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Well, hi there. I'm on here to ramble. Share random stuff I like. And possibly become very, very confused and horrified ... which I have no doubt will happen very soon. Cheers!

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[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

Capitalists are like "you have so many choices in America! You can choose to kill yourself working or you can choose to starve to death!"

[laddie-godiva-blog]

Don't forget the classic "if you work really hard, you can work other people to death!"

[thegunlady]

I’m losing it over this twitter thread. this is the post-digital hellscape

[cat-potatoes-deactivated20470604]

Sometimes high tech is worse

[dokodonmystery-deactivated20180]

[jbwarner86]

I like how this short, like most Looney Tunes parodies, has completely outlasted what it was spoofing in terms of cultural significance. Like, everyone and their dog has seen this cartoon, but who gives a shit about Buck Rogers anymore?

[official-teraflop-deactivated20]

The thing about Looney Tunes is they were aware that you could parody something, but write it well enough to stand on its own without knowing anything about what it’s parodying.

Modern cartoons that try to use memes will not enjoy this success, because they rely too hard on the memes being known.

[unadulteratedpiratepizza]

the best kind of parodies are the ones you can still enjoy even if you don’t know the source

[mysharona1987]

[scholarlyapproach]

DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!

Listen in the past the poor have had to improvise cheap food the rich never wanted as a means to survive. And over the many years of innovation made the food taste good until eventually the rich where like: “Oh hay you actually like that garbage? Why on earth would you like it?” Then they try it, love it, start buying it, and then drive the price up so much it becomes a luxury good.

They do this and its devastating, the food typically never becomes affordable again. It don’t matter how cheap the foo dis to produce, it doesn’t matter if there is almost no meat on the bone or its super difficult to eat and messy. Once the poor discover how to make some bit of cheap food taste good, the rich take it away via driving the price of it up.

THEY DID THIS TO RIBS.

Ribs were garage meat. Just look at them, there is hardly any meat on the bone, you have to eat them by hand usually, and they are messy. They where an undesirable cheap source of junk meat. But the poor being the poor made them taste good. (Because they don’t have much to choose from.) The rich discovered the meals the poor made with them and decided they liked ribs too. People discovered they could sell a few ribs to rich people and make way more money then selling lots of ribs to poor people and the price was driven up.

DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!

[askmace]

They did the same to brisket.  You used to be able to get brisket for less than a dollar a pound, which meant you could get a twenty pound brisket fairly cheaply.  And then you smoked it, sliced it, and had meat for weeks if not a full month.  And it was tasty.  I grew up eating brisket at least once a month because my family could afford it.

It was a cheap meat because no rich person looks at the dangly part of the neck of a cow and goes ‘ooh, that looks tasty!’.

But then Food Network started showcasing things like barbecued brisket.  Rich people started showing up at places that weren’t just Rib Crib to get their barbeque.  And the price of brisket went up.  A lot.

I regularly see it for over five dollars a pound in stores now.  And while yeah, that might not seem like a lot when you’re talking only a pound or two of meat, brisket is normally sold in ten to twenty pound sizes.  It’s become completely unaffordable to the people that made it delicious.

Sushi used to be really cheap, too, until it became ‘trendy’.  Guess why you’re now paying twelve dollars for your order of California rolls?  Because rich people discovered something that poor people had been eating for ages.

Noticed the prices of fajita meat, chicken thighs, or ham hocks has gone up recently?  You guessed it.  Rich people are taking our food and now we’re scrambling to afford the things that we grew up eating.

[auroraluciferi]

Lobster is a perfect example of this phenomenon.  For hundreds of years, lobster was regarded as a sort of insect larvae from the depth of the sea. It had zero appeal as a “luxury food” until people living in NY and Boston developed a taste for it. Before the 19th century, it was considered a “poverty food” or used as fertilizer and bait - some household servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice a week. It was also commonly served at prisons, which tells you something about prison food.

Only by cleverly marketing lobster as an indulgence for the privileged made it cost so much. It became a vehicle for enormous profit spawning a multi-billion dollar global industry in the process. This mythical affection for lobster flesh - not its practical value in terms of taste, nutrition, or any other reasonable consideration - drives its value.

[blackwitchmagicwoman-deactivate]

LMAO. Wait.

[thegrimmlovely]

Anyone else’s eye twitchin?

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

Food gentrification is a long standing practice and it’s some of the most evil shit I can think of. It’s why I refuse for example as someone living in the US to buy things with Quinoa in them. It is specifically pricing an indigenous population out of their prime staple food. It’s a horrific invasion of one of the final requirements of staying alive.

[twotheleft]

[drtanner-dickery]

This is #goals not just for me but also for the way me and my friends greet each other.

[at-the-edge-of-your-bed-deactiv]

The Himbos are fighting.

[wheredoievengetthisstuff]

They’re just making friends

[rontieremodeled-deactivated2023]

stay away from people who make you feel like you are a burden.

[rontieremodeled-deactivated2023]

stay away from people who make you question your self-esteem. 

[rontieremodeled-deactivated2023]

stay away from people who make you feel like you are hard to love. 

[rontieremodeled-deactivated2023]

stay away from people who make you feel like you’re not good enough.

[thenatsdorf]

“It’s not about the bed, it’s about being next to you.”

[thunderousk]

I’m gonna cry

[demilypyro]

me: here’s a list of fictional characters i want to bone

my gf: this in no way diminishes my attraction to you. here’s my own list

me: 

[freakxwannaxbe]

[genderlich-deactivated20211204]

being poor is traumatic. even if you’re not homeless or starving. never being able to get anything nice for yourself, never being able to go out to eat without feeling guilty, never being able to do anything fun that isn’t free, making you housebound in bad weather because you can’t afford to go to a cafe or a movie. it takes a toll. being poor under capitalism makes your life a waking nightmare. this post must be reblogged by everyone.

[poorrichardjr]

Addendum: If perchance you do scrape up the money to do something (say buy a computer or phone because you absolutely need the damn thing for work), you get shamed for doing so. “Why did you buy that expensive phone if you are poor?” I spent 20 dollars on it …. “What about that nice computer you got there?” I bought it six years ago, refurbished for about $250. “How about that big ole television you got there?” etc, etc, etc. No matter how poor you are, so many people think you should have less if you are “actually” poor.

[technogenic-mess]

There’s no two ways about it: poverty is violence.

[rumade]

Feeling like crap and desperately desperately wanting a comfort food that’s just out of your reach is hell.

Having clothes that don’t fit and all day long your trousers fall down and your shoes rub and your bra pinches cos you can’t buy new and have to make do.

Actions like not being able to have a long hot shower cos you’re worried about bills remove the possibility of joy for simple everyday tasks and replace it with anxiety.

[tractorgoth]

It’s been about fifteen years since I was passing out at work from not being able to afford enough food and stealing snacks out of my roommate’s closet and I still stop myself and panic internally when I debate buying something that isn’t strictly necessary. I still agonize over whether I really NEED to go to the ER. Still get short and snappish and shaky when I have to discuss financial plans of any kind with my partner. I feel guilt any time I buy myself a cheap pair of earrings or a thrift store purchase I didn’t absolutely need. Remembering the humiliation of going out to eat at my roommates’ family’s invitation and eating nothing but water and croutons while everyone else has huge meals and you haven’t eaten because you’re bank account is at -$90 and you have no idea where you’re going to get it. Not even being able to drive to a friend’s for dinner because you don’t have gas money to get there. Eating food I’m allergic to because it’s all we have. Crying every time you get sick or something breaks because you know you can’t afford to fix it.

The health and mental problems I accumulated when I had nothing didn’t just disappear when I became secure. Poverty is absolutely trauma.

[a-liminal-life]

“When I started my musical career, I was a maid,” she told the audience. “I used to clean houses. My parents, my mother was a proud janitor. My stepfather, who raised me like his very own, worked at the post office and my father was a trash man — they all wore uniforms. And that’s why I stand here today in my black and white and I wear my uniform to honor them.”

[starsona]

Yall better not be pretending that Janelle Monae doesn’t fucking exist

[kawaiifinds]

Cute animal tea infusers

Find more kawaii at Kawaii Finds!

[thethiefandtheairbender]

The Good Place (2016-2020)

[insomniac-arrest]

brah

[postilionstruckbylightning]

The Good Place’s take on morality is so important to me. It never suggests that being good is easy or straightforward - quite the opposite - but it says, over and over again, that we need to try because we’re all people and we all matter.