All This Happened, more or less

This is for me.

[yesterdaysprint]

Cyril Connolly’s Ten Major Indications of a Civilized Community in Horizon magazine, 1946

[omegaverse]

ppl like “i was a gifted kid but now im dumb as shit ahhhh im so sad now weeeeh” shut the fuck up i grew up smart as shit and i’m smart now and i’ll die smart as fuck too. youre nothing.

[allthishappened]

Why do I have to keep seeing posts about this

[adreadfulidea-deactivated202402]

The people who just scream “guillotines” every time the topic of societal improvement comes up are annoying and childish, but they also don’t seem to understand that America is not actually a monarchy and does not have an aristocracy. The reason the guillotines came out in France and the Romanovs ended up against the wall in Russia is that leaving monarchy alive means they can theoretically come back and claim the throne. Of course some royals have been deposed and exiled and this never happens, but it’s always a possibility, especially in an age when there were more monarchies than democracies around. So nobody really knew what to do with these people EXCEPT kill them. Members of the royal families of Europe were given powers far beyond anything even the richest assholes of North America have. Nobody has a god-given right to rule here. We have options other than murder. You can just tax the fuck out of them and break up their monopolies and disperse their power that way, we already have the societal mechanism for that.

Also I don’t know how to tell people this but killing the rich would not give you access to their money. You think banks, which are frequently international now, wouldn’t just transfer that somewhere else and split? They’re not going to give it to you. There is no palace to raid.

[allthishappened]

It's a joke. Let me be mad at rich people for fucks sake. This is the most condescending "um actually". Like yeah, we know this isn't revolutionary France. It's a fucking joke. Does this person really think anyone is building a guillotine in their garage. Just let me be mad at the filthy rich .001% it's cathartic, ok?

[andyheckbody-deactivated2020042]

[fruit-preserves-pal]

new game: tag how many chuggas

[butchniqabi]

men are so annoying, "women belong at home in the kitchen blah blah" and YOU belong in the workshop making me a fuckin table! why arent you forging steel or working metal? go out to the fields jebediah! the wheat needs to be reaped!

[iwontbequiet]

men sitting on their asses and telling women to assume their traditional roles is laughable. lol go back to work at the coal mine and build me a house

[profetens-apenbaring]

ill make you a sandwich after you go to war and die

[thurinusworks]

I recently gave myself a crash course in jewelry-making to design a pair of guillotine earrings, inspired by some friends’ interest in the pair from the French Revolution that made the rounds on Twitter a while back. Assembled from laser-cut walnut, gold-plated findings, and Czech glass beads.

Decided to make a few more available on Etsy!

[leanmeantrashmachine]

kidz bop team re-writing WAP

Source (my YT!)

[bogleech]

I bet you wonder all the time what kind of memes would be circulated on facebook groups dedicated to mollusks and here you go

[curlyevanbuckley]

Chadwick Boseman’s look at the Met Gala + Details

[80slesbiab]

GILLIAN ANDERSON IS REALLY OUT HERE ASKING FOR FREE VIBRATORS ON TWITTER DOT COM I LOVE THIS WOMAN

[midtown120blues-deactivated2018]

Dana Scully horny on main

[slayerbuffy]

[lindentreeisle]

If you can’t parlay fame into free vibrators then I honestly don’t know what good it is.

[thegaygumballmachine2-deactivat]

has there ever been anyone more iconic than gillian i genuinely wanna know

[sexycraisinthanos]

mulder’s away

[heavyweightheart]

when we breathe heavily after, say, holding our breath underwater, we don’t call that breathing “compulsive”. we don’t say we’re “overbreathing”.

when we nap bc we got 4 hours of sleep the night before, we don’t see that compensatory act as something pathological. we think, “my body didn’t get the amount of sleep it needs and now it’s making up for it”

but we will restrict our food intake as much as we can for as long as we can, and when the reactive eating inevitably comes, we call it “bingeing” or “compulsive overeating”, instead of seeing it (as w the other functions) as a biological drive to meet one of our bodies’ basic needs.

we don’t have this different view of eating patterns bc it’s actually the case that compensatory eating is pathological… we view it in the way we do bc we’ve been thoroughly indoctrinated by diet culture, a form of social control

[closet-keys]

my therapist was talking about this a little while ago. She was talking about how cycles of deprivation tend to function like  deny yourself a physical need (food, rest, emotion, etc.)  –> your body takes over and you [eat a lot/aren’t able to do anything physically or psychologically draining/experience extreme emotions] for a period of time –> you feel guilty/ashamed/worthless –> you deny yourself a physical need

and she said that most of us are conditioned to believe (if we recognize this as a problem/something we’re genuinely struggling with at all) that the way to solve it is through trying to force ourselves to stop “over-indulging” in our needs. But the way to break the cycle isn’t during the deprivation or the need-recovery stages– it’s during the stage where you feel guilty/ashamed/worthless. 

She was saying that if you can work on that stage and start to internalize that your body keeping you alive through recovering [calories/energy/connection with yourself] is a good thing and nothing to be ashamed of, but instead something to be grateful for, then you can gradually stop depriving yourself out of an attempt to maintain self-worth, which in turn means you won’t be waiting until your body goes into crisis mode to get your needs met. 

It was really insightful and it’s something I’ve been kind of turning over in my head since. 

[househunting]

$995,000/4 br/2700 sq ft

Chehalis, WA

built in 1916

[pettycentral]

[allthishappened]

men are so fucking stupid

[whitepeopletwitter]

[teaboot]

1.7% of people are intersex, 2% have green eyes, and 1.5 percent are redheads, but yeah red is a natural hair color, green is a natural eye color, and being intersex is a 'deformity'. Keep pretending gender isn't a social construct

[rogha]

0.0006% of people in the world live in Ireland and we all agree that People Live In Ireland.

[rh-of-the-andromeda-galaxy]

Keep Campus Closed - What Higher Ed is Too Afraid to Say | Student Affairs and Technology

Anonymous higher ed pros share their dissatisfaction with having to reopen

[allthishappened]

I've seen a number of students complain about having to pay full price for an online education. Then I see people act like administrators are trying to line their pockets by allowing campus to reopen as if it's a for-profit institution. At our school, all of upper admin took 10% pay cuts. Staff and faculty making over $50,000 took pay cuts (not me! Woo!) The fact is, hundreds of staff have lost their jobs at my school and hundreds more will if campus doesn't reopen. No one should act like this is an easy situation to navigate or like the right answer is obvious. I'm incredibly lucky that I haven't been laid off yet and that I can work from home. Our school is already facing a budget shortfall of millions of dollars. I just really resent the attitude that schools that are reopening in the fall must be run by reckless, thoughtless, money grubbers.