also "all billionaires are like this" I am fully aware that Bill Gates is infamously a creepy and unpleasant individual but he also has spent most of the last couple of decades earnestly trying to get rid of malaria. having that amount of money is a huge structural failure and, again, he is infamously a terrible guy to be around, but it didn't turn him into a neonazi. this is not a 1:1 correlation. we really have to accept this when considering how best to dismantle billionaire influence from society. there are actually quite important differences between elon and, like, warren buffett

yes, a lot of rich people are really weird and out of touch and either ignorant of or hyperaware of their power in a way that makes them evil, but if that was not also the case for non-rich people, kamala would have won indiana

#didn’t he also try to capitalize off of privatizing the distribution of the Covid vaccine?#I admit he’s better because he’s trying to like get rid of his money as he gets older#but that’s a whole lot of capital to control

Sweetheart this is a literal right-wing conspiracy theory that you are repeating. He said in a press conference that a $10 billion investment in vaccines gives a general return on investment in economic and social benefits of about $200 billion, or 1-20. This does not mean "Bill Gates personally makes 20x his initial investment in vaccine distribution markets," it means "the global economic benefits of providing free vaccines outweigh the costs, which is why he encourages vaccine distribution"

If your principled anticapitalism is repeating r/insanepeoplefacebook talking points, it is not a good strand of principled anticapitalism!

#good lord so much of this website is cooked in qanon shit#bill gates is like up there in the conspiracist pantheon along with soros hillary clinton hunter biden and tom hanks#in terms of people they are Unwell about and make up random shit regarding#take anything you read from random panicky blogs online about any of these people with massive grains of salt

This also means they can spy on straight people just to make sure they aren't lgbt. This is not just against gay people, it's a cover up for violating human rights. It's never just against one group of people, it's always about controlling the masses while blaming a group of people so nobody looks at the root of the problem.

When you guys come out of this period of outright fascism—and you will—you're going to have to deal with the institutions that so readily implemented these policies.

Transphobes love to pull out the “protect [cis] women and girls” card when a lot of them don’t care about our safety and wellbeing in any other regard.

You’ll find people who don’t care about sexual and domestic violence fear mongering about fake trans women using bathrooms to assault people. There’s people who have never cared about girls sports suddenly terrified that trans women are a threat to them. There’s people who constantly reinforce the patriarchy worried that women are opting to transition to men to escape it.

That’s because, just like with many of these right wing moral posturing positions, they don’t care about those they claim to want to protect. They want to control the masses, and reinforce the norm achieves this. This isn’t about “loving women” and wanting to “protect them”, it’s just about hating trans people!

I'm wondering if anyone can help me with a medical issue I'm having (related to ADHD)

I have ADHD, and I take Ritalin for some my symptoms. Its very effective in dealing with my ADHD but due to my environmental and seasonal allergies, I often can't treat my ADHD without subjecting myself to pain.

This is because stimulants restrict your blood vessels, which can dehydrate you causing inflammation. Normally this isn't an issue, but due to very bad pollen and dust allergies, and very sensitive sinuses, my sinuses are inflammed most of the time.

If I take my ritalin under these conditions, the vasoconstriction effect will give me extremely painful sinus pressure headaches, for hours.

Drinking more water only helps a little bit. High doses of ibuprofen help, but are too rough on my stomach and usually cause me digestion issues later. Taking a pseudoephedrine based decongestant does tend to reduce this inflammation, but has bad drug interactions with Ritalin so I can't take them at the same time. Anthistamine pills only seem to have a minor effect in reducing these symptoms.

I feel like if my allergies are bad I have no choice but to not treat my ADHD, or suffer for hours.

The only solution I can think of is to try a non-stimulant ADHD medication, but I'm open to suggestions.

I just want to be able to treat my ADHD daily, and right now I can't.

March 2025 - This anti-Tesla graffiti in Baltimore was recently updated to the second image. I'm glad the little guys succeeded in their hunt :3 [link]

Chalk is squids road.

I think about squids road all the time

Oh she gets it

my wife tried to do the thing where you pull a tablecloth really fast and the dishes stay in place but instead of a tablecloth it was a towel and instead of dishes it was our poor long suffering cat that was just trying to sleep on said towel. poor baby got whipped across the room fast enough that its meow got dopplered into meeeeeeOOOWWwwwwww

We bought our new sweet kitten a harness for walks. We had her try it on to get her comfortable with it and I’m not sure she loved it. 

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#kitten dot exe has stopped working

#please remove third party hardware and reboot kitten

she’s laying there, TRAPPED, nay ENSNARED, and you’re LAUGHING

i am so charmed by this little dude I just made

look at him. perfect creature ♡

Lolo the Pallas's cat at the Novosibirsk Zoo is proudly showing off her seven fluffy cubs, and letting us watch them be kittens as well!!!!!!!!

The Pallas cat eyes make their "expressions" even more ridiculous and DONE 🤣❤️

7cubs and not a thought between them.

One of my earlier embroidery animations, this was my second one. I made sure that the designs were very simple, since I wanted this to be fairly long. The tangled thread is just purposefully messed up French knots.

Western history loves to brag about their geniuses, philosophers, thinkers, and innovators throughout history but as far as I know, nobody talks about geniuses in non western history. Why can’t an Aztec community have their neighborhood Einstein who loved to study engineering and physics and helped build an efficient-running town?

Reblog is you're uncomfortable with how eurocentric our understanding of history is.

Numerous Egyptian murals: literally explain that stone blocks and large sculptures were transported using water

“Ancient Aliens” fuckos:

say it with me: it's the racism

I agree with the stuff about history but those channels are known to be blatant cash grabs and they use machinery not just sticks

This guy is legit tho and the scale of what can be done with one guy should put things into perspective.

Love this guy remember when he moved out to the new property and casually filmed a cassowary grazing there from like 2m away and we were all like "of course you've got fucking cassowaries and aren't bothered"

It’s Out Now!

We still can’t quite believe it’s happening, but today we’re releasing our book “Hi, Earth” into the wild. We’ve spent years drawing talking animals, suicidal icebergs and horny flowers, trying to make sense of this beautiful mess we call home.

We never set out to create something profound. Honestly, we just wanted to draw comics that made us laugh during our own late-night anxiety spirals about the state of the planet. Somehow those drawings about Timmy the terrified teenage praying mantis and aliens who can’t decide if they want to take over the planet or not, are now bound together in actual book form.

In these strange times, we’ve found that laughing at colorful pictures about the apocalypse helps us cope better than spiraling into despair. We hope maybe it might do the same for you. Sometimes sharing a nervous laugh about the things that terrify us can make them feel a little more manageable.

We’re endlessly grateful to the infamous publishing house Andrews McMeel for taking a chance on our odd little collection.

If you pick up “Hi, Earth,” we hope it gives you a quiet chuckle, or if we’re really lucky, a full-on snort-laugh that makes the people around you uncomfortable. That’s really all we were aiming for.

Get it via Amazon, Barnes & Noble or BAM. Or order it through your local bookstore!

With humble appreciation, Elizabeth and Jonathan

Texts From Superheroes

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