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[allegrajohnson]

OK, here’s the thing about the “both sides” bullshit that bothers me:

No. The two sides are not equal. People afraid of Republican victories fear for their lives, dignity, and rights. People afraid of Democratic victories fear for their bank accounts.

If you think like this, check your privilege and stop talking. A win for Biden isn’t perfect, no, but it is FAR, far better than the alternative. If you don’t see that, you’re either not paying attention or you are exactly part of the problem.

[allegrajohnson]

In light of recent events: if you want to pretend both sides are equal, you need to acknowledge that you are valuing your false moral superiority over people’s lives. Justices that DJT put on the court are making decisions that can and will kill people with uteruses.

[neil-gaiman]

A county in my home state of Tennessee has banned the Graphic novel, Maus. Could you help get the word out about this somehow?

Thank you

Here you go:

[bunjywunjy]

Do you like poems?

yes! my favorites are The Tiger and the unnamed werewolf fridge poem

[re-peysi]

for context these are the poems

[bunjywunjy]

also I almost forgot but the r/ambien Gives Us The Sleep post takes a completely serious third place in my favorite poems list:

[bunjywunjy]

and COMING IN HOT at NUMBER FOUR on my list, it's Fragment 147! an accidental poem created when the original parchment containing a text by Sappho was used to stop a wine jug more than 2,000 years ago- eventually the wine dissolved most of the parchment, leaving just a few words and BOY do they prove that the Universe has a sense of irony.

[bunjywunjy]

I COME TO YOU WITH AN IMPORTANT NEW ADDITION TO THE ACCIDENTAL POETRY LIST, FROM OUR VERY OWN TUMBLR DOT COM:

[allegrajohnson]

OK, here’s the thing about the “both sides” bullshit that bothers me:

No. The two sides are not equal. People afraid of Republican victories fear for their lives, dignity, and rights. People afraid of Democratic victories fear for their bank accounts.

If you think like this, check your privilege and stop talking. A win for Biden isn’t perfect, no, but it is FAR, far better than the alternative. If you don’t see that, you’re either not paying attention or you are exactly part of the problem.

[libertariansarecool]

what republican advocates for killing people? Good lord, youre stupid

[allegrajohnson]

I didn’t think “Republican policies embolden bigots to act violently by normalizing bigotry” needed to be said, but here we are.

[allegrajohnson]

“I am invoking my right to remain silent. I want a lawyer.”

Now seems as good a time as any to post a reminder that speaking to a police officer that has stopped/detained/arrested you without a lawyer present is never as helpful as you think it might be. You are, generally, required to give the police enough information to identify you. If it’s a traffic stop, also give them your proof of insurance and driver’s license. And if there’s a weapon on you or in your vehicle, politely notify the officer and produce the associated license if one is needed. Otherwise, the only thing you ever need to tell a cop is the statement above.

[confessionsfromachristian]

The God of the Story

I think the thing that I’ve come around to is that there are really three different Gods that are worshipped in the Christian religion.

There’s the God of Scripture. This is the God that you see worshipped in the most fundamentalist churches - the God of rules and laws and hellfire and brimstone, where any mistake or deviance means your certain eternal damnation. This is the God that shuns gay people, or nonbelievers, or nonconformists as less-than. This is the God that says you are worth more if you fit the mold and fall in line.

There’s the God of Prosperity. This is the God that can be bought, the God that says you are owed riches and material luxury and wealth. This is the God that says that there is something wrong with you on a spiritual level if you lack wealth or luxury, the God from which miracles can be bought and salvation comes from regular donations.

And then there’s the God of the Story. This is the God that’s easiest to miss when you read the Bible, because so many churches will tell you to focus on the God of Scripture. This is the God that favors second-born sons and prostitutes. This is the God of second chances, the God that forgave His people over and over again, no matter how many times they turned away. This is the God of kindness, the God that feeds the hungry and ministers to criminals. This is the God that forgave the biggest betrayals and chose mercy in the most desperate of times.

I choose to believe in the God of the Story.

[shinykari]

Milo Manara And Frank Cho To Give Italian Comic Con Lecture About Women - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News

Set your offense phasers to overload. Milo Manara is the man whose covers for Marvel Comics, specifically that of Spider-Woman, launched a thousand headlin

This is going to go SO WELL.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

[fifth-letter]

Highlights from the full article:

“It’s not my fault if women are like that. I just draw them.”

“For evolutionists (including me), women’s bodies have taken this form over millennia in order to avoid the extinction”

“If you go on a beach now, you will see girls who have skimpy swimwear, which allows you to fully ‘read’ the shape of their bodies.”

“As a life-long liberal Democrat and advocate for free speech and equal rights” (that’s like “I have a black friend, so I can’t be racist”)

“start oppressing people who they disagree with (…) Everything is being attacked everywhere in this hypersensitive atmosphere”

“I have a huge female fan base. They are absolutely wonderful and they don’t share the hateful political views of Mary Sue and Comic Alliance sites.” (imagine what he would say about Fandom Following!)

“Let’s face it, I was built to draw Wonder Woman.”

“It’s essentially a small group of angry and humorless people ranting against my DRAWING of a pretty woman.”

[reverseharem-deactivated2020021]

is it time for frank cho and milo manara to die or what

[kiefbowl]

That’s basically a naked woman I’m YELLING

[houroftheantichristwolf]

What a pervert. What the FUCK does he not know how clothes work? What the hypothetical fuck is she wearing then if we can see all that?

[auntiewanda]

It’s like how bath towels in comics miraculously wrap completely around breasts. Or how even when injured and dead on the ground women in comics have to be twisted into “sexy” poses. Or how women in comics walk like they’re in high heels even barefoot. 

It’s the only way men know how to draw women, because to them female characters are only there to be sexy. They only think of “women” as exploitative costumes and camera angles, high heels and titillation. Sex objects to ogle, plot objects to further male heroes’ narratives and drama, not heroes to cheer for. 

[brithwyr-deactivated20170122]

I’m sorry, I was labouring under the impression that this was the crowd that thought women should wear what they want..?

[auntiewanda]

And that applies to fictional women who are depicted by men how? You can’t apply agency in the plot to something metatextual when it comes to fictional characters. 

[brithwyr-deactivated20170122]

Come on, let’s not pretend this is a male exclusive thing.

[auntiewanda]

We’re going to have this argument are we? Not to mention you’re deviating from the original point that attributing agency to fictional characters’ clothing is asinine. 

What you have here are images of power, and do you really believe these characters are designed with titillating heterosexual women and bisexual and homosexual men in mind? Because I don’t think you do.

This is why the Hawkeye Initiative exists. Take common female poses in comics, put a man in the role, and see how “empowering” and “strong” it actually looks: 

Also: 

[feminism-is-radical-deactivated]

He got the painting for fighting against ‘censorship.’ Note that they handed him a gross design of a female being objectified, because at the end of the day, that is all they really want, to be allowed to objectify women. They don’t care about censorship in general it is about their ability to sexualise and degrade women without consequence.

[dyketales-deactivated20180601]

You can see her butthole for chrissakes

[pmastamonkmonk]

I think the best imagery I’ve seen to explain the difference between what men think male objectification is vs what women actually want to see is the Hugh Jackman magazine covers.

Hugh Jackman on a men’s magazine. He’s shirtless and buff and angry. He’s imposing and aggressive. This is a male power fantasy, it’s what men want to be and aspire to - intense masculinity.

Hugh Jackman on a women’s magazine.  He looks like a dad. He looks like he’s going to bake me a quiche and sit and watch Game of Thrones with me. He looks like he gives really good hugs.

Men think women want big hulking naked men in loin cloths which is why they always quote He-Man as male objectification - without realizing that He Man is naked and buff in a loin cloth because MEN WANT HIM TO BE. More women would be happy to see him in a pink apron cutting vegetables and singing off-key to 70s rock.

Men want objects. Women want PEOPLE.

[aglassroseneverfades]

This is the first time I have EVER seen this false equivalence articulated so well. Thank you.

[imin-loveanon-deactivated202006]

@angstymelon

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[coyotesmokebreak]

As someone who works outside six days a week in this weather—Vaseline. If you have Vaseline/petroleum jelly lying around in the house slather your face in it.

It’s non comedogenic and will sink in fast. If your skin feels dry to the touch after one layer and another slightly thinner layer. That can take some of the dryness and leave you with some extra protection under it.

[gallusrostromegalus]

So one of my neighbors has a lawn Roomba or whatever they're called, and this thing trundles around looking like a background robot in the background of the original trilogy, and ABSOLUTELY BAFFLING THE DOGS.

They have concluded, I think, that it's some kind of prey animal because right after this video ended they decided to crouch down and stalk it, which means I'm 90% sure I'm going to have to stop Arwen from eating it at some point.

[theodorepython]

Of course it's a prey animal it fucking eats GRASS

[gallusrostromegalus]

While I can’t fault your reasoning on robot taxonomy, apparently we’re both wrong:  Arwen, as much as she is a high-prey-drive animal, is foremost, a herding dog, and has decided that the Lawn Roomba is a SHEEP.

What happened is the lawn roomba belongs to the guy that does most of the maintainence on the neighborhood park, and he had it out grazing on a different section of lawn when my parents came down for a walk and Arwen was siezed by 200 years worth fo Kelpie Instincts, rolled out of her Harness and proceded to herd the shit out of this tiny, oblivious robot.  

Everything was on display- mock-stalking, intimidating eye contact, barking, running in front of it to try to get it to balk, the scariest barking she can muster (which is actually.  pretty scary if you’re not used to Loud Dogs), looking back at my parents for directions.  or rather, looking at my Mom while Dad tried unsuccessuflly to capture her.

After about ten minutes they realized she wasn’t biting it, and decided to let her play Sheep Simulator 5000 for a while. She eventually figured out that 

It  doesn’t respond to Yelling, Posturing or Aggressive Eye Contact

It does respond to having it’s wheels or bump hazards hit 

It would respond to its side being nosed or slapped by moving in a different direction

Conent that this was apparently some kind of blind, deaf and particularly stupid sheep, she could now manage the robot by smacking it if it got too close to the creek bed or fence for her liking, and was eventually content to sit on the highest point of the field and Supervise (TM) it.

“Hey.” Said Roger, owner of the robot. “Do you think if I put the ramp down she’ll herd it into the back of my pickup?”

Arwen was mostly asleep in the afternoon sun as roger put the ramp down but woke right up when mom Whistled, then pointed at the truck.  She immediately went after the robot and did something that wouldn’t have occured to me, an allegedly more intelligent being: the robot is roughly triangular, and when it hits an obstacle, will change direction so that one of its other sides (rather than points) is now the ‘front’.  So to get it to move in a straight line in the direction she wanted, Arwen would smack the two sides of the robot that she didn’t want it to go in in quick sucession, and got it across the field, over a small hill and up the ramp as fast as it’s clumsy little wheels could go.

“I didn’t know you had a fully-trained sheepdog!” Said Roger

“Me either.” said Mom.

So Arwen now has a Semi-Weekly Appointment to play with Sheepbot.

[tinysaurus-rex-deactivated20240]

congrats to the ARAs who got facebook to ban animal sales. shortly before then, many rare heritage chicken breeds were getting much needed attention to save the breeds thanks to various agricultural facebook pages highligting them. but now, with the ban of animal sales on facebook, those heritage breeds have become damn near impossible to find again. guess what that means? the breeds will begin dying out again. people will go back to hatcheries who mass produce unhealthy chicken breeds in horrible conditions. folks will always buy chickens, but now instead of buying them from ethical breeders on facebook they’ll be supporting a terrible industry, woohoo.

hope y’all are proud.

[gendercontender]

We are, actually!

Slowly but surely your industry will go extinct, just like those breeds of chicken!

thanks for the love and attention uwu

[pangur-and-grim]

I think this interaction is very important for people to see.

animal welfare advocates work to make sure heritage, healthy breeds survive as an alternative to corporate breeds like the Cornish X, which grow so quickly that their legs eventually collapse under their own ballooning flesh. heritage breeds like the Brahma, Cochin, and Legbar (left to right below) grow and lay at a normal life, and can happily scratch about, dig holes in your grass to nap in, rip the leaves off your garden plants one by one, and make very funny sounds with their functional beautiful bodies, all while providing you with food.

‘animal rights’ advocates like @gendercontender​ would prefer a world in which the relationship between chickens and their keepers (and the chickens themselves) did not exist. I would go ask Tallgeese, Yennefer, Anzu, Milkshake, Henny and Perchy what they think of all this, but fortunately they’re too busy tearing apart a fresh green head of lettuce like the tiny funny velociraptors they are.

[mad-hare]

Also literally every single accomplishment of animal rights activists seems to do exponentially more damage to the small guy than the big guy. Broiler crosses are still being produced by the billion in an essentially untouchable industry but good job ruining farmer joe schmoe and his government allowed maximum of 99 layers (Canadian law thanks to quota). The political policy equivalent of releasing cane toads to take down cane beetles or w/e. Its great that you feel good about yourselves and you hate animal agriculture but you can do shit all to stop the cooperate poultry industry so have fun picking on the little guy I guess.

By the way, the facebook rule ONLY targets small individual breeders, because if you are selling animals tied to a registered business you’re allowed to post them on facebook. That’s why you still see pet stores selling puppies, auction houses listing dairy cattle, registered horse farms selling foals, on Facebook. A USDA licensed puppy mill (that’s a thing and the USDA licence does not mean it’s a nice place) can post and sell their puppies on Facebook while a hobbyist dog breeder who does it for love and invests every dollar back into health testing and proper care cannot. It only affects hobbyists.

A big reason I’ve sort of been turning anti-law/rules lately, every “well meaning” law only harms poor individuals and never huge companies. Less restrictions but more people thinking for themselves, please.

[sixlegnag]

Every animal breed - and cultivar of plant, for that matter- is more than just a subset of the species that looks a little different from the next. They are even more than separate reservoirs of genetic diversity, something vital to the continued existence of all domestic things (and they will continue, no matter what others do). Each one is a chapter of the human story, of how someone or someones had a need or a dream and filled it with a new living thing shaped with an eye for form and function, often beauty, and then with necessity, with pride, with love, we kept this piece of the story alive beside us. To willingly participate in their destruction destroys more than a domestic race. It extinguishes living culture. It is akin to burning tapestries. They can be reconstructed, but they cannot be replaced.

Do what you can- not everyone can keep livestock, and the prices of the rarest and their product can be steep, but anyone can grow a heritage tomato in their window.

[allegrajohnson]

Republicans: -stage an actual coup attempt in the Capitol building resulting in people actually dying-

This fucker: BoTh SiDeS aRe EqUaLlY bAd ThOuGh!!!

No, they’re fucking not. What you should be saying is that both sides are bad, but one side is worse. The Democratic Party isn’t trying to destroy American democracy to soothe the ego of a psychopath.

[systlin]

If you want to have children in the future, you can’t get vaccinated for COVID.

This vaccine has the ability to render afab infertile as it targets a protein for the placenta formation.

Just thought that you would want to know, since you want children.

This is literally not true spending half a second on google will show you about 150 sites including the CDC saying this is just some antivax bullshit people are spreading oh my god spend half a second looking shit up before you fearmonger like this

[systlin]

Like I’m honestly kinda insulted that you apparently thought I’d read this and go “OH NO THE ANON MESSAGE ON TUMBLR MUST BE RIGHT OH NO” and not spend three minutes to fact check this.

[thebibliosphere]

Shit, I can’t even get a doctor to sterilize me despite asking for it. Y’all really thing they’re doing it through vaccines?

[somecunttookmyurl]

yo if the vaccine is gonna sterilise me i’m getting a double shot just to make sure

[allegrajohnson]

So... would I still get my fucking periods from hell, though? ‘Cause I could go for spending the rest of my life without my fucking periods from hell.

[allegrajohnson]

While watching Deck the Halls (the one with Danny DeVito), I came to realize: yes, real men should “settle things” by contacting their attorneys when “things” include fraudulent car purchases. I’m like 85% sure ice skating races aren’t legally binding in any jurisdiction.

[allegrajohnson]

This piece was shared recently in a Methodist group on Facebook that I’m a part of; it resonated strongly with me as a Christian who always loved the “love” part of the Bible the best.

White Evangelicals, This is Why People Are Through With You

Dear White Evangelicals, I need to tell you something: People have had it with you. They’re done. They want nothing to do with you any longe

[allegrajohnson]

Mr. President-Elect and Madame Vice President-Elect, congratulations

[allegrajohnson]

OK, here’s the thing about the “both sides” bullshit that bothers me:

No. The two sides are not equal. People afraid of Republican victories fear for their lives, dignity, and rights. People afraid of Democratic victories fear for their bank accounts.

If you think like this, check your privilege and stop talking. A win for Biden isn’t perfect, no, but it is FAR, far better than the alternative. If you don’t see that, you’re either not paying attention or you are exactly part of the problem.

[allegrajohnson]

Same person as above. 

Imagine shaming someone for voting for Biden and playing it off as if they’re the one lacking a conscience because tHe LeSsEr Of TwO eViLs Is StIlL eViL. 

“Woke” libertarians are annoying AF.

[allegrajohnson]

Facebook just showed me this gem from election night. Red is the woke libertarian. Of course he didn’t vote. But he’s still gonna complain about federal policy, for sure.