uUHuUUUuUHhbhH *sm a c k*
i remember adults telling me, as a kid, to listen to doctors and get my flu vaccine and any shots i could because they remembered Before.
then they started fighting Covid precautions.
i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that the ozone was disappearing and the earth was dying and we needed to recycle and save the planet.
now my parents think climate change is a myth.
i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that racism was a plague, that we had to love and accept everyone, that we should never judge before walking a mile in their shoes.
then they told me that protesting for my Black siblings was wrong.
i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that we needed to give to the poor. working at soup kitchens. making quilts. collecting food and money and supplies. building houses. because it was the christian and just plain right thing to do.
now they look at me, on food stamps with their grandchildren, and lament the "welfare state".
i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and that any rich man, especially an immoral one, should never run our country.
you can guess who they voted for.
i remember adults telling me, as a kid, so very much.
when did they forget?
Time to bring this back. Again.
Apparently this is evergreen. Dammit.
I remember adults telling me, as a kid that girls can be equal to boys in all fields including athletics. Now, they consider girls to be delicate flowers who could never hope to compete against boys.
“They got you fighting a culture war to stop you fighting a class war”
Sticker spotted in San Antonio, Texas
Ideal work schedule:
- I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks
- I complete the list
- I leave immedietly
That awkward moment when you break the shower wall….
I will absolutely reblog for the gif every time
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN dir. Stanley Donen + Gene Kelly
BONUS:
reblog for good luck!!
I sent a letter today - something I haven’t done for years
It’s full of plastic bread clips
It’s for Science
At the risk of loosing some mystery, I think I should add some context:
There’s this website-I mean, scientific organization called the Holotypic Occlupanid Reasurch Group.
They are a group of abiologists who study and classify Bread clips.
I found a species that has not yet been described:
Yay for citizen science 👍
wtf?
Apparently HORG is widely appreciated by pediatricians since knowing exactly what kind of Occlupanid a child may have swallowed makes removing it safely much easier
IIRC this is actually part of the reason HORG was started. A man swallowed a breadclip and the clip closed around part of his tissue linings (in his intestines I think?). The specific shape and flexibility of the clip were significant determining factors in the removal process, as some bread clips have spikes and prongs that would have made extraction more complicated. They started the taxonomy so they could work out extraction techniques for each type.
are you fucking kidding me occlu like oculus or close and panid like bread. its a fancy word for breadcloser
happy very specific archive thursday, everyone
one of my greatest pet peeves in fiction, and it is truly stupid I know, is that no one seems to understand how genuinely hard it is to kill someone via stabbing. stab wounds have a mortality rate of like 5%. especially abdominal stabbing. tv shows and movies show dudes getting stabbed one time in the lower abdomen with a tiny knife and then they fall over. like what did he die of precisely. that man died of Small Knife
Xiao Zhan Studio Weibo update 3.22.2024 with photos of Xiao Zhan for the Molsion livestream
Working class Dems who campaign on economics beat Trumpists in elections
I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me FRIDAY NIGHT (Mar 22) in TORONTO, then SUNDAY (Mar 24) with LAURA POITRAS in NYC, then Anaheim, and more!
The Democratic Party Pizzaburger Theory of Electioneering is: half the electorate wants a pizza, the other half wants a burger, so we'll give them all a pizzaburger and make them all equally dissatisfied, thus winning the election:
But no one wants a pizzaburger. The Biden administration's approach of letting the Warren/Sanders wing pick the antitrust enforcers while keeping judicial appointments in the Manchin-Synematic universe is a catastrophe in which progressive Dem regulators (who serve one term) are thwarted by corporatist Dem judges (who serve for life):
The Democrats – like all parties in two-party systems – are a coalition; in this case, a "progressive" liberal-left coalition with liberals serving as senior partners, steering the party and setting its policies. These corporate dems like to color themselves as "neutral" technocrats with "realistic, apolitical" policies that represent what's best for the country:
This sets up the left wing of the party as the starry-eyed, unrealistic radicals whose policies are unpopular and will lose elections. But for a decade, grassroots-funded primary challenges have made it possible to test this theory, by putting leftist politicians on the ballot in front of voters, especially in tight races with far-right Republicans (that is, exactly the kinds of races that the corporate wing of the party says we can't afford to take chances on).
The 2022 midterms included enough races to start testing these theories – and, unlike traditional midterms, these races enjoyed high voter turnout, thanks to the unpopularity of GOP positions like abortion bans, book bans and anti-trans laws. Jacobin teamed up with the Center for Working-Class Politics, Yougov and the Center for Work and Democracy at ASU and analyzed those races:
Their conclusion: candidates from working-class backgrounds who campaigned on economic policies like high-quality jobs, higher minimum wages, a jobs guarantee, ending offshoring and outsourcing, building infrastructure and bringing manufacturing back to the US won with a 50% share of the vote in rural and working-class districts. Dems who didn't lost with a 35% share of the vote:
When you were putting up the lights this year Did you notice one less pair of hands?
i'm so tired of the "hold your nose and vote blue" people omg. it's like they can't reconcile their awareness that there's no excuse not to vote for dems with their desperation not to lose clout with the online left and like... repeating that all dems are awful does not have a less damaging effect because you tepidly say we should probably vote for them anyway. quit being weasely about it and go help register some people to vote or something, you're not fucking helping (sorry to rant in your inbox lol)
It’s obnoxious and I’ve been sick of it since 2015 at least. And the people venting their spleens at and about the democrats always seem to trail off with “but the republicans are worse” like you’ll go on about how Biden is a moderate piece of shit committing multiple genocides and actively crushing people and leave it off with “but the republicans are worse” and not elaborate?
And it’s always been exaggerated and distorted or inaccurate claims which makes it worse.
I don’t have the patience or the time or the inclination for all of that and America can’t afford that bullshit.
I try to put it like this:
Biden is not my ideal. I’d love someone further left, but the Overton Window is so far to the right that at the moment, he’s about as far left as we can go.
With that said, political movement is a MARATHON, not a sprint. Look at the Republicans—in 1980 Reagan was their hero, and today many of his policies would actually be considered Democratic policies. The party didn’t just wake up one day and go “let’s be Nazis!” That took 43 years of pushing and propaganda.
So vote Biden now, and probably Harris in 2028, because it means we can vote for someone further left in 2032. And 2036. And so on. We’re so used to the idea of instant gratification, and the teaching of civics in schools has been so utterly gutted, that I think a lot of younger voters especially either don’t know or have forgotten that we DO have to do this in steps if we want it to succeed.
Biden is a stepping stone, and if you actually look at the work he’s done instead of whining “waaaah old white man,” he’s a damned good stepping stone. He’s well aware that’s what he is—that his job is to start the downright Stygian task of fixing what the Republicans took 40 years to fucking destroy. And he’s doing it! He’s forced through infrastructure funding that will improve EVERYTHING about infrastructure. A lot of people hear that word and think “roads,” and it is, but it’s also the electrical grid, phone grid, internet grid, watersheds, bridges, and on and on. He’s poured money into guiding those grids away from fossil fuels. He’s signed a law that requires states to provide Native lands with electricity! That literally was not a thing before! You want to know why stuff like the Navajo Water Project exists? Because the infrastructure didn’t. He’s been kneecapped every step of the way by Republicans on student loan progress, but he’s still managed a lot, and even now he’s trying to do more. He’s spoken out against fascism. He keeps racial equity in mind when it relates to whatever bill is crossing his desk. He’s supported trans students and condemned anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation. And he’s working damned hard to get a full Green New Deal to get people good-paying jobs that will actually push our country forward, instead of back.
Is he perfect? No, of course not. He’s human. But I would urge young voters to remember that Trump’s idea the president is like a king is wrong. For example: why doesn’t Biden just enshrine abortion rights in the Constitution? Because the president can’t actually touch the contents of the Constitution at all. A Constitutional amendment requires that first Congress approve the language of an amendment, and we’re not getting any pro-choice bill past the so-called “Freedom Caucus” in the House. Then it gets put to the states, and 2/3 of the states have to say “yeah, we approve that amendment” before it gets ratified. The Deep South would literally shitcan the amendment because without it we don’t have enough aye votes. Could Biden speak out in favor of such an amendment? Certainly! But he can’t just plop it into the Constitution. It doesn’t work that way, and be grateful it doesn’t. Trump has literally said he wants it to be legal to hunt Democrats. Do you want that in the Constitution? It’s hard to change for a reason—a very good reason.
Biden is not One Of The Greats. He’s no Abe Lincoln or FDR. But he is One Of The Solids. And right now, being One Of The Solids is not bad. I’ll take an Eisenhower over a Fillmore or, worse, a Bush, any day of the week.
So vote Biden. Because he’s not doing sexy work, but he is doing good work, and undoing much of the damage inflicted by Trump.
And make sure you vote your downballot, too, because those positions are IMPORTANT. If we had a Democratic majority in the House right now we’d have an abortion protection law, student loans forgiveness, better jobs laws, probably a minimum wage hike, increased protection for minorities….y’all do not realize how much the “Freedom Caucus” are the ones fucking us over.
Vote blue. Because red can go to purple, purple can go to blue (we’ve seen it here in Arizona!), and blue can go to a beautiful dark navy. But it takes work, and time.
Ideally, I wanted the Green Party to work, but, let's be real: To get a Green Party established well, for it to win at a presidential level, you have to start at the bottom. Build it up in your city, build it up in your state . . . But if you vote for the Green Party or any other "third party" right now, without having an established base for it, you're literally giving the election to a fascist, who is enamored of dictators and has specifically said what he is going to do:
- Plant all his little minions throughout the civil service . . . Exactly what Hitler did.
- He has created a base of enemies who are easier to victimize, since they're in the minority, just like before, only his followers don't think he went far enough. Immigrants, anyone LGBTQIA, and any person of color will be at risk. If you think the haters are emboldened, now, how will it be when he whips them into a frenzy when he's in power? Razor wire and hate crimes will go up.
- He brags about getting rid of Roe v. Wade and has said he wants to take it further.
- He recently said that he would "finish the job" in Gaza. Legislators in the USA have called for elections to remove Netanyahu and Biden made a phone call to him (as of this writing, I don't know what was said, but that call is pretty unusual). Trump would empower Netanyahu's genocidal campaign to be fulfilled to completion.
If you don't like us handing money to Israel, if you say Biden is complicit in genocide by sending aid and arms, what do you envision "finish the job" means?!
There are no happy endings because nothing ends.
THE LAST UNICORN (1982) dir. Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr.
probably i just said it but i want to say it again:
- don’t apologise if you don’t know english.
- yes, english is the most common language on the internet but you are not forced to know it perfectly.
- your own language is beautiful.
- non-english people make a huge effort to write in English everyday on this website.
- support non-english people and don’t make them feel bad if they do not know English.
- actually support all the languages.
- spread more language diversity on Tumblr.
thank you.
Probabilmente l’ho già detto, ma voglio ribadirlo:
- non scusarti se non conosci l’inglese
- è vero, l’inglese è la lingua più comune su internet, ma non sei obbligato/a a conoscerlo perfettamente
- la tua lingua è bella
- i non anglofoni si sforzano molto ogni giorno a scrivere in inglese su questo sito
- sostieni i non anglofoni e non scoraggiarli se non conoscono l’inglese
- sostieni tutte le lingue
- sostieni la diversità linguistica su Tumblr
Grazie.
Wahrscheinlich habe ich es schon gesagt, aber ich sage es nochmal:
- Entschuldige dich nicht, wenn du kein Englisch kannst.
- Ja, Englisch ist vielleicht die am meisten gesprochene Sprache im Internet, aber du bist nicht dazu gezwungen, es perfekt zu sprechen.
- Deine Muttersprache ist wertvoll
- Leute, deren Muttersprache nicht Englisch ist, geben sich jeden Tag die größte Mühe, auf dieser Webseite Englisch zu benutzen
- Unterstützt Leute, deren Muttersprache nicht Englisch ist, und macht euch nicht über sie lustig, wenn sie kein Englisch sprechen.
- Unterstützt alle Sprachen
- Setzt euch für mehr Sprachenvielfalt auf Tumblr ein
Danke. :)
- ne vous excusez pas si vous ne connaissez pas l'anglais. - oui, l'anglais est la langue la plus utilisée sur Internet mais vous n'êtes pas obligé de la connaître parfaitement.
- vos langue maternelle est belle.
- les non-anglophones font un effort énorme pour écrire en anglais tous les jours sur ce site.
- soutenez les non-anglophones et ne leur faites pas sentir mal s’ils ne connaissent pas l’anglais.
- supporte toutes les langues.
- Parlez de plus de diversité linguistique sur Tumblr.
merci :)
Ik heb het waarschijnlijk al eerder gezegd maar ik wil het nogmaals zeggen:
- Zeg geen sorry als je geen Engels spreekt.
- Ja, Engels is de meest gebruikte taal op het internet maar je hoeft het niet perfect te kennen.
- Jou eigen taal is prachtig.
- Niet-Engelstalige mensen doen enorm hun best om elke dag Engels te schrijven op deze site.
- Moedig niet-Engelstalige mensen aan en geef hen geen slecht gevoel over het feit dat ze geen Engels spreken.
- Eigenlijk, moedig alle talen aan.
- Verspreid meer diversiteit in talen op Tumblr!
Dank je wel.
Probablemente ya lo haya dicho, pero quiero volver a decirlo.
- No te disculpes si no sabes inglés.
- Es verdad que el inglés es el idioma más hablado en internet, pero no estás obligado a hablarlo perfectamente.
- Tu idioma nativo es hermoso.
- La gente que no habla inglés como idioma nativo hace un gran esfuerzo para hablarlo todos los días en esta página web.
- Apoya a la gente que no sepa hablar inglés y no les hagas sentir mal si no saben hablarlo a la perfección.
- Apoya todos los idiomas.
- Apoya la diversidad lingüistica en Tumblr.
Muchas gracias.
也许我刚刚说过,但是我想再说一遍:
- 你不需要为不懂英语道歉
- 是的,英语是互联网上最普遍使用的语言,但是你不必毫无差错地了解它
- 你自己的语言是美丽的
- 非英语人士每天都在这个网站上很努力地写作
- 支持非英语人士,如果他们不懂英语,不要让他们为难
- 实际上,支持所有语言
- 在汤不热上传播语言多样性
谢谢
я это по-моему уже сказал ну я хочу сказать опять:
- не извиняйтесь если вы не понимаете английский язык.
- да, английский самый популярный язык на интернете, но вам не надо её знать отлично.
- ваш собственный язык прекрасный.
- люди которые не разговаривают по английскому языку сильно пробуют писать по ему здесь каждый день.
- поддерживаете других, и не оскорбляйте их если они не умеют разговаривать по английскиму.
- на самом деле, поддерживаете все языка
- позвольте большему количеству языков существовать на этом сайте.
благодарю. 💖
(извините за грамматические ошибки; русский не мой основной язык)
Jag har antagligen sagt det men jag vill säga det igen:
- be inte om ursäkt om du inte kan engelska.
- ja, engelska är det vanligaste språket på internet men du är inte tvungen att kunna det perfekt.
- ditt eget språk är vackert.
- icke-engelspråkiga personer gör en stor ansträngning varje dag för att skriva på engelska på den här sajten.
- stöd icke-engelspråkiga personer och behandla dem inte nedlåtande om de inte kan engelska.
- faktum är att du bör stödja all språk
- försök sprida mer språk-variation på Tumblr
Tack.
Вероятно го казах, но искам да го кажа отново:
- Не се извинявайте, ако не знаете английски.
- Да, английският е най-често срещаният език в интернет, но не сте длъжни да го знаете перфектно.
- Вашият собствен език е красив.
- Хората, които не говорят английски като роден език, влагат огромни усилия да пишат на английски всеки ден на този уебсайт.
- Подкрепяйте не-англоговорящите хора и не ги карайте да се чувстват зле, ако не знаят английски.
- Всъщност, подкрепяйте всички езици.
- Разпространете разнообразието на повече езици в Tumblr.
Благодаря!💕
prawdopodobnie już to powiedziałem, ale wspomnę raz jeszcze:
- nie przepraszaj, jeśli nie znasz angielskiego
- tak, angielski to najbardziej rozpowszechniony język w internecie, ale nie zmusza cię to do znania go perfekcyjnie
- twój własny język jest piękny
- osoby, których językiem ojczystym nie jest angielski, podejmują ogromny wysiłek, pisząc w języku angielskim na tej stronie
- wspieraj osoby, których językiem ojczystym nie jest angielski i nie sprawiaj, że czują się gorzej jeśli go nie znają
- wlasciwie, wspieraj wszystkie języki
- rozpowszechniaj różnorodność językową na tumblrze!
dziękuję
I’m going to use “official language” for this, anyone who knows Finnish knows that spoken and written are completely different
Varmaan jo sanoin tämän, mutta haluan sanoa uudelleen
- Älä pyydä anteeksi ettet osaa englantia
- totta, englanti on internetin yleisin kieli mutta sinun ei ole pakko osata sitä täydellisesti
- Oma kielesi on kaunis
- ei-englanninkieliset ihmiset tekevät suuren teon joka päivä kirjoittamalla englanniksi tälle nettisivulle
- tue ei-englanninkielisiä ihmisiä äläkä loukkaa heitä, jos he eivät osaa englantia
- tue kaikkia kieliä
- Levitä kielten moninaisuutta Tumblrissa
Kiitos
ฉันอาจจะพูดไปแล้ว แต่ให้ฉันได้พูดอีกครั้งเถอะ :
- อย่าขอโทษถ้าคุณไม่รู้ภาษาอังกฤษเลย
- ภาษาอังกฤษเป็นภาษาที่พบเห็นได้เยอะที่สุดในอินเตอร์เน็ท แต่คุณไม่จำเป็นต้องรู้ไปทั้งหมด
- ภาษาของคุณสวยงามในตัวของมันอยู่แล้ว
- คนที่ไม่ใช่คนอังกฤษนั้นต้องใช้ความพยายามอย่างมากในการสื่อสารด้วยภาษาอังกฤษในทุกวันนี้
- จงสนับสนุนพวกเขาและอย่าให้พวกเขาต้องรู้สึกแย่ที่ใช้ภาษาอังกฤษได้ไม่ดี
- สนับสนุนภาษาทั้งหมดด้วยใจจริง
- ช่วยเผยแพร่ความหลากหลายของภาษาให้กระจายออกไปในทัมเบลอร์
ขอบคุณ
Segur aski jadanik esan dut, baina berriro esan nahi dut:
- barkamenik ez eskatu ingelesez ez jakiteagatik
- bai, ingelesa interneteko hizkuntza ohikoena da baina ez duzu perfektoki jakin behar.
- zeure hizkuntza ederra da.
- ingelesez ez dakitenek ahalegin handia egiten dute egunero webgune honetan ingelesez idazten.
- lagun iezaiezue ingelesez ez dakitenei eta txarto ez sentiarazi ingelesez baldin ez badakite.
- hizkuntza guztiak benetan bermatu.
- indartu hizkuntza aniztasuna Tumblr-en.
Eskerrik asko.
قبلا هم اینو گفتم اما میخوام دوباره بگم:
-اگه انگلیسی بلد نیستید عذر خواهی نکنید.
-درسته، انگلیسی رایج ترین زبان تو اینترنته اما مجبور نیستی که کامل و بی نقص بلد باشیش.
-زبان خودتون زیباست.
-افراد غیر انگلیسی زبان زیادی هر روز سخت تلاش می کنند که رو سایت انگلیسی بنویسن.
-افراد غیر انگلیسی زبان رو حمایت کنید و برای اینکه انگلیسی بلد نیستن تمسخرشون نکنید.
-در واقع از همه زبان ها حمایت کنین.
-تنوع زبان ها رو تو تامبلر ترویج بدین.
Was low-key nervous as hell writing this in my native language lol
Here’s another version but in the Arabic I know:
المحتمل أََني قُلت هذا الكلام من قبل ولكن اوريد أنا أقوله مجدداً :
-لا تتأسف إن كنت لا تعرف اللغة الإنجليزية
-نعم، اللغة الإنجليزية لغة مشتركة علي الإنترنت، ولكن أنت ليس مفروض عليك أن تعرفها تماما.
- لغتك جميلة.
-الذين ليسوا الانجليزيين يقومون بجهد كبير لكتابة الانجليزيه علي هذا الموقع.
- إِدْعَم من ليسوا الانجليزيين ، ولا تجعلهم يشعرون بسوء لأنهم لا يعرفون الانجليزيه.
-في الواقع إدعموا كل اللغات.
- إنشروا تنوع اللغات علي تامبلر.
شكرا 💝
Wow, this was a bit hard for some words.
Poate deja am spus, dar vreau să mai spun încă o dată.
- Nu te scuza dacă nu cunoști engleza
- Da, engleza este cea mai comună limbă de pe internet, dar nu trebuie să o cunoști perfect
- Limba ta este frumoasă
- Vorbitorii non-englezi se străduiesc în fiecare zi să scrie în engleză pe acest site
- Sprijineste vorbitorii care nu sunt englezi și nu-i descuraja dacă nu știu engleza
- Acceptă toate limbile
- Susține diversitatea lingvistică pe Tumblr
Mulțumesc. ☺
Dúirt mé é díreach ansin ach táim ag iarraidh é a rá arís:
- Ná bheith ag gabh do leithscéal mar níl Béarla ar eolas agat
- Sea, tá Béarla an teanga is coiteannta ar an t-idirlíon, ach níl tú brúite é a bheith ar eolas agat go liofa
- Tá do theanga féin go hálainn
- Déanann daoine neamhbéarla iarracht ollmhór chun Béarla a scríobh gach lá ar an suíomh seo
- Tabhairt tacaíocht do daoine neamhbéarla agus ná chur drochintinn orthú muna bhfuil Béarla ar eolas acú
- Tabhairt tacaíocht do gach teanga in ndáiríre
- Scar níos mó éagúlacht teangach ar Tumblr
Go raibh maith agat