one of the tabs open on my computer is this video and I think I might have a problem. I never close the tab and every time I look through my tabs during the day, I watch it again and link it to somebody to make them suffer
call me OSHA the way i’m demanding a railing
once again i have been written up by HR
“Authors should not be ALLOWED to write about–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative
“This book should be taken off of shelves for featuring–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative
“Schools shouldn’t teach this book in class because–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative
“Nobody actually likes or wants to read classics because they’re–” you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot
“I only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and features–” you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.
"you are functionally a conservative" is such a good and clarifying insult
Literally right after I saw this post, I saw another post in a discord chat for BOOK EDITORS in which an outspokenly liberal editor talked about how Nabokov should have never been published because he wrote about p*dophiles and described women's bodies in ways that made her uncomfortable. She described his writing as "objectively terrible" and said she wanted to burn his books. And other editors were bringing up classics they didn't like and talking about how they wanted to throw them in the trash. This wasn't like a light "unpopular opinion!" conversation. This was actual book editors talking about how books should be destroyed and censored.
There is something so scary and toxic in global culture right now. The revival of fascism is influencing everyone's mindset and approach to art, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum.
I see far more books being censored today than when I was a kid. Librarians handed me The Catcher in the Rye, The Sexual Politics of Meat, and Animal Farm when I was literally 8-11. My mom would never have taken a book away from me. I read everything from the Tao Te Ching to the Qur'an to atheist texts under my desk at school. Teachers thought nothing of it or encouraged it. Books seemed universally acknowledged as sacrosanct to me.
Now I can't find any adults who don't hesitate or want to make exceptions when it comes to censorship. Even the most liberal social activist librarians I know go, "well except for book X..."
Functionally conservative. It's so important to have the language to express that.
Thank you for this addition!
we know that holograms take up a MASSIVE portion of reddwarfs energy, a whole city's worth of energy in fact. we know that The Cat has never been fond of rimmer right from the get go. that he's disgusted by this holographic simulation of some dead guy. I propose that part of the reason for this is because rimmer to him is and has always been a flashing, lagging, uncanny valley mess.
sure he can't see in the dark, but his senses are better than humans, he can smell things lister can't. he can see the projector floating around inside rimmer. what's worse is the hologram is programed to be a self serving whiney bitch (we love him as a character of course but in person, how he treats others including cat is oof) later with hard light he can probably see everything that Rimmer picks up as slightly vibrating. this flickering is only worsened when rimmer goes into energy saving mode. the only solace he gets from this anthropomorphic uncanny, seizure risk manifested is that everyone else seems to finally see it and understand a little better when rimmer is in low battery mode. that is why he gets so adamant about calling rimmer out on not being real, rimmer to him is a literal headache inducing eyesore and a rude patronizing one at that. yet lister insists on sharing a bunk with rimmer and acts like nothing's wrong, that would feel infuriating- from his perspective maybe even like gaslighting even though he knows everyone is being honest.
to put it another way, imagine two guys are puppeting a dead guy. weekend at Bernie's style. you know he's dead, you know it's just an act but everyone else is fooled, no one can see what you see, infuriatin, right? now imagine the two guys are seemingly invisible to everyone but you, this dead man is also a strobe light and this act is emotionally abusive to your only bleeding non mechanical friend after your family abandoned you for not being cool enough and the other half died and this flickering automated corps is a dick to you because of these invisible guys who could choose to not be a dick.
i genuinely don't think Cat was in the wrong for feeling this way, maybe he was a dick but it's understandable. id be grumpy too.
This is an amazing notion and I love it.
My boyfriend edited this one picture of a seal with huge wet eyes so that it had a super tiny head and it was so funny that several days later it’s all I can think about when my brain isn’t preoccupied
boyfriend here. world needs to see the image
FOOD HUBRIS BY COUNTRY america: believes their shitty local burger chain is a once-in-a-lifetime culinary experience because their mayo includes onion paste canada: if your poutine tastes better than the styrofoam plate it comes on you will discover the cold rage that lies under the canadian's polite exterior united kingdom: despite thriving and unique fusion cuisines spreading from the UK to the rest of the world in recent decades, when asked to think of 'british food' the average UK citizen will start a fight over whether cold beans with a modest side of white bread is haute cuisine france: McDo Ortolan Bunting italy: extremely mad about american versions of italian food. blissfully ignorant of what happens in brazil brazil: if the scientific genius applied to making cronenbergian pizzas were applied to anything else, brazilians would all be commuting to jobs on the moon. They have pizza that can feel pain russia: obviously mayonnaise is the perfect topping for all foodstuffs, this is solved. The question is what to put on top of mayonnaise, and it might never be answered germany: less a joke than a fact: the single most produced numbered Volkswagen part is a standardized currywurst
VOLKSWAGEN CURRYWURST IS REAL IM FLIPPING OUT
simply dont monday
simply don’t tuesday
simply don’t wednesday
simply don’t thursday
Me: shit who smoked all the weed?
my therapist, hannabis lector: whoa dude idk that’s crazy
I have had it with this likescolding. “Tumblr doesn’t have an algorithm so likes don’t actually do anything” motherfucker I am not clicking that heart to give some post better ~algorithmic visibility~ I am clicking that heart to help my internet friend microdose on serotonin as god fucking intended
this is what a mind reader would hear if they tried listening in to my thoughts
Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later
finally a descriptor for whatever the fuck american animation studios have been doing for years
i will never forgive the internet for what it did to the word “mansplain”
mansplaining is a very specific phenomonon wherein a man who is NOT qualified to talk about a topic assumed he knows better than other people who ARE qualified, purely because of sexism.
sharing a fun fact you learned isnt mansplaining. infodumping isnt mansplaining. adding your relevant personal experience to a discussion isn’t mansplaining, (as long as you remain respectful of others’ experiences as well, but that’s always true). correcting someone who is objectively wrong and spreading misinformation REALLY isn’t mansplaining.
stop telling men that all of their interests and attempts at socializing are insulting and unwanted, your gender essentialism is showing.
people in my REAL LIFE i have had to convince i like to hear them talk, really:
- trans men talking about their oppression
- trans women talking about their oppression
- autistic men infodumping
- perfectly kind cis men who are answering a question i literally asked, or getting passionate about one of their interests
people who AREN’T self-conscious about this:
- men who actually fucking mansplain, oh my god the whole POINT is that they dont care about other people’s thoughts, why do you think whatever this fucking campaign is would bother them
this is making the rounds again and the amount of people in the notes accusing me of being a man is hilarious. like no i just dont like being mean to people and alienating my friends, sorry.
I would like to add men of colour talking about their oppression.
[Plain text: I would like to add men of colour talking about their oppression.]