Herbert West - first and last appearances
The nostalgia critic reacting to bubblebass cosplaying him in spongebob
[“What makes a slave different from a serf, a peon, captive or inmate is their lack of social ties. In legal terms, at least, a slave has no family, no kin, no community; they can make no promises and forge no ongoing connections with other human beings. This is why the English word ‘free’ is actually derived from a root meaning ‘friend’. Slaves could not have friends because they could not make commitments to others, since they were entirely under someone else’s power and their only obligation was to do exactly what their master said. If a Roman legionary was captured in battle and enslaved, then managed to escape and return home, he had to go through an elaborate process of restoring all his social relationships, including remarrying his wife, since the act of enslaving him was considered to have severed all previous relationships. The West Indian sociologist Orlando Patterson has referred to this as a condition of ‘social death’.”]
david graeber and david wengrow, the dawn of everything: a new history of humanity, 2021
Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon — everything belonged to the men who had the guns. Little men, some of them, big men too, each one of whom he could snap like a twig if he wanted to. Men who knew their manhood lay in their guns and were not even embarrassed by the knowledge that without gunshot fox would laugh at them. And these “men” who made even vixen laugh could, if you let them, stop you from hearing doves or loving moonlight. So you protected yourself and loved small. Picked the tiniest stars out of the sky to own; lay down with head twisted in order to see the loved one over the rim of the trench before you slept. Stole shy glances at her between the trees at chain-up. Grass blades, salamanders, spiders, woodpeckers, beetles, a kingdom of ants. Anything bigger wouldn’t do. A woman, a child, a brother — a big love like that would split you wide open in Alfred, Georgia. He knew exactly what she meant: to get to a place where you could love anything you chose — not to need permission for desire — well now, that was freedom.
Beloved, Toni Morrison 1987
having the time of my life on ufo twitter today let's go aliens lets gooo
Tuira Kayapó brandished her machete in the face of a government official who was trying to convince indigenous leaders to accept a mega-dam project in the Amazon, 1989
“Electricity won’t give us food. We need the rivers to flow freely. Don’t talk to us about relieving our ‘poverty’ – we are the richest people in Brazil. We are Indians.”
- part of kayapó’s speech during this event
also! she’s still alive! that sort of thing is always worth pointing out to show that we really aren’t too far removed from events like this! here’s a 2019 photo of her:
progressive spaces will say "the gender binary isn't real!" then create a new binary of "evil masculine" and "innocent feminine"
"evil masculine must be purged so it does not corrupt the innocent feminine, because the evil masculine is conniving and the innocent feminine is too sheltered to know better than to fall for the evil masculine's tricks" and they just live like that
(it's the radical feminism poisoning btw)
I think one of the goals of society should be that someone who requires expensive medicine and a lot of care can live an amazing life, the longest life they possibly can, with dignity, even if they have no friends or family or anyone who cares enough about them to help. the goals of a society should be to make life better than if we are alone, society should want life to be as good as possible for as many people as possible, and those goals should account for people not having social support networks.
social life aside, the most hated or ignored person in town should be able to live as good and fair and just of a life as the most loved person in town. survival needs to stop being a popularity contest.
it has been surprising to me (maybe more surprising than it should be at this point) how many people seem to have jumped to the conclusion that "most hated or ignored person in town" was referring to people who did something to get hated or ignored. like being nasty or cruel or even attacking healthcare workers. stuff I never mentioned, even a little!
that is part of the problem! that is part of exactly why survival needs to not be a popularity contest! because when people think about a person who is getting hated or ignored, without any other context, it somehow gets assumed this person did something to get treated like that! that they earned their mistreatment somehow! this is especially bad when we are talking about disabled people, in a world where so many people firmly believe that being disabled is already the result of having done something wrong!
you do not have to do anything to not have enough resources. you do not have to do anything to get hated or ignored. you can just be a person hanging out in a place and be despised by others for breathing, especially if you are part of a minority group. you can just be a person who got abused or is trying to escape abuse and have nobody on your side. you can have all your loved ones die and wind up alone. you can just be new in town. you can be kind to everyone and still have them hate some part of who you are or what you look like. you can do nothing at all, or you can do everything 'right' and still wind up hated or ignored by others, and that means you too!
even if you think everyone deserves a good quality of life, immediately jumping to the conclusion that someone must have earned their mistreatment is still really fucking bad!
If not now, when?
We in Labor aren’t hurting our industry. We’re fighting to save it from predatory sociopaths who will gleefully watch people lose their homes and go hungry, rather than release 2% of their grotesque wealth to ensure a healthy industry for everyone.
In 1960, SAG and WGA struck to force management to adapt to the new technology of television. Without that strike and the agreement it birthed, residual use payments would not exist. Wil Wheaton and Gates McFadden support SAG-AFTRA and WGA at Paramount Studios My parents forced me to be a child actor, and stole nearly all of my salary from my entire childhood. My Star Trek residuals were not…
Read this. Please.
Ok so I’ve found a way to describe what Neurodivergent Can’t Do Task Mode™ feels like to neurotypicals
So you know how you can’t make yourself put your hand down on a hot stovetop? There’s a part of your brain that stops you from doing that? That’s what Neurodivergent Can’t Do Task Mode™ feels like
Even if we want to do it, there’s a barrier stopping us from doing it, and it’s really hard to override
And why does our brain see the task as a hot stovetop? Because when neurotypicals finish a task, they get serotonin, but we don’t get that satisfaction after completing a task. A neurotypical wouldn’t get serotonin from putting their hand on a hot stovetop, it would just hurt. When we can’t do a task, it’s because our brain knows that the task will hurt (metaphorically) and wants to avoid that.
It’s not that we’re choosing not to do the task, it’s that our brain is physically preventing us from doing it.
Neurotypicals can and should reblog but please don’t add anything
(Sorry/not sorry about the random bolding, it makes it easier for us to read)
Oh that’s a great example. It’s not even really a metaphor in some cases. Because this is exactly what some of our brains are doing. For one reason or another the brain thinks that the task in question is dangerous or harmful and the mechanism keeping us from doing it is a survival mechanism.
adults of tumblr how on earth do you decide on what mattress you want to order
Go to the store.
Go to the store and lie on it for five minutes.
I know online is cheaper, but go to the store. Online delivery has a send back guarantee, but do you really know yourself capable of and willing to dismantle your bedroom because it didn't work out? No? GO TO THE STORE.
Go to the store and try it out and compare prices and nine out of ten times, they will match the online prices for you, because you're THERE and they can't afford to let you walk out empty handed.
Try it out, figure out the right hardness for you. Make sure you're comfortable.
A good mattress will last you 20-30 years depending on how often you move and how well you commit to taking care of it: vacuum it regularly and flip as per instructions, usually once every six months.
A bad mattress costs about the same as a good mattress, up front, except for the fact it will fuck you up for years and you might end up with chronic pain because of it.
Go to the store. Try it out.
I got a 46% discount and 18 interest free installment payment on mine, just cause I was physically there.
Figure out your budget. Go to the store. Ask to try it out. Make sure it feels good.
You deserve a good mattress and you deserve the money you spend to be worthwhile.
You've got this.
Also a lot of those trendy online-only delivery mattresses are not quality controlled, multiple people have discovered their mattress was stuffed with fiber glass only after it ripped and spewed sharp fibers over literally all of their belongings
Gonna tell my grandnieces and grandnephews this was Barbenheimer
asking a trans person if they like astrology is so fucking funny like "hey do you like arbitrary categories that people are sorted into because of the circumstances of their birth" im not sure i do no
OTW elections are coming up and if you've donated $10 in the last year, you'll be receiving a ballot in August. Audrey Richards is a GOP candidate who's been involved in efforts to "save children" from queer media, so for the love of all that's holy DO NOT VOTE FOR HER.