From Curse of Strahd, after the party kills Doru (vampire son of a priest).
Paladin: I wanted to cut his head off, but the party wouldn’t let me.
Ireena: Oh, so you didn’t kill him?
Paladin: Oh no, I killed him.
Ireena: Oh.
Paladin: I cleaved him in half.
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Sweet Adeline-singing motherfucker
What the fuck happened to the rest of his barbershop quartet
presumably the killer whales got to them
Mild Across the Spiderverse spoilers but one thing that’s particularly neat about Hobie Brown/Spider-Punk (besides him having one of the coolest animation styles in a film filled with cool animation styles) was how he seems to have deliberately played into the stereotype of a punk (careless guy who breaks important stuff for shits and giggles) as the means to deceive figures of authority & get the tech he needed to be genuinely punk (anti-authoritarian, DIY, non-conformity, no selling out).
Yes it’s very important for solidarity with workers but, and maybe this is an unpopular opinion, workers should have solidarity with poor customers. Like ignore shoplifting, be sensitive when ppl are using EBT cards, that kinda thing.
If you work retail and you worry about shoplifters I beg you to remember how little money you’re being paid to do this
and also no matter what your boss says to you, someone shoplifting will not cause your wages to be docked. if it DOES, then you can get in contact with a labor attourney, who will proceed to light up like a kid at christmas because they (and you) are about to get a big fat payday. that shit is ridiculously illegal.
Dmitri Vasilis Grigori Kafta (archfey warlock) His familiar is Luka. commission Thank you for commissioning me!
an Italian place in my town recently added themselves to doordash and I'd never been there before so I was a Touch surprised when this was their entire pasta selection.
"Isn't it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal" I mean, there's a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it.
Humans have a really weird mix of mundane superpowers.
We're not fast and don't have a lot of natural weaponry but we're bizarrely tolerant to a broad range of toxins to the point that one toxin is considered a morning necessity for some to perform at work. Gotta love us.
a lot of self professed socialists and left wing people have absolutely no consciousness on imperialism and when it comes down to it could easily be convinced of being fascists
seriously when the reaction to people making very realistic observations on how the structure of the global economy is unsustainable, especially for the first world, is “great way to make people support socialism by telling them their lives are gonna be worse under it”…
if you define quality of life and freedom in terms of access to cheap commodities and convenience at the cost of others, you might not be a socialist!!
socialism quite literally is not defined by “increased access to goods” (this is something capitalism technically does as well and what proponents of capitalism argue to defend it). it is defined by changes in the relations of productions, it is a shift in the social reality of daily life, through restructuring production and who is in control of production. reorganizing economic life according to peoples direct needs and not to existing superfluous capitalist markets that depend on an entire advertising apparatus to manufacture desire therefore will impact what is produced, and impact consumption. if your politics are primarily concerned with consumption and not around the locus of production and peoples working lives, you are not viewing this as a socialist, you just want social democracy. to say that the excesses of western life, propped up by hyper exploitation of the third world, are not sustainable and not preferable to the people whose labor produces them, is not even an argument on moral grounds, its a reality of the contradictions inherent to modern imperialism.
Adam Curtis on big change;
“- I think the question liberals, or the left, have to face at the moment, is a really sort of difficult question which is: “do you really want change? do you really want it?” Because if [they] do many of them might find themselves in a very uncertain world where they might lose all sorts of things. What we were talking about, in many cases, is people who are at the center of society[], they are not out in the margins. They would have a lot to lose from real political change because it really would change things in the structure of power.
[] But you can't just sit there forever worrying about big ideas because there are millions of people out there who do want Change. And the key thing is: they feel they’ve got nothing to lose. You might have lots to lose, but they feel they’ve got absolute nothing to lose. But at the moment they're being led by the Right. So things won't remain the same. But society may go off in ways you really don’t want.”
Sharecropping.
FYI if your employer does this, if they have done it for a long time especially, you and your coworkers could be owed huge amounts of unpaid wages and it would be an easy suit if there is a paper trail like this and your employer is placing strict requirements on your behavior while not at work. Employment lawyers generally work on contingency. Just food for thought.
posted on twitter so thought I post it here too since it did alright, with original and update
