they are going this drink after me when i die

the horsepussy

#preserve history#reblog the screenshot#share the truth with the youth

Someday I’m gonna need to actually write about this conservative tactic of demanding we basically turn off the part of our brain that interprets words and finds meaning when we talk to them. If they don’t specifically say some exact words, well you can’t respond to those words. You can’t assume JK Rowling is saying she’s a victim of a witch hunt by trans people because she never said those exact words in that exact order.

It’s a fascinating form of intellectual cowardice, where they want to essentially say something without ever being held responsible for saying that thing.

Looks great Senator!

Nothing adds to the breakfast experience like a green hue

As someone who has mispronounced so many words because I never actually heard them. I appreciate this post

King

“not every character you love is trans” true. but most of them are. bi also

and autistic.

my sister sent me this on discord because she's been obsessed with king of the hill lately and i'm taken aback by the tasteful homoeroticism in this composition

I hope all those white boys shocking waiters by ordering in [asian language] all collapse into a black hole singularity

I just watched a tiktok where the white guy tried speaking in vietnamese to the waitress who had to admit on film that no, she doesn't speak her ancestors language, and he was like "oh I've out-vietnamesed you" while she like sat down on the restaurant floor in shock. and the comments were like haha how cool and smart of the white guy isn't this funny! like how do people not realize this is humiliating? white people will never understand the complex relationship asian diaspora have with their language and the shame and guilt and baggage of assimilation, and then they get to exploit that shit for views and clout like I genuinely want all those people to kill themselves

This trend of "language hacking" is such a disingenuous attempt to engage in language learning and culture.

These people claiming to become fluent within weeks of learning a language are not fluent. They're learning basic interpersonal communication skills and memorizing scripts. You could also call this conversational language.

These people lack cognitive academic language proficiency or the ability to use the language for a multitude of purposes outside of a conversation. You could call this academic language, but it can be used outside of academia. There's no depth to their language proficiency, but they try to give the illusion of it by approaching "easy" targets willing to have a conversation with them.

Many non-western cultures are also more open to westerners learning the language. Be white and make a mistake in Mandarin? "Wow, you can speak a little bit of my language" turns into "white boy shocks and amazes Chinese people with his Mandarin proficiency" - which, a lot of people who work in American Chinese restaurants speak other dialects, and Mandarin isn't their primary dialect anyway. Try doing the same in French with French people and they'll crucify you.

Meanwhile, diaspora are largely denied opportunities to use their native or heritage languages either because of "English only" educational policies or the stigma of speaking another language in an English dominant world, and these white men collect languages like trophies and demand engagement from the communities these languages originate in.

Being a polyglot takes a lot of work and cultural understanding. It's interesting that when my African students speak five languages, they're viewed as mediocre in five languages because it takes a lot of upkeep to learn in five languages. However, white men with giant egos pretend they're a master in five or more languages when they're barely proficient in more than one.

"how do you just know this" is a question I get asked a lot, because I tend to be someone who can contribute unusual facts or insight on whatever topic a casual conversation turns to, and I never know how to answer because "I pay attention" sounds rude and isn't super actionable. but that is really it, I just take an active interest when I encounter something curious or unusual.

like recently one of my friends linked me a funny paragraph from a very badly written erotic novel. it was so bad that I thought "I wonder if this is real", so we looked up the book it was from and learned it was a vintage horny housewife type story by someone who wrote a lot of shitty cheap porn back in the 80s, all of which now seems to be completely out of print.

in the course of googling the author, I discovered that one of their works had been cited in a 2004 court case over a prisoner's right to keep erotic novels in his personal library after the prison confiscated them. a bit more googling turned up the case details in a legal database. the guy had received the books by mail and kept them, among others, in his cell. the prison seized them, citing a policy against prisoners having pornography. his lawyers argued that 1. erotic novels are distinct from pornography because they have artistic and expressive content beyond the depiction of sex acts, and 2. since he received them by mail they are therefore protected under his constitutional right to freely access non-disruptive information from outside the prison. I don't know if he got his books back, but he won his case.

then we googled the defendant and found out he was in prison for helping a woman to drug and murder his boss (who she lived with), mutilate the body with acid and dump him in a ravine.

anyway my point is, take an interest. that's how you learn weird stuff.

BOSS MAKES A BOATLOAD I MAKE A SMIDGE

THAT'S WHY I JERK OFF IN THE WALK IN FRIDGE

Twitter LGBTs are so sanitized it’s embarrassing

Why are they like this

this was a prophecy

fucking someone with a strap on and then leaving it in like a bee stinger?

"i'm sorry gwynn, you needed to say 'what is fucking someone with a strap on and then leaving it in like a bee stinger?' better luck next time!"

sitting anti-kink posters down in front of a wrestling match and explaining kayfabe to them with the patience of a preschool teacher

You see that one? He's called the "heel." He looks mean and says a lot of scary things, but it's not real and he's actually very nice. When he says "I'm going to break you in half" you don't have to be scared because it's pretend. These two talked about this beforehand, and now they're playing pretend together. Can you think of any other situations that might be like this?

no that part was real

My doctor says all the black mold in my body came from a single expired gram cracker which i just think is fascinating

one cracker!

sadly not even the most harm ever done by a single expired cracker 😔

Reminded by flag discourse about my proposal for a new Massachusetts state flag. The looming black triangle represents the creeping dread one experiences in Massachusetts, the white represents the horrible weather, the blue represents microplastics, and the slogan represents I saw it on a pack of cigs and thought it sounded sick