffers from burnout and thinks it is all pointless, and they are the ones that just keep marching forward.
That is how they took Row v Wade. Step by tiny, tiny step. They inched closer and closer and it took them DECADES. But they never gave up.
That is how a lot of progress happens.
Look, I'm all for radical action. But if you aren't going to be part of the radical action then suck it up and embrace your new "liberal centrist" action plan of get out the vote, letter writing, petitions and finding out when ALL your local and state elections are. Voting local is so, so fucking important.
It is literally so important that if you are reading this now and you DONT know when your next local election is, then I beg you to go and google it now, find out.
The republicans are trying to support Trump and Doge locally and it is wildly unpopular and voting them out locally has a huge fucking impact.
Also, carry wire cutters, a sharpie and a screw driver if you want to keep your eyes out for civil disobedience opportunities, it especially can help for defacing or sabotaging anti-homeless installations.
One act is never enough on its own, what is needed is millions of little acts. It is the momentum. Build it. You can't do that if you pay attention to energy vampires who tell you that things don't mean anything and that efforts need to be more while they make none.
Wait kryptonian fangies…. Does that mean Clark also has fangies? And follow up because if so I feel he’d be more shy about them most of the time, does he do a kinda half smile to not flash them around to everyone?
Clark definitely has fangies. He's been very insecure about them for a long time so, yes, he tends to half smile to hide them. But with time, especially around the Justice League, he began to feel more confident and the other heroes can definitely see his kryptonian fangs when he laughs now.
Bruce definitely wishes he could have fangs too. Who can blame him? It fits his aesthetic.
If you don't judge people for saying "sorry adhd brain" in public, then don't judge people for saying "sorry schizophrenia brain" in public
If you correct people when they misuse the term "ocd" then you need to correct people when they misuse the terms "psychotic", "delusional", "hallucinating" and "schizophrenic"
If you don't stare, laugh at or fear a stranger in public flapping their hands, then you need to do the same for a stranger in public talking to someone who isn't actually there.
If you give a trigger warning to sensitive topics then you need to give a trigger warning to unreality and false information as a prank.
If you want to normalize medication like antidepressants you also need to normalize medications like antipsychotics.
If you don't like people without your disorder joking about it online and report it as harassment, then you need to do the same for the tons of nonschizophrenics making "schizoposting" memes to make fun of us.
Just please include schizo-spec and psychotic acceptance into your mental illness/neurodiversity acceptance. We are part of your community whether you like it or not. We are constantly stigmatized, misrepresented and made fun of. We do what we can to help you, please return the favor.
Mental illness/neurodiversity acceptance is an ongoing action. We will get nowhere in the long run if we split the community into the "in" group and the "out" group. We could all accomplish so much if we worked together. But you need to include the "weird" people that don't fit into your aesthetic and don't fit the social norms.
Us psychotics and schizo-specs have been struggling for years and have been the only people fighting for ourselves while the people we plead to barely see us as human. If you are nonpsychotic and nonschizo-spec, you can help us more than you realize. Please include us and stick up for us the same way we have been including and sticking up for you.
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