So poor people don’t deserve to have money?!

THEY’LL JUST WASTE IT ON SURVIVAL! 

Also, if you’ve taken more than a high school economics course taught by someone who has never stepped foot in a college economics class,

Giving $500 to poor people multiplies it REALLY FAST. That $500 immediately goes into the economy and ripples more purchases until it hits a rich pocket.

Giving $500 to a billionaire takes $500 out of the economy permenantly. You could have set it on fire and made no difference.

That is such an important part of the conversation that rich people seem to purposefully misunderstand whenever it’s brought up

Money exists to be spent, not hoarded. Yes, people should have saving, but no one should be sitting on a pile of money too big to spend in a single lifetime. “The economy” as a concept only works if people are spending money, and the people hoarding the money are so quick to blame the people who barely have any when the economy starts to fail

Having a big string of numbers in an offshore account doesnt make you an economic genius, it makes you a parasite that is ruining the economy for everyone else

the x files is funny because at the time it was “progressive” or whatever to have the ultra-rational, levelheaded character be a woman

but it’s also a show where all the fucked up alien shit actually is real, so she’s just constantly wrong about everything

What’s funny is how often they’re both wrong. Mulder will be like “the victims all had their livers scooped clean out this is obviously the aliens escalating from cattle mutilation” and Scully will be like “don’t be silly Mulder this is clearly just a serial killer who’s really good with surgical tools” and then it turns out the actual killer is an immortal sewer man who comes out ever quarterly century to feast on human liver.

I cannot stress enough that this is literally the plot of an actual episode

pulse

I wake up to a blue light, my phone’s warning of a news alert: 50 people are dead

I rub my eyes and grab my glasses because I must have read that wrong: 50 people are dead

I start opening articles, grogily hoping to find a lower count, but 50 people are dead

it wasn’t until the third link that I read the whole title: 50 people are dead in an Orlando gay bar, club, a safe place, accepting, and 50 people are dead because one man’s hate can shoot a machine gun into a crowd until 50 people are dead

in a place they came to be themselves, their acceptance was met with violence and 50 people are dead

my community is grieving again striving for strength to not sink in the stats and 50 people are dead

already politicians offer prayers and thoughts but 50 people are dead

they blame a religion to not talk about hate, but 50 people are dead for being gay and there are “christians” celebrating that 50 people are dead “because at least they were perverts” because gay means it’s okay that 50 people are dead

conservatives are quick to complain “don’t politicize this tragedy” cause 50 people are dead

but they’ve politicized gay lives, governed their love, but now that 50 people are dead this is not about politics. blame Islam and ISIS, not guns, but 50 people are dead

the deadliest mass shooting  and the US can only acknowledge that 50 people are dead more injured, struggling and their family can’t help them because 50 people are dead but it’s still illegal for a gay man to donate blood

50 people are dead

one man, two guns, and he didn’t break a law until 50 people are dead

Only 49 people were killed, but I wrote this when everything was still in chaos. I am not going to edit the poem, because this is a poem about the emotional reaction to finding out your community was attacked. This poem was written while sirens were still singing, and my heart is no less broken now that they’ve stopped. -Jade Asta Quinn

Andrew Robinson on playing Garak for the first time. 

Bless.

We love to see it

okay but listening to Hozier feels like sin and salvation at the same time

my favorite scene in LotR as a kid was when Sam started miserably freestyling in the tower of Cirith Ungol and the only reason he ever found Frodo was because he deliriously tried to join in

…i did read some of the novels, but i couldn’t get through them entirely…

…and so i genuinely have no idea whether or not this is serious. coz i mean, obviously, it could be a joke. but it could also have legitimately happened. people who have only seen the films underestimate the amount of random things that happen in the books that could come off as utterly silly and ridiculous if removed from their context.

Haha, well, it is pretty much what happens. Sam is looking for Frodo in the tower of Cirith Ungol and is despairing that he will ever find him. He sits down and does what any self-respecting Tolkien character does during their moments of hopelessness and bursts into song.

It’s a really good song (ten year old Ship had it memorized) and as he begins the refrain a second time, he hears Frodo’s voice answering weakly from above. Frodo is poisoned and despairing and beaten but he is still a Hobbit and cannot resist a singalong even while on the brink of death.

This scene got me right in the gut when I first saw it. It was revealed earlier in the episode that Garak suffers from extreme claustrophobia, experiencing a severe attack just a few scenes before this one. I was already expecting Martok and Worf to dismiss Garak’s mental illness, especially because the Klingon Empire prides its people on physical strength. I was waiting for them to call him a coward, not “getting over it” like I’ve heard so many times in my own life about mental illness. But as seen above that’s not what happened, the exact opposite does. Its moments like this that make me love Star Trek, even for all its flaws. Sometimes I get to see past my conditioned reaction of the worst, and get to see the best in people instead.

TDLR; Star Trek may be about aliens in the future, but it connects to me on a human level - more than most modern shows do today. 

Reason 100001 why Star Trek is superior to Star Wars.

Holy shit that's so cool

Finally “do you love the colour of the sky” got compressed for our convenience

What is this guy doing on Bird App and why is he not writing seemingly impossible comedy-horror stories?

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Tweet thread by Sam Sykes, @SamSykesSwears, from Nov. 13 2022, reading as follows:

My fool godson, William, went down to the basement to get a snack four days ago

I told him--every time I tell him--to COUNT the stairs as he goes down. There's only 12. If it goes to 13, come back up and try again. And don't follow the thing singing down there

But does he listen?

"Have you tried going down there and calling for him?"

Yes, smart guy, I did, and he called for me to come down and join him in the dark. So OBVIOUSLY, the thing down there has learned his voice. I'm a homeowner--this isn't my first hellmouth.

I'm hearing screaming billowing up from the staircase like smoke from a dying fire, carrying with it the sound of suffering--so | guess l need to go down there and sort it out.

Everyone says "oh, you'll barely notice the hellmouth, every house has issues."

Not like this, Mavis!

Ugh. I hate it after the 13th step. It's so muggy down here and the damned drag their bloated carcasses across the floor, reaching out for me and begging me to take their place.

Which is a fine thing to ask someone after you've wept ichor all over their boxes of good dinnerware.

Oh great. Now I'm in a forest of skeletal trees languishing beneath an eternal, moonless night, the miserable damned crucified in their branches.

All the time with them, it's "my sins hath damned me" and "god forsook us."

I tell them I don't like preachiness but do they listen?

It's a ship of the damned! OBVIOUSLY, it's a ship of the damned! The bow is a desiccated corpse! The ferryman is hooded and sulfurous! IT'S MADE OF SKELETONS!

And what does William do? Just walks on, "oh hello Mr Ferryman please take me down the river of souls"

This kid I swear

Now I've got to walk ALL the way across the infernal highway paved of wailing souls to meet the hateful beast that guards the Gates of Cairinoth.

And of course, he saves all his hard riddles for me. Everyone else gets little baby riddles. But I get his "originals."

Get a real job

All right, I asked around the Despair Pits if anyone had seen a smart-alecky kid running around and they pointed me toward a pale tower rising like a bad dream upon a bleak horizon.

"Is there an elevator?"

No, dummy, it's hell. You take the stairs. You take the stairs EVERYWHERE.

The faithless and feckless are the stone and mortar from which all unhallowed constructs are wrought in this lightless realm. Their twitching bodies are the tower's steps, wailing for either salvation or for oblivion to end the misery.

And I'm like BUDDY, we've all got problems.

So I finally arrive at the top, where the miserable are shackled and flensed by razor winds. I finally get a signal and what do I see on my phone?

EIGHT TEXTS from William! He's back in the living room!

"Can you believe this guy?" I ask someone.

But of course, they just scream.

I'm back. It was a pain in the rear to get back and, of course, William took MY spicy cheetos, that little punk. But so long as his mother won't yell at me, it's fine.

My good pants are LOUSY with ichor, so unless I have another update, that's what l'Il be dealing with tonight.

UPDATE: It's not William.

It's wearing William's skin, it's using William's voice, but it's not William.

I know, I know.

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Glass Onion + Text posts

Please please PLEASE watch this Christmas spot we got in Spain

I don’t often cry at the end of a commercial. But this one did the trick.

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤

December 13, 2022

star trek actors are so strong for doing technobabble with a straight face. if you asked me to talk about how the technicron particles are mainlining the quantum blorbonator I would fall apart immediately

— “The 50 Year Mission: The Next 25 Years” by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman

LUPITA NYONG'O on the most emotional part of filming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | ELLE (November 14, 2022)

i'll stop reporting on the twitter dumpster fire when it stops delivering absolutely fucking BONKERS news, but:

can we talk about how a fake-but-verified twitter account for pharma giant eli lilly started a domino effect that tanked their fucking stock by billions of dollars

the stock for their competitors novo nordisk and sanofi is tanking too

again, to reiterate: billions of dollars

elon you stupid, silly cunt

omg

not just 'billions of dollars'

$16 billion specifically

imagine getting fucking nuked like this by ONE TWEET

Seeing some confusion in the notes--the reason this is a big deal (other than to stockholders in this particular company) isn’t because a Big Pharma company losing money is bad. 

It’s because people--investors, capitalists, high-finance types--used to use Twitter as a source for information that they used to make economic decisions, and this incident shows that they shouldn’t, anymore.

It also tells brands and companies that being spoofed on Twitter can result in major economic losses.  Having a genuine Twitter presence, logically, increases the odds of being spoofed in this way--if nobody believed that Eli Lilly would make a real announcement over Twitter, then the stock wouldn’t have gone down.  

Unless Musk very, very quickly finds a way to give these users confidence that this will never happen again, they’re going leave the platform in droves.  

And if you can’t trust Twitter for business information, you can’t trust it for news, either.  (A journalist just set up a “verified” account in the name of a US Senator, as a test of the new policies.)   Basically, everyone who cares about credibility is going to leave Twitter.  And being widely used, by serious and important people, is what makes Twitter stand out from all the other social media platforms.  Lose those users, and it’s just not relevant anymore.  

This prank didn’t nuke Eli Lilly.  It nuked Twitter.  

I haven’t yet seen a tumblr post with these resources so I am making my own and hoping it shows up in the tags. I ASK EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS TO PLEASE REBLOG THIS.

THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT (ICWA) IS UNDER ATTACK. AND WE NEED HELP TO PROTECT IT USING THE RESOURCES BELOW.

I am not going to go into heavy detail on the bill, on its history, anything like that, the resources have a lot of information, but as a little bit of background:

It is a bill passed that forbids Native children from being adopted by non-Native families. This is for a good fucking reason, there have been historically large scoops of children taken from their Native families, at a much higher rate than white children (see the 60s scoop in Canada). These children are often abused in these homes, and their entire culture is taken from them (many end up not even knowing what tribe/nation they came from), hence the point of why they were taken in the first place (forced assimilation). Now, this does still happen through the foster care system, but this has protected in the case of adoption. It makes it that only Native families can adopt Native children.

White people hate this and have been smearing it for years (think of the whole Lexi Choctaw/Alexandria P. situation, which was so fucked how they used that little girl). Now, the state governments of Texas, Louisiana, and Indiana have taken it to the Supreme Court to be ruled unconstitutional. This case is called Haaland v. Brackeen. Because white people … really want to steal Native children. This is being heard by the court, oral arguments start WEDNESDAY. ICWA could be overturned in the matter of weeks or even days.

PLEASE USE ALL OF THESE TO PROTECT ICWA:

Petition that will involve you sending messages to your Congressional leaders through their text automated system, only available to those in the US (BUT NOTE YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A CITIZEN, OR ELIGIBLE TO VOTE TO SIGN, JUST NEED TO BE IN THE US):

https://resist.bot/petitions/PCCPGW 

Petition to send a message to President Biden and leaders at the Department of Justice, this does have a place to put in your country so seems like it may be available for those outside of the US but I am unsure (consider also donating to the Lakota People’s Law Project if you are able to):

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/protect-icwa

Petition to be sent to the Attorney General and Secretary of the Department of the Interior, since it is through change.org it likely can be signed from outside of the US:

https://www.change.org/p/protect-the-indian-child-welfare-act

PLEASE SIGN AS MANY AS YOU ARE ABLE TO. PLEASE REBLOG IF YOU SEE THIS. PLEASE HELP US PROTECT ICWA.

Listen to the second season of the podcast "This Land" if you want to learn about the ins and outs of the case, why it is important, and how it came to be.

The podcast is hosted by Rebecca Nagle, a citizen of Cherokee Nation, and is made mostly by other Native people.

https://crooked.com/podcast-series/this-land/