Reblogged wilwheaton
We all deserve better as workers and it starts with abolishing capitalism.
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more comic characters should haunt their writers like how everyone who’s written John Constantine keeps meeting him in dark alleys
What The Actual Fuck
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it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.
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imagining an alternate timeline where shakespeare wrote a play about king arthur. we would be so unwell
yeah cause thou art so well otherwise, tumblr user currently crying about Lancelot
you know what verily i deserv’d this
Reblogged pommedepersephone
I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.
I loathe my job and need a new one. I need all the help I can get.
I loathe my job and
need a new one. I need all
the help I can get.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
My job is fine, but if I could get an equivalently fine one in another democratic country that hasn’t lost its mind, unlike the US, that would be great, thanks.
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^ thats the original image, in case you want to see exactly how fucking vile these bastards are.
(those are signs they confiscated from homeless people they arrested for "panhandling" during the holiday season)
Holy fuck the original is worse
If you’d like to direct your complaints, these are the police of Mobile, AL.
Reblogged process-them-all-1989
Sometimes people are completely impervious to gentle and polite assertions of boundaries and you have to be clear in a way that is blunt and clear with no room for negotiation and it's the worst thing in the entire world and I hate it so much
I tell myself "Someone's gotta be the bad guy sometimes, and if I have to be this person's bad guy, I'm okay with that, as long as it makes this end, as long as nobody gets hurt, as long as everything gets better," and it helps, but the taste is sour
If I don’t do it consciously then I end up doing it without conscious warning and surprise myself and everyone else when I start yelling at an asshole. It’s not good :-/
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My friend sent me this with a "this made me think of you."
I feel so seen.
I find it funny because i think the Bill in this song is my MAGA coworker. So comforting to imagine…
Reblogged saturniida3
It’s somehow more jarring to see Elton in black than Johnny in pink.
My favorite part is how Johhny can't stop swooshing the cape and playing with it, that's adorable XDDD
Reblogged pommedepersephone
Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?
The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.
Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.
Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
Reblogged lew-basnight
Actual size and distance between the Earth and Moon
The picture was taken by Hayabusa-2 from a distance of ≈3,000,000 kilometers
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Signalgate continues, and the Trump administration is evil, cruel, and selfish, yes, but they are also irredeemably, unbelievably stupid. Like, I thought I'd seem stupid but no, there's a whole idiot's subfloor they're breaking through to reach the cellar of numbskullery.
The magazine then reproduced numerous messages from the text chat between the Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth – who said on Tuesday that “nobody was texting war plans” – and top intelligence officials, including Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, who was in Russia at the time.
Hegseth said this, and I cannot emphasize it enough, while the ever-loving editor in chief of the ever-loving Atlantic still had their text messages on his phone.
[insert Ralph Wiggins "I'm in danger" GIF here.]
Further:
They included details of US bombings, drone launches and targeting information of the assault, including descriptions of weather conditions. [...] "If this text had been received by someone hostile to American interests – or someone merely indiscreet, and with access to social media – the Houthis would have had time to prepare for what was meant to be a surprise attack on their strongholds. The consequences for American pilots could have been catastrophic,” the Atlantic wrote.
And later still:
The Atlantic also quoted an email response from the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, after the magazine contacted the Trump administration to say it was considering publishing the entirety of the email chain, in which she said the chat did not include classified information but also that the White House did not want the messages released.
All she had to do was.... all she had to do was lie. Claim it's privileged even if it wasn't. And they're so damned good at lying.
How are y'all this ... *gestures*? I mean, truly. How do y'all walk and talk simultaneously? Genuinely?
As Colbert put it oh so aptly last night:
🤦♂️
... I do believe it's fair to say I've found tomorrow's round up topic.
... I mean: Hot damn.
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“Babel” by Cildo Meireles (2001)
Tags courtesy of @a-kind-of-merry-war that really explain this artwork!
@achillesinhighheels @process-them-all-1989 I couldn’t reblog yours with an attached video, don’t know why. This is from last July.
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It is incredibly important to train yourself to have your first instinct be to look something up.
Don't know how to do something? Look it up.
See a piece of news mentioned on social media? Look it up.
Not sure if something is making it to the broader public consciousness, either because you don't see it much or you see people saying nobody is talking about it? Look it up.
Don't know what a word means? Look it up.
It will make you a better reader and a better writer, but it will also just make you more equipped to cope with the world.
So often, I see people talking about something as though it is the first time anyone has ever acknowledged it, when I've been reading reports about it on the news for months or years. Or I see someone totally misinterpreting an argument because they clearly don't know what a word means--or, on the other hand, making an argument that doesn't make sense because they aren't using words the right way.
Look things up! Check the news (the real news, not random people on social media)! Do your research! You (and the world) will be better for it.
Yes!
You have the whole internet in your pocket!!
When I was a kid, we had an encyclopedia in the house. And it was a normal dinnertime occurance to say, well, let's look it up.
But it was frustrating, because there were so many limitations.
But you have! the whole! INTERNET! in your pocket! ALL the TIME!
look that shit up
Look up ALL the things. 👍