Leverage crew bonding exercise: roasting one Eliot Spencer
Love my grandparents.... on the phone just now my papa was dead serious like “i just think it’s so terrible to kick your child out for being gay . This is a union family and the ONLY thing i’d ever kick any of you out for is crossing a picket line.” okay working class hero!
whatever our souls are made of, you and me are going to end up stuck in the same ice hole
All of those would be cheaper than imprisoning people, so if you’re against it, it can’t be because of money.
One of the most successful illusions the prison industrial complex and its proponents create is that these issues which result in high incarceration rates (poverty, homelessness, “breaking the law”) are unsolvable. Or rather, that incarceration somehow solves these things.
The truth is that policing and incarceration exacerbates these issues. Every dollar spent on building prisons is money not spent on all of the responses mentioned above.
This, in so many ways. But I’ll make my own post to ramble
the most disorienting thing thats ever happened to me was when a linguistics major stopped in the middle of our conversation, looked me in the eye, and said, "you have a very interesting vernacular. were you on tumblr in 2014?" and i had to just stand there and process that one for a good ten seconds
Ewan McGregor, Episode 1 - ‘Preparation‘, Long Way Up (2020).
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Daryl and Marlin, our ship cats! It's Marlin's second season sailing (though he's been with us three years- got locked at the seaport last season for crimes) and Daryl's first! What sweet babies 💖
The people have spoken: What Crimes Has Locked This Poor Soul Away
You are Marlin, ship's cat and mascot of the tallship Lady Washington. It is the summer of 2021, you are about a year old, and full of Mischief.
Lady is docked in the Port of Everett, and no one is paying attention to you- never mind the fact that they're doing their jobs and getting money so they can keep pampering you. No, they're not paying attention to you Right This Instant, so you decide you want to take a little jaunt off the ship and explore on your own.
In addition to the marina, the waterfront, and all manner of other delights, the Port of Everett also has a Naval base, so you decide to check it out! See what all the fuss is about.
Of course, wandering kitties without the proper credentials aren't allowed on high security Naval bases, so when the Marines inevitably capture you and ask you where your people are and what you're doing here and how you got here, you just curl up cutely and bat your eyes and meow the most pitiful meow because these new people are paying attention to you but not the Right attention, no one's even petting you!
They call the number on your collar, which goes to the captain of Lady at the time, who... is on leave. In Florida.
"Ma'am? Is this your cat?"
"Oh god yeah where was he?"
"A high security government facility. Can you come pick him up?"
"Considering I'm on the other side of the country, no. Let me get in contact with the crew to send someone."
"Thank you. Also he's very cute."
"I know."
So the captain does just that, playing telephone while trying to find someone to go pick you up. Except by the time a viable crewmember is chosen and calls back to confirm, you've gotten bored and decided you want to leave.
So you clawed the Marine holding you and escaped.
You get a smidgen more exploring time before you're captured again and taken to your crew and back to the boat, but at this point no one is happy including you, because no one pet you the Whole Time you were off adventuring and that's a damn travesty.
And not only that, when you get back to the ship, you're locked up tight in the aft cabin because no one trusts you anymore not to wander off and break into government facilities when they're not looking, and then when the boat gets back to her homeport in Aberdeen, they do you just the WORST injustice and lock you inside there! For the whole winter! And then the following summer, because you are now a Criminal and Criminals don't sail.
Except this season, you made Big Pouty Eyes at everyone, and they caved and let you back on, so you are a very happy kitty now.
With a tracker in your collar so this doesn't happen again.
Have I ever told u about the people my sister ran into when she was working at Rocky Mountain National Park in college?
They thought the rangers put the animals in barns at night and let them out in the daytime.
My sister was like. No. The elk just...live there.
This broke their brains. They couldn't wrap their head around the concept of wild animals that just live in the wild without humans taking care of them.
Some lady from Houston, utterly baffled; wait so what do the elk do when it rains??
My sister, who is actually more of a feral gremlin than me and who is barely containing it at this moment only because she has a 'Rocky Mountain National Park staff' badge on; get wet usually.
Some Lady From Houston, now almost angry; That's cruel!!! They should have a barn you put them in!
My sister, inhaling; well see they're wild animals and this is in fact their natural habitat. They are native here and have been here longer than we have, they're just fine at dealing with the various weather conditions of the Rocky Mountains. It does not bother the elk to get a little wet in the rain.
Me, watching this; Sis whatever they're paying you it isn't enough.
Worked at a campground for a few summers and will never forget the woman who demanded a refund from the rangers because there are deer and squirrels around. She told us she thought we kept them out of the campground and only let them in the day use part of the park.
Ma’am. Ma’am you are camping in THE WOODS.
Whatever you were being paid it wasn't enough.
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry what??
The- she-
It's becoming apparent that there is a chunk of the human population that is genitally incapable of understanding that humans don't actually control the natural world???
That's wild
.....genitally
Do you really want Anakin dead?
OBI-WAN KENOBI: PART V dir. Deborah Chow | released June 15, 2022
"bears repeating" and "time flies" are two kinds of creatures that fill similar ecological niches
I think my favorite thing in Marie Kondo's work is the section in The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up where she talks about branding and labels contributing to visual clutter.
She explains that if you go through the whole tidying process and still feel cluttered and anxious in your own home, one thing that might help is looking around to see how much visible text and logos there are in your home. It can make you feel like you're constantly being advertised to, which makes you less comfortable in your living space, because you're basically in a showroom.
She suggests taking labels off of packages, storing items in different containers if you can, and making sure you take every purchase out of its packaging when you bring it home.
I think about that advice a lot when capitalism starts to get to me and I feel like I'm never gonna escape. Taking all the branding and advertising off of things has genuinely helped make my home feel more like my home. Peeling labels off candles, storing envelopes neatly on a shelf in a plain box, putting flour and sugar in canisters instead of leaving them in the bags, creatively covering logos on my tech...it all helps so much. Like, goddamn, it really made me realize just how much we are constantly being advertised to even when we think we're not.
I hate to be that guy, but I don't love the idea of buying more stuff to put your stuff in from a sustainability standpoint. Sure it looks nice, but it's just more plastic shit in your house. I think just taking the labels off will be enough in most cases
Well, if you read Marie Kondo's work, she heavily advocates for NOT buying storage gadgets, and instead gives tips for what kinds of things can be recycled into storage. She frequently recommends shipping boxes or shoeboxes, which can be easily painted or papered over to get rid of brand labels.
I also already gave a couple examples that don't even require you to find new storage. Even if you don't have alternate storage options for things like flour and spices, you can still peel off unnecessary labels and cover logos.
At no point did this post say to run out and buy brand new storage containers. You came up with that idea yourself.
Every few months twitterinas bring back the “carnivores are a problematic element of nature and we should feed them synthetic meat and make it so they don’t eat herbivores. this is completely normal, feasible and won’t have any kind of repercussion on the ecosystem” discourse
First time I saw that was a guy who had as proposition to create fake prey animals with a robotic exoskeleton and covered in synthetic meat that predators would hunt, eat and then the exoskeleton would get up and go to the lab to get re meated. That was funny as hell
Squid I'm so sorry you had to find out about these people this way.
Have you found the one suggestion to build a big fence across the Serengeti and put all the predators on one side and all the herbivores on the other yet?
See, cats will eat grass, as will dogs, so this means that they CAN, they just want to eat meat, but this would force them to learn to live on grass!!!
(This is an actual argument that has been made)
Reblog to bonk your mutuals on the head every time they start thinking negatively about themselves
specifically this kind of bonk.
Ekekek battle. (via ekekekkekkek)
The internet is a magical place because imagine how close we all came to never having witnessed this.