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Columbus was a horrible human being

this is the fourth time my cat has pressed the power button on my computer and turned it off

this is the fifth time my cat has stepped on the power button on my pc and turned it off

this is the sixth time my cat has stepped on the power button on my pc and turned it off

this is the seventh time my cat has stepped on the power button on my pc and turned it off

this is the eighth time my cat has stepped on the power button on my pc and turned it off

this is the ninth time my cat has stepped on the power button on my pc and turned it off

this is (possibly) the tenth time my cat has stepped on the power button on my pc and turned it off

this is (at least) the twelfth time my cat has stepped on the power button on my pc and turned it off

this is (at least) the thirteenth time my cat has stepped on the power button on my pc and turned it off

this is (at least) the fourteenth time my cat has stepped on the power button on my pc and turned it off

this is the worst I have ever been hate crimed on tumblr dot com

a story about tumblr’s collective ability to fact check

new website, same internet (part 2)

Breaking News: Number of Notes ≠ Verification!

When you detect a truffle or perhaps fresh meat

Read this & be mindful of those partaking in Ramadan. 

I would rather everyone read and shared this instead of “remember to tag your food/nsfw/etc!” post that’s going around every year. (None of these things actually break your fast and if you’re fasting and worried about seeing them, you shouldn’t be on tumblr).

Being considerate and kind goes a long way, so I’d appreciate if this post went around instead.

My boyfriend prefers his mattresses firm, and I need a soft mattress. He prefers his food temperate while I like my food hot and spicy. This is another good reason to not have a kid, because even if the kid averages out and prefers everything in the middle, there's the risk of some blonde bitch breaking into our house to rummage through our stuff.

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[ID 1: a tweet by Dan Lamothe (@DanLamothe) that says, “SCOOP from @John Hudson: ‘The United States has quietly approved and delivered more than 100 separate foreign military sales to Israel since the Gaza war began Oct. 7, ... U.S. officials told members of Congress in a recent classified briefing.’ The tweet links to a Washington post article titled, “U.S. floods arms into Israel despite mounting alarm over war's conduct.”

The subsequent tweet, also by Dan Lamothe, says, “All but a couple of weapons transfers were processed without any public debate ‘because each fell under a specific dollar amount that requires the executive branch to individually notify Congress, according to U.S. officials and lawmakers.’”

ID 2: a tweet by Yousef Munayyer (Yousef Munayyer) dated March 6, 2024 that says, “Looks like the Biden Administration is deliberately altering the way they transfer weapons to Israel precisely to evade public scrutiny for doing so. This is scandalous.”

ID 3: a graph titled, “US military aid to Israel.” The subheading says, “The US has sent Israel more than $120b in military aid since 1960.” The x axis is years from 1960 to 2023, and the y axis is dollars from 0 to 4.5 billion. The 1973 October War, 2008 assault on Gaza, the 2012 assault on Gaza, and the 2014 assault on Gaza are labeled.

The military aid to Israel is almost nothing in the early sixties, a little money in the late sixties, and then it steadily increases with some spikes. 1971 is the first year it surpasses 500 million dollars. In 1974, it spikes to nearly 2.5 billion, and in 1976, it spikes to 1.5 billion. 1977 is the last year it is below 1 billion dollars per year, at around $250 million. It spikes from $1 billion to $4 billion in 1980.

All through the eighties and nineties, it is between $1.5 and 2 billion. In 2000 and 2003, it spikes to around $3 billion, but is between $2 and around 2.6 billion for the rest of the two thousands. In 2010, it was about $3 billion, in 2011, it increased to $3.5 billion, and by 2014, it increased to around $3.8 billion. In 2022 it spikes to well over $4.5 billion, and in 2023, it was $3.8 billion.

Below the graph, it says, “Source: Congressional Research Service | Jewish Virtual Library (2023),” “@AJLabs,” and the Al Jazeera Logo.]

Oh, hey, remember when Santos was investigated and it turned out he was using exactly this tactic (making large numbers of purchases just below the reporting threshold) and the entire Democratic party was absolutely up in arms about how obviously corrupt that was?

went to a wafflehouse with my boyfriend and while he went to the bathroom the waitress came and asked what I wanted to drink and then she proceeded to ask me what my son wants to drink

ALOK VAID-MENON Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness 1x03 (2022)

Alok’s book report of The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century by Dr. Kyla Schuller

I think Tumblr will love this

Role model for children everywhere

less “therapy is for everyone!” more advice on how to recognize when therapy is helping you and when it is harming you, more educating people on their rights and what they can do when their rights have been violated, more advice on navigating finding a therapist that isn’t only applicable to private practice situations

less “don’t forget to take your meds!” more sharing of studies on the effects of psychiatric medication (wanted and unwanted/positive and negative), more discussion of how to document your experiences on medications so you can understand how they are effecting you, more support for people struggling to navigate getting prescribed/using/going off of psychiatric medication

less “always reblog the suicide hotline!“ more sharing information on what happens if you do actually call one of these lines (i.e. will they send the cops to your house), more teaching individuals and communities how to help someone in crisis without involving police or hospitalization, more open discussions of how to share what we feel and make others feel seen, understood, and supported when it comes to extremely difficult feelings and situations

i cant truly explain why but i almost cried yesterday while talking to a woman who studies medieval rus goldwork embroidery, who explained that there is a very particular method that is used to do goldwork embroidery called couching that keeps the thread on the top of the fabric (compared to normal embroidery techniques, where the thread goes over and under the fabric for each stitch) to conserve the very expensive gold thread and this technique is seen historically on more or less all examples of goldwork pieces commissioned by the church, nobility, or chivalric orders from goldwork guilds. however, rural gravesites reveal that lots of people, not just the wealthy, owned a small piece or two of goldwork embroidery, usually collars or cuffs, that were made by someone they knew. these pieces were almost universally made using typical embroidery techniques, meaning they used up twice the gold thread. something about the idea of people, so long ago, saving up to make something beautiful and expensive and special for someone they love, even lacking the specialized knowledge to do it the "proper" way, is so human to me.

cats would be so fucking upset if they understood they were missing out on the ability to lie verbally

people seem to have trouble understanding why i’m an anti-capitalist, so i’m going to try and put it into simple, real-life terms.

i work at a restaurant. i make $12 an hour, plus tips. minimum wage where i live is relatively high for my country - the national minimum wage is $7.25/hr, and has not been raised since 2009. before taxes, working full time, my yearly income is about $22,000 a year. ($25,000 if you count tips)

at my job, we sell various dishes, with an average price of about $10-$15. we get printouts every week detailing how much money we made that week; in one week, our restaurant makes about $30,000. (one of our other locations actually makes this much on a daily basis!)

i’m not going to go into details, but after the costs of production (payroll for employees, rent for the building, maintenance, and wholesale food purchasing) are accounted for, the restaurant makes an estimated profit of $20,000 per week.

this profit goes directly to the owner, who does not work at this location. the owner of my restaurant has actually been on vacation for a few months, but still profits from the restaurant, because they own it. i have met the owner exactly twice in my year of working here.

to put this into perspective, the owner of this restaurant earns in 2 days what they pay me in one year. and that’s just from this single location - the owner has several other restaurants, all of which make more money than the one i work at. this ends up resulting in the owner having an estimated net worth of tens of millions of dollars, even after accounting for the payroll for every single worker in their employ.

now, i have to ask you: does the owner of my restaurant deserve this income? did they earn it? did their labor result in this value being created?

the naive answer would be “yes”; the owner purchased the location and arranged for the raw ingredients to be delivered, did they not?

the actual answer is “no”. the owner may have used their initial capital to start the location, but the profit is a result of my labor, and the labor of my co-workers.

the owner purchases rice at a very low bulk price of about 25 cents a pound. i cook the rice, and within a few minutes, that pound of rice is suddenly worth about $30. the owner did not create this value, i did. the owner simply provided the initial capital investment required to start the process.

what needs to be understood here is that capitalists do not create value. they use the labor of their employees to create value, and then take the excess profit and keep it.

what needs to be understood is that capitalists accrue income by already HAVING money. the owner of my restaurant was only able to get this far because they started off, from the very beginning, with enough money to purchase a building, purchase food in bulk, and hire hundreds of employees.

that is to say: the rich get richer, and they do so by exploiting the labor of the poor.

the owner of my restaurant could afford to triple the income of every single person in their employee if they felt like it, but this would mean that they were generating less profit for themselves, so they do not.

the owner of my restaurant pays me the current minimum wage of my area, because to them, i am not a person. i am an investment. i am an asset. i am a means to create more money. 

when you are paid minimum wage, the message your boss is sending you is this: “legally, if i could pay you less, i would.”

every capitalist on the planet exploits their workers for their own gain. every capitalist, even the small business owners, forces people to stay in poverty so that the capitalist can profit.

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youre telling me a ham fisted this metaphor??