How I simultaneously avoid and indulge in dumb internet drama.

I dont understand like 90% of the fandom acronyms people are using in the tags, but I’m glad it seems like many people from different walks of life can relate to this. I feel like we’re kindred spirits in a way.

i really wonder what Julius Caesar would think of a bunch of neurodivergent rats huddled in a circle chanting ides of march ides of march ides of march and then cheering loudly on the 2067th anniversary of his assassination?

like would he cry?

losing it over these tags

how can you be so controversial and yet so brave

(reposted from Twitter)

Hey so, have I ever told you about the time I was at an interfaith event (my rabbi, who was on the panel, didn't want to be the only Jew there), and there was a panel with representatives of 7 different traditions, from Baha'i to Zoroastrian?

The setup was each panelist got asked the same question by the moderator, had 3 minutes to respond, and then they moved on to the next panelist.

The Christian dude talked for 8 minutes and kept waving off the poor, flustered, terminally polite Unitarian moderator.

The next panelist was a Hindu lady, who just said drily, "I'll try to keep my answer to under a minute so everyone else still has a chance to answer." (I, incidentally, am at a table with I think the only other non-Christian audience members, a handful of Muslims and a Zorastrian.)

So then we get to the audience questions part. No one's asking any questions, so finally I decide to get things rolling, and raise my hand and the very polite moderator comes over and gives me the mic.

I briefly explain Stendahl's concept of "holy envy" and ask what each of theirs is.

(If you're not familiar, Stendahl had 3 tenets for learning about other traditions, and one was leave room for "holy envy," being able to say, I am happy in my tradition and don't desire to convert, but this is something about another tradition that I admire and wish we had.)

The answers were lovely. My rabbi said she admired the Buddhist comfort with silence and wished we could learn to have that spaciousness in our practice. The Hindu said she admired the Jewish and Muslim commitment to social justice & changing, rather than accepting, the status quo.

The Christian dude said he envied that everyone else on the panel had the opportunity to newly accept Jesus.

I shit you not.

Dead silence. The Buddhist and Baha'i panelists are resolutely holding poker faces. The Hindu lady has placed her hands on the table and folded them and seems to be holding them very tightly. Over on the middle eastern end of the table, the rabbi, the imam, and the Zoroastrian lady are all leaning away from the Christian at identical angles with identical expressions of disgust. The terminally polite Unitarian moderator is literally wringing his hands in distress.

A Christian lady at the table next to me, somehow unable to pick up on the emotional currents in the room, sighs happily and says to her fellow church lady, "What a beautiful answer."

anyway I love my rabbi to death and would do anything for her

except attend another interfaith event

Health care includes abortion.

Please Stop Bullying My Large Adult Son For Being An Incredibly Stupid Guy Online

idgaf ill bully her too

Y’all….this white man went and lived in India for 6 months where he “discovered” masala chai and decided to make his own version that he now sells and calls…..mud water. I shit you not thats the brand name.

Aside from picking the most culturally insensitive name ever, he’s marketing this as if it’s a whole new creation. A brand new “coffee substitute” while In reality it’s literally just masala chai with some ground up mushrooms and cacao thrown in for foolishness. Like congratulations, you made weird masala tea and named it mud water.

“So I set out to make something better” TEA! You made a cup of tea bitch. This man writes like he reinvented the wheel instead of just putting mushrooms in tea

He describes the tea vendors as being “dressed in rags” but in the commercial where he shows footage of himself being served tea, the vendors look like this?

Clothes…….these are clothes but somehow this man has come up with mud water and rags

Tskhkstjwkjdni under his recipe section. This is literally tea and honey.

i spent 3 weeks in italy and a man dressed in mystic garb offered me a red elixir they call “wyne” and now i have come back to civilization to offer a new product lifted from this ancient civilization i like to call GRP \ WTR

By astonishing coincidence I lived in America for three weeks and I was shown a revolutionary beverage called “limonadd” by a man in rags and I am now revealing it to the civilised world as my groundbreaking new drink PSS/WTR

Mesh shirts are doing so much for the male whore ecosystem

no your honor I absolutely can make my case like an adult. first things first, fuck the defendant and fuck his family too. secondly,

Please take good care of them!

Another thing about the anti kink waves that keep happening is that their entire premise of shaming people out of deviant behaviour under threat of ostracism relies on a panopticon of community policing where the functions of the state are appropriated and absorbed into the community itself.

I mean that's true of the entire phenomenon of the call-out; it's a demand for other people to police the behaviour of those individuals the instigator has deemed undesirable and remove them from the community. This is sooo obvious when these people will flat out make shit up, message everyone their target interacts with (anonymously, of course) to dob them in regardless of whether they could be considered a stakeholder in the matter, and then turn their attention to those who refused to participate in their witch-hunt with the same ferocity as the initial wrongdoer if not more.

Like I don't want to minimise the fact that they literally make shit up because that is what happens the vast majority of the time, but even on the rare occasions where something is actually amiss, you have to decide if you want to take on the role of cop among your own friends and if that approach is actually going to reduce harm (hint: it won't).

The fact that people who refuse to participate are harassed, lied about, gossiped about etc especially highlights what's really going on here: the point is to remove the option to refuse entirely. So it's not even so much as a call to engage in policing but a threat.

Whatever the damn issue may be, is that how you want your community, your friends, to treat each other? Do you think people who behave this way have any commitment to radical politics, and to police abolition in particular?

If that seems like an exaggeration, consider how necessary community is to meet the material needs of the most marginalised people, and how being cut off from that community can be the difference between a warm bed and sleeping on the street. I don't think it's a coincidence that these mobs target people who are either economically precarious or who make most of their income online

genuinely don't get why some people hate furries so much. like ohhh nooo some people are wearing weird cat costumes on the internet. this is a category nine international incident

one of the coolest people i've ever met is a furry. sorry your escapism isn't interesting enough to involve dragon OCs

If you’re LGBT reblog and tag with your opinion on beer.

HOUSTON REPORTBACK: Hundreds of anti-fascists answered @screwstonafc’s call to defend a family-friendly drag show in Houston.  They completely outnumbered the tiny group of transphobes that showed up to harass & threaten the event, but couldn’t get anywhere near it and were eventually run off the block. 

“The Pyramid Guy from the opening credits literally has no significance to the show and never will. He’s just a generic image made to look mythological or spooky like most things in the intro.”

same energy

The faire is actually in an abandoned mall where vendors have taken over the old store fronts to sell period accurate wares. People regularly get in fights over whether or not it’s accurate to have goth, scene, and emo cultures all represented in the same time period or if we should consider the beginning of the scene era to be the end of the emo era. People dressed as pirates will still be there for no reason.

no such thing as wasting your 20s your 20s are for recovering from whatever the fuck happened to you as a kid so that youre ready to get weird with it in your 30s

being able to go to work with hickeys and bite marks on your neck is a human right.

the bosses are allowed creampie while the workers are punished for a simple little hickey. in this essay i will examine sexual politics through the lens of Marxian analysi-

I’ve officially forgiven Dublin Bus for all the times they were late or never showed up cos the pride Bus they done with proud dads was the most wholesome thing i’ve ever seen in my life & i still can’t watch it without tearing up omfg

i thought i could keep it together but i lost it at “let’s go to pride, son” 

I too lost it at that part

I’m not crying.

You’re crying.

Okay, fine, everyone is crying.