"Think of the two major possibilities here: Either the studios owe untold millions to their talents and paying it out will decimate their stock prices, or they owe so little because there really is no money in streaming and the bubble of their entire 21st century business model will burst in spectacular fashion. And make no mistake: this is a bubble. This is the inevitable climax of a stockholder-driven hunger for infinite growth, despite the fact that, by design, such a thing cannot and should not exist. The infection of Wall Street has overwhelmed the entertainment industry beyond repair, leading to cultural vandals like David Zaslav to be appointed with the callous duty of strip-mining decades’ of artistic beauty for pennies of tax write-offs. The past and future are frivolous in comparison to the short-term demands that the line keep going up."
Rebranding the Satanic Panic to be about "human trafficking" was the smartest move these people ever did, since no one wants to be against human trafficking victims, so they'll be more credulous, even towards organizations that push paranoid conspiracy theories with very little relation to trafficking in practice, who stage dramatic but ultimately useless raids for the cameras (because when you're helping traumatized children, it helps to be as loud and dramatic as possible) and show very little regard for any real victims they do rescue (for instance, releasing a bunch of rescued children after less than a week bc they had nothing at hand to help). You can be an outright QAnon guy and if you claim you're helping "real" human trafficking victims instead of openly ranting about adrenochrome parties under pizza shops, people will treat you with kid gloves when you make a movie about how great you are, yes, this is about the organization the hit movie Sound of Freedom is about!
They've done all of these things, including releasing trafficked children in a matter of days bc they put all their thought into doing a big dramatic raid for the cameras and nothing into what to do with anyone they rescued. Oh, and they don't actually verify that people are trafficked before launching a big, dramatic, violent raid to "rescue" them. And since they're far-right, the list of things they consider "trafficking" is ever growing. All sex work, no matter how consensual, is trafficking in their eyes. No doubt soon enough they'll be discussing "liberating" trans kids from their parents, if they haven't already.
In the end, what these people have learned is that you can get away with McMartin-level nonsense if you just excise the Satanism from it and pretend it's secular
i spent an insane amount of time trying to make that gif on my phone lmao please validate me 🥲
OK! OK!
AITA for wanting to demonstrate my leadership skills?
I (12M) was recently stranded on an island with my choir. I attend a private boys school, and lead my choir as chapter chorister and head boy. So you can tell I am very experienced when it comes to leadership. (For reference, the boys in my choir are all ages 5-13.)
While the group of us were recuperating after the plane crash that stranded us, we heard a trumpeting noise, and went to go locate the source. We came across a blond boy (12M) holding a conch shell and his fat fuck (12M) of a friend. We’ll call them R and P, respectively.
Now, I liked R in the beginning. He seemed sensible, fun, nice. The group of boys (my choir + some others) decided to pick a chief amongst us for our stay on the island. Now, obviously, I’m the correct choice. I’m chapter chorister, I’m head boy, and I can sing C#. But with the exception of my choir, everyone decided to vote for R, because he has a fucking shell and is handsome. Upsetting. However, R decided to let me lead a group of hunters on the island (there were a lot of pigs there).
As time went on, I began focusing on hunting. R, however, became a wet blanket. He lit a signal fire with P’s glasses, and demanded that we had to take turns watching it. While we started our friends, R and me began fighting about which was more important— hunting for food or keeping the fire going. On top of that, a lot of boys had begun speculating there was a beast on the island, and I think R handled the existence of said beast poorly. We all went hunting for it one day, and when R rejected the idea of my hunters finding it and fighting, I’d had it with getting my ideas shot down. I knew I was a capable leader, and R was just too stuck up to see it. Angry, I left R’s tribe and became my own chief.
A few days later, my tribe was the dominant one. We had hunting parties and feasts, and even managed to steal fire from R’s tribe. Unfortunately, that also meant that we had to kill some people in the process. P, for example, was a casualty, along with a choir boy we accidentally killed in lieu of the beast.
Right now, R’s tribe is completely disbanded and we’re going to hunt for him. I think I’m a pretty good leader, but I’m having some doubts. AITA?
TL;DR wet blanket chief won’t let me hunt, so I start a new fun tribe and am going to hunt him down
Today in transphobic idiocy...
Avery Jackson did a non-medical transition at the age of four. At the time, they felt more comfortable as a girl. As they grew up and their understanding of gender evolved, they decided nonbinary transgender suited them better.
And now that they are 15, their family is moving out of Missouri because they fear the recent draconian anti-trans laws.
"No longer identifies as a girl" does not mean they identify as a boy. They are still trans. They knew from the age of 4 that being a boy was not right for them.
I don't think they changed their mind. I think they just found a better understanding of who they were.
These bigots know nothing about trans people yet think they are qualified to criticize them.
And even if the kid did end up identifying as cis (and for simplicity's sake, let's say that they had only transitioned socially) there would be no actual harm done. Self exploration is essential for understanding one's identity.
But the sanctity of cishood is more important to socially conservative people than trans people's desire to be authentic.
Guys, the liquid stuff you use when you make a pen mistake so you have to cover it over, what’s it called?
White out
Okay that’s what I thot too,
But apparently it’s “Wite out” 😳😳😳 hello??????
Mandela effect *X-file music plays*
Views from an alternate dimension
Wite-Out is a brand of white out/correction fluid/liquid paper. The colloquial ‘white-out’ probably derives from the Wite-Out brand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correction_fluid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Paper
More importantly:
New Zealand math classroom, circa 2019
this post just shot me in the face like ten times
@twinkboimler had to share this with you
Dear tumblr staff,
stop. its ok. you don’t need to do these things. just focus on functionality(like the video player). we don’t need these little updates when somethings(like the video player) need your focus. thank you for your time but really, tumblr looks great. try to fix more important things(like the video player) so that we can all properly enjoy the features of tumblr(like the video player)
This post is a decade old this year.
I needed this drag. Let’s change guys and not look back
working out your brain is a must!!
• hydrate it by drinking lots of water
• eat dark chocolate and blueberries and walnuts and salmon and other foods high in antioxidants!!
• play little brain games on your phone; I like wordconenct! anything that makes you think!
• read books. It’s simple but necessary. Even better - join a book club, or read with a friend, so you can have discussions after. This will improve your reading comprehension.
• do puzzles - it doesnt have to be sudoku, I love playing Beat Saber on the Oculus Rift because it makes my brain have to match colorful patterns to physical movements very quickly!
• learn a new dance - even a tik tok trendy dance. Learning new dance moves are proven to strengthen synapses!!
• go bird watching, or foraging, or anything outdoors that requires you to explore pattern recognition and visual searching
• watch a movie with the intent of analysis - this is best done with a cinephile friend!! talk about tropes and symbolism and character growth
• cross stitch, or sew, or do anything that requires matching nimble hand movements to patterns
• play or learn an instrument!
• develop a consistent sleep schedule (or as close to consistent as you can get!)
• when eating, try to identify the ingredients and flavors you’re perceiving!
I hope this helps :)
I like how this went from me feeling like “hm why is this attacking me 🤨” at first, but feeling grateful seeing an added guide on a genuine expansion on a “ how to” work out the brain. This genuinely helps a bunch. People find solace in doing activities that get them through life by doing said activities of phone/tv or if that’s all they’ve ever known in their life to get them through things + etc tho. However, this was very impt to point out. Slowly beginning incorporating things to work the brain in ones own time.
Static: Shadows of Dakota #1 [Textless] (Card Stock Variant) (2023)
Art by: Olivier Coipel and Brad Anderson
But guys what if Cass Robin? Robin Cass?? Jason dies, very sad, but then Cass becomes Robin???
“How do you live with yourself?” “I’m not sure you get vampires.”
IS MOON DAY!!! MOOOOON DAY!!!! THE DAY OF MOOOOON! HAPPY MOON DAY 🌝 (we landed on the moon today in 1969)
[id: gif of two astronauts walking on the moon. One trips and falls and this is shown from many angles with quick cuts. End id]
If the WHOLE COUNTRY'S economy cannot work without the labor that UPS workers provide, than their labor is worth their demands and more.
No other conclusion can be rationally made from this information.
Before I… crack them open?
....before you put them in here:
the water cup even comes with a little needle at the bottom for hole-poking purposes, see:
sorry i meant boil not cook
WHAT IS THAT
It's an egg cooker!
It's like a toaster and an electric kettle had a baby and ...the baby boils eggs.
#is this specifically a German thing#because Germans tend to have Opinions about eggs#also the only people I know who actually know how to use an egg cup are German#teach me your ways - I still don’t understand why you’d use an egg cup. and I can’t imagine boiling eggs not in a pot on the stove
no egg cup:
egg cup:
#why is the wobble an issue you pick them up one at a time shell then and eat them like not whole but just#you hold them and bite them and eat then till there's none left? why does this need extra tools
...at this point i'm sorry to introduce...the egg spoon.
Even better news about German egg related gadgets… the Eierköpfer (it also has a super long German name), for when you need a guillotine to open your egg neatly
No offence to Germany but why are you guys so fucking insane
nothing to see here. Just normal feelings about egg.
Why is the Meltzer retcon bad?
So there's a few reasons-
- It's out of character for the Oliver Queen we've seen since the 1940s comics and especially since the 1970s comics to not want to be around for his kid. It makes absolutely no sense too with the Ollie that we saw in the much darker Vol 2, and it doesn't make sense with the Ollie we saw in the earlier issues of Vol 3.
- Even disregarding that it's out of character, it relies so heavily on the assumption that "nuclear family is best always" that it wants us to think less of Ollie who felt that he couldn't be a father after returning from an extremely traumatic life event. In this case the text itself rather than the characters in it, wants us to treat the island as if it was an extended vacation rather than months of trauma.
- There isn't any reason to fuck with Connor's character arc like this. Throughout Connor's arc in Green Arrow Vol 2, and even his focus in Quiver, so much of Connor's relationship to Ollie and as a result to himself is built around the tumultuous first meeting in Green Arrow Vol 2. And his relationship to his father is built on Connor hearing about Ollie from Moonday, and receiving a scrapbook of his father from her. Moonday speaks favorably of his father to Connor, to completely change the end of Ollie and Moonday's relationship is to mess with this original nature of Connor and Ollie's relationship, and to do so in a way that doesn't really make sense- especially when there's no reason to do so. Connor can miss the idea of having Ollie as his dad as a child, and Ollie can have his canonical guilt over not being there for his son without adding a retcon that serves only to mess with past canon, be out of character, and promote weird ideas about nuclear family and trauma.
