Big mean sweaty dyke just looking for trouble. Friend of Garak. Cis-ish, she/her, graphic designer, race traitor, obesity glorifier. Opinions all mine. πΉππΉ
Babysitting a 4 year old has me convinced that what video games need is βlittle buddy mode,β where a kid can have a character that just jogs along with you and can help/get their own encouraging score but cannot be harmed
If youβre a white person at these protests, and you see other white people starting shit like throwing rocks or starting fires, you need to shut that down. Thatβs not solidarity, itβs agitation, and the ones who will wind up paying for it are Black and brown people
How to infantilize an entire generation:
1) declare all the markers of adulthood to be linked to financial independence (home ownership, big wedding, nuclear family with professional childcare)
2) price them out of those markets/underpay them so those things are unreachable
Whatever happened to that company where the CEO took a pay cut and set a $70k minimum wage for his company, about 4 years ago? The staff doubled, their business tripled, and people bought more houses and had more babies.
COVID and NFTs happening at the same time in history is just breaking my brain. How are we this bad at staying alive and making decisions, as a species
Daniel Radcliffe was already a successful child actor, the son of a casting director, when he landed the role of Harry Potter. That role was cast by a casting director (Janet Hirshenson) and director Chris Columbus, not JK Rowling. He doesnβt owe her shit.
Reading a Reddit AMA with a former Q believer and he had a really insightful thing to say: βConspiracy theory thinking hooks the brain because it feels like critical thinking.β
Honestly I think more people could stand to frame things like βrespecting pronouns,β βusing chosen names,β and βdescribing yourself for blind people presentβ as justβ¦being polite. Not as a political stance on inclusion, etc, but MANNERS.
Oh hey everyone please remember that mixing bleach and ammonia WILL create a toxic gas strong enough to absolutely kill you dead if you're in a confined space with it, don't do that
The fact that you can raise $78 billion from 100 people with that meager a tax should tell us something about the vastness of the inequality at play here
Tolkien had his strengths and weaknesses as a writer but my god I donβt think anyone else has described burnout quite as well as βlike butter scraped over too much breadβ
I keep seeing cis people say that they can tell everyoneβs sex at a glance or by hearing a voice, and I and every other remotely gender non-conforming person would like you to know that no, youβre actually very bad at it
I still canβt quite believe itβs $8 because Stephen King said he wouldnβt pay $20, and then Elon offered $8, ignored being told no again, and ran with it
Hmm yes, 2021, the year when you have to think βis that little tickle in my throat the first sign Iβm developing the uncontrolled plague ravaging the nation, or merely an allergic reaction to the poor air quality caused by large amounts of the continent being on fire?β
After a couple of people told me the Alaska in a map graphic I did needed to be smaller to be in proportion to the rest of the states, I had to tell them the unsettling truth: Alaska is Too Big
FYI the difference between the archival treatment of, say, Marilyn Monroeβs dress and James Madisonβs flute? Musical instruments arenβt visual art objects to be appreciated in silence. Their reason for being is to create sound.
Every time conservative college students whine about not being able to speak their minds I think about the Black professor I had that I really liked, whose student reviews grumbled about how he βbrought race into everything,β and how he didnβt get tenure
Noticed some deodorant at CVS cost $13 and then thought about how some people think that minimum wage shouldnβt even pay you enough to buy that deodorant with an hour of labor. Would YOU work almost two hours for a stick of deodorant?
Just thought again about that woman who thought the Italian restaurant owner bringing them free garlic bread and not charging them for drinks was βpresumptuousβ and βcreepy.β I wonder how sheβs doing. Hope itβs bad
If your testosterone test is regularly flagging several cis women at the top of their game as βnot female enoughβ for the Olympics, your test is the problem, not the women. Natural variation in bodies is praised as βtalentβ in men, while treated as a disqualifier for women
The βthe Bible doesnβt have any pronounsβ take is even funnier when you think about how VERY particular that kind of Christian tends to be about Godβs pronouns
Love every older person coming up with the take that βhey my parents lived through the Great Depression and WWII and they didnβt complain about it.β Really? You think the New Deal came about because no one was mad or protesting in the streets? You think WWII left them unscarred?
Just started season 2 of Bridgerton and let me reiterate that Nicola Coughlan is 35 years old and convincingly playing a teenager. The power of using sunscreen and not constantly chasing thinness
I am really enjoying Bridgerton but I do feel that if you can imagine a fantasy Regency where racism doesnβt really exist anymore you can also figure out a way to fit queer people into that world
βFriendsgivingβ is a thing because some families suck, but people, especially LGBTQ people, didnβt want to lose the holiday traditions and so chose to celebrate with found families. Ragging on it is just picking on people who may not have anywhere else to go. Gtfo
Folks I am aware of kid-friendly video games, but I mean the ones that adults and older kids can play that are just too hard/complicated for the little ones but that they WANT to play
Should shops introduce a mask-free shopping hour?
The suggestion, put forward by Ann Widdecombe, would mean everyone who doesn't want to wear a mask can shop at the same time. It might be easier for shops to police, but is it a good idea?
#JeremyVine
Earth Day makes me sad. Because when I was a kid I was zealously into environmentalism, recycling, all this cultural zeitgeist of the late 80s/early 90s. Captain Planet, I watched that. And then it went out of fashion and adults justβ¦didnβt care anymore?
You donβt like Indian food, bro? Like ALL of Indian food, bruh? Not tikka masala, not butter chicken, not tandoori meat, not saag paneer, not korma, bra? Not naan, paratha, chapati, roti, breh? Not GULAB JAMUN, bronathan?? Itβs a cheese bread ball in sugar syrup BROOOOO
If Iβve learned one workplace thing in the last few years that I could pass on to parents, itβs this: make sure your kids are actually learning how to use a computer. Not how to be online. How to likeβ¦find what they downloaded
If youβre in America and scared about the Wuhan coronavirus, but you havenβt gotten a flu shot and donβt know if your MMR vaccine is up to date, you might just be taking part in a racist social panic. Also go get your shots.
Okay since there has been A Lot the past couple of days about food disgust, a quick note on mold and food safety, from someone whoβs done food safety certification: there are things this is safe to do with. Bread is NOT safe to do this with.
Before anyone asks βwho is this forβ in their rant about how lazy and awful we all are: this is for disabled people. This kind of thing is always for disabled people first. So...stop?
Things you could be doing on your phone in a museum:
-looking up the piece or artist for more information
-working on a school assignment for your field trip
-sharing pictures of the art with your friends
-taking reference photos for your own art
-taking a goddamn break
Had the opportunity to ask any sort of icebreaker question I wanted in a team meeting today and so I chose to ask everyone what their most embarrassing fashion choice as a child was. HIGHLY recommended
I was gayly and innocently browsing vintage furniture (because itβs often the same price or cheaper as new particle board, for solid wood), when I was accosted by the phrase β1990s vintageβ and my soul exited my corporeal form
JK Rowling really could have just taken her money, retreated to her castle(s) like Enya, and led a quiet life as a beloved childrenβs author. Maybe put out some new books in a couple of decades after leaving the HP series alone after finishing it like she said she wanted to.
@STEPHMHAMILL
@iamcardib
I donβt know how you missed this, but MeToo is about sexual HARASSMENT and ASSAULT, not sexual EXPRESSION. The problem isnβt seeing an ass shaking, itβs grabbing it without consent. The conflation of sexiness and sexual assault is your problem here
Listen I also like Taylor Swiftβs music but no one should have a private jet. You can have a propeller plane or you can get on a commercial jet. Because frankly no one should have private jet money
I want to ask all the people saying conditions arenβt βthat badβ in these child prisons what kind of prison conditions they would find acceptable for their own kids whoβve done nothing wrong
Itβs really fascinating watching how terrified the right is of Ilhan Omar and to what great lengths they will go to find photos where she looks remotely threatening. Which is hard, as she has this, and I say this with the GREATEST respect, cute cinnamon bun face
Please just cancel the games. And then move it to somewhere permanent (Greece seems appropriate and they could use the $) so countries stop bulldozing their low income neighborhoods to build stadiums that then sit around gathering dust and never recouping the money spent
You know I see a lot of people from Europe asking why Americans arenβt rioting in the streets, and one answer to that I rarely see is βour police are heavily armed and a not insignificant number of them are white supremacist thugsβ
Really enjoying this thing where Oscar Isaac is basically just calling Disney execs cowards while hanging out on street corners with a megaphone announcing that Poe Dameron is gay for Finn
Me at 19: lol I stayed up until sunrise roleplaying on AOL again, oh well, time to go to class!!
Me at 39, after seven hours of sleep in my comfortable bed: there are clouds, so now I have a headache and canβt move
Had a nice moment where a Bernie canvasser came to the door, I told her I was voting Warren but would happily vote for Bernie in the general if he won. She said thanks for that, complimented me on a yard sign we have, and I thanked her for being out there volunteering.
So now the Biden admin is going to be distributing free n95s too. Itβs almost like pressure from the left is a good and needed thing even in a Democratic administration
All I want is for everyone saying they think parents should be notified if their kid is using a different name/pronouns at school to be asked what they think parents should do with that information
It is so fucking embarrassing to see fellow lesbians use the exact same Focus on the Family-ass arguments to attack trans people that were used against us like...less than a decade ago. Grow the fuck up
It is wild and frightening how quickly widespread, public homophobia has made a resurgence in America. Liking going back in time a solid decade, maybe two
A cool thing about being an adult is that you can just go to an Asian grocery store, buy big freezer bags full of dumplings, and eat them for meals. You can do that and no one can stop you
Me five years ago: ugh donβt call me a Millennial, I grew up without the internet until high school, come on
Me now after a million thinkpieces about Millennials being awful: I will duel you in the street for the honor of my generation, with avocados if necessary
3) declare that they are βdestroyingβ those industries by not participating
4) make fun of them for adjusting their lives to this new financial reality (living with parents longer, having roommates well into adulthood, etc)
@tkag2020_ann
@McDonalds
This is what gets you mad? Not all the extrajudicial murder of people by the police? A cop having to wait for a McMuffin during the breakfast rush?
They donβt make it when you order it via the app, by the way. They donβt make your food when you get there and check in...
Know what's wild to think about right now, in the light of the panic now? How it took 41,027 American deaths and six years before Reagan gave a public address about AIDS.
Been making microwave scrambled eggs lately because that was the level my brain was operating at and Iβm feeling like Iβve been lied to my whole life because these are like 98% as good as doing it on the stovetop and it takes like 90 seconds tops??
I think Iβm finding the βsnitch on your friends and neighbors for moneyβ aspect of the Texas abortion ban even more horrifying than the ban itself. The ban doesnβt surprise me, Iβve been watching them try to do this for decades. The vigilante system? Thatβs new
Kids romanticizing 90s fashion are really underrepresenting the amount of shirts that were just unauthorized, airbrushed Looney Tunes characters, often brandishing guns, from a stall in the mall
Men that think bulky, veiny, muscly superheroes are sexualized for women and not a male power fantasy made by men FOR men have actually IRL never talked to women. That or never actually listened to women. π€·π½ββοΈ
Go on. Ask women what their fictional crushes were, you cowards.
I will never understand women who, when they are cheated on, solely blame the other woman for "breaking up her family" like their husband/boyfriend just lost control of his dick in a tragic accident
But what do I know