im dying over this thread of algorithmically-generated/otherwise low-effort Kindle covers
don't forget
grossly inappropriate copy of animal farm that is on my nightstand at this very moment
basedheisenberg
Real recognizes real.
gaymergirls
I finally got curious and decided to google this story, and the headline is just the tip of the iceberg.
Let it never be said again that journalism is a humorless business.
Covering an odd tale about a 14-year-old autistic boy who was handcuffed by police and suspended for running down the sidelines of a high school football game at halftime wearing a banana costume, Washington, D.C. reporter Pat Collins donned a grape suit and went out to get his story.
Speaking to Bryan Thompson, who pulled the prank on Sept. 14 and found himself at the center of a controversy over the school’s response, Collins’ sarcastic outrage seemed palpable.
“School officials accused him of being disruptive and disrespectful,” Collins said. “Frankly, I don’t see what all the fuss is about.”
He asked the student: “Why a banana? Why not a … grape?”
“I don’t know,” Thompson replied. “Potassium is great.”
Following the prank, Colonial Forge High School Principal Karen Spillman suspended Thompson for 10 days, and even recommended that he be kicked out of school for the entire year.
Shortly thereafter, Thompson had composed his own rap song about the incident (called “Free Banana Man!”), set up a Facebook page dedicated to “Banana Man,” and someone even launched a petition calling for his suspension to be lifted.
Thompson’s outrage at the punishment was shared by his fellow students, who began creating yellow t-shirts that read, “Free Banana Man!”
So the school did what schools so often do when their authority is challenged: they banned the shirts, began confiscating them, and sent students to detention for supporting their classmate.
That’s when the American Civil Liberties Union got involved, telling the principal that her actions were unconstitutional.
“But when you think about it, you might see [the school’s] point,” Collins jokingly concluded. “It starts with a banana. Then, all of the sudden, you have an apple, and an orange, and maybe a grape! And before you know it, you have fruit salad in the schools! We can’t have that.”
The school’s principal was ultimately forced to resign, and Thompson has since returned to his studies. [x]
NICE
I think I just accidentally became someone's loan shark??
Okay it sounds bad but bear with me:
Someone owes me a significant amount of money, and has made it clear that they do not intend to pay me back.
I sent them one text to follow up about it around two months ago, letting them know that I wasn't stressed about it and I could wait or do installments if they needed time or things were rough, and they promptly blocked my number and deleted me on social media.
I was kinda bummed, but then, you know. I figured, it's a lot of money, but at least they've removed themselves from my life, right? If I were to choose between thinking someone like that was a reliable friend or paying a lump sum for the trash to take itself out, I could make peace with it. Whatever. Live and learn.
So, I haven't seen them in a few months. Cool. But then I was walking downtown and I see someone out of the corner of my eye just sitting around, having a drink. Don't know who, don't know what. Not paying attention, yeah? I'm living my life.
But as I get closer to walk past them, I see them get up and start booking it. And as I turn to figure out what's up, why is someone running, I recognize the back of their head, and as they look over their shoulder, we make eye contact, and then they're gone.
And I realize
I just got off work. I'm power-walking in what could ostensibly be interpreted as their direction. They look up and see someone they ghosted, who they have screwed monumentally, coming at them with a hundred-yard-stare and what they may not know is a regular resting bitch face. I don't even care about the money anymore, I've accepted it as a loss, but they blocked me on everything so they don't know that. And they went, "fuck this shit, not today" and dipped.
And that would be funny on it's own, but we do not live in a large, heavily-populated area. It's definitely going to happen again. So my question is this:
How long are they going to let themselves live in fear of my stumpy 5'3" ass hunting them down like John Wick or the devil himself before they snap
And how good is this gonna get while I let them
I need to be clear that I look like this
Do you think stone age people held funerals for their dogs? They buried their dead, that we know. Some were buried with their dogs, so wherever their dead would go, with their bows and arrows and bone flutes, clearly they figured that it's better for the dogs to follow to wherever the departed will go. But people outlive their dogs more often than dogs outlive their people. Did they figure that whatever is beyond, dogs go to the same place that people do?
Before stone houses, cattle, barley or rice, before people came up with the marks that the people now like to call marks of "civilisation", they had stone axes, bone spears and dogs. No other animal would willingly climb to a human's bed to sleep on their feet, or rest their chin on your knee to look you in the eyes while begging for food when they've already been fed. Did they laugh when a dog was clever enough to wriggle its way out of a tethered leash to get into venison that was being smoked for winter, or wake their people up by the tap of a wagging tail after reluctantly accepting that they aren't allowed to bark them awake?
Did they ever pause in the middle of a story at the fire at night, to turn and watch one of the dogs mutter barks and twitch paws in their sleep? Whatever they thought that dreams were, they knew dogs have them too. Did they wonder what dogs dream of? Visions of past and future hunts? If they thought that dreams were another realm, where your soul will sometimes visit while leaving your body behind, where does the soul of a dog go?
Did they wonder where the souls of dogs go?
CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions
if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators
THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS' UNION RECOGNIZED
this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!
also "ough life-saving essential medical equipment uses so much plastic" in this country you can purchase an artificial ballsack for your pickup truck
To all the folks suggesting environmentally friendly materials for truck balls to be made from: I appreciate the spirit but you're missing the point a little bit
the gimmick blogs are like tumblr’s rogue gallery. yes we’ve got some heroes, yes we’ve got some villains, but more importantly if you look over here you will see some freak who devotes all their time to counting the number of “t’s” in a post
T Count: 15
Letter Count: 198
Your T Percentage: 7.58%
Average T Percentage: 6.95%
You used the letter T 1.09 times as much as average!
YOU EXIST???
listen I say this with patience bc some people may genuinely have not thought about this before but if you firmly say “AI art is terribly unethical and steals from artists” (which is correct) but then turn around and use voice AIs to generate songs/voice lines that sound like your favourite voice actors or singers……………………………………that is also AI art and it is also terribly unethical
just a few examples of voice actors making their stance clear for all the ppl who are trying to disagree w me
One of my favorite genres of post
Let! That! Baby! Eat!!!!!!
Perfect tags
#in middle school we had the option for a free summer read to be either hunger games or maze runner#i chose maze runner#but read hunger games also#harry potter adjacent kid#like yeah it was good but it wasnt everything#now INKHEART#FABLEHAVEN#THE ALCHEMIST#THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY#loved that shit#loved weird little books
cat laziness is so contagious. you'll see your cat flopped on its back in your bed a completely comfy cozy baby and you'll be like. you're right. you make a compelling argument.
it also made me very sad at one point one of the kids said her dad was being hateful towards drag queens and that he had a very skewed/incorrect view of what a drag queen was and wouldnt listen to her and told her she was “too naive” when she tried to explain
and i replied “if i remember correctly when youre at this age it seems adults will wave off any of your life experiences even if they lack their own because they refuse to see those younger than them as their own people” and EVERY SINGLE KID AT THE TABLE turned and said EXACTLY
and i was like. oh. so i wasnt alone in that. but also. i dont have to BE that. im not doing that. im listening and actually talking to them. i hope that there are older people in their life doing the same.
um. i dont know how to say. please listen to the children in your life. its true sometimes youll know better but, often times they have perspectives we may miss and dismissing them hurts everyone in the end. we have so much we can share and learn together.
anyone else feel like they’re constantly in a state of doing and folding and putting away laundry
A helpful tip. If you have an unused chair, it is now a Laundry Chair to buy yourself some time before next Laundry.
friend is explaining me the american healthcare system. WALK IN CLINICS COST MONEY??????
like. walk in. talk to the doctor. they say a solution and maybe perscribe something. that costs money? like i knew ambulence rides and perscriptions and treatments costed money. but just SEEING a doctor too???
cool! i think all politicians and people lobbying for this to die 👍
AMBULANCE RIDES COST MONEY??????
Yup! When I got sick in college and didn't have insurance the ambulance alone cost $900.
Regularly scheduled checkups cost money
Literally every aspect of medical checks cost money. You were in a car crash? Money. You have cancer? Money. You want to make sure you don't have cancer? Money. You want insulin? TONS OF MONEY. prescriptions are so expensive, I got birth control when I was 15 and it was $350 a month.
Emergency health is probably the most expensive type of health care. I've rejected every abluance because it would be at least $100.
Now that I live in Scotland, everything is free (unless I go private). My monthly meds are free, if I have a rash it's free, if I need surgery it's free.
Americans really just don't get how bad it is.
Tumblr is unique bc like. It's collaborative shitposting and you can't opt in or out. You can just say something about your day then an evil wizard shows up to turn your post into something humorous
Every other site is just one and done, but here a post is a welcome mat to be funnier than you
yeah or sometimes you’ll see a post that hacks into your brain and forever rewrites your instinctual reaction to seeing a pineapple explode
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