Fudge-Yeah-America

Ladies, gentlemen, and variations there upon. Sit down, buckle up, and ready for hours of mindless, butt numbing fun. I'm Kyndal, and I'll be your bored-out-of-my-mind tour guide. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'm on Instagram more then tumblr, so might as well... .ig-b- { display: inline-block; } .ig-b- img { visibility: hidden; } .ig-b-:hover { background-position: 0 -60px; } .ig-b-:active { background-position: 0 -120px; } .ig-b-v-24 { width: 137px; height: 24px; background: url(//badges.instagram.com/static/images/ig-badge-view-sprite-24.png) no-repeat 0 0; } @media only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2), only screen and (min--moz-device-pixel-ratio: 2), only screen and (-o-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2 / 1), only screen and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2), only screen and (min-resolution: 192dpi), only screen and (min-resolution: 2dppx) { .ig-b-v-24 { background-image: url(//badges.instagram.com/static/images/[email protected]); background-size: 160px 178px; } }

[sweetheartjuniper]

Apparently, republican men have an issue with the fact that Kamala has never given birth. What’s the matter, guys? Neither has the other 46 presidents before her.

[audley-and-cherry]

My least favorite things about anti- UBI discourse is always the techbros whining that "nobody is going to work anymore! People will just watch Netflix all day!" and I have 2 responses:

1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That's kind of the fucking point!

2) People aren't going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it's right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won't suddenly stop because we aren't forced to sell our labor to provide corporation's profits.

I'm not surprised that what is traditionally women's work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.

Anyway. Join the IWW.

[sleepyowlet]

Field studies have been conducted in several countries now, and the result is always the same - people will just flop about for a couple of months to recover from the burnout most people who have a job live with, and then they look for something to do. Some get a job with reduced hours, and some start doing charitable stuff like volunteering in soup kitchens and teaching others to do whatever their particular skill is. They socialize more, they are happier, and on average, people will work more, not less.

But the thing is, employers suddenly have to think about how to make their jobs appealing enough for someone to come and do them! It's hard to find someone to work for you for long hours under horrible conditions, if they can just choose not to; which shows you how voluntary our current system actually is.

[phoub]

ITS THIS THING TUESDAY

[klonopin-catboy]

this is a melibe viridis and the big stretchy part is called the "oral veil"

here is the source video:

[charl0ttan]

executive dysfunction is literally like. ive had a random dollar on my floor for two weeks and i dont know when ill fit it in my schedule to pick it up. people dont realize this

[miggylol]

I do love Tumblr's isolation from some topics, but we're tragically missing out on the JD Vance couchfucking saga

[miggylol]

OKAY I'LL SUMMARIZE

So JD Vance is Trump's veep pick to replace Mike Pence (who made the fatal GOP error of following the constitution on J6 2020 and not announcing Trump as eternal godking)

Overall, Vance's rollout since the GOP convention has been

not

great

Now, some important context is that a bunch of extremely sexist and off-putting video has surfaced from previous campaigns, podcasts, etc. For example:

In a 2021 appearance on Tucker Carlson’s former Fox News show, Vance, who was then a candidate for the Ohio Senate, told Carlson that the United States was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.”

This generated a lot of outrage, as you'd expect, and the current peak result of this quote is major news outlets talking about Jennifer Aniston calling him heartless. Vance's other quotes are driving a lot of news stories, they can be looked up, yadda yadda, but they're not really part of this particular saga.

No, what's really captured people's attention about Vance is this one tweet that someone dashed off:

Damn, it even has page numbers cited! It must be legit, right?

No. It's totally made up. But people wanted to believe, and boy, did they run with it. A sample:

Snopes chimed in with a factcheck on whether that text was in Vance's book, and no, it was not.

The Associated Press tried to do the same, but there's one problem: they phrased their headline a little differently.

And people pointed out that while you can objectively verify whether certain text is contained inside a book, you can't actually verify that Vance has never had sex with a couch! Whether for the AP realizing that they'd posted an unverifiable "factcheck" headline, or for an editor going "why the fuck did you write that in the first place," this soon happened:

Which means that if you try to visit the article saying that no, Vance didn't fuck a couch, you see this:

As many people immediately realized: it's funny to have the AP run its initial headline; it's fucking hilarious for them to pull the factcheck after its publication. The collective hilarity surged even higher.

So. Where things are by July 25th:

So yeah.

Vance's rollout has had some issues.

[3liza]

[cishetlessfashion]

Why tf does my friend have Vines on VHS lmao

[dee-the-red-witch]

...why don't the rest of us? My collection needs these.

[homeboygirl]

theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind

[it-appears-that-bruno-has-deact]

[himynameisemail]

[wordfather]

a.k.a. you may find your work Bad and Cringy™️ but you wrote something and that’s a Good Thing™️.

All writing is good practice and progresses you as a writer.

[mesetacadre]

[notaplaceofhonour]

okay okay I know the point of this is “White people need to put as much effort into learning how to pronounce Black people’s names as they do foreign European names” and 100% I totally agree, absolutely good point

but this tweet becomes hilarious in the context of this clip:

anyways, absolutely put effort into learning how people pronounce their names. just don’t feel bad if it takes you some time to get it right 😅

(also in case you didn’t watch the video it’s “N-SHOO-tee” not “SHOO-tee”)

[surpriseimbored]

Fun fact of the day

[mlem-wooloowoo]

i assume older than the star positioning in the sky?? It's pretty hard to believe otherwise

[kedreeva]

Nope. The north star has an estimated age of 70 million years. Sharks have been around roughly 450 million years.

[crevicedwelling]

then birds are also older than the north star. I’d say a lot of extant animals other than recognizable modern mammal groups are older than the north star

[animentality]

[datasoong47]

[toxifoxx]

[italeteller]

@partywithponies