so long suckers! i rev up my chariot to drag hectors body and create a huge cloud of dust. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the shores of troy  

Here’s dril’s candles on a graph for reference.

i love overeating and posting about it

listen i have no sympathy for this change, i will never call it anything but overt fatphobia, THIS is the website that started my eating disorder and the feedists and fatlib people on here are the people who straight up saved my life and i guarantee so many others. the reporting system has always been something used for violence on this website, it was used against black bloggers, transfem bloggers, now its gonna be used in the same way Even Harder for fat bloggers. cuz don't get confused, fat people and feedists and fatlib have been demonized on this website forever but now all those people who froth at the mouth in anger at seeing god forbid a fat person express self love have a nice convenient button to push to remove them forever. fucking absolute joke

"do you want women competing against trans athletes" yes? I also want women competing against male athletes. and competing alongside them. because segregating sports by gender is extremely shitty actually?

until i am proven wrong, i will continue to believe that there is no such thing as a large company that views its employees as people

"even if you don't get paid for it you should still put in the extra mile because it's important to show Loyalty To The Company" if the company could hire a robot to do your job they would

My loyalty extends only as far as my paycheque. And given how prices have been increasing faster than my paycheque, my loyalty has been steadily shrinking.

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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

>:)c

May I present to you, nationalclothing.org?

It doesn't have everything, but it's still my first source when researching traditional clothing from other cultures.

There's also this resource on historical fashion: Claire’s Historical Fashion Reference & Resources

another addition as far as physical media goes there is the encyclopedia of national dress (that i still need to buy myself bc this kind of thing is super important to my sort of fantasy designing) but yes i do agree i wish there was EVEN MORE documentation on this

Everyone on 4/13, crawling out of their secret homestuck bunkers,

A young SMP stands in its bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2025, is its birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago that it was given life, it is only today that it will be given a name!

What will the name of this SMP be?

Holding up snarky signs doesn't seem to be working.

For me, it isn't about whether this action is appropriate or not. It's about how this kind of action is inevitable.

I'm going to let Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. explain in a quote no one seems to post during his annual holiday.

"It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear?"

If you only speak up about a supercharger catching fire and ignore the unheard, you are prioritizing a thing over people.

today we post everett true

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"After that that stupid thing from Bezos and Musk about how a trillion humans would mean a thousand Mozarts, it got me thinking.

We clearly must have Mozarts today, and at least a couple of them probably got the same upbringing he did to nurture their skill and talent, and we would therefore have:

I can only conclude that the modern-day Mozart is Weird Al Yankovic.

I will not be taking questions."

Followed by: a portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a photograph of Weird Al Yankovic, in similar 3/4 poses with similar eyebrow-raised and smiling expressions. End ID.]

i think a lot of people who have never done music do not understand how absolutely implausible weird al's skill level is. you can say "so many musicians can do at least one of his songs, obviously", and yes, they can, but they couldn't do all of them. you have people who studied ten or twenty years to be able to do something genuinely incredible, and they've specialized and focused and developed the ability to produce a particular kind of thing, and they do it really well, and then this guy comes along and says "welp, time for a new album", picks ten of them, and duplicates their shtick well enough to be clearly recognizable.

this man produced a piece of music which an experienced listener can hear and say "oh, that's Frank Zappa". how? not even Frank Zappa sounds like Frank Zappa!

Is weird Al doing different shit now? Bc if he was writing pastiches this would be true, but all I'm really familiar with is the stuff where he just rewrites the lyrics to an existing song, or does a polka cover of it.

Weird Al's "style parodies", or original compositions explicitly in the style of a particular artist or band, are approximately as numerous as his actual song parodies. Generally the Regular Parodies get all the attention, they're the big money spinners, but his style parodies are both numerous and legendary.

Dare to Be Stupid, the title track off the album of the same name, is probably the big one that people would know - a more Devo song than actual Devo, and that's according to Devo themselves.

An incomplete list of other ones that rule, actually, are:

This lists all Weird Al's known style parodies. There are a LOT.

From Wikipedia:

He has done so, so much more than just the dozen or so parody songs that everyone knows.

Alternate Versions of Last Christmas

we need to get more normal about nonsexual nudity i think

so glad nobody is being stupid and obtuse as fuck on this post. that would be really annoying if i had to see a bunch of people trying their best to miss the very simple premise of this post

Honestly being overworked makes people unobservant and passive and it literally kills people every day. People don’t seem to realize that an overworked nurse might not notice your sepsis symptoms and a tired truck driver might not notice your car when he’s merging into the lane. Failing to protect worker’s rights impacts nearly everyone

THIS. I want workers to be treated well for their own sake, but I NEED workers to be treated well for MY sake. We have got to stop glorifying eroding margin into the negative zones.

Not just the stress making the workers less effective at their jobs, but I *also* want workers to STAY HOME when they’re sick, and they can’t do that if they’re saddled with unreasonable demands. I want my nurse/fast-food-worker/daycare-employee to stay home and not infect me or my hypothetical kids. We would probably actually use fewer sick days on the whole annually if we weren’t discouraged from using them, because we wouldn’t be spreading disease as much in the first place.

oh fuck life is worth living isnt it. shit

turns out theres actually beauty everywhere and we have to keep living because theres little bits of joy in every day. who let this happen