When u breathe in her spores and feel the psychotropic effects as her mycelium begins to grow into your brain 🥴🥴🥴🫠

i don’t think this is usually how sex works

as a professional i assure you it is

menthol illwess innit

celebrities watching parasite be like

this is funny to me. self awareness level 0

How is the first tweet ironic though, if she's admonishing her mom for wasting ipods? For the record I have no idea who that person is but that tweet in particular seems reasonable and not a demonstration of this individual's own excess??

I think the parasite bit is in response to the mom who's treating the air pods like they're disposable, not the person calling them out.

this meme is so niche

@wooftphr

it continues

where is any higher quality version of this image

can't find anything other than this which has maybe 5 extra pixels

now dance fucker dance man he never had a chance

text edits but it’s just zac oyama quotes ദ്ദി •⩊• )

ATTEMPTS TO TRANSCEND THE MEDIUM

IS LOST IN THE PROCESS

ATTEMPTS TO TRANSCEND THE MEDIUM

IS LOST IN THE PROCESS

Going to a seder at a family friend's place tonight and I have been informed multiple times that someone there has changed her name to Stephanie, but because it seems nobody wants to deadname her, nobody has specified who Stephanie is. So I guess I'm just going to get a surprise Stephanie when I arrive.

I am among the first people to arrive which means I get to play a fun process of elimination game. It is not the family's youngest child so I think that leaves two more. Unless Stephanie is an aunt or a niece or something.

Have learned that Stephanie is the eldest child. Which is very convenient for me because she is the one family member whose name I could not remember anyway.

WOOOOO WE'RE LIVE EVERYBODY

HOLY CRAP

IM LOSING IT

all of you are correct

jsyk, when you hear “shot bean bags at protesters”

you might think something like a hacky sack, but that is the misleading nature of this name. Often, they are talking about these:

that is fired out of a shotgun. The cloth is kevlar, and inside is.. THE SAME LEAD PELLETS YOU FIND IN MOST SHOTGUN ROUNDS. 

The kevlar prevents spread and penetration. But people are still getting shot with a shotgun.

That is why, even though you often hear or see “less THAN lethal” the actual technical term for this kind of ammo is “less lethal”. As in still lethal, just not as deadly as a standard shotgun round

This is what is being fired at civilians. If you get hit in the head there is a GOOD chance of you winding up in critical condition or dead. Be careful out there

When I point out the implicit ideological assumptions of a piece of media, choosing to interpret what I'm trying to say as "X is basically Y propaganda" (either from the angle of "can you believe this crazy sjw thinks X is Y propaganda?" or the angle of "OP is right, I can't believe I never noticed X was Y propaganda all along") that's a complete inversion of the causality I'm trying to establish. I don't think and have never claimed that the creators of the media I talk about are deliberately trying to promote the politics and ideological values that are implicit in it, but rather that these politics and ideological values pop up in the subtext because they are common and normalized enough in society and popular culture to go completely unquestioned and be replicated in the ideological framework of media, even (or especially) when this media isn't conceptualized by its creators as trying to make any kind of political or ideological statement in the matter.

When I chimed in about that post about the portrayal of the humans in Wall-e I wasn't claiming that the people behind the movie were deliberately trying to promote a poor view of fat people, but that they leaned into an already existing trope of fatness as visual shorthand for societal decay and widespread hedonism which is almost universally accepted and unquestioned due to the way fat people are already seen by society at large.

When I talk about how police procedural shows almost universally depict cops being forced to follow due process and respect people's rights as an obstacle that gets in the way of the heroes' ability to do their job and deliver justice™ to the dangerous criminal who's obviously guilty (who they could easily put behind bars if only there weren't so many rules preventing them from violating people's privacy to get the damn evidence they need) I'm not accusing the writers of those shows of making anti due process propaganda, I'm claiming it's deeply revelatory of widespread societal views about law enforcement and the justice system (which is why I'm kind of annoyed by all the comments in that old post going "OP there's actually a name for this it's called copaganda").

In general when discussing the implicit ideological assumptions of media (especially popular, mass-market media which is more likely to align with culturally hegemonic ideological biases) I think it's much more useful to think about it in terms of it reflecting the default, implicitly accepted ideas and values of the culture it was created in, rather than in terms of it promoting or even creating them.

I don't think people are convinced of having these ideas because they show up in media to promote them or legitimize them (which is the implication of calling something propaganda), I think these ideas show up in media because a lot of people already implicitly share those opinions and they are normalized and unquestioned enough that they don't even register as political implications to the average audience members or even to the creators.