I heard someone call barbie disappointingly heterosexual and I've never disagreed with anything more strongly in my life

*sidles up to you at the bar* would you like to hear my wise aphorism

only if it's actually wise. the last guy who asked me this had a pretty foolish aphorism tbh

oh… uhuh… *really should have prepared this ahead of time* never ignore… the melody of time… when your shoe’s untied?

*considers this aphorism sagely, sipping my horrible and bitter potion*

yes. there is wisdom in this. he whose shoes are untied must carefully mind the rhythm of his steps. bartender, another Wretched Potion, for my comrade here

*to self* holy shit… my aphorism… it’s wise!

I were inspired

Something that I think should be an important part of solarpunk aesthetics is screws.

Look at your smartphone. No screws. You've got to have specialized tools to get inside your phone to repair something. There are certain pieces of tech that are glued in place and glue can't be undone without permanently breaking the bond.

But screws!

You can take apart a broken old radio, repair what's broken, and, if you were careful in taking it apart, you can put it back together and have a fully functioning radio and all you need is a common screwdriver!

It's hard to build screws and other mechanical fasteners because it requires more planning than clamps and glues, but isn't that what solarpunk is all about‽ It's about care and sustainability and and a radio or a computer built carefully with repair in mind is a sustainable computer that stays out of landfills and in use.

Screws are proof that God loves us and wants us to fix shit

Screws are proof that god loves us and wants us to fix shit

Awesome!

I know it feels like an understatement but you sometimes make more progress by pointing out that conservatives are fucking rude. going out of your way to call someone the wrong name because you don't like them? rude. childish. this isn't fucking kindergarten, Carl. she said her name is Jennifer. Everybody knows her as Jennifer. You are the one making things confusing. Grow up.

"misgendering is violence": invites discourse over the TraNs DeBatE, puts people on the defensive, opens you up to accusations of liberal snowflakery, comes off as a hypothetical thought exercise

"Who the fuck is Jason? I don't know a Jason. Oh her? You mean Jen? You mean fucking Jen? That's Jen, dipshit." : crystal clear. you're making shit more difficult for everyone because you're a rude manchild.

REACTION SPEED [Challenging: Failure]

It is so so important to show that queer people have always existed and are allowed to live long, happy lives. Young queer people–especially those in conservative areas–need to know that being queer is not a death sentence. Despite the many struggles we have faced, throughout history there have always been queer lives filled with joy and love. and you will find yours.

classic doctor lite episodes: the Doctor takes a nap so isn't in this adventure

new who doctor lite episodes: Donna accidentally triggers an alternate reality where the Doctor dies, causing her to experience the horrors of mass tragedy and the UK's descent into fascism speedrun

classic who companion lite episodes: oh no!!! Barbara's kidnapped most of the ep off screen!!!

new who companion lite episodes: the doctor confronts his grief and is trapped in a torture maze for 4.5 billion years repeating the same day over and over to try and break through to Gallifrey where's he's planning on stealing Clara back from the dead

seriously have been thinking about this all night long. call me autistic but the fact that 90% of workplaces the point is not to get your work done and then be done doing it but to instead perform an elaborate social dance in which you find something to do even when you're done doing everything you need to do in order to show your fellow workers that you, too, are Working . because you are at Work . disgusting why cant we all agree that if there is no work immediately to be done. we just dont do anything

start rallying for the four day, six hour-day workweek, kids

we don’t NEED to be at work 40 hrs a week

that is an abusive leftover from the Victorian age

thanks to advances in automation and technology, in the 1960s it was estimated we’d be working four days a week by 2000

in the 80s, it dropped down to THREE days a week by 2000

in the 80s,

it dropped down to THREE days a

week by 2000

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

I think it’s funny that Redneck Revolt is catching flak for trying to reach out to Conservatives/Libertarians/Reactionaries/etc., it really shows the metropolitan nature of radical leftism today. Like when you live in a coal mining town in West Virginia, chances are you’re not going to have a huge base of radical leftists from with which to organize a left-wing anti-capitalist movement. WHO ELSE are they going to interface with? WHO ELSE are they going to build a movement with? All the leftists already retreated into the cities and urban centers, these are people trying to make something out of literally nothing.

I don’t think we should be criticizing them for that, not all of us have the luxury of having a massive base of anti-capitalist folks to chose from and to organize towards socialism.

Redneck Revolt is doing the work of reaching out to people who would normally be against us and pulling them into the movement. They should be thanked and celebrated.

Redneck Revolt is incredible and I hope they keep up the good work

like poor rural folks have a lot of the same wants and needs as us leftists but find urban elitism and theory heavy discussion isolating (and who can blame them tbh). Like, no one except literal neo-nazis/fascists are our enemies and a search for ideological purity hurts us all. People who aren’t leftists might not be simply because no one has talked to them about it. And honestly, the far-right is way better about spreading their ideology and indoctrinating new people than we are and that needs to change asap

I do not give a fuck who’s with me as long as there’s a lot of them. votes don’t count more if you can pass a purity test. we need numbers.

So much all of this. Obama was actually GOOD AT THIS and I WISH I WISH I WISH that people would learn from that.

I don’t see why there should be *any* problem with this? (I mean, it doesn’t surprise me that there is, but. I don’t see how anyone serious about reform and “social justice” in 2017 would be against engaging the rural working class.)

Bluntly: because you can’t work with them and engage with them while remaining Ideologically Pure in the way that that kind of person demands. 

You literally cannot have a conversation with the kind of “redneck” they’re talking about, you can’t talk them around and actually engage with them, while insisting that Every Single Slightly Inappropriate Thing Be Apologized For At Great Length. You cannot do this work without considering their feelings to be important, and thus actually paying attention to your language and not talking in a way that alienates them. 

Which is to say: you do actually have to stop, look at your words, and make sure you’re NOT actually implying “all men” (for example). That what the person is HEARING from you is not “you are automatically evil for being a man.” To do this work you cannot insist that they do that work themselves, that they a priori know that when you say “men are so SELFISH” you are not necessarily talking about them, personally, in specific. 

If you want to actually talk to people and get them out there and get them to do shit like vote for you when they’re starting out on the other side, in the opposition (almost always because they actually have never had the opportunity to learn otherwise, and sure haven’t been given that opportunity without it being wrapped in hostility and being thrown at their faces), you have to approach them where they live. 

And that means you cannot abide By The Rules of purity-culture activism, because if, when the guy you’re trying to coalition-build with (and who may in fact have just worked two jobs in spite of being sick so he can put a LITTLE bit into a savings account for his two daughters, and who went home and spent an hour reading them stories and listening to their days and helped with homework and then got six hours of sleep before getting up to do it all again), says “fuck you, I am not selfish”, you go “STOP MAKING A TONE ARGUMENT, DON’T YOU REALIZE HOW THIS WORKS, GOD, YOU ARE TOTALLY AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT’S WRONG WITH MEN” … 

 … they are going to say “fuck you and the horse you rode in on”, and your bridge is burnt. 

That means that people who are actually trying to do bridge-building that WORKS, bridge-building that gets these people to the polls to vote for someone OTHER than the Cheeto-garbage of the world (because the Cheeto-garbage are the only ones who validate them and say “it’s all someone else’s fault”)? Make compromises. 

The purity brigade hate that. Making ANY kind of compromise, making ANY approach to these people, means you are KOWTOWING TO THE NAZIS AND WILL GET EVERYONE KILLED AND GUESS WHAT YOU’RE A NAZI-ENABLER AND PROBABLY NOT EVEN ~*REALLY*~ A PROGRESSIVE, BECAUSE THEY HATE US AND DON’T EVEN THINK WE SHOULD EXIST HOW CAN YOU EVEN TALK TO THEM?

The fact that this looks exactly like what the likes of Breitbart readers flail hysterically at people about cross-religious/cultural bridge-building with Muslim nations? Is not a coincidence. At all. 

Also, this is the sort of activity that select white people are good at. You need white privilege and infinite patience to engage with racists, and not everyone can do that. If someone is volunteering to do that, buy them a fucking beer. If you do not want to spend your time and energy engaging with racists (I’d rather cut off my right hand), do something else!

If we don’t reach across, how do we expect to pull them to our side?

Hey yeah in the midst of all the hype and the strikes, can we PLEASE fucking talk about this

I've said it before and I've said it again, fuck Nolan. This is the same man that forced his movie to release in theaters at the height of the pandemic because it was too "important" for streaming

Here's the real problem, it's not just Nolan who does this, it's an industry issue. This probably didn't just happen with Oppenheimer, but probably with Barbie, Mission Impossible, and every movie in between.

Why? Because VFX artists aren't unionized.

As this article states, "Not crediting the VFX crew is actually fairly common practice in Hollywood, and because VFX artists aren’t unionized, there is no recourse for the worker and no penalty for the studio when credits are omitted or misrepresented."

You wanna talk about this? Then let's not just focus on one movie, let's talk about the whole industry.

I finished putting together the Irish-American heritage month display and Jesus CHRIST there are so few books about Ireland in our collection?? Once more, I must say:

Oh and for the people who asked me last time what “a lot of stuff” entails

How the FUCK did I forget this

[Image description: the original post includes the hand-shaking meme with one hand labeled “Koreans” and the other “the Irish.” The joined hands are labeled as “a lot of stuff.”]

[The reblog by the OP has a close-up of the joined hands. A block of text is transposed over it. The text reads:

- History of colonization by powers that won’t admit to their crimes; extremely angry about it

- Previously unified country split into 2: a North part and Republic of (blank) part

- Diaspora in Americas

- Historical famines

- Reputation for alcoholism and devout religion

- Books are all about bottling up feelings and getting depressed or angry or both

- Stews]

[The third reblog, also from the OP, is of a reply from shorthistorian that says “Cabbage?” End image description.]

I have been a sheep caretaker for like two days and already I'm like. Wow. I get it.

I get why these were some of the earliest mammals to ever be domesticated. They look up to humans with this sort of dumb but all at once innocent and pure and trusting expression. They're happy to see you. They follow you around. They like to be rubbed under their chins. Maybe its just some latent Scottish highland shepherd DNA I still have in me but I look at my sheep charges and suddenly I see why the love of God for humanity is so often described as a shepherd and his sheep. I'd fight a wolf for these guys. I'd go way the Hell out of my way for them. I'd carry their young for miles on my own back.

Having some thoughts about like, how "women" playing with masculinity is only acceptable insofar as straight (cis) men find it sexually appealing and how the idea that transmascs (and butches) reaffirm patriarchy (by being "women" who emulate masculinity) is borne like, entirely out of people not talking to any genuinely masc women or non-passing trans men.

like legit, if you think masculine women aren't seen as a threat to the patriarchy, then you've got your head so far up your own ass that you've come back up the throat again.

every time ppl insist that masculine women are taken more seriously, i tell them about when i stopped wearing makeup, cut my hair short, and started wearing more masculine clothing and how that change caused an abrupt shift in the way people at my old office treated me. the women went from being open and friendly with me to being very standoffish. the men went from treating me like a silly woman to treating me like a freak. people no longer wanted to stop by my office and talk to me. they didn’t want to eat lunch with me. they stopped giving me the benefit of the doubt if i made a mistake. they stopped smiling at me. and then the office found out i was trans while i was off work recovering from top surgery, they passed around social media posts and when i got back and people saw my flat chest they looked at me with such utter disgust. they treated me so poorly that i was forced to quit within a week of getting back.

so when ppl insist that anyone performing masculinity is automatically treated with more respect, it just feels. weird.

icant even explain why i feel this way about it but this meme, this specific version, just makes me so emotional i love it so so much. its very heartwarming. peace n love on planet earth

In complete seriousness, they need to make laws about ads that say they can take no more than one, maybe two, clicks/taps to close/skip. No more "wait 10 seconds until you can skip the video, wait 10 seconds until you can skip the fake playable ad, wait 5 seconds until you can close the 'download now' overlay, puts up a half-screen in-app appstore pop-up (which at least you can close immediately)." This should literally be illegal to do.

Edit: this is blowing up so I just wanted to add (haha ad) that this was my "reasonable request" I also think there should be way more and way stricter laws around all advertising in general. I think most advertising as we know it today should be abolished.

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

PDFDrive stopped working a couple months ago, but you can try oceanofpdf.com instead.

we have already. They don't know exactly what is up with it, other than the sweat being slightly more acidic than normal and the acidic mantle being thicker and Way more acidic than normal, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with acidosis. As far as we have tested, our family has had this since at least my great grandpa, and the guy lived to be 93 years old.

What the fuck.

op is a xenomorph descendant from that one time ripley fucked the queen

Because in its younger days it used to have RGB lights:

Some of them still work, when they want:

Though I've long forgotten how to change the color settings

NEVERMIND I JUST REMEMBERED HOW