Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. And then, one not-so-very special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down, and I wrote our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people. But above all things, a story about love. A love that will live forever. The End. Moulin Rouge! (2001) dir. Baz Luhrmann

NOTE TO SELF-SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!

Slow the fuck down is also the way to avoid scams, social engineering, phishing, etc.

"Oh, no the CEO of my employer is having an emergency and I need to click this link right now!!!"

Slow down...

"Why would the CEO be emailing ME of all people? Maybe this email is a phishing attack that would get my employer hacked and me fired for allowing it." (It probably is a phishing email.)

In general, "Slow the fuck down" is an extremely powerful information literacy skill.

poor person: please can you help me my car got stolen and without it I'm going to lose my job and I already can't afford rent I'm going to be homeless please help me please do SOMETHING

the cop sloppily writing your police report who has no intention whatsoever of trying to investigate the crime and wouldn't care if you died in front of him:

Bc People are obviously reblogging this for the photo’s authenticity

OP How dare you not use a real picture or illustration of a fat assed bottomless police officer at his desk

So while rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender recently, I noticed a trend

A number of spirits we see have an animal form, specifically animals we recognize as "normal" for us. For example:

- Wan Shi Tong is an owl and his knowledge seekers are foxes

- Tui and La are koi fish

- Hei Bai is a panda

-The guardian of the mother of faces is a wolf (The Search)

Heck there's even the talking Baboon spirit and the monkey missing its face that we see in the Spirit World at the end of Season 1.

Basically every time we've seen a "normal" animal, they've been a spirit.

My point? I argue that Bosco is a spirit bear that's chilling and living the good life in the mortal world just because he can.

Don't forget Miyuki!

please reblog this i spent way too long on what was supposed to be a quick edit

According to this article, they're discussing an opt-out model of harvesting data, which is definitively worse than an opt-in model (because a lot of people are not going to go through the logistical hurdles to avoid their stuff getting stolen) and very much a bandaid on a open wound.

Needless to say, everyone should be screaming about this to @staff because the more friction the better, and backing everything up if they need to shut shit down rather than have their work be "legally" stolen by a bunch of Silicon Valley vultures who are all going to lose their shirts in a couple years.

Not exactly sure what Plan B I'm going to go with yet, but needless to say my interest in getting an independently hosted wordpress.org blog (because that's distinct from wordpress.com) and/or checking out Squarespace or the like has just gone way up.

Go to the contact staff page and click the feedback option on the pull-down menu. Let’s flood them with feedback on how much we are against this.

I've checked the settings on my blog and you can already opt out (see below). This is blog specific, and sideblogs have to be opted out too.

the scream i scrumpt

remembering that time i got drunk and told a guy he looked like a wrought iron gate

he didnt respond to my observation. just sorta stood there

... much like something else i know of

"Profits for companies in some of the world’s largest economies rose by 30% between 2019 and 2022, significantly outpacing inflation, according to the group’s research of 1,350 firms across the U.S., the U.K., Europe, Brazil, and South Africa."

I was gonna make a sarcastic comment, but then I remembered studies are there to provide concrete evidence of common knowledge. And thank you for the word "greedflation"

i’m literally a boytoy i shouldn’t have to WORK

Found this and I swear there's no image better fitted to describe my drinking experience

I want you to know I found this one.... So to see the another one was hilarious

a girl who is a noir detective man and a guy who is a femme fatale

"you hate capitalism because you're jealous of rich people" well I wouldn't mind having an in-ground pool but there's also other reasons to hate capitalism such as the fact that owning a chocolate company that doesn't use fucking child slavery earns you praise because it's so uncommon, or the fact that it by design results in repeat economic collapses when the average consumer can't afford to stimulate the economy, or the fact that our future (and current) existence on planet earth is full of detrimental environmental disasters because pursuing fossil fuels was more profitable in the short-term, or the fact that entire wars are started specifically to make money, or...yeah the list goes on

also like, yeah, i AM jealous of rich people. i DO think about how cool and fun it would be to have a billion dollars. i could build my own food forest. i could open up a zillion homeless shelters. i could save the last red wolves, my favorite subspecies, who are in their very last days and will be extinct by the end of the decade. i could buy ALL the fabric i want. i could hire artists to inlay my floors with roman mosaics of hunky gladiators fighting godzilla. i could hire the magic chocolate guy to make me a different random item for desert every week. i could get alexander mcqueen to do more menswear lines and have a backyard full of beautifully dressed sexy space elves pretend to like my fanfiction. i could make sure all my friends are safe and healthy. i could recarve mt rushmore into my little ponies or hand it back to the native people who revered it in the first place. i could hire a guy with a bullhorn to follow elon musk around and recite the obituaries of everyone who dies in a tesla factory. if i was rich i would have fun forever. instead these lame ass nervous wrecks are going around with the net worth of entire nations and they're on twitter begging for love from strangers who can't afford to go to the dentist. how does that not make you crazy!!!

Rock Hudson and his boyfriend Lee Garlington in a candid snapshot taken in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico while they were on vacation in 1963. Rock, then 38, met Lee, 25, on the Universal Studios lot the year before where Lee was working as an extra in films. "He was the biggest movie star in the world, and the rumors were that he was gay," Lee stated in a 2015 interview with People magazine. "So I thought, 'Let me get an eye on him.' I stood outside his cottage on the Universal lot, pretending to read Variety, which was probably upside down at the time. He walked out and down the street. He looked back once. That was it." The pair started seeing each other shortly afterwards and went to great pains to hide their relationship. "Nobody in their right mind came out," Garlington explained. "It was career suicide. We all pretended to be straight. I'd come over after work, spend the night and leave the next morning. I'd sneak out at 6 a.m. in my Chevy Nova and coast down the street without turning on the engine so the neighbors wouldn't hear. We thought we were being so clever." After a female fan broke into Hudson's estate and slept in their bed while they were out of town, their paranoia about being outed increased. "In a drawer on a side table were pictures of me with no shirt on," Garlington said. "She didn't find them, but it shook him up. He realized he was vulnerable. He put gates on the house after that." Though they broke up in 1965, Garlington had lifelong fond memories of Hudson. "He was a sweetheart. I adored him. Rock had no pretense. He was always casual. He liked to wear chinos and moccasins around the house and hang around and watch television. We'd go on road trips and sometimes he wouldn't tell the studio where he was going." Following Rock's death from AIDS in 1985 at the age of 59, Garlington learned how much their relationship had meant to Hudson when his biographer, Sara Davidson, revealed he'd told her in his dying days that Lee was his "true love". Garlington recalled: "I broke down and cried. I just lost it. He said his mother and I were the only people he ever loved. I had no idea I meant that much to him."