What Time Would It Be, If We Were On Mars?

bro doesnt even have the jennies (certain je ne sais quois)

Happening right now in NYC - massive protest, hundreds of arrests at an emergency sit-in calling for an immediate ceasefire (10/27/23)

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A mating dance (?)

I remember in my Arabic class we were going over the alphabet and the teacher was like there’s no ‘P’ etc and this white girl was like wait what but my names Paige and my teacher was like lol then we’d pronounce it as beige and she was so offended I’m crying thinking about it

One of my mom’s friends, Hugh, went to France and they had a lot of trouble pronouncing his name because the entire thing was silent.

salut je m'appelle [REDACTED]

lol when I lived in France my host family had a friend names Hugh. We saw him and his family a lot.

They pronounced it “oog” and I didn’t know until the day before I left France that his name was Hugh. I just thought he had some weird caveman nickname 😭

that is hands down the funniest addition to this post

When the author describes a character’s appearance way too late and you have to quickly redesign the image you already have for them in your head:

This is why if you want people to know your character has long raven-black hair with red streaks and eyes like limpid tears, you need to make sure you say so in your first paragraph. Christ. Imagine someone thinking your character’s a prep.

Okay someone asked me earlier "Hey CT, you study the occult for a living, off the top of your head, what's the most popular form of the occult in today's world?"

Pseudo-nutrition. Bar none. A massive amount of the fad dieting world goes beyond simple misinformation and ignorance and full on into a systemized non-scientific theory of anatomy and nutrition that 100% qualifies as magic. If you replace the term "toxins" with "evil ghosts" half of these blogs would sound like sumerian curse tablets.

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no babe, lets use the good china

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2023-09-20/pentagon-working-to-restore-benefits-to-lgbtq-veterans-forced-out-under-dont-ask-dont-tell

A thing I really like about Joe Biden is his commitment to righting unglamorous wrongs. I know he’s got a team, but clearly he has hired some folks who understand logistics and systems and like the fucking paperwork of it all.

The thing you gotta understand about Biden is that he is the VAWA guy. The entire reason that the Violence Against Women Act exists is that Biden hated the national indifference to domestic violence and wanted to do something about it.

This was not a cause he took on because it was trendy. In fact, it was deeply unpopular, because the vast majority of Americans (including most women!) felt that domestic violence was a private matter that government shouldn't intervene in, and that neither date rape nor marital rape was rape at all. Most women believed that, let alone men! And feminism had a lot of power, but that power was at a nadir. The late 80s/early 90s was the core of the backlash against second-wave feminism, earlier legislative efforts to enshrine women's rights (such as the Equal Rights Amendment) had failed, there were almost no female legislators. There was no political or social pushing, inside or outside of Washington, for legislation protecting women from domestic violence or other gendered violence.

And Biden decided to change that.

Biden assigned one of his staffers (a young female lawyer) to study the issue and craft a piece of legislation aimed at protecting women, modeled on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The staffer didn't want to do it initially, because she didn't want to get pigeonholed into working solely on 'women's issues.' But she did it, and she and Biden and Rep. Louise Slaughter (a Democrat in the House) crafted the bill and built a coalition and convinced women's groups that this was important enough to use political capital on, and got it passed and signed into law in 1994. The bill changed a lot of laws to make domestic violence and acquaintance rape and marital rape easier to prosecute, and it changed the national conversation around domestic violence and rape.

Is VAWA perfect? No. Do I always agree with Biden on priorities and issues? Oh heck no. But the fact remains that Biden is a guy who will look at an injustice that society doesn't care about and decide to do something about it, and do it effectively.

Biden is by No Means perfect, but he has done some good things.

A reminder that the lesser evil is, in fact, lesser.

god i wish i wouldn't have to explain the intricacies of the neopets economy to you guys to give the full context for this but. the new neopets team that took over from jumpstart pledged that they were going to curb the inflation of rare items, which is great because a lot of rare items are worth literally hundreds of millions of neopoints, they are unbuyable unless you've been playing actively for 20 years. they did this earlier with a site festival that included random loot boxes, some of which had Unbelievably Fucking Rare And Precious items worth 200 million neopoints apiece.

well.

today they have gone a step further. by releasing this year's trick-or-treat bags. and having the trick-or-treat bags be stuffed to the brim with unbelievably fucking rare stamps, weapons, paint brushes, defense magic, and other unbuyables. (all prohibitively expensive and in-high-demand types of items.)

jellyneo, the premier neopets website, has recorded prices of some items plummeting from 2,000,000 neopoints to 4,000 neopoints IN THE LAST THREE HOURS. this is when most people haven't even heard about the event or OPENED THEIR BAGS YET.

and of course. cherry on top. 20-year-old account holders are crytyping on the site events neoboard about how mean and cruel it is to make rare stamps part of the prize pool, because their entire identity hinges on being part of the neopian bourgeoisie, and they are having MELTDOWNS over their assets being devalued until they're part of the lowly proletariat.

this is a children's game for children btw.

none of the money is real.

i'm having such a good time.

oh fuck yeah this is the coolest

Michael Myers 😄😄 🔪 🔪 😂 😏

I want a movie EXACTLY like this one. With soundtrack and all.

THIS IS THE SUPREME HORROR MOVIE IDEA

Texts From Superheroes

Anon hate from the late 1800’s.

What I love most about this is that this person was SO INCENSED at the recipient that they couldn’t even wait the days/weeks it would take for the mail to go through. No, they had to say “FUCK YOU” as soon as fucking possible and, AND, let the recipient that they were not done with the fuck you, nay, this was merely the first volley in what would undoubtably be a dressing down of Biblical proportions.

i will gleefully reblog this every time i see it

oh hey its the post i based this off of

#Like I KNOW the orig post is fake but I needed to keep the energy (via @theshitpostcalligrapher)

I decided to give the Gotham show a try and man, Jim Gordon sure is having A Time Of It, huh?

#it's one of the worst fanfictions I've ever seen and I love it to death @shyfrog-says

God, you're so right. That's exactly it. It's Jim Gordon ricocheting in and out of Situations like a pinball inside a pinball machine that's falling down the stairs.

Any woman who shows Jim an ounce of love or tenderness ends up committing war crimes for the hell of it. Arkham might as well have a revolving door pass for his lovers at this point. The cemetery too.

Bruce Wayne is a secondary character in his own teen angst coming-of-age story.

Bullock is just hanging on for dear life as he gets sucked into the black hole of Main Character Energy, irradiating everything around them.

Incredible.

Shout out to Jim "I apparently named my daughter after my psychotic, homicidal ex" Gordon!

Oh my god, I know.

I have no idea if this gets addressed in the show (I'm only on season 4), but I cannot begin to imagine the level of mental gymnastics he went through to be like, yeah, that seems like a good life choice.

... unless... unless Barbara is his daughter...

Okay, hear me out, but like, what if, right, what if something happens to Barbara and she gets de-aged and loses all her memories. Like a reverse Ivy situation.

Teenage Ivy fell into mysterious goop and aged up 15 years into a femme fatale.

This is a thing that is possible in this universe.

So what if Barbara falls into a different kind of goop and gets turned into a baby. And Jim is the only one who sees it. And James Gordon, James 'bad idea' Gordon thinks about it for thirty seconds and goes,

"Well, it's my fault she turned into an unhinged mob boss and killed her parents... maybe this way I can give her a good life," and then he just takes her in and raises her on his own.

... yeah. That seems on par with this show. Let's go with that.

I looked up the wiki. Somehow, Jim and Barbara having an oops baby feels like a letdown after the absolute batshit story arcs this show has had. But then again, I suppose "Jim Gordon Makes Questionable Life Choices" is a load-bearing facet of the overarching plot.

It's good they managed to stay consistent with that.

Lord knows nothing else is.