nothing has been more important to my being queer than when i went to my first pride parade, got seperated from my group, had a panic attack about it and was sitting on the side of the road holding a tiny genderfluid flag and freaking out. then this six foot five drag queen in four inch heels appeared from literally nowhere and sat down next to me. i, this scared-shitless trans bi kid at pride for the first time, very nervously told her she looked pretty and i told her my name and that i got lost and didn't feel like i should be at pride and she held my hand and said "oh, honey, everybody deserves to be here, especially you. pride is for everybody who's ever gotten lost, who's been scared of who they are or where they are. you think we never been scared before? pride's for you, honey, because you're scared. you don't have to be proud right now, but you're gonna be one day, honey, i'm sure of it."

i found my group soon after that and i never saw that queen again but to this day i am convinced i met an angel.

so yeah. pride is for you. pride is for all of us.

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happy labor day to snoop doggs blunt roller specifically.

Environmental storytelling.

Environmental storytelling.

Activists in Tasmania have stuck up more honest promo stickers inside Coles & Woolworths stores, the two dominant supermarket chains in Australia.

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#I have never felt more represented

Despite every moment of life being indescribably precious and a wondrous mystery, I will spend it caring about dividends and how many rental properties I have.

Rich people are truly dead inside. 

I can't imagine caring this much about numbers that absolutely will never impact my life. This person is making more in passive income than I've ever made in my life and he's just like "but but I need more :(".

I mean, fuck that guy, but psychologically it's interesting.

Some desperate remnant of his soul knows what he needs. As soon as his debt is cleared, he goes on to live what many would call an utterly charmed life: working no more than 20 hours a week, travelling and spending time with friends (which he, at $150,000 a year and no mortgage, has ample money to do). He has a loving relationship also.

But his brain is so rotten that he cannot understand happiness anymore. He is incapable of conceptualising it other than in money.

A man who has everything except the ability to feel it.

How poetic.

But fuck that guy.

I want to hit this man.

I want to rob this man.

Meow appears beside Rogue, holding a sign: "Heist? Heist."

This man is so so so close to realizing a fundamental truth to how humans operate, but I genuinely don’t think he’s going to get there. Although I’m not sure he realizes it this man views the money he earns as a direct translation of his sense of personal achievement and engagement. 

Which means that when he says he regrets the months he didn’t pick up more hours to earn more money, what he’s describing here is boredom. He’s doing it in the crassest, shallowest, most income-obsessed and unattainable for most of us way possible, yes. But this man is expressing that once he achieved a certain financial goal he relaxed, enjoyed himself, got bored, realized on some level he was understimulated, and then started working more hours to meet whatever stimulated activity threshold he personally needs. 

This is infuriating because this man experienced the counter-argument to that nonsensical talking point that if we meet people’s financial needs with a universal basic income they’ll grow lazy and won't do anything. 

Anyone trying to develop $200,000 in passive annual income is not working three minimum-wage jobs to live paycheck-to-paycheck. This man’s basic financial needs were met. Working more hours to make more money is just his own personal code for ‘I still needed to use my mind to do things’ (using what might be the only metric of personal achievement he might actually have). This man lived the argument for universal basic income and I genuinely don’t think he realizes that. Once his basic income needs were met he still needed to do things to keep himself stimulated and engaged with his own life.

You see a version of this play out with retirees who leave their jobs, go home, and very quickly find themselves in need of new activities or friends or engagements to keep them present and stimulated in their lives. Ensuring someone’s basic financial needs are met doesn’t make them stop doing things, humans don’t work that way.

Reblogging for the psychology lessons

There is, I believe, a line in an Agatha Christie story about a man so desperately unhappy he doesn’t know he’s unhappy. “Ah, a rich man,” responds the nun.

friend, the Black Mesa Research Facility was destroyed by the US military via nuclear bomb

Black Mesa’s tests went so badly that this is how America is depicted in the wake of their mistakes:

again don’t get me wrong, GLaDOS is impressively good at murder and you absolutely wouldn’t be safe in Aperture Science either, but technically, the only place safe from Black Mesa’s mistakes is literally Aperture Science; GLaDOS even admits she’s the only thing holding back the Combine from invading the facility at the end of Portal 1.

At least if you’re already difficult to kill in Aperture Science you’ll maybe get a mean robot milf girlfriend out of it. If you’re difficult to kill in Black Mesa, a demigod from another reality forcibly adopts you into being his personal Manchurian candidate.

not even saying Black Mesa IS more dangerous just that it’s a lot closer than most people seem to think

i took a philosophy class my first year at community college, and it was the funnest shit ever - prof gave us a powerpoint and told us to fight with him when we disagreed so we could have discussions, then gave us his steam username so we could play racing games together. one time, he told us this story about a prof he had in grad school - guy was tenured, and apparently a great teacher. but he had this time built into his schedule where other profs would be in labs, experimenting, doing research, where he stood in his empty classroom with a warm cup of tea and stared out the window. for these 1.5 hour schedule blocks. and the administration would come to him and be like “dude, we’re not paying you to stare out the window, why aren’t you working?” and he’d say, “i am working. i’m a philosopher, it’s my job to contemplate the world and life and that’s what I’m doing,” and they couldn’t do shit cause he was tenured. and then every handful of years he’d pop out a book that blew everybody’s tits off and they’d get a surge of new philosophy grads come to study with him and make the school a lot of money.

So yeah, i think that’s still what being a philosopher is like

"lola bunny space jam this, lola bunny feminist icon that" everyone shut up lola bunny space jam will never amount to whatever the hell was going on with her in the looney tunes show

Actually, the scariest part of Alien (1979) is how no one tried to understand the Xenomorph and just branded her a monster from the start. We can't chose the circumstances of our birth and it's the choices we make that define who we are.

She chose to eat people

God forbid women do anything

Not to be a total bitch about it, but just to be clear the Xenomorph from Alien (1979) did not eat people or try to eat people. She just wanted to use em for baby making purposes

the xenomorph wanted to forcibly use members of the working class as breeding stock, with no regard for their lives or wellbeing. she is a conservative

She could use me as breeding stock any time 😳

You wouldn’t understand

a lot of you need to be a lot more chill about cishet passing people and couples still being part of the queer community

its happened to a friend recently and ive seen plenty of people including streamers/youtubers etc have the same thing happen over and over again, where they put the LGBT label on their streams or a pride flag in their bio and then they get people demanding to know every detail of their identity.

if you see a guy online with his girlfriend and he has a pride flag in his bio and your first reaction is to question whether hes even allowed to put that there, log off. the guy could be bi, could be trans, could be nb, could be literally any queer identity at all and it doesnt matter. its none of your fucking business. he could also just be an ally showing support, its none. of your. business.

you are not the queer police and it is not your job to make sure everyone in the queer community has the properly documented justification for being part of it. touch grass. you need to be normal about not knowing everyones labels and identities and about people keeping those private.

cishet passing people have always existed and will always exist within the queer community, they are our family and belong with us.

I don't know when some of y'all got so comfortable in this world that you were able to get fuckin picky about who gets to be in our community and aligns themselves with us against the fascists and homophobes and transphobes and rich-ass preachers and conservative politicans and tradwives and pearl-clutching Anita Bryant clones and DeSatanis and Trump and 70-something countries where it's illegal to be gay and Mitch fucking McConnell and censoring-ass dickweeds and christian nationalists and white supremacists

but you need to knock it the fuck off, assholes

To be fair, there have always been people in the community who are this fucking fragile. Like, I got hit by a dyke for not 'disclosing' to her as soon as she started hitting on me that I (at the time) identified as bisexual, and there was that dude in my old queer community who referred to himself as a 'platinum star gay' bc he'd been born via c-section & casually referred to me as a 'breeder'.

Like, we've always had people who were so fucking fragile that the thought of anyone not conforming to the Approved Unorthodoxy threatens them.

Platinum star gay? Did he consider being born as having sex? What the fuck is wrong with people?

It was literally phrased as "I have never touched a vagina, ever."

And yes, he really did take that as a point of pride, and yes, I'm aware of how many levels of shittiness that is.

Wait hold on Tumblr girlies have been carrying that show on netflix for well over 10 years now and the guy responsible for it hasn’t gotten a GOD DAMN DIME?????

Nor the actors, writers, set people, tech folks, and anyone else involved that made it happen. This - this is why they’re angry. This is why they deserve a new contract!

HELLO?????

She was being a little too quiet and I turn around to find her dead asleep like this

Update:

H...huh??

THINGS BLUE

Oh my god wait I gotta check somethin

THAT THINGS BLUE !!

Green cat, meet blue bunny.