There is no "after the revolution." No "ideal world." I don't care how much progress we make, we will always fail someone, hurt someone, and the best thing we can do is accept that, and keep striving to make it better as we go.

And don't get me wrong, I don't say this to discourage anyone from trying to make that ideal world. Quite the opposite.

I feel like it's very naive to continue to approach these big changes we want to make in the world as if there's an "after it's all over" when we don't have to worry about it anymore.

We should always be striving to make life better, even when life seems pretty damn good.

@nothingbuttrashhere tags

Oh my god

I hadn’t thought to call it “rapture culture” but that’s EXACTLY what it is

this work? it's not an epic battle. it's the dishes. it's laundry. and on good days, it's like cooking for a bunch of people you love.

If you are thinking about it on paper, the bus running every half hour doesn't sound so bad, until you're waiting at the stop and you miss a bus or it's delayed. Then you're waiting a very, very long time. To people who never take transit, that's probably fine. Why do you care. To people who only take transit, they're expecting it, it's baked in their lives. But the important part, what really impacts our cities, is what happens to people for whom transit is an option.

The spiral goes like this. You go to take the bus instead of driving, thinking "I'm going to o have a couple drinks" or "I don't want to worry about parking where I'm going." So you take bus. First bus is right on time. But then you transfer from your neighborhood line to the line that takes you where you actually want to go. And your bus is delayed. And it only comes every 30 minutes. And then you're waiting, 40 minutes later, wondering where your bus is, knowing you could have driven there in 20 minutes.

Why would you ever chose to take a bus again? The bus made you waste precious time on your day off just sitting there. So next time you drive. Ridership goes down. When the transit authority asks for more money for more buses and more drivers, people point to the ridership numbers and say "why should we pay for this instead of paying for our schools/police/baseball stadium/parks/police again (let's be real that's who's taking all the money)?" If we want to increase ridership we need to actually design and fund functional transit networks. If we want people to actually ride the bus we need to make it a better option than driving, which means reliable service, which you don't get with a bus every 30 minutes.

Every 15 minutes, everywhere, all of the time.

i love it when people end their dumbass points with a snappy one-liner that is technically true but in the complete opposite direction they intended

"i only concussed myself on a bike once and it wasn't even as bad as the time i walked directly into a metal pole" is not the supporting argument you seem to think it is

speak your truth, king

The European mind cannot comprehend this

Crazy how none of the big accidents on bikes I've had and the majority I've ever heard of did not involve cars at all but instead were people hitting a ditch, pothole, or just a fucking unlucky patch of dirt that sends you fucking tumbling. Do you know what part of your body takes the full weight and momentum of your body and the bike when you fall like that ? Take a wild guess. But don't worry there are no cars that could possibly pass by to see your body and help you so I'm sure you'll be fine. You can be stupid and not wear a helmet. I don't always either. But you are beyond stupid if you think you are somehow immune to breaking your skull

slight offense to the people in my notes but there appear to be exactly two kinds of ways of giving trans girls makeup advice. one is to give practical advice while telling me i will transform into a foul gorgon and be shot on the street if i fail to follow your instructions. the other is to just say "do whatever" which is certainly more positive but not, in fact, advice on how to do makeup.

pls ppl I’m begging you. Draw fat trans people. Just saw an artist post 10 drawings, each of a different transmasc person, and they were all suuuuuuper thin, I love seeing transmasc art but please it’s such a gut punch to be already struggling so much with your transition due to your weight, and then see stuff like that that just reinforces my fears that I’ll never be able to transition because I’m not skinny enough. pls learn how to draw fat people and fat trans people. draw fat people draw poc draw disabled people please please please please

I always knew something was fucked up with that artificial sugar shit. Never liked it, I was genuinely confounded by the number of people who claimed it tasted identical.

White moms are going to go apeshit

NO.

this is about the IARC not the FDA. the IARC (international agency for research on cancer) is part of the WHO (world health organization) and not a food safety agency. they classify "agents" (chemical, physical, or biological entities or exposure circumstances) based on how likely they are to cause cancer:

Group 1: Carcinogenic to humans (126 agents)

Group 2A: Probably carcinogenic to humans (94 agents)

Group 2B: Possibly carcinogenic to humans (322 agents)

Group 3: Not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans

this new classification of aspartame as 2B "possibly carcinogenic to humans" is the result of a review of available studies, and mostly intended to encourage additional research. it is not aimed at consumers/the public and it does not take dosage or frequency into account.

for context: apart from aspartame, group 2B includes things like "aloe vera, whole leaf extract", "carpentry", "magnetic fields", and "traditional asian pickled vegetables"

"occupation as a hairdresser or barber", "very hot beverages at above 65°C" (149°F), and "consumption of red meat" are all classified as 2A

and Group 1 includes "alcoholic beverages", "epstein-barr virus", "salted fish", "processed meat", and being a painter.

anyway. this is fearmongering and disinformation. stop using memes for news and dont reblog "news" posts without sources.

original reuters report:

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/whos-cancer-research-agency-say-aspartame-sweetener-possible-carcinogen-sources-2023-06-29/

where is that net zero information quote

Do most of these people perhaps live in a cartoon?

I’m going to Constantinople, that shit better not be Istanbul

Real shit

fun fact about me: When I was 6 years old I sent so much hate mail to the president (the second Bush) that the mail carrier had to tell my mom I needed to stop before we got FBI’d

I was COMPLETELY unaware of the US political scene or why the adults in my life hated Bush, but I knew I hated him because he let people shoot wolves from helicopters and that’s mean and shitty

I also had a poor grasp on how stamps worked, so given that I wasn’t allowed to continually throw money away by putting stamps on my presidential hate mail, a lot of the times I just drew squares with little pictures inside on the corner.

super special award for every1 who survived 🥇

i think we're all so brave, actually

i made a version for the americans so they don't feel left out

by far the funniest thing you can say immediately after winning the NBA finals

for those of you who don't follow basketball, this guy is the best player in the world right now

#you don't understand how completely devoted jokic is to racing horses#he's tried to quit basketball several times to commit full time to his horses#he doesn't even like playing basketball i don't think, he's just stupid good at it#he's counting down the days until he can retire to move back to serbia and work with his horses#his post retirement plans are becoming a 'trotting coach' his words @sayheykid​

#HOW TO DODGE NBA DRAFT

reblog if you fully and intentionally are referring to aspec people as well when you use the word queer to refer to the community

my partner once said, "if you have to explain your sexuality to straight people, you're probably queer"

I'm glad that so many trans people have migrated from reddit to here because a lot of trans communities on reddit have a pretty terrible vibe compared to the ones on tumblr

Average trans post on reddit: I hate everyone and everything and the world and also myself for I am a pallid sickly frail creature cursed by being born in the wrong body, destined to never be a real woman, afflicted by the horrid reminders of my manliness every time I gaze upon the naked wretch that is my own body

Average trans post on tumblr: big fat hairy unwashed trannies who work the deep frier at Zaxby's are making me crazy 😍

Jack Kirby’s son released a response to Disney’s noxious hagiography of Stan Lee

ttrpg seinfeld

jerry pretends to understand the rules of shadowrun to impress his new girlfriend. elaine helps him fill out his character sheets but accidentally bases all the characters on famous terrorists she saw on the news. george starts a paid GM service but keeps finding ways to partykill his players so he doesn't have to work the full hour. kramer gets into chuubo's

elaine tries to break up with her goth boyfriend by repeatedly killing his character in her vtm game but discovers that he finds it romantic. george gets into trouble when a botched kickstarter scam puts him on the hook to deliver a 5e licensed adaptation of the dictionary

Even Weird Al has had that™ experience with Tony Hawk

Tony Hawk IS Forrest Gump

So I looked up why and how this happened, and it turns out Weird Al hired a company called Birdhouse Skateboards to provide some “skate/punk” extras for the video. Birdhouse Skateboards is a company started by Tony Hawk, so not only did Weird Al end up putting Tony Hawk in his video without realizing it, he actually hired Tony Hawk’s company without realizing it! And then Tony Hawk just decided to go along as one of the extras himself.

BTW, he’d already won like 40 contests already, some of them international skateboarding contests. So it’s not like Weird Al cast some unknown skateboarder who ended up becoming World Famous Skateboarder, he was already well known and was running his own Skateboarding company.

Think of it this way. This wasn’t ‘Weird Al got Tony Hawk to be in his video’, this was ‘Tony Hawk found a way to be in a Weird Al Video.’

The chance that Tony Hawk has infiltrated your location or piece of media is low

BUT NEVER ZERO.

business majors are like orcs to me. and not the hot kind

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the backwards version for anyone who needs it

how many of my followers do you think are from the mirror dimension

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62/12

you motherfucker