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Now that the Parasite in chief has had her platinum Jubilee, i thought id share some fun facts about the monarchy in the UK and the Queen in particular. All of this information is easily found online.

-The Queen negotiated clauses in the equality and Diversity Act so she wouldn't have to hire 'coloured or foreign' staff in the palace. that clause is still there today.

-The Queen tried to use The State Poverty Fund to heat Buckingham Palace even with her own personal fortune.

-She lobbied the Scottish Parliament 67 times to ensure that new wildlife protections laws woudn't apply to her estates there.

-The main throne she sits on is worth an estimated £40,000,000,000. Her jewellery Collection worth circa £5,000,000,000 made with 28, 578 diamonds and gemstones, almost all of which were stolen from countries Britain invaded and enslaved...sorry colonised. She also banned the Police from searching her estates for stolen artifacts.

-Her crown estate is one of the largest property owners in the country. It has over 26 Royal residencies, inc 9 palaces that remain mostly empty and property portfolio that generates £300 million per year. Yet she had a family thrown out during the covid eviction ban for a £32 unpaid bill.

Her son is a nonce ( pedophile) that she protected through a £12 million payout.

-The 'free' book that was sent to every school to tell kids how wonderful the queen is cost the taxpayer £12 million.

-She has £420 million personal wealth, which doesn't include that for-mentioned crown estate or her antique furniture or her jewellery collection or all the stolen gold.

-She and her family cost the tax payer £345 million per year in security and other protections.

-The jubilee cost the tax payer £28 million , set aside by the chancellor for the purpose of funding it. Whilst there are currently 14.5 million people living in poverty here in the UK.

Celebrating the incredibly rich, racist and privileged whilst millions of our own citizens are suffering is disgusting.

Some sources:

- Buckingham Palace banned ethnic minorities from office roles, papers reveal (2021) (the article says that there is no longer a ban as of the 1990s, however the clause is still there to allow a ban.)

- Queen asked for poverty grant to heat palaces (2010)

- Revealed: Queen vetted 67 laws before Scottish parliament could pass them (2021) (It's unknown if any of the laws were amended due to her lobbying, but the lawmakers were required to get her approval.)

- Revealed: police barred from searching Queen's estates for looted artefacts (2021)

- Hampton Court mews row: Couple face eviction 'over £32 bill' (2020) (The tenant was using a communal socket to power his electric car.)

- Prince Andrew settles US civil sex assault case with Virginia Giuffre (2022) Prince Andrew pays settlement ending sex assault case (2022) (Guiffre was 17 at the time of the assault. The settlement was initially estimated at 12-14 million, in which case he probably couldn't have afforded it (without the Queen's help?), but some reports say that it was as little as 3 million by the end. IDK I couldn't find anything firm from a reputable source.)

- Queen’s jubilee book for schools to cost £12m (2021)

Sometimes, a fic doesn't have to get published, it can just be a series of messages on a Discord channel, between a dedicated group of friends going "oooh, you know what else would be cool?" continuously over a period of weeks and months :)

This is the closest I've ever gotten to making up stories around a fire with friends btw.

Me, in a hushed voice, dramatically, while roasting a marshmallow over the fire: And so... The Blorbo that was sad and alone... Was not alone anymore.

My friends, collectively, every single time (while also roasting marshmallows): Oh my god, The Blorbo wasn't alone anymore... 😭😭😭

also in language discourse have y'all heard about people saying that you shouldn't use "lesbophobic" if you aren't a lesbian, because it has the word "lesbo" in it which can be used offensively, so nonlesbians have to use lesbiphobia. because that is truly one of the most intense instances of internet baby gay's first activism. it's flawed in so many ways it's kind of impressive

the kids are not okay. I feel like these ppl are gonna end up having anxiety attacks over the insane standards of moral purity they hold themselves & others to.

also gay ppl have for decades called each other fags and dykes in solidarity and friendship. but yeah nonlesbians saying "lesbophobia" is an issue.

Today's Adventure is that I, after an unintentional 13-hour power nap,

Update:

Ok, so:

... further details in a bit I think the Vikings are here.

OK so.

sans winning the tumblr sexyman poll and toby fox writing reigen fanfic about it is really the true end to this thing. good job everyone

thanks toby. a banger as always.

i think violent crime and suicides would drop 20% if every public library installed a "screaming room," a soundproof room that library patrons can book for 10 minutes to go in and scream at the top of your lungs

people are stressed and overwhelmed and they cant even scream to let off steam in a non-destructive way... thats why society is sick. the stigmatization of screaming. we need to recognize screaming as a fundamental human need

this is what the people need. to say one can simply scream into a pillow is like saying a hungry person can simply drink water. how much longer shall we deny ourselves the basic right to scream

It needs to be in a soundproof room at the library because. As I discovered the hard way in the middle of my school parking lot. My car is not soundproof

it annoys me when sapphic women see an attractive woman and are like “i’m no better than a man 😳😔” like BABE you are allowed to see an attractive woman and want to fuck her!!! free yourself from the cottagecore PG13 narrative of sapphic attraction, look at her with lust in your heart!!!

#also men wanting to have sex with women is not disrespectful either! what’s disrespectful is crossing boundaries on purpose

fucking hate it when the stuff everybody says "actually works" does actually work.

hate exercising and realizing i've let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i've overturned my fight-or-flight response.

hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i'm less anxious and i have more energy

hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i've actually started healing about something once i'm able to externalize it

hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently

hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love

horrible horrible horrible. hate it but i'm gonna do it tho

Personally I don't hate that it works but I hate that you have to keep doing it and cannot just do it all at once to get better. I hate that you have to consistently build habits by doing them regularly and trying again even when you mess up and don't do them because I start out with so much momentum but the second something trips me up for a day or a week it's harder to pick it back up even though I know the only way to get better is to keep trying.

Beware!

Avoid sci-hub too👀

From Ask for PDFs from People with Institutional Access

If you want to read an academic article that's behind a paywall just email the author and ask politely if they will send you the article. Most academics will be thrilled that you want to read their work and will gladly send it to you.

So my latest obsession is apparently the official twitter for the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is about half recall announcements for various shitty amazon products and half…..memes? pseudo-memes?? works of surrealist art??? what do i even call these

Whoever made these is either a random middle-aged government worker who’s spent enough time with Young Internet People to be at least 60% sure what a meme is or a Gen Z artistic genius and i can’t decide which

lots of online people act like its weird or threatening to carry some sort of blade on you when you go out. im not carrying a katana or some shit. theres a reason swiss army knives are primarily knives, its the most commonly useful part

if you carry a sharp edge in your purse you fill the same support class ecological niche as the tylenol friend, and i recommend multiclassing into hand sanitizer friend too

Frank! That’s such a good Shadow! Wow! Great job!

Thank you! (This is a picture of a real hedgehog and not a robot, I swear)

20,000 FRAMES? 20,000??????????

okay wait im rbing this again to emphasise how absolutely fucking insane this is.

the average modern anime episode has (not counting OPs and EDs) between 3000 to 5000 frames of animation and runs at the industry standard frame rate of 24fps. big name productions like attack on titan or my hero academia top out at 8000 to 10,000 frames for important episodes/battles. some sources (dudes on reddit) put gurren lagann at 15,000 frames for it finale, but i wasnt able to find any sources on that. the point is, 20,000 frames is absolutely buckwild for a serialized, non-blockbuster movie budget production.

the only other anime that has ever done something like this (at least, as far as i know) was one piece. specifically, one piece episode 1017, which also had 20,000 frames, including a 30 second sequence comprised of 1692 frames (thats just over 56fps btw, more than double the industry standard). google ‘luffy vs kaido’ if you wanna check it out, i know nothing about one piece but in and of itself it is some absolutely stunning animation.

now i dont know what episode of mp100 is gonna be this 20,000 frame monstrosity, i’ll make a tentative guess of mob vs ???%, but we won’t know for certain until it airs. either way i need people to appreciate the genuine insanity it is for roughly 20 minutes of animation to have 20,000 frames. its as equally amazing as it is terrifying. the anime industry is notoriously explotatative, underpaying animators and demanding the nigh impossible from them. i have to hope with this big gap between seasons 2 and 3, and the fact that all of the episodes were completed before the season even begins airing means that the animators weren’t put under ridiculous crunches to produce this 20,000 frame episode and were also paid well for their work. however, im aware that this likely isnt the case, what with us being trapped in a late stage capitalist hellscape and all.

when this episode drops, i need people to hype the shit out of the animators. not studio bones, not ONE-sensei, but the individual animators who worked on the episode, because they have achieved something absolutely unhinged, and they probably didnt even get paid a fair wage for it. mp100 stands as one of the single most amazing examples of what animation, as a medium, can achieve, and it does so because the people who work on this show love it enough to do something absolutely batshit wild like put 20,000 frames of animation in one episode.

(also, the anime industry REALLY needs to unionize already)

the meaning of life is summed up in the story elmer bendiner tells about how when he was a pilot the second world war, his plane was hit with a barrage of anti-aircraft fire from the nazi forces but the crew survived. and how everyone was saying it was a miracle until they investigated the shells that got in the fuselage and found there was no explosive charges in any of them. in one they found a note scribbled in czech, written by the person who had been forced to manufacture the shells, and it just said ‘this is all we can do for you now’.

every time i see someone acting tough online about how harm reduction is pointless and in some convoluted way worse than doing nothing i think about that person in some soul-destroying nazi factory in occupied czechoslovakia removing all of the explosive charges from their anti-aircraft shells and writing a note that they must have known would probably never be read, just to say ‘this is all we can do for you, and we’re going to do it’. they are trying to make us kill you and we refuse. i do think that maybe it’s all going to be okay.

Don’t make me cry when I’m in the car with my family

And for what even

Steel mill dirty

Slapping that Nussy on the cold wrought-iron bars

You make 1 pun about fucking in a nunnery and you risk your very soul

The devil is alive and he's stalking to and fro on tumblr, seeking those whom he shall devour

Get thee behind me ;)

in addition to the fact that people just have different natural rhythms, a big reason why we can’t seem to go to bed as early as we “should” is that nighttime is, for many of us, our safest and most fulfilling time of day. we don’t have to work, we won’t be contacted by bosses or insurance companies or collection agencies or other suffocating life business… we’re likely only to be contacted by our friends, or by no one at all. night time is release; it’s ours. we can rest or recreate. we can do things we actually want to do. who would choose to cut that short?? just to usher in the next morning when our lives are not our own again? nighttime is precious and nothing could be more normal than the desire to embrace this

So, y’all remember that post that said animals in urban areas slowly became nocturnal to avoid encounters with humans? Apparently that includes humans.

its kinda scary how your whole life depends on how well you do as a teenager 

oh my god No it doesn’t don’t put this kind of pressure on people?? you can absolutely fuck up in your teen years and continue on to a good life just fine. you can drop out of school, get a GED, still go to college and finish your degree as late as you want. i know people in my school who still haven’t graduated and they’re 26. some older. you can always transfer someplace else, always build yourself up from the ground. after a certain amount of college credits, a lot of schools really don’t care about your high school GED or your SAT scores anymore. if you fuck up in your teenage years you are not a failure!! you can ALWAYS re-invent yourself, always start over. there is always a second chance.

Reblogging this for my followers freaking out over art school/college. I dropped out of high school and never thought I’d get into college as easily as I did. You will be fine!

Fun story my biology professor just told us:  When he was 23 he was married to his wife and worked two jobs to support them since she was in college: gas station attendant and construction worker.  He worked these two jobs because that was the only work he could get since he was at the reading level of a third grader.  

One night he was writing something and his wife noticed he was writing from right to left.  Since she was studying occupational therapy she realized he had a learning disability and started working with him.  He slowly began to learn to read, and at 26 got his GED and went to college.

His first year of college he took the lowest level math course he could take, 001.  Over the years he worked on learning what he needed to, ended up graduating with a biology degree.  He then went on to get his masters and PhD, graduating at the top of his class.  He is now an extremely accomplished biologist and professor.

So don’t let anyone tell you that you’re future is based on your choices as a teenager.

Seriously.  Do not believe this.  You aren’t even stuck with your choices you make in your 20s.  I didn’t start working in my current field until just after my 30th birthday.  It has nothing to do with what I went to school for in my 20s.  My husband has a political science degree, and he’s a sports journalist.

You are not tied to anything.  Go.  Be.

My day job did not exist when I was a teenager. And the idea of trying to be an author was a distant thing on my radar. I thought I was going to be an English teacher. And then I thought I was going to be a music teacher. And then I thought I was going to be a drama teacher.

Also in there: therapist, early childhood educator, then finally: web developer–because by then it was an actual thing that existed. I didn’t actually figure out what I “wanted to do when I grew up” until about eight years ago, when I was 36. I tried pursuing writing when I was 30, stopped, then started pursuing it seriously again when I was 40. 

There is always time to change. And don’t let anyone tell you that high school is “the best time of your life” either, because that’s bullshit too.

I was a high school drop out and didn’t go to college until I was within a month of my 40th birthday. While there I changed my major twice. Then I taught art long enough to earn retirement. Before college I’ve worked in dog kennels, as a cashier, a dental assistant, a vet assistant, electronics assembly,  a machinist in the military, picking up trash in a state park and as locksmith at a university. After teaching I worked night shift as a securety guard. Life is freaking adventure, not a locked grid you must move from one square to another. Take a chance, If you fail, get back up, dust yourself off and try something new. 

Your life is not over at 25. You can continue to learn and engage with hobbies and change your life path and meet new people. Get rid of this idea that what you decide to do at 18 is gonna be what you do for life

As someone who freaks out at times about this kind of thing in my final year of university, this really helped.

IDK this is a lot more complicated then that, like yeah ok tell people not to give up, but it really doesn't negate that we expect literal children who can't even legally drink to plan their entire life trajectory.

Almost all these replies basically amount to "you can still go to college later." Which is mostly true! But cost is still a factor and afaik, adults do not qualify for stuff like scholarships, if they do they're harder to find and probably to qualify for. You will also lose scholarships for not finishing high school and getting a GED instead. It is really important to acknowledge that, because I wasn't told and lost mine that way.

This doesn't even go into the fact that some careers don't let you start late. Some stuff does expect you to start working to your career in high school (a lot of vocational career stuff apparently expects this, I found out too late and can't find training for adults.) Some stuff requires a certain level of physical ability that you will eventually age out of. Sometimes both.

To add to the problem, sometimes going to college is the mistake. Like I might be bias as someone who was supposed to graduate specifically in 2007 and therefore hit college RIGHT at the 2008 recession, but I know A LOT of people my age who went to college, ended up with debt, and either didn't finish or ended up with a degree that isn't able to get them jobs and sometimes contained very little useful education for their trouble. I didn't go to school because I wanted to learn, I didn't go because I wanted the career I majored in, I went because I was a kid and everyone told me it was the right thing to do if I wanted to be successful in life.

Regardless of what "wrong" choice you make and what the "right" choice was, and if you can still go back and do it later, we still expect this of children and making a mistake will have costs. Yeah. A lot of people get to try again. But not all of us have that option, and it is fucked that this is the default. Something like flunking a high school math class is trivial, but 18 is still a teenager and so many important life choices get dropped on you. And sometimes you don't have the option of trying later, and are not even presented with all the options you DO have and that is super fucked up.