A Greyhound bus...

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I wish computers worked like they do in 80s cronenberg movies. Like you type in “WHATS WRONG WITH ME” and the computer says “50% BRUNDLE. 50% FLY”

"objectively physically attractive but in possession of negative rizz" is one of my favorite character concepts. i think it's so great when there's an absurdly hot person who's just a complete fucking loser. the mood is unsalvageable the moment they open their mouth kind of deal. you get no bitches because you're so sucks.

Advice nobody ever asks for but every time I tell someone they find it extremely useful:

If you want to get rid of ants in your house mix a cup of icing sugar and a cup of potato starch 50/50 (dry, no water) and spread it near the holes where the ants get into your house. They won’t be able to separate the sugar and starch and will feed their larvae with the mixture. The starch will kill the larvae. So you won’t see results right away but if you keep it up you’ll get rid of them over a few weeks. I make a batch every summer to combat ants in my kitchen.

Because the mixture is non-toxic to humans and other mammals it’s perfect if you have children or pets. God knows my dogs eat anything on the floor and this way my only worry is they might get cavities if they get into my pest control powder.

Some AirBnB roasting courtesy of Reddit

I realize this is not at all the point but I'm losing my mind at the idea of a boring hotel costing $225/night. my fellow americans, for $225/night you can get an absolutely banger hotel. I stayed at a swank art deco hotel in chicago for $180/night. the hotel in boston I stayed at with the $7 glasses of milk was $279/night, but is currently offering rooms at $178. I've only stayed in an AirBNB one time (for two months, at $60/night), but if those prices are normal for airbnb and that's a normal thing you can afford, holy fuck just get a hotel. $225 is like one tier below "the hotel personally picks you up in a horse-drawn carriage and throws rose petals at you."

Scissor Wizard and Paper Wizard

It’s probably fine to leave them alone together.

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

The only two replies on this tho

PLEASE UNMUTE THIS. PLEASE. 

You guys missed the best part

Y'all missed the best part: HER REACTION AFTER ALL THIS

They’re in CHURCH WITH THIS LMAO

I know this is my own post, but every single time this comes across my dash I am delighted. Every single time, I re-watch the video and laugh, and then scroll down and laugh more. What a truly excellent reblog chain.

character who is doomed by the narrative but essentially responds to it by going "nuh uh"

Shania Twain Man I Feel Like A Woman (1998)

As a kid, when your parents are poor, you're poor. If they don't have money, that means none of you have money. But if someone's parents are rich, that doesn't necessarily mean the kid is. Sometimes rich peoples' kids aren't rich kids, they're just some rich freak's exotic pets that can talk but aren't allowed to.

That’s… not how class works

OK, so- my partner was adopted by a rich woman when he was a baby. She's from a prominent family, practically royalty where we're from. She certainly had the means to send him to fancy private school, give him good food, nice clothes/toys, premium healthcare... she chose not to. According to her he was lucky to be "adopted out of poverty" at all and should have been content with what she deigned to give him. And she reminded him of this constantly, all through his childhood.

She dangled the promise of uni in exchange for good behavior and good grades- with terms and conditions, of course. And filling her laundry list of demands was something like pulling teeth whilst jumping through hoops. In the end, did he get to go to uni? Of course not. (And certainly being queer/trans on top of it all did not help things whatsoever).

He cut her off after high school, and when I met him a year ago he had been working as (the equivalent of) an UberEats driver for a living for the last few years, including through the pandemic. (Sixteen hours a day for the equivalent of $6 (six) USD, not including the gas for his shitty rundown scooter; caught COVID twice, suffers from chronic fatigue to this day).

And to this day he still has to be selective about which of our ~leftist anarcho-commie~ friends he divulges this part of his background to- cos all they hear is "raised rich" and then suddenly he's not One of Them because "well teeeeechncially :^) you're from the oppressing class...". Like.... shit, man!

Social rules don't mean shit when it comes to abusive parents. Even rich ones.

Probably especially rich ones.

people are totally on board with the concept of "sufficiently rich people are above the law, and this is bad" but refuse to connect that to the concept of "this also includes laws that protect children from abuse and exploitation"

like we understand "the ruling classes get and maintain their wealth through cruel exploitation of those less powerful" and we can't wrap our heads around "a lifetime of this cruel and merciless behavior being valorized by your peers probably doesn't predispose you to suddenly changing gears once you have a helplessly dependent child that's totally under your control."

like yeah the rich are our enemies in this ongoing class war, absolutely, it's an Us or Them situation to save the planet. but if you don't give a shit about saving the enemy's children too, i don't think very highly of your motivation or your methods.

oh, here's a relevant example I saw just the other day:

I'm going to add this article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/mackenzie-fierceton-rhodes-scholarship-university-of-pennsylvania

Which is an article I've never forgotten because it's exactly this kind situation. In fact, what happens to Mackenzie in the article, feels like a textbook attempt of an abuser trying to reestablish control because of her mother's wealth and it basically worked because people find it so hard to believe rich people can be abusive.

I reblogged this before I read the article, and now I'm reblogging it again after reading the article. The 12ft link didn't work for me, but the plain link has no paywall on it as far as I can see -- please do read it, if you can. Please note that it does have pretty straightfoward descriptions of CSA, child abuse that ended in an ICU stay, and massive amounts of gaslighting and retribution by institutions in power (in this case, Penn University in Philadelphia).

But it also describes the people who stepped in and helped Mackenzie, and that made it possible for me to read it without throwing up.

this is the single best picture of an eclipse I've taken ever. it's not even close

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if my celestial dog hand gets ten thousand fucking notes I'm going to mcfreakin lose it

Humans are born with demon counterparts to protect them.The more innocent and pure a person is the more mean fierce and terrifying their demon becomes.Today you met an 82 year old woman with the kindest sweetest demon you’ve ever met.

This machine kills AI