The Girl With the Neopets Tattoo

A cactus in Arizona I really liked.

the thing about capitalism is that at a certain point a product reaches its maximum audience and cant really be improved (at least not while remaining profitable), but capitalism requires a product provide infinite growth, and at that point the only way to increase profits is to raise prices, cut corners, and in the case of services start adding advertisements. this is just how the system works.

The actual economic term for this parasitic behavior is "Rent Seeking", as in "charging you rent for things that didn't used to cost money just because we can."

GO BABY GO

I was out getting burgers the other day and this scooter man pulled up and I physically gasped. He had a pink fluffy motorcycle helmet with floppy dog ears on it. That was already pretty cute. But as he turned he had a little chihuahua strapped to his chest with her own little goggles on.

I vibrated with admiration from in my car and tried to resist the urge to get a picture. I fully believe in not photographing people without permission, but I needed to share this cuteness. I thought about an artist rendition but I knew I’d forget details.

So I gave in and scurried out to approach him. The instant he saw my demeanor he knew I’d like a picture. He even put his little pups goggles back on to show them off. I was grinning from ear to ear as I thanked him and here is the best thing I’ve seen in a long time.

i know we all love the Joe and Lupita interviews but have y'all seen Lupita's hot ones? BC IM DYINGGGG 😂😂😭😭

The number one cause of death in pregnant women is murder. Think About That.

...oh.

all the snivelling little starmer apologists will always say "umm well he has to be transphobic to win elections" and like 1. well im glad youve decided us trannies can be the sacrifical lamb on our behalf and 2. its just demonstrably not true every piece of polling done on this shows that the uk electorate doesnt care about trans people one way or another because all their fucking groceries cost a billion times as much

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this is just not an election-deciding issue! this is a personal political commitment from the UK's political and media class! to use one of their little pet phrases, the legal assault on trans people is a "luxury belief" spearheaded by people who don't have to worry about their access to healthcare or their ability to pay the rent! keir starmer is actively, affirmatively embracing this ideology!

A Red-winged Blackbird looking like it’s getting a free ride on an Osprey’s broomstick. The Blackbird was focused on driving the Osprey away from the marsh, while the Osprey was focused on bringing back a good stick for the nest.

Oh I’m so sleepy… won’t you use !tuck to tuck me into bed?

!cursedoak

did anyone else have terrible dreams about a gnarled, twisted forest with one tree more terrible and hateful than all the rest

- Black Fox -

btw this guy is also up on my shop here!

it was kind of fucked up for wall-e to be that way about fat people now that im thinking about it

I’m never NOT thinking about how the first 40ish minutes of Wall•E are the most evocative, beautiful thing that the Walt Disney company has ever produced bar none, and then the SECOND they reach the space station it becomes the most boring, blunt and extremely ableist “save the earth” animated kids movie in existance for the movie’s remaining sixty minutes. Why did they do that to him.

guys I think maybe the space station part is important to the artistic themes of the movie

frankly i feel like if you read wall-e as fatphobic you're kinda misunderstanding the messaging of the film

I feel like you can make the same messages without putting the idea of being fat/needing mobility aids as a moral failing. I understand where the idea comes from, but just because the idea has good intentions doesn't mean the effect isn't shitty.

"humanity lived on a space socialism ship where everyone had their needs met. They got fat and lazy. They never made any art all they did was get eat and be dumb and use mobility scooters. This is a moral failing. We need to force everyone to work on a farm and grow their own food because that would make them not dumb and lazy"

The notes on this post really illustrate how a lot of people refuse to acknowledge that analysis that looks at the events in a piece of fiction as the result of choices made by the artist and analysis that looks at the events of a piece of fiction as the result of in-universe cause and effect relationships are operating on fundamentally different and often incompatible wavelengths.

"But it makes sense that they were that way because they were FORCED to live a sedentary lifestyle all their life" yeah turns out the critique here is not coming from an in-universe "it doesn't make sense" perspective, it's coming from an out-of-universe "the artists choosing to use fatness and reliance on mobility aids as a visual shorthand for societal decay has fucked up Implications™" perspective.

*booking an mri* what if I accidentally have a pacemaker. what if I got secret bone surgery and forgot about the pins

My salmon bag I finished last night, wanted to make something for myself for once. This is what I came up with.

Enjoy!

coming up with an au were a dead character lives but shaking my head while i do it so everyone watching knows i support the role their death played in the narrative and consider it a legitimate writing choice

Neither of you can leave before the entire shelf/table/whatever is finished. (It can't be the easiest/tiniest furniture though. It has to be kind of complicated and/or take at least an hour.)

Everybody saying Miles is wrong. He's a beleagured but brilliant starship engineer. The rules of comedy say that assembling IKEA furniture will be the hardest ordeal of his life

He's a carpenter. He built a racquetball court by himself. 😭😭😭

get a red tie that says "DK" on it

im always thinking about that post where someones grandma said “some people have never cleaned a bathroom and it shows” bc it does show

when i was a kid, in 2nd grade (age 7) i and some other kids made a mess in one of the bathrooms at school and the teachers instead of doing the normal canned "punishments" like having to skip lunch recess and sit still inside doing work, had us sit down with the janitors and they talked to us and the janitors explained the work they normally needed to do every day to clean the bathroom, and how what we did created extra work for them. and they took us into the bathroom and showed us what they do and how what we did made it more difficult.

and then they made us clean it all up (with help from the janitors because we were small kids and couldn't even reach everything, we had like thrown toilet paper high up and stuff) and they were very nice about it and there was no further punishment or mention of it again

and the things i took from this experience were:

i think there are a lot of people who could benefit from this sort of experience.

our society often has so many problems not only because we insulate some people from the implications of their actions, but also because instead of facing them with those implications, we impose outside "punishments" that are often unrelated to the original wrongdoing.

like if they had not done what they did with us, and instead had just taken away our recess and made us do something boring and unpleasant, we wouldn't have learned what we did and we would have just learned that we need to get better at avoiding getting caught, which is generally how people respond to punishments that are divorced from explanations of how and why what you did was wrong and hurt people. if instead you confront people with those things, they will change of their own accord.

some adults out there are like full-grown children who never learned this stuff. but the solution isn't harsh punishment like putting them in jail and mistreating them there, the solution is that people need to be sat down with the people who are harmed by their actions and then they can work together to undo the damage, and see firsthand how hard it is.

it's transformative.