Adeline Area

Its my area

[natalieironside]

So seeing the phrase "Christian baby" used in so many memes is especially funny to me because of inside jokes. Let me explain.

When I was a kid me an my buds knew this dude who listened to all the same music as us but who always got the names of things slightly wrong. The one I will never forget is that he always referred to American rock and roll musician Jimi Hendrix as John Hendrix. So we, in our mockery, decided that John Hendrix must be like the royalty-free knockoff version of Jimi Hendrix, famous for such hits as Beige Clarity and Oh Howdy There Joey

And I forget who it was but one of suggested that the John Hendrix analogue of the very good song Voodoo Child should be a very bad song called Christian Baby

[thatdassie]

The Murderbot diaries is like everything I ever asked for in sci-fi. I burned through the whole series in one week and now there is a deep disturbance in my soul.

Also if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to flail my arms at my newfound queerplatonic AI pairing 

[teaboot]

Names that are normal for old people but weird when you're a baby:

Bartholomew

Dolores

Norman

Harold

Magnolia

Names that are normal for babies but weird when you're old:

Maddison

Tanner

Skylar

Mckenzie

Logan

Names that are normal for old people and normal for babies:

Elizabeth

Mary

Michael

Finnegan

Peter

Names that are weird when you're a baby and weird when you're old:

Radish

Kerosene

Australopithecus

Anthill

Hegemony

Names that are weird when you're normal:

Balthazar

Romulus

Clandestia

Persephone

Kremulon

Names that are normal when you're weird:

Al

[innerchildabortionclinic]

more on the topic of a guilty conscience: every now and then i'll come across a video covering something like one of (yes there's more than one) nestle's infant formula scandals, and the comments will of course say things like 'nestle is evil', but there's always commenters more willing to play devil's advocate because that is more comforting than accepting that they, in their position of relative privilege, have benefited from the services of these companies and will continue to do so. they'll say things such as: "well, is it nestle's fault poverty exists" (I mean one could argue 'partially yes') when the whole problem is nestle making choices in production and marketing that harm people (in this case mothers of babies) who do not have access to resources they need to survive. a company could make the choice to use the same ingredients everywhere. it could make the choice to use the same marketing strategies everywhere. but we see these stark differences in how corporations operate outside the imperial core because they'll profit more this way. what is the point in pretending otherwise other than making yourself feel better? if you're not personally boycotting nestle after learning this information, it's not like you'll be eliminated from planet earth. you could just move on from that video silently. how many idiotic takes must the world endure because someone couldn't handle mild discomfort and self reflection

[transfemkarkat]

Stop saying Jax has intrusive thoughts. The show does not communicate this at all, and he literally acts out his so called "intrusive thoughts". He's violent both on screen and off. He blackmails Gangle with whatever she did with a figurine, information he got by breaking into her room, and also brings it up to degrade an embarress her in front of the others. Sorry not sorry, but I'd argue he's is committing some sort of sex crime here. Thus those moments in his mindscape are not intrusive thoughts?!?! Now, could he have impulsive thoughts? Maybe, but he most certainly does not have intrusive thoughts.

[matchlocks]

i'm a person who actually has severe obsessive compulsive disorder and intrusive thoughts that stem from the disorder, and from what i can see, jax does NOT have intrusive thoughts at all. intrusive thoughts are supposed to be ego dystonic, meaning they conflict with your personal morals and values. anyone who actually suffers from ocd does NOT WANT TO ACT ON THESE THOUGHTS. BECAUSE THEY ARE INTRUSIVE. meanwhile, jax seems perfectly content to act on his evil thoughts throughout the series.

if jax actually had intrusive thoughts about harming women, he wouldn't actually be harming women in the circus, and instead would be ruminating over harming women and doing compulsions in an attempt to stop the thoughts about harming women from even existing in his mind. there are plenty of people with ocd who suffer with harm and misogyny themes. i've met them! it can be incredibly damaging to your psyche to deal with a constant barrage of intrusive violent misogynistic imagery in your brain that you can't control, and often times you can't even talk to other people about it because the thoughts are so disturbing, and people without any understanding of the disorder might think you're evil for having the thoughts

i think that this misuse of language used to describe symptoms of a mental illness is genuinely harmful. if everyone has intrusive thoughts, if 'intrusive thoughts' is watered down to mean funnygoofy randomly weird thoughts, or even, disturbingly, your own violent bigoted impulses that you enjoy, what language do people with ocd have to describe their experiences? i for certain don't want to be lumped in with actual misogynists who enjoy harming women, what the fuck!

it pisses me off when people use the term 'intrusive thoughts' so flippantly because it just erases the real experiences and suffering of people who actually have this often life-ruining mental disorder

[creatingblackcharacters]

My brown arms at 10pm at night under green night club lights. Feat. my darker skinned husband. I found you the circumstances under which one would have deep green skin!

[zoesupreme]

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine

Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly

reading an article about the guy who owns the Knicks and Madison Square Garden and they used facial recognition to track every move of a trans Knicks fan to try to make sure she didn't end up on game broadcasts and eventually just banned her from the arena.

[glitchy-haha]

Putting this here too idgaf

Text: Some of y'all non-black people genuinely believe that the actions of a black person forces you to be racist towards the black community and what's funny about that is then y'all love to go claim we have a victim mentality but get mad when we call out your bullshit.

[yyshcul]

last week i said "JFK DIDN'T KILL HIMSELF" in a conversation about conspiracy theories and no one knew what i was referencing and probably thought i was stupid as fuck #whatever

[creatingblackcharacters]

So what REALLY got me was how Google was NOT trying to show me anything when I went to look this up. Why y'all don't want me to see all the "fun" everyone's having?? I wanna see the "destressing" everyone's getting!

Between the child abuse connected with this doll, the defending nigga jokes, the lynched Black children, and everything else right, we aren't just sliding, we're whole ass moonwalking back into Jim Crow but globally, huh 😭 antiblackness as entertainment has never left huh

[here-by-chance]

im obsessed

[the-real-seebs]

oh, of course. because he died for our sins.

[adeline-wheat]

Some romans: why the fuck are you building the cross all wiggly like that

Me: trust me this will be realy funny in 2000 years

[spiribia]

I like in rpgs where if you don’t romance two of the characters they start romancing each other instead. You think you’re the only fish in the sea

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

Why is it when a person of colour commits a violent crime against a white person it somehow becomes a condemnation of their entire race or ethnic group, and a sign that immigration is out of control, and that certain groups can never integrate into "our" way of life or what the fuck ever? And the Farage fuckers with the IQ of a teaspoon are out having themselves a little riot for the sake of it.

But when a white person commits a violent crime against a person of colour, suddenly people understand the concept of not assigning collective responsibility to an entire group of people for the actions of one. Suddenly, there's calls for "calm" and "understanding."

Why is that, I wonder? 🤔

Just kidding, I know why.

[nyaa]

“omg you’re just blogging for attention”

and you’re blogging??? for gold? Women? Immortality?

[geekandmisandry]

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[furryprovocateur]

[eternityservedcold]

transcribed:

Michaela Joffe (joffeorama.bsky.social‬):

I know that fascist attacks on "obscenity" and "pornography" are a very dangerous threat to queer people and art, but the idea that all expressions of all kinks must be treated as default value neutral, or even good, as a result is absurd. porn is art, and so it is open to criticism.

you cannot have it both ways. if porn, kink and obscenity is worth protecting, and I believe they are, that means you can't whine and cry foul when it is criticized and analyzed. your desires, like everything else, exist in larger contexts, and sometimes they are homophobic, misogynist and racist.

the idea that all expressions of human desire are equivalent, and exist free from any larger historical, cultural, artistic or interpersonal contexts… that is absurd. why would desire alone be unique in that way? why would kink be different from every other human expression? ridiculous.

I am not swayed by accusations of "puritanism" made in defense of straight men's corrective rape fantasies or white peoples' racist roleplay. I do not believe such accusations come from a sincere desire to protect filth, a noble pursuit, but from a childish fear of judgement. from discomfort.

[sequentialprophet]

There aren't words for how insidiously disgusting and blatant this is. (Link)

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird