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i like irish poetry. i like knowing a man called tadhg ó ruaic, fl. 1684, lost a game of cards to a girl called blánaid on purpose because he wanted her to top him

you penetrate my weak defence / teasing me with anxious love / i know the score; my turn to play / against your side i make my move ... blánaid, my dear, my favourite one / gentle, fragrant, guileless love / it’s time for you to trump my man / and ‘take’ me with a daring move ... come sit beside me, woman of the wavy hair / embrace me, bright branch of the cool grey eyes / resolve my torment, generous-gentle woman / and ‘take’ me quickly to your merciful bed

extract translated from the classical gaelic by derek mahon

Every person in a position of political power should have their daily needs matched to the lowest class of their country.

You make $6 an hour now, Mr. Congressman, and you’re not allowed to sit down or take breaks during your 7.5 hour daily shift. If you don’t like that, then you’re welcome to make some changes

This.

i’ve never understood being able to enact laws that will never impact you

It legitimately works. When politicians chose to live on the food stamp budget for their state they worked to increase the allotment after only a week of living that way.

And honestly? It should include having to spend time living on disability, navigating their district in a wheelchair, and taking public transit.

These people should have to live with their choices the same way they force us to live with them.

there is something inherently shitty that people in positions of power have to physically do the same things as people who are less fortunate than them to be able to empathise with them and make a change.

Screaming .. what

This person thinking a $200-300 bag means you’re the 1%

yeah

I'm sitting here boggling at the idea of spending more than $30 on a purse, when i could put that money towards so many other things.

$300 is pricey for a bag, but I’ve spent more than that on video games, so it’s hard for me to be judgey about it. They’re good sized bags, with a simple design that you could wear with a ton of stuff and won’t go out of style quickly. If they’re really good quality, they could outlast a number of my cheapo bags, since I go through a few of those a year (when I left the house). You would definitely have to have the money up front, though. (Hello, Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness.) The designer is Liberian-American, though, so you’d be supporting a Black-owned business.

But I haven’t seen any mention of this brand before, memes or no, so why has this suddenly shown up on Tumblr? Especially since it’s pretty low priced compared to a lot of designer names. Let me google! 

Ah. AOC bought a somewhat pricey, but practical, designer name bag, supporting a Black immigrant both directly and by providing publicity for his business. Suddenly, a post appears on Tumblr encouraging socialist and communist-leaning people to hate people carrying this particular designer name bag. 

She’s up for reelection in two months.

This is what propaganda looks like.

Why it’s critical to study how social media impacts the movement of ideas

We can’t fuckin trust y’all to eat the rich when y’all don’t even know who the rich are

me, watching a mobile game ad: you fool. you shit idiot. i would never let the goldfish fall into molten lava.

X

There is so much going on here, the fact she made a laptop mockup for her own cat, the fact that she put the “google images of birds” on it, the fact that the cat KNOWS it’s the cat’s “laptop,” the fact that the cat is UPSET WHEN HER LAPTOP IS MESSED WITH...

12/10 would watch again

So great lol

YOU WERE MY BROTHER, ANAKIN

nobody:

bisexuals sitting:

Yall know that “toxic masculinity” refers to expressions of masculinity that are toxic, right? it doesn’t imply that all masculinity is toxic- it’s used to talk about like, how people will repress their emotions aside from anger in order to seem “manly”, and how they might act in violent or self-destructive ways because that is what society expects of men.

masculinity is not inherently toxic. it hasn’t been poisoned or corrupted. it is a neutral concept, a kind of gender presentation, and it doesn’t make you a bad, unhealthy, or toxic person to be masculine.

masculinity does not need to be “soft” to be acceptable, it can just be neutral. because it is not toxic, just sometimes expressed in toxic ways or for toxic reasons.

Does this mean there is toxic femininity?

imo? Yes.

Like when white women fake cry to win arguments, or to appear to be the victim (despite how much damage they may have caused), or when female abusers point to their femininity as a reason they couldn’t possibly be hurting anyone. Or when the girls in school weaponize their performances of femininity against more androgynous, less traditionally attractive, or more masculine girls.

Plenty of cis women have a similarly toxic relationship to femininity as cis men do to masculinity. A good example of a less material expression might be the tendency to self-martyr, using the “caregiver” role to guilt trip and gaslight, and abuse in a more manipulative, emotional/mental way than the physical aggression more typical with toxic masculinity.

The patriarchy rewards gender conformity, and requires cis people of both genders to uphold it. Cis women are at a structural disadvantage to cis men regardless, but can absolutely gain more social power by adhering more strictly to traditional femininity- and weaponize that power against others.

There absolutely is toxic feminity and the fact that this aspect is not discussed frankly worries me, because it perpetues the “men bad, women good (nb people? never heard of them)” mindset which belong to fringes of feminism I’d like to stay the hell away from. 

changed me

some parts that really stood out to me:

i think this is so true, and it made me really think: we haven’t replaced consumerism at all, because this millennial “aesthetic” claims to be minimalist but requires a full revamp of your surroundings and there’s a checkbox of what you need to make that happen. we’ve tricked ourselves into thinking that we’re neater and simpler, but it’s still in a way that needs to be bought, clean in a way that only some people can afford. of course, instagram photos can always be cropped. this especially reminded me of the article Everyone Is Beautiful and No One is Horny. in addition:

this is incredibly true, especially as we’ve seen the rise of instagram activism evolve from screenshots of tweets to pretty slideshows, a quick share of bite-sized activism on your instagram story that, while educating or raising awareness on a political issue, also raises the question on how far will this go, and how much social media has the potential to change political activism in ways we’ve never seen before. the article How Social Justice Slideshows Took Over Instagram talks about this as well:

Ok so... I made a long jurby (jean furby). And I made her punk for some reason. At least I think this is punk? Imma be honest, I don’t know much about fashion, but whenever I was looking for references for the look I was going for I had punk in the search

Her name is The Human Genome Project, or Jean for short, and she took me FOREVER to get just right, omg. But it was all worth it in the end

sorry i can't be her (young jeffrey dean morgan)

a look into Luke’s mind

how many steve jobs movies are we gonna get? like i understand he helped shape the technological world. i stay being on that phone. i be on that phone right this second to post this. but enough is enough

ok you’re thick but is your heart thick ? 🐸☕️

that’s actually called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and people die from it