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@persephonewolf

She/Her/TheyThem|Chinese Major|Midwesterner turned Floridian| life is crazy

absolutely brilliant

There is just something about the way this is delivered

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klinger4yossarian

superb I can imagine teachers 2000 years hence teaching this speech like teachers now assign Cicero and Shakespeare

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Heโ€™s fucked off then? He resigned. Okay, so heโ€™s resigned but he hasnโ€™t fucked off? Okay. Fucking, I mean what do we have to do? Wait for another few months whilst he takes the wallpaper down? Justโ€“ Iโ€™m loving this: what an exit.

The prime minister forgot that his whip was a sexual predator. No answer to that one. No answer. No humility. No meaningful apology. For days, just more Dickensian twaddle, and a little reshuffle. Not so much reshuffling deck chairs on the Titanic, more: reshuffling cat shit on a litter tray.

And the manner of his departure should tell you everything you need to know. No dignity: just desperation, and delusion, and a despotic disposal to cling to power, no matter the harm to our country. A Tory party facing the inevitable truth that they have been complicit in enabling one of the most dangerously incompetent and untrustworthy, selfish individual ever to have occupied Number Ten for as long as they have.

And whatโ€™s beautiful is that it was the lying that got him in the end. He leaves in disgrace, as well he should, having exposed himself once and for all for what we always knew him to be: not a statesman, but a sad, little liar; a Shakespearean tragedy written by monkeys on typewriters; a prime minister who is as adept at lying at the dispatch box as he is to his string of mistresses. Every marriage Boris has had has ended when he fucked someone else and got them pregnant.

Thatโ€™s who he is: lies on top of lies on top of lies. He lies and gets people to lies on his behalf, and then lies about the lying. And when he runs out of lies, he can always rely on the incompetence card: I forgot, I canโ€™t remember, I donโ€™t understand what the word โ€˜partyโ€™ means, my willy just ended up inside my secretary, oh I forgot that heโ€™s a renowned sex pest. Essentially, a man who would rather pretend to be stupid than admit his mistakes; which, of course, makes him a coward.

A desperate, talentless flag-shagger who is so blatant in his dishonesty that when accused of lying to parliament, he simply tries to change the rules to make itโ€™s okay to lie to parliament.

Who, when his own ethics advisors resign in disgust at his complete lack of ethics, scraps the role of ethics advisor altogether which proves his complete lack of ethics.

But!

The devastating cries from the Tory party of, โ€˜enough is enoughโ€™ and โ€˜one step too farโ€™ are coming from the same people who have sat and watched him take a flamethrower to their party and our constitution for three fucking years: Fuck up after fuck up, lie after lie.

And they thinking what: 'Oh, heโ€™ll get better in a minuteโ€™ ? All of them: talking about 'trustโ€™ and 'integrity.โ€™ If you cared so much about trust and integrity, then why the fuck did you put Boris Johnson in Number Ten in the first place!?

All of the reasons theyโ€™re getting rid of him now: lack of leadership, lack of morals, lack of integrity, lack of truth. All these traits have been in plain sight for years: His CV reads like a demonโ€™s resume.

These noble ministers all falling on their swords! These are the fuckers that enabled Boris to be in there in the first place, and just look at what heโ€™s achieved.

Trust at politics at a lower ebb than that time Trump told Americans to all drink bleach; a government with a complete absence of ethics, morals, direction, or ideas; a ministerial code in the bin; a oven-ready brexit deal that even Boris admits is unworkable; a covid response that has been found to be criminally negligent; a United Kingdom inches away from complete devolutionโ€“an economy in tatters, a recession on the way, a health service barely fit for purpose, a country on the verge of a national strikeโ€“ A man who took an eighty seat majority and just spaffed it up the wall in the name of hubris and ambition, destroying his partyโ€™s reputation and leaving the UK ungovernable. What a legacy. Chaos. He leaves office the most hated man in his party and his country, and even though heโ€™s resigned: Heโ€™s still fucking there.

Just fuck off, and weโ€™ll take our chances with the next useless, posh, sliver of bollocksโ€™ skin who gets to shag their mistress in the fifty thousand pound floral wallpapered gin palace and factory of lies that Number Ten has become under Boris Johnson.

*The audio begins to fade, as if this were an excerpt from a longer section of continuous coverage.*

Okay, weโ€™re still waiting to get a clearer picture as to the timeline as to the prime ministerโ€™s departure, but it is safe to say that there areโ€ฆ

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AO3 has reached 25,000 fandoms! To celebrate, weโ€™ve put together info about fandom tags and how all tags work: https://goo.gl/W4wPxH

Hey folks who use AO3 - please read and reblog widely. In addition to the celebration of our 25,000th canonical fandom, this post contains some great tips for making our tagging system work for you.

As a Support Staffer and Tag Wrangler for AO3, I beg you:

Among the tips:

Separate your / and & ships / is for romantic and/or sexual relationships. & is for platonic relationships only โ€“ ones that are neither sexual nor romantic. (Pre- and Post-Relationship are still /.) & was created for those Gen fans who donโ€™t want anything non-platonic in the ships theyโ€™re searching for. You can help both Gen fans and shippers by carefully choosing the tag that matches your work!

Look, I know youโ€™re writing a slow burn where the friendship aspect of the relationship is important. I applaud that; I love it in my romantic pairings. But itโ€™s a /, not a &. Please save & for those of us who want to find the three truly and purely gen fics for a popular romantic ship.

Folks, I LOVE AO3, please read and share!

As someone relatively new to using AO3, I did not really realise this. *goes back to check tags* THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS.ย 

Yes! Its also the same in reverse! If it isnt a romantic pairing, sometimes we donโ€™t want to read it!

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tiktokmuseum

he was in the fridge!!!

ovbiously this person has done so much research and cares about their tortoise so much butโ€ฆ. the mf idea of having a live tortoise in a TUPPERWARE?! IN MY FRIDGE?? WITH ME FOOD? ahahahaha

the concept of opening someone elseโ€™s fridge only to find a WHOLE ASS TORTOISE in thereโ€ฆ idk if Iโ€™d ever recover

@esperantoauthor when the food doesnโ€™t come to Tesla, Tesla comes to the food

Reminds me of when I accidentally stumbled across this photo for the first timeโ€ฆ

mutuals put me in your fridge

Back in 2015, I went over to a classmateโ€™s house for group project work late in the fall, and in the middle of working on the presentation, offered to grab sodas for people but they were out of pepsi and Andrew whose house we were at said โ€œOh, thereโ€™s more in the basement fridge.โ€

So I go down to the basement, which is well-lit and finished and indeed there are more pepsi but also in the fridge is a massive tortise. This animal was the dimensions of a desktop computer and probably outweighed a labrador. Itโ€™s not moving, and is set in the middle of a plastic tray so itโ€™s apparently supposed to be there. I go back upstairs.

โ€œHey Andrew.โ€ I say, nonchalantly. โ€œSo is the tortise in the fridge down there for soup or what?โ€

โ€œThe what?โ€ says the other member of the group project. I donโ€™t remember her name, just that she always wore her hair in pigtails with butterfly clips that were based on real butterflies and she had at least a dozen species.

โ€œOh! No, thatโ€™s Andrew Too.โ€ he says. โ€œHis species hibernates so he stays in the fridge for the holidays.โ€

โ€œYou named your tortise after you?โ€ I ask.

โ€œNo, uh- Well, my grandfather got him in Egypt or somewhere while he was on leave during the war and He was named Andrew, so he thought it would be funny to name him โ€˜Andrew Tooโ€™. โ€ฆThen Mom named me after him so Gandpa left me Andrew Too in his will. Heโ€™s pretty cool when heโ€™s awake. Lets us dress him up for summer holidays, doesnโ€™t bark.โ€

โ€œOh!โ€ Said Butterflies. โ€œMy dad served in the Gulf War too! What unit was he in?โ€

โ€œOh no, Grandpa was with the Royal Air Force in World War Two. Andrew Too is going to be 70 this year! Weโ€™re going to make him a carrot cake!โ€

โ€œis that for soup?โ€

โ€œNo, thatโ€™s my uncleโ€

list of mundane things that feel like ancient human rituals

  • cleaning or wipe your bare feet
  • breaking off a piece of bread and handing it to someone
  • putting the weight of a basket on your hip or head
  • eating nuts or berries while hunched over close to the ground
  • seeing something startling just out of your line of sight and very quickly stepping or leaping on to a larger object to get a better view
  • cupping your hands into running water to wash your face
  • the unanimous protection of a baby or child in a public space where women are present
  • when an elderly woman laughs and grips your forearm tightly

May I add?

  • Touching someoneโ€™s face with the back of your hand to see if they have a fever
  • Stopping to watch animals moving in groups (geese, fish, horses, butterflies, bees)
  • Helping an elderly person to walk or sit
  • telling stories around a fire
  • huddling together for warmth when itโ€™s cold
  • marveling at sunlight through leaves
  • wonderment at the brightness of a full moon
  • bringing food to sick or grieving families

The thing about Those White People Baby Names is the way they so poetically express the tension between individuality and rigid conformity. These parents all want to name their child something unique, because they value the concept of uniqueness, yet simultaneously they abhor it in practiceโ€ฆ ergo, 30 different spelling variations on the most normative possible names. This homogeneity-masquerading-as-diversity is inseparable from capitalist consumer culture and in fact is directly analogous to the experience of walking into a grocery store and being asked to โ€œchooseโ€ between 50 varieties of toothpaste with the same exact ingredients, 12 brands of laundry detergent, etc.

Somebodyโ€™s third eye is WIDE the fuck open??!!!!!!!

okay so thereโ€™s actually a reason behind this that isnโ€™t just โ€œwhite people are terrible and really really boring!โ€ itโ€™s to do with Mormon culture. specifically: the fireworks you get when sexist expectations and terrible petty drama collide.ย 

most of Those White People Baby Names are originally Mormon baby names. theyโ€™re chosen (or invented) by women in Utah; they tend to filter out to the rest of the world through things likeย โ€œmommy blogsโ€ andย โ€œbaby name booksโ€ andย โ€œparent forums.โ€ย 

you know how every culture has a โ€œhey, welcome to the world, lil baby!โ€ ritual? the mormon version of that is called a baby blessing. the babyโ€™s father, and a handful of other men in the family, go up in front of the congregation during a Sunday service and say a special prayer. it begins by reciting the babyโ€™s full name and then sayingย โ€œI give you a name and a blessing.โ€ย  Itโ€™s not something you can avoid doing- if you try, people will think that youโ€™re trying to hide something. baby blessings are mandatory, and everyone in the congregation will watch and judge you.

because of this, your babyโ€™s name gets a good bit more of a spotlight in Mormon culture than it does in secular culture, and thatโ€™s saying something.ย 

ย Mormon women start picking out names for their hypothetical future kids in fourth or fifth grade and snipe at each other for pickingย โ€œweirdโ€ orย โ€œbadโ€ ones. itโ€™s something thatโ€™s supposed to be in the back of your head long before you have a kid. and because people will judge you if you pick a name thatโ€™sย โ€œtoo boringโ€ orย โ€œtoo weirdโ€, it is already an intricate dance of finding something thatโ€™sย โ€œinterestingโ€ enough to pass muster but not soย โ€œinterestingโ€ your kid wonโ€™t survive kindergarten.

and that dance becomes even more intricate when Baby Name Drama gets involved.ย 

see, because youโ€™re supposed to put so much time into your babyโ€™s name, a lot of women getโ€ฆ overinvested, let us say. the perfect name they picked for their baby is THEIR babyโ€™s name and NO ONE ELSEโ€™S. if you so much as dare to BREATHE that youโ€™re naming your baby/pet/favourite laptop the same thing, you have STOLEN their BABYโ€™S NAME.ย ย 

so hereโ€™s the thingโ€ฆ say you really wanted to name your daughter Amy. You love the name, itโ€™s classic, itโ€™s cute, itโ€™s perfect for your little girl-to-beโ€ฆ and then your sister-in-law gets pregnant and LOUDLY ANNOUNCES that sheโ€™s naming her baby Amy! and you know for a fact that sheโ€™s the type of person to throw a massive petty shitfit over you STEALING her BABYโ€™S NAME. your family will take sides. her family will take sides.ย 

if you want to avoid the drama, and youโ€™re dead-set on naming your daughter-to-be Amyโ€ฆ well, then you name your daughter Aimee, or Aimi, or Aimy. Itโ€™s not the same name, itโ€™s pronounced the same but itโ€™s not the exact same name, so you can shut up,ย sis-in-law.ย 

from what I understand a lot of the Crazy Name Spellings came from this root- โ€œitโ€™s not Kaylee, itโ€™s Kayleigh, I swear I didnโ€™t steal your ideaโ€- and then once it became a trend, people named their kids that to be ~trendy~ just like they did with every other stupid trend.ย 

but the root cause of Terrible Trendy Misspelt Baby Names has very little to do with white people being boring and conformist, and certainly nothing to do with capitalism.ย  itโ€™s a good old fashioned case of a) sexist expectations warping womenโ€™s behaviour into really really stupid shapes and b) Petty Small Community Drama.ย ย 

This is a terrific addition to this post that I donโ€™t think actually contradicts my main idea all that much

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blanca-angelica-loveless

Its explains Reneesme Iโ€™ll tell you that.

There are so many unintended consequences to well-intentioned actions. It feels like a game you canโ€™t win.

#CHIDI WAS RIGHT

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gibbeltish-hoid

The Good Place really went with making their new Point โ€˜there is no ethical consumption under capitalismโ€™ and I respect that

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armchair-factotum

And then went on to say โ€œblaming individuals for all of this is absurd and evil, as is locking them up for punishment instead of rehabilitationโ€ and I respect that

Also, โ€œconsequentialism is a fundamentally flawed branch of ethicsโ€

This is a really good point. I donโ€™t think libraries have ever been more important to protect and support. As a very popular post out there somewhere once pointed out, can you imagine if libraries were proposed today? Theyโ€™d be tossed away as โ€œsocial garbage.โ€

So yeah, support them and actually USE your card too. Most library systems have apps for ebook borrowing so you donโ€™t even have to go in.

we have a cat in for boarding right now who has the sweetest most darlingist face. he looks sweet and cute but he is not. he is a motherfucker who will, without literally any warning, whip his arm out to scratch you and hook his nails in your skin and be unable to let go. he grazed me this morning and apparently last time he got stuck in the hand of one of the vet techs for like two minutes before they could wrap him in a towel and remove his claws from her skin. and I was warned of this. and I still thought he wouldnt try because his face was so innocent and he was just quietly watching me

a conman

last good president

Wait, I just remembered, Richard Nixon was the guy who signed the fucking legislation requiring childproof safety lids on medication. He literally did this to himself

There has never been a president so committed to owning himself as Tricky Dick

my cat constantly wants to be on my lap getting pets but she doesnt really understand the intermediate step that requires being picked up

Whenever I do worldbuilding I try to keep this image in mind

i hate this fucking site so much *clicks reblog*

Funniest shit Iโ€™ve ever seen.

Ah, the Mary Suez.

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area51-narutorun

hundreds of years of language evolution and innumerable events had to line up in the exact right order for that pun to make sense.

Ok but i just fled twitter to the more prosperous lands of tumblr and it is legitimately much nicer over here

I was teaching kids today and they got fixated on the usualย โ€˜are they dead now?โ€™ question when I was talking about historical figures. So I was just likeย โ€˜Yes, theyโ€™re dead now, everyone who was alive in the 1800s is dead now.โ€™ and then one kid was likeย โ€˜Except for youโ€™.

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missmoneyhenny

Iโ€™m sorry to hear about your scalp.

Okay I must clear this up more concretely since this has gone far beyond my circle of folks who have the context of Why This Is Actually Funny, because there are thousands of people here who are like โ€˜kids are so rude, kids are so evil, I hate kidsโ€™ whenโ€ฆ

1) Kids are little humans and theyโ€™re learning and they should be treated as little humans who are learning. Donโ€™t be a dick to kids. Adults who are assholes to kids is such a bad look, and kids remember that shit.

2) This particular child was being SO earnest and โ€˜except for youโ€™ was said not as an insult but like โ€˜ohโ€ฆyouโ€™re the last one left ๐Ÿ˜ขโ€™.

I dress like this everyone:

[ID: image of a person wearing a puffy 18th century shirt, waistcoat, and cravat.]

Thank u, goodnight.

funniest shit ever is bath and body works having beef with build a bear workshop since they both have the same initials (babw), which causes shipments to occasionally be delivered to the wrong store

*bath and body works employee voice* well this sure as shit ainโ€™t soap

*build a bear workshop employee voice* this is fucking soap