btw if we're mutuals i automatically think ur cooler than me. doesnt matter if we have been mutuals for 2 minutes or 3 years, if we are following each other u are cooler than me by default <3
yank poll incoming
Bonus points if you tag where you're from and your answer. thank you kisskiss
I was always told that outside the U.S., a Yankee is an American; in the U.S., a Yankee is from north of the Mason-Dixon line; in the North, a Yankee is from New England; in New England, a Yankee is from New Hampshire; in New Hampshire, a Yankee is from one of three or four specific counties in New Hampshire--I don't know which ones--but that that part of New Hampshire contains the only people in the world who will actually admit to being Yankees.
I just don't understand why ANYONE would call an USAmerican from anywhere other than New England a Yankee when it's literally a disparaging term that means 'colonist from New England.' Like, that's LITERALLY the original meaning. Later on, during the American Revolution, British soldiers used it against American inhabitants, but I think that's more of a mark of audacity from them considering THEY would actually be the yankee-ist Yankees in that equation.
But there are people who are calling Native Americans, Latinos, African Americans, and immigrants Yankees? Like for real?? The fucking gall?????
I'm glad I decided to watch this one instead of just thinking I'd already posted it.
the discord server with a friend group i run decided theyd like to add an NSFW channel which so far has been terrible. for them. theyve found out new things about the world and about themselves ever since we added it and im entirely to blame
none of it is my fault since they asked for the channel and opened the flood gates when one of them outed me as being into vore. like oh you think youre funny for that. im gonna be hilarious then
Hate it when the Stardew Valley NPCs get mad at me for digging in their garbage. Like bitch I carry this town on my back. "Ew! Thats awful!" You know what else would be awful? The decaying shambles this town will be left in when I leave because you were all mean to me. Without me Pelican Town is nothing do not fucking test me
Tumblr already has a personalization algorithm it's called my beloved mutuals who have great taste and only wish to psychologically damage me sometimes
i thought this was a hospital drama why does he have a shotgun?!??!?
theun–sj
It’s a really, really good hospital drama
I’m so glad I turned on the Audio bc it turns out this is set to Boney M’s Rasputin and is basically perfectly synced
I’m glad to see the ancient art of vidding is alive and well.
rb to give the previous person a fucking break because life aint life-ing the way its supposed to life and it fucking sucks.
Hate hate hate how when I get angry there is a physical reaction but it's not glowing eyes or growing claws or something it's crying. This feels unfair.
ltcmndrbortus
You’re in the squad because of your optimized combat build and heavy weapons. I’m in the squad because they’re trying to romance me and want to hear my dialogue options. We are not the same.
As Kevdak’s body slumps… it shrinks back down to its average size, and you crumple to the ground, smiling.
There's some company, blackstone, blackwater, something like that, buying up houses that go on sale for 30k above asking price. Immediately outbidding anyone who tries to buy. Corporations are also buying property all across america.
Fuck...
Nobody comes to my tumblr for this, but Americans need to understand that THIS is why my generation can't afford to own a house outside of Smallest-Town USA. THIS is also why people my age in bigger cities struggle to find decent apartments that don't consume half of our monthly income.
Housing Speculation is when rich folk, corporations, and wannabe landlords buy up property and sit on it like dragons hoarding gold. The Dutch have a dragon-adjacent term for this because speculation devastated their housing market in the 70s-80s leading to some gnarly Dutch squatting culture. They let homes sit empty, good as money in the bank and watch the value increase as everyone else competes for the remaining houses. That's value they can borrow against, that's a few hundred-thousand dollars if you need some quick cash, that's a property you can rent out for regular income while charging tenants for repairs or maintenance and fining them for wear and tear. If property values go up and laws prohibit raising the rent by a certain degree, in many places they can find shady ways to evict that tenant, make no changes and charge the next renter more. It's probably illegal but if you rent to people below a certain income, you can be assured most can't afford to take you to court.
I live in Chicago. Many of the properties that used to house students, small families, single parents, older people, low-income folks have been gobbled up by little airbnb barons who colonize previously well-established neighborhoods and price out families who've lived there for generations because they can't keep up with the artificially inflated property values. The airbnbs spread like cancer until a handful of people can dominate the "affordable" housing for an entire neighborhood. It's gentrification on meth, but without the kind of localized money circulation or community improvements you get when people live and work and spend within their neighborhoods. It pushes residents further and further from services and resources until all that's left is the locked-in commodififation of an exploitable renting class.
If that wasn't bad enough, it also means that when large areas of habitable property are being hoarded by investors with portfolios of empty houses and airbnbs, that reduces the number of actual residents, which can spoil legislation on a community level. When all the storefront space in a neighborhood like mine is controlled by 4 people, you find the number of businesses and services that catered to lower income families start to become whiskey bars, boutiques, vintage shops, and upscale chain retail, businesses that bring money into the property owners at the expense of community accessibility, turning a once largely Hispanic neighborhood community into a posh little destination for travelers, tourists, and other aspiring business speculators who see every empty building as their next revinue stream. Gut a block of apartments with attached commercial space and build half as many luxury condos above a combination tapas bar and day spa and you've instantly got half as many tenants on that block to vote against your expansion schemes. Replacing low-income residents with higher-rent folks also bakes in support for future "improvements" that further contribute to the commodification of communities.
Property ownership has always been a tool of the most privileged class to extract value from the working class because the only options become rent, move, or live on the street for all they care. At which point, the police will sweep you further and further into the gutter until they have an excuse to send you to prison. This kind of speculation and consolidation allows people with excess resources to buy up the things the rest of us require to function and sell it back to us forever.
These are the same people that invented the fairy tale about how if we work hard enough and save and spend like smart people, then we can be landlords too! We can own businesses, raise families, chase dreams and be happy if we are smart like they are. But if we can't it's because we're lazy little parasites who need to have our lives portioned out to us lest we waste time that could be earning money for the landlord.
I hate these fuckers so fucking much.
It got so bad in Atlanta that in 2022 they passed a law limiting Airbnb-type operators to two physical addresses, and the owner is required to live in one of them. In addition to that, they are charged an annual permit fee + additional taxes.
It’s an excellent start, but only applies to the city of Atlanta -- not any of the kazillions of Airbnbs in the surrounding greater metro area.
"This kind of speculation and consolidation allows people with excess resources to buy up the things the rest of us require to function and sell it back to us forever."
the astarion sex god agenda is fully propaganda from Astarion, Himself. he's been eating bugs in a dungeon and hasn't felt a warm touch in 200 years. his badly constructed persona and hedonistic delight inspired by his newfound freedom does NOT fool me. I love him for who he is
people reblogging this saying astarion cries during sex. you're so right for that.