a comic about progress
Oh I love this
funniest thing about the “reddit migration” is that I haven’t seen a single post shitting on anyone coming from Reddit. when twitter started bleeding users everyone was firing rent-lowering posts but with redditors skittering about we’ve left the doors open and put out food bowls
Couldn’t have said it better myself
would be funny if this happened in the next movie
I had the same thought and this is such a hysterical depiction of it
“The average US president has been charged with 1.56 felonies” factoid isn’t true. The average US President has been charged with 0 felonies. Donald trump, who has been charged with 72, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted
The fact that you made this mathematically accurate made my tummy warm
This is my new answer whenever I’m asked why one should either (a) drop the outlier or (b) focus on the outlier to figure out WTF is going on there….
With a small correction - so far, 71 felonies to Trump (34 NY State felonies, 37 Federal) 1.54 felonies per presidential capita.
Incredible
“Love is what makes us human” (talking about their found family to a character who has rejected all forms of kindness in the world)
“Love is what makes us human” (talking about their love interest to a character who doesn’t have a relationship)
this is great because the original post was dealing with how context changed the meaning of the word 'love' to be from [caring/affection/bonds] to something more exclusive around [romance]
the garlic bread addition has smoothly pivoted to be discussing 'human [as opposed to any other sort of animal]' rather than 'human [as opposed to something spiritually unfulfilled and thus less]'
which just goes to show semantic ambiguity is a vast and depthless ocean from which brine can be rendered to salt unto eternity
Other context:
OP represents romantically inclined but independent individuals and the response represents asexuality
I honestly always find the term ‘spinster’ as referring to an elderly, never-married woman as funny because you know what?
Wool was a huge industry in Europe in the middle ages. It was hugely in demand, particularly broadcloth, and was a valuable trade good. A great deal of wool was owned by monasteries and landed gentry who owned the land.
And, well, the only way to spin wool into yarn to make broadcloth was by hand.
This was viewed as a feminine occupation, and below the dignity of the monks and male gentry that largely ran the trade.
So what did they do?
They hired women to spin it. And, turns out, this was a stable job that paid very well. Well enough that it was one of the few viable economic options considered ‘respectable’ outside of marriage for a woman. A spinster could earn quite a tidy salary for her art, and maintain full control over her own money, no husband required.
So, naturally, women who had little interest in marriage or men? Grabbed this opportunity with both hands and ran with it. Of course, most people didn’t get this, because All Women Want Is Husbands, Right?
So when people say ‘spinster’ as in ‘spinster aunt’, they are TRYING to conjure up an image of a little old lady who is lonely and bitter.
But what I HEAR are the smiles and laughter of a million women as they earned their own money in their own homes and controlled their own fortunes and lived life on their own terms, and damn what society expected of them.
Just wanted to add that the suffix -ster was originally specifically feminine, a means of denoting a lady known by her profession. Spinster = female spinner, baxter = female baker, webster = female weaver (webber), brewster = female brewer. If one of the ladies named Alys in your village was known for selling her excellent weaving, you might call her Alys Webster (to differentiate her from, say, Alys Littel who was rather short, and Alys Bywater who lived near the pond).
This fascinates me for many reasons, but especially in the case of modern families with last names like Baxter or Webster or Brewster. What formidable and well-known ancestresses managed to pass on those very gendered names to all their descendants, when last names were changing from personal “nicknames” into indicators of lineage among the middle and lower classes? There’s a forgotten story of a fascinating woman behind every one of those family lines.
Resource for the history of the -ster suffix here.
Oh I love this so much
alya, shaking marinette awake in the middle of the night during a sleepover: marinette theres an akuma uve gotta get up
marinette, half asleep: is it one of the ones where i have to kiss chat noir
alya: what? no
marinette: then i dont care
PFFFFFFT
Under the new rules, homes that are not occupied for at least six months of the year are subject to a tax of one per cent of the property’s assessed value. The deadline to rent out empty dwellings was July 1.
Fazli said many of the people he has talked to are thinking of renting or selling their properties. He recently met with a woman who owns three empty properties in Vancouver — and says one of them is now listed for rent, another will be listed shortly and she is thinking of selling the third.
“This is a scenario of someone who is kind of in a panic now and needs to rent them out,” he said. […]
amazing
Why were they empty?
they’re meant to be investment properties, bought, left empty, and then sold a year or few later for huge profit as housing values continue to rise. it’s a massive part of the bc housing bubble, and why despite so much new construction it’s still so difficult to find rental housing
the fact that these landlords are panicking because they might have to actually use their housing properties as housing rather than finance capital is deeply funny
It should be more than a 1% tax rate though. I want it to be 100%. Torture them.
REJOICE, BABY
purple tigress/pigella lovesquare + vanilla julerose, enjoy!
That last one murdered me
it's always so fucking funny to me when terfs are like "how can you say trans women and women are the same thing! being born as a man makes you different!" because like. yes. trans women and cis women are different. so are black women and white women. and straight women and queer woman. and women from different countries and different socioeconomic statuses. there's diversity in the experience of womanhood? what a wild concept
incidentally, this why terfs tend to be white women. from the combahee river collective statement, 1977:
...we reject the stance of Lesbian separatism because it is not a viable political analysis or strategy for us. It leaves out far too much and far too many people, particularly Black men, women, and children. We have a great deal of criticism and loathing for what men have been socialized to be in this society: what they support, how they act, and how they oppress. But we do not have the misguided notion that it is their maleness, per se—i.e., their biological maleness—that makes them what they are. As BIack women we find any type of biological determinism a particularly dangerous and reactionary basis upon which to build a politic.
(emphasis mine)
"To argue that transsexual women should not enter [women-exclusive spaces] because their experiences are different would have to assume that all other women's experiences are the same, and this is a racist assumption. The argument that transsexual women have experienced some degree of male privilege should not bar them from our communities once we realize that not all women are equally privileged or oppressed."
This. This is the core of it. This is why trans-exclusionary radical feminism is rooted in racism, colonialism, and imperialism. It excludes the idea that there can be any other type of “woman” except one very (white, colonialist, imperialist) definition.
THIS
more sketchbook pages, but this time it's all the mlb stuff!
Wow imagine being this talented
From what I recall, the first time I saw 'rainbow capitalism' from a big brand was this image from Oreo in 2012.
It created a lot of controversy. Calls for boycotts and such. But Oreo didn't take it down. They were unapologetic and didn't try to appease the homophobes or backtrack.
And I know this sounds weird, but it was like a shift. Proof that public opinion or acceptance of queerness was widespread enough for a company to consider it profitable.
I saw this post last year and have been trying for the last 5 days to communicate the idea to my parents so I’m very glad it appeared on my dash again right when I was trying to use it as an argument point
My “draw the squad” memes so far
Updating with some newer ones!
ask-the-egos
@mexicanesecat @raimeyl references for y'all!
WOW! THE OG POST!
crybabu-gurl
i will let my mind go wild with these knowing i’ll finally be able to credit the original artist
mothanon
EEEE FINALLY THE ORIGINAL ARTIST
I HAVE NO RECOLLECTION OF LIKING THIS POST BEFORE BUT OH LORD LOOK
So are we just not going to discuss the perfectly depicted struggles of a nonverbal child in the new Human Resources season, or...?
How dare a show about anthropomorphic bugs, rocks, purple cats, sweaters; screaming, demanding gremlins; and horny ass monsters make me cry?!?!?
They did it again, boys
I know this is the only thing we talk about when we talk about blue people Avatar movies. But I just remembered the second one came out last year and presumably it didn't flop because I think I actually would have heard more about it if it flopped, and I could not tell you one single solitary thing about it in the slightest. Fascinating. An absolute lacuna of media that has made billions
AVATAR 2 MADE 2 BILLION DOLLARS??? IT WAS THE TOP GROSSING MOVIE OF LAST YEAR??????? BY A MARGIN OF A BILLION DOLLARS??????????????????
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This movie franchise to me is like the inverse of Riverdale where I knew nothing about that show because it’s so balls to the walls unhinged that everything about it sounds like a lie, therefore learning about Riverdale is a horror and a delight. I don’t wanna watch it, but I do want to always know more about it. Avatars movies I also know nothing about but in a super boring way. Learning things about these films have all the scintillating interest of reading someone else’s weekly innocuous grocery list and the only interesting part is that the bread and eggs they need to buy $100 million dollars.
I had a patient last night who was watching Avatar 2 when I came in to say hi at shift change, so when I come back a couple hours later do a full med pass and all that, I asked how the movie was, and the patient said, "it turns out I was rewatching the first one but since I didn't remember anything about the first one, I didn't realize it was the wrong movie until I was nearly done with the film."
I was literally just thinking about how I didn’t know a single person who actually saw the movie in theaters and yet it did that well in the box office. I was having this thought less than an hour ago and just came across this post. What’s happening.