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Just finished binge rewatching Thousand Year Blood War Pt 1, and the ending where Ichigo finally understands himself and his true zanpakuto just has me so freaking hype for Pt 2.

LET’S GOOOOOO

The original tweet is the corniest thing I’ve ever fucking seen

A. They're not gonna tip you, periodt. So already the $10mil is looking better.

B. They're not gonna talk to you, so any "business advice" you thought was gonna be worth more than $10mil, that's null and void, aint happening.

C. Here's the real secret of their "success"; they're all bad people. That's literally it. They're willing to lie, steal, cheat, bully, oppress, rape, etc to get what they want, and their appetites are never sated, so they never stop lying, cheating, etc. You don't get that kind of money through hard honest work. If you're willing to be a big enough piece of shit, you could easily be one of these guys.

So yeah, if someone's offering that choice, get it in writing and stay the hell away from these creeps.

But if you're serving them you can poison the food

Today's court ruling weakening discrimination protections for LGBTQ people stands out as extraordinarily strange to me for the simple fact that there was no case. The web designer in question never received a request to create a website for a gay wedding, but instead argued that a hypothetical situation in which she did would violate her rights. I've never really heard of anything like this before— how does she even have standing to sue? Can @radiofreederry or someone with more knowledge of legalese than me elaborate on this?

Melissa Gira Grant, "The Christian Right Is Making Up Wedding Websites to Attack LGBTQ People," The New Republic, 28 June 2023:

In this latest case, there is no website and no wedding—just an argument from an anti-LGBTQ group in search of the court’s favor... No person has hired Smith to create a wedding website. In fact, Smith has never designed a wedding website, according to her petition to the court. As such, there is no client Smith has told she is rejecting due to her stated religious beliefs that marriage is only allowed between one man and one woman. In the absence of all that, ADF has, instead, fashioned Smith as the victim of an injury that has never occurred.   So who has hypothetically victimized Smith? A Colorado anti-discrimination law, which, since 2008, has included protections from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. ADF claims Smith’s desire “to bring glory to God by creating unique expression that shares her religious beliefs of creating wedding websites” is thwarted by this law “because she only wants to make websites that comport with her values that same-sex marriage is illegitimate.” Were Smith to get into the wedding website business, the anti-discrimination law “would force me to say things about marriage I disagree with,” Smith wrote in an opinion piece for The Washington Times, when her case was argued at the Supreme Court last December...

Can the court rule on thought experiments?

The "Case and Controversy" clause of the Constitution requires that, for a suit to proceed in court, there must be an actual controversy for which the court can rule.

Because SCOTUS is made up of unelected, unaccountable ideologues, however, they do whatever they want with impunity because neither Congress nor the President have any power over them.

SCOTUS said they ruled on this case "to clarify the [nonexistent web designer's] rights."

This is not a healthy, functioning state.

Remember, if a business stops providing services, you stop paying them.

Governments are nothing but glorified businesses, and sometimes they need to be reminded of this.

Senpai says you’re welcome

Reblogging again because I just realized that if I had this advice in high school I would’ve never made a tumblr account.

Also works for most of those news sites like WSJ or NYT that only let you read a little bit, or block adblockers. Also some disable the scroll bar but if you go to the right side of the console after hitting F12 and look for the CSS element “overflow” and change it from “hidden” to “visible” then you can continue scrolling for free. Might have to click around on different parts of the page to find it, but it should work.

There’s also a Firefox/Chrome extension called Behind The Overlay that does all that with one mouse click. Used it for years; what a time saver.

And if you encounter a true paywall, use Archive.Today to bypass it. Just paste the paywalled url into the blue “search archived snapshots” box near the bottom:

people who can graciously hide that they don’t like people are so terrifying. last year while working on tech for a play i asked my friend how he became friends with another guy on the crew and he got quiet, looked straight into my soul and said “he’s not my friend. i fucking hate him.” i lost 5 years of my life

A I R  S I G N S

I hate this post because I am an air sign and I don’t see how this stuff is terrifying. This is just, you know, how you do.

You’ve got something that needs to get done, it doesn’t really matter if you like a person, you can still treat them well and be kind to them in order to make things go smoothly. Just because I hate someone doesn’t mean they need to know it.

This just in, only air signs act like fucking adults

Somebody just reblogged this from me, so i think it’s time to bring it back. Only children cause drama on purpose.

congratulations piracy

Ad agency: Please don't steal the King's potatoes, no matter how easy it is.

Regular people: Wait, the King has easily stolen potatoes? How do I get in on this?

Internet users who have been stealing potatoes for years: We made a machine that picks so many potatoes and also that machine is free. Enjoy!

Ad agency: you wouldn't steal a movie?

10 year old me with 0 income and no movie: YOU CAN STEAL MOVIES????

**side-eyeing the You Wouldn’t Download A Pizza**

You’re next, fucko

I think the most interesting part of adhd is that my brain naturally has multiple trains of thought going all at the same time, each dialoguing with itself at speeds so fast that my mouth couldn’t possibly keep up… but if I consciously try to make it happen, it’s like im asking my brain to break the laws of physics.

Like, bro, i know you have the capacity to entertain multiple speeding bullet trains of thought-speech at the same time, so why can’t i just pilot it on manual? Why can’t I purposefully request that you have simultaneous internal dialogues about my favorite video game, my upcoming work deadline, and what im going to eat for lunch, and then you just do as requested? Why is it that the moment i ask you to do the thing you were ALREADY GOING TO DO ANYWAY, you pretend like there’s only one train that passes through this station?

I KNOW THERE ARE MULTIPLE TRAINS, THEY REGINA GEORGE MY ASS EVERY DAMN DAY. LET ME DRIVE THE TRAINS.

this is probably the best take I’ve heard so far on the debate of people being told that they aren’t having enough ‘compassion’ for billionaires making bad decisions and paying the obvious consequences for it