SmokingLeather

Public dollars belong in public schools.

Almost like the entire thing was a scam to move public funds into private business...

this is the funniest thing I’ve read in my LIFE

HIM????

it's real btw

Op here, we're going strong!! Here's a picture of our Goob shrine

really recommend getting a partner with a different religion than you and very little knowledge of your religion because the opportunities for explaining things to each other are just exquisite

yesterday she told me some story about the Buddha's wife and child and I was like. Wait. He fucked? And she was like yeah of course he fucked, why wouldn't he, he was the most attractive and loveable and and wise and etc. person who ever lived. why would he not fuck.

this morning she looked perplexed in the kitchen at me and said "did Jesus not fuck?"

unfortunately the awful little freak everyone hates has saved the world so now we all have to try to be nice

Samwise giving the eulogy at Gollum’s funeral

"People wouldn't invent anything if there was no profit motive."

Well, that's clearly a lie.

Republicans 👀👀👀👀👀

This is horrifyingly true.

If you get a captcha asking you to identify the tents or the RV's, request a new captcha. Stop snitching now includes making sure you're logging in online ethically I guess?

Wow. What the actual fuck?

depression is simultaneously like. a very serious disorder in the sense that it ruins lives and causes people to kill thesmelves and all that. and yet it is kind of on its face a gay baby disorder of sad for no reason

Sometimes you don't even get sad, you just lose all your willpower and maybe be tired all the time

for no reason

Kinda feels like maybe, given that extremely low energy is one of the symptoms, maybe it's not some weakness of character or a random event but some kind of physical issue that causes mood disruption among other things.

That said, my depression seems to have subsided after I got a job that involved a fair amount of physical work and being outside in the sun and was completely obliterated after I changed jobs to one that involved even more walking and sunlight.

Not saying that it would work for everyone with depression, but walking and sunlight seem to do it for me. Perhaps some people are particularly vulnerable to insufficient walking and sunlight.

Not trying to be ableist, as I am partially disabled, but physical activity has been helpful for me as well. Weights and yoga, just a couple of times a week, has been a game change. I came off of my antidepressants (because of side effects), and my love has been working out as PT for her hip replacement, and I was invited to come to the gym with her. Honestly, I feel better than with the pills (but please don't stop your medication without your doctors help).

im stealing and reposting this because even without any added commentary it should be a self-evidently ridiculous example of the way that the panic over AI art has led to an overtly (and in some cases, explicitly) religious concern over the Sanctity of the Human Soul taking the spotlight from any discussion of labor rights or creative implications, but if i just reblogged the post on its own i run the risk of a smoothbrain assuming i actually agree with it. no i didn't add the circle and no i don't know why it's there either

And these idiots think this is persuasive.

Give people a $20 minimum wage and it'll cost TWENTY FIVE CENTS MORE.

It's always been a damnable lie.

YES.

frog chair

Okay I- 😭

OMG Democrats really did it!!! They said they should yesterday...

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

#YOU CAN NEVER TAKE MY JOB AI AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

You're right. It can't.

But a CEO can give it away.

Paraphrasing Cory Doctorow: we're not at the point where AI can do your job, but we are at the point where AI can convince your boss it can do your job.

everywhere i go everyone compliments me on the particle cannons i attached to my body. they say things like "those look effective against armored targets, and also very precise" and then i blush cutely and obliterate a scrap car

"thanks I installed them myself 😊💜"

Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

the daughter of the embodiment of darkness which ate the original sun and moon and almost ate the devil.

That's not important. What is important is that it was a danger to Mister Frodo.

Stop me if you hate the concept: short, fat, hairy lady gets isakai'd into a high fantasy, and instead of "oh look at all these ethereal elves woe for I am but a flawed mortal" routine she lands in Dwarf territory and is immediately revered as the most enchanting and desirable maid in all the land. This immediately becomes a zesty romantic drama. Thoughts